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schmevil ([personal profile] schmevil) wrote2003-04-09 07:11 pm

Recs, recs, give me some recs!

Hey [livejournal.com profile] velevetglove, [livejournal.com profile] sonia_maria, [livejournal.com profile] aelita, [livejournal.com profile] r_me_time, [livejournal.com profile] heathersy, [livejournal.com profile] attolia and[livejournal.com profile] mecurtin! Welcome to the friends list. Never play nice. ~_^

Can anyone rec me some m/m slash that actually has men in it? Down with elfin limbs and fine, silky soft skin! Down with slim hips and pretty pink lips! Down with crying, curtain shopping and tender embraces! Show me some emotionally stunted, physically flawed, beautiful, human males. I want the weirdly growing hair, the short tempers and fear of intimacy.

At this point I'd take a butch lumberjack in reaction.

I'm usually not one to cling to gender stereotypes but the thing is, most of the characters I'm interested in do conform to them, deeply so. Snape is the ugly, bitter bastard who's so out of touch with his emotions, he probably forgets what it's like to get honestly and purely excited about something. Lex is remote and obsessed with projecting absolute control and power. All the time.

*throws vase at slash writers* What is the point of writing slash, if not to explore established UST? So why then, am I seeing story after story that utterly corrupts the source dynamic until it's a blubbering slop of sentiment and hyper-femininity? Let's be clear that it's the kind of femininity that most of despise in females.

So. Please, send me a few good men.
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[identity profile] isiscolo.livejournal.com 2003-04-09 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
If you don't object to NC17, the Snape/Black stories by Fabula Rasa, at the restricted section, are astonishing. All of them. I'd recommend Eight Times for sheer sex, Epistula Ultima or Clear to the Bone for serious hurt/comfort. And it's worth it to join the snape/black yahoo list to see her latest, Cordelictus.

I imagine you've read all of Ellen Fremedon's stories too, but her Snape/Lupins are also incredible (and NC17).

Clipped Wings by Theresa Ann Wymer, at Inkstained Fingers, hard R, Snape/Harry, dark futurefic.

All these men are MEN.


Here, Here

[identity profile] dphearson.livejournal.com 2003-04-09 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I second those recs- real men being pent up and stupid with their emotions, with very sexy scenes.
It makes plowing through the paragraphs of bedfic all the more painful.
Isiscolo also writes really good stuff as well. Read hers!
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[identity profile] isiscolo.livejournal.com 2003-04-10 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, thanks kindly for the nice words.
And at first I didn't realize that 'bedfic' was a typo. I think that's what I'm going to call PWP from here on out!

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[identity profile] dphearson.livejournal.com 2003-04-10 09:15 am (UTC)(link)
*LOL*
Hmmm...where is my mind...

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[identity profile] schmevil.livejournal.com 2003-04-10 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
I know exactly where your mind is.

*leers*

Re: Oh, my.

[identity profile] dphearson.livejournal.com 2003-04-10 01:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh dear- yet another Freudian slip.
Go check your journal. There is a surprise waiting.

Re: Oh, my.

[identity profile] dphearson.livejournal.com 2003-04-10 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
cool!

*tentative hand-raising from the back*

[identity profile] wired-lizard.livejournal.com 2003-04-09 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I've always thought that [livejournal.com profile] mentalhygiene writes men, 'tho he so rarely writes in a fandom I know (he likes the obscure fandoms) that I don't always know where his characterization is coming from.

Gratuitous quotage--some recently posted Empire Records slash. Well, not men exactly, more like cluelessly horny teenagers, but...

“Huh?”

“You too. Come on.”

Oh, right. His shirt. His jacket’s off--somewhere--ah, who the fuck cares? He pulls his t-shirt over his head, feeling hotly jealous of Lucas’ chest hair. His own chest is just bare skin. Jealous, but at least he can touch him. Or he can until Lucas’ warm hands come down along his bare body and--

“Jesus!” He jerks a little. He didn’t know that nipples plus hands did that, at least on guys. He knows girls love it when you tongue their tits, but he didn’t know that someone might ever do it to *him*. “Shit, man!”

[identity profile] tartanshell.livejournal.com 2003-04-09 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I don't know if either of these recs will be up your alley, but I think Ballyharnon's "Of Linen" and Dovielr's "Staffroom Seduction" both feature IC, down-and-dirty, realistically gay men.

"Of Linen" is Lupin/Black, NC-17, and can be found here: http://linen.dot.nu

"Staffroom Seduction" is Snape/Lupin, NC-17, and can be found here: http://www.angelfire.com/wizard/dovielr/stories/warning.html

I think they're both great, but neither story is for fluff-lovers or those desiring lovey-cuteness. Also, they're both very long (and "Of Linen" has several very long sequels). But if you're like me and enjoy fics that take awhile to read, both are worth it, in my opinion.

Hope you like them if you check them out. :)

[identity profile] setissma.livejournal.com 2003-04-18 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
Cassandra Claire's "A Season In Hell" and "After the Flood" are both extraordinarily... real. I'm not sure if Harry and Draco will meet your "real" criteria, but they're funny, depressing, a little rough around the edges, and utterly -real-. Both can be found at RS.org.