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

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Do we get to guess the fandom?

Twenty bucks on The Sentinel. :-)

[nestra.livejournal.com]

I vote for Starsky and Hutch.

Though the changing eyes could totally be Doyle's, if she's reading Pros.

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

Green, hazel, and gold could be Star Trek -- there are a lot of gold eyes in Star Trek.

[meresy.livejournal.com]

Could even be early Due South. Ray Vecchio's eyes get that treatment sometimes. *g*

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

Ha, yeah... but there's no one in Due South I'd describe as "a noted canonical horndog." Both Rays do try to date women from time to time, but no more often than normal, and possibly less.

[meresy.livejournal.com]

Of course, the addendum precludes that. :-P

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

Wait, how so? "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." -- that sounds like Kirk and Spock to me...

[chvickers.livejournal.com]

Kirk gets that ALL THE TIME, and ten years ago it was worse. The Golden Boy, golden hair, golden eyes - you think he was an Academy Award. And Spock comes as close to a THLP as any character in any canon.

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

Icon love!

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Can I just say I am a little disturbed by how many fandoms have changing eyes? GOLD changing eyes?

[meresy.livejournal.com]

Hee! It is a little bit strange, isn't it?

Then again, my eyes have goldish-bits, and aren't even hazel . . .

[ratcreature]

yeah, that disturbs me as well. I ranted at length about the changing eye colors in the past. Though at the top of my list of inappropriately changing eyecolors is still "seafoam green" just because of the really unpleasant associations of dirty, brackish sea water with algae-slime residue... That's only topped by eye color changes according to *mood* rather than some lighting effect. I mean, I guess that could work for some fantasy characters, or Goa'uld or something, but I've never seen human eyes work like a mood ring plastic trinket.

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

hazel eyes often change color with mood - and not just the darken/ lighten thing. my eyes are dominant green with bits of gold, but they'll change all the to blue if i'm pissed off enough.

-bs

[delurker.livejournal.com]

To be fair, my eyes change colour depending on the light...

[fairestcat]

Pros was my immediate thought, but that's maybe because my roommate's currently going through a Pros phase and reading a lot of zine-era stuff.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

Yup, I'm on a Pro reread kick, and that was my first thought. Though I think SH is pretty similar, isn't it?

And I have to admit, I just read it *differently*, i.e., I can read descriptions and tropes in Pros that I'd never ever stomach in SGA...

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Man, why does everyone think TS?

*has a moment of remembering all the "gen" TS she's read*

Oh, right, that's why. But, in the defense of those writers, I have to say that much of what I've outlined above could have happened in the canon in TS. Jim and Blair were special that way!

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Man From UNCLE. The fandom in which I read a slash story describing Illya's dick as a "rosy-crested ivory tower of lust."

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

AAAUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHH! Don’t spring something like that on the unsuspecting comments-reader!

*bleaches brain*

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Try READING that in a story by a well-known writer and coming upon it unsuspectingly. I was scarred for life.

And we won't even discuss the legendary "Illya as a were-unicorn and Napoleon as a virgin" story.

[qe2.livejournal.com]

SECONDED OMG.

[brownbetty]

Ivory? Does this story have a cryogenics theme?

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

It may very well have. At that point I believe I lost consciousness, and awoke with no memory of the story except that line.

There was a line in a het "10th KIngdom" story (betcha don't know that fandom) that spoke entirely seriously of the main couple "romping repeatedly in the pastures of pleasure."

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU. I AM NOW SCARRED FOR LIFE.

(Also, seriously, Illya has a two-color cock? Is that like a special upgrade or something? And if it is, can you get colors other than rose/ivory?)

[qe2.livejournal.com]

But of course! At the Lands' End of cockage, the dicks du jour also come (...) in seafoam/teal, puce/stucco, salmon/brick, and the ever-popular fog/midnight.