Comments | saki101: Sherlock Fanfiction: Nighttide

saki101

Sherlock Fanfiction: Nighttide

Jul 27, 2012 14:57

Title: Nighttide
Author: Saki101
Genre: slash
Rating: Somewhere between R & NC-17 (this section), NC-17 (overall)
Length: ~3200 words
Warning: AU, post The Reichenbach Fall
Disclaimer: I don't own BBC's Sherlock and no money is being made.
Author's notes: This is a continuation of the Other Experiments Series which forms an AU frame ( Read more... )

slash, sherlock, experiments series, john/sherlock, au, sherlock/john, other experiments series

Comments 17

keerawa July 27 2012, 23:05:03 UTC

You really are balancing on an edge between poetry and science here. It makes it a rather difficult read, with my brain shifting between genres, but that's astonishingly appropriate for the subject matter.

saki101 July 27 2012, 23:11:48 UTC

Thank you! I have been struggling with this duality and editing out a lot of what I've written when it veers too much in one direction or another. I am very pleased that you think I'm managing to stay on the edge!

rte_175 July 30 2012, 11:32:53 UTC

I think this is my favorite chapter so far. Beautiful!

saki101 July 30 2012, 17:16:33 UTC

Wow, thank you! I'm so pleased you have stayed with the story and like the latest developments; it is very encouraging. :-D

svetlanacat4 July 31 2012, 06:57:41 UTC

Eeeeeh, I missed this one!
There's the scientific purpose, they think together, they argue... and between the lines, there is their so amazing relationship, the way they look at each other... I love the " the plate of sliced pears " moment...

saki101 July 31 2012, 08:12:28 UTC

Ah, you liked the pears. :-D I like describing them eating since John is alert to Sherlock eschewing food and Sherlock tries to remember that John has to eat more often than he does.

It is such an interesting partnership. I'm pleased that you find the mix of science and other topics all right.

snailbones July 31 2012, 20:36:07 UTC

I love the combination of sensuality and science *g* It's a beautiful chapter, full of so many lovely images - the pear and the cheese, the shifting of the sheet, the way they're so in tune with each other. Gorgeous, thank you.

saki101 July 31 2012, 22:00:07 UTC

Oh, thank you for that! I've always found it appealing. And thank you for sticking with this!

I'm picturing their time apart as having honed their ability to appreciate one another. (What's that? Absence makes the heart grow fonder? Hmm.) And they've been through such tough times, they deserve lots and lots of rewards. (Yes, you know what I'm thinking, but can I write it!) ;-)

vampyreangel August 8 2012, 06:52:16 UTC

We all know you can! hehe

saki101 August 8 2012, 18:08:43 UTC

Thank you very much for that vote of confidence! ;-)

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chapbook February 10 2013, 08:11:30 UTC

Wow! I just realized that the initial experiment didn't happen that long ago (sometime in the nineteenth century?). Or is that wrong? After all there is the legend of Danaë and the Golden Shower (Zeus). What do you think? :D ( ... )

saki101 February 11 2013, 21:01:53 UTC

...realized that the initial experiment didn't happen that long ago (sometime in the nineteenth century?).Yes, around the 1880s, I have notes for exactly when tucked away somewhere. I had originally been thinking 1400s (when Bart's hospital became independent of the priory), and then the mid-1700s when it was expanded and then I became fond of the idea of the dates being tied into the period of the original SH stories with Sherlock's grandfather being born around the time Bart's became a teaching hospital. That would also make it recent enough that the originals, or some of them, could still be alive with only a fairly modest change to their longevity which would make their lifetimes about double the average or 50% longer than the current upper limit ( ... )

chapbook February 15 2013, 07:42:13 UTC

I love hearing about the process of deciding when the first experiment took place! I think several options could work, the one you've chosen (Sherlock's grandfather is the beginning?), or your earlier ideas, or the one you were musing on, that a few additional experiments took place scattered through human history, but only after science has developed can there be deeper research into them. Humans have been so drawn to the night sky for so long, it wouldn't surprise me that fusions had happened in several parts of the globe over the millennia. Yet, space is so empty, that it also would seem likely that the experiment was one very lucky coincidence (a human looks up with the strong enough desire right as an alien passes by to hear her/him). Do you see the aliens as distant visitors, or part of our solar system, or even a form of life (the auroras) that has been here far longer than we poor bipeds? Answering that question might help you decide which is best, even if that info only remains in your head ( ... )

saki101 February 22 2013, 21:24:34 UTC

I've attempted a re-write. See if it helps ( ... )

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