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thefourthvine) wrote2007-09-19 09:12 am
thefourthvine) wrote2007-09-19 09:12 am
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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.
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* 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.
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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And, um, is there any chance you know of a link to a handy primer for M7? Here's what I know: cowboys. Also, I have seen a really fantastic vid. Do I need to know more than that to fully appreciate the stories?
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Really, as long as you learn basics about the characters (seven of them, natch), you're set. It's all about the AUs anyway in this fandom anyway, which is probably only to be expected when it's based on a cowboy television series based on a cowboy movie based on a samurai movie.
In the canon, in the late 1870-ish timeframe, a group of seven men is hired for a week to protect a Seminole tribe from the Confederate soliders (...don't ask) who are forcing them to mine gold. In the next episode, back in town, local circuit judge Orin Travers hires them to protect the unnamed small western town (called "Four Corners" in fanon and the script) for a dollar a day plus board. That's really all you need to know about canon (OW or Old West) stories. The rest is just poker, drinking, and gun fights.
The most common AU (and probably the only AU I've ever seen that has canon vs. non-canon interpretations), is the ATF universe. In it our boys are the wildly sucessful ATF team Seven out of modern day Denver, Colorado. I'd say at a guess that there is considerably more ATF fiction out there that any other universe (including OW).
Little Britches stories come in both canon Old West and canon ATF versions, plus countless AUs. It has Vin and JD as children living on the streets before getting adopted by Chris and Buck. (I recommend the ATF original, Dreaming of Angels.) Despite the fact that they all live together as one big happy family, LB is not slash.
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Since the discussion is about M7, I'll toss in Eleanor Tremayne and Jean Graham, who you can find here (http://www.m7bedlam.com/home.htm) and here (http://www.magnifiction.com/). (Hmm. Jean's site has the stories as pdfs)
Pretty much gen, but I rather like their stuff. Especially the Fortress AU (M7 as a WWII bomber crew) and the way that Eleanor portrays Ezra in her stories, especially in the Mongoose series.
I have tons of M7 on my HD - the balance in that fandom for me seems to lean toward gen and smarm as opposed to slash.