221b_recs | Entries tagged with content: underage sexuality

Title: Transports
Author:

ancientreader
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 136K
Rating: explicit
Warnings: childhood sexual abuse, show-typical violence, character death (not John or Sherlock)
Verse: BBC
Author's summary:
[part 1, Curriculum Vitae] How to become a consulting detective.
[part 2, The Beginning of Knowledge] Jim's lessons are hard to unlearn.

Reccer's comments:
This AU examines Sherlock's troubled relationship with his "transport" and with self-acceptance by having him grapple with the effects of sexual trauma and progressive physical disability. (To clarify, those two life events have entirely independent origins. Sherlock deals with both, but they had nothing to do with each other at the outset.) Although the fic has the "Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings" tag, the author provides notes and content warnings at the chapter level. It's a roller coaster ride of angst to be sure, but there's wisdom, warmth, and humor throughout. And a happy ending. I actually thought I'd found it via rec here, and I was surprised to discover I was mistaken.

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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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ficklepig.livejournal.com

Title: I Put Away Childish Things
Author: kirstenlouise
Pairing: Molly Hooper/Jim Moriarty
Length: 7123
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: rape/non-con, underage sex (adult sexual relationship with a minor)
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: One lonely, naive girl, desperate to be noticed, and a man clever enough to make her feel special.

Reccer's comments: Big fat content warning right up front: this story depicts child rape. Read the tags.

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verdant_fire

Title: However Improbable
Author: earlybloomingparentheses
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 61701
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Underage
Verse: BBC
Author's summary: When unhappy sixth-former John Watson meets the brilliant ex-Etonian Sherlock Holmes, he finds his heart spending more time in his mouth than in his chest. Soon, he's navigating a sea of unfamiliar desires, his father's alcoholic disapproval, and the jagged edges of his new friend's extraordinary mind. Sometimes, he learns, love is soft and safe; sometimes, it's blood and teeth and fists. But then again, so is secondary school.

Reccer's comments: This is one of the best Teenlock fics I've read. It really captures the pains and triumphs of coming of age, and it deals with mental illness and coming out in a very honest and compassionate way. I don't often see realistic depictions of depression in fic (or any medium, sadly), but this one struck a chord. The development of Sherlock and John's relationship is stumbling and fraught in a way that feels deeply true, and the whole story is beautifully and movingly written. It's lovely storytelling.

frozen_delight

Title: Brothers in Arms
Author:

kahvi
Pairing: Mycroft Holmes/Sherlock Holmes
Length: 3,700 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Underage, Dubious Consent
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: There is a part of Sherlock which, despite all else that he is, remains virginal and innocent, and therein lies the appeal. Mycroft cannot have it, so neither will anyone else.

Reccer's comments: This story is so gloriously disturbing that I really don't know what to make of it, even after reading it several times. There is an abundance of subtly intriguing details strewn into the narrative which can be interpreted in a number of ways and make for a very rewarding read. More importantly, the constant battles of wits and wills between Mycroft and Sherlock that are described in this fic in non-chronological order are as entertaining as they are scary. Sherlock is alternatingly attempting to break free of Mycroft's influence and to maintain the status quo, neither of which he does particularly successfully, since Mycroft is unfortunately always one step ahead of him.

Both Holmes brothers are depicted as dangerous, deranged, very clever and completely removed from the rest of the world, existing in a slightly fantastical setting of their own. As a pre-series perspective, it makes a frightening amount of sense on what we later get to witness on the actual show.

Please note that the story doesn't actually contain any incest, just two brothers obsessively playing mindgames with each other and sharing a bed - voluntarily or not so voluntarily. It's certainly a darkfic, but more of a psychological than a physiological nature.

dioscureantwins.livejournal.com

Title:The Frost is all Over
Author: Chryse
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: about 148,500 words
Rating: explicit
Warnings:implied/referenced child abuse, implied/referenced rape/non-con, period-typical homophobia, major illness, OC/minor character death
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John was brave and clever and loyal, a commoner who longed for an exciting life. Sherlock was dashing and brilliant and passionate, an Earl’s son who longed to solve crimes. Being a Tale of Glorious Adventures, Love Letters, Treachery, Longing, Secret Identities, Deathbed Confessions, First Kisses, Daring Escapes, and True Love.

Reccer's comments: So, one day I chanced upon this fic and downloaded it to my e-reader. Then I sat down and started reading and the world around me ceased to exist until I reached the end, which, unfortunately, came all too soon.
Sadly, I don’t occupy a minor position in the British government or else I would decree this fic to be entered into the curriculum of any aspiring Sherlock BBC fanfic reader. For take almost all the characters of the series, add a few pounds of Dickens, some pints of Wilkie Collins, a heavy dollop of the Bronte sisters, a tablespoon of Austen, and a pinch of ACD storylines, stir the whole concoction according to the instructions of Charles Palliser and Sarah Waters and you’ll end up with this great shaggy beast of a wonderfully precocious fic that combines massive scope with minute detail and serves it all up in a plot so thick the spoon stands up in it.
The story is set in the Victorian era and the period is both lovingly and convincingly drawn in beautiful, luxurious language reminiscent of the nineteenth century. We’re taken on a tour of Victorian society, from the hovels of the poor through the lush and unspoiled countryside around Sherrinford Hall, home of the Earl of Sherrinford and his children Mycroft and Sherlock, to the stables, where John, the new groom serves under the loving eye of Mr and Mrs Gregson, and on to the servant’s quarters to the grand chambers of the Hall itself.
Told from John’s POV Sherlock and he are but children when they first meet. John’s career as a jockey was nipped in the bud by an accident and he’s been sent by his former employer to Sherrinford Hall. There he strikes up a fast friendship with the youngest son of the Earl, the quick-witted and sharp-tempered Sherlock, against whose temperament he has been warned.
All seems well with the world while John and Sherlock enjoy their summer of friendship. But of course all good things must come to an end. The scene is laid for an elaboration of their friendship through correspondence until the next summer, the last before Sherlock will have to go to Eton.
At that moment the first angst starts to seep into the fic. Sherlock doesn’t write and John fears for their friendship, and worse, until Sherlock shows up unexpectedly one stormy night and John gets his first inkling the world outside even for an Earl’s son the world outside Sherrinford Hall might be a bit more fraught with peril than he had assumed.
Then the shocking developments start happening so fast and so relentlessly, their whole world torn asunder while they’re confronted with every atrocity mankind ever invented that the reader is left hanging in the ropes like an exhausted boxer, and yet thirsting for more. Truly, the phrase ‘unputdownable’ must have been coined with this fic in mind.
As we follow Sherlock and John on their journey we meet hundreds of characters. The characters from the series are of course designed to various positions in life in a totally different setting and yet they remain IC throughout, no mean feat. All of the OC’s, and we meet lots and lots of those, are well-rounded and lovingly drawn. As this is a Victorian novel there is a lot of sickness and death and outrageous treatment of innocents and the reader becomes invested in what happens to the OC’s almost as much as what happens to John and Sherlock and Mycroft and Irene and Mike Stamford and Molly and Angelo and… need I go on?
Honestly, I could go on and on and on about this fic, but in the end, to quote a certain consulting criminal, “I would try to convince you but… everything I have to say has already crossed your mind!”
For I do hope to have convinced you to go and read this right now. You truly won’t regret it that you did.

swissmarg

Title: The Blog of Eugenia Watson [podfic]
Author:

Mad_Lori
Podficcer:

lunchee
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: approx. 10 hours in three files
Rating: G (as posted, but due to language and themes this may not be appropriate for all ages)
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: 'The blog of Eugenia Watson' by madlori read aloud. I like to think of this not so much as a blog but as the first draft of my inevitably best-selling memoirs. My Life In an Unconventional Family. How unconventional? Well, I live with my divorced parents and my dad's husband. How's that for starters? Trust me, it gets weirder. My name is Eugenia Watson, but you can call me Genie. I'm sixteen. This is my life.

Reccer's comments: The fic this is based on, The Blog of Eugenia Watson by Mad_Lori, was already recced here, but this podfic deserves a rec all on its own, as I feel it's one of the classic podfics of the fandom.

What I love so much about this podfic is that lunchee's voice matches the character of Eugenia so well. It takes no effort whatsoever to hear the 16-year-old narrator in the accent and intonation. It's not like listening to someone read a story. It's like hearing Eugenia speaking of her first-hand experiences as the youngest member of this unorthodox family.

Even if you've already read the fic, hearing it brought to life like this makes all of the stories and emotions so much more vivid. You can hear her anguish over Sherlock being injured; her matter-of-fact acceptance of her mother bringing 'corpse stench' into the flat, tempered by the obligatory teenage whinging; her starry-eyed indulgence of her father and step-father cuddling; and her occasional mild disgust when glimpsing them doing anything more.

Definitely download this for your next trip, and enjoy the story without eye fatigue or motion sickness. ;)

(P.S. The underage sexuality tag is for a mention only, nothing explicit, which is why I haven't included it as a warning.)

swissmarg

Title: You Promised Me Two Years
Author:

prettyvk
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 42,302 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major character death
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John isn’t scared of Sherlock or of the adults around them. But he is scared of this Message. He is scared he’ll be there, in two years, right next to Sherlock, watching and unable to do a damn thing when he dies. Because the true Message was, “Don’t expect to make a career out of this interpreter thing. I’ll die in two years.” For the first time in his life, John wishes he’d never taken the Cassandra Tests.

Reccer's comments: This is a wonderfully creative teenlock/boarding school AU in which Sherlock is a Prophet (like an oracle, not a religious leader with a following) who speaks only in riddles, and John is his interpreter. This is what a conversation between them looks like:

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Part of the fun of reading this is trying to figure out all the associations of Sherlock's words, and how John gets to the meaning within them. But it's not all as cryptic as this. Sherlock's proclamations are usually clarified in the text, either by John or another of the characters who are able to understand them (and there are several).

The main reason that I'm reccing this, though, is the story of the prophecy given in the summary. How does it affect the course of John and Sherlock's lives? What does it mean for their relationship? And, most importantly, can anything be done to change Sherlock's fate?

Moriarty of course can't help becoming entangled in it all, and I loved how the author sprinkled in bits and pieces from the first two Sherlock series, without rehashing any of the actual cases or plots.

The resolution was a fantastic tying-together of several threads, and without wanting to spoil the ending, all I can say is don't be scared off by the character death warning. It is all for a purpose.

By the way, I'm tagging this with asexual Sherlock, although it's never stated, as he seems to me to be portrayed that way in this fic. There is sex, though, and it's not dub-con. I'm also giving this an underage tag as Sherlock is 16 at the beginning when he and John begin their relationship, although no actual sex happens until he is 18.

chapbook.livejournal.com

Title: Chez les bêtes
Author: breathedout
Pairing: Irene Adler/Various, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette/Mathilde de Morny
Length: 12,923
Rating: E
Warnings: Underage Sex
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Le Havre, 1908. The Child is mother of the Woman.

Reccer's comments: BBC's version of Irene Adler is a character I've had problems connecting with (unlike Doyle's Irene), primarily because the writing for ASiB is chaotic and full of holes, leaving us with an Irene who to me feels more like a symbol than a fully realized personality. In contrast, BreathedOut's brilliant history AU, which moves Irene to early-twentieth-century England and France, presents the reader with a raw and ferocious young woman who feels very human, with her artistic talents, youthful uncertainty, love for her mother, and her capacity to manipulate. The cultural beliefs of turn-of-the-century working- and middle-class Britons are on full display here, demonstrating how very difficult it is for a working-class woman, even one with Irene's abilities, to struggle against these values and expectations. As a result, Irene's attempts to escape the expected routine of grueling, poorly paid, and often unsafe "respectable" work, as well as the conventional roles of wife and mother are all the more powerful.

Alternating the past and present throughout the story effectively shows how "The Woman" came to be in a process neither direct nor easy. It's that structure that allows Irene's epiphany to feel earned rather than a bolt out of the blue. I look forward to seeing this Irene meet Violet Hour's Sherlock and John in the next installment of the Unreal Histories series. I suspect it will be a memorable confrontation!

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Title: The Flight (or on LJ)
Author:

ficklepig
Pairing: Mycroft/Sherlock
Length: 8600
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Non-con, sibling incest, Alpha/Omega-verse
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock is not an odious pedant, or a casual vandal, or a smug, ungrateful twerp. He is meat.
Reccer's comments: If you already love Alpha/Omega-verse, I probably don’t have to persuade you to read a story about Sherlock’s first heat. If A/O is not usually your thing, you may still want to give this a chance. The desperation of Mycroft and Sherlock’s biological drives as alpha and omega, respectively, are used as a basis for exploring their fraught relationship, and the power dynamic is not nearly so straightforward as “alpha is in charge.” They’re both unsure here, and watching them in turn fight and take consolation from each other is heartbreaking.

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peeveee.livejournal.com

Title: How the mouth changes its shape
Author: breathedout
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John(nie) Watson
Length: 132,500
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Genderswap, brief depictions of sex between minors
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: 1955. Under the placid veneer of suburban playparks and middle-class conformity churns a hidden London: femmes and butches dancing close in basement bars; clandestine love between women. To Sherlock Holmes, struggling private detective and mistress of disguise, it’s a realm she renounced years before. To Johnnie Watson, daredevil ambulance driver turned auto mechanic, it’s become a little too familiar. But when someone is murdered in the washroom of the city’s most notorious lesbian club, the investigation will lead both women to reconsider their assumptions about themselves, each other, and the world in which they live.

Reccer's comments: When I last wrote a rec for this fic, it was only half way through and I was already in love with it. With the vividly painted 50's setting, with the enigmatic Sherlock, with fabulous, fabulous Johnnie. It starts with Sherlock feeling her way through school, and these chapters have to be some of my favourites. Sherlock is sharp, odd, and the explorations into her fumbling teenage sexuality with 'Vicky' Trevor are tenderly and realistically depicted. The way we follow her character as she develops from oddball young girl into a Sherlock we can recognise is wonderful, and I think my favourite scene in the whole fic is the moment Sherlock discovers her skills in disguise. Seeing that hint of canon Holmes is brilliant.
The 'meat' of the story begins with Sherlock and Johnnie becoming flatmates and beginning to investigate a murder at a local lesbian club, and the way that breathedout weaves mystery, romance, action and intrigue is just masterful. The blossoming feelings between Johnnie and Sherlock are perfectly realised inamongst thrilling action and adventure, and it's really just everything I could have wanted in a story. Immensely satisfying, full of emotion and heart, and rich with historical details and settings. Read this fic. You won't regret it!

arminaa.livejournal.com

Title: Professional Boundaries
Author: ureshiiichigo
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 70,681
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Underage (Adult/minor relationship; not acted upon until minor is of age)
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John is a recently graduated PhD student teaching his first class at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Sherlock is a college freshman who moved to the United States three years ago. John is happy to have such an enthusiastic student, but he's starting to wish Sherlock didn't come to every single one of his office hours. He's scaring off the other students.

Reccer's comments: I was wary of this AU, because of the age difference and the professor/student relationship. However, the author did such a fantastic job of handling those issues that it wasn't a problem at all. The story deals with John coming to terms with his burgeoning feelings for a young Sherlock, and how it effects his career. It's a very honest fic, dealing with difficult issues, which I really enjoyed.

A heads up: In this fic John is 30, Sherlock is 17 for part of the story and turns 18. The fic takes place in America, so the age of consent is 18. Their relationship is not acted upon until Sherlock is of age.

misplaced-exile.livejournal.com

Title: Common Grounds
Author: couchbarnacle
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson (main), Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty
Length: 66 875 words
Rating: M
Warnings: Some descriptions of drug use and teenagers having sex.
Verse: Sherlock BBC, AU
Author's summary: John Watson is working at Holmes Manor for the summer and is caught up in the whirlwind that is Sherlock Holmes. Teen AU.

Reccer's comments: I wanted to make sure I recced this before the weekend, as it's quite long and addictive! A fic set with John and Sherlock meeting as teenagers (they're the same age here). It starts off slowly exploring their home lives and developing relationship, but then turns to trials and tribulations, as well as action and adventure before the happy ending. The whole BBC Sherlock cast is also here in some form or another, as well as nice characterizations of Sherlock and John's parents. Sherlock and John are both very in-character, despite them clearly being different people then they are in the tv show. Sherlock is a bratty, impetuous whirlwind, John is so lovely you just want to give him a hug, Jim is king!bastard and Holmes Manor is where you're going to wish you spent your summers. A' really enjoyable, readable fic that will have you up 'til you finish it!

Excerpt: "He's always like that?" He asked incredulously.

"More often than not." Mrs. Hudson said with a shake of her head. "He really was a sweet, brilliant child, but the teenage years have been a bit rough on him. He's just trying to find himself."

"It certainly is a loud scavenger hunt if nothing else." John murmurs, and smiles when Mrs. Hudson giggles.

wakemexsoftly.livejournal.com

Title: The Physics of Present Tense

Author: paxlux

Pairing: Mycroft/Sherlock

Length: 37850

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: sibling incest, drug use

Verse: BBC Sherlock

Author's summary: It happens instantaneously, but it takes years. It’s like looking up at the stars and spinning around with your arms out and letting gravity take you.

Reccer's comments: Mycroft/Sherlock (Holmescest, if you will) is definitely a pairing that is not for everyone. paxlux illustrates how isolating it can be, being a Holmes. Physics starts off when they are children, and follows the brothers all the way to ASiP. I love how they contrast and simultaneously reflect each other, as well as the repetitive theme of stating their ages. There's a world that only the two of them exist in; and this story pulls you inside. I will dare to say that if you only allow yourself one chance to read a Mycroft/Sherlock fanfiction, this one should be it. By the end of the story, it only seems right that they are together. Which, I suppose, is the point.

Excerpt:

Sherlock finds the furcula on his pillow again the next time Mycroft leaves. He wants to snap the bone, demand the wish, and calculate their momentum over their timeline, because this is fast pulling at his center of gravity and he can’t see where they’re going.

But it’s brilliant, it’s exciting.

Sherlock is intoxicated with possibilities and tangents and variables, but he returns to a single theorem: how he and Mycroft are equals, halves making a whole, no integrals required.

No one else is like them.

There is only them, together.

And he wants it.

petronia.livejournal.com

Title: A Dozen Different Hours
Author:

onidoko
Artist:

ptelefolone
Pairing: Holmes/Watson, OC m/m
Length: 64,463 words
Rating: PG-13

Warnings: See fic's About page for comprehensive list. I would highlight: drug use, crumbling boundaries of reality, non-explicit but genuinely creepy and pervasive intimations of child abuse and child sexuality.

Verse: ACD!Sherlock Holmes x Alice in Wonderland. Pop-culture awareness of Carroll will do, but knowing the books adds to the enjoyment (to the same degree as Sherlock, say).

Author's summary: A not-so routine kidnapping provides the great Sherlock Holmes with a case unlike any he’s handled before: a race against a clock which obeys no set rule of Time; a world consisting of other people’s conflicting realities; and a search for a girl whom he’s only encountered between the pages of a storybook …

Reccer's comments: In the event that you have always wanted your Holmesian hurt-comfort UST to take place within the context of a steampunk gothic version of Alice in Wonderland, this is definitely the fic for you. Though it's still worth a read if the idea had not occurred for some reason! In retrospect one wonders if the crossover's been done elsewhere - it's sort of an ultimate throwdown between randomness and its opposite. Victorian secular materialism versus philosophical anti-rationalism. ( Read more... )

221b_wonderland main story chapter list

Many of my recs will be crossovers, I'm afraid - I have difficulty remembering that Sherlock Holmes does not simply exist across all fictional universes. XD;

Mods, may I have tags for steampunk, fantasy, underage sexuality, and historical RPF? And any others you might see fit.

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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Entries tagged with content: underage sexuality

fic rec: Transports

Fic rec: Vespers, by peevee

Fic Rec: I Put Away Childish Things

fic rec: However Improbable

Fic Rec: Brothers in Arms

Fic Rec: The Frost is all Over

Podfic Rec: The Blog of Eugenia Watson

Fic Rec: You Promised Me Two Years

Fic Rec: Chez les bêtes

Fic Rec: The Flight

Fic rec: How the mouth changes its shape - breathedout

Fic Rec: Professional Boundaries

Fic Rec: Common Grounds

fanfiction rec: The Physics of Present Tense

Fic rec: A Dozen Different Hours, by onidoko

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