Comments | draegonhawke: Fic Rec: A Strange and Abundant Love, by aceofhearts61

draegonhawke

Fic Rec: A Strange and Abundant Love, by aceofhearts61

Dec 29, 2011 16:07

Those of you who watch my journal have probably noticed that I never do recs, usually because I'm too damn lazy, but I have to share this fic with everyone ever because it makes me that damn happy: A Strange and Abundant Love: BBC Sherlock, 20k words and unfinished (I believe?) at the time of this posting, a lovely, deep, intimate gen three-way ( Read more... )

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ghostrunner7 December 29 2011, 22:38:21 UTC

God bless John Watson, Lestrade thought. There's a man to take with you into hell.

Thank you for the rec. I'm just gonna go drown myself in that story now.

draegonhawke December 29 2011, 22:39:34 UTC

You are so very, very welcome. (Seriously. The world needs more asexy love.)

squeemu December 31 2011, 08:10:26 UTC

You're a middle aged man, heterosexual, divorced, childless, still have plenty of time and desirable attributes a new female sexual partner would appreciate.

Hahaha, yes.

It makes me happy to know that this exists! There are definitely a few times where my SAP! DISENGAGE! got triggered, but like you said, everything else this fic accomplishes makes it worth it.

I have to admit that one of my personal relationship kinks is watching people who are crap at communication try to figure out their relationships while still being bad at communicating, so, uh, there were a few times where I was disappointed at how well everyone was doing in the communication department. Which is my own problem, I readily admit.

BUT YES. This exists. :D

squeemu December 31 2011, 08:12:15 UTC

Also, I'm pretty sure that Sherlock would require a lot of verbal communication, and I did find his questioning of various relationship paths really awesome. Such as the overstepping heterosexualness and the loving Lestrade wrong.

draegonhawke December 31 2011, 17:04:21 UTC

Hah, yes. I'm the sort of person who will generally go "Well, that was way too easy" the moment anything starts working out, and I occasionally went "This is progressing too neatly, and there's not nearly enough "Shit, that didn't work out at all right," but reading it as more of a study than a story may have helped in that department. And the stuff that is there is so meticulously detailed and the implications so acknowledged and examined that I didn't feel the need to nitpick, much, which itself is a minor miracle.

I kinda love Sherlock because he's so very childish in so many ways, which is quite true to the show. He doesn't have a lot of emotional intelligence, and with that, not a lot of emotional confidence. And at the same time, he's got that generalized Sherlock arrogance, aloofness, and disregard for what other people are feeling (I love the bit where Lestrade has to take him aside and say "John is afraid," because I'd imagine sometimes you would have to be clear and say what should be obvious). And yeah, his distress ( ... )