221b_recs | Entries tagged with character: fem!jw

gardnerhill
Pairing: None
Length: 396 words
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None apply
Verse: My Dearly Beloved Detective
Author's summary: Freedom can reside in a simple change of clothes.

Reccer's comments: My Dearly Beloved Detective has a female Holmes (Shirley) and a female Watson (Jane) -- one of only a tiny handful of Holmesian 'verses with this configuration. This focuses on Jane, and how she practices at presenting more traditionally male, along with musings on male presentation as protection in sexist Edwardian London.

venusinthenight

Title: Red Tide
Author:

gardnerhill
Pairing: Shirley Holmes & Jane Watson
Length: 562 words
Rating: Gen
Warnings: Author chose not to use warnings
Verse: My Dearly Beloved Detective
Author's summary: This is one woe most Watsons don’t have to deal with. My first story in this ‘verse.

Reccer's comments: For Jane, it's That Time of the Month. (Author has tagged "Menstruation".) And while she and Shirley are working on a case. It happens to come in pretty handy, too!

There is a brief description of the crime they're dealing with, but with no graphic details.

verdant_fire

Title: Arcana
Author: rosa_acicularis
Pairing: Sherlock/John, Sherlock/fem!John
Length: 46159 words
Rating: Mature
Verse: BBC
Author's summary: Sometimes, her grandmother has said, in the simplest, strongest of magics that’s all that’s required – a sacrifice and an intent. Her blood, and his words: I want to forget.

In which Joanna Watson is a witch, Sherlock Holmes is himself, and every spell has its price.

Reccer's comments: I really have never read another fic like this one. The descriptions of magic and the feel of it in this fic are truly astonishing; it's one of the best magical stories I've read anywhere, published or not. The language is frequently so beautiful that it stole my breath (as did the UST!), the razored loveliness of the emotions and relationships cuts like mirror-glass, and the worldbuilding is indelible. It makes my mouth fall open in wonder every time. It's a stunningly beautiful piece of storytelling, and I remain a bit gratefully in awe of it.

Warning: this is a WIP and hasn't been updated since June 2013.

rosa_acicularis hasn't forgotten about it, but please don't let its status put you off; the current chapters stop at a natural pausing point, and while there's no true resolution yet, there's no cliffhanger either.

swissmarg

Title: Fem!Sherlock (Irene as Sherlock and Mary as Dr. Watson)
Music Title & Artist: None given
Vidder: Jun editor
Pairing or Character: Fem!Sherlock/Fem!John
Verse: Sherlock (BBC)
Link: Vidder's post on tumblr
Reccer's Comments: This is super cool! The vidder has recycled footage from the series to turn Lara Pulver as Irene into a female Sherlock Holmes and Amanda Abbington as Mary into a female John (Joan?) Watson. Even though they never physically share the screen, the editing is done so well you can hardly tell it wasn’t filmed this way. It’s just amazing how well it works and how much chemistry there is between them.

pyjamapants.livejournal.com

Title: No Bangs Without Foreign Office Approval
Author: Reckonedrightly
Pairing: fem!John Watson/fem!Sherlock Holmes
Length: 217,621
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: It’s 1942, and while London’s nights are no longer interrupted by air raid sirens, the war still rages and not all of it is fought openly. From its headquarters in Baker Street, the Special Operations Executive plans to set Europe ablaze with its networks of spies and saboteurs in Nazi-occupied territory. Joan Watson knows what it is to keep a secret, but she isn’t expecting to be recruited into the clandestine world of SOE. Nor is she prepared to meet Sherlock Holmes, a former private detective who has by her own admission ruined her own life at least three times over—and who has a murder to solve in Occupied France.

Reccer's comments: I’m a sucker for historical AUs admittedly, and I’m pleased to add this one to the rec list here. I am quickly running out of time to slide in this last rec and cannot do it adequate justice. ReckonedRightly’s prose is lush and gorgeous without being heavy-handed. Both the historical context and the training program Joan and Sherlock undergo are well integrated with the plot, and Joan and Sherlock as English-trained saboteurs for the French Resistance is so fitting to their characters that this feels more canon than AU.

This spoiler-free excerpt from Sherlock's point of view stuck with me when I read it:

Now? Now, blessedly, there was no point thinking about how she felt about it, or thinking about anything which had happened three years ago. Not now, when she finally felt that she was making headway in the case.

It was like lifting her head after a winter so long she had forgotten the taste of sunlight. It felt much too clean and all-pervading to be anything so unpleasant as emotion; closer to photosynthesis than happiness, she thought, and all the better for it.

Current Location: *sliding in for one last rec*

pyjamapants.livejournal.com

Title: Unusual Efforts
Author: AggressiveWhenStartled
Pairing: fem!John Watson/Sherlock Holmes, short-term fem!John Watson/Lestrade
Length: 63,446
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: canon typical violence
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Joan Watson didn’t, of course, particularly enjoy being called a bitch, but she preferred it to ‘whore’. Likely because the first was so often a response to her highly satisfying right hook after being called the second.

You had to be firm when you were a ‘ball-breaking cunt’ who liked to flirt, especially when you followed around Sherlock Holmes.

Reccer's comments: The Joan Watson we see in this defies any and all expectations you might have of a Joan Watson. Hell, she supercedes most expectations of many John Watsons I’ve read. She’s beautifully aware of the boundaries necessary to keep the world in general from steamrolling over her. And she’s equally aware of the boundaries she herself needs to maintain to keep her anger from spilling over, from transforming from simple emotion into fiery action. Joan is so very, very angry in this story, and it is fantastic to read her struggle with that anger, not just as partner to Sherlock Holmes, but as a woman.

But this series isn’t just about anger, it’s about how reckless Joan can be, how not normal one must be in order to partner with Sherlock Holmes. AggressiveWhenStartled writes a Joan who is strong and confident and absolutely certain in who she is… and consequently very wary about who she is.

This is one of my favorite characterisations of John Watson, hands down. And despite the persistent themes of anger, the series manages to be hilarious (my God, the dialog) and sexy.

holyfant.livejournal.com

Title: Vespers
Author: peevee
Pairing: fem!Sherlock/fem!John
Length: 2,805 words
Rating: E
Warnings: underage
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock reads Sappho, and Joanne listens to bats.

Everything was quiet. Sherlock let her eyes drift shut, let her breathing slow. Joanne shuffled close to her and tangled their fingers together, gazing up into the leaf-shadowed sky. Sherlock’s skin felt electrified where they touched.

Reccer's comments: As always, anything and everything peevee has ever written will turn me to mush. But this little ficlet is one of her works that is most dear to me. Teenage Sherlock and Joanne go out camping together. The tension between them is so thick in this piece you can almost taste it, and the way they discover each other is so true of teenage exploration and so full of insecurity, tenderness and affection it makes me want to cry. I also love the tiny little cameo Mycroft has and the way we get a little bit of insight into Sherlock's life as a young girl. And of course, the biggest selling point is peevee's glorious, lush, beautiful language. Porn and beauty. Never mutually exclusive when it comes to peevee.

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arminaa.livejournal.com

Title: Dramatic Things
Author: leah k
Pairing: Female!John/Sherlock
Length 13,266
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary John walks into the kitchen, opens the fridge, and is grateful for the uncharacteristic lack of body parts within. She says, mostly to herself but partially to Sherlock in case he's in one of his helpful (well, slightly helpful, well, more helpful) moods, "We're out of milk again." She closes the door to the refrigerator, turns and finds Sherlock standing well within her personal space. She jumps, a little. It's not the proximity, she rather likes Sherlock in her personal space these days, it's just that she didn't hear him come up. It's unnerving. "Would you not-" she starts, already exasperated and it's only half past seven. "You're pregnant," Sherlock interrupts. Wait, what? "Wait, what?"

Reccer's comments: I LOVE genderswap fics, and this one is exceptional. John is a woman, living with Sherlock and in an odd sort of relationship together. After a near-death incident, Sherlock and John sleep together without protection and John ends up pregnant. The fic is hilarious, especially during Sherlock and John's interactions with each other. But it's also very sweet, and has a lot of heart to it. This fic may not be for everyone, but if you usually enjoy fics like this, you'l adore this one.

unovis.livejournal.com

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Sherlock Holmes and John Watson have been abbreviated as SH and JW in pairings and some other places (e.g., content: sick jw). Since this recs comm is open to all versions of Sherlock Holmes, it seemed the simplest way to identify the characters. Lestrade, Gregson, and Dimmock are listed as "inspector" following ACD book canon, and Moriarty is listed only once by his (their) surname alone. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is abbreviated throughout as ACD.

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221B Recs

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Entries tagged with character: fem!jw

Fic Rec: бонус (Bonus)

Fic Rec: Red Tide

fic rec: Arcana

Vid Rec: Fem!Sherlock

Fic Rec: No Bangs Without Foreign Office Approval

Series Rec: Unusual Efforts

Fic rec: Vespers, by peevee

Fic: Dramatic Things

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