Title: How To Lose An Hour (or five)
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Rating: R (for the use of a bad word)
Content notes: Possibly disturbing (cartoon) image with a needle. (It's a picture of "how" to administer local anesthetic, but coupled with the quote in question it might be extra disturbing.) Partial nudity.
Artist notes: So this is fanart and a rec set all at once. I decided to think outside the box, by creating a box, except it's a cube, but you get what I mean.
Summary: Altered puzzle piece Sherlock/John fanfic rec set.





The Whore of Babylon Was a Perfectly Nice Girl, by out_there

Sherlock/John. 32,900 words. Explicit.

Sherlock walks into a room and takes all the space right out of it. He does the same inside John's head.

This was one of the first Sherlock fics I read and it holds a very special place in my heart (and not only for the title). I love everything about it, from John's assumptions about Sherlock's sex life to the progression of their relationship.

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The Paradox Suite, specifically The Death and Resurrection of the English Language, by wordstrings

Sherlock/John. ~90,000-100,000 for the whole suite. Not sure about this part. NC17. Contains dark and possibly disturbing images. Mentions of drug use. Describes a relationship that crosses the line into disturbingly possessive/ possibly verbally abusive.

wordstrings's Sherlock is mad as a hatter and I love him so much. It's dark at times and disturbing at times, but I have a (fictional) thing for dysfunctional I-love-you-so-much-I-could-literally-eat-you love and this just hits all of my kinks.

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Two Two One Bravo Baker, by abundantlyqueer

Sherlock/John.109,372 words. Explicit. Character death (minor/original characters).

A novel-length, pornographic case-fiction set seven months before and three and a half thousand miles east of A Study in Pink. Captain John Watson of 40 Commando, the Royal Marines, is assigned to protect and assist Sherlock Holmes as he investigates what appears to be a simple war atrocity in Afghanistan. An intense attraction ignites between the two men as they uncover a conspiracy that threatens everything they’ve ever known, but Sherlock’s as much hunted as hunter, and everyone close to him is in deadly danger. Can he solve the case in time to save himself and John?

Exactly what it says on the can with BAMF!John, Oh-My-God-I-Love-You-So-Much moments, and very engaging original characters.

Note: This quote has been altered slightly for space. It originally reads: "I'm a commando, Sherlock," he says. "I do the impossible all the time."

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The Progress of Sherlock Holmes, by ivyblossom

Sherlock/John. 62,006 words. Explicit.

Sherlock is head over heels for John, but you wouldn't know it by looking at him. First-person present-tense series of short scenes from Sherlock's point of view, borrowing heavily from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. This is the chaptered version. It exists separately because I really did think I was writing a series for the first several thousand words. But it turned into a chaptered fic, hence, a chaptered version for readability.

It's a first person fic, which is normally enough to make me hit the back button within seconds, but somehow I started reading and once I started I couldn't stop. Ivyblossom's Sherlock is just so much Sherlock and I really, really adore the relationship that develops between Sherlock and John.

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This is actually a "puzzle" cube, from one of those children's puzzles where you have a set of cubes that can create six different images depending on what side faces up. The puzzle was old and worn when I bought it, so I soaked it in hot water and soap to remove the original images, leaving me with a nice set of wooden cubes. (There was also a truly atrocious amount of scrubbing involved, but the less we speak about that the better.) This particular piece (I have, ahem, 17 more) was coated with two layers of beige acrylic paint, followed by one haphazard layer of white. I let it dry and then sandpapered it to roughen up the surface and make the beige shine through. Lastly, I stamped the edges on an old black ink pad. The rest is simply a question of cutting and glueing. (Ugh, so much glueing.) Almost all of the images are taken from an outdated lexicon I picked up at book sale. The quotes are printed. (Cambria, 8pt.) The actual cube is 3,2 x 3,2 (centimeters), so it was fiddly work for sure.

I'm quite pleased with how well the images turned out considering I took them with my phone and had to build my own light tent. (A cardboard box, four straws, one white napkin and one piece of paper.\0/) I'm sure they would have been even better if I hadn't been too lazy to get another lamp.

I wish I could say that making this took me an hour (it really didn't) but on the other hand writing this post nearly did. :)