Recs and a poem

Two fanfic recs:

Sherlock/Harry Potter:

The case of the unwelcome owl. In which Sherlock gets invited to a wedding and gets outed as the squib of a magical family which explains so much. Best of all, there's a wonderful take on Luna Lovegood.

Doctor Who:

This was just recced at crack_van, but I am so enthralled I must repeat the rec in case potential readers missed it there:

The Amazon: in which Delgado!Master, post-Frontiers in Space runs into Jo Grant post-The Green Death, the two end up travelling together willing-nilling for a while, and The Deadly Assassin as well as Crispy!Master are prevented by Jo being an irresistable angst-deterrent. Also, the Master meets Four in his pirate outfit, which has predictable results. I still have a wide grin on my face. (If any companion is believable in an almost-friendship type of relationship with the Master, it's Jo because she did end up treating him like an annoying cousin on the show already, and also was the companion who got the Doctor to admit positive feelings for the Master in Classic Who, which is something of a unique position.)

And a poem. I'm in something of an odd mood today, and thinking about the BTVS episode The Body last week has reminded me of a poem that captures the aftermath of death, the shock, numbness, grief and attempt to get on with making it through the next day, and the day after that so very well. It's one of Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters poems, Life after Death. Like most of the BL poems, it's addressed to Sylvia Plath.

( The life that had survived you... )