January 2012
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Attention Followers: What are your top fandoms?
For purely scientific reasons (which you should by no means consider, speculate on, or otherwise think about), we would like to know your top three fandoms, preferably those that you read — or could be interested in reading — fic for.
These fandoms can be movies, shows, books, comics, manga/anime, or anything other than RPF (sorry, I just have this irrational fear that the one...
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Attention Followers: Everyone who gave Stephen...
December 2011
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A Study in Fic: The World's Most Random Rec Post
Hello, dear followers. First of all, we want to thank everyone who sent us supportive messages after we went on hiatus. We’d especially like to thank those of you who promptly exploded angst-clouds of despair all over our dash and inbox. Your tears were delicious
It’s so wonderful to know that y’all miss us when we’re gone.
As some of you may remember, about four score and seven years ago, we...
November 2011
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Monday: Damn Good Fics
Two Two One Bravo Baker
Author: abundantlyqueer
Rating: NC-17
Genre: AU/Case!fic
Word count: 91,843 (WIP)
Summary: In which Sherlock and John meet ten months and three-and-a-half thousand miles earlier.
Why read it:
Is a “why read” section even necessary for this fic? You’ve all probably seen this fic squeed, sobbed, and flailed over on your dashes for quite some time...
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Attention Followers: Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
Sunday: Requests
Although we here at Fuck Yeah Sherlock Fics are officially on hiatus, we’re not going to leave you high and dry for fic. With several requests pending, and no time to fill them, we’ve decided it’s best to provide you with the resources to find the fics you’re looking on your own.
In other words, here is the complete list of all the Sherlock BBC rec lists we have accumulated...
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Saturday: Kink
Kid in a Candy Store
Author: fialleril
Rating: PG-13 (Hold the fuck up. On a Saturday?)
Genre: Humor/Gen *gasp* ain’t that interesting?
Word count: 1,286
Summary: Fill for the kink meme prompt:
Sherlock in a sex shop.
Why read it: Because it’s freaking hilarious.
Sherlock, if he ever even knew to begin with, has obviously deleted everything he’s learned about the...
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Attention Followers: Please Actually Pay Attention...
We know this is sudden — very sudden — but Fuck Yeah Sherlock Fics will be on an extended break as of Monday.
As it stands both of us have a lot of stuff going on (I’m just going to say finals and leave it at that) and don’t really have the time to keep this blog running at a *coughsorta* quality level.
If we come back, it will most likely be after the new series has...
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Thursday: Character Appreciation (Harry Watson)
Harry Watson Investigates
Author: Orange_Crushed
Rating: G
Genre: Gen/Case!fic/AU
Word count: 6,087
Summary:
John keeps his hands in his pockets, except at streetcorners, where he still sometimes tries to get Harry to hang onto his sleeve as they cross. It’s embarrassing. She walks ahead of him a little bit, to discourage that kind of thing.
Why read it: Eleven-year-old Harry Watson...
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Wednesday: Romance
His Favorite Four-Letter F-Words
Author: cathedralcarver
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance
Word count: 3,500
Summary: John isn’t the most eloquent of men.
Why read it: I don’t know if I can tell you how beautiful this fic is. John’s voice here is absolutely perfect, and I adore the way the format moves through his and Sherlock’s entire life together. All of the word choices are...
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Tuesday: Angst
Stolen Moments
Author: Velvet_Mace
Rating: NC-17 (Warning: Non-con)
Genre: Dark/Angst
Word count: 15,000
Summary: Sherlock has become obsessed with his flatmate. Hypnotizing John to let Sherlock do what he likes seems the logical solution.
Why read it: Have you ever read one of those fics that has you yelling at your screen? No? Well you’re about to. (If you choose to read this fic,...
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Monday: Damn Good Fics
Parallel
Author: brbsoulnomming
Rating: R
Genre: Case!fic/Romance
Word count: 77,400
Summary: Written for the prompt:
There’s a case at a secondary school/University, some series of threats or string of bizarre murders that has the entire campus shaken. In the course of the investigation, Sherlock and John meet two students. One is well liked if not popular, athletic, intelligent...
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Sunday: Requests
Everything You Won’t Tell Me
Author: E^(pi*i)
Rating: NC-17
Genre: Romance/AU
Word count: 15,100
Summary: It’s never felt like this before, like wanting to say, “I’d rather not, but if you wanted, I’d get on my knees for you.” Because John is a dom, and Sherlock is a dom, and John wants him anyways. Except, one of these things is not quite true.
Why read it: This was...
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Saturday: Kink
How To Tame Your Dragon
Author: mad-maudlin
Rating: NC-17
Genre: AU/Fantasy
Word count: 12,871
Summary: Sorcerer!Sherlock sets out to trap himself a pet dragon. Said dragon turns out to be far more interesting than he initially anticipated.
Why read it: Cause John Watson is a motherfucking dragon!!! As far as I’m concerned, that’s head canon. Come on, it makes sense. We always...
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Thursday: Character Appreciation (Mummy Holmes)
The Adoption of John Watson Holmes
Author: cyerus
Rating: PG
Genre: Humor/Gen
Word count: 2,949
Summary: Mummy thinks that John Watson is so good for Sherlock that she must endeavor to make sure he stays with her son. If that means she has to force-adopt the man, then so be it. Mycroft is smug. Sherlock is horrified. John is devious.
Why read it: This fic is currently my favorite things in...
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Wednesday: Romance
First is the Worst, Second is the Best
Author: miyazaki-a2
Rating: PG
Genre: Schmoop
Word count: 1,500
Summary: Sleeping together and sleeping together are not the same thing at all.
Why read it: Hello, followers! Are you ready for the beloved fanfic trope of two men, one hotel bed?
Oh yes you are! Too bad the bed-sharing is entirely platonic… at first.
Honestly, you can’t...
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Tuesday: Angst
Gone Is My Past
Author: cyerus
Rating: PG-13
Genre: AU/Magical Realism/Angst
Word count: 7,923
Summary: John is an army bomb detection dog who has been turned into a human.
Why read it: This fic succeeds in evoking an interesting combination of emotions. On one hand, there is the joy you feel when John uses his doggy senses to be a BAMF.
On the other hand, be prepared to board the angst...
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Monday: Damn Good Fics
A Study in Winning Part 1 and Part 2
Author: Jupiter Ash
Rating: NC-17
Genre: AU/Romance
Word count: Over 100,000 (Clear your schedules, ladies and gents)
Summary: Porn, plot and tennis. Also swearing and some French. AU where Sherlock and John are professional tennis players. (no really)
Why read it: This is a life-consuming, time-killing monster of a fic, but it is completely and utterly...
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Sunday: Requests
404 Error: File Not Found
Author: nejem
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance/Angst
Word count: 1,237
Summary: From the kink!meme prompt:
Old!Sherlock is diagnosed with dementia. As his memory loss progresses, he writes little reminders and puts them up everywhere—reminders on pretty much anything, from the day’s errands to observations or random facts to memories.
Why read it:
OH...
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Saturday: Kink
Amateurs
Author: lbmisscharlie
Rating: NC-17
Genre: PWP/Humor
Word count: 4,335
Summary: Fill for the kink meme prompt:
AU: John and Sherlock meet in a seedy studio for a bit of gay-for-pay amateur porn. John is doing it because he genuinely, desperately needs money and he’d heard an old army buddy say it paid well for almost nothing; Sherlock’s doing it for a case, of...
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Thursday: Character Appreciation (Mycroft)
But Love Is A Voice On The Wind
Author: Snow
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance/Humor
Word count: 1,832
Summary: From the prompt:
Sherlock keeps getting texts from Mycroft with tips on wooing John.
Why read it: Mycroft Holmes is many things: dapper, brilliant, influential, and — most of all — creepy. With an army of minions and uncountable recording devices, Mycroft is probably the...
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Wednesday: Romance
Seventeen Letters
Author: out_there
Rating: PG-13 (Because grumpy!John tends to swear)
Genre: Fluff/Humor
Word count: 2,357
Summary:
“I love Sherlock,” John says out loud, testing how the words feel in his mouth. It doesn’t change anything. Sherlock’s still the pillock who fiddled with his computer password.
Why read it: I challenge anyone to read this without...
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Tuesday: Angst
The End is a Fraud
Author: aslipperysloth
Rating: PG
Genre: Angst/AU
Word count: 2,200
Summary: Written for the prompt:
The Sherlock John knows is just a normal guy. The real Sherlock Holmes had been feeding him information and telling him what to say all along. That way the real Sherlock doesn’t have to be in any real danger when trying to find Moriarty.
Why read it: Ahoy,...
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Monday: Damn Good Fics
It Feels Like Home When I’m With You
Author: etothepii
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Angst/AU
Word count: 14,050
Summary: John still gets nightmares about Afghanistan. That’s the worst part of it all, he thinks — he still has dreams about sand and drowning to death in his own blood. But they’re more memory than nightmare.
Why read it: Just like everything etothepii writes,...
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Sunday: Requests
Mesh-Up
Author: s0mmerspr0ssen
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Fluff/AU
Word count: 9,750
Summary: John runs a knitwear shop. Sherlock needs a present for Mummy. It’s love.
Why read it: This fic just makes me so hap-hap-happy!
Both the boys are just so adorably smitten that there’s no way you can read this without getting a warm, fuzzy feeling. Plus there’s some lovely...
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Saturday: Kink
Transport
Author: thisprettywren
Rating: NC-17
Genre: Kink/First Time
Word count: 10,500
Summary:
Everything else is just transport.
Why read it: This is a really interesting portrayal of Sherlock’s reaction to having a mind that automatically sees and deciphers irritating, unending minutiae about EVERYTHING. Let’s face it, it would drive anyone up the freaking wall.
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Thursday: Character Appreciation (Mrs. Hudson)
Landlady, Housekeeper, Matchmaker
Author: i-know-its-0ver
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Fluff
Word count: 2,668
Summary: Mrs. Hudson plays matchmaker for her tenants.
Why read it: We all know that the biggest shipper of Sherlock/John is Mrs. Hudson. (With Mycroft as a close second, of course.) This is a really cute portrayal of Mrs. Hudson’s efforts to transform Sherlock and John’s...
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Wednesday: Romance
Like Leaves & Kings (All Things Must Fall)
Author: gyzym
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance/Humor
Word count: 5,456
Summary: Sherlock is the worst roommate in the world. John suffers him less gladly than he could, but better than most.
Why read it: Basically, Sherlock is his usual “Really John, you should expect me to put acid all over your clothes. It’s for...
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Tuesday: Angst
Five Things John Watson Will Never Tell Anyone
Author: Raina
Rating: R
Genre: 5 Things/Angst
Word count: 2,843
Summary: There are things about himself that John Watson will never, ever, tell anyone. Not even consulting detectives who might already know.
Why read it: What is John Watson? A kitten in a jumper? A BAMF ex-army doctor? A long-suffering milk-fetcher? Yes, but first and foremost he...
October 2011
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Monday: Damn Good Fics
In The Land of The Blind.
Author: entangled-now
Rating: R
Genre: Character Study/Angst
Word count: 12,679
Summary: Sherlock’s been acting strangely for days. There’s a claustrophobic silence to the flat, experiments tossed aside or abandoned, cases ignored. It’s almost as if nothing matters any more. John’s determined to know why.
Why read it: It’s the end of...
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Sunday: Requests
Apotheosis
Author: mad-maudlin
Rating: R
Genre: Gen/Angst
Word count: 16,556
Summary: John is given a chance to take the fight to Moriarty. You know what they say about whoever fights monsters…
Why read it: THE TWISTS! THE TWISTS! OH SHIT, SON, THE TWISTS!
I consider myself pretty well versed in the art of ‘figuring out what the fuck is going on’, and usually I got shit...
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Saturday: Kink (Wholock Week)
Captain John Watson, Genetics, and Other Crazy Things.
Author: cyerus
Rating: PG-13 (according to the author. There’s a paragraph at the end that leads me to disagree however)
Genre: Crossover/Humor
Word count: 5,670
Summary: Fill for the prompt:
The explanation for John “Three Continents” Watson? Jack Harkness is his father.
Why read it: So John has a bit of a, shall...
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Thursday: Character Appreciation (The Women)
You Took My Hand And Danced With Me
Author: Lovingthevolume
Rating: PG
Genre: Crossover (Doctor Who)/Angst
Word count: 1,000
Summary: It’s bigger on the inside, she’d said, and he’d smiled and whisked her away.
Why read it: Here’s a beautiful look at the women of Sherlock as companions of the Doctor. All of their experiences are so unique and true to each character,...
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Wednesday: Romance (Wholock Week)
Catch as Catch Can
Author: perevision
Rating: NC-17 (overall)
Genre: Romance/Humor
Word count: 21,562
Summary: Fill for the kink meme prompt:
Sherlock is bored. BORED. Things are looking grim for Mrs. Hudson’s wall. John devises a Scavenger Hunt. But not just any scavenger hunt. The clues are all from pop culture, films and crap telly. All the things Sherlock knows nothing about....
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Tuesday: Angst (Wholock Week)
Three Hundred and Sixty-Five
Author: Jupiter Ash
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Crossover (Doctor Who)/Angst
Word count: 9,500
Summary: What Sherlock and John were both doing during The Year That Never Was.
Why read it: Dystopia, followers. Now is the time for some Sherlockian dystopia.
In the Whoniverse, with rogue aliens running amok, the people of earth have to put up with a lot. Well, Sherlock...
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Monday: Damn Good Fics (Wholock Week)
Three Mornings
Author: ImpishTubist
Rating: G
Genre: Gen/Humor
Word count: 1,177
Summary: Killer Christmas trees. Possessed mannequins. Spaceships falling from the sky. Over the course of three mornings in 2007, John Watson begins to suspect that perhaps spending Christmas in London isn’t the best of ideas.
Why read it: First of all, if you understand this reference:
Then you have...
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Sunday: Requests (Wholock Week)
The Detective
Author: lotherington
Rating: PG
Genre: Crossover (Doctor Who)/Fluff
Word count: 5,000
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?
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Saturday: Kink
Trust Issues
Author: thisprettywren
Rating: NC-17
Genre: Kink
Word count: 9,000
Summary: Sherlock devises a trust exercise. All John has to do is follow instructions; if there’s anyone who knows how to give instructions, it’s Sherlock.
Why read it: Oh God, I was on the edge of my seat for this entire fic. The author does such a wonderful job keeping the reader just as much in the...
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Thursday: Character Appreciation (Future Kids)
The Blog of Eugenia Watson
Author: Mad Lori
Rating: PG
Genre: Kid!fic/Humor
Word count: 93,036
Summary:
I like to think of this not so much as a blog but as the first draft of my inevitably best-selling memoirs. My Life In an Unconventional Family. How unconventional? Well, I live with my divorced parents and my dad’s husband. How’s that for starters? Trust me, it gets weirder.
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Wednesday: Romance
Meeting the Family
Author: Kate Lear
Rating: NC-17
Genre: Romance
Word count: 2,700
Summary: Sherlock meets John’s family.
Why read it: First of all, it’s written by Kate Lear, so you should already be in your seat looking like this:
Secondly, it is very nice to see Sherlock get the hurt-him-and-you-die conversation. It just goes to show that Watsons don’t mess around.
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Tuesday: Angst
A Matter of Camping
Author: tartanfics
Rating: NC-17
Genre: Humor/Mild Angst
Word count: 11,000
Summary: One day, Sherlock decides they are going camping.
Why read it: Because Sherlock engages in shenanigans, John has the tolerance of a saint, and intense bro-angst evolves into sexy times (as it should).
So join our boys, followers, in the middle of nowhere.
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Monday: Damn Good Fics
The Plan
Author: Blind Author
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Humor/Romance
Word count: 3,318
Summary: John had a plan, and its name was Get Some Sex. And the capitals were most certainly necessary.
Why read it: What’s one thing that John Watson and the Sherlock fandom have in common?
Answer: Their thoughts on Sherlock and John’s relationship
Enjoy poor, helpless John desperately...
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Sunday: Requests
Yes and No
Author: emungere
Rating: NC-17
Genre: Romance/Mild Angst
Word count: 5,098
Summary: Cross dressing fic:
“Yes, it’s for a case. No, I derive no sexual gratification from it.”
“That’s nice,” John said. “Did you eat while you were out?”
Why read it: For one, John’s no-fucks-given reaction is so true to form. Come home to find...