Link Salad and Sherlock Fic Recs

General Links of Interest

honorh's heartbreaking personal account of being in the Japanese tsunami and aftermath

Food From the Age of Shakespeare

I think I got this from wshaffer; the sort of crack that the Internet was invented for: I Like Big Butts and I Cannot Lie but is There an Evolutionary Reason Why?
When a girl walks in with an itty-bitty waist and a round thing in your face you get vital evolutionary information that acts as a fairly accurate indicator of overall health.

And sprung. You also get sprung.


Sherlock Fic Recs
When Harry Met Sally (and then Sherlock Holmes) Harry Watson hadn’t expected the Met, and possibly the British government, to be this keen on locating her missing brother Lovely character work as Sally Donovan takes a scuffed-up Harry Watson to the hospital, and Harry starts meeting the mad people she thought her brother was making up.

I think I may have recced the first of these... or maybe not, I don't quite remember. It's a quadrilogy (why is this not a word?) in which I think the sum is far more than the parts. In the first story, Sherlock is caught between a peaceful old age keeping bees and dying in a warehouse at the end of The Great Game, unable to know which is reality. The cycle processes through the funeral, their (very slashy) afterlife, and their final burial, giving beautiful character moments especially to Mycroft, Lestrade, and Mrs. Hudson. In order:

I Meet You There and We Go (illo)
The Half-Open Window
I Broke Them All for You
I Dream a Highway (Back to You)