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

[stillane.livejournal.com]

No, I don't know much about the fandom, but I'm totally easy.

Yeah, considering my association with it is about 2 days old, I'm no expert. Also, it is apparently impossible to get your hands on the source. But, well, there are spies. Ones who get whapped around a lot and are rather attached to each other and tend to show affection via banter. Um. Yeah.

So far, I've gotten a kick out of evan_nicholas's stuff. I'll let you know what else jumps out.

Totally not. *is evil*

*pouts* Meany.

*drive by linkage*

[polaris-starz.livejournal.com]

I don't have many specific MFU recs, but here's (http://www.chezshay.net/stories/Manifesto.html) a manifesto with some great links at the bottom and author recommendations, and here (http://partnermine.luminousbeings.net/faves.html) is a great page of recs. Most of the links are still active.

Re: *drive by linkage*

[stillane.livejournal.com]

Sneaking back in - late, as usual - to say thanks. I'm perusing gleefully. *g*

[adannu.livejournal.com]

Wait, evan_nicholas? I recognize that name from when I was a semi-wee slasher paddling around in some old school fandoms but... huh. Same person?

[gules]

Okay, I would tell you how I ended up here but I don't even remember. That said, if you type man from uncle into Google Video, there are at least three of the episodes listed on the first page alone.

One thing that struck me, at least from what I've watched, is that Napoleon seems to be far more competent in fanfic than he was on the show. In the episode I saw ("The Concrete Overcoat Affair"), he's not much more than a gigolo; it's Illya who saves the day.

Anyway, happy viewing!