REC: The Holiness of the Heart's Affections, by grassle

[chamekke]

I've been wanting to share this with my f'list for ages!

grassle regularly blows me away with her wonderful BBC Sherlock fics.

She can write blazingly hot smut, outrageously funny fics that will keep you in stitches, and stories that manage both simultaneously. She's one of the most literate fan writers out there and her grasp of character is impeccable, but she's also got an endearing weakness for really bad puns. In a fandom that's chock-a-block with good writers, she's a unique and delightful voice, and whenever a new grassle fic shows up on my f'list, I have to smother my whoops of delight lest I alarm the neighbours.

And grassle's a Lestrade fan (as am I) in a fandom that's overwhelmingly Sherlock/John, so she tends to write lots of L/S, L/J, and of course L/S/J. This is a Very Good Thing.

I could recommend any number of wonderful fics of hers, but let's start with her squee-worthy series "The Holiness of the Heart's Affections". It's funny, sexy, and highly meta — a trifecta that pushes my buttons like nothing else. (And her portrait of wistful!Lestrade is strangely touching, too.) Here's the story prompt:

Once or twice a week Lestrade logs in to the Sherlock Kink Meme under his carefully chosen username and prompts for L/S… One day, one of his prompts gets filled. And another. And another yet. Beautifully written little fills, with perfect grammar and spelling, slightly awkward when depicting intimacy, slightly OOC when depicting Sherlock (because really, Sherlock could never be this affectionate with anyone) and bizarrely spot on when characterising Lestrade himself. Lestrade sends back enthusiastic feedback and before he can say "nicotina", here he is, agreeing to co-write an L/S fic for the meme's Christmas Challenge with his mysterious correspondent…

The amazing thing about this fic is that grassle wrote it before A Scandal in Belgravia, in which Sherlock and John (and possibly Lestrade too?) have become celebrities thanks to the popularity of John's blog... so she's anticipated the new canon rather uncannily with this one.

Links:
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 The End

And if you enjoy this, why not check out her uber-cracky "My Big Fat Medieval AU" series featuring Lord Sherlock of Holmes, Sheriff Lestrade, and 'Little' John (recently returned home from the Crusades)? Begin here, with Part 1 of A Study in Lincoln Green...
 

Comments

[grassle.livejournal.com]

OMG, OMG. I can't believe this. You're too kind! I'm speechless. This is so going on my CV. Thank you so much for these lovely kind words.

I'm so pleased you enjoyed 'Holiness'! It was a true joy to write, as were the medieval fics. A complete hoot. It's true I'm a pun-whore. I wrote a 10,000+ word S-J fic just because I thought of the world's best pun for the ending. And it depends what mood I'm in if it goes cracky or filthy. Just to show you, 'Christmas is Coming' is more pun than porn, but there's a porn version of the same fic, a link to which is being sent...

[loz]

Bad puns?

Totally my kind of writer. Thank you for the rec. I shall check it out.