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

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

It is GAYER THAN THE SENTINEL. I didn't actually think that was POSSIBLE.

You know, here's the thing. I saw this fabulous and incredibly gay Persuaders vid. And I was like, "Wow. That is very gay." And then I rec'd it, saying in my rec that it was the gayest thing ever.

And people said, "No, actually. The show itself was much gayer."

At which point my brain suffered a fatal exception error. Apparently that show managed to contain more gay than is in the whole universe. It's a paradox of the space/time/homosexuality continuum!

Also, Dan and Casey join me in saying 'hee!'

Oh, Dan and Casey. <3!

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I think you're right, cause I saw that vid, it is definitely cute and funny and gay, and yet you were told truly: the show is gayer than that. Every attempt I've made to describe it has basically ended in me flailing a lot and going "Danny just whispered Can I be best man at your divorce? in Brett's ear!" Maybe it's some kind of immutable law of the universe, like some kind of particularly gay Heisenberg Principle - the closer we get to ultimate gayness, the less our ability to accurately map and describe said gayness, or something.

I fully agree that Dan and Casey are loooove, but I am especially digging the icon! Nice one. :)