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

[melannen.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that my first reaction was "Dude, there's a fandom where sex with NSA people is its own genre??? Where??" But then, I went to NSA summer camp for five years and grew up in walking distance from the headquarters. :D

(Is there a fandom with lots of National Security Agency sex? Because that would be hot. Like, I dunno, Cryptonomicon slash or something? Surely there's an SGA AU where John got his math doctorate and became a cryptanalyst in the tradition of Alan Turing? Or *something* in XF or MfU or something somewhere?)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Surely there's an SGA AU where John got his math doctorate and became a cryptanalyst in the tradition of Alan Turing?

OH MY GOD I WANT THAT STORY SO MUCH NOW.

And Cryptonomicon is definitely going onto my Yuletide consideration list this year, because FF for that would be AWESOME.

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

I HAD THE SAME ALLCAPS REACTION READING THAT COMMENT. TURING!JOHN! WANTS! *HANDS*

[melannen.livejournal.com]

I am off to go re-read the entire Thoughtcrimes fandom now (see comment below :D) but don't let that stop *anyone* from writing the John-as-cryptanalyst story! Cryptanalysts are sexy. Also, he should totally think he's James Bond (the books, not the movies!!!) because Ian Fleming was a codebreaker. :D

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Surely there's an SGA AU where John got his math doctorate and became a cryptanalyst in the tradition of Alan Turing?

There really, really should be. Oooo.

Is there a fandom with lots of National Security Agency sex?

You know, sadly, I don't think there is. I can think of a few set in the NSA - Seven Days... was Jake 2.0? - but I can't recall any fics making use of the whole superspy angle in the sex department. (Which makes me wonder: do spy agencies have a Sex Department? Because that would be... huh.) The only fic I can think of with an NSA bent is this Numb3rs one (http://raucousraven.livejournal.com/26679.html), which happens to be gen (and amazing).

[melannen.livejournal.com]

Oh, wait! There *is* a fandom with NSA Sex! *And* Joe Flanigan! Thoughtcrimes! *YES*. Time to go re-read, starting with this (http://thefourthvine.livejournal.com/tag/thoughtcrimes).

[stillane.livejournal.com]

*blinks* You can't beat that combo. *wanders off to the pretty*

[stillane.livejournal.com]

And holy crap, your icon registered just as I hit 'post'.

So much of me is explained by my obsession with that show in my formative years. Heh. That and Carmen Sandiego.

[melannen.livejournal.com]

I love this icon, because every time I post with it as least one person responds with joy!

I really want to be able to watch some old mathnet, but I can't find any. I've managed to get my hands on a VHS of the Bloodhound Gang (the kids with the talking computer) but no Mathnet yet. :(

(hmmm. Yuletide request time???)

[inalasahl]

There's lots of Square One's Mathnet up on Youtube, if your computer can view it.

[adannu.livejournal.com]

After stillane said the holy crap, I squinted at your icon for a minute before going, "OH MY GOD!"

Count me in as one more person all asquee over recognizing that! :D