My Yuletide gift!

Hey everyone,
Today was Yuletide fic reveals time and so I got my gift!

And what a gift!
I couldn't have hoped nor prayed for anything better suited to me than this fic. It had everything I asked for and more and it was twice as beautiful as I had imagined in my wildest dreams. 10k of wonderful goodness and it's still difficult to realise it was for me, that someone sat down, took all the things I mentioned in my yuletide letter thinking that no one would ever write them, and slapped them into a wonderfully crafted fic with such love and skill poured into it.

Please, if you know Empire of Corpses, do yourself a favour and read it.

Semper Fidelis (9175 words) by dollyfish

Fandom: 屍者の帝国 | Shisha no Teikoku | Empire of Corpses
Chapters: 1/1

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con

Relationship: John M. Watson/Friday

Characters: John M. Watson, Friday, Hadaly Lilith, Frederick Burnaby, Minor Characters

Additional Tags: Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Angst, Pre-Canon, Sex, Necrophilia, dub-con, Grief/Mourning, Graphic Description of Corpses

Summary:

On one hand: the Royal Investigative Department 'W' of Britain found J. M. Watson guilty of high treason by virtue of stealing and autonomously developing advanced Corpse Technology.
A bourgeois family is left with a grave they cannot mourn over.
The Notes of Victor haven't been seen for generations.

On the other: Friday loved John enough to fill 21 grams.

Why you should read it: because it's skillfully written, with so much love poured into it that it honestly deserves all the love in the world. Because it makes you feel so viscerally for Watson. Because every line is poetry. Because it'll make you cry a lot. It's simply a wonderful fic.