SusiGo wrote:

I agree, being a h/c fan as well. Just wanting to add that I have read fics in which a character has to be helped to the toilet but usually is left there alone. 
 

Yes, I know (and I've done that in Hazard Control too, after all). Don't want to see anyone's butt being wiped though.

TeeJay wrote:

Uh oh, now I feel very self-conscious about the Sherlock h/c stories I've written... I hope I didn't overdo it, but in my defense I always try to make them as canon-compliant and realistic as I can with the knowledge I have.

(There's this one story where Sherlock has food poisoning and John finds him spewing bile into the toilet. Does that count? Although Sherlock refused help, and John quielty slunk away as per Sherlock's request.)

That said, does anyone have any good h/c story recs other than "Triage"? Even though I'm not a Johnlocker, I don't mind a bit of mild slash if it's not explicit and not the predominant story focus.

Here you are:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7742535/1/I-m-Not-In-Shock

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8469317/1/A-Little-Leverage

If I may attempt some shameless self-advertisement, you could also have a look at these:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8672952/1/Not-an-Island-After-All

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8717927/1/Rising-to-the-Occasion

Kerkerian wrote:

Here you are

I have all of these bookmarked already! Rise to the Occasion has a quote that always makes me laugh, about Sherlock avoiding small talk with Sarah ("So been to the circus lately?").

There is another inadvertently funny moment in this fic, and I don't mean to insult you, but I'm pretty sure Sherlock meant to help John out of his trousers, not his pants...

Mary

maryagrawatson wrote:

Kerkerian wrote:

Here you are

I have all of these bookmarked already! Rise to the Occasion has a quote that always makes me laugh, about Sherlock avoiding small talk with Sarah ("So been to the circus lately?").

There is another inadvertently funny moment in this fic, and I don't mean to insult you, but I'm pretty sure Sherlock meant to help John out of his trousers, not his pants...

Mary

Hehe, I watched too many American sitcoms, apparently.

TeeJay: Are you going to be at Hay festival?
 

Kerkerian wrote:

Here you are:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8469317/1/A-Little-Leverage

Ouch, ouch!

This story is like the epitome of every cliche I hate in Sherlock hurt-comfort fanfiction. 

We are not a minute in the story and here it is: 

„I don´t want to go to bed,“ Sherlock whined, like a child. 

And just four sentences later: 

„You remember what happened the last time he was in Casualty?“„Oh, yeah. I had to give a formal apology to those nuns. Fair enough.“ 

Tradada! „Sherlock as a patient from hell“. Exactly what I was criticising before. 

It was quite unbelievable in the show itself that John and Lestrade didn´t take Sherlock into hospital after he was injected with an unknown substance after which he lost consciousness (he could have died!), but it´s even more absurd here. Yeah, like Sherlock is the first difficult patient they ever saw in the hospital. Of course, they never treated anyone drugged or out of it before (sarcasm). 

And it´s something absolutely proffesional not to help the injured person because he was snarky to you before – like the policemen in this story did. It´s perfectly OK to amuse yourself while your friend is loosing consciousness every minute because he was poisoned by a potential murderer. Lestrade and John were supposed to be like, „smart“, in this? They were positively imbecilic. 

I´m not even sure this was really a hurt-comfort story. It had no comfort side, no real care about Sherlock from the characters we were supposed to identify with. It was a classical „Sherlock as a stupid madman“ story with some „mediocre characters are having fun at Sherlock´s expence“ sprinkled in it. 

It fully OK to have vomiting, throwing up into a toilet or having a bowel problems in a hurt-comfort story, if the characters are treated with respect and if  the medical treatment is described with realism or at least poetically, so that „it provides a substitute for being close to the person one is putting into peril by projecting one's own emotions/desires/concerns etc. onto the caring person in the story (usually)“ and „it makes the "victim" more accessible because they are vulnerable and sometimes helpless to a certain degree whereas they usually show strength and independency“. 

But this was not it, I´m afraid. It was the very opposite. 

Last edited by nakahara (May 22, 2014 9:49 pm)

nakahara wrote:

Kerkerian wrote:

Here you are:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8469317/1/A-Little-Leverage

Ouch, ouch!

This story is like the epitome of every cliche I hate in Sherlock hurt-comfort fanfiction. 

We are not a minute in the story and here it is: 

„I don´t want to go to bed,“ Sherlock whined, like a child. 

And just four sentences later: 

„You remember what happened the last time he was in Casualty?“„Oh, yeah. I had to give a formal apology to those nuns. Fair enough.“ 

Tradada! „Sherlock as a patient from hell“. Exactly what I was criticising before. 

It was quite unbelievable in the show itself that John and Lestrade didn´t take Sherlock into hospital after he was injected with an unknown substance after which he lost consciousness (he could have died!), but it´s even more absurd here. Yeah, like Sherlock is the first difficult patient they ever saw in the hospital. Of course, they never treated anyone drugged or out of it before (sarcasm). 

And it´s something absolutely proffesional not to help the injured person because he was snarky to you before – like the policemen in this story did. It´s perfectly OK to amuse yourself while your friend is loosing consciousness every minute because he was poisoned by a potential murderer. Lestrade and John were supposed to be like, „smart“, in this? They were positively imbecilic. 

I´m not even sure this was really a hurt-comfort story. It had no comfort side, no real care about Sherlock from the characters we were supposed to identify with. It was a classical „Sherlock as a stupid madman“ story with some „mediocre characters are having fun at Sherlock´s expence“ sprinkled in it. 

It fully OK to have vomiting, throwing up into a toilet or having a bowel problems in a hurt-comfort story, if the characters are treated with respect and if  the medical treatment is described with realism or at least poetically, so that „it provides a substitute for being close to the person one is putting into peril by projecting one's own emotions/desires/concerns etc. onto the caring person in the story (usually)“ and „it makes the "victim" more accessible because they are vulnerable and sometimes helpless to a certain degree whereas they usually show strength and independency“. 

But this was not it, I´m afraid. It was the very opposite. 

Wow, this seems to rile you!
As I said, I'm not at all a fan of terms like "whined", but in this story, since Sherlock is drugged and not his usual self, it was fitting in my opinion, because the story is quite humourous. Also, I think we all know what sarcasm is, thank you; I understood the bit about apologizing to the people in A/E differently, namely that Sherlock was acerbic, probably deduced them in a rather unkind manner as one's wont of him. I don't think John actually apologized, he probably just said it to Lestrade to make his point (sarcasm).
I could go on, but I don't have the time now and frankly, I find it a little unnecessary to kick up so much ado about one single story. Let's just bear in mind that everyone reads things differently.

 

And I forgot to metion one of the best sick fics I read on Sherlock:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8249826/1/Electric-Pink-Hand-Grenade

It´s quite slashy and wordy, I´m afraid, but it´s worth your time. The author, "beautiful fiction", is very skilled in writing beautiful characterisations of her heroes and believable, touching situations. She is probably already known to you, but I must cite her as an example of the author whose fiction is precisely what I like to read in "hurt-comfort" stories. 

Yes, that is definitely one of the best fics I've ever read.

OMG h/c is one of my favourite tropes - although I share many of the views here about needing it to be in character. You've posted all these links and recs and now I need to go and read them!!! YAY

I loved the story as well. Fresh perspective, very well written. But you are right, nakahara, he should avoid the face. And I think in the series he has physically attacked Sherlock often enough.