[REC] Sherlock (BBC) (365/365)
Confetti, people! Woot! I'll be back later tonight or tomorrow with more stuff and notes and presents and Even More Fic (yep!) but in the meantime, I figured I'd post this now in case I don't make it back home until late (unlikely, but I'm paranoid). The following story happens to be the most brilliantly realized fic I've read in a few weeks, certainly now among my two or three top favorites in this fandom. It's by turns beautiful and angry and tender and rough and frustrating and hot and everything under the sun it seems, much like these two characters can be, simultaneously too much and not enough. I loved it so much I didn't know where to put myself for a few days after. I wanted to start over and didn't have the time. I have the time now, for sure :)
It's all so fitting, too. On this day last year, I was dying for the holiday to be over, so it could be January 1st, so Series 2 could air in the UK, so I could download it and put it on the memory stick and plug it into the Xbox and watch it too. I had the whole mechanism down to a science, and was usually watching within a couple of hours after it aired (and yes, I did buy the series after, too). But since Messrs Freeman and Cumberbatch are busy being Bilbo and Smaug and not-speculating-which Star Trek baddie at the moment, and we don't get a Series 3 tomorrow (or maybe at all in 2013, sigh) well... let's call this a bit of nostalgia, shall we? It's absolutely brilliant.
End of the Story (Sherlock/John (BBC) | NC-17 | 54,029 words)
Post-Reichenbach. The return, the fallout, the pieces you pick up.
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This story will certainly do as possible glue between the seasons: it picks up post-Reichenbach and takes Sherlock through the end of his mission away and back to Baker St and John. I love these speculative stories to bits, and I've read quite a few of them in the past year. But I have to say, this is one of the better realized and I loved it so much. Everything I wanted to see about the fallout is here. Everything I've wondered about this version of Sherlock is here. There's work to be done, mistakes to be made, fights to be had, a confession or two, some incredibly hot sex that may or may not help matters... It's all complicated and frustrating and real and OMG, there's just so much feeling in it.
But I think the biggest surprise for me, here, was the level of understanding with which the author approached Sherlock. He's utterly in character, yet without the rough edges that some authors prefer to play up. He's genuinely trying to figure stuff out, he's genuinely panicking about some things he realizes he may have to do, he's got anxiety about so many of the changes that took place in his absence. He learns, he has feelings, he tries to do the right thing, even. Once or twice. I can't remember another story recently where I've rooted for him this hard.
John is perfect, and perfectly human, as per usual.
Ngh! Loved this. Just loved it. I've recced 364 other stories this year, and each one of them has been my favorite for the hour or so it's taken to write it up. I'm so incredibly pleased that I could rec this one, too. It was perfect.
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Further bits in my 2012 one-a-day slash recs experiment can be found on my rec: 365 tag (LJ/DW)
That's all she wrote, guys! Thank you so much for following along, you've been brilliant. Happy New Year! :)
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It's all so fitting, too. On this day last year, I was dying for the holiday to be over, so it could be January 1st, so Series 2 could air in the UK, so I could download it and put it on the memory stick and plug it into the Xbox and watch it too. I had the whole mechanism down to a science, and was usually watching within a couple of hours after it aired (and yes, I did buy the series after, too). But since Messrs Freeman and Cumberbatch are busy being Bilbo and Smaug and not-speculating-which Star Trek baddie at the moment, and we don't get a Series 3 tomorrow (or maybe at all in 2013, sigh) well... let's call this a bit of nostalgia, shall we? It's absolutely brilliant.
End of the Story (Sherlock/John (BBC) | NC-17 | 54,029 words)
Post-Reichenbach. The return, the fallout, the pieces you pick up.
Author:
This story will certainly do as possible glue between the seasons: it picks up post-Reichenbach and takes Sherlock through the end of his mission away and back to Baker St and John. I love these speculative stories to bits, and I've read quite a few of them in the past year. But I have to say, this is one of the better realized and I loved it so much. Everything I wanted to see about the fallout is here. Everything I've wondered about this version of Sherlock is here. There's work to be done, mistakes to be made, fights to be had, a confession or two, some incredibly hot sex that may or may not help matters... It's all complicated and frustrating and real and OMG, there's just so much feeling in it.
But I think the biggest surprise for me, here, was the level of understanding with which the author approached Sherlock. He's utterly in character, yet without the rough edges that some authors prefer to play up. He's genuinely trying to figure stuff out, he's genuinely panicking about some things he realizes he may have to do, he's got anxiety about so many of the changes that took place in his absence. He learns, he has feelings, he tries to do the right thing, even. Once or twice. I can't remember another story recently where I've rooted for him this hard.
John is perfect, and perfectly human, as per usual.
Ngh! Loved this. Just loved it. I've recced 364 other stories this year, and each one of them has been my favorite for the hour or so it's taken to write it up. I'm so incredibly pleased that I could rec this one, too. It was perfect.
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Further bits in my 2012 one-a-day slash recs experiment can be found on my rec: 365 tag (LJ/DW)
That's all she wrote, guys! Thank you so much for following along, you've been brilliant. Happy New Year! :)
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