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Title: Broken Crown - A Dedication to Eurus Holmes
Music Title & Artist: Broken Crown by Mumford & Sons
Vidder: OneAllysa/i-am-adlocked
Pairing or Character: Eurus Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Gen
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Link: Tumblr post with vid embedded
Summary: “I’ll never wear your broken crown.” Here’s a tribute fanvid for Eurus Holmes.

Reccer's Comments: Eurus is a much maligned character, but this vid really made me appreciate her better and see her as something more than an unprepared sensationalistic plot twist. It’s also a really nicely done piece of vidding and a good song.

rachelindeed

Title: Soldier, a tribute to Captain John Watson M.D.
Music Title & Artist: "Soldier" by Fleurie
Vidder: i-am-adlocked (on tumblr), a.k.a. OneAllysa (on YouTube)
Pairing or Character: John Watson
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Link: Soldier vid post on tumblr

And here is the YouTube link, if you have trouble viewing the vid on tumblr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjQsp8TAy9w

Reccer's Comments: *deep breath* So, this is a BBC John Watson character study through all four seasons but with emphasis, I would say, on the later seasons. It offers a careful, insightful, and emotional exploration of the John Watson that angered many fans both of the BBC show and of the original Doyle stories, myself included: the angry and sometimes violent man who is, in important ways, 'not okay' and who knows that about himself. The vid touches on a host of issues - trauma, PTSD, alcohol dependency, trust and anger issues, violence, loss, addiction to danger. The vid highlights many of John's worst moments - both as a person suffering and as a man lashing out - but it also remembers his strength, his desire to heal and protect, and the hellish experiences he has been through that have shaped his emotional landscape. This tribute refuses to minimize his flaws, but nonetheless approaches his character arc with respect and empathy.

As in many well-edited vids, I was struck by a number of the vidder's visual storytelling choices. With a keen eye for parallels and a confident touch in the layering of song lyrics, dialogue, and imagery, it's a powerful work. Sometimes I find that fanvids, by condensing a narrative and developing tone, mood, and emotion with greater immediacy than a fully mounted episode, can succeed in making certain characterization or story choices work better than they do in the source material. For me, this vid does that for John.

EDITING TO ADD WARNING: The editing style includes cuts that flash briefly through a white screen. There's no strobe effect, but if you are sensitive to white flashes then you may want to avoid this one, or try it out carefully.

rachelindeed

Title: Human
Music Title & Artist: "Human" by Rag'n'Bone Man
Vidder: Pteryx Videos
Pairing or Character: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, ensemble
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Link: Human vid on tumblr

Reccer's Comments: This vid is stunning; an emotional, multi-layered, and moving look at Sherlock's journey toward deeper humanity through all four seasons. This vidder is one of the best in the fandom, and I have rarely seen such complex and confident editing.

There's not a great deal to say about this one beyond: it's amazing.

rachelindeed

Title: [Sherlock Hound | 名探偵ホームズ] - Shut Up and Drive
Music Title & Artist: "Shut Up and Drive" by Rihanna
Vidder: sanguinity
Pairing or Character: Sherlock Hound/Watson
Verse: Sherlock Hound
Vidder's summary: Hound wants Watson to drive his car (if you know what I mean).
Link: Sherlock Hound Shut Up and Drive vid on tumblr

And here's an alternate link for download or streaming at AO3: Shut Up and Drive AO3 link

Reccer's Comments: The summer 2018 round of Holmestice recently concluded, and this delightful vid was a great highlight! Cheerfully and affectionately tongue-in-cheek, full of visual double entendres and energetic vehicular flirtations, this vid will charm your socks off. Funny, fast paced, seamlessly edited, adventurous and domestic, and genuinely warm-hearted on top of it all, this vid celebrates a colorful and charming version of Holmes and Watson's immortal partnership.

I was previously unfamiliar with the "Sherlock Hound" adaptation, but wikipedia informs me that it was a Japanese-Italian animated series that ran for one 26 episode season from 1984 to 1985. Several episodes were directed by Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, and the steampunk sensibilities of this verse appear to great advantage in the vid!

oldshrewsburyian

Title: Holmes/Watson - 'The Soldiering Life'
Music Title & Artist: The Decemberists, "The Soldiering Life"
Vidder: CorporalAlex
Verse: Granada
Link: Soldiering Life

Reccer's Comments: This venerable video, crafted in the infancy of YouTube, introduced me to the very concept of slash pairings. It's also, I think, a beautiful tribute to the dynamics of the Holmes-Watson dyad in the Granada series. This captures their whimsy, their affection, their deep attachment... and, of course, the fact that they're most fully alive in each other's presence. Also, I find the way the song's rhythms and lyrics have been matched to the excerpted scenes to be charming. I return to it often.

rachelindeed

Title: Sherlock Holmes 1979
Music Title & Artist: it's an instrumental piece, not identified in the vid's notes
Vidder: katdepp
Pairing or Character: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Verse: Lenfilm, Old Russian Holmes (the Vasily Livanov and Vitaly Solomin version)
Link: Sherlock Holmes 1979

Reccer's Comments: This vid is a charming, sweet tribute to this much-loved Soviet series. The vidder is herself Russian, and the whole sound and look of the piece is overflowing with nostalgia and appreciation. Beautiful!

P.S. - editing this to add: this vid is not tagged or labeled with any descriptors, which is why I did not list it explicitly as romance or slash, but...it seems quite shippy to me :)

sanguinity

Title: Happy Now?
Music Title & Artist: "Hope You're Happy Now," The Sounds
Vidder:

franzeska /

franzeska
Pairing or Character: Sally Donovan
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Link: AO3 (better streaming); Critical Commons (vidder's commentary)
Vidder's Summary: A Defense of a Hated Character

Reccer's Comments: Oh, Sally Donovan! No matter how much the show invites us to hate her, I'm always uncomfortably aware that I -- and presumably a good chunk of the fandom -- am a Sally Donovan, just one of the many trying our damnedest to do our jobs without the special preference or allowances that comes of being a personal friend of the boss. I love this vid for being firmly committed to Sally's point-of-view, as well as to the proposition that her pov is reasonable.

I also admire the vid from a purely technical standpoint: the show gave us very little footage of Sally (this was made after S2, without the benefit of the additional S3 footage), and

franzeska demonstrates just how well such scant pickings can be used. Watching this vid was a revelation, in terms of my understanding of how little footage one really needs to make a strong vid, and what kinds of games might be played to make every bit of that footage count.

sanguinity

Vid Title: SHERLOCK: 221b Baker Towers
Music Title & Artist: Kidulthood to Adulthood - Bashy & Maniac
Vidder:

mindtardis
Verse: 221B Baker Towers
Warnings: blood, corpses, non-graphic violence; bright flashes, fast cutting
Link: tumblr announcement post (also on Vimeo, because tumblr URLs are fragile)

Reccer's Comments: As I introduced in an earlier rec, 221B Baker Towers is a fan-created open universe, in which Holmes and Watson are young Black men from a council estate. There is no canon source for this 'verse, only the imaginations of the members of the fandom: the authors, the artists, the fancasters, and the vidders.

Yes, vidders! "SHERLOCK: 221b Baker Towers" is a trailer for a show that doesn't exist, built from footage from Attack the Block, Elementary, and others. John Boyega and Leeon Jones star as our Holmes and Watson; a complete list of sources appear in the vidder notes on Vimeo.

As the 'verse originator points out in the 221B Baker Towers FAQ, creators for the 'verse are welcome to take elements in wildly different directions from each other or to riff off of other Holmesian fandoms. Mindtardis does both, offering a different take on Moriarty's organization than still-sophistry used in "like a spider in the centre of its web" (rec'd earlier), and borrowing characters from BBC Sherlock. And yet this is very much a vid for the original idea:

...if instead of having his eccentricities ~tolerated~ by Scotland Yard on account of being the Great White Genius, Sherlock Holmes, BME, school dropout, and sometime addict, was regarded by the police as practically a criminal already, one more thug, one more junkie, one more dealer in the making; If he had to choose between buying the week’s groceries or palming a twenty to a bored constable for the chance to spend five minutes on a crime scene, in the hope that whoever’s under enough pressure to deal with crime rates in the neighbourhood will pay him enough for a perp to feed himself and Watson for a month or two. If the greatest threat to his safety were police brutality, or the prospect of being done for a snitch...

(from the original concept post)

For those interested, mindtardis also has a second vid for the same 'verse: "Loaded Gun" (also on youtube) which is based on the BBC episode, "The Hounds of Baskerville."

opaljade

Title: Fanvid_Sherlock2016
Music Title & Artist: Mendelssohn’s Lieder Ohne Worte No. 7
Vidder: Darlington Substitution
Pairing or Character: John Watson/Sherlock Holmes
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Link: DarlingtonSubstitution video announcement
Vimeo link: other video link

Reccer's Comments: Awww,this fanvid... it's just so beautiful and moving! I love how it depicts the amazing chemistry between John Watson and Sherlock Holmes. It touches the heart with its seamless flow from present day to Victorian times (TAB). Our vidder's music selection--Mendelssohn’s Lieder Ohne Worte No. 7--makes this fanvid extra special since it's the classic violin piece Holmes loves to play for Watson in ACD canon. Seriously, it gives me goosebumps whenever I listen to it. Hope you like it. It's well worth taking the time to view! :D

rachelindeed

Title: Holmes/Watson - This Soldiering Life
Music Title & Artist: "This Soldiering Life" by The Decemberists
Vidder: CorporalAlex
Pairing or Character: Holmes/Watson (but vidder says can also be seen as gen if preferred)
Verse: Granada
Link: YouTube link: This Soldiering Life vid

Reccer's Comments: This delightful vid is ten years old now, but still such a sweet and cheerful tribute to the wonderful Granada adventures. The image quality is not the best, but the editing is apt and playful, with many creative matches for the song's lyrics. And the song itself is simply perfect for Holmes and Watson. I defy you not to be charmed! :)

rachelindeed

Title: BBC Sherlock - Rubiks Cube
Music Title & Artist: "Rubik's Cube" by Athlete
Vidder: Loony Lovegood
Pairing or Character: Sherlock/John
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Link: This is a YouTube link: Rubiks Cube vid

Reccer's Comments: This vid kind of leaves me speechless. The song is so painfully perfect, the sound of it a gentle mix of hope and melancholy. The vidder has found images and visual parallels that really touch my heart. The vid builds up to the Reichenbach climax with all the emotional weight the story deserves. This is a vid about both Sherlock and John chasing the solutions to their cases while a more important mystery builds silently between the two of them. They each search their own feelings, trying to understand themselves, but they run out of time before they get to share any sort of answer.

It's a beautiful, beautiful summation of the first two series of this show, and only has about 50 views! I hope you will give this vid a try, it deserves more attention and I believe you won't regret it.

Excerpt of the song's lyrics:

The world is too heavy
Too big for my shoulders
Come take this weight off me now

Thousands of answers
To one simple question
Come take this weight off me now

Oh I'm like a kid who just won't let it go
Twisting and turning the colors in rows
I'm so intent to find out what it is
This is my Rubik's cube
I know I will figure it out.

~~

rachelindeed.livejournal.com

Title: BBC Sherlock Theme (Indian Jam)
Music Title & Artist: The BBC Sherlock Theme, originally composed by David Arnold and Michael Price, here with new arrangement/composition by Tushar Lall; Samay Lalwani is playing percussion and Prathamesh Salunke is on flute.
Vidder: Filmed and edited by Tuhin Mukherjee & Amitesh Mukherjee under the auspices of the Indian Jam Project.
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Link: This link goes to the Indian Jam Project's Video page -- if you scroll down, you will find a link to the BBC Sherlock Theme toward the bottom of the page. BBC Sherlock Theme (Indian Jam) vid

Reccer's Comments: This is a lovely, intriguing rendition of the opening music to the BBC Sherlock series. According to their website, the lead composer of the Indian Jam Project, Tushar Lall, "is attempting to knit classical Indian tones into the script of western music to showcase the beauty of Indian Music. It is a one of a kind concept where fusion of Indo-western styles of music produces a concoction which is deeply emotive as well as thought-provoking, showing that music transcends boundaries and has no language." Take two and a half minutes to give your ear a treat and appreciate this beautiful reminder of our multicultural fandom.

sanguinity

Music Title & Artist: Peter Murphy - A Strange Kind of Love
Vidder: Barbuzuka
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Verse: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1980)
Link: on youtube (no announcement post)

Reccer's Comments: I began the month with a Whitehead/Pickering rec, and I'm in the mood to be self-indulgent and end the month with one, too.

I was under the impression that there weren't any Whitehead/Pickering vids on the internet anymore, but then a friend sent me this and I about died with glee. I love their stupid smiles, and their stupid shared glances, and their stupid touching, and Holmes' stupid trolling of Watson, and Watson's stupid inability to stop watching Holmes. There is not one single thing that is sophisticated about my enjoyment of this vid: it just makes me happy.

(And please let me apologize in advance for the poor quality of the footage: this vid was made a while back -- as you can tell by the older vidding style -- when the only footage generally available was a set of not-pristine VHS rips. But even with the blurry footage and wonky color: it makes me happy.)

sanguinity

Music Title & Artist: Dixon's Girl - Dessa
Vidder: stardust_rain
Pairing or Character: Joan Watson, Sally Donovan, Soo Lin Yao, more
Verse: Elementary, Sherlock BBC
Warnings: fast cuts; canon-typical violence against women; blood, corpses, autopsy
Link: Dreamwidth announcement post
Author's summary: You gotta be big to treat pretty girls bad. A kinda-sorta crossover. (or: Breaking the fourth wall with Joan Watson and Sally Donovan.) A meta-vid.

Reccer's Comments: Joan Watson occupies a unique position in film-and-screen Holmesiana, being both a Watson and a woman of color. I've seen meta about how she fits into the long, long history of Watsons, but "Dixon's Girl" positions her as an heir to other female characters of color in Holmesiana: in this case, Sally Donovan, Soo Lin Yao, and General Shan, all from Sherlock BBC, one of the vanishingly few Holmesian adaptations with named women of color.

There are many layers of discussion in "Dixon's Girl": references to the backlash against Lucy Liu's casting; a takedown of the argument that Joan should not to be celebrated because she is 'just' a Watson; a critique of some elements common between the two shows...

...but it's also very much a vid about longing and hope. About rooting for Sally Donovan and Soo Lin while longing for a thing that you feel like you'll never have, and the hope that with Joan Watson, you might finally, maybe, get to have it.

sanguinity

Music Title & Artist: "Love Game" by The Vitamin String Quartet (Lady Gaga cover)
Vidder: redscullyrevival | GeekyKristie
Pairing or Character: Sherlock Holmes & Joan Watson
Verse: Elementary
Warnings: blood, corpses, drug paraphenalia.
Link: tumblr announcement post (and on youtube, because tumblr URLs are exceptionally fragile)
Vidder's Summary: Different kinds of love, different kinds of games; the evolution of relationships.

Reccer's Comments: A beautiful study of the progression of the S1 partnership, from its origination in a paid sober companion and her resentful client, building through the tricky business of learning to work with each other instead of against each other, to the ultimate triumph of teamwork and trust against a manipulative mastermind. The music is by turns prickly and lyrical as the vid details the frustrations and rewards of the developing partnership, and the absence of vocals allow us to observe the dynamic on our own terms. Various events of the S1 arc are obliquely referenced, but the vid relentlessly returns to the painstaking slog of the work, to the hours upon hours, casefile after casefile, that these two spent building their partnership.

There's a cry you sometimes hear in the Elementary fandom that no one is here for the cases, that we care more about the partnership, the character development and backstories, and less about the whodunnit of the week. (Unsurprising! By the end of the current season, we'll have seen twice as many cases as were in the original canon, and even those original sixty cases had more than a few retreads and what-were-you-thinkings among them.) Even Holmes himself has commented this season that he's come to re-evaluate the relative importance of the work in his life. "Love Game" was made immediately after the S1 finale, but its casefile-centric perspective of the Holmes and Watson relationship makes it fascinating to rewatch as the first seeds of that long, long arc:

When you and I first started, I quickly recognized your merits both as a detective in your own right and that you facilitated in my own process. I’m better at the work I do because of you, but over the years the relative importance of those those two values has flipped. I now value the work that we do first and foremost because I do it with you.

sanguinity

Music Title & Artist: "Everybody Loves Me," One Republic
Vidder: Caesarevich
Character: Sherlock Holmes
Verse: шерлок холмс | Sherlock Holmes (TV 2013) (aka New Russian Holmes)
Link: tumblr announcement post

Reccer's Comments: A central premise of the 2013 Russian series is that the cool calculating machine we know from canon is a fiction: when Dr. Watson sat down to write about his brilliant, passionate, cocksure, hot mess of a flatmate, his editors refused to publish it until he knocked down Holmes' rough edges, revising him into an idealized hero that everyone could love.

The song choice here is obviously a play on that premise: this is a vid about that unrevised, passionate, cocksure, hot mess of a man, the one whom everyone doesn't love, but who operates in perfect confidence that surely everyone will love him any minute now. (LISTEN JOHN LISTEN TO MY DEDUCTIONS ABOUT YOUR FATHER'S WATCH) Of course, we-the-fans-of-the-series love him anyway, and this vid gives a taste of why.

It's also a lovely bit of editing, dynamic and energetic, with a strong sense of character and motion. At only 25 secs, it's a quick watch, and it never fails to make me laugh.

swissmarg

Title: Untitled
Music Title & Artist: "History Maker" by Dean Fujioka (theme song from Yuri on Ice)
Vidder: vanetti
Pairing or Character: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Verse: BBC
Link: +Here on the vidder's tumblr

Reccer's Comments: This fanvid requires some additional context to fully appreciate. The music is the theme song to a Japanese anime, Yuri on Ice, which has been described by the Anime News Network as portraying "two complex characters of the same gender who harbor a directly sexual and romantic attraction to each other". In other words, a connection has already been established to a gay romance. In the fanvid, the song therefore urges an interpretation of Sherlock and John as couple both in the past (TAB) and present day, with the implication that their portrayal as a gay couple would be groundbreaking and make history. The song and the video are upbeat, optimistic, uplifting and empowering, and just made me feel really good about everything.

rachelindeed.livejournal.com

Title: Fix You
Music Title & Artist: "Fix You" by Coldplay
Vidder: givemeanimeanyday
Pairing or Character: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson, unresolved John Watson/Mary Morstan
Verse: Granada
Link: There is no announcement post for this vid, so this link goes to YouTube: Fix You vid

Reccer's Comments: I feel so lucky that there are so many wonderful Granada vids out there -- it's a tribute to how well the series has aged and how much it is still loved by Holmes fans. This vid is a favorite of mine, with well-chosen edits that highlight the inescapable melancholy of Brett's Holmes before showing the way his darker moments are transformed into energy, warmth, and joy in Watson's presence. It shows how Holmes helps Watson heal from the disappointments and loneliness of his life as well. A lovely tribute to their friendship and to the actors who created this wonderful series.

rachelindeed.livejournal.com

Title: Hallelujah
Music Title & Artist: Hallelujah (cover) by Imogen Heap
Vidder: hotandcoldcollision
Pairing or Character: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson (the pairing is however you see them in canon)
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Link: No announcement page exists, so this link is to YouTube: Hallelujah vid

Reccer's Comments: This vid was made within a week of the airing of the BBC series 2 finale, The Reichenbach Fall. The whole fandom was riding high on emotion, and this vid remains my favorite response to the Reichenbach storyline. I love its slow pace, its deliberation and simplicity. The vidder selected just the right images for every line of the lyrics, and Imogen Heap's rendition of this iconic song is so haunting and soulful. Even years later, this creation still touches my heart.

solrosan.livejournal.com

Title: We Were Young
Music Title & Artist: 岁月轻狂(Echoes Of The Rainbow) by 李治廷
Vidder:

kasuko1412
Pairing or Character: Sherlock Holmes/James Moriarty
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Link: Announcement post
Vidder's summary: Jim and Sherlock met each other at an early age. They were made for each other, but, they can only be together in the next life.

Reccer's Comments: A sweet and sad story of two boys meeting, growing up, and growing apart. Or do they really? The video is beautifully edited, with good picks for young Sherlock and young Jim, and splendid use of other material featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrew Scott.

It's a really emotional watch.

Last, I hope I got the title of the song and the name of the artist right. If I didn't, please tell me and I'll edit it.

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swissmarg - Vid Rec: Broken Crown - A Dedication to Eurus Holmes
rachelindeed - Vid Rec: Soldier
rachelindeed - Vid Rec: Human
rachelindeed - Vid Rec: Shut Up and Drive
oldshrewsburyian - You, my brother in arms...
rachelindeed - Vid Rec: Sherlock Holmes 1979
sanguinity - Vid Rec: Happy Now?
sanguinity - Vid Rec: SHERLOCK: 221b Baker Towers
opaljade - Fanvid Rec: Fanvid_Sherlock2016
rachelindeed - Vid Rec: This Soldiering Life
rachelindeed - Vid Rec: Rubiks Cube
rachelindeed.livejournal.com - Music Rec: BBC Sherlock Theme (Indian Jam Project)
sanguinity - Vid Rec: A Strange Kind of Love; Barbuzuka
sanguinity - Vid Rec: Dixon's Girl
sanguinity - Vid Rec: Love Game; GeekyKristie
sanguinity - Vid Rec: Everybody Loves Me; Caesarevich
swissmarg - Vid Rec: Untitled (Born to Make History)
rachelindeed.livejournal.com - Vid Rec: Fix You
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221B Recs

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Entries tagged with vids

Vid Rec: Broken Crown - A Dedication to Eurus Holmes

Vid Rec: Soldier

Vid Rec: Human

Vid Rec: Shut Up and Drive

You, my brother in arms...

Vid Rec: Sherlock Holmes 1979

Vid Rec: Happy Now?

Vid Rec: SHERLOCK: 221b Baker Towers

Fanvid Rec: Fanvid_Sherlock2016

Vid Rec: This Soldiering Life

Vid Rec: Rubiks Cube

Music Rec: BBC Sherlock Theme (Indian Jam Project)

Vid Rec: A Strange Kind of Love; Barbuzuka

Vid Rec: Dixon's Girl

Vid Rec: Love Game; GeekyKristie

Vid Rec: Everybody Loves Me; Caesarevich

Vid Rec: Untitled (Born to Make History)

Vid Rec: Fix You

Vid Rec: Hallelujah

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