I wanna know what love is; I want you to show me.

[thefourthvine]

Older fandoms, you confuse me so. The story I'm reading right now has piercing gazes, searing gazes, cuddling, comforting, lengthy descriptions of eyes that change color (Green! Hazel! Gold! No, I'm not kidding - really, gold, and this isn't the right fandom for him to have been implanted with a Goa'uld.), marriage proposals, men of action sharing their feelings in astonishing detail and with great (sometimes searing) honesty, a guy telling another guy how beautiful he is, holding hands, kissing, and two adult men (of action!) with extensive disposable incomes living together and sharing a bed.

And it's gen.*

I am patiently waiting for the mutual declarations of eternal love while hugging (or crying; I'd totally take crying) in the rain. Then, and only then, will I be able to stop reading.

So, does anyone have a story from an older fandom to recommend to me? You people have mostly been at this longer than me - surely you've got some nice gen or slash story favorite from a pre-LJ fandom that you could link me to. Gen or slash welcome - especially gen that I can read as gen. Seriously. Save me from myself. And this story. I am just bewildered, here.

-Footnote-

* Another gen story in the same fandom (but by a different person) features a noted canonical horndog turning down NSA sex with a beautiful woman because he's in love with someone else - that someone being, of course, the guy who is his Entirely Not Slashy Totally Hetero Life Partner. (It also had a paragraph about their great and abiding love, and the Totally Hetero Life Partner isn't even in the story. Nor is there any explanation of why the THLP would want his "friend" to turn down the sex - I mean, seriously, it was just presented as "this is what you do when you're in love with your THLP, forswear sex and cleave only unto him, but in a straight and manly way." I guess I am just not straight enough to understand that.) And the author's note contained a diatribe against slash. Oh, my people.

Comments

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

This has got to be Sentinel fic. You're reading old Sentinel, aren't you? *g*

That was never my corner of the fandom (or of fandom in general), so I can offer little explanation, but lo, I am amused.

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

I was just about to say, were it not for the eye colour, I would have thought that had to be Sentinel.

Is there completely non-sexual licking of someone from head to foot? By any chance?

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Is there completely non-sexual licking of someone from head to foot? By any chance?

Not yet, but I live in hope. It seems inevitable, really.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I haven't managed to finish the story yet.

But there's no need to wait on me, because percysowner has what you're looking for (http://thefourthvine.livejournal.com/78863.html?thread=3508239#t3508239).

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

I am not looking for that. I was also not looking for the three count them, three stories I've read in which Jim literally licks Blair from head to foot. All that damp body hair... it is not a trope I understand.

[exceptinsects.livejournal.com]

I just have to say, regarding this icon, that you should read the book Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman.
That is all.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

It is totally not TS. (For one thing, I think I read every readable story in that fandom like three years ago; it was my gateway to dS.) It is much worse than TS as far as Gen That Is Totally Not Gen goes.

[percysowner.livejournal.com]

Now let's not be hasty here. I find it hard to believe anything can be more Gen That Is Totally Not Gen than Susan's GDP series (http://www.susans-stories.co.uk/susans%20page.htm) . There is a scene later in the series where Blair has to ground Jim. This involves touching EVERY single square INCH of Jim's body. Jim finally feels like an explosion is running through his entire body. Then they have to get a warm washcloth to wipe themselves so they do not end up sticking to each other as they fall asleep in each other's arms. Late on IN THE SAME CHAPTER Jim muses on how odd it is that anyone would think this is a sexual relationship.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Um. You know, that is an excellent point. I believe I must hand the Gen That Is Totally Not Gen prize back to TS fandom.

TS fandom, you're a winner!

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Bwee! (http://thefourthvine.livejournal.com/78863.html?thread=3470351#t3470351)