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

[vass]

I remember what happened (yes, this was 1999) when jacquez read a little bit too much smarm one time. This happened, as I recall.

For me (this was earlier on, before I'd met up with better writers - or delurked, for that matter) smarm was the impetus for moving on to slash. The writers - the ones who weren't writing complete and utter fluff, I mean, and that means the H/C ones - kept on upping the angst quotient each story, because the same hit wasn't doing its job. And I was reading the one where Kirk goes blind and can't be captain any more, and Spock and McCoy are passionately and nonsexually assuring him that he's still their BFF, and I decided that really, in the scheme of things, gay sex would be both less out of character and less traumatic.

[lorem_ipsum]

The writers - the ones who weren't writing complete and utter fluff, I mean, and that means the H/C ones - kept on upping the angst quotient each story, because the same hit wasn't doing its job. And I was reading the one where Kirk goes blind and can't be captain any more, and Spock and McCoy are passionately and nonsexually assuring him that he's still their BFF, and I decided that really, in the scheme of things, gay sex would be both less out of character and less traumatic.

I... might need this comment framed. In needlepoint.

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

mmm. it's kind of long for a sampler... unless you put it on the outside, like a border, framing a picture. but in that case, to get a really *good* effect, you should be looking at a wall-sized tapestry featuring teh hawt butt-secks....

-bs