Hey Steph! I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season!
The holidays always put me in a Sherlock kind of mood and I was looking for a specific fic. And now I have a far fetched request.
I was thinking recently about a fic I read years ago in which Sherlock developed aphasia. Great fic where he works with a speech therapist and John and they come up with ways to help him communicate. I loved the fic and was wanting to read it again.
Through some research I found that it's Synthesis by LapOtter on AO3. So normally, that would be the end of it. But here's where the far fetched comes in.
Turns out the author deleted all their works. There is, thankfully, a podfic that still exists (bless you consulting_smartass). But I was hoping to read it. I found no luck on the way back machine. Is there any chance one of your wonderful Lovelys saved a copy of the fic anywhere?
I hope you and your Lovelys and your Nonnys are having a fantastic holiday season!
Happy holidays to you as well, Lovely, and I hope both Christmas and New Year's went well for you!!! :D
I've actually had a similar ask in the past, and I was given the WebArchive link for the fic, so you can grab it from there!
[Podfic] Synthesis by consulting_smartass [WEBARCHIVE LINK for STORY] (E, 4h,59m,42s, 15 Ch. || Aphasia, Brain Injury, Mute Sherlock, Podfic, First Time, Angst, Hopeful Ending) – syn·the·sis [sin-thuh-sis] /ˈsɪnθəsɪs/ noun, plural syn·the·ses. 1. the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity ( opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements. 2. a complex whole formed by combining.a·pha·sia [uh-fey-zhuh] /əˈfeɪʒə/ noun. 1. the loss of a previously held ability to speak or understand spoken or written language, due to disease or injury of the brain.
It is very sad to see the fic gone, because I would have loved to have the ePub of it for my iBooks, but I respect if the author had their reasons to delete it <3
If you need a tutorial for downloading webarchive fics, you can check out this post here. If you want to convert it to ePubs, you can do it on Google docs, BUT most e-readers support PDFs.
And just as a disclaimer to all, PLEASE do not repost the story anywhere!!
