221b_recs | Entries tagged with pairing: moriarty/sh

Title: Moriar Tea
Artist: kimberly80 at DeviantArt
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty
Rating: T (SFW image but strong language)
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Reccer's comments: Gloriously clever and oh-so-pretty play on a coffee-shop or tea-house's chalk sign: beautiful fluidity of lines, incorporation of text, gorgeous rendition of manipulation and longing. Make sure to look at it large. You won't be able to take your eyes off it for quite a while, i'll bet.

Moriar Tea by kimberly80

vulgarweed

Title: From Arsonist's Lullaby
Artist: fivepipsandart at Tumblr
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty
Rating: T, maybe, for mild body horror imagery?
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: All you have is your fire / and the place you need to reach (from the Hozier song)

Reccer's comments: Utterly haunting stark black and white lineart, with a horror/dark magic-realist quality: the clench and kiss of Sherlock and Jim is urgent, passionate - and ultimately fatal. Such a visceral rendering of two people who cannot survive in the world together, nor survive without each other.

From Arsonist's Lullaby

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.

amindamazed

Title: And Silver In Our Lungs
Author: paperclipbitch
Pairing: Irene Adler/Sherlock Holmes, Jamie Moriarty/Sherlock Holmes
Length: 1500
Rating: author said T; I'd call it M for description of sex
Warnings: N/A
Verse: Elementary
Author's summary: The London rain falls like an inevitability, and Irene Adler is waiting for her lover.

Reccer's comments: Um at this point, do I need to warn for season-one spoilers in the comments? I suppose to be safe I'll slip this under a read more. If anyone seeing this hasn't watched s1 and is still unspoiled, I recommend staying that way until you finish it.
( Read more... )

dioscureantwins.livejournal.com

Title: Toplock Talent Search
Author:

anarfea
Pairing: Sherlock/John, Sherlock/Irene, Sherlock/Jim/Molly
Length: approx. 25,000 words
Rating: explicit
Warnings: top!Sherlock (the reason the fic exists)
Verse: BBC Sherlock
Author's summary: “It’s frankly alarming,” said the Sherlock in the fishnet top, “watching you simper and fawn and make puppy eyes over John like a … sad, gay baby.”
Sherlock’s mouth fell open. “I am not a sad gay baby!”
“Yes, you are,” said Irene.
“Well, what is he, then?” sputtered Sherlock. “Splaying his legs open so everyone can see his cock through those trousers. Sitting there leering at the rest of us like some sort of superior … Dark fuck prince.”

Currently a WIP. Last updated July 2015. There should be one more chapter according to the author. However, as chapter three to five are pretty much stand alone's you can really go ahead and read!

Reccer's comments: This fic is proof of the human mind’s remarkable talent to turn something vile into something hilarious. Written in response to the vagaries imposed upon last year’s 221B con by a this fic has the show’s characters discuss fanfic, gender politics, sexual roles, ship wars, and fandom, as they search for the perfect incarnation of Toplock.

The author masterfully plays with tropes and head!canons as exploited in the series by Moffat and Gatiss, by fanfic writers (the author included) and readers and shows that the pen, especially when wielded with a humour that manages to cast everyone in a satirical light, truly is the strongest weapon ever invented.

The fic heads off with lots of clever banter flying around the living room. Anthea presides and has a hard time keeping the various characters in their respective incarnations in check. We get to meet DarkFuckPrince!Sherlock, GayBaby!Sherlock, JustTransport!Sherlock, Angry!John (well, he doesn’t get laid, obviously), Saint!John and BAMF!John, Virgin!Sherlock and all these incarnations, traipsing around 221B’s living room together, are totally IC. As are Irene, Mycroft, Anthea, Mrs Hudson, Jim and Molly and even Sebastian Moran. Because no fic featuring Jim is complete without a truly creepy Moran in the background. Fie Moftiss.

Once Anthea has waved her magic wand and decided upon the various pairings we follow those to the rooms allotted them for yet more talk, debate, argument, conference, exchange, review, conversation,consideration, dialogue, consultation, seminar, discourse, deliberation,symposium, colloquy, confabulation not to mention examination, investigation, analysis, scrutiny and dissection that will have you screaming with laughter and chuckling over so much cleverness. Then in each chapter the whole delicious concoction gets topped off with some scorchingly-hot sex, with Sherlock topping of course. Yes, even GayBaby!Virgin!Sherlock gets to do the topping.

What really blew me away in this fic however is the encounter in chapter four, between JustTranpost!Sherlock and a beautifully brave and tender Irene. Even if you don’t read the rest of the fic, read this chapter at least for the wonderful insight into their relationship. You won’t regret it.

keerawa.livejournal.com

Title: Tanto Monta - Cutting as Untying (It Amounts to the Same)
Author: fresne
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes/John Clay, Sherlock Holmes/Original Male Character(s), John Watson/Original Female Characters, John Watson/Original Male Characters
Length: 62k words
Rating: Adult
Warnings: dubious consent, violence, talk of self-harm
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock began to turn into a desert when he was nine. Desertification took years, but grain by grain his Memory Palace turned from a primordial forest into scrub brush and sand. Only mad dogs and Englishmen could love the desert that he'd made of himself.

When John was fourteen, he stayed out late one particularly nasty March night at the rec centre reading a book. The results of that choice left him feeling like an ill fitting cog the rest of his life.

Or equal opposites in balance.

Reccer's comments: This is a challenging omegaverse story. It took me three tries to finish reading the first scene, both because of the parenthetical and mildly archaic language and because Sherlock, as a boy, not only witnesses but participates in the murder of someone he loves.

Most authors tend to 'normalize' Sherlock Holmes, to show him as a man that, underneath, isn't so different. Fresne does the opposite.

Sherlock's parents are genius grifters, forgers and criminals. In his family, "Omegas bear the children, alphas bury the bodies." In fact, Sherlock isn't his name, just one in a string of aliases that Sherlock and Mycroft made a pact to take as their own. As an adult, Sherlock has no home, but dozens of bolt holes around London. He's an urban legend in the city. If you have a very interesting problem, and sit in the right cafe and tell strangers about it, 'The Consulting Omega' just might solve the case for you. Oh, and Sherlock also has the worst possible taste in men. The alphas he's chemically and biologically attracted to are, without exception, thieves, murderers, and psychopaths.

John, in case you were wondering, also has a rather tragic tale here, albeit one much closer to canon.

For the first half of the story, their only connection is a medieval story called 'The Romance of Mystery'. The entire story has the feel of a tale from that era, with broad strokes between detailed adventures and gilt-edged horrors recited in a matter-of-fact tone.

The author is obviously very familiar with both BBC and ACD canon, and gleefully twists snips of both to her own devices. (ACD's murderous ape is used to great effect for one of their cases.) Of course this is a story about John's romance of his Mystery, and once the two of them meet, the story becomes an intense, messed-up, and vaguely criminal love story.

Reading it was a unique experience, and one I highly recommend!

blue-eyed-1987.livejournal.com

Title:Software Malfunction
Author: tiger_in_the_flight_deck
Reader:Jazoriah
Podfic:http://archiveofourown.org/works/1464022
Pairing: John/Sherlock, mentioned Sherlock/Moriarty
Length:1:59:14
Rating:Explicit/NC-17
Warnings: Major Character Death, references to non-con, suidcide
Verse: BBC Sherlock, AU
Author's summary:"You think I can’t love you? Just because you’re made with metal, and detailed programming?” The doctor propped himself on his elbow, and looked down at it. “I am nothing but blood and bone, and tissue. Things just managed get mashed together in a manner that made me like this. Just like you were put together to make you how you are. When I kiss you-” he did so, briefly, to prove his point. Then more deeply, and lingering, because he could. “When I touch you, or smile at you, does it make you feel different from when others have done it in the past?” Assigned as the head of Medical Research on the Baker, John Watson meets- and quickly falls in love with- Sherlock, a specially commissioned Companion android with a malfunction.
Reccer's comments:Guess who missed the big fact MCD warning on this one? But! I'm so glad I listened to it anyway. It is an angst fest, but its also wonderful. The plot is interesting - the way John navigate's dealing with Sherlock and all his issues/programming. Heed the warnings, this is a sad one, but done beautifully. So much work has been put into this - the music, the sound effects, the voices (both accent and intonation changes for different characters, and voice changing for the computerised voices). It's wonderful, and I'm glad I listened to it, even if I did almost cry at work!

persiflager.livejournal.com

Title: for the love of a city
Author:

radialarch
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/Various, Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/London
Length: 2,321
Rating: Mature
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: London is possessive; Sherlock's just frustrated. (Alternatively, five times London cockblocked Sherlock Holmes and one time it didn’t.)

Reccer's comments: This is the perfect Sherlock/London fic. It consists of five sharply polished vignettes, each of which tells the story of a near-miss encounter between Sherlock and a different character, and one gorgeous epilogue where he finally gets lucky. It's funny, hot, weird and achingly tense.

Raz stares at his fever-bright eyes before Sherlock’s mouth crashes into his; there’s the taste of smoke and teeth catching at his lips, and when Raz pulls away to breathe Sherlock makes a low, disappointed noise in his throat.

“All right,” Raz says thoughtfully, unlocking the door. “But no fucking.”

“What, then?” Sherlock demands, even as he’s crowding inside.

“Something better,” Raz says.

(Full disclosure: I was one of the beta-readers for this story, although I didn't contribute much more than 'yes this is excellent'.)

swissmarg

Title: the virgin & the psychopath
Music Title & Artist: Oh Death by Jen Titus
Vidder:

bloodism / Deductism on YouTube
Pairing or Character: Sherlock/Moriarty
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Warning: Character death
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKFw5u5TfNo
Vidder's Summary: → "nothing satisfies me but your soul..."
c o m m e n t s」
Just something I did quickly. I heard this song and thought it was absolutely perfect for these two, but I just couldn't put my whole heart into this video. I wanted simplicity and for it to be haunting, so I hope I achieved that. ^___^;

Reccer's Comments: Deductism's videos always give me a visceral, emotional reaction. This is a fabulously talented vidder at their best. A beautiful little study of Moriarty's obsession with Sherlock. The music is haunting, and the technique of slowing down or speeding up the clips to focus on little gestures and looks gives me shivers in all the right places.

swissmarg

Title: The Case of the Dead Man's Secret
Author:

the_arc5
Pairing: Holmes/Watson, Watson/Morstan, Holmes/Moriarty
Length: ca. 27,000 words
Rating: R
Warnings: Character death
Verse: ACD Books
Author's summary: After Holmes' death, Watson is faced with a case he must solve on his own, a case that threatens to destroy him and everything he holds dear.

Reccer's comments: The story starts out with this excerpt from someone's diary:( Excerpt... )

It wasn't written by who you think it was. And that's where the brilliance begins. It's not the only surprise the author has in store, and while it all ends up where you expect it to, it certainly doesn't take the direct route getting there. A hiatus and return story, it retains elements of The Empty House but flips them around in a unique way for maximum dramatic effect.

There is heartbreak, character death (both real and imagined), shocking revelations, well-meaning gestures that end in disaster, unexpected open-mindedness, a very sympathetic Mary, and a hidden past at the root of everything that very nearly destroys it all.

I especially enjoyed the varied format, with diary entries and letters scattered throughout the narrative, and the Victorian flower code relating messages that are never quite understood until the end.

sussexdowns.livejournal.com

Title: Call Me Maybe (Sherlock + Moriarty)
Music Title & Artist: Carly Rae Jepsen + "Call Me Maybe"
Vidder: toujourswhitney
Pairing or Character: Sherlock/Jim
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DhQ2WmjBuY

Reccer's Comments: This is actually probably my favorite video currently. It's some pretty fantastic editing and yeah, I did mostly check this out for the lulz, but I completely unironically enjoy it. One thing that kind of bugs me about fanvids is when people get too literal and heavy-handed. Here, toujourswhitney manages to avoid that (I think) while still making the clips and storyline relevant to the song lyrics. Also, the way Jim says 'now you're in my way' is synced up with the song is a little bit brilliant. Basically, this is just kind of fun and silly and I've probably watched it way too many times to be decent, but I can't bring myself to be ashamed about it!

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.

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Entries tagged with pairing: moriarty/sh

Art Rec: Moriar Tea by kimberly80

Art Rec: From Arsonist's Lullaby by fivepipsandart

Vid rec: We Were Young

fic rec: And Silver In Our Lungs

Fic Rec: Toplock Talent Search

Fic Rec: Tanto Monta - Cutting as Untying (It Amounts to the Same)

Podfic Rec: Software Malfunction, BBC Sherlock

Fic Rec: for the love of a city

Vid Rec: the virgin & the psychopath

Fic Rec: The Case of the Dead Man's Secret

VID: Call Me Maybe (Sherlock + Moriarty)

Fic Rec: Common Grounds

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