fic rec: La Chanson des Vieux Amants
Title: La Chanson des Vieux Amants
Author: language-escapes
Pairing: Gen (author's tag: platonic soulmates)
Length: 15,000
Rating: T
Warnings: N/A
Verse: Elementary
Author's summary: There are two constants in Joan's life: Sherlock and bees.
Reccer's comments: This gorgeous fic. A journey through Joan's life from a formative moment in her childhood to meeting Sherlock and continuing into the future with retirement on the horizon after a detour by way of a certain pivotal ACD!canon story. As her relationship with Sherlock develops and evolves, so does her connection with bees, and specifically the bees named for her. At the same time, as a commenter to the fic wrote, this is simultaneously all about bees and not about bees at all. There's joy and sorrow and anger and reconciliation within, and at the center, the Holmes & Watson bond. Surrounding them are the wonderful cast of characters introduced in the show: Alfredo, Ms Hudson (even a gleeful hint of Alfredo/Ms Hudson), Pam, Clyde... Summarizing it further would either flatten what's so lovely about it or simply result in me copying & pasting 15K words in this entry. Please read it. Please.
For an extra emotional workout, check out the Jacques Brel song "Ne me quitte pas" (youtube) and reread the relevant part with it playing.
(full disclosure: I wrote a short fic inspired by this one.)
Author: language-escapes
Pairing: Gen (author's tag: platonic soulmates)
Length: 15,000
Rating: T
Warnings: N/A
Verse: Elementary
Author's summary: There are two constants in Joan's life: Sherlock and bees.
Reccer's comments: This gorgeous fic. A journey through Joan's life from a formative moment in her childhood to meeting Sherlock and continuing into the future with retirement on the horizon after a detour by way of a certain pivotal ACD!canon story. As her relationship with Sherlock develops and evolves, so does her connection with bees, and specifically the bees named for her. At the same time, as a commenter to the fic wrote, this is simultaneously all about bees and not about bees at all. There's joy and sorrow and anger and reconciliation within, and at the center, the Holmes & Watson bond. Surrounding them are the wonderful cast of characters introduced in the show: Alfredo, Ms Hudson (even a gleeful hint of Alfredo/Ms Hudson), Pam, Clyde... Summarizing it further would either flatten what's so lovely about it or simply result in me copying & pasting 15K words in this entry. Please read it. Please.
For an extra emotional workout, check out the Jacques Brel song "Ne me quitte pas" (youtube) and reread the relevant part with it playing.
(full disclosure: I wrote a short fic inspired by this one.)