Recs: April 11, 2012
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beth_hI'm running out of super-long stories. Get writing, you guys! *g*
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Highlander
Jay Tryfanstone (tryfanstone on LJ): "The Street of the Booksellers" (Duncan/Methos. "Small town, somewhere on the edge of the desert. After the Gathering." Beautifully conceived and written, with a perfect post-Gathering tone.)
Lewis
Berevette (berevette on LJ): "Inclined to Domesticity" (Hathaway/Lewis. "In which Lewis and Hathaway are good at marriage but bad at dating." As it says on the label: domesticity. Quiet, insightful, and very nicely voiced.)
emungere (emungere on LJ/DW): "Hathaway's Heart, Third Declension Nouns, and Other Oddities (Hathaway/Lewis. "This is Oxford, and, as Lewis pointed out, everything means something in Latin, so: Lewis Jami est, assuming James is third declension (he must be; that's where they stick all the oddball nouns)." Spoilers for "Life Born of Fire." Wonderfully written and exceedingly comforting.)
Sherlock Holmes
branwyn (cesario on LJ): "Let Sense Be Dumb" (BBC. Sherlock/Girl!Watson. ""Sherlock doesn't like it when she gets kidnapped and tied up and knocked about. When she's in danger, a large portion of his magnificent brain eats itself alive with worrying for her, and that process consumes a great deal more energy than converting proteins and carbohydrates into energy." A sequel to "The Skeleton Winter," in which Joanna Watson is still mad as a hatter. Only these days, it's not working for her quite as well as it used to." An excellent balance between plot and characterization, with some good insight into the mindsets of both Holmes and Watson)
eight_demands (eight_demands on LJ): "Strange Game" (BBC. Sherlock/John. "John is a soldier in the war against vampires. A vampire happens to be his newest patient." An excellent Vampire AU - smart and well written. *glares at Moriarty*)
Lin (lin on LJ): "A Thousand (and John doesn’t want any of them)" (BBC. Sherlock/John. "One day John Watson comes home and finds a dead man in his living room." The first conversation post-Reichenbach, post-'Hiatus" - and utterly believable.)
sciosophia (lovingthevolume on LJ): "Don't Ever Look Back" (BBC. Molly, John, Sherlock, eventually some version of Molly/Sherlock. "Molly can feel an invisible padlock around her brain and knows that Sherlock is looking for the key." Molly's in a witness protection program and so are John and Sherlock - and somehow they end up in the same place. Written long before season two. Good voices and particularly good growth for Molly. Potentially spoilery content information: Mention of a possible suicide attempt.)
sevenswells (sevenswells on LJ): "Decadent" (BBC. Mycroft/John/Sherlock. "Sherlock mentions to John that he sometimes sleeps with Mycroft; they're about to have sex for the first time when Sherlock tells him." The content info is pretty much a list of things I generally don't want to read, and yet it all works perfectly - for me, at least - in this story. Plus, there's cake. Potentially spoilery content information: incest, threesome, mindfuck, dub con)
thirdbird (thirdbird_fic on LJ/thirdbird on DW): "Comfort in a Whirlwind" (BBC. Sherlock/John. "A reverse-POV remix of Kate_Lear's "The Mind Has Mountains": Sherlock's black moods, from Sherlock's perspective." Perfect read of Sherlock's demons and his associated capacity for self-sabotage - and John's near endless patience)
Zombie kitten (xzombiexkittenx on LJ): "Read our futures in the rising steam" (BBC. Sherlock/John. "As the author writes: "case!fic sexy-tiemz between a straight man and an asexual man, now with added Big Brother Mycroft, cocaine, and vivisection!" " Post-Hiatus and Sherlock's pretty much a complete disaster, which is to say perfectly in character - and brilliant as always. And John? He's a BAMF, as 'the kids' say. Potentially spoilery content information: Drug use, post-mortem descriptions of rape/murder victims, non-graphic torture)
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Highlander
Jay Tryfanstone (tryfanstone on LJ): "The Street of the Booksellers" (Duncan/Methos. "Small town, somewhere on the edge of the desert. After the Gathering." Beautifully conceived and written, with a perfect post-Gathering tone.)
Lewis
Berevette (berevette on LJ): "Inclined to Domesticity" (Hathaway/Lewis. "In which Lewis and Hathaway are good at marriage but bad at dating." As it says on the label: domesticity. Quiet, insightful, and very nicely voiced.)
emungere (emungere on LJ/DW): "Hathaway's Heart, Third Declension Nouns, and Other Oddities (Hathaway/Lewis. "This is Oxford, and, as Lewis pointed out, everything means something in Latin, so: Lewis Jami est, assuming James is third declension (he must be; that's where they stick all the oddball nouns)." Spoilers for "Life Born of Fire." Wonderfully written and exceedingly comforting.)
Sherlock Holmes
branwyn (cesario on LJ): "Let Sense Be Dumb" (BBC. Sherlock/Girl!Watson. ""Sherlock doesn't like it when she gets kidnapped and tied up and knocked about. When she's in danger, a large portion of his magnificent brain eats itself alive with worrying for her, and that process consumes a great deal more energy than converting proteins and carbohydrates into energy." A sequel to "The Skeleton Winter," in which Joanna Watson is still mad as a hatter. Only these days, it's not working for her quite as well as it used to." An excellent balance between plot and characterization, with some good insight into the mindsets of both Holmes and Watson)
eight_demands (eight_demands on LJ): "Strange Game" (BBC. Sherlock/John. "John is a soldier in the war against vampires. A vampire happens to be his newest patient." An excellent Vampire AU - smart and well written. *glares at Moriarty*)
Lin (lin on LJ): "A Thousand (and John doesn’t want any of them)" (BBC. Sherlock/John. "One day John Watson comes home and finds a dead man in his living room." The first conversation post-Reichenbach, post-'Hiatus" - and utterly believable.)
sciosophia (lovingthevolume on LJ): "Don't Ever Look Back" (BBC. Molly, John, Sherlock, eventually some version of Molly/Sherlock. "Molly can feel an invisible padlock around her brain and knows that Sherlock is looking for the key." Molly's in a witness protection program and so are John and Sherlock - and somehow they end up in the same place. Written long before season two. Good voices and particularly good growth for Molly. Potentially spoilery content information: Mention of a possible suicide attempt.)
sevenswells (sevenswells on LJ): "Decadent" (BBC. Mycroft/John/Sherlock. "Sherlock mentions to John that he sometimes sleeps with Mycroft; they're about to have sex for the first time when Sherlock tells him." The content info is pretty much a list of things I generally don't want to read, and yet it all works perfectly - for me, at least - in this story. Plus, there's cake. Potentially spoilery content information: incest, threesome, mindfuck, dub con)
thirdbird (thirdbird_fic on LJ/thirdbird on DW): "Comfort in a Whirlwind" (BBC. Sherlock/John. "A reverse-POV remix of Kate_Lear's "The Mind Has Mountains": Sherlock's black moods, from Sherlock's perspective." Perfect read of Sherlock's demons and his associated capacity for self-sabotage - and John's near endless patience)
Zombie kitten (xzombiexkittenx on LJ): "Read our futures in the rising steam" (BBC. Sherlock/John. "As the author writes: "case!fic sexy-tiemz between a straight man and an asexual man, now with added Big Brother Mycroft, cocaine, and vivisection!" " Post-Hiatus and Sherlock's pretty much a complete disaster, which is to say perfectly in character - and brilliant as always. And John? He's a BAMF, as 'the kids' say. Potentially spoilery content information: Drug use, post-mortem descriptions of rape/murder victims, non-graphic torture)