Open Recs post
Welcome to our second Open Recs post of December. You're invited to leave recs in comments to this post. Any version of Sherlock Holmes is eligible, and any fan work of fic, art, vids, or podfic. Please feel free to recommend WIPs and series as well. If you have any questions, please comment or PM one of the mods
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Two Royal Navy AUs:
The White Clouds, Flying series, a collab between alltoseek and JessamyGriffith.
So far it is epistolary (format may change), set in Upper Canada and in Europe during the War of 1812 and the war against Napoleon. S/J.
The Passage (6730 words) by
khorazir
Chapters: 2/?
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Jim Moriarty, Greg Lestrade, Anderson (Sherlock), Mike Stamford, Mycroft Holmes, Tobias Gregson, Original Characters, Sebastian Moran
Summary: The personal Journal of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, recording his journey from Portsmouth, England to Mangalore, India, aboard HMS Charybdis under the command of Capt. G. Lestrade, commencing in the spring of the year 1803.
Updated recently:
The Stars Move Still (38119 words) by
BeautifulFiction
Chapters: 2/3
Fandom: Sherlock (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Jim Moriarty, Sebastian Moran, Mycroft Holmes, Greg Lestrade, Molly Hooper
Summary: "What could I want so desperately that would make me sell my soul? What could possibly compel me to surrender the part of myself that makes me who I am: the source of my magic, my self-control, everything?"
An Omegaverse AU WIP:
A Study In Azure (24967 words) by
fresne
Chapters: 6/?
Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Leverage
Rating: Explicit
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Jim Moriarty, Irene Adler/Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler/Jim Moriarty
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Jim Moriarty, Mycroft Holmes, Molly Hooper, Irene Adler, Sally Donovan
Series: Part 3 of Phrygian Choices
Summary: John Watson knew when he somehow fell into an alternate universe where he was a Bond Omega dating Robin Hood, or possibly if Molly was to be believed a demiurge of chaotic good. That he liked it was unreasonable, irrational, and a bit not good.
Sherlock Holmes knew the precise moment when he pair bonded. Three retorts and a biological impulse.
Irene Adler knew when love died. She spent all her days plotting to salt and burn the earth where it still walked.
A wintery new ficlet by Aderyn, with some wonderful interaction between John and Irene. As always, gorgeous imagery and emotions simmering under the surface:
Re- (1034 words) by
aderyn
Chapters: 1/1
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Irene Adler
Series: Part 13 of Deep Map
Summary: Cold heart is a misnomer. John ought to know. He’s held one.
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Another WIP updated this week. A psychological study of John Watson. Pre-slash S/J. Lots of UST. Two broken men trying (and often failing) to figure out what they mean to each other:
That Obscure Object (18311 words) by
emmadelosnardos
Chapters: 12/?
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes & John Watson
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Ella Thompson, Mycroft Holmes, Sigur Holmes, Violeta Holmes
Series: Part 3 of El sueño de la razón (The dream of reason)
Summary: Danger was a green pool in an inner courtyard, the wet slide of skin against skin, the risk of being caught. Danger was a needle under the floorboards, opium in the toe of a slipper, the subterfuge of his habit. Danger was a shabby cabbie, even odds, an aneurysm.
[Warnings for discussion of trauma, abuse, rape, violence.]
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