Tumblr user ageofaquitiaine noted that, since Sherlock had the ring he'd used to propose to Janine on his person when he was shot, the hospital could easily have given it to John for safekeeping. As she put it, "Do you think he kept the box in his pocket, refusing to look at it? Or do you think he stared at the ring, fiddling nervously, idly ( Read more... )

I'm as big a fan of Johnlock fic tropes as the next person (there really is no upper limit to how many times I need to see Mycroft's meddling nudge them in just the right direction, apparently),. Every now and then, though, I come across a truly original story of how the two finally get together, that paints a unique version of their dynamics and ( Read more... )

When you read Johnlock fanfic, you read a lot of what I can only call variations on a theme. It seems everyone writing in that particular corner of fandom wants to write how they fell in love, how they actually realized they were in love (and romantic, sexual love) and got past their basic failure to communicate. So you end up enjoying subtle ( Read more... )

Emily Forsyth over at YouTube has put together a truly astounding fan-video of clips from "The Sign of Three"... repurposed, for lack of a better word. Treat it as AU if that helps; at an emotional level, it feels thoroughly right to me, and it's been a long, hard day so this makes me happy.

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I've mentioned a few times that I was working on a BBC Sherlock fic for the come_at_once challenge. It's posted now. At 5,425 words it's probably the longest piece of fic I've written in quite a while, and I flatter myself that it's pretty good ( Read more... )

(ETA: After writing this I realized that this rec, and of course the story I'm recommending, has spoilers through HLV. Do I still need to put those warnings up?)

If I'm going to complain and worry about the way slash writers treat Mary like I did in my recent post, I should be just as quick to highlight people who do it right. Case in point:

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I've promised just_ann_now a blog post on my thoughts about Mary Morstan's character in the latest Sherlock series. This isn't that, though that blog post is in the works. Rather, I'd like to talk about a related problem that I've seen poke up a few times in Sherlock fanfic and that I'm afraid will become even more of an issue. Namely, it's how to deal with ( Read more... )

I'm having a little get-together today (bigger, apparently, on the inside) in honor of the UK + internet release of "His Last Vow," the final episode of BBC Sherlock's third series. The eyeballs are keeping warm in the microwave, shock blankets are at hand, and all I have to do now is... wait. It's a skill I've developed over these last few months ( Read more... )