You're welcome! There weren't many recs to add. I think I have to fossick around in my recently read list and post some for you guys!

Thank you very much, Ten Days was very good if gory. The bad news is: 

I just tried to download it via Flagfic and learned that FFnet no longer works with the site. IMO this is ridiculous as they do not have their own download method, you cannot even open the entire work but have to copy it chapter by chapter. I do not think that they are doing themselves a favour with that. 

Thanks very much, I did not know it was on AO3 as well. 

Someone recently was saying they hadn't read a fic where John figures out Sherlock is alive. This fic isn't so much John figuring it out as Irene telling him, but it's still not a bad read.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/347201

Just found an adorable first time fic on LJ.
http://2ndstory.livejournal.com/11474.html
And sequel http://2ndstory.livejournal.com/11902.html

Marva wrote:

I am just reading 'The Road Less Travelled' (http://archiveofourown.org/works/331205/chapters/534451) which has been recommended somewhere in this thread, and OMG I just have to laugh so hard, it's hilarious!

EDIT: Honestly, this is probably the most funny fanfic I've ever read.

Need an example? Here is how Sherlock explains to John why he secretly sleeped in his bed:

"So I was going to wake you, but then you were asleep." Good grief, he called this an explanation?"So then I thought you must be tired, and I shouldn't wake you," he carried on. "But I didn't want to leave, in case you woke up, then I could..."

"...tell me about the tea," I finished for him, sighing in exasperation.

"Exactly." He smiled, obviously pleased that I had caught on at last. "But then I was a bit tired, so I thought I might as well lie down, as I was waiting here anyway and there was plenty of room on the bed, due to you being quite small."

EDIT 2: I finished now. It made me laugh tears, was sweet like chocolate cake, broke my heart and fixed it eventually. I can highly recommend this one.

You can recommend nearly all fics by verityburns. They are wonderful . If you haven't read "The heart in the whole" yet, do it!

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I am quite into first-person fics but there are so few out there :-(. Can anyone recommend me some? (I already know The Quiet Man and The Progress of Sherlock Holmes, both from the same author ivyblossom and both really great!)

Marva wrote:

I am quite into first-person fics but there are so few out there :-(. Can anyone recommend me some? (I already know The Quiet Man and The Progress of Sherlock Holmes, both from the same author ivyblossom and both really great!)

Oh I can't help you there. I dislike first person fics (I have read the ones you've mentioned though). I've tried several, but the first person POV often has me backing out of them again quite quickly.

Marva wrote:

Wholocked wrote:

I dislike first person fics

just out of curiosity: why is that? I read this quite often but I don't understand it really (as I am a sucker for them myself, obviously )

I'm not entirely sure. I think because when it's written in the first person, the reader (you) becomes that character, and I don't like that. I'm not John Watson; I'm me. I prefer to read stories in the second or third person as I find it easier to immerse myself in the story's universe that way. Maybe that sounds backwards but I find first person fics just breach that fourth wall in a way that doesn't work for me.

I probably didn't clear that up for you at all.

just found this utterly beautiful fic dealing with the question how John, though being thoroughly straight, could fall for Sherlock:
http://jupiter-ash.livejournal.com/2273.html