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Johnlock Fanfic Starter Kit

Welcome! 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)

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