Hi, I know you aren’t posting here anymore but I just wanted to let you know that this ranks among the best Sherlock fanfics I have ever read. There is no “magical healing love”, Sherlock’s PTSD is not over in a night, he and John are completely true to their characters. The prose is beautiful, powerful, and effective. You also helped me with my own writing, I have to admit. I’m currently having trouble with balancing narrative with dialogue and action, and you do it perfectly, so therefore I studied a page of this fic and learned how to use and create narrative and inside monologue. Thank you so much for writing this fic—it is an agonizing piece that depicts a mind being torn apart by itself in sharp relief, a beautiful horror. I love your writing, this is wonderful!

love it. your attention to detail is awesome and very well written. i love it.
i also loved the scene with both sleeping in one bed. i think this kind of reassurance can be very helpful.
cheers
yuura

So. Much. Angst. Such a wonderful read, and I am really sorry for saying it, since Sherlock had to go through so much pain in this...What's happening to him is truly chilling. And just like him, I have no idea why everything is happening! It's been so long since your last update, are you planning to finish the story?

Not sure if you are going to get this, as it's been more than a year since and update, but PLEASE GOD UPDATE SOON! This really is wonderfully fantastic and your portrayal of the characters is spot on! )

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So I'm a little late reading this, but it was amazing! I like how sex wasn't the cure, and all his problems didn't magically disappear in one night. I love this fan fic!

i need more! i love you and i need more!

Oh man ... I've read some of your other stories as well, and, quite frankly, I thought they were your 'main' fics, and that you lavished most of your writing prowess on them, and the others were just less well-written distractions.
I was so wrong.
I see now that you have that innate talent (or you've worked /really/ hard at it) of being able to actually /produce/ pictures from mute words. Any fool can use a thesaurus and make their writing sound more educated; it takes a true master to use those words /sparingly/, like sugar in a cake. Too much, and it becomes cloying and difficult to eat. Too little, and it becomes bland and tasteless. Of course, you must /balance/ your sweetness with a bit of /tang/. A few shorter sentences in the right places work /wonders/ for a story's readability - in fact, the same holds true for most other written things as well. An overarching /flavor/ must exist, or a cake is merely a celebration of airy sweetness, with nothing to give it /meaning/. Kudos on your plot and believability (however that's spelled) /overextended metaphor
Hope your muse is treating you well. Have a nice temporal anomaly! :D

"Yes, John thought, as he examined the eyes with a flashlight, he did like to feel needed."
My God you just explained John as I see him in /one/ well-crafted sentence. I mean, with the doctor thing and your quote from the dying guy, you know, 'What are /you/ getting out of this?' he's just getting a sense of being /necessary/ and that's why he enjoys working with Sherlock. As acerbic as he may be, he makes John feel like he's /wanted/, something that I think he struggled with after he got injured and couldn't help people the way he was used to.
/rant I just have a load of emotions about your writing :P

"Little insect tarsus, complete with claws and sticky tarsal pads, dug into his heart at the thought."
That there, /that/ is perfect writing.
waxing lyrical about fanfic
No hyperbole, perfect simile, not overused and therefore stale, /sounding/ right, evocative, descriptive ... Plus I just have a bit of a soft spot for insect metaphors :3 So rarely used, a treasure trove waiting to be made ...
/waxing lyrical about fanfic
And also, the sheer /appropriateness/ of the thing! I mean, Moriarty is and always will be a spider (always pictured him as a not-fully-grown black widow, myself ...) at least in my mind, and insects are the prey of spiders and now Sherlock is being associated with insects - in fact, he's being /harmed/ by them and just ... Gahh, I don't have the mastery of the language to express how I feel about your writing ... Infuriating.
Anyway, I'll just continue reading :D Just wanted to point this out because it was so memorable :P

brilliant!

I came across this fic by utter chance and this is one of the best ones in the fandom! I swear! Its brilliant stuff! I especially love how you have tossed in medical terminology, it makes things even more interesting. And now, to continue reading!

Beautiful and flawless. Please continue.

Oh my god I love this story! So cute but still so in character :) keep going!

More please. I love good Sherlock h/c.

OH. MY. GOODNESS.
I really really hope you're still writing/updating this because this story is flawless.
The characters are perfect and the plot is excruciatingly believable.
Definitely one of my all-time favorites!