fic: the theory of narrative causality (epilogue)

[falling_voices]

cute enough to shoot you down (jumperfkr) wrote, @ 2011-10-16 20:07:00

big bang fic: masterpost
HELLO HELLO BIG BANG FIC.

So this was really enjoyable to write — I mean, I love this 'verse, it's great fun, and I'll probably write more in it if I don't get derailed (again) — and of course cons_detective's fantastic art makes it about twenty-five times better than I could have imagined. We've had five brilliant months of putting this up together and getting to know each other better (oh, shut up), so this was really a fantastic challenge. I think it's the beginning of a lasting partnership, us.

Without further ado, I give you:

Title: Backlight, Beyond Compare (the BBC 'verse)
Author/Artist:jumperfkr /cons_detective
Pairing: Holmes/Watson (ACD!AU)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Violence, gore, serial killings, very graphic sexual situations, mention of drug use. Potentially unhealthy and codependent relationship.
Word Count: 61,563. IKR.
Disclaimer: Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson were created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Beta thanks: to ssarah_s, for thwacking me over the head when I was being a Stupid White Male; storm_ford, for getting my wonky plot structure to hang together; cons_detective, for everything.
Summary: John Watson is an danger-junkie ex-army medic with a psychosomatic limp and a blog. Sherlock Holmes is his genius flatmate with an addiction to mobile phones, nicotine patches, and bloody crime scenes. Together, they fight crime. [modern!day AU]

Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Epilogue

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To: John Watson

Stop worrying.

SH

To: Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock, we're not even in the
same bloody room!

To: Sherlock Holmes

Why are you even texting me?
you're just downstairs.

To: John Watson

You've been restless since we
posted BBC early this afternoon.
You've snapped at me thrice in six
hours, forgot the milk at Tesco's,
tripped over your own feet on our
sixteenth step when you returned,
and flicked through the channels
all evening without even settling
down for that hospital show you
seem to like so well. You made
yourself tea three times and
dropped the sugar in the bin, and
forgot to ask me if I wanted some.
You went to bed one hour early,
paced around our bedroom for ten
minutes — the floorboards creak,
before you ask — and you have
been utterly unable to sleep
ever since.

Yes, you're worried.

SH

To: John Watson

My experiment is reaching its
completion stages. I can't
abandon it to come speak to
you directly; texting is better.

SH

To: Sherlock Holmes

Right, well. That's all true, actually.
You just can't stop, can you?

We've been working on this for
over five months, Sherlock. Of
course I'm bloody worried.

To: John Watson

I have no intention of turning
off my brain.

SH

To: John Watson,

Don't be worried.

SH

To: Sherlock Holmes

That'd be the day.

To: Sherlock Holmes

And that's easier said than
done.

To: John Watson

I shall just have to distract
you, then.

SH

To: Sherlock Holmes

Oooookay, right. Go on,
hit me.

To: John Watson

Fine. I should be done with this stage
of my experiment in ten minutes and
sixteen seconds. I will then go into
the bathroom, wash, brush my teeth
and change into my dressing-gown.
The blue one, silk. Nothing else.
You'll be in bed, waiting, listening,
and by the time I come in you'll be
quite aching to be kissed. I have a
mind to touch you everywhere tonight.
It'll be good for you, I'll make it good,
I promise. I'll slick up two fingers,
maybe three, and push them inside
you while I swallow your cock. You'll
come from that alone, my mouth and
my fingers, until you forget yourself
quite enough to grasp my hair and
start fucking my throat.

Distracted yet?

SH

To: Sherlock Holmes

I. Christ. Yes, I should say so.

Come to bed, love.

goodnight, mr sherlock holmes (lass_sirene) wrote, @ 2011-10-17 14:43:00

the BBC 'verse: a rec in progress
GUYS. GUYS. GUYS. If you haven't read jumperfkr's latest epic. What are you still doing here. This is one of the most amazing things to have happened to this fandom. It's going to make history.

So we've had many great modern updates over the years in this fandom — we've had our boys as graduates arguing over the remote, as a DI and a forensic medic, as kids in kindergarten, as counselors in summer camp, as a fashion designer and his model, as singers in a band, as workers in a MacDonald's, and even as LiveJournal users writing Supernatural fanfiction. (SO. MUCH. META.)

This, though, doesn't just takes the boys and places them in a modern setting, sometimes making them solve cases — it actually tells their story all over again, starting from STUD, and going forward through the cases, all in a modern update. It's brilliant. Also, if you don't want to be spoiled, I'd advise not reading what follows.

jumperfkr's Holmes is amazing — cool and aloof, but snarky in a deadpan, arrogant sort of way, and striking up a familiar and informal relationship with his Watson: by the end of the first part they're basically giggling like schoolboys on a prank project, LOLing at crime scenes.

Watson is interesting in this that he is deeply misleading; the way jumperfkr describes him at first sort of sets him down as someone whose life is the most boring thing ever after the thrill of war, and who becomes, by extension, a very boring person as well. But then he meets Holmes, and our entire perception of the character suddenly shifts. jumperfkr's clearly invested in the character interpretation in this, which gives us a very three-dimensional John Watson, a far cry from the Jam interpretation, a true BAMF. I won't tell more for now, as most of the storyline relies on his character and what his relationship with Holmes makes him do and think and feel, but I do think he's quite unlike any Watson we've seen before.

The most amazing thing about these characters, actually, might just be that they aren't Ritchie!Holmes&Watson, and they aren't Granada!Holmes&Watson, and they aren't Rathbone!Holmes&Watson, etc. They're entirely new, a separate interpretation of the Doyle characters, as though jumperfkr and cons_detective were constructing their own new movie or TV series adaptation. And that's fascinating.

jumperfkr spins STUD, DANC, and BRUC perfectly into this modern update, twisting some of the key points but still remaining true to the original canon. (Rache, anyone?) There are hints back at several elements of the canon, even little things that no one would pick up at a first reading — the way Holmes keeps his letters knifed to the chimney-piece, and the unframed portrait on the wall of their living-room, and the fingers in the butter plate. But there are also modern updating of Victorian stuff: Watson writes his stories in his blog instead of the Strand, and Holmes' original The Science Of Deduction newspaper article is turned into a website; they both use modern technology to solve the crimes. There're tons more, but I'd still be there tomorrow if I tried to list them all. It must have taken a thorough rereading of the stories to include so many little details. And Moriarty — oh well, I won't be spoiling you for this either.

cons_detective's brilliant art completes the story perfectly; he's drawn so many pieces for this that the entire project almost reads like a webcomic with long stretches of text. He imagines both Holmes and Watson rather differently than you might expect, and both of them definitely younger than the way they're usually represented, keeping close to their probable ages in STUD. And that's very lovely. Also, the sex is really hot. Imagine every piece of porn he's ever drawn and then amp that up to eleven. Well, that's nowhere even close. Man.

Both the writing and the art compliment each other perfectly, and the ending... well, the ending. That ending is going to leave people both deliriously happy and screaming to the heavens. It certainly did it to me.

I very much hope they're going to continue working on this 'verse. There's so much they can do to any of the other stories in a modern!day world — MILV and DYIN and HOUN and SCAN and SPEC and omg, FINA and EMPT — and the relationship they've created between Holmes and Watson is a dangerous, potentially unhealthy one that could possibly go through staggering, heartbreaking ups and downs. I really, really want more of this. SO MUCH.

Right. Now that I've gone through this rec in a responsible and adult manner, I'll just — yeah.

OMG SO MUCH AWESOME YOU GUYS OMG BEST THING EVER I CAN'T EVEN.

BEST.

AU.

EVER.

GO READ/WATCH THE BBC 'VERSE. PLEASE. Even if you don't like modern!AUs, even if you don't ship Holmes/Watson, evenifevenif — do yourself a favour and don't deprive yourselves of such a magnificent experience.

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cute enough to shoot you down (jumperfkr ) wrote, @ 2011-10-18 23:19:00

in conclusion.
Well, cons_detective's finally asleep next to me (good thing too; he's been wide awake for two days), so I guess I can tune in here and tell you everything that's happened recently. I'd like to thank everyone who's commented on the BBC 'verse for the last two days; we were rather anxious about the result, and the feedback has been amazing. I'm currently going through the comments and answering them, but we've been pretty busy IRL, so don't worry if we're late in answering! but you should know that we love you anyway. :D

We're all moved in, finally — I don't have much myself, but cons_detective is the most chaotic bloke ever. (Seriously, why am I even surprised?) We've barely been here a week and you can scarcely see the flat under the mass of books and papers and chemical equipment he's keeping here. Shame, because it's a charming place — a bit old-fashioned, we've got an actual fireplace and the Most Amazing Tinted Glass Door between the kitchen and the living-room. So many doors we've got. There're doors everywhere.

The general layout looks a bit like the 221B rooms in the Granada!series, funnily enough; 's pretty much the same outline. We're sleeping in the room upstairs, next to the bathroom, in what would be the equivalent to Watson's room, and what would be Holmes' room we've agreed to turn into a bureau for the evenings, so that 1. I can write and blog on a real desk, not the coffee table, and 2. he doesn't contaminate the kitchen with his ~experiments.

Seeing as we've just spent the last seven evenings snogging on the couch, though, the bureau might just become the storage room for all the weird stuff he brings home. He brings home a lot of weird stuff.

Our poor, doomed kitchen.

God, I make it sound horrible. It's not — it's really quite fantastic, I'm just not quite over the shock yet. Our housekeeper (sorry, landlady) is wonderful, the flat is great, and my boyfriend is an arrogant, amazing genius. We're rather stupidly in love, and he's probably going to get us both killed one of these days. What could possibly go wrong?

Also, I've just realized that he's taken advantage of my dozing off earlier to draw tentacle!porn on my good shoulder, so I guess it's time for me to close the laptop and go scribble some mawkish fluff drabble on his bum now.

(A lovely little bum he's got.)

ETA: John, if this is your idea of a punishment, it's really quite faulty. I can't even read what you've written, and I doubt you'd like anyone but yourself to be able to see my naked arse.

Also, I find your What could possibly go wrong little bout of sarcasm quite challenging, for the record.

ETA2: It wasn't sarcasm. I really do believe we're going to survive this quite magnificently. Possibly by blowing up London. Or the Internet. Or both.

ETA3: Also, stop hacking into my account.

ETA4: It's not hacking if I know your password. It was ridiculously easy to deduce.

ETA5: Shh. Come here.

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fin.

Comments

[ningen-demonai.livejournal.com]

ILU AND THIS FIC SO EFFING MUCH. ♥

Now to stick it all in one post so I can memory it... NEVER MIND, I can has master post. :>

Edit: I CAN HTML, I SWEAR.

That ending is going to leave people both deliriously happy and screaming to the heavens. It certainly did it to me.
WHICH ONLY REMINDS ME HOW EXCITED I AM FOR SECOND SEASON. Sara Sara, I think they've finished filming. Which means months of editing the shit outta it before we can see it, but ffffft, it's so close.

[randomisedhabit.livejournal.com]

Well, this got posted what now, two hours ago? At any rate I saw the link on my flist at 3am and ran to re-read this. Now it's gone 5am (I savoured the experience). This is how much I'd been waiting on this to get cleaned up and reposted so I can finally link the shit out of it and read it in all its shiny, shiny, OH MY GOD SO SHINY glory. Seriously, best thing ever. I want to draw charts about the way this layers fictional level upon fictional level to return to a different fictional level while also maintaining that other fictional level at the same time. It's quite amazing and seemingly impossible to wrap your head around. Gorgeous interactions, gorgeous plot, gorgeous coding, SO MUCH GORGEOUSNESS ALL AROUND. It's terrific. Maybe also a tad bit terrifying in its brilliance. I remain undetermined on this aspect :D

[call-me-ishmael.livejournal.com]

I likely said it on the meme, but it's worth saying again.

There are not words for how much I love this fucking AU. The coding, the fics-in-fics, the meta loop of it, the damned cleverness of it all.

KDFNGLKDFNGDSFLKLKDSNFS

This is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing it.

[tartancravat.livejournal.com]

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY. This fic makes my brain hurt it's so wonderful, clever and true to fandom and ALL THE META. The coding is fucking gorgeous. I feel really rather special to have been there when this was WIP on the meme, and I remember the day the last part was posted and I was at work but I read it anyway, even the porny bits. This fic drew me into fandom and made me feel a part of things in a way I haven't always managed by myself, so I think I'll always remember it not only as a fabulous fabulous story but as an experience. I'm super glad it's archived now all pretty like this so I can come back and ogle it and recc it everywhere. <3<3<3<3<3<3

[pinkcabbage.livejournal.com]

This is really fun and clever - and I love the fact that other people have pitched in to help with things like coding and art. :)

[sycophantastic.livejournal.com]

THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY. You've got perfect characterization, engaging plot in a brilliant format, & you've nailed LJ behavior. Plus "Jim", ARGH, I could just punch his skinny troll neck. And Mycroft, HEE! And Harry/Clara!

SO SO HAPPY. Just wanted you to know.

[alicambs.livejournal.com]

I don't know how many times I've read this. :-) It's just prefect and really clever. Love this new presentation with the icons and art.

it all ends

[mushroom18.livejournal.com]

I CAN READ THIS FOREVER AND EVER AMEN

I praised it already on the kink meme, but. But. This is like, the Sherlock fandom's greatest treasure ♥

[misha0529.livejournal.com]

And then, somehow, defying the very laws of nature, it gets EVEN MORE AWESOME. Were we inceptioned? Was the Moff? What the hell even just happened? You know what, WHO CARES. Cause this fic exists and the BBC Sherlock exists and everything is meta and nothing hurts.

I love Sherlock proving that yes, he does know how to sext. (Ho boy, does he)

AND THEN THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

You, my dear, are amazing and wonderful, and again and again thank you. For this fic, for letting me have my wicked way with it, and for flailing along with me on this wonderful ride. Now I've read it three dozen AND ONE times and it's still magical and, dare I say, the best thing to happen to this fandom yet.

And now I need Season Twooooooo.

♥

[macphista.livejournal.com]

YOU PERFECT HUMAN BEING. Thank you again for this. This fic is genius and a treasure and will always keep it store in the hard drive of my heart. ♥

[lmusic.livejournal.com]

Amazing.

[fireblazie.livejournal.com]

Ahhh okay, I'm so sorry about how long it took to actually sit down and read this. Jet lag sucks, basically. Thank you for de-anoning and putting this up on your LJ, because somehow I'd only managed to read half of it? I suppose I never found the continuation. I dunno, the Internet still confuses me :'D

Geez, what can I even say? I wish I could write a lovely, thoughtful, eloquent critique but I'm pretty much just speechless. Speechless. How do you do it? Everything you write - it's amazing. You make it look so easy!

Um. Um. Okay. What I'm trying to say is something along the lines of - you are a brilliant writer, this is a brilliant fic, I don't know why you even bother talking to a loser like me, and, just, I love you, man. ♥

[shi-koi.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD! You win the internet, here, have.

This whole fic is AMAZING! It's a work or art. Art I tell ya! --squee--

Oh god! I love it! I love the whole freaking lot of it! The scroll chats! The kink meme! The flirting! The meta! My god! I am in awe! Awe!

Here, come haz mai soul!

[suddenlyswept.livejournal.com]

Okay, so i had heard about this from a couple of different ppl, settled in to read, and totally fell in love.

While I started in AWE of the amount of work and detail that went into coding this, soon enough it just fell away and I was completely in love with the little meta-world you created.

Such a unique and amazing reading experience. The writing was undeniably awesome and everything else just sheer joy!

[slumber.livejournal.com]

this is like, my favorite fic ever. and i'm not even part of the SH fandom. TBH, I didn't even SEE the BBC verse until this fic, which is what MADE me seek out the BBC verse. That's how awesome this is. I am glad you deanoned, so I can tell you how much I loved this. ♥

[isweedan]

That was a WILD read. Super great. ♥

[linelenagain.livejournal.com]

This was a breathtaking work of staggering genius. And when I think back on it, as I expect I will, I believe I will forget that it was a story and recall it as a thing that happened. Because that's how good it was. You've nailed fandom. Astounding.

[agentlerain.livejournal.com]

OKAY WOW. SERIOUSLY. THIS PUNCHED ME IN THE GUT. This was superb and sdkfsdfljf, I'm going to rec this to my friend so badly because this. This. this is just amazing and oh my god, it was hilarious to see the melding of the canon fics with BBC verse and still have the boys trolling in real life and in fandon and - my brain it hurts but I'm so happy.

...I may fail my school grade because this is so awesome, when really I should have been writing about Monty Python. LOOK AT HOW YOU DISTRACT ME.

[vedma-natka.livejournal.com]

It was fantastic, thank you!

[aecamadi.livejournal.com]

I don't know how many times I've read this, I think five? Six? I love it. So so great. Thank you!

[impalalove]

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. <3333

[colourmeshocked.livejournal.com]

I have read this three times in the span of a day and just ♥♥♥
It's like you took what FANDOM meant and spinned it into the most brilliant fic ever.

*PERPETUAL HANDS OF FLAIL*

lakdjaksdjlaksdjalksdjalkdjalkjdalsd

[sly-fuck.livejournal.com]

This was the most brilliant thing I've read yet in this fandom. So perfect. It's amazing! ♥

[fangirlfantasy.livejournal.com]

have all my heart <33333333
this is so creative and sweet, I read it all in one go just now ^^

[renrenren3]

I DON'T

OH GOD

IT'S 3AM AND I REGRET NOTHING

[myneckissorefrm.livejournal.com]

hi, i just wanted you to know that you are the reason i joined livejournal. (literally, i am a totally new member.) I LOVE THIS FIC. LOVE IT TOTALLY. my friend introduced it to me like literally three hours ago and i spent these three hours reading your awesome fic and creating a new account. BECAUSE NOW I REALISED HOW AWESOME THIS PLACE IS. so thank you!! and once again, you are AWESOME.

[serina_ds]

That was....Wow. Amazing. I am totally and utterly speechless. I want to be a part of this world so, so badly now.

I.

How the hell did you manage this?????

You genius.

[stupidmuse-hate.livejournal.com]

....I think this is the best thing in the world of things I have evar read and I can't possibly imagine why I've never read this before.

No really.

WHY

It's almost one in the morning and I've got 150 pages of a Faulkner novel (cried) to read by eight a.m., as well as a paper on The Great Gatsby and don't even get me started on my ridiculous writing homework (as well as the fact that I'm not currently at home and I'll have to walk there soon--in the dark and alone).

I want to read this again. Screw homework, class, sleeping, etc.

:D

So yeah, this was amazing--thank you very very much for writing this!

And kudos on the awesome coding

p.s. it took me way longer than it should have to figure out that the scroll bar on the google chat worked.

p.p.s. The comments by the other lj users were awesome and amazing and pretty much my favorite parts.

[sfumatosoup.livejournal.com]

This is so epic. SO epic that you're going to come to be known as a BNF. Like I can't even rec this enough. you have no idea.
I haven't had this much surreal fun in yeeeeaaarrrs. This was so ultra ultra meta, you made john ultra meta aknowledging his own meta-ness, and by extension you've done so with yourself. And the inception joke earlier in the story. SO TRUE. I think my brain exploded a wee bit trying to grasp every new layer.

And somehow you balanced mystery/adventure/mind!FUCK/nnnft!Angst/parody/humour/drama/romance. Not sure how you've accomplished it so successfully, but I bow down to you. AND like above comments. Kudos on the stellar coding. phenom.

the whole thing.

THIS. sheer win.
seriously.

[falling-voices.livejournal.com]

I can't thank you enough for all the encouragement you've been pouring into my inbox recently. ♥ I just thought I should mention, though: all the brilliant coding in this deanon'd version is the work of the fantastic misha0529. I wouldn't want to take the credit for it. :D

Again, thank you so much.

[kat-lair.livejournal.com]

ughhhhhhh the meta, THE META, IT BURNSSSSSS. This was genius and layered and hilarious and hit so very close to home :D Wonderfully done and kudos on all the formatting as well.

[badwolf36.livejournal.com]

There aren't words for how amazing and meta this fic is! I adored all the little hints to all the Sherlock!verses. And the John and Sherlock relationship was so great. I loved their characterizations and their snark. Absolutely lovely. Thanks so much for sharing!

[signifiers.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I just found this at the end of a terrible week and I am quite sure that it has TURNED MY LIFE AROUND. (And left me longing for S2.) It's so brilliant! Normally metafic leaves me with kind of a headache, but this was fantastic. (And the fact that John's big bang ended up being BBC!verse? Aughhh.) You are genuinely incredible.

[nettledbird.livejournal.com]

That was brilliant. All the LJ posts and the characterization and, just, well, all off it. I'm grinning like mad because that was just so fun to read.

[random-nexus.livejournal.com]

There are no words good enough, loud enough, or sparkly/keysmashy/capslocky enough to do this justice. O.M.F.G. All the bloody work that went into this! I know just enough HTML to understand that this would have sent me insane before the second chapter/update.

Well, all the minions are applauding their little mitts off and so am I.
EXCELLENT!

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

omg, this is just spectacular. My brain! It is broken! but in the best way!

Seriously, I loved this. Brava.

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

Wow. I just....

will be rereading his at least once more todsy, I can tell. Stunning storytelling.

[cynseris.livejournal.com]

Right, so this entire thing was awesome and also the /formatting/. I cannot even fathom how this must have taken to put together, but it looks/is so totally amazing.

[doctor-denmark.livejournal.com]

i read this on the meme when it was first written but this is so much more amazing and glorious and i'm so glad it's now in one place to read and reread to my heart's content.

[owl-librarian.livejournal.com]

Okay... so.
I read this about a month ago. And I loved it. And I didn't comment. I froze. I couldn't work out how to express how much I love this fic. I just couldn't do it.
AND THEN I found the Meta!Post. I have read the original (and comments, in which fandom appears to have exploded with joy [for good readon].), I have read the fanfiction, I have poked around on the blogs, and then I came back and read this again.
And I am still frozen as to how comment. Forgive my incoherency.

AAAAAAHTHIS IS SO AMAZING. You have pulled me full on into fandom (I'm an edge-dancer by nature), and I love it!
I did MAJOR squee!fail through the WHOLE FIC. I may actually have broken a rib at the reference to Tall, Dark, and Suited at the con, because who else could it be?
I love the format, and I still try to click on all the dratted links. The gchat, when it showed up, was brilliant and perfect. (the british government signing on? Creepy and hilarious perfection.) And this end: it is so full of sweet and wonderful!
You have created new fandom, and on top of that, you have created a really freaking awesome fic! Thank you thank you thank you!

[eponymousanon.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS. THIS IS AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING AND I WANT TO READ ALL THE AUS YOU LISTED IN THE LAST REC POST AND I CAN'T STOP CAPSLOCKING BECAUSE THIS IS BRILLIANT.

[spockollama.livejournal.com]

This story is. I can't even. Too awesome, brain broken.

♥♥♥♥♥