221b_recs | Entries tagged with genre: apoca fic

ficklepig.livejournal.com

Title: Where's My Scarf?
Author:

buttsnax
Pairing: Sherlock/John (Or not! You choose!)
Length: 6,000 words, give or take
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence.
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: A Choose Your Own Adventure story set in the ruins of a far-future London. Help Sherlock find his missing scarf, or don't! You decide.

Reccer's comments: If you liked CYOA books as a kid, welcome to the brilliantly cracky, sad, snarky, "of course that mystery writer was

buttsnax" adult version. This Holmestice gift for

nia_kantorka is cleverly crafted as a stand-alone Livejournal with multiple linked entries.

The setting: a weird, unexplained post-apocalypic AU. You are Sherlock Holmes. The problem: you are cold. The reason: you have lost your scarf. The complication:

A terrible and mysterious accident befell you, the likes of which you don't remember, nor could speak of if you did. Your only method of communication is the construction and wearing of an elaborate system of masks. Even now, a mask like a second flesh covers your face--the one you dare not remove beneath all the others. You carry these masks with you in a small sack sewn of a thread unknown to this earth and to you. Each mask represents a facet of your intent or emotional state that John has become adept at interpreting. Most of the time. Occasionally he has trouble with it.

You need to let John know about your missing scarf.

Your choices are to:

[Wear the Mask of Loss]
[Wear the Mask of Ice]
[Wear the Mask of Asphyxiation]

I think my personal favorite is The Mask of Not Getting Killed Immediately.

rachelindeed.livejournal.com

Title: Coins on my Eyes
Author: indybaggins
Pairing: Sherlock/John, Sherlock & Mycroft
Length: 35,000
Rating: M
Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: 'Sherlock spent nights lying awake, listening to the rustling of John’s hands on the bedcovers. The dull thumps of John’s head against the headboard. The rhythmic grinding of his teeth. The soft, hungry sounds of his mouth and throat.'

There is an unknown infection rapidly spreading through London, fear, unspoken love, dead who cannot die... and a way for them to come back. Post-zombie AU!

Reccer's comments:

This fic was one of the highlights of my summer. The writing is stellar, the characterizations nuanced, the relationships breath-taking, the moral conundrums complex, and the setting horrifying. The story shifts perspective between its main characters as it follows the devastating progress of an incurable disease. Mycroft's perspective is insightfully rendered as he adopts ruthless measures to stem the spread of the plague while at the same time reluctantly supporting Sherlock's attempts to cure John after he seems long lost to infection.

This story portrays the deeply generous love between Sherlock and John, and Sherlock and Mycroft, without ever slipping into sentimentality. Its central characters move and breathe with extraordinary detail and emotional integrity. The intense crises they each face bring out the core qualities of their personalities. I think it's an amazing piece of work.

(Possible warnings: this fic deals with end of life issues and caregiving for debilitated loved ones; it portrays suicidal ideation and mentions suicide and euthanasia; it also contains some imagery that is reminiscent of the Holocaust.)

verdant_fire

Title: The Last of the Honey Bees
Author: what_alchemy
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 2000 words
Rating: Teen
Warnings: N/A
Verse: BBC
Author's summary: "When we’re all space dust… when all of this is gone? My molecules will find yours.”

Reccer's comments: This fic combines retirement and the end of the world into one cohesive, gorgeous whole. It does a great deal with very few words. what_alchemy's use of imagery and metaphor is stunning, and the story really captures the love and transcendence in the midst of the tragedy. It's arresting, indelible work. (Full disclosure: this fic was technically my gift for Holmestice, but I would have loved it regardless.)

verdant_fire

Title: A Great Light
Author: achycarnations
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 2270
Rating: Teen
Warnings: N/A
Verse: BBC
Author's summary: Of course, they don't get around to falling in love until the world is ending.

Reccer's comments: I have a weakness for apocafic, and this is one of my favorites. Since it involves the apocalypse, it's necessarily bittersweet, but John and Sherlock's love for each other and the ways they react to the end of the world are touchingly in-character and very human. It's Romantic in the capital-R sense of the word.

phoenixfalls.livejournal.com

Title: Death Before Dusk
Author:

yahtzee63 (Yahtzee)
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/Joan Watson
Length: 15,816 words
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None apply
Verse: Elementary
Author's summary: The bad news: In 111 days, an asteroid will strike the Earth in a cataclysm that promises to destroy human civilization as we know it.

The good news: There's been a murder.

Reccer's comments:
This is, without a doubt, the best longfic I have read in the Elementary fandom. It's a story about things on the cusp, the world on the verge of annihilation and Sherlock & Joan balanced precariously between simple friendship and something more. At the start of it they have been separated, each dealing with the impending apocalypse alone. As they investigate one last case Yahtzee digs in to their characters, getting to the core of Sherlock's reasons for investigating murders and what Sherlock gives to Joan. Yahtzee has captured Sherlock's and Joan's voices from the show exactly, but at the end of the world it's also crystal clear that these modern adaptations are, always and forever, no matter the trappings, Holmes and Watson.

This is a fic of high emotion rendered in a gorgeously understated way. The case is involving in itself in addition to the way it brings clarity to the characters; Bell, Gregson, Ms. Hudson, and Moriarty all appear, each dealing with the end of the world in perfectly characteristic and heartbreaking ways. There is a great deal of anguish here, imbuing virtually every scene, and yet ultimately the story is incredibly hopeful.

If you are only ever going to read one Elementary fic, I beg that you make it this one.

hajimebassaidai.livejournal.com

Two stories which were both inspired by the same prompt on the Sherlock kinkmeme:
Doctor Who/Torchwood crossover: In which Holmes and Watson are part of the London resistance during The Year That Never Was. They take a slightly diferent approach and resolve it after the time reset in different ways but are both definitely worth reading and rereading!

Title: Three Hundred and Sixty-Five
Author:

jupiter_ash
Pairing: Gen
Length: 9,500 words approx
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Character Death
Verse: Sherlock BBC/Doctor Who

Author's summary: Crossover with Doctor Who, and looks into what Sherlock and John were both doing during The Year That Never Was.

Author's Warnings: Crossover with Doctor Who, and uh, since it’s set during the Master’s rule of Earth, a lot of people die including various characters from the series.

Reccer's Additional Warnings: Lots of death, including children and suicide (nothing graphic), and general collapse of society. Nothing that canon wouldn't screen.

Reccer's comments: This Author takes the approach of maintaining the storyline of that year and seamlessly inserting John, Sherlock and Mycroft into those events. The result is that Sherlock still sees the qualities in John that would interest him in "Study in Pink", although this is before he joined up, and John would still become involved in Sherlock's dangerous world, although it is the world of the Resistance operative, not of a Consulting Detective. I also adore how everything resolves at the end!
I would point out that the only Sherlock characters here are John, Sherlock and Mycroft.

Title: The Rebel and his Cause
Author: thegabih
Pairing: Gen
Length: 2,920 words approx.
Rating: Author rating Gen, personally I'd say PG-13 just to be safe!
Warnings: Character Death
Verse: Sherlock BBC/Doctor Who

Author's summary: His queen is dead, his country in ruins, and John Watson is left in the unenviable position of trying to patch things up under the eyes of an immortal dictator.

Reccer's Additional Warnings: Again lots of death, including children and suicide (nothing very graphic/detailed), and the general collapse of society.

Reccer's comments: This story isn't quite as dark in tone as "Three Hundred and Sixty-Five" and the author has tweaked the timelines slightly. The story starts on 28th June 2007 but John and Sherlock are already flatmates. This is the only change to Sherlock canon though!

In this story Sherlock, Mycroft, "Anthea" and others are part of the Resistance, who have based themselves out of Torchwood Cardiff. What much of the story is about though is John and how he deals with the situation. I wouldn't say he thrives but he is very definitely bamf and, staying vague here, the way things work out is just so sad and yet feels so totally in character for all concerned.

wakemexsoftly.livejournal.com

Title: the year that never was
Author: emotionanalysis
Pairing: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes
Length: 2614
Rating: T+
Warnings: none
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Author's Summary: One morning John wakes up to find London empty except for him and Sherlock.
Reccer's Comments: emotionanalysis is very skilled at conveying the sorrow and freedom that John and Sherlock experience when everyone in London suddenly disappears. This is the kind of self-contained magical realism fanfiction I like best, fanfiction that drops the characters we know into another world, but still keeping the essence of who they are. This is one of those pieces that will stick with you.

Excerpt:

He's determined to solve the case of the disappearances, but whether to somehow bring them back or for the sheer intellectual challenge, John isn't sure. He isn't sure if there is even a case to begin with.

Was there a crime? And if so, who were the victims: those who disappeared without a trace, or the two of them left behind?

tanpopo03.livejournal.com

Title: In The Land Of The Blind
Author:

entangled_now
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 12,679
Rating: R
Warnings: -
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock's been acting strangely for days. There's a claustrophobic silence to the flat, experiments tossed aside or abandoned, cases ignored. It's almost as if nothing matters any more. John's determined to know why.

Reccer's comments: I have a sort of love/hate relationship with apoca-fics. They can be so very bleak and more than one has left me feeling rather gutted. But on the other hand they tend to bring out the best in the characters, if written well, and make me realize that most of my problems actually aren't that dire.

This does both. Reading it through John's eyes and realizing what's going to happen, without being able to do anything about it at all, gives me chills. But the way his relationship with Sherlock transforms because of it is just amazing. Every word is true to the characters and I probably don't need to advertise

entangled_now's writing.

There are references to John being at work a couple of times, but no scene actually takes place there. The fact that everything happens at 221B adds to that feeling of unease and claustrophobia imo, so I think this fits our theme prefectly. :)

unovis.livejournal.com

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Entries tagged with genre: apoca fic

Fic Rec: Where's My Scarf? by buttsnax

Fic Rec: Coins on My Eyes

fic rec: The Last of the Honey Bees

fic rec: A Great Light

Fic: Death Before Dusk

Fic Recs: "Three Hundred and Sixty-Five" and "The Rebel and his Cause"

fanfiction rec: The Year That Never Was

Fic Rec: In The Land Of The Blind

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