I started over at the beginning too.  It just keeps stabbing me in the heart!  Up to Chapter 27 now.  Don't want it to end but eager to see where it goes.

It's amazing! Although Paradox is still my all-time favorite, this one is also brilliant. There is something about the way she writes that just makes me curl my toes in enjoyment for every sentence.

Can anyone tell me the titles of some good, canon-compliant fics set in Sherlock's school days (backstory) that don't have John in them? So no AU's where John and Sherlock meet when they're kids, etc. No mention of John at all, if anything like this exists. I'm just wondering how well a story like this would work, as John's POV is such an integral part of understanding Sherlock.

Fan fics after TFP

While doing some plotting for a new fan fic, I realized the difference to plotting after TRF and HLV.

With a series ending with a cliffhanger, there have always been story elements you just needed to write about. After TRF you had to write a reunion scene if you wanted to stay with in the given reality. After HLV, at least as a Johnlocker, you had to find a way to get rid of Mary.

Now, there does not seem to be such an imperative. At least not to me. But then, I think we were shown that the boys will be living in 221b together with Rosie.

My question is, what do you expect from post-S4 fan fics? Do you think there are open ends that need a fix-it?

I feel like I have a lot more freedom of writing this time. Do fellow writers feel the same?

I am grateful for the way Moftiss got Mary out of the picture, for her "then get the hell on with it", for Rosie being so uncomplicated and just there to complete a two-daddies family, for Sherlock's reuniting his brain and his emotions...

It looks like all obstacles are out of the way now.

I believe John and Rosie would move rather sooner than later into 221b, but I also want to give John a proper mourning time, I don't think he'd jump into Sherlock's waiting arms right away.

So I'd love to see a long-ish fic that shows how the boys can do cases and care for Rosie at the same time. I'd like to see Sherlock helping John mourn and vice versa - Sherlock has lost a friend too, after all. I'd like to see John seeing Sherlock's newly-found confidence in his emotions (case-related at first).

In short, the obstacles are out of the way, the stars are aligned, but they still have miles and miles to go.

I don't think anything really happened after the hug, btw. Even Sherlock has been blinking away his tears... A hug for comfort is imho the truest and the most poignant thing they could have done at that point.
 

Me too! :-)

So Vhanja, what you are saying is that there are fics that fill the gaps?

Parentlock
All the parentlock.
Give it to me.

I would love to see a story in which Eurus manipulates Sherlock (again).

She managed once - as the lady in red - and quite splendidly, too. Now she is said to be catatonic but maybe something triggers her interest/jealousy, like John visiting along with Sherlock. She can make Sherlock believe that he managed to save her from her mania and then put him before an impossible choice - leave her behind the glass or rescue her as his damsel in distress.

Since John is Sherlock's weakness (being the key to his humanity), I'd like to see John grounding Sherlock and helping him make the right decision in the end, too. Especially if it's already mid-rescue mission ;)

I'd also love to see a story that shows an internal conflict in Eurus (hard to say whether that would be OOC for her, given the inconsistencies the writers showed us...), but I have a feeling she actually liked Sherlock in TLD so it's not just bloody murder in her head when she tries to manipulate him into choosing her (by freeing her).

Yes, I have noticed that too. The older fanfics show a very different Sherlock and John from the ones we saw in the show in the later seasons. 

However, I have to admit, I am quite fond of those early "versions" of the charcters. I like the dynamic they create. That could also be because things were simpler back then, so to speak. No Mary, no grudge, no anger, no grief... (well, unless we are talking post-TRF fics). 

I do prefer the period in time that only involved the two of them both living in 221B. And so I still prefer fics that show that. I am actually not ready to read fics that occur in - or post - S4.

Last edited by Vhanja (March 5, 2017 3:35 pm)

I agree, that's my perfect Sherlock universe too.