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Title: Illogical, even.
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Pairing: Sherlock/John (some unhealthy Sherlock/Victor)
Categories: Sherlock centric, growing up, character study, first time, romance, awkward sexual situations
Length: Medium (9,124 words)
Warnings: None

Author on LJ: magikspell
Author Websites: magikspell, 221bee tumblr

Author's Summary: Five reasons Sherlock never believed in love and one reason he does now.

Review:
Beginning in early childhood, Sherlock learns painful lessons about what it means to connect with others, and by the time he's 34, he's sure he understands the whole uncomfortable mess. Then he meets John.

The 'five+ things' trope lets us drop into Sherlock's life at ages 5, 10, 16, 20, 27 and 34 without a long epic. Sherlock learns in very different ways to be cynical and closed off, because he can't help deducing the problems between his parents and later between his schoolmates and between himself and Victor. The childhood years especially, before the cynicism sets in, make you want to console and reassure him. I love the repeated paragraph full of mark-throughs and revisions, like the chorus of a song, updating his conclusions. The awkward sex seems just right for someone who can't easily get lost in sensation and who mistrusts the motivations of others. And of course, I loved the revelation of John and the tectonic shift in Sherlock's understanding when he finds he belongs to an Us.

Illogical, even.

One last small fandom before I return you to your regularly scheduled... small fandoms. Oh well.

Title: Then Blink
Fandom: Veritas: The Quest
Categories: Gen, post-canon, angst
Length: Medium (4,600 words)
Warnings: Overwrought teenager accidentally gets into a near-suicidal situation, but that's the limit of it.

Author Website: LithiumDoll

Summary:
Nikko deals. Kind of. Ish?

Review:
Veritas: The Quest was a series cut down in its prime, like so many, despite a really rather excellent cast. It was a sort of "Team Tomb Raider", in which daring archaeologists got caught up in mystical weirdness and snatched artefacts from under the noses of dubious secret organisations. Our viewpoint character was Nikko Zond, teenaged son of the lead archaeologist, who was being home-schooled with the team because he kept getting thrown out of boarding schools. In the course of the half-season run of the show he got locked in a Chinese prison, chased through Russia by zealots, and came very close to death several times. Then, in the very last scene of the show, we saw him bending over an artefact the team had just recovered, reaching for his can of soda... which leapt several feet into his hand.

That's where Then Blink starts. LithiumDoll does a very nice job in a relatively few words of following the consequences of Nikko's discovery. Nikko doesn't really cope with suddenly becoming telekinetic, and his father Solomon only knows that his son has suddenly gone broody and unapproachable. Then Vincent, the combat specialist who knows far more about the mystical weirdness than he ever lets on, for once manages to get it spectacularly wrong, and there is some mayhem in consequence.

I can easily see this story being the heart of the unfilmed next episode of the show. It carefully doesn't resolve the situation or explain what is going on, while making it perfectly clear that some of the players know exactly what is going on. It does still move things forward, and allows the relevant characters room to grow without ever stepping outside the admittedly wide bounds of weirdness the show set for itself. In other words, it's a very good piece of writing in a sadly underappreciated fandom.

Then Blink