Sherlock rec: The Progress of Sherlock Holmes

A while back, dodificus recced a Sherlock story, The Progress of Sherlock Holmes. It's 62k of words, and I only got around to reading it last night/this morning, and have to say how much I loved it.

It's long and absorbing, but the style is immediate and personal. Most Sherlock POVs almost work for me -- as a version of Sherlock, a possibility -- but this one was Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock, the Sherlock I see on my screen and can imagine smiling and running after danger and moping around Baker St. This was one of those stories that settles you firmly in the character's world, that makes your heart sink and soar with Sherlock's own. This was the kind of story that makes you remember why you read at all -- to feel, to think, to be personally moved and changed by what the imagination can hold -- and while YMMV, I loved it so much that I'm pointing it out to other people.

(I loved it so much I discovered there's a 4,300 character limit on feedback and had to leave my rambling in two comments.)