#indybaggins

[willowstar204]

“Mike doesn’t understand how Will can look so hurt while hurting him.”

PAIN

“But he can’t tell them. How could he explain that he’s grieving a living person?”

MORE PAIN

“How could we be friends? After everything?”

EVEN MORE PAIN

“I gave years and you gave years/ and we're still waiting/ paying in bits of who we could have been.”

EXCRUCIATING

“Who am I, to you? Who are you to me?”

DEVASTATING

seriously. i’m going to scream. i’m going to cry. please, this is too much heartache. byler authors, you are killing me.

[ofsleeping]

these twin passages from smalltown queer and hollow boy... ❤️‍🩹 @indybaggins i adore you

[swissmissficrecs]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word count: 16,605 Chapters: 7/7 Fandom: Sherlock (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/OMCs Characters: John Watson, Sherlock Holmes Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Depressed John, Drug Addict Sherlock, Slut Sherlock, Anonymous Sex, Chemsex, Angst, Disability, Drugs, Dubious Consent, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, Anal Sex, Condoms, Group Sex, Self-Destruction, Loneliness, Falling In Love Summary:

John never learned how to do this here, in sordid London, where every bloke lines up in a queue of ads and everyone has someone else every night.

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Rec: Wow, this was not at all what I expected going into it. Given the premise of an alternate Johnlock meeting with lots of promiscuous, anonymous sex and the general gist of the tags, I thought this was going to be a fun and filthy good time had by all. And while that’s true up to a certain point, it doesn’t even begin to get at what is really going on.

I don’t want to ruin the experience for other readers by giving away too much about the progression of this story but I do want to give both fair warning and hope. The warning: take the dubcon tag seriously. This goes to some very dark places. The hope: don’t give up when things look their bleakest. A commenter on the fic noted that this is basically a love story in reverse, which I found to be a very astute insight. The ending is absolutely worth the price of admission, steep as it is.

[snorklepie]

So I'm reading Cake and Other Sins by Indybaggins at the mo and by god it is GOOD. Heed the warnings (OT3 John/Sherlock/Mycroft) but if you fancy a GBBO au with some dark corners and beautiful writing.

You know when you think you've read anything worth reading in the fandom and you're a bit jaded and disappointed by that? And you find something amazing that you've missed all along? That.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/1827805/chapters/4114695

[willowstar204]

hollow boy by @indybaggins is actually hollowing me out from the inside. i need the angst to end. i need the boys to be happy. i can’t breathe. please, i can’t take any more of this suffering 😭

[mjalam]

Hollow Boy chp. 19 killed me. I am deceased. It’s been nice knowing y’all.