Makoyi's Fanfic Recs and Other Stuff

Title: Inktober favorites
Author: careydraws
Fandom: multifandom
Genre: fanart - b/w sketches

Author's Summary:
sketches of 31 of the artist's favorite female fantasy lit characters

Review:
Gorgeous character art that all female fantasy fans should see - might give you some ides for the next book to read too!

Inktober favorites (on tumblr)

Title: give your heart to a wild thing
Author: kenopsia
Fandom: Sherlock BBC, His Dark Materials
Genre: daemon AU, kidfic (Sherlock and Mycroft as kids - pre-canon)
Pairing: Sherlock/Victor Trevor
Length: Medium (31,720 words)

Author's Summary:
Mycroft is just hoping he doesn't have to kill Sherlock's daemon in her sleep to help Sherlock live to see adulthood. It might as well be his prime directive, because nobody else seems capable of doing it.
A His Dark Materials fusion that follows the Holmes brothers from childhood.

Review:
This isn't your typical daemon AU - it's just as much a fic about Sherlock and Mycroft growing up and it does that really well. It does some interesting things with daemons too as it looks at mental and personality disorders in world with daemons - Sherlock's daemon hates him and, despite taboo, Sherlock is very close to Mycroft's daemon.  The fic as a whole has good characterizations and the friendship/sibling relationship between the brothers is lovely.  This one isn't finished and I hope the author will continue.

cover art:


give your heart to a wild thing (on AO3)

Title: The Vast Profundity Obscure
Author: mistyzeo
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD), His Dark Materials
Genre: Daemon AU
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: Medium (20,613 Words)
Note: rec'd on fancake

Author's Summary:
More than a year after Sherlock Holmes' return from the dead, his cohabitation with the good Doctor has more or less returned to normal. With their daemons at their sides, Holmes and Watson are as keen a pair of crime solvers as they ever were. Deep in the winter of 1895, their limits as a team are tested when a young woman's daemon is stolen from her side and destroyed. It is not the first of such attacks, Watson learns, and he and Holmes immediately set out to find the culprit of the horrifying deed. They are led into a web of back alleys and gambling debt that leads ultimately to the heart of the government, all in the pursuit of the elusive element of Dust. But their investigation is not a secret one, and the duo's fame in the city of London brings them more trouble than expected and forces them to take some measures to protect one another that violate many a social taboo.

Review:
This fic isn't just a "what animal would these character's have for a daemon" fic - it's a casefic centered around the details of daemons from HDM. It's a great story, complete, and I think it strikes a great balance between the feel of the Victorian Holmes, the Urban Fantasy of HDM, and the tone of the contemporary BBC version that it should appeal to a large fanbase.

The Vast Profundity Obscure (on AO3)

Now with cover art: