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

[splintercat.livejournal.com]

I've never read Sports Night fic or watched Sports Night and I think I'm going to have to start. That was good! Thanks! (for giving me a new fandom to explore when I should be writing papers and studying.)

[carta.livejournal.com]

oh, that's awesome - it's such a wonderful show. A note: there is a really annoying laugh track in the first few episodes. Ignore it - it goes away. Also, a fun game is to play "what lines did Sorkin steal from himself?" because there are a lot of lines that he carried over into The West Wing. Hell, entire plots were carried over.

Enjoy!

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

New people watching Sports Night is always of the good. When you're done watching, or even before, the best place nowadays to check out fiction is snarchive - there used to be an even better archive on Trickster, but it died, and there was much sorrow - and the links in the memories of crack_van are worth checking out, too.

I've written completely gen SN, actually. Although it was the exception, rather than the rule.