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

[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 matter. All this said, I am very pleased that you don't think any wandering teenager would be harmed if they didn't pay attention to the ratings and had a read! :-)

[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!

As for the language skills, I'm moderately good at English for a non-native speaker (we won't discuss my highly creative grammer right now, no, preciousss!), but I catch myself time and again by not fully understanding things when I read them. I mean, I understand the individual words, but the actual meaning sometimes eludes me. It's very annoying, but, well, it's only my third language, and I only had regular lessons for a short time.

Re: rating. I'm a school teacher, with a great deal of sometimes exasperating experience with today's youth, so let me assure you that the teenagers I know wouldn't even blink at the sexual context of your stories. Besides, sex is a natural thing. Like eating, or other body funcitons - not that one would necessarily want to read about some, eh? *g*

What's wrong with the adult stories is the stupid, mechanical description of the act and the complete irrationality of it, too many times. Young, inexperienced readers are fed with expectations they would rarely find in real life - and that's what I find harmful. Other wise I more often than not laugh my head off over the exaggerations.

Which is why I usually prefer to read friendship stories in this fandom... present company excluded, of course. True friendship is so much harder to come by than sexual attraction.