[identity profile] lijahlover.livejournal.com
Title:The Measure of a Gentlemen
Author: i_ship_an_armada
Pairing:Sherlock/John
Length:67094
Rating:Eplicit
Warnings: AU...That may need a warning not sure.
Verse: Sherlock BBC,
Author's summary:Summary:
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a partner.
Less universally acknowledged is that a single man in possession of very little in the way of fortune may be in want of a partner as well, but John Watson had little time or energy to devote to his own wants or needs...
Enter one Mr Holmes...

Reccer's comments: I adored this story to pieces it is brilliant. She did an amazing job with the manner of speech and such a great writing style. John and Molly are so cute as friends and the story is just charming.

I do love all the retellings of Pride and Prejudice and in this verse it's wonderful. Her fic is original and delightful. I also love how there is no period homophobia...love who you want and live how you want.

Sherlock and John were perfection together so sexy. The sex was on fire and it was fluffy as well. It is worth reading or re reading. :)
[identity profile] rachelindeed.livejournal.com
Title: Indelible
Author: abundantlyqueer
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 3,000 words
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Author's summary: Lestrade invites John along to a yearly ritual of humiliation at paint-ball. Sherlock wouldn't miss this for anything.

Reccer's comments: Here in the last few minutes of April Fool's Day, I thought I would share a story that made me laugh.  Actually, to be honest, this story gave me that special, exhilarated sense of fun that comes when you see a great stunt pulled off with athleticism and artistry.

As the summary says, this is a story about John taking charge of the New Scotland Yard paint-ball team, much to Sherlock’s delight. It does a wonderful job exploring the tense but enjoyable team dynamics of the group, making particularly good use, in my opinion, of Sally Donovan. It features a low-key, incredibly BAMF John, and I love his out-of-the-box thinking and his effortless leadership.

Overall the story is intelligent, joyful, and gracefully physical.

It is set in an AU of the author’s longer ’verse, but it works perfectly well as a standalone.
[identity profile] pipmer1.livejournal.com
Title: The Bang and the Clatter
Author: [livejournal.com profile] earlgreytea68
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 137048 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: Sherlock Holmes is a pitcher and John Watson is a catcher. No, no, no, it's a baseball AU.

Reccer's comments: Right off the bat (pun not intended) I want to point out that you don't need to know anything about baseball, or even have an interest in it, for you to be swept away by this fic. The story, at its heart and soul, is all about the progression of the relationship between Sherlock and John, which is done at a very satisfying and realistic pace. Having said that, if you are a baseball fan like me, you will find that aspect of the story satisfying as well.

The first chapter (prologue, really) is an introduction to the rules and terms of the sport, but you can easily skip past that to the story proper without missing anything of importance. This is one of my favourite authors, and I was waiting patiently (?) for it to be completed before I started it. When I did, I devoured it within a very short span of time. I would easily put it within my top 10 Sherlock fics.

Family dynamics play a major role in this story as well, for both Sherlock and John. The author even gives Harry and Clara a family of their own, and she does a beautiful job of portraying their relationship in a way that doesn't place all the blame for their problems on just one person. Even the unsympathetic portrayal of Sherlock's family isn't done just for the sake of adding unnecessary conflict, but serves the purpose of explaining why Sherlock acts the way he does in his interactions with other people.

Almost everyone from canon appears in this, and the author does a fantastic job of putting them exactly where they would fit the best in this universe. Greg Lestrade is the team's manager, Mrs Hudson is the team's owner (and also, incidently, the owner of the house that contains Sherlock's apartment), Molly is the team doctor... even Donovan and Anderson make appearances. Moriarty is also here, of course... who is ultimately revealed to be a much more sinister figure than just a rival pitcher who is the bane of Sherlock's existence.

Set aside a few hours for this epic romance.... I guarantee it will be well worth your time.



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[identity profile] hajimebassaidai.livejournal.com
Title: Take Me To Bed (Or Lose Me Forever)
Author: violet tinted pencil
Pairing: John Watson/fem!Sherlock Holmes
Length: 4,690 words approx
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Attempted Sexual Assault (off screen)
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: In which Sherlock is a soldier and John isn't that kind of girl.

Author's Notes: For a prompt on the sherlockbbc-fic kinkmeme, about potential sexual assault prompting virgin!girl!Sherlock to theorize that she ought to have sex with John; therefore, the story contains reference to an unsuccessful sexual assault on Sherlock.

Reccer's comments: This is a story of romance and misunderstandings. John has been attracted to Sherlock for most of the time he's known her but respects her decision to avoid relationships. He's therefore somewhat confused about her intentions when she comes onto him after she fought off an attack during a case.
The best genderswap stories still have characters intact and that's what's here! It is full of dry humour, which is only to be expected when it's told from John's point of view. John knows that he must be asking the wrong questions but he can't work out the right ones!
This is most serious and funny, as well as touching without getting icky! There is also a little side reference to some of the "First Time" tropes anyone who's spent anytime in fandom has to have seen!


Excerpt:
As he's ascending the stairs, he can hear that Sherlock's already in. She's sawing away at the violin, dizzily climbing trills ending in horrible shrieks, over and over and over. He grits his teeth and pushes open the door, feeling a sudden surge of nostalgia for his Mk 6 combat helmet, with the goggles and the netting. The Mk 7, he'd heard, was supposedly bulletproof. But no, it probably wouldn't have been much help against Sherlock Holmes.
"Sherlock!"
Perched on her chair, hunched over her violin, back to the room, Sherlock ignores him. John hangs up his coat, turns on the light in the kitchen, takes a moment to despair of the kitchen table, and heads back out into the sitting room.
"Sherlock. We've had this discussion." They have, several times over. Sherlock hates it when John acts as if he's got some right to know where she is, or where she's going. She calls it controlling. John calls it a tiny sop to his sanity. This discussion never goes well.
[identity profile] butterflyweb.livejournal.com
Title: The Acronym
Author: DancingGrimm
Pairing: Gen
Length: 13,985
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: "‘Bee Ay Em Eff’. Hm, that's a new one on me. Do you know what it means, Sherlock?"
John might not know what it means, but there are many little ways in which he proves the acronym suits him.

Reccer's comments: John is a BAMF. What more needs to be said? I adore when authors use an 'outside' perspective to let you see a character in different ways and DancingGrimm takes this to a whole new level.  Everyone from Lestrade to Dimmock to Sarah gives us a look at just how much of a BAMF John Watson is, and all the clever ways that acronym can be interpreted. The author does a fantastic job of giving each of the characters distinct voices (Mycroft's chapter was one of my favorite) and the fic is wonderfully lighthearted and funny, reminding the readers (and everyone else) of all the ways our wonderful doctor's earned that acronym.
[identity profile] ruth0007.livejournal.com
Title: The Empty Station
Author: [livejournal.com profile] ivywatcher
Pairing: Gen
Length: 17,153 words
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Author's summary: In the wake of the Reichenbach Fall, Greg Lestrade confronts a life that is often complicated, never easy, and not even entirely in order. Here's the thing: Sherlock Holmes was no killer, but he always was a liar. Novella-length, non-linear, and character-heavy. Spoilers for...everything. This is one of my favorites.

Author's Note: Thank you in advance for your reading time! I'm glad to have you here. Nonlinear storytelling turned out to be quite the challenge, and as always, the characters of Sherlock turned out to be fantastic material to work with. As always, your comments, thoughts, and criticisms are gratefully accepted, and entirely appreciated. The title comes from the first stanza of Pablo Neruda's Poem, "Don't Go Far Off":
"Don't go far off, not even for a day, because --
because -- I don't know how to say it: a day is long 
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
 when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep."

Reccer's comments: This a primarily a Lestrade character study beginning from the moment Sherlock jumps in Reichenbach Falls. You are in the hands of a master storyteller. Trust her and Lestrade and take this journey with them. (Although there are no pairings per se, John's grief and strong feelings for Sherlock are featured prominently.) The reader follows Lestrade through the next several months as he pieces together what happened and tries to right his career.

Through his interactions with John's mourning, Mrs. Hudson’s concern, Mike Stamford’s honesty, Mycroft’s reach, and an original character, Sergeant Leigh Hopkins’s earnestness, Lestrade’s strengths shine and his determination grows. There are many strong moments that linger in my mind’s eye, but one of my favorites involves Lestrade, John, and Mycroft at St. Bart’s sitting on a hallway floor and leaning against the wall. The author’s personal challenge to reveal the story in a nonlinear structure is powerful, and I can’t imagine reading it any other way. This is a “treat” I hope you’ll savor.
[identity profile] oreganotea.livejournal.com
Title: They Mostly Come Out At Night
Author: [livejournal.com profile] tawabids
Pairing: Gen (or Sherlock/John pre-slash)
Length: 16,233
Rating: Teen
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Mummy Holmes was admiral of the British space fleet, and her sons were gestated in a synthetic womb called an AGU. When something monstrous burst out of a lieutenant's chest and got loose on board a ship carrying the Holmes family, the unborn second son and was left on board.

A quarter of a century later, the Orbiter 200B is a floating wreck on the edge of the colonised territory. Mycroft Holmes sends Lestrade and a Royal Navy special ops vehicle, the Baker, to the abandoned ship to learn what can be salvaged.

Reccer's comments: I read this story a couple of months ago, but I still get this giddy, excited little flutter in my chest whenever something reminds me of it. I cannot adequately express just how much I adored this Sherlock - the author did a fantastic job of keeping him reasonably in character while accounting for his unusual (creepy? shiver-inducing?) circumstances - but it was almost as much as I adored this Sherlock&(brave-reckless-loyal-good)John. The suspense and the sinister atmosphere kept me on the edge of my seat the whole way through.

Excerpt:
John blinked at him. “You,” he looked at the empty space where the tarpaulin had been stretched. “You made that? That was a trap, for those creatures?”

“Yes, for my family,” the man said, standing up. John struggled to rise, and found he only came up to the other man’s nose.

“Your family?”

“They try to eat me, these days,” the man said. Then, for just a moment, his eyes widened with a flicker of emotion. “It’s a liquid sub-zero coolant. I redirect it from the databanks sector through an old petroleum gas pipeline and then recycle the gas back to the condensation facility to maintain the supplies.”
[identity profile] unovis.livejournal.com
Hi!
Just a few words on our tags and tagging your recs.

Tags are useful search tools for grouping the recs by categories: by pairing, genre, content, and sources for the stories or other fanworks.

We ask that reccers attach tags that are relevant to the works they rec. You don't have to add everything that applies-- for example, not a character tag for everyone who might appear in the story, or every theme or content. But if Molly has a significant cameo, say, that you think people searching for her might appreciate, then by all means list her in a tag. Likewise if you think this is the addiction story people should read, then use the content: addiction tag.

The required aspects to tag are pairing (if it applies), relationship genre (i.e., gen, slash, or het*), and verse (the source: ACD books, Sherlock BBC, Granada, etc.).

The easiest place to see all of the tags available is in this list of tags.

Tagging is enabled only for the author of the post and the mods. Only the mods can add new tags. We have a beginning list up now, anticipating likely categories and characters. We'll add more as recs are made, if characters and pairings, for example, aren't covered already. You can request a new tag to be added by commenting here or by contacting one of the mods. Keep in mind, again, that we'll be adding character tags as additional characters appear in recs.

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.

*We won't add a category for "slash-if-you-squint" or similar invitations for the reader to see subtext in a story. If the author hasn't labeled her work as slash, then it's genre: gen or genre: friendship.

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