Fic Rec: Brilliant and Commonplace [Sherlock Holmes]
For my Sherlock Holmes recs at 221b_recs this month, I have picked fanworks that feature trans*characters. Not genderswap fics, in which character X has always been the other gender, but those with characters that are transsexual, transgender or genderqueer, or choose to present as another gender. Fics that actually deal with gender dysphoria.
My first rec is:
Title:Brilliant and Commonplace
Author: Red
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Length: 5776
Rating: R/NC-17
Warnings: n/a
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John's been comfortably heterosexual for years. Well, unless you count that bit when he'd been erroneously figuring himself Lesbian Daughter #2. Enter Sherlock and... uh, mildly kinky gay sex?
Reccer's comments: Okay, I always have trouble coming up with something to write here other than "I enjoyed this story, and I think you might do so, too", which is true but not very satisfactory, is it?
Let's give it a try ...
Things I liked about this story:
- Sherlock and his porn research :D
- Sherlock being Sherlock and going through John's things
- the way in which John's story unfolds without unnecessary drama
- sexy trans*body
As long as he could remember, discovery was something best avoided. His body, his fears, his addiction to violence--seemed at any given time, at least one of these was something best hidden. Being studied like this, scar by scar, wasn't just novel because Sherlock was finally paying attention to someone who was still breathing.
This was being known.
He hadn't been dreading Sherlock's scrutiny, he realized. He'd been waiting for it.
This entry was originally posted at http://nathaniel-hp.dreamwidth.org/186350.html. Comments are welcome either here or over at DW.
My first rec is:
Title:Brilliant and Commonplace
Author: Red
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Length: 5776
Rating: R/NC-17
Warnings: n/a
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: John's been comfortably heterosexual for years. Well, unless you count that bit when he'd been erroneously figuring himself Lesbian Daughter #2. Enter Sherlock and... uh, mildly kinky gay sex?
Reccer's comments: Okay, I always have trouble coming up with something to write here other than "I enjoyed this story, and I think you might do so, too", which is true but not very satisfactory, is it?
Let's give it a try ...
Things I liked about this story:
- Sherlock and his porn research :D
- Sherlock being Sherlock and going through John's things
- the way in which John's story unfolds without unnecessary drama
- sexy trans*body
As long as he could remember, discovery was something best avoided. His body, his fears, his addiction to violence--seemed at any given time, at least one of these was something best hidden. Being studied like this, scar by scar, wasn't just novel because Sherlock was finally paying attention to someone who was still breathing.
This was being known.
He hadn't been dreading Sherlock's scrutiny, he realized. He'd been waiting for it.
This entry was originally posted at http://nathaniel-hp.dreamwidth.org/186350.html. Comments are welcome either here or over at DW.