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January 3, 2017
johnandsherlock:
johnandsherlock:
Johnlock Fanfic Starter Kit
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Johnlock Fanfic Starter KitWelcome! New to Tumblr and/or Johnlock? This rec is intended for new people in the Johnlock/TJLC fandom who are looking to read those older Classic fics that most of us have read or know about. I did not do long descriptions so I could fit in more fics. This is just a sample of what is out there and I could not put all the fics I would have liked in this list (also no WIPs). Please check out my other recs HERE for different tropes and themes (including newer fics).
100,000+ words
Performance In a Leading Role: Mad_Lori - 156,714 [Actor AU]
Nature and Nurture: earlgreytea68 - 203,273 [Parentlock, clone baby]
Two Two One Bravo Baker: abundantlyqueer - 114,574 [Military AU]
The Gilded Cage: BeautifulFiction - 326,886 [Omegaverse/case fic]
Walking Together: SailorChibi - 101,407 [Soulmates AU]
To Light Another’s Path: BeautifulFiction - 128,654 [Sickfic, slow burn]
The Faithful Compass series: KeelieThompson1 - 300,444 [Unilock, Army John, emotional roller coaster]
The Heart In The Whole: verityburns - 101,650 [Sickfic, injury]
Colors: Quesarasara - 140,651 [When you meet your soulmate, you finally see the world in color]
The Frost Is All Over: Chryse - 148,518 [19th century teenlock AU]
50,000+ words
A Cure For Boredom: emmagrant01 - 81,665 [sex club, very explicit]
The Progress of Sherlock Holmes: ivyblossom - 62,006 [Sherlock POV, angst like whoa]
The Paradox Series: wordstrings - 98,863 [Sherlock + mental health issues]
the sensation of falling as you just hit sleep: greywash - 83,290 [Love is a much more vicious motivator.]
The Road Less Traveled
: verityburns - 56,924 [Sherlock starts a relationship with John so he won’t leave but it gets complicated]
The Great Sex Olympics of 221B: XistentialAngst - 58,611 [sex challenge between John and Sherlock]
The Moonlight and the Frost: CaitlinFairchild - 77,289 [John has to rebuild his life in the wake of Mary’s betrayal and Sherlock’s deception.]
The First and Last Trilogy: Phyona - 82,310 [Sherlock and John fend off boredom with a night of heavy drinking.]
A Waste of Breath: Chryse - 95,452 [John had always assumed Sherlock was uninterested, untouchable, married to his work]
What to do When Your Flatmate is Homicidal: hyacinth_sky747 - 58,560 [Sherlock takes Molly’s advice when dealing with his flatmate]
20,000+ words
26 Pieces: Lanning - 28,236 [Mycroft gives Sherlock the apparently simple task of solving a puzzle box containing a stolen microchip.]
The Whore of Babylon Was a Perfectly Nice Girl: out_there - 32,896 [Sherlock walks into a room and takes all the space right out of it.]
The Real Meaning of Idioms: feverishsea - 21,691 [John is at a medical conference and starts texting Sherlock]
Once More, With Feeling: cellard00rs - 21,178 [John’s family, fake relationship]
Two Coffees One Black One with Sugar Please series: Linpatootie - 25,419 [Sherlock wants to conduct a sleep study of sorts.]
Dear John: wendymarlowe - 23,031 [Sherlock pretends to be someone else and dates John online, Post-Reichenbach]
Left: lifeonmars - 45,153 [John is left-handed, magical realism]
State of Flux: Atiki - 24,655 [slow burn, virgin Sherlock]
That Partitioning of the Things of Youth: wearitcounts - 35,353 [Victor Trevor is in town, and nobody’s happy.]
Heart On A String: AngelSpirit - 23,253 [John and Sherlock got married with Cracker Jack rings when they were 7 yrs old]
10,000+ words
Equilibrium: augustbird - 12,351 [At Baskerville, John is infected by a virus that turns him into a genius, but it is slowly killing him]
Let’s Make a Bed Out in the Rain: theimprobable1 - 17,664 [John is devastated after his long-term girlfriend leaves him. Sherlock helps]
The River Variations: withoutawish - 11,619 [take on Three Garridebs]
As long as it takes: PlainJane - 14,866 [Anything Sherlock wants. All night. No strings attached.]
The Things You Hide *Adult Edition*: verityburns - 10,281 [Sherlock drunkenly confesses his feelings to John]
A Terrific Soporific: antietamfalls - 11,269 [Sherlock, a long-time sufferer of insomnia, shares a bed with John at a hotel while on a case.]
Praise Me: testosterone_tea - 11,813 [In which Sherlock has an interesting physical reaction to compliments and John discovers it.]
Apprehension: causidicus - 19,736 [Sherlock inadvertently deduces that John’s been wanking to a photo of him]
A Second Chance: kipli - 13,160 [alternate timelines]
you are a paradigm: 1electricpirate - 10,013 [Potterlock]
Under 10,000 words
The Internet Is Not Just For Porn: cyerus - 1,911 [John is Sherlock’s internet boyfriend - from CANADA.]
Alone On the Water: Mad_Lori - 7,725 [possibly the most painful fic in the fandom, get ready to cry]
A Study in Intimacy: doodle - 5,183 [People don’t touch Sherlock Holmes, not like they touch other people.]
What Meets the Eye: worldaccordingtofangirls - 8,251 [Amnesia fic]
and stand there at the edge of my affection: coloredink - 2,683 [love letters]
A Quiet Murmuration: cathedral_carver - 4,684 [1000 kisses]
The Heart On Your Sleeve: flawedamythyst - 5,449 [heartmark AU]
Acceptable Behaviour: bbcatemysoul - 3,449 [John is a good boyfriend and Sherlock is an idiot.]
Notes: Kryptaria - 2,756 [Handwriting]
Amenable: Resonant - 6,120 [You certainly never forgot who you were kissing with Sherlock.]Finally, I wanted to share the first fic that I ever read which remains my favorite to this day:
A Case of Identity: jkay1980 - 91,009 [fake relationship]. <3 Jamie
Tagged my usuals though you may have read these (tags under the cut)
shinka:
Comparison for all the bullet wounds:
1) Hope got shot...
Comparison for all the bullet wounds:
1) Hope got shot in the back, both in the unaired pilot and a study in pink. I didn’t get quite the moment of the bullet hitting him but if you can remember in the pilot, the shot was brutal and the exit wound was so large that Sherlock got blood on his face while he was sitting across the cabbie. In ASIP, you can distinctly see the spurt of blood coming when he gets shot by John, too. Please note that both times the cabbie wasn’t moving and throwing himself in front of Sherlock.
2) Sherlock gets shot by Mary, facing her. The bullet enters the body in one clean hit and after that starts bleeding. He didn’t move either and the blood starts spilling because he’s standing up. He falls on his back quite literally three seconds after the shot. You can notice how small the hole is. And also please note that Sherlock in his mind (through MP Mycroft) knows that knowing the caliber of the gun or the size of the bullet don’t matter at this point: the bullet hit vital organs and he’s going to die.
3) Mary gets shot. Now, she’s supposed to get shot by Vivian and she did move by throwing herself in front of Sherlock. However, the wound literally ‘exploded’ (it also makes a very distinct sound when it happens). Contrary to Sherlock’s wound but similarly to Hope’s wounds, the blood comes forward in a spurt that doesn’t go with the way her body moves. Also, if we want to deduce what kind of gun Vivian was using, that doesn’t matter at this point: she had a very discreet, small gun but that doesn’t match with how violent the bullet wound looks. Just like Hope, the wound looks way bigger that it’s supposed to be.
Conclusion: Mary definitely got shot from behind and it wasn’t by Vivian since she was facing her.
Plus, we know Sherlock didn’t stay where he was. He did try to move away before the bullet hit so there’s a chance he wasn’t targeted by the bullet that hit Mary.
And who do we know who’s a crack shot, with nerves of steel, whose hands don’t shake when he has to fire a gun?
The second burthen of a former child!
I’ve seen people picking up on the Sonnet 59 in general as the “nothing new under the sun”/”ACD wrote canon Johnlock himself b*nches” sonnet, but the drawing of attention to Sonnet 59 specifically in the scene when Mary is going into labor highlights a few lines in particular:
If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguil’d,
Which, labouring for invention, bear amiss
The second burthen of a former child!
an extended metaphor describing the poet’s brain as a mother’s womb, labouring to bring forth original verse only to mistakenly write something (“second burden”) that has already been written (“former child”), as if the mother had suffered two bouts of labour to give birth to the same child twice.
The Six Thatchers was a case that Sherlock and John already solved together, and John published on the blog, and yet it is repeated/modified in T6T. Given the overlay of Sonnet 59 specifically in the birth scene, it seems highly likely that this repetition of this specific case is intentional. It also gives serious weight to the theory that the majority/entirety of T6T is a fabrication/embellishment of the truth as narrated by Sherlock himself, possibly as an alibi for John’s shooting of Mary. Sherlock, labouring to bring forth an original story to flesh out his whopper, falls back on the skeleton of a case that he’s already solved and that John has already written.
And just for fun, you know what’s a lovely English idiom that means “an incredible or far-fetched story”? A fish story.
Right. Also interesting in this light is the repeated assertion that “it’s never twins.” Rather than two babies, it is “as if the mother had suffered two bouts of labour to give birth to the same child twice.” Implications abound.
The final question is to do with the next two episodes: will we see a second burthen of the case in TAB, with Mary faking her death only to return to kill her husband? Will the entirety of T6T be born again, beginning with a second visit to the baby’s actual birth and retelling the truth of story we’ve just seen?
January 2, 2017
gingerhermit:
victorianlovers:
John was about to leave Mary.
He was bored with their suburban...
John was about to leave Mary.
He was bored with their suburban life
contemplated cheating
“Is it too early for a divorce?”
“So many Lies”
Mary always liked Mary. “Me too. I used to”
He was done with her. And then she “sacrificed” herself. Don’t believe the lies.
Ya’ll Mary knew. She KNEW that John was going to leave her. And what was that she said in HLV? “I would do anything at all to stop that from happening.” Now John will feel guilty for the rest of his life. Game, set, match.
The Devil vs. The Antichrist.
I started making a post to draw your attention to an unsetting -for a lack of a better word- scene from TST that tell us something important, but I ended up stumbling upon a major speculation about the worst possible ‘NO WAY’ rugpull. Bear with me because it blew my mind just how much it fits with a lot of things we already know.
I hope I’m wrong. Proceed with caution.
I really like the meta here about Mary being the anrichrist and Sherlock the Christ figure. That makes the dialog about 666 etc make so much more sense. Not sure about the sister thing, but maybe.
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