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Title: History, Repeating Itself link to fic master post
Author: gyzym
Reader: speccygeekgrrl
Podfic: Podfic post on LJ
Pairing: Holmes/Watson
Length: 4:32:31
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: None that fit with this comm’s guidelines. (The author gives warnings with chapter 1.)
Verse: It's the author's own modern day AU verse based on the Ritchie verse.
Author's summary: This is a fill for an AWESOME prompt at shkinkmeme; both the prompt and the fill thread can be found here. Their are separate summaries for each chapter, but chapter 1 has the summary: John Watson is a med student, a war veteran, and, by and large, a fairly sensible person. He had every chance to run.

Reccer's comments: So far, this is my favourite podfic and it'll take a lot to displace it. This is not a fic I would have naturally decided to read, which only makes it all the more fantastic. The story is windy and wonderful and praise-worthy and funny and sexy all of its own, with it's wonderfully messed up Holmes and Watson in a modern-day guise, fully aware of how much they resemble their name-sakes, but speccygeekgrrl really brings it to life with so much expression. I couldn't stop listening. And there is over FOUR and a HALF HOURS of this fabulous podfic to listen to and it never at any point lost my interest and speccygeekgrrl never faltered in her marvellous reading. The first person pov lends itself so wonderfully to audio, drunk!Holmes actually made me spit my tea from laughing (around about 1:16:00 mark for those interested) for it's realism and PTSD!Watson made my heart tug from the emotion in her voice and just... *flail* I'm not good at expressing myself in rec posts, but I hope you all get the idea. This one is totally worth downloading and keeping forever!