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⌈ Secret Post #2525 ⌋

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well I put recs here

[dreemyweird]

Seconded. Gardnerhill is one of the best ACD Holmes writers out there. Also, methylviolet10b is pretty good, too.

this is a story of gardnerhill's with a surprise historical RPF character (for a classic literature fangirl, the best surprise EVER). Essentially, Watson drinks with Henry Wood and has conversations:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/874199

this is a hurt/comfort with Watson hallucinating about traditional folklore (written by mainecoon76):
http://archiveofourown.org/works/632992

a super short lolarious take on the Three Garridebs (gardnerhill again):
http://archiveofourown.org/works/531845

a 9k-something instant-headcanon remix of The Dying Detective (spacemutineer):
http://archiveofourown.org/works/552256

Actually, I myself would have been glad of some long, plotty ACD gen. But I know it's a rare thing.

Re: well I put recs here

[intrigueing]

YES methylviolet10b. Her fic does vary in quality, but even the worst of it is middling-good and she's so prolific and has so much variety it's fantastic.

I'm kind of tickled because those two happen to be probably the only two gardnerhill stories I DON'T like. And LOL CANON IS BUNK stories in general are almost universally a big fat "haha nope" for me. Wildly different preferences are wildly different, I suppose. But yeah, I still rec...pretty much everything else by her. She's got the faintly mythic quality of the characters and stories down in a really unique way. Here's her AO3 page: http://archiveofourown.org/users/gardnerhill/pseuds/gardnerhill

A handful of gen recs by other authors I nabbed:

http://prof-pangaea.livejournal.com/115264.html (telegrams between Holmes and Mycroft during the hiatus and holy shit so good)

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5275683/1/A-Choice-of-Evils (another Hiatus thing between Watson and Mycroft that's pretty much the best characterization of Watson I've ever seen)

http://acd-holmesfest.livejournal.com/8628.html (methylviolet10b - a VERY good mimicry of a case-fic. Not precisely ACD-style, but fairly close, hitting a lot of Holmes tropes)

Also, even though it doesn't actually count as a fic, there's this wank report parody from fandom_wank that manages to characterize them better than a lot of actual fics:

http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1235661.html#cutid1



(goddamn, I desperately need to organize my bookmarks.)

Re: well I put recs here

[dreemyweird]

Yes, Sub Rosa is bloody awesome! At least we have this in common. I even love her time-travelling mistake (I can speak Russian, so I saw it immediately, but it only made everything better).

I'm kind of tickled because those two happen to be probably the only two gardnerhill stories I DON'T like

a fortuitous guess is fortuitous. But seriously, how did I even manage to do that. I mean, it's 1/(55!/53!2!)=1/1485 chance. 1/1485. 0.0006734.

I really, really like A Choice of Evils, too. IA that hiatus!Watson is all too often portrayed inadequately. Either he ends up as a depressed angsty teenager or as a homi- and suicidal maniac.

ETA: I just saw the the case fic is The Adventure of the Better Angel! Yay for another coinciding favourite! But pity that I didn't get to read another ACD case fic.

ETA2: there's this wank report parody from fandom_wank that manages to characterize them better than a lot of actual fics

this is hysterical. Totally IC. Thank you so much.

Re: well I put recs here

[intrigueing]

Well, I haven't read every single one of gardnerhill's fics, so it's not QUITE that small a chance ;)

(I think Star Trek and Doctor Who overexposure for many years has destroyed my ability to appreciate historical RPF cameos for the sake of historical RPF cameos, unfortunately.)

Re: well I put recs here

[iceyred]

That wank report is a thing of beauty. I'll be reading the rest of your recs later! Thank you for sharing!