sherlock fic: an avalanche of detour signs [molly hooper/greg lestrade, r]

[gyzym]

Uh, right. So, I was going to put something all eloquent about my process here, but honestly, I accidentally wrote a Molly Hooper novel and I'm REALLY tired, so <3 Fic is posted exclusively at Ao3, because it's 56,000 words long and I just couldn't bear to make six LJ posts.

All my love and thanks to Marie, who drew the EXTRAORDINARY art that

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[threebooks3]

So I saw you talking about Greg and Molly buying furniture on Tumblr and just, casually, typed gyzym.livejournal.com...

....

yes.

[threebooks3]

having read the fic, OMG BUYING FURNITURE -dies of cute and also FEELS-

[anonymous]

I love this with the burning passion of a thousand love-making suns. I mean, everything you write is perfections, but OMG YOU SAVED MOLLY HOOPER from the horribleness of her restrictive canon frame and made her breathe and be real. From my heart, thank you for giving her back her agency.

Also, your Lestrade is the foxiest silver fox, and also ADORABLE. Trufax.

[shadesofbrixton]

So, yeah, I read this over the weekend, in one long straight furtive brain-burning fever, in my bed with cats and tea and muffins and fffffffuck I love them so much. I mean, the whole concept of Molly and Greg hadn't even occurred to me until I saw it written out somewhere, but it's just so BRILLIANT and PERFECT and my fucking god the timeline you cover in this is just epic. I'm so, so proud and grateful of how patient you are with your own writing, because this whole story wouldn't be nearly as satisfying if it was just the slightest bit rushed. All of the peripheral characters are amazing, and even the secondary cast that you've invented - Molly's sister, for example - is so completely perfect. I want to see this, I want this to be canon (this is SO head canon), I want about eight hundred thousand more words of this. If any two people deserve to find happiness on that show, it's these two, and I would never be happier than if it happened just like this.

Also, MYCROFT.

[alex_s9]

Just so you know, this was the best ff for Sherlock I've ever read, and I read hundreds over the last two years. I loved Molly fierce, and Anthea, and Mycroft, and even Sherlock, that bastard.

Greg, I just wanted to hug most of the time. Or fuck.

[denorios]

Oh my God. I did not know I shipped Greg/Molly until I read this. In fact, I didn't ship them at all until I read this and now...Jesus, now this is the canon in my head. I am now completely in love with Molly and Greg, and it's like, who's Sherlock? Who's John? How did you do that?