Amal Nahurriyeh

Just a Kiss (19695 words) by emmagrant01
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Characters: Greg Lestrade, Mycroft Holmes
Additional Tags: Five Times, Case Fic
Summary:

Five times John and Sherlock kissed because of a case and one time they kissed for real.

Hey amyhit, this is the kissing for a case fic. Because I'm on my phone and lazy.

As you all know, I have a hell of a weakness for cheesy pop music. Like, I just spent a couple hours doing Serious Academic Writing to Rihanna. Anyway, this also manifests in a desire for vids that use these songs, preferably to highlight the ridiculousness of the superserious canons I love.

Anyway, this is a brief recs list for Sherlock vids that use contemporary pop music to either make a point or mock my beloved show. Notes on each. These are all from YouTube, and not found via any scientific searching method.

You can also take this as a place to tell me about vids you love for the show, or songs you really want to see vidded, or direct me to the Mulder/Scully vid set to Umbrella that I desperately want to exist.

( Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Glee Cast: I am not kidding about the cheesy-awesome music here )

Well, "major fandoms" for Yuletide, that is. Scandal and Revenge are two of my most-fun watching experiences on a weekly basis, so I was very happy to see an abundance of fic for them both on Yuletide. What the shows have in common is that they're soapy and women-centric. However, while Revenge is a lousy piece of television that is solid id-TV, Scandal is actually richly nuanced and complex, if melodramatic and unsubtle. Scandal is also nice for having a cast that's racially diverse, full of interesting female characters with both strengths and failings, as well as a really interesting and complex portrayal of a gay couple (I will save my Cyrus And James Feels monologue for later, but it will be glorious). I enjoy watching both of them, but Scandal is actually a good show.

(And I made an icon! See? Incidentally, this show has not enough bright scenes. Hmph.)

Anyway, here are the recs.

( Scandal: 4 fics, Olivia and Mellie centric... )

While I like all of these fics, I was a little...something about the fact that almost all the stories written for Revenge this year were about Nolan. Now, I like Nolan. I really like Nolan; he's probably my favorite character. But this is a show where the majority of the characters are women, and where the narrative centers around women's actions. (And some of those actions have to do with their relationships with men, but the women are actors, primarily.) And here all the fic focuses on the dude? I don't know. That said, I do adore Nolan, and I love these fics.

(Can I take this moment to point out that my gift was all about the female characters. And that you should totes read it, because it has been insufficiently kudoed/commented upon? Mmmm-hmm.)

( two Revenge fics )

I doubt I'll do another one of these, because I've gone through "my fandoms," though I haven't really dug all the way into Madness yet. But at least I got them up before reveal!

I haven't gotten a good night's sleep in a week, because I keep staying up too late like a dumbfuck, but I don't think that's why I burst into tears reading this story tonight. I did it because it's just that good. Seeds by thesardine is the story of Sherlock and a box of Triscuits and the nature of depression, and it makes me cry because it is beautiful and because life is worth living and because sometimes green things poke through the dirt and are alive.

If you haven't read it, go now. If you have read it, feel free to join me weeping in the comments.

ETA: Made the mistake of going back and reading it again. "It felt to him as though all the banks had been robbed in one day, with no witnesses." WEEPING AGAIN.

I volunteered again to be a judge for kinda_gay_award, the Jossverse femslash awards. The mods were very nice about how I was the absolute last judge to get results in, too, because I am a slacking slacker who slacks.

Anyway, I judged in two categories, "Best Canon" and "Best Dollhouse fic," and can whole-heartedly recommend the winners and runners up in those categories. In fact, I can recommend all the stories I judged--there wasn't a bad one in the bunch.

You can read the winners here and all the nominees, in all the categories, are here.

And look! I got a pretty picture for my troubles!

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Um, OK, so I have read this fic twice today already?  And it's 55K words, so that's saying something.  It's called <a href=http://archiveofourown.org/works/204010>Indecorous</a>, and it's the brilliant story of Sherlock, John, and Tai (whose name happens to be Mary Morstan) forming a most odd polyamorous triad.  It has many things I like, such as complicated people who love each other figuring out how to do so, sex as a means of revealing character and furthering plot, a lot of cuddling, friendship as a component of a romantic relationship, Sherlock working through his issues in a totally batshit way.  Oh, and blistering-hot kinky sex.  It's just a charming story, and romantic in a terribly unconventional way, and I adore it.  

Third part of my purimgifts story! Gail's bowl now has a TARDIS in it. If you don't know what any of those nouns mean, probably you will not like the story.

queer_fest is the inheritor to lgbtfest. Prompts are open through March 30. NOBODY TAKE MY PROMPT ABOUT MULDER'S OXFORD BOYFRIEND, OKAY, THAT ONE'S MINE. (And if nobody takes my Samantha prompt, I might just take that as well.)

I'm sure there are other things, I just don't remember them.

My second rec for crack_van is up: And I Make My Bed In Sheol, by threeguesses. Go and read it if you haven't (but maybe have some tissues handy; high angst level, and it delivers).

And it is with no little fanfare that I identify myself as the author of Many Forms of Resistance, in what was termed the "Sociology RPF" fandom. It is a story about C. Wright Mills and Michel Foucault taking a cross-country motorcycle trip, while fighting zombies. There is some philosophy, and there is some shooting zombies with guns that, one of my commenters assures me, are totally inappropriate for the purpose.

So, basically a standard fic for me, y/n?

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I have barely touched the fic written for Yuletide. I've read maybe two of the Fringe fics, only a handful of the Janelle Monae ones, nothing in Dollhouse that wasn't my gift. I'm hoping to work through them slowly. However, given that it's proper to rec, below are my rec lists so far. Rather than organizing them by fandom, I'm organizing them into two categories: serious fic, and crack!fic.

Amazingly enough, all of the Lady Gaga video fic I'm reccing is on the serious fic list.




( SRS BSNS YULETIDE: Dar Williams, Lady Gaga, Janelle Monae's Metropolis, Fringe, Warehouse 13, Hip-Hop RPF, Nikita )

( CRACKITY CRACK CRACK: Cooks Illustrated, Panda Cheese Commercial, John Hodgman, Sharktopus, Anthony Bourdain, Old Spice Guy, Hark! A Vagrant, Hawaii 5-O )

And, now, back to my damn writing. If you're one of my X-Files fannish friends, head on over to xf_santa and check out all the great fic and vids being posted. They definitely have not been getting the love they deserve, and some of them are really super.