221B Recs

Title: What’s in a girl’s heart, also here at AO3
Artist: trishkafibble
Pairing: none
Rating:Gen
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC/Cabin Pressure crossover

Reccer's comments: This brilliant manip makes my day every time I look at it.

It’s part of a cooperation between me and this brilliant artist for the Sherlock Big Bang round in 2012 (I checked with the mods whether I was allowed to rec this. I was. Thank you, mods). I was completely chuffed when the artist first sent this to me and sat staring in silent admiration at the screen for about fifteen minutes straight.

What we see here is the moment when Sherlock finally discovers why Molly has been less than accommodating lately, with regard to supplying him with body parts. I think it’s very smart to show us his outraged features in the reflection of Molly’s laptop screen. And I greatly admire the reflection of the ceiling lights above his head. Molly’s desktop is an explosion of fun accessories, every bit as girly and fluffy as the design of her blog. The pictures of Toby have been replaced by pictures of a wholly different creature but traces of Toby remain, in the mouse pad and some silly, fluffy statues. I just love the mug with the picture that combines both Molly’s and Martin’s other big passions in the form of the cats in aeroplane seats.

Then there are all the pictures of Martin, and Molly and Martin, and even one of Toby and Martin, which must be my favourite. The photo frames make me LOL every time, they’re so much like Molly with all the hearts and flowers, except for that very special one Martin presented her with of course. And then there’s the Toblerone Martin got for her at Zurich Airport. Planes, and hearts and cats abound in a frilly abundance of special Molly/Martin love.

Yet you nowhere get the idea that this was photo shopped and not an actual scene being filmed. So the picture is not only fun but an extremely clever piece of photo manipping as well. In the post the artist has also included some of the pictures she used to create her work. They help you to even better appreciate the piece. When I think of the endless patience and love that must have gone in creating this wonderful picture, with all its pictures in the picture, my mind just boggles.