#off-axis

Coming Soon: Déjà Vu by Calais Reno

An addition (possibly final) to my Off-Axis series. (I'm probably kidding myself. Parallel universes are like candy to me.)

It's an epidemic. It's mass hysteria. It's karma. A mystery: millions of people remembering things that didn't happen, past lives where they were married to other people, had other careers, made different choices.

When Greg Lestrade fails to prevent the suicide of a woman claiming to experience False Memory Syndrome, he consults with the person whom he saved less than a year ago: Sherlock Holmes, cleaned-up junkie, now addicted to solving the Serial Suicides, who is beginning to see connections between some of the victims, even as he battles his own déjà vu demons.

In short: An AU where the events of the BBC show took place in an abandoned timeline. One man knows why this has happened.

CW: suicide discussed by characters, no graphic details.

Promised: Johnlock (without much angst this time); no MCD.

3/10 parsons field trip

Great place to have a rest and take pics.

Déjà Vu, Chapter 3

Conversations: Greg has coffee with Sherlock; Sherlock checks out a new flat; Anderson spouts nonsense (maybe?); and John has lunch with his ex-boyfriend. The puzzle pieces are coming together.

Author Note: In this story, the events of the show are a lost timeline. Several characters experience what is called False Memory Syndrome (FMS), where they remember events of other timelines.

Mycroft's recollections include several abandoned timelines where tragic things happened. In the present narrative, those are all false memories. John and Sherlock will find each other in this story.

Various POVs: Mycroft, Greg, Sherlock, John. POV shifts indicated by a new subtitle.

CW: suicide of a minor character; discussion of suicide (no graphic descriptions of violence or death). No MCD.

This story is part of the Off-Axis series, but you do not have to read the previous three stories to enjoy this one.

Coming Soon: Offset

Summary: Sent to prison seventeen years ago for a murder he didn't commit, John Watson is wearing an explosive vest when he first meets Sherlock Holmes.

This story is Part 3 of the Off-Axis series; each story takes place in a parallel universe where only one character is aware they've shifted into a new reality.

Part 1, The Q-Axis : In the year 2009, an assassin named John Watson leaves a stalled train and attempts to find his way to the surface, following the enigmatic directions of a homeless woman. Once above ground, he begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around him. He calls this new reality the “Q-axis, a world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring detective named Sherlock Holmes tries to solve a series of puzzling murders, all of which seem linked to a man who doesn’t exist.

This story was inspired by Haruki Murakami's 1Q84.

Part 2, Reset : Returning home after Reichenbach, Sherlock finds himself in a parallel world where he is supposedly dead. After meeting a John Watson who's never known him, strange things begin to happen, leading Sherlock to realise he can't stay.

There's only one more week left to see Off Axis: Yashua Klos & Kambui Olujimi at Art-in-Buildings' 55 5th Ave lobby exhibition space! You don't want to miss it!!! 

Klos and Olujimi's collaboration underscores the intersections and diversions of their independent, multi-disciplinary practices. A guiding principle of both artists' work is the deconstruction of normalized structures of control to expose the power dynamics at play against black bodies. Read more on the AiB website!