You mean Remus/Sirius *isn't* canon? And early Marauders, of course. I'd be willing to look into Lily/Snape. So yes, it's the children--even the twins--whose sexualization I'm not prepared to explore. To me, and I can't emphasize this enough, it's purely my own squick and I expect no one else to share it, it feels like exploitation.
Teenage sex in other fandoms, and in original fiction doesn't bother me, unless it's noncon. Bastard Out of Carolina was a well-written book and dealt with a subject that needed to be dragged into the light, but I certainly didn't read it for *fun*. And fic, while eddifying to one degree or another, is primarily entertaining for me.
Fay, I think you need to check out a series called "Fake." I really, really do. Also, I think I need to start in on Eroica.
One of my favorite HP fic series is by Fernwithy. She's doing stories set during Teddy Lupin's time at Hogwarts, and the feel is very close to that of the books without feeling like a re-tread.
the Winchester brothers' relationship is emotionally, mentally and physically *closer* than incest, on a lot of levels.
Yes. This. As Cass said, their relationship would be disturbing IRL, but it's wonderful to see play out onscreen. There's something appealing about the
idea
of that kind of closeness that I love to see in fiction but would not be nearly so appealing if it were for reals.
You mean Remus/Sirius *isn't* canon?
::chokes on her milk::
It's true, it's true.
This is where I knee-jerk rec The Shoebox Project. Because it's brilliant.
One of my favorite HP fic series is by Fernwithy. She's doing stories set during Teddy Lupin's time at Hogwarts, and the feel is very close to that of the books without feeling like a re-tread.
She is amazing.
There's a series by belovedranger that's all about Ron and Hermione, but it starts a few years AFTER the war and explores them crossing the line from friends to lovers to newlyweds to parents. She also writes them how I think Jo would write them if she wrote erotica. It's all very ... Nora Roberts/JD Robb-type sex. And all very loving.
The whole brothers discussion and no one came up with Boondock Saints?
I wouldn't call Boondock Saints a fandom. Though it is one of the very few sources where I look at it and say, "Yeah, I could see that."
Fake,
you say? Fabulous! God love you, Anne - I'm very much wandering around unfamiliar shores without a map, and there's so freaking MUCH of it, and one can't actually open the books because they're all sealed with plastic - or, well, one can, but you're supposed to take them to the counter for the staff to unseal, and I couldn't
not
buy something after that - so I'm sort of lost. I bought what I thought was a
Vampire Hunter D
manga, thinking it sounded promising, and it turned out to be a bloody
novel,
to my annoyance. I mean, it might be a very good novel, but I thought I was getting manga. Damn it.
Fake.
Cool.
And, hell yes, check out
Eroica,
for it is the shiniest, most swashbuckling thing - think
Velvet Goldmine
crossed with
James Bond
and
The Scarlet Pimpernel,
with more than a dash of
The Man from UNCLE.
Klaus/Dorian - they're just unspeakably adorable. And grownups. And together they fight the KGB and do crime, while bickering like mad.
(I've been hoping that the writer has other books out, because I do love the artwork and the stories both - but so far no joy.)
eta
some links to pictures, and the information that she's written quite a lot of rather lovely looking things, generally of a swashbuckling historical nature. But they're not translated into English.
blows nose.
I, conversely, was listening to a 6 year old read a story called 'Little Teddy Helps Mouse' (in which Mouse foolishly falls into a muddy puddle despite Little Teddy's warning, is greatly disorientated and discomfited, and has to be helped home by Little Teddy, with the implication that there is to be a bath in his immediate future) and found myself going 'Hmm...hurt/comfort.' And then sort of choking.
Koala will kill him if he tries anything.
Holy cow. NYMag interviews Luminosity. Yes, Lum, the vidder.
[link]
Blimey!
t /impressed
...
...Anne, you don't know anything about GokuSen fanfic, do you? I went to fanfiction net, but it's just so soul-destroying having to wade through crap in the hopes of finding something good. And, er, you're now my go-to girl for anything manga/anime related (for I am So. Totally. Out. Of. My. Element).
