{"id":1524,"date":"2013-01-11T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2013-01-11T10:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T18:00:33","slug":"mark-reads-the-affair-of-the-asphyxiated-acafan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2013\/01\/mark-reads-the-affair-of-the-asphyxiated-acafan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads &#8216;The Affair of the Asphyxiated Acafan&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, folks! This is a little untraditional, but I like sharing some of the commissions I get with y&#8217;all, and this one in particular is pretty awesome. Generally, I just stick my videos in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/xpanasonicyouthx\/videos?view=1\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube Channel<\/a> and put them on Twitter, but in this case, this massive\u00c2\u00a0<em>Sherlock<\/em> fic I just read is worthy of some additional attention.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This was commissioned by Cindy, and it&#8217;s a BBC\u00c2\u00a0<em>Sherlock<\/em> fic called <a href=\"http:\/\/archiveofourown.org\/works\/106523?view_full_work=true\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Affair of the Asphyxiated Acafan,&#8221;<\/a> which you can read at the link. To prevent this page from being a mile long, I&#8217;m linking to each of the twelve parts at the end of this post instead of embedding them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, without spoiling the numerous twists, I wanted to talk about\u00c2\u00a0<em>why<\/em> I found this fic so stellar. I read a lot of stuff these days, so this REALLY stood out to me for a few reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It focuses almost entirely on the fabulous ladies of series one. I realized who Sarah was by the third video, for the record, but this fic features an entire chapter with just Sarah, Sally Donovan, Mrs. Hudson, and John Watson&#8217;s sister, who is one of the better lesbian characters I&#8217;ve come across in a fic.<\/li>\n<li>There is queerness all over this fic, it&#8217;s not just hinted at, and NONE OF IT INVOLVES SHERLOCK\/JOHN. Oh god, IT&#8217;S SO FUCKING GREAT.<\/li>\n<li>The whole thing is from Sarah&#8217;s point of view, and her snark towards Sherlock is like\u00c2\u00a0<em>oxygen<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>It manages to be ridiculously meta about fandom, conventions, and fan behavior without being a disaster at all. It&#8217;s a murder mystery on the Internet, and it&#8217;s pretty damn good.<\/li>\n<li>Sally Donovan threatens Sherlock a lot, and it&#8217;s beautiful.<\/li>\n<li>Mrs. Hudson is written brilliantly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a long fic \u00e2\u20ac\u201c around 25,000 words in seven chapters \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and there are only a few points where things trudge about. It&#8217;s a slow builder, but worth it. I don&#8217;t recall which video it was, but I\u00c2\u00a0<em>do<\/em> talk about how strange it is to read something live, as it&#8217;s nearly impossible to properly judge the rhythm and meter of longer sentences when you&#8217;re doing it in real time. So, there are a\u00c2\u00a0<em>lot<\/em> of long sentences, but I&#8217;ve decided that they probably sound way better being read in your head than outloud. It&#8217;s a stylistic choice of this author, and I think it works to build up Sarah&#8217;s imaginative personality, one that is constantly working to beat Sherlock&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you&#8217;re looking for a good fic in the\u00c2\u00a0<em>Sherlock<\/em> universe, I liked this one. And if you just want to listen\/watch along, here are the videos!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=twXBHDW6TD0\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ymgxj69te3E\" target=\"_blank\">Part 2<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aIOT3yz-ueI\" target=\"_blank\">Part 3<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g6rRwkOkLXU\" target=\"_blank\">Part 4<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a22C9qpYALI\" target=\"_blank\">Part 5<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jBQ7HSZMvbY\" target=\"_blank\">Part 6<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SbdHHnlwG_Q\" target=\"_blank\">Part 7<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jn1WbAIRLOw\" target=\"_blank\">Part 8<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=41a9Lka68rQ\" target=\"_blank\">Part 9<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=onpujgU1G2I\" target=\"_blank\">Part 10<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hUKQdx3LH8w\" target=\"_blank\">Part 11<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7TJAp2l7CZ8\" target=\"_blank\">Part 12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy! And thank you, again, to Cindy for introducing me to this fic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, folks! This is a little untraditional, but I like sharing some of the commissions I get with y&#8217;all, and this one in particular is pretty awesome. Generally, I just stick my videos in my YouTube Channel and put them &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2013\/01\/mark-reads-the-affair-of-the-asphyxiated-acafan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[301,23,324],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mark-does-stuff-2","tag-fanfiction","tag-mark-reads","tag-sherlock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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