[…] try to imagine fandom’s reaction if the next big Holmes adaptation to come along had Holmes and Watson as British, yeah - young black British men, living case to case on a council estate in a dodgy area of London. How fandom would react if Sherlock Holmes didn’t employ street kids and homeless people like trained animals to do his bidding, but instead was part of that invisible underclass; if instead of having his eccentricities tolerated~ by Scotland Yard on account of being the Great White Genius, Sherlock Holmes, BME, school dropout, and sometime addict, was regarded by the police as practically a criminal already, one more thug, one more junkie, one more dealer in the making. If he had to choose between buying the week’s groceries or palming a twenty to a bored constable for the chance to spend five minutes on a crime scene, in the hope that whoever’s under enough pressure to deal with crime rates in the neighbourhood will pay him enough for a perp to feed himself and Watson for a month or two. If the greatest threat to his safety were police brutality, or the prospect of being done for a snitch; if his arch enemy weren’t Moriarty, but the systemic poverty and inequality that has him helping out his oppressors just to get by, and that makes the other side of the law look more tempting to someone with his skills every day.
I feel like the Oprah of writing/Roleplaying because I treat characters like:
You get a death!
And you get a death!
And you get a death!
EVERYONE GETS DEATH!
Kara, looking at you.
jesus christ don’t ask questions just press play and delve into a new respect for the sherlock fandom
Uh, so a Scorpy note
Uh, I don’t hate Elementary.
I actually think generbending John is really cool.
I don’t like that it’s set in America (I’m American) but since Sherlock is still British I can work with it.
Do I think it will be good as BBC?
No.
But do I think it has potential to give me some Sherlockish to watch when BBc is on break and introduce many more to Sherlock Holmes stories which rocks?
Hell Yes.
Also, can there be a tag for people who want to talk about the show who don’t outright hate it. I’m not a fan yet (I refuse to call judgement till I see the first 6 eps or so) but I would like there to be a place.
Perhaps #Excitedforelementary ?
This is your friendly reminder that Lestrade is still probably blaming himself for Sherlock’s death.
Oh Sweet Agony!, a Sherlock/(&)John post-Reichenbach fanfic rec
Like the cliffhanger spawned dozens of escape theories from the pool, the fall has resulted in some pretty great fics, too. There are some really, really sweet stories of reuinion in this list, but you know what they say about seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. You first have to survive getting hit by a speeding train. Wait, what? It doesn’t go like that? Well.
Some are BBC-compliant, and others were written even before series 2 aired. Like the AU and smut rec, you’ve probably already read these if you virtually live in AO3, but I like putting things in lists so.. As always, be mindful of the ratings!The Good Morrow by greywash (series)
The Quiet Man by ivyblossom (WIP)
Given In Evidence by verityburns (WIP)
We Go Anywhere But To The Ground by geordielover
Minds Like Ours Dream Up by BlackEyedGirl
(Life is) A Series of Risks by SkipandDi, MirrorSkippy
The Loss of Touch by Kaiseilin
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 *untitled* series of fics by areyoutryingtodeduceme
Spaces Between by aubkae
And the Cat Came Back by Ishmael
The Death Dealer by thefarofixer (WIP)
The First Time (was not at Barts) by wakeneve
In Love, in Faith Unbroken Dwell by coloredink
I Don’t Know What More to Ask For by halotolerant
Trimmed & Burning by achycarnations
Sine Qua Non by beyondinsane
Post-Reichenbach by M_Leigh (series)
Light in the Darkness by emmagrant01
The Sigerson Letters by h3rring, makokitten (WIP)
Hours Before Midnight by augustbird
Acceptable Risk by astolat
Out of Sight by Mazarin221b
Traces by Magnolia822
A Man of Letters by krabapple
Communication in The Absence by hanbunnotsuki
As We Are Defined by the_arc5Oh snap, I totally didn’t see this. Thanks for the rec!
The fact that I haven’t read or even heard of half of these tells me how behind I am on my fanfiction reading…
Re-blogging again because of reasons.
And then there’s me:
LOL LOL YES
#coming from a person who spent all weekend coming up with and writing how my characters die #KILL EVERYONE #FEED ON PAIN#MWAHAHA
A WILD GPOY APPEARS.
“Let him have the coat, officer.”
“But detective Lestrade, it’s evid—”
“He’s been through enough.”
Oh god why would you post this!!?!?!?!??!
I can’t-
Excuse me while I go die in a corner.
/Sobs to death.
Ironlock and John Potts!
This is my fetish.
Anon! I have tears down my face!
I figured this was the fic anon talked about “Fading Nightmares” and just….No.
Why?! WHY?! WHY?!
This is just full of pain and it jabs you in the heart with a rusty knife dipped in acid.
Do I really have this great of an effect on people?
Thank you for the rec.
Sorry ^_^
