Multiple Fic Recs, Multiple Fandoms

If I didn't clear the backlog, I was going to end up with an encyclopedia's worth of links. So:

DISCWORLD FANDOM
This will only make sense to Discworld fans, but it really must be checked out (says the person who just discovered it via a rec at another LJ). Gender identity has been one of the threads discussed in Discworld. Pratchett did it as the case of dwarvish women discovering that they could admit that they weren't just the same as men. Then a fan asked - what if all the female dwarves aren't biologically female? What if gender privacy in dwarfdom has been masking homosexual marriages for centuries? And thus: Modern Love.


DOCTOR WHO
wendymr recced this first: a beautiful tribute to the Brigadier told from the "those were the days, my friends" perspective of Liz, Jo, and Sarah Jane. A Final Toast Includes the absolutely perfect bit when Jo pulls out mini bottles of booze and announces "Five rounds rapid!"


SHERLOCK
Before I get into the fanfic, podcasts of old Sherlock Holmes radio stories are available for free download

The Angsty Stuff:
Sink Like a Stone A post-Great Game story that's hard to describe without spoilers. Two men, traumatized by Moriarty, waiting out the endless rain.

There is No Return Sherlock returns, 3 years after being declared dead. John is broken.

Actual Casefic! And long casefic!
The Affair of the Batshit Blogger Scroll down to the first tagged post, read the warnings, and I'll bet you'll be amused enough to keep going on the strength of that alone.

Crackfic
Batshit Blogger could just as easily belong here, but it has a plot, and everything here is pure fluffalicious crack

Bitchslap On Baker Street (art)

Alien Abduction Blues The aliens like to unwind after a long mission by messing with a human for a while. This time they pick up... Mycroft. There's a podfic version, although I've misplaced that link.

And I have far, far too many lit geeks in my flist to pass up passing on A Study in Pastiche. (BBC & ACD versions of Holmes) Unlike the others, I simply canNOT resist quoting the hell out of this one, and I'm barely scratching the surface of what's available at the link:


My lover’s eyes are nothing like a star,
(And I’m not his « little blond satellite ». Honestly, people !)
His phone is far more pink than his lips are,
And his skin, however pale, is not alabaster...

***

For God’s sake shut your gob and let me love,
Or mock my IQ, or my team,
My full grey hair or ruin’d self-esteem...

***

Because I always stopped for death,
Scotland Yard called on me...


And that's before you follow the on-post links to the flash-based Heloise and Jane Austen pastiches. Hilarious as Pride and Pugnacity is, I must say that Sherloise is really, really fabulously in character.