Nomination Thread: AU: Alternate Narrative

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Please post your suggestions for alternate narrative or canon divergence stories here!

N.B. We have divided up the large umbrella category of AU into a couple of subcategories - we have separate streams for Alternate Narrative/Canon Divergence, Crossover/Fusion, and Omegaverse. So for Alternate Narrative, think of stories in which the world is the same as ours but the characters are slightly or greatly changed, e.g. Genderswap, Different Occupations (John is a photographer, Sherlock is a consulting architect), what-if-the-bomb-went-off-at-the-pool, or Mary-Morstan-was-never-here fics. For the time being, we are also including teen!lock, uni!lock, and other kinds of alternate-age fic unless it is written in an effort to conform to BBC canon (e.g. John's first meeting with Sholto in the army, several years before meeting Sherlock Holmes).

Current Nominations:

The Paradox Series by wordstrings
Five Years Prior by Feverishsea
Ava Watson 'Verse by Keeliethompson1
The Progress of Sherlock Holmes by ivyblossom
The Quiet Man by ivyblossom

Comments

Paradox Series by wordstrings

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I would like to nominate this series (http://archiveofourown.org/series/28906). Yes, the whole thing, because I'm ambitious like that :D

So far, there are 8 stories in this series, with a total of ~100k, and, to be fair, it's not really necessary to read all of them to understand the narrative. But... what can I say? It's totally worth of it.

And, as every story gets a month to be discussed, if this gets to be chosen, then we could take two stories a week? I'm sure we could see how to work it out.

Now, on the series...

The series deals mostly with Sherlock and John, in the BBC canonical Universe... except they both are a little madder and a little wilder here. Actually, even Mycroft is quite insane in this specific world.
But Sherlock, particularly... he is not sane, not exactly... not really. But he loves John, tremendously, and John loves him exactly the same, and they share their particular brand of happiness. I think this is what grabbed me so strongly: their connection is so powerful that, no matter how difficult things can be from time to time, how painful and awful it can become for a while, at the end, they are everything for each other.

The stories go from some month after SiP until the end of SiB, and if you are not comfortable with utterly possessive behaviour, or prefer a Sherlock who is clean of drugs, and a brilliant man, not a brilliant madman, maybe these stories are not for you. But if nothing of that scares you away, you certainly should give them a try. I bet you won't be disappointed.

PS; And yes, what you can read in my icon is an actual quote of one of the stories :D

Re: Paradox Series by wordstrings

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100% seconded, I'm halfway through reading all of it but I'm loving it so much. Such a great portrayal of codependency that is just all too familiar to me.

Re: Paradox Series by wordstrings

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Thirded