Comments | autumnatmidnite: Fic: Upon The Moor

autumnatmidnite

Fic: Upon The Moor

Oct 29, 2011 01:56

Title: Upon The Moor
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Wordcount: 2,462
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson
Warning(s): Supernatural goings-on, spoilers for 'Hound of the Baskervilles'; and on that note, if you haven't read HOUN, the ending probably won't make much sense. Also, this is basically gen/friendship, but if you have your slash ( Read more... )

gen, fic, bbc sherlock

Comments 29

talimenios79 October 29 2011, 09:08:44 UTC

I really enjoyed this.

autumnatmidnite October 30 2011, 02:24:44 UTC

Thank you! I am so glad you liked :)

karadin October 29 2011, 13:57:01 UTC

Wonderful fic, you can see it playing out like a film.

autumnatmidnite October 30 2011, 02:26:38 UTC

I had such a vivid image in my mind while writing this, which I was attempting to get across on the page. So I am delighted to hear that the visuals worked for you :D

kcscribbler October 29 2011, 14:04:05 UTC

BRILL. IANT.

VERY.

Sucker as I am for a rebooted canon story, this is a step above that and I absolutely love the eerie meshing of universe elements. I think the thing I like the most, is that ACDghost!Holmes immediately recognizes John even though the man really looks nothing like the usual perception of a Watson; I think it shows that the soul recognizes what physical appearance can possibly mask. <3

You are awesome.

autumnatmidnite October 30 2011, 02:43:48 UTC

:D :D :D

Absolutely thrilled you approved of this little bit of ficcery! The plot here was originally intended to be something entirely different than how it turned out, so ghost!Holmes sort of took me by surprise. But there were never any doubts that Sherlock Holmes and John Watson would recognize each other, no matter what form they were in. It was the only point I was sure of while writing this...

only_po November 6 2011, 01:39:33 UTC

I

totally

agree!

There's nothing I can add to KCS's review so I'll just hang onto her coattails and nod my head like a bobble gone ballistic.

autumnatmidnite November 7 2011, 19:05:14 UTC

No need to add a thing! I am just delighted to hear you enjoyed this :D

azuhra October 29 2011, 15:32:48 UTC

You know, I've been doing my utmost best to avoid any Hound stories in the Sherlock-verse. Until now. Because you had to post it as a Halloween thriller and I had to read it. And thank you for that!

I love your John. You've got him nailed even if you haven't written him in a while. Its that sarcastic and almost crochity thought line while he's soaked and miserable that just play out so true. Also love How Holmes's treatsies become Sherlock's Wikipedia articles. Great touch!

The reference to ACD Holmes with the ghostly hound made my day! Some part of me just itches for well done crossovers between the two universes and this is only the second story I've read where it was well done. And believe me, I've looked! This felt like a wonderful exerpt from a modern HOUND and stands very well on its own. However, if you ever wanted to fill in the gaps at either end of it, and maybe insert more crossover with ACD verse someday, I'd be right there to read it :D !

autumnatmidnite October 30 2011, 02:51:35 UTC

Ha! That makes two of us. HOUN is my favorite Canon story, though I usually deliberately avoid reading stories set around it, especially in regards to Sherlock. This was originally supposed to be about a haunted cottage and never even meant to write an updated (or amalgamated) version of that story. But I'm glad I did, and more so that you enjoyed my take on it :D

"Also love How Holmes's treatsies become Sherlock's Wikipedia articles"

You don't know how giddy it makes me that someone actually noticed that reference!!! In my personal head!Canon, Sherlock writes the driest Wiki articles on the net, lol. I amused myself with that bit, so happy you caught it :)

And I'm thrilled you'd like to read more of this verse - it was definitely a brain eater, so who knows. It might come back out to play one day.

laurtew October 29 2011, 16:42:55 UTC

This is AMAZING! I love your internal John monolog at the beginning. It was perfect and so completely him.

I love how the two universes crossed and we got the perfect spooky atmosphere. I was stunned by the appearance of ACD Holmes and had to go back and read that again. (I particularly loved that he recognized John. I also loved that John had some loyalty to that Holmes, even though he might not have realized it.)

It was the perfect Sherlock ghost story. Loved, loved, loved it.

(And if you were ever to write the other side of it, with Holmes seeing those two, I'd not only read it, I'd likely send you...well, something.)

autumnatmidnite November 3 2011, 04:22:38 UTC

Thank you!!! I am especially pleased to hear your thoughts on John's curmudgeonliness introspection, because he was not giving me an easy time of it with the characterization in this fic.

And I'm so glad the atmosphere worked for you! I was in a Halloween mood when I wrote it, and it's always wonderful when a mood I'm trying to convey actually comes across that way :D

Not sure about continuing it, at least not yet, what with NaNo and my Holmestic fic killing me by degrees... but maybe, if I survive November, my Muse would like to play in this 'verse again. She is certainly pleased about the offer to send something :)