221b_recs | Entries tagged with content: texting

Title: You Have 487 New Messages (Or, In Which Sherlock Holmes Starts a Grouptext)
Author: JenTheSweetie
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 13,000 words
Rating: Teen
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: MH: Please remove me from this thread.

Reccer's comments: This is such a delightful, funny little fic. I adore texting fics in general, and this one had me laughing out loud on several occasions. Most of the chapters are fairly short, and the whole thing is a quick read. If you want a break from angst and drama, either in fic or in real life, then curl up with a nice cup of tea (or glass of wine) and settle in to be entertained.

It takes place post-Series 4. The whole thing starts when Sherlock Holmes starts a grouptext, asking who took his skull. Mycroft repeatedly asks to be removed from the thread, to no avail (hence, the summary). Different topics come up, participants keep changing the name of the grouptext, borderline crack ensues - and eventual johnlock is revealed. Have fun!

swissmarg

Title: The Printer Is Jammed
Author: startrekto221b
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Length: 40,336 words
Rating: General
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John is a disgruntled customer who just wants his money back for a shoddy printer Harry ordered for him off of a catalogue. Sherlock is a bored customer service rep working the summer he has off from Oxford. They are both about to get more than they bargained for.

Reccer's comments: This fic is like one of those recursive images, only in written form. The author has written about John and Sherlock writing about William Scott and Arthur Conan (who are really just avatars for themselves) having adventures from the BBC series while they (John and Sherlock) have adventures from the BBC series and are in turn written about by fans who ship ‘Willthur’ as well as Johnlock. Or in other words, life imitates art imitates life imitates art imitates life. There is also a RPF layer, with Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, and even mention of "some Barneyflump Curlyflap guy” and “that guy from The Office”, although if you aren’t into RPF don’t worry, it’s little more than name-dropping.

It’s very slow-burn with a great mix of humor, angst, fluff, and mystery, although I was good and frustrated by the time John and Sherlock finally got together! The story is told exclusively in an epistolary format, but the author has mixed it up with emails, online chats, text messages, surveillance reports, interview transcripts, and blog posts to keep things lively. The whole thing is highly entertaining and creative, with twists and tweaks that kept me unsure how things would turn out right up to the end.

As a side note, the fic is posted on AO3 with a General rating, but there is a bit of smut and discussion of dubcon and drug abuse which may be sensitive for some readers.

swissmarg

Title: Original Sherlock Parody - Oklahomo
Music Title & Artist: None
Vidder: nrk tv (Norwegian television)
Pairing or Character: Sherlock/John
Verse: BBC
Link: https://twitter.com/NRKbeta/statuses/444407301571903488
Summary: Vidar Magnussen (Sherlock Holmes) and Bjarte Tjøstheim (John Watson) from the Norwegian TV-show "Underholdningsavdelingen" are both fans of the BBC series "Sherlock". When they realized the similarity they decided to make a parody.
Reccer's Comments: This little three-and-a-half minute video has already reached cult status in the fandom, with catch phrases being thrown about (Let's do a jump kiss! Rebooting is for cheesecakes!) and fanart popping up on tumblr. It pokes fun at the 'homoerotic subtext' of the show - or at least at fans who read that into it - but there are plenty of other gems in there as well, like 'John' unquestioningly following 'Sherlock's' instructions, no matter how bizarre, and that blasted auto-correct. The resemblance of the actors and sets to the BBC originals are really quite striking, and as this was additionally shot and directed in a similar style, it ends up being a very accurate send-up.

chapbook.livejournal.com

Title: The Madness of Angels
Author: ayalesca
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 87,457
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Canonical and Minor Character Deaths
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: Urban fantasy AU. In which John Watson is a war sorcerer recently invalided home from Afghanistan. In London he meets Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most irritating urban sorcerer and only consulting detective. There, John finds himself and Sherlock suddenly under attack by a mysterious and malevolent power—and drawn into a mystery that may tear London apart. A fusion with the Matthew Swift series by Kate Griffin, but no prior knowledge is needed.

Reccer's comments: No S3 Spoilers

This impressive work is one of my favorite BBC series fics.

The bare facts: it is a fusion (with crossover elements consisting of cameos from two urban magic series) that requires no knowledge of the originals to steal your breath, squeeze your heart, and cause you to pound the nearest surface in amazed delight. The vivid, sharply realized settings and the stunning way in which John, Sherlock, Mycroft, and Irene just fit as their IC selves into the dangerous and fantastic landscapes of the City of London is truly remarkable. Let me not leave out the brilliant dialogue, the skillfully re-imagined S1 and S2 cases, and the plot twists so gorgeously done that my sole desire (aside from thanking the author) was to find the other enraptured commenters and hold a joyously raucous re-reading party.

I'll be honest: This fic reminds me exactly why I fell deeply, madly in love with the BBC series in 2011.

Excerpt:

“What are you exactly, John?”

“Washed-up RAMC,” John says lightly.

“Oh, no, I think there’s rather more to you than that,” Sherlock breathes.

He grabs John by the elbow and yanks him to a stop; John nearly stumbles. He gets his footing back and has his mouth open to swear at Sherlock when the iron-like grip loosens, shifts, and then Sherlock takes John’s hand in his own with surprising gentleness. Their eyes meet, dark blue to an ice blue so intense that John has to remind himself to breathe. Then John feels a softly glowing warmth in his hand, and in the next instant all of London thrills through John’s body and his heart suddenly jumps, resets its rhythm, palpitates, and then pounds in the rhythm of cars stopping and starting at thousands of traffic lights. His head fills with the laughter and sorrow of eight million souls; his lungs fill with the air they inhale and exhale. John closes his eyes and allows himself to exist within every footstep on every cobblestone, every raindrop falling on every roof, every spark of electricity burning through every streetlamp in London.

Sherlock pulls away and his gaze is challenging, his lips mocking.

Silently John reaches into his pocket and takes out the shell casing belonging to the bullet that is currently lodged in a dead serial killer’s heart. Sherlock’s face opens in a grin and John is absurdly pleased by Sherlock’s smile.

He reaches out for Sherlock’s hand.

The shell casing firmly fixed in his mind, John clears the London fog from their eyes and shows them both the clear starry night skies above a starkly beautiful desert. He fills both their lungs with the rush and roar of air during a parachute jump. He makes their hearts step in time with the inexorable march of conquering soldiers down through thousands of years of history. Then he presses the shell casing between his and Sherlock’s hand. He feels the sharp, desperate struggle between life and death imbued into the metal; he can feel the tiny thing pulsating as if it were the heart that it had stopped so recently.

And he sends a thrill of power into Sherlock’s body, filling him with the hot roar and spray of blood that the bullet remembers and will always remember.

“You’re a war sorcerer,” Sherlock says the words like a spell that is new to him: feeling the words for their hidden powers, tasting and feeling them for secrets and nuances. His eyes are scanning over John, studying every molecule of him, sniffing out every tendril of magic that is awakening deep inside John’s blood. “How can you be this powerful in London?”

“Because you are a battlefield,” John whispers, and with that realization his world blurs, reels, and then snaps into razor-sharp focus again.

swissmarg

Title: Letters Series
Author:

earlgreytea68
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 16K with 4 parts complete (and a 5th part in the midst of posting)
Rating: General to Teen
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: None provided for the series. Summary for part 1: While he's dead, Sherlock writes John letters.

Reccer's comments: Everything you wanted them to say to each other. But it turns out, that may not be enough.

The first and third parts of the series consist entirely of notes that Sherlock wrote to John during his 'hiatus', never intending for John to read them (or did he?). They are pitch-perfect, ranging from humorous to heartbreaking. As they are described from John's POV in part two:

Sherlock came across loud and clear in them. John could practically hear his voice as he read. It was as if Sherlock had suddenly dropped by and treated him to a monologue on the things that were annoying him. It was so much like it had been Before everything that John actually forgot to be heartsick and just lost himself a little while in the flow of Sherlock’s comments and observations.

It's not just a little slice of home, though. Through the letters, Sherlock reveals some of what his time away entails him doing, and how he is affected, physically, mentally, and emotionally. I was very taken with how much could be shown in so few words. Some of the notes are only two or three words, while others go on for several paragraphs, and that in and of itself is telling.

Parts two and four, then, are written in a more familiar narrative style and show what happens when John finally does read the notes. The results are both heart-wrenching and empowering, but even once everything is out in the open, nothing is really solved yet.

The fifth part of the series has just started posting as a multi-chaptered fic. However, the first four parts complete a nice arc, and although they do leave you wanting more, it's not so open-ended that I'd warn anyone to wait.

pipmer1.livejournal.com

Title: Transcript 72.Sherlock/John Watson
Author: UpperEchelonDork
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 19796 (around 6,000 for the chapter in question)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: While traveling to Paris, John texts Sherlock.

Reccer's comments: I am reccing this, despite it being an unfinished WIP (last updated 5/5/2012), because the first chapter can be read as a solid stand-alone one-shot. This chapter is entirely (except for the last few lines) a text conversation between Sherlock and John, while John is on a train to Paris and Sherlock remains in London on a case. I am a sucker for texting fic, and this chapter is the best I've seen in the Sherlock fandom. It is funny, sad, heartwarming and subtly flirtatious. The story starts out with a misunderstanding between Sherlock and John that results in John taking Sarah with him to Paris to attend a friend's wedding. Sherlock gets involved in a case and takes to texting John details and ideas as he works to solve it. Their conversation drifts back and forth between the case, light-hearted banter and serious heart-to-heart discussions. They invariably work their way to more personal revelations, some that are just on this side of unspoken, unacknowledged sentiments.

The author gives the story a mature rating, although what's been written so far doesn't go beyond a 'teen'. Remember, this is a WIP, but I would seriously recommend only reading the chapter I refer to here, otherwise you might just go insane waiting for something that hasn't updated in several months.

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Title: Phantom Vibrations
Author: camerasparring
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 2300
Rating: Teen
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John knows exactly how Sherlock functions. Sherlock constantly needs to know where John is.
Reccer's comments: This is a lovely little fic that really highlights how much John is looking and looking out for Sherlock. I love the little snippets that show the progression between the two of them, and the end! the end is perfect.

Excerpt:
No matter how routine this all is, John still finds himself unable to avoid anxiety after twenty-four hours. He can’t pin down whether he’s concerned that Sherlock will silently starve, quarantined away in his own mind, or whether it’s some sort of Sherlock-contact-withdrawal. He hopes for the former, as his online perusing has left him unable to find meetings for those addicted to charmingly insane consulting detectives.

When he feels a vibration, relief floods him.

The lorry driver has a parrot. Where are you? SH

John shakes his head. Thirty-four hours, fifteen minutes. That one was worrisome.

Shop. Headed home. He texts back. As soon as he hits send, John abandons the milk in the veggie aisle and all but runs out the door. Sherlock, no doubt, has already been speaking aloud to him for some time. He wouldn’t want to miss too much.

essie007.livejournal.com

Title: The Real Meaning of Idioms
Author: feverishsea
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 21,691
Rating: M
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: After two weeks away, John finally texts Sherlock. He doesn't expect Sherlock to respond. He doesn't expect Sherlock to keep texting him. And he really doesn't expect things to spiral out of control so rapidly.
Reccer's comments: This fic is funny and adorable and awkward and painful and real. It's post-TRF but the story doesn't revolve around that. It's about John and Sherlock coming to terms with their romantic feelings for each other in a stumbling, confused and truly entertaining way. The OC of Emma is very well written as is the development of the John/Sherlock relationship. This fic is a gem.

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Title: Short Message Service
Author: solrosan
Pairing: Gen
Length: 10558 words
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock has a secret friend (since long before he met John) who also prefers to text.
Reccer's comments: Sherlock and Anthea are texting buddies and the stories are entirely in text message format. They tease each other, exchange vital information, and Sherlock guesses Anthea's real name. Some of the incidents they discuss are the author's invention, others are based on the episodes right up through A Scandal in Belgravia. It's humorous and in character and we get to see Anthea being Anthea-ish.

getyourguns.livejournal.com

Title: "Correspondences" AU series (3 parts)
Author:

thirdbird /

thirdbird_fic
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 13,467
Rating: PG first part, R subsequent parts
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Author's summary: What if John and Sherlock had met five years earlier?
01. Fairytale of London A03 / DW
02. The Correspondence A03 / DW
03. The Damage Done A03 / DW

Reccer's comments:
This is a great AU that explores how John and Sherlock's relationship would be a little different had they met on much different terms, long before John had been invalided home from Afghanistan. The author does a great job with John's voice, detailing a bit of his experiences in the war as well as as a medical professional. There is also a look at Sherlock's drug use and history and how that effects his view of John and their possible future together. This is another story I hoped had kept going past it's ending, but it's a pretty complete story in itself.
Warnings: descriptions of war violence, drug overdose

keladry_lupin

Title: I Prefer to Text

Author:

ellie_hell

Pairing: Sherlock/John

Length: 8273 words

Rating: PG-13 (some kissing)

Warnings: none

Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary:Following the encounter with Moriarty, Sherlock and John grow closer via text messages.

Reccer's comments: I like fluff, and I like angst. You have quite a bit of the former and a few touches of the latter in this fic. I like seeing Sherlock open up little by little, even if the only way he can let himself is through texting.

Dauntingfire has created a lovely image that's almost exactly how I envision the last scene of this story. The art wasn't made to go with this fic, but it fits anyway: link to DA. The art is worksafe, no warnings.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Location: 221C Baker Street, London, UK
Current Music: The Boys Are Back

maypanic.livejournal.com

Title: The 15:06 to Totnes
Author:

trillsabells
Pairing: Gen
Length: < 1200, although half that is "Message Received"
Author's summary: Sherlock has a train to catch but John has to work. This is not acceptable.
Rating:PG
Warnings:None
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Reccer's comments: Sometimes you want to read a deep, soul-searing, novel length character study. And sometimes, you really just need a giggle. This text fic will definitely deliver the giggle.

Brief and slightly cracky, but also completely believable. The author uses the texting format especially well, painting a vivid mental image even without descriptive language. It's short. It's fun. It's completely adorable.

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Entries tagged with content: texting

Fic Rec: You Have 487 New Messages (Or, In Which Sherlock Holmes Starts a Grouptext)

Fic Rec: The Printer Is Jammed

Vid Rec: Original Sherlock Parody - Oklahomo

Fic Rec: The Madness of Angels

Series Rec: Letters Series

Fic Rec: Transcript 72. Sherlock/John Watson

Fic Rec: Phantom Vibrations

Fic Rec: The Real Meaning of Idioms

Fic rec: Short Message Service

Series rec: Correspondences

I Prefer to Text by ellie_hell and a bit of art to go with it

Fic Rec: The 15:06 to Totnes, by trillsabells

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