Sherlock Fanfiction: Stone Mirror

[saki101]

Title: Stone Mirror
Author: Saki101
Genre: slash
Rating: Somewhere between R & NC-17 (this section), NC-17 (overall)
Length: ~1400 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

Comments

[airynothing]

Love. This. So. Much.

[saki101]

Thank you very much!! It was delightful to find your comment today on my meandering story! :-D

[wiseheart]

Although I still fail to put together the bigger picture in my head for some reason (the lack of finer language skills might be one of the possibilites), I'm absolutely captivated with every new installment. The subtlety is amazing; you really don't have to give this part any higher rating than PG-13, I think. Those with eyes to se will know, but there's nothing that would harm or bother a teenager that should come across the story by accident.

[saki101]

I love your icon. Have you been to the ESO website? They have glorious images.

Having read your stories, I doubt that your language skills need to be any finer! I've been hoping to balance information and wonder. May have overdone the latter or gone from subtlety to obscurity!

The whole rating situation is a conundrum for me and it plagues me every time I post a story. In one way, a mature or explicit (R or NC-17) rating can be a warning and in another way an enticement. In the latter capacity, my stories may nearly all be rated too highly (except perhaps Locked Rooms, Part II in this fandom), but I decided to err on the side of caution with the warning sense in mind because there is a carnal relationship and the physicality of it is alluded to and sometimes described. Also, there is always the question as to whether innuendo mightn't sometimes be more "inflammatory" than detailed description. With regard to the Sherlock stories, there is also the consent issue, when John thought Sherlock was dead, which is a sensitive

[wiseheart]

Nice icon, isn't it? A friend created it for me a couple of years ago, as I haven't got the slightest skills to do something like that, alas

[svetlanacat4]

This is again a wonderful episode! Love John kind of "exploring" what happened... And the conversation about the "hypothetical" children is a jewel!

[saki101]

I'm very pleased that you liked the part about children. I wondered how that AU aspect would strike people.

[snailbones]

Oh my - so lush and beautiful.

I love the ethereal atmosphere, and the way they're so in tune with one another. I adore the way you write John too - he's intelligent, strong, and nobody's victim.

Thank you for another gorgeous installment.

[saki101]

Your comments warm the cockles of my heart!

I've been splitting up the huge conversation they needed to get through, so these last few parts have been very dialogue heavy. I'm glad they still have some atmosphere!

I admire John's confidence, the way he can appreciate Sherlock's talent and personality. Obviously, he has some bad moments, but really very few.

[chapbook]

The opening and closing scenes are beautiful, with the discussion of light and the moon likened to a stone mirror. Is John a stone mirror too? And then the moon represented in music

[saki101]

Good morning! Wonderful to find one of your beautiful comments here