A Study in Fanfiction

read it here by winterhill

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Sherlock is peculiar, disgusting, and completely useless at being a decent dragon.

read it here by Augustbird

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Read it here by leashy_bebes

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Arthur's been stuck in this mysterious place for what feels like years, all invisible to the strange people who surround him. He's given up on anything changing until the arrival of a madman with a blue box.

read it here by what_alchemy

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read it here by Flawedamythyst

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A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady. - Thomas More

Mars:

This fic takes a cliched trope and makes it special. What could have been some shallow fluff becomes something deep and meaningful with Flawedamythyst's clear and beautiful writing and the addition of a confessed backstory surrounding John's limp. It is very much like the quote implies: this could be the beginnings (or the continuation?) of a love between John and Sherlock, romantic or platonic, and it's a significant event for both of them. John shares a traumatic story, and Sherlock (in his own way) shares a bit of himself, too. There are many interesting fandom explanations for his limp, and this is one of my favorites. 

Will:

read it here by thesardine

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In a fit of boredom Sherlock plants some seeds, may or may not eat one cracker, and definitely waxes dramatic on the sofa for a while.

read it here by oreganotea

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When John is sixteen, his Mum tells him that he’s a god. When John is thirty-six, he meets Sherlock Holmes, which is the bigger shock by far.

read it here by thesardine

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Sherlock: “If you were dying, if you were murdered, in the very last seconds, what would you say?” John: “Please God, let me live.” Sherlock: “Use your imagination.” John: “I don’t have to.”

read it here by you_light_the_sky

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No one who enters old London ever comes out. They say that the beast devours them. When his sister disappears, John ventures into the dead zone beyond the wall, and finds a brilliant madman under a terrible curse… (Note: Now with Chinese Translation in the works)

Notes: For siehn.

read it here (illustrated version!) by Lotherington 

Summary: John Watson was seven years and three months old when he first met His Raggedy Detective. He wasn’t expecting the bright red telephone box to crash land in his back garden in the middle of the night, but then, who ever expected such a silly thing to happen in the first place?

Mars:

I'm fond of this fic. It would seem to be unoriginal, but the tiny moments and comments about The Detective distance it from the Doctor Who version that we know and love. A telephone box instead of a police box, a sonic lighter instead of a sonic screwdriver...all of it is lovely and feels like Sherlock. I think Lotherington does a marvelous job at making this feel like it is Sherlock, as a Time Lord, and not as if it just The Doctor with Sherlock-ish characteristics. Yes, he seems brighter and more lighthearted than his London counterpart, but that's because he has the joy and freedom of a time traveler. 

Will:

Although there were some original ideas about how to convert the great Sherlock Holmes into The Detective (Time Lord), I couldn't get past the predominance of "Eleventh Hour" parallels

Although I didn't dislike it, I think this is more of a germ of an idea

Read it here by Lavvyan

Summary: Sherlock buries John Six in the bed of Johns at the back of the garden, between the tulips and the daffodils.

Synopsis (according to Will. SPOILERS FOR THE FIC) "A Brief History of Johns" is about how Sherlock grew up with various animal companions (not pets, they had significance for him). From when Sherlock was 2 years old to 22 years old, he had one of these companions in his life. The first was named John, and in order to recreate those same emotional attachments, Sherlock named the successive animals "John Two," "John Three," etc. John is a "safe name." Ultimately, Sherlock "outgrows" the pattern and attempts to continue his existence on the dull Earth without a John. He falls into addictions, emerges as a consulting detective, and then finds himself in need of a flatmate. This flatmate's name is John.

Will:

 What I like about this fic is that there is a foreknowledge as a reader that eventually John Watson will emerge in the narrative. With that John the final "John," what do the  previous John's offer to the story? The first John, John-the-mouse, was lost and assumed eaten by a wild animal. Only the first and the last Johns have hyphenated names (John-the-mouse and John-the-human). These two represent the ideal companion, while the numbered Johns were all attempts by young Sherlock to recreate his initial connection to John-the-mouse. Now with John-the-human (John Watson), Sherlock will have "the best one yet. Everything will be alright."

Mars: 

read it here by theumbrellaseller

"What's on this table is a body, and that body can be useful to me. If it's difficult for you to see, then in the future you can wait outside."

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Read it here by Starjenni

John makes Sherlock's life different.

read it here by Starjenni

read it here by Tartinfics 

Sherlock has always been glad he doesn’t remember dreams--too distracting, too nonsensical; they fill space in the brain in improbable ways, unnecessarily large for something which doesn’t matter.

Mars:

"I love this fic. I like the unabashed references to other things (QI, HP), 

I like how Sherlock took John's offence at him deleting the solar system to heart,and he put it (subconsciously) in a safe and un-deletable place. I also love, like a reviewer put it, that it shows how John is changing Sherlock, or, how Sherlock is allowing himself to be changed by John, even if very subtly. I also like how the "important" thing wasn't just the chinese menu, or the cd, but that it was something special from john (SENTIMENT BWAHH), the gift, "something you'd like, Sherlock." and an odd evening when they talk over dinner and dont have a case on and actually talk to each other, "not about work", but as friends.

its a story about Sherlock's priorities and how he, maybe, needs John.

  Will:

read it here by Stupid_drawings

read it here by Verity Burns