Sometimes Derek likes to forget. Forget that he’s responsible for a set of young adults that have no idea what they’re doing. Forget that a number of them have nearly died, that his family died in screaming agony because of a mistake. All it had taken was a pretty smile and his family had been taken from him.
Hello everyone! So I took a break from reading yesterday, considering all the time I’d been spending on it the past week. However, now I am back, and with two LONG, FANTASTIC rec’s for you.
- By Mesita
- In an alternate universe, Mycroft and Lestrade run a circus together. John’s father is verbally abusive, and when it escalates into physical abuse he escapes to join the circus. He is placed in a room with the consulting psychic, Sherlock Holmes. This is all quite fast paced for John, when suddenly a murder occurs and he and Sherlock decide to solve it.
This was a very fast paced fic, but it was so wonderful. Since it’s a fic and the personalities of the characters are already known to the readers, then there’s not much to worry about in terms of character development. As I mentioned before, the fic is VERY fast paced regarding plot, but the tension continues to escalate slowly between Sherlock and John, which is an interesting juxtaposition with the plot. To be honest, I’m waiting anxiously for any one shots off of this universe, or the epilogue…or both. - 50163 Words
- Rated Teen and Up Audiences
The second fic I’m recommending tonight is the one fanfiction I actually enjoyed from my abortive attempt at reading violence fics.
- By shinkonokokoro
- Mycroft decides to let John in on a secret, an intimate aspect of Sherlock’s life: his past. He lets John know that Sherlock was a ‘sensitive child’ which becomes a kind of mental touchstone for John throughout the fic, and the repetition was done well. The tension between Sherlock and John continue to rise and the romance is adorable in the Johnlockian way. But then…Moriarty kidnaps Sherlock and tortures him, attempts and succeeds to wound Sherlock psychologically and physically. John and Mycroft develop a friendship, Sherlock and John develop something more, and the plot reaches its final climax when the final confrontation begins.
Overall, this was a very high-quality fic, I enjoyed every second of it, and I would love a sequel. Currently, I am looking for similar fics where I can handle reading the violence because the plot, romance, fluff, hurt/comfort, and vague slash is so good. - 37586 Words
- Rated Teen and Up Audiences
Now on to the requests.
It appeared that a lot of you enjoyed the master post rec lists, and I’m so happy with the enthusiastic response they received.
That being, if anyone is looking for specific types of genre’s that I did not cover, or they want more from one I did cover, let me know and I can put together a master post rec list again. Either reblog this with the suggestion or leave it in my request/ask box and let me know.
And now for all of the alternate universe fics I’ve read and enjoyed.
- By luthier
- In the Watson family you grew your wings when you found your life’s partner. John didn’t often dwell on the fact that not one of them could actually fly. Wing!fic. Very well written, I enjoyed every word of it, and John and Sherlock were very in character.
- 7723 Words
- Rated General Audiences
- By fengirl88
- John comes home from a trip to the seaside with a pale-eyed young man in tow. Sherlock is tall, brilliant, and strangely sad, and seems incapable of leaving John’s side. One day John brings a seal skin to Harry’s house and makes her promise to hide it, and that she will never, ever tell Sherlock where it is. AU in which Sherlock is a selkie and John is destined to do exactly as the legends say.
- 12375 Words
- Rated Mature
- By machshefa
- On John Watson’s sixth birthday, his mum gave him a flat wooden box to hold his wish stones. In this story, people produce ‘wish stones’ which come out as stones or precious gems, sometimes touchstones or prayer stones, which can in turn be used to signify emotions. Wish stones can be used to make wishes. John, for instance, uses wish stones during Afghanistan to help fallen/injured soldiers. The stones are produced by the body, and based on hints in the text, emerge from the fingertips. It took me a while to understand the concept, but this is now one of my favorite AU’s of any fandom, its so well written and beautiful and the idea is fantastic. (also, in the ending author’s note there are links to stone meanings and stone types to help explain.)
- 9764 Words
- Rated Mature
- By eight_demands
- If his patient thought he was the first person to ever try to intimidate John Watson, he was sadly mistaken. John sometimes considered, in his own head, the subtitle of his Afghanistan years to be “Arseholes with Guns who Love to Yell.” If anything, being verbally abused by a haughty git who was bleeding all over him brought back a rush of warm nostalgia. Sherlock is John’s patient since no one else can stand them. AU in which they meet there instead of through Mike. Also, there’s some Mystrade.
- 12247 Words
- Rated General Audiences
- By yalublyutebya
- John is arrested and serves time for shooting the cabbie. This is too cute and angsty for its own good okay it’s just wonderful. (Brief allusions to violence, and the sexual tension should be a warning all on its own)
- 6187 Words
- Rated Teen and Up Audiences
- By IronicNarwhal
- Sherlock Holmes has met exactly twenty-four Johns in his life. They have all been the wrong John. He’s getting tired of waiting, staring at the inscription on his finger and wondering when his John will turn up, if ever. When everyone is born, a name is inscribed on their finger. That name would be their soul mate. John and Sherlock have almost given up looking. The first part is complete, but the second is still WIP.
- 5456 Words
- Rated Teen and Up
These are WIP’s for this genre that I follow semi-religiously.
Chameleon (which just updated its thirteenth chapter a little while ago.) It’s both crossover and AU, but you don’t need to be a part of the other fandom to understand what’s happening. I love it just as much as any other fic, good lord. I screamed today when I saw the update, that’s how good it is.
A Swan Princess/Sherlock crossover fic. Some aspects of that one are OOC, but much of it is adorable, particularly a section of correspondences between John and Sherlock after Sherlock joins the military. Also, its so beautifully written and lovely I just feel so enamored with this fic. I’ve enjoyed it so much, and it’s nearing completion and while I want it to be complete I just don’t want it to be over. I have so many conflicting emotions.
Well, that’s all I have for now. I never really enjoyed AU before, but after doing this post it’s kind of grown on me. I might post more rec’s for AU tonight/tomorrow, because I simply can’t seem to stop reading them.
This is the last post for the week of fanfiction rec masterposts. I hope you’ve enjoyed them and have found the recs to be acceptable.
Part One:
I’ve come to the conclusion that I can’t post anything without it being slash or fluff. Even if the underlying theme is something like hurt/comfort, violence, or any other platonic sounding genre, it’s always going to have an underlying slash-y or fluffy pairing. So even though this week’s posts were about specific genre’s most (if not all) of the fics were about a new relationship/established relationship between characters.
Part Two:
I see ten more of you have joined me here for some slash-y Sherlockian goodness. Good to see you, thanks for following, and I hope you’ve been enjoying it so far.
And A Gif:
Okay so the only reason I added this in here is because the darker hamster is clearly Sherlock and the lighter hamster is clearly John. At least, that’s where my mind went upon seeing this gif. It was too cute not to share.
Well, on to the Saturday AU master-fic-post, and tomorrow I’m going to put up the small amount of violence fics I read the other night.
- By songlin
- Sherlock is alone, then. That’s good, because it means he can process out loud, which is excellent. “You cannot know the things I think, John,” he says. “You’d like them. You’d love them, maybe; I don’t know how your mind works. Not that well anyway. But—sociopaths are for solving crimes. We’re not to be trusted with beautiful things. Well, beautiful, maybe, but not good. We’re like…time and wind and water wearing away at them.” Good lord was this fic hot and wonderful.
- 3735 Words
- Rated Explicit
- By e_lucy_date
- John’s been away. Sherlock is impatient. Oh, and he is wearing John’s dog tags. Smut ensues.
- 4028 Words
- Rated Explicit
- By questionsleftunanswered
- Kind of cheesy, but absolutely adorable and proposing!John is too good to pass up.
- 3737 Words
- Rated Explicit
- babydragon7
- John as a sex-aid. Hilarious and hot.
- 1063 Words
- Rated Mature
- By Teaque
- This was the first smut/slash fic I ever read for the Sherlock fandom. From what I remember, it was fantastically hot. It’s based off of/has fanart that’s linked within the fic somewhere.
- 3174 Words
- Rated Mature
kirakira_nanoda has a few Johnlock smut fics that I have read, and a few threesome Sherlock/John/Mycroft fics which I have not read, but judging by her other work, it will probably be wonderful if you enjoy threesome somewhat incestuous fics.
- By dailyRuse
- Lestrade finds Mycroft on his doorstep, wet and miserable.
Post-Reichenbach. Fantastic, haunting, angsty ficlet. - 476 Words
- Rated General Audiences
- By blooms84
- Greg has reached a turning point in his life, and has a huge decision to make regarding Mycroft and Molly.
- 1686 Words
- Rated Explicit
- By Trillsabells
- Sherlock is worried/jealous when John starts spending time with a ‘mystery man,’ and Mycroft is a tad worried about Lestrade, too. Established relationships, cute comparative notes on the Holmes’.
- 2767 Words
- Rated General Audiences
Sherlock: The Brother Finds Out
- By IBegToDreamAndDiffer
- Sherlock finally finds out about Mycroft and Lestrade in an unconventional manner. This was kind of hit and miss, sometimes way OOC and sometimes perfectly in character. The sex can seem a little underplayed and somewhat juvenile at times. However, the italicized flashback story towards the end was well written and enjoyable, the dynamic between Mycroft and Lestrade is adorable, and the fic is gratifyingly long for a oneshot.
- 6631 Words
- Rated Explicit
- By blooms84
- Mycroft has some issues with his body, with intimacy, with pyjamas. D. I. Lestrade is on the case. In this universe, Greg is not-and never has been-in love or lust with Sherlock. He only has eyes for Mycroft. This is pretty fluffy porn. The fluffiest smut I’ve read in a while. Smluff. It’s too smulffy.
- 3556 Words
- Rated Explicit
- By belovedmuerto
- Greg is feeling somewhat insecure, it would appear. Very fluffy ficlet.
- 544 Words
- Rated Teen and Up Audiences
GAHHHHHHH SORRY THIS WAS SO SHORT, I ONLY DECIDED TO DO A MYSTRADE REC LIST A FEW HOURS AGO. I WENT AS QUICKLY AS I COULD BUT THERE JUST WASN’T ENOUGH TIME FOR MORE. I TRIED! ”BUT ALL THE CLOCKS IN THE CITY BEGAN TO WHIRR AND CHIME ‘O LET NOT TIME DECEIVE YOU, YOU CANNOT CONQUER TIME.’”
- By cableknitbowtiesarecool
- Sherlock is sorely affected by Sergeant Donovan’s name calling. John comforts him with his sentiments and tests the limits of Sherlock’s emotional control. In the end, Sally and Anderson get it handed back to them.
- 12093 Words
- Rated Explicit
- By brbsoulnomming
- Prompt Fic. ”John dies and Sherlock blames himself, so much so that the guilt begins to affect his life. However, he keeps getting dreams of John talking to him and assuring him that he’s not dead.” Very interesting plotline.
- 12458 Words
- Rated Teen and Up Audiences
- By Kaisielin
- “Sentiment?” “I owe you that.” Also, “John.” Sherlock says softly, looked slightly puzzled again, slightly unsure of himself. It’s an odd look for him, again. “If sometimes…you need to…touch me…If you need some kind of proof I’m here and if you’re…suffering…it’s okay.” Very interesting John angst.
- 7359 Words
- Rated Teen and Up Audiences
- By HiMiTSu
- John felt stupid, sending texts that he knew were not going to be received. Somehow it felt like it was the only thing left for him now. Was it ever going to change? Sherlock ignores his old phone for the longest time, becoming besotted with either Irene or the idea of Irene. Either way, he starts using her phone instead. Just not to text John. This is right after A Scandal In Belgravia. Some hurt/comfort/angst/jealousy on John’s part. It’s a kind of passive jealousy, where John is upset but is keeping it to himself as not to rock the boat.
- 2279 Words
- Rated General Audiences
- By anchors
- Without even the faintest hint of a goodbye, the old John, the John that John has known for his entire life, goes There. The new John, who feels his heart beating wildly in his chest and his hand hanging steady by his side, doesn’t notice - because, for the first time in a long time, John is Here. John’s existence, cataloging the times John has died for or because of Sherlock, both actually and metaphorically. Beautiful story.
- 8460 Words
- Rated Mature
- By krystalicekitsu
- That obligatory nightmare hurt/comfort fic, or at least one of them.
- 867 Words
- Rated Teen and Up Audiences
- By VampirePam
- Slight AU for “Hounds of Baskerville,” in which the events of the lab trigger a serious case of PTSD for John. When terrors old and new cause John to fall apart, Sherlock must rectify his mistake and pick up the pieces. So the way I read this was to imagine this was after the episode instead of during, and the aftermath of being drugged hits John. I really enjoyed this, it was so well written and the Hurt!John and Comforting!Sherlock was written very in character.
- 3219 Words, Two Chapters
- Rated Teen and Up Audiences
- By youaremyscience
- He would’ve been well enough to remain in the Army if they’d foregone antibiotics and physical therapy and psychiatrists, and just given him Sherlock Holmes. Deals with John’s PTSD from the war, and Sherlock’s PTSD from withdrawal from when he was doing drugs.
- 4513 Words
- Not Rated
- By doodle
- When John finds a photograph signed My dear Sherlock, I remain very truly yours. Irene x framed beside Sherlock’s bed, it damages their relationship in a way he hadn’t thought possible. Sherlock has to face the possibility that John doesn’t understand him, or their relationship, quite as much as he believed. (Two Parts, Compromise and Conviction.)
- 6943 Words
- Rated Teen and Up Audiences
- By round_robin
- After the events at the pool, Sherlock realizes just how important John is to him. (Two Parts, Important and After.)
- 7985 Words
- Rated Mature
- By chicagoartnerd
- “But why would you listen to me? I’m just your friend.”
“I don’t have Friends!”
The emotions were genuine but the words were wrong. But he couldn’t apologize and he couldn’t back down. There was no way to make John see. What had he done? - 1758 Words
- Rated Teen and Up Audiences
- By casey-bee
- Post-Pool fic. Also, fun Sherlock-mocking and cute bed-sharing.
- 1579 Words
- Rated General Audiences
- By missilemuse
- After TBB Sherlock is feeling guilty about getting John hurt, almost killed. However, he’s also scared of caring for someone so strongly. Sherlock attempts to get John to move out, attempts to manipulate him into doing it. After TBB, before TGG.
- 14574 Words
- Rated Teen And Up Audiences
- By ToniPrufrock
- Sherlock Holmes becomes ill, so it falls to his best friend and doctor to care for him. However Sherlock is, as ever, a special case, and John’s method for curing his insomnia may raise a few eyebrows. This is me, leaving you with some smut as the last fic.
- 2486 Words
- Rated Explicit
Okay! That’s the masterpost list for tonight’s Hurt/Comfort overload! I hope you enjoy it, let me know how I did.
:)
Here are some fic links to other sites until it’s up and running again!
by: highfunctioningfangirl, Rated K+, 2256 Words. “I hate to tell you this, Sherlock, but we’re getting old.” This gets a response. Sherlock glances up at him, very seriously, then his face cracks into a small, pointed smile. “Maybe you are.” “What, you think you’re too clever to get older?” John challenges. Sherlock nods. The look in his eyes is a little too honest-to-God solemn, but John doesn’t tell him he is only human. He just ruffles his hair again and goes to pour his own cup of tea. by: Aurora-Kira, Rated T, 317 Words.
by: RemyDico5, Rated M, 2532 Words.
John thought he was being awfully clever, hiding Sherlock’s cigarettes under the skull. But he forgot that’s where they normally kept the lubricant.
(anything by RemyDico5 is fabulous)
by: stepstohappiness, Rated K, 1586 Words.
John has all these thoughts running through his mind, and he never knew how to say them. He still doesn’t, not really. He only wishes he hadn’t waited until it was too late.
and lastly, a shameful plug (and the only one you will see on this blog) to my own WIP about John being kidnapped and tortured and Sherlock coming to the rescue.
of course, by the time this is finished, Archive is done with it’s updates…but I’m posting this as is because this is a good list and it was a valiant effort.
By: novadiablo
John tasted of soap and salt and his hair was wiry and smelt like strawberries. Sherlock would know. He’d just licked him.
Other observations:
001. John either did not enjoy or was completely surprised by this action.
002. When one is licked by their male flatmate, they jump of the couch, let out a string of swear words, lecture you on personal space and stalk off.
003. Sherlock did indeed have a libido.
Very short, slashy, smutty, and humorous. Inexperienced!Sherlock and John just can’t help himself.
Rated Explicit, 897 Words.
By: round_robin
The anger inside of John boiled higher as he watched Sherlock sway on his feet. Lestrade had his arm around the detective—steadying him—as he walked them up to the office. “Just a few reports need your signature as a consultant. Because it was such a long case, but you know how it goes.” “Mmm,” Sherlock nodded, eyes barely staying open as Lestrade guided him up the stairs. Yes, John thought. It really was a long fucking case. It started two weeks ago. Actually, sixteen days. Sixteen days ago, Sherlock took this stupid case. The case that sent them across London—twice daily—and down to Cardiff. Four fucking times. The case itself wasn’t even that complicated (or memorable) things were just so damn confusing. It was a simple insurance fraud case. Plus seventeen different beneficiaries, all claiming single inheritance. Plus eight different versions of the will (three forged). Plus three different law firms handling the eight versions of the will. Plus two of the beneficiaries hiring their own private detectives to refute Sherlock’s findings, and one beneficiary hiring a gang of thugs to beat the information out of Sherlock. It was the very definition of a clusterfuck. But the worst part? Worse than the three hundred quid in taxis that Yard now had to reimburse them for. Worse than the two cases against Sherlock and John for unlawful search, and stalking. No. Those were fine. If that was all they had to deal with, John would walk naked through the streets, singing with joy at the top of his lungs. Anything but this. Anything but the fact that during those sixteen days (sixteen days, nine hours, forty minutes) Sherlock had neither slept nor ate. Well, he slept just enough to keep himself running—which still wasn’t enough, barely three hours of every twenty-four—but the eating. That was the big concern. John and Sherlock are on a case, and usually their cases have a three day turn around. This time, however, it takes over two weeks. Over two weeks in which Sherlock wastes away, not realizing how intensely ill he has become due to lack of sleep and malnourishment. This fic has everything! BAMF!John (at least in the beginning), Doctor!John, fluff, smut, slash, angst. Rated Mature, 5485 Words.
