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

[brownbetty]

I read a fantastic, be which I mean um, "unbelievable," but not "quality," sentinal AU where… how did it go? I think Jim needed to "bond" with Blair for his mental stability or something, and bonding was best accomplished naked, so Jim kept on ripping his clothes off, and there was a bit about how Blair had to keep loose fitting clothes on at all times or risk carpet burn when Jim whisked his pants off. All non-sexual, of course. Sex is ew.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I. Um. I really have nothing to say about that.

Okay, one thing: if you rip my clothes off, you'd damn well better get me off. I'm not sacrificing a shirt I love to some lame-ass non-sexual "bonding," thanks. Poor Blair!

(...And now we're about to go down the heavily-trodden path marked Abused Guide Angst 'n' Woe. I think this is where I make a hasty exit.)

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

You know, the one thing I am really grateful for is that I started out on the slash side in TS fandom, which is amazing considering how new I was to slash at the time. So I kept hearing about stuff like that, but I never actually read more than one or two (which were described as "really good, despite the fact that it's smarm"). Thank goodness.

[vass]

...link plz?

[brownbetty]

This was last year! Um, it was sort of a future-setting AU, and it was one of those "guides have fewer human rights, and sentinels are revered" sort of AUs? ratcreature might be able to find it for you; she's good at AUs.

[ilyena_sylph]

http://www.susans-stories.co.uk/susans%20page.htm somewhere here....

*wanders by* try everything GDP