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

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.

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

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

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.

Exactly, which I realized after I read it. But you never know what an anti-slash Hetero Lifemate fic writer is going to come out with.

Possibly I was also projecting my F/V issues. I mean, they're clearly smitten, but I also don't think they're Doing It, you know? Heh.

Of course, the addendum precludes that. :-P

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...

You never know, with these crossovers. ;-)

Wait wait wait. I totally lose.

I read "NSA" as the No Such Agency, you know, the ones who listen to your phone calls. So I was getting all confused about how it could be an old-school fandom but still have wiretapping spies in it.

*headdesk*

OK I get it now.

So I was getting all confused about how it could be an old-school fandom but still have wiretapping spies in it.

Wild Wild West could do that! Oh, the beautiful world of steampunk.

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.

Icon love!

You'll find it and more here (http://echosphere.net/star_trek_icons/star_trek_icons.html).

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

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