Sherlock Recs
I have about seven hours left until I have to go back to work tomorrow morning, but no regrets. My last day of vacation was mostly used to catch up on Sherlock, but really, hours were truly well spent. As usual, the fandom has been churning out some incredible stories.
Monster: R, Sherlock/John, and probably one of the most logical (and possibly also darkest) answers to The Great Game, the kind of fic that I've been hoping to find, because it really is one of those rare stories that make you think it would be exactly how the show would - or should - go if the show actually manages to reach its full potential. I loved the restraints in the storytelling, which was also perfectly show-like. The author is amazingly skilled in storytelling.
The dangerous book for boys: PG-13, AU, Sherlock/John (almost gen, which is how I like it). I don't think I've been this much in love with a story in a while - the last time I fell this hard has been for mercurial_wit's BSG fics which I still read over and over again. I truly didn't want this story to end, and when it did, it physically hurt, but the story ended perfectly just as expected, because pretty much every single thing about this story was crafted to perfection, but not in the mechanical, designed way, but fluid and lyrical and fraught with insight. This story also provided an interesting contradiction to the aforementioned Monster. Everything just clicked in place - a la "Aha! Of course that's how it's going to go down!" - with Monster. The dangerous book for boys, on the other hand, is one of those extremely rare stories that you don't realize you've always needed to read until you've read them, and once you have, they change what you like to read, write, and see in a story. What's more, this has, hands down, my favourite AU!John ever.
A Priori: R, Sherlock/John, most definitely AU - a vampire & slavery AU, no less, but written with such wonderful moderation in language, and the dynamic between vampire!Sherlock and all-so-human!John is surprisingly flawless.
Monster: R, Sherlock/John, and probably one of the most logical (and possibly also darkest) answers to The Great Game, the kind of fic that I've been hoping to find, because it really is one of those rare stories that make you think it would be exactly how the show would - or should - go if the show actually manages to reach its full potential. I loved the restraints in the storytelling, which was also perfectly show-like. The author is amazingly skilled in storytelling.
The dangerous book for boys: PG-13, AU, Sherlock/John (almost gen, which is how I like it). I don't think I've been this much in love with a story in a while - the last time I fell this hard has been for mercurial_wit's BSG fics which I still read over and over again. I truly didn't want this story to end, and when it did, it physically hurt, but the story ended perfectly just as expected, because pretty much every single thing about this story was crafted to perfection, but not in the mechanical, designed way, but fluid and lyrical and fraught with insight. This story also provided an interesting contradiction to the aforementioned Monster. Everything just clicked in place - a la "Aha! Of course that's how it's going to go down!" - with Monster. The dangerous book for boys, on the other hand, is one of those extremely rare stories that you don't realize you've always needed to read until you've read them, and once you have, they change what you like to read, write, and see in a story. What's more, this has, hands down, my favourite AU!John ever.
A Priori: R, Sherlock/John, most definitely AU - a vampire & slavery AU, no less, but written with such wonderful moderation in language, and the dynamic between vampire!Sherlock and all-so-human!John is surprisingly flawless.