221b_recs | Entries tagged with content: time travel

Title: The Five Doctors
Author:

gardnerhill
Pairing: None
Length: 10,006 words
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Author did not give warnings (see reccer's comments)
Verse: Elementary, ACD Canon, BBC Sherlock, My Dearly Beloved Detective, Ritchieverse, Granada Holmes, Rathbone Holmes (films)
Author's summary: Great minds think alike.

Reccer's comments: So many Watsons and so many Holmeses! Joan being a BAMF and being the Default Watson! Crack treated seriously! Such a good read.

There is some brief Victorian Era-typical racism (specifically orientalism) and misogyny

vulgarweed

Title: Piecroft Chronicles (Locked to AO3 users)
Author: iwantthatcoat
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Sherlock Holmes
Length: A Practical Affair, 19,114 words; Flowers and a Fruitbasket, 5,339 words.
Rating: Explicit
Verse: Sherlock BBC

A Practical Affair (aka Piecroft Won’t Let Me Bring the Lottery Tickets: A Tale of Self-Love)
Author's summary: Sherlock has the same ridiculously high standards for himself in his new sex life with John as he does elsewhere in his personal and professional life. He lacks experience, and though he knows John won't care one bit, Sherlock still does. Fortunately, there is someone who understands exactly what he needs to do and why...and he won't even have to explain himself. Which is a good thing, because Mycroft won't let him. It would break timetravel regulations, after all. A Timetravel Selfcest Fic.

Reccer's comments: This story’s premise could have been just a simple ground for hot PWP (Sherlock is insecure about his lack of sexual experience now that he’s got together with John, so he goes back in time to meet his younger self and get sexual experience with his preself) and that would have been more than fine. But the author digs in to really explore the feelings and ethical challenges, and it turns into a deeply emotional story about memory, lack of memory, self-love, self-knowledge, and hard choices.

Bratty, desperate, lonely, honest university-age preself!Sherlock is so compelling here, as an amoral moral center. The interrogation he does of the older Sherlock is absolutely gripping. The prolonged sexual explorations between older Sherlock and his younger self are intensely erotic, made all the more so by their sharp, clear-eyed analytical edge - and by the unexpected emotional vulnerability both versions find themselves feeling. The relationship between the Sherlocks takes full control of the story, and it’s an amazingly skillful dance of arousal and gut-punch.

Flowers and a Fruitbasket

Author's Summary: From A Practical Affair: "If it were the following year, I just might have deleted this information, but for now, you can thank the good folk at the College of Medicine for not noticing the non-medical student sitting in on their Thursday morning lectures on body systems."

"God yes, thank you," he stammered. "I'll send them flowers."

Sherlock, true to his word, has sent the Department Chair some flowers upon his return to the present-- a reward for allowing his past self to have audited some very helpful anatomy lessons. Imagine his surprise to see an email from his preself requesting he head back in time yet again, and to bring that doctor he wasn't allowed to so much as hint at the existance of with him. (What beats timetravel selfcest? A timetravel selfcest threesome! Coming soon in the third instalment of the Piecroft Chronicles ) But first things first... what does he tell John? Part Two of the trilogy.

Reccer's comments: The extremely hot and satisfying second tale brings John and Sherlock together at last. Bit-not-good Sherlock hadn’t been planning to tell John what he’s done - but telling a selectively edited and artfully embellished version of the truth turns out to be better than letting John think Sherlock had practiced on someone else. It’s hot, it’s complex, and it’s a little bit bittersweet as these two awkward, damaged men still fall short of perfect bliss - it’s good to see John being able to see through Sherlock’s deflections, in a loving way. Did I mention it’s hot?

***

MODS may I have a tag for pairing: sherlock holmes/sherlock holmes?

amindamazed

Title: A Handsome and Generous People
Author: sanguinity
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes & Doctor Wt'sn; background Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Length: 7519
Rating: Teen
Warnings: N/A
Verse: Sherlock Holmes in the 23rd Century
Author's summary:
“Watson,” Holmes said, reaching up to clasp my wrist.

“I’m sorry, old chap,” I said, giving him my hand. “It’s only Wt’sn.”

Reccer's comments: All the details you need to know about this adaptation (which is distinct from the 22nd Century one) are provided in the notes; don't let lack of familiarity stop you from reading this story. It's a particular kind of hiatus tale in which Holmes really had no control over his separation from Watson (pesky timewarp). Here he has an able and admirable new companion, Doctor Wt'sn from the Rigel system, who both helps him come to terms with that loss and encourages him not to give up on finding a solution. Not without some mixed feelings, as Wt'sn observes Holmes' grieving process and the ways he is and isn't a substitute partner. As sanguinity also notes, "this is simply a story about being the wrong Watson." The result is bittersweet, somewhat more for Holmes' sake than for Wt'sn whose own agency is fully intact.

As a bonus, this fic offers yet another explanation for the chronological inconsistencies and absurd plots that pop-up in the canon stories.

( excerpt )

ps: if you're interested in the smaller corners of Holmes fandom, do visit the More Holmes collection on AO3, created to make it easier to find fanworks outside ACD, BBC, Elementary, House, and the Ritchie films.

pipmer1.livejournal.com

Title: A River Without Banks
Author: Chryse
Pairing: Sherlock/John, John/Mary
Length: 203,286 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Violence, rape/non-con, character death (Please keep in mind that this is a time travel story, and unfortunate occurrences are not necessarily permanent)

Verse: Sherlock BBC

Author's summary: "You love this, being Sherlock Holmes." He had once. When had it all gone so wrong?

Reccer's comments: First of all, I will directly quote the author from their beginning notes: "I assure you that there WILL be a happy ending, by which I mean John and Sherlock, together exclusively and forever, world without end, amen. (Just so we’re clear.)" So if the warnings scare you, know that EVERYTHING IS TEMPORARY AND IT WILL BE FINE. But the bad stuff still happens, so if it's triggery be aware that parts of this fic get very intense. The first half has a lot of angst, but never fear; there are also happy, romantic times as well.

This story is by the same writer who gave us "The Frost is All Over". The fic begins right where HLV left off, with Moriarty supposedly returning from the dead. In essence, it is a time-travel fic, with Sherlock going back in time in an attempt to put the universe back on its correct course after being shifted out of alignment by Moriarty's actions on the rooftop of Bart's. I am a *sucker* for time travel stories, with all of the paradoxes and twists and turns that that genre entails. And boy, does Chryse deliver in spades. Because not just one journey back in time is required; each failed attempt ends with Sherlock's death in that timeline kicking him back into his own (hence the character death warning). And every time Sherlock makes another attempt, his memory of all the previous timelines is erased, making each journey back its own self-contained story with its own adventure and ending, some happier than others. There's also a case that keeps showing up in subsequent timelines, just biding its time until the 'correct' version of Sherlock Holmes shows up to solve it.

My heart ached for Sherlock during a large portion of this fic, as I watched him struggle, literally time and time again, with the emotional fallout of each and every timeline. The storytelling is vivid and layered, with each timeline building on the previous ones and moving the story forward in Sherlock's search for the 'true' timeline that will set everything to rights. The perfect 'fix-it' fic for Series 3, in my opinion.

( Read Excerpt )

lijahlover.livejournal.com

Title:A Second Chance
Author: kipli
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length:13160
Rating:Explicit
Warnings: None
Verse: [e.g. Sherlock BBC
Author's summary:Sherlock Holmes opens the matchbox from The Sign of Three and finds himself years in the past, back to that first dinner at Angelo's with a much younger John Watson. Is he dreaming?

Reccer's comments:I adored this lovely story it made me teary at times. The idea that Sherlock could go back 5 years and decide to make things go better between them. It was brilliant the way the story unfolded around them. Sherlock seeing how much the younger John was interested in him before things Sherlock did destroyed his fascination with him.

This story was romantic and sexy just everything the pilot should be and what the un aired pilot was. :)))))))

This was emotionally draining but in a good way kind of an edge of your seat story. Sherlock and John are both very much in character. The sex was loving and sweet just wonderful. You have lines like these...."He leveled Sherlock with a steadier look and admitted quietly, echoing Sherlock's own words, “It takes a very particular sort of bloke to gain my attention too. Just so you know.”
Sherlock smiled, truly smiled, at the thought that he could be the sort that John would notice. If only... If only he'd nurtured that idea... His own eyes flashed with adoration at John."

This just makes me all warm and fuzzy inside it sets my heart all aflutter.

cherrytide.livejournal.com

Title: Waiting To Be Known
Author:

soera
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: About 7500 words
Rating: R
Warnings: Rape/Non-con, sexual violence inflicted on a child, violence, suicide
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary:John Watson has been saving Sherlock's life for a very long time, even if he doesn't know it.

Reccer's comments: This is one of the earliest fics I read in fandom, and it's one I come back to - its a elegantly structured love story, using a similar conceit to the Time Traveller's Wife: John appears at Sherlock's side throughout his life whenever Sherlock is in severe distress but neither of them know why. The writer beautifully evokes the strength of feeling between John and Sherlock, John's distress at being unable to help young!Sherlock tackle bullies and family tragedy and Sherlock's frustration at never being able to hold on to John. The conclusion and resulting explanation for John's time travel is very neatly done in my opinion.

There are some dark themes touched on in this fic, so please read the warnings but it's overall a heartwarming and very touching read.

swissmarg

Title: Perdition's Flames
Author:

i_ship_an_armada
Pairing: John/Sherlock
Length: 63,435 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Sherlock would do anything to save him. Risk anything. Give anything. His money, his life. His soul. What he does, though, is change both of their destinies forever. Genetic re-engineering is the only option left. It turns out researchers underestimated the life expectancy and potential abilities of genetically re-engineered subjects. The British government and what would eventually become the United Federation of Planets, however, had not.

Reccer's comments: The ultimate STID (Star Trek: Into Darkness) Treklock fusion. Sherlock Holmes *is* Khan, and he owns it hard. Action, mystery, science, badassery, and the power of love combine to reunite Sherlock and John after two centuries of each thinking the other dead. Knowledge of the movie is not necessary, nor will you be spoiled if you've seen the movie.

( Excerpt... )

It's a blast seeing Sherlock outmaneuver the Klingons, Starfleet, and the entire Federation, only to be thrown completely off by a single look from John. The rest of the characters are given excellent development as well, with great banter from Bones, Scotty, and the rest of the Enterprise's crew. Rounded out by a superb performance from Lt. Moira Hargreaves, who just may be channeling one of our favourite pathologists.

seren-ccd.livejournal.com

Title: The Expanding Universe
Author: miabicicletta
Pairing: Mostly Gen with minor Molly Hooper/Sherlock Holmes
Length: 3985
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC crossover with Doctor Who
Author's summary: The AU where instead of getting engaged to a consulting detective lookalike, Molly went off and found herself a Time Lord.

Reccer's comments: This fic is a little slice of pure fun. Molly meets the Doctor (11) and she flies off into time and space. She meets amazing people (including a certain captain and that section just made me giggle) and she just lives her life. It’s a simply lovely story.

keerawa.livejournal.com

Title: A Winter Walk
Author: currently anonymous
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 4,000 words
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Time is the longest distance between two places.

Reccer's comments: This truly exquisite piece of writing was just posted today on the holmestice community. In one sense it's a RF return fic; in another it's not. The story incorporates aspects of magical realism, and yet this story is entirely about John and Sherlock, who they are together, and who they are apart. There is beauty to it, and grace, and love. 'A Winter Walk' left me aching, in the best possible way.

( A Winter Walk )

radialarch.livejournal.com

Title: Narrative Multiplicity
Author: lyricalprose
Pairing: background Harry/Clara
Length: 5325
Rating: General
Warnings: None
Verse: Sherlock BBC/Doctor Who
Author summary: John opens the door of his sister's flat to a man in a bow tie who's looking for Harry's ex-wife.

The day just keeps getting stranger after that.

Reccer's comments: Yes, that Clara. The Doctor here is really delightfully whimsical, and John as always long-suffering. Post-Reichenbach, the fic deals with very nicely with the pain of loss that they both know, and the ending is truly wonderful. Lovely and satisfying.

pipmer1.livejournal.com

Series Title: Meetings
Author: prettybirdy979
Pairing: Gen for the first,second and fourth; Sherlock/John for the third
Length: 3063 words
Rating: General/Teen
Warnings: None
Verse: Crossover BBC Sherlock/Doctor Who

Author's series summary: Because life is just a series of meetings. Sometimes they're even in the right order.

Part 1: (Of Second Meetings) With the Doctor around, sometimes second meetings aren't always second meetings.
Part 2: (Of First Meetings) Timelines are wibbly wobbly things.
Part 3: (Of Final Meetings) Three old men, sharing tales over tea.
Part 4: (Foreboding Meetings) There's only enough room for one murderer on the TARDIS

Reccer's comments: Full disclosure, I looked over some of these delightful stories before they were posted and helped brainstorm a bit over titles. Some are kinda fluffy, some are kinda angsty, and one is creepy because, well - Moriarty. They are quite short, and the author plans on adding more to the series in future.

Part 1: John and Sherlock's second meeting, at 221B? Well, that wasn't their ACTUAL second meeting. The Doctor's interference creates a fixed point.

Part 2: Sherlock meets the Doctor for the first time right after he returns from the dead.

Part 3: The first time the Doctor meets Sherlock and John is also the final time they meet him. Retirement, old age and bees.

Part 4: The Doctor and Moriarty meet up twice. Once when Jim is twelve years old, and once on the eve of his death.

keerawa.livejournal.com

Title: Redivivus
Author:

cathedralcarver
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 5,000 words
Rating: PG
Warnings: Character Death
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: There are so very many different ways to die.
Reccer's comments: This story is a particularly brutal take on the Groundhog Day trope. In it, John dies. Sherlock's grief is palpable, believable, and absolutely wrenching. Then after the funeral, Sherlock wakes up on the day that John died. He tries to save him, but John dies again, in a different way. And again. And again.

Mycroft is a menacing presence in this story, and Sherlock's slow disintegration is unforgettable.

Read ( Redivivus )

swissmarg

Title: The Eye of God
Author:

qlstrange
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 66,306 words
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Major character death
Verse: ACD Books/Dr Who crossover ("Wholock")
Author's summary: Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty take their fateful plunge off Reichenbach Falls and land in the TARDIS as it's sideways and on fire. Things go downhill from there.

Reccer's comments: I don't have more than a passing familiarity with the basic premise of Dr Who, and in fact this is the first Dr Who fan fiction I have ever read. Still, it absolutely enthralled me, and I had no problem with potentially not understanding any of the back story.( Rec got away from me a bit, click to read in its entirety... )

This is a seriously underappreciated fic, with only 6 comments (one of which is mine) and 33 kudos on AO3 (as of the posting of this rec), despite having been posted in completion for over three months. This may be in part due to the fact that ACD verse seems to garner fewer hits than BBC verse, but this isn't one of those fics written in a style meant to emulate the original Victorian writing (although I love those as well, I undertand they aren't everyone's cup of tea). This is just such an engaging, enthusiastic, fun and touching story that I'd encourage anyone to give it a go, regardless of their primary fandom.

sussexdowns.livejournal.com

Title: Thy Mother's Glass (Part 1)
Author:

flecalicious
Pairing: mainly gen for now with Amy/Rory (Doctor Who), and alleged John/Sherlock in later parts
Length: approx. 8,000 words (this part)
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Drug use, WIP. The author also warns for Sherlock s1 and DW s5 spoilers.
Verse: Sherlock BBC crossover with Doctor Who
Author's summary: Mycroft, they decide, and then seven years later Sherlock; alien names for not-quite-alien children. In which Sherlock's parents are called Amy and Rory and he's born outside of time.

Reccer's comments: Alright, I have been sitting on this one for freaking months. I kind of jumped on the November rec spot because that is exactly when the statute of limitations for WIPs would be up on this fic. So. Okay. Basically, if

flecalicious writes it, I will read it, enjoy it, and probably rec it forward because odds are it will be magnificent. This particular story, however, has lots more to recommend it, for instance: even though it's a WIP, it reads as fairly complete. There have been hints of more to the story, but what is there is already satisfying on its own. So you won't be going crazy with the need to know what happens next. You'll want more, but that's not really the same thing. Additionally, it's a crossover, and it's a Doctor Who crossover which is fairly common. Those are two things I love, but I know as well as anyone how terribly wrong that sort of thing can go. Here, it's absolutely, perfectly done right. Flec draws out all the best bits of both canons and weaves them together in a way that has you wondering if this is, in fact, an AU after all. Not only does it make sense that these two fandoms should go together in this particular way, it's written with that delicate touch that makes it not a Sherlock story with cameos by DW characters, nor a DW story with bonus Sherlock Holmes, but a whole new animal that is legitimately about both of them. And it is completely heartbreaking for the most part, but my god. The last four lines. They will make everything alright again in the universe.

I fear this is getting long and rambling and off-putting, so I'll leave you with this snippet: ( warning: drug use, and prose so lovely you may never want to write again. )

(Happy Bonfire Night, for those of you where it is still the fifth!)

oxfordtweed

Title: Two Doctors, A Nurse, A Detective, and a Scot
Author: TheShoelessOne
Pairing: Sherlock/John pre-slash
Length: 5,600
Rating: K+
Warnings: Nothing worse than your average episode of Doctor Who
Verse: BBC/Nu-Who
Author's summary: Stop me if you've heard this one...

Reccer's comments: I have to be honest, the title alone was what compelled me to read this, and while it doesn't follow the standard joke narrative, it's very enjoyable. It starts off with your typical, 'the TARDIS shows up at Baker Street' premise, and turns into something equal parts hilarious and heart-warming; much like an episode of Doctor Who. Yeah, it's a crossover for my first rec, but you'll enjoy it. Trust me.

Two Doctors, A Nurse, A Detective, and a Scot

jordan-frog.livejournal.com

Title: The World On His Wrist
Author:

bendingsignpost
Pairing: pre-slash Sherlock/John
Length: 31.1 k
Rating: Pg-13
Warnings: implied character death
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: First, he is shot in Afghanistan. Second, he wakes to a phone call in Chelmsford, Essex. Third is pain, fourth is normalcy, fifth is agony and sixth is confusion. By the eighth, he's lost track. (John-centric AU)
Reccer's comments: This is an *amazing* parallel universe story, that's just the perfect amount of timey-whiney. Some alternative universe version of you will weep if you don't read this fic, believe me!

ginbitch.livejournal.com

Title: Anderson's Dinosaur Adventure
Author:

sherlockiangirl
Pairing: Gen
Length: 1072
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Verse: Sherlock BBC
Author's summary: Anderson builds a time machine and accidentally kidnaps Sherlock, John, and Lestrade on the way, stranding all four in the Age of the Dinosaurs.

Reccer's comments:
Anderson is the dinosaur-whisperer... what more can I possibly say, other than that this fic has the immortal line, "It's an Allosaurus, bitches!" Surely that's a rec in itself? Sometimes in life you need crackfic, and this is crackfic of the crackiest kind. It is truly awesome.

http://sherlockiangirl.livejournal.com/53042.html

tanpopo03.livejournal.com

Title: The Choice
Author:

ingridmatthews [The entry is anonymous, but on her delicious account it's tagged as her own fic]
Pairing: Gen
Length: ~1,200
Rating: no rating, but maybe PG
Warnings: -
Verse: Ritchie films (I think)
Excerpt: Watson is irrational. Watson is emotional. Watson, damn him to hell, is going to do the only thing that will tear Holmes in half, never to be whole again. Watson's going to break the heart that he himself built, the beating, tender bit of soul that Holmes never wanted to own and now that it's there, Watson's simply going to rip it out and throw it away.

For the first time, Holmes wishes he'd never met John Hamish Watson.

Reccer's comments: A poignant "What if..." scenario fic. Holmes travels back in time to convince himself not to get involved with Watson... Unsurprisingly it doesn't turn out well.
This fic breaks my heart, it really does, but that's part of why I love it.

unovis.livejournal.com

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Entries tagged with content: time travel

Fic Rec: The Five Doctors

Fic Series Rec: Piecroft Chronicles, by iwantthatcoat

fic rec: A Handsome and Generous People

Fic Rec: A River Without Banks

Fic rec-A Second Chance

Fic Rec: Waiting To Be Known

Fic Rec: Perdition's Flames

Fic Rec: The Expanding Universe

Fic Rec: A Winter Walk

Fic Rec: Narrative Multiplicity

Series Rec: Meetings

Fic Rec: Redivivus

Fic Rec: The Eye of God

FIC: Thy Mother's Glass (Part I)

Fic Rec: Two Doctors, A Nurse, A Detective, and a Scot

Fic Rec: "The World On His Wrist" by bendingsignpost

Fic Rec: Anderson's Dinosaur Adventure (PG, Gen, BBC)

Fic Rec: The Choice

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