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]

Why popslash?

(Oh, the confusion of acronyms. I have learned the error of my ways, I tell you.)

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

No Strings Attached, NSA, is an nsync album and was/is used to denote that time period, for writing purposes (pre-NSA, post-NSA, NSA tour, etc, etc. Or NSA hair! Or whatever). Acronyms make my life complicated. also, characters who have the same names.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

also, characters who have the same names.

Dear Writers of TV Shows and Movies,

There are other names for men besides "Daniel," "John," and "Jack." LOOK INTO THEM. I am really tired of not knowing which damn Jack people mean. And my del.icio.us tags are a mess.

SG writers, you get five million extra points deducted for using all three names for major characters. May I suggest the purchase of a baby name book might prevent this problem from reoccurring? THIS IS NOT THAT CHALLENGING, PEOPLE.

Love, TFV

[qe2.livejournal.com]

May I suggest the purchase of a baby name book might prevent this problem from reoccurring?

Be careful what you ask for...

Isabella. Jacob. Avery. Noah. Ava. Aiden. Logan. Ethan. (http://www.babynames.com/)

"Oh, God, Isabella...no, stop, Jacob, stop...Jesus, Logan, what you do to me..."

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

Okay, the sad part is that I already have fandoms with a Jacob (SG1), an Aiden (SGA), a Logan (WOLVERINE, baby!), and an Ethan (BtVS). I'm halfway there!

[qe2.livejournal.com]

mmmmmMMMMMWolverine.

...I'm sorry. What were you saying?

*glomps you*

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

PLEASE DO NOT BE SEXING UP WOLVERINE. I'm still all traumatized by collecting Marvel comics in the days when Wolverine appeared on the cover of every comic book published, I think maybe by federal law or something.

[qe2.livejournal.com]

I think maybe by federal law or something.

Probably it was the claws. *has A Midwinter's Tale" flashback (http://imdb.com/title/tt0113403/)*

[vass]

They got higher sales if Wolverine was on the cover, I think.

The ultimate highest-selling comic book cover would probably have had a Wolverine weeping into some female character's bosom, next to a gorilla, on a purple background. (cite)

[cryptoxin.livejournal.com]

Weeping Gorilla was my favorite part of Promethea, but every time I tried to explain the awesomeness to a non-comics reading friend they just gave me a blank look and gently changed the subject....

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

I once tried to start a crossover challenge that involved swapping characters with the same names for each other. Nothing came of it because I have no organizational skills (well, not entirely true, but I didn't exactly make an effort *g*), but I still like the idea. "So, which Jack do we have this week?" I mean, just imagine Jack Harkness temping for Jack O'Neill (and yes, I did write "tempting" at first, of course), or Justin Timberlake finding himself in Justin Finch-Fletchley's robes.