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Dec. 21st, 2013 12:30 pmI rewatched The Social Network recently, hence the recent fic recs. It’s a really good movie, though flawed, and seems to be aware of the casual sexism of its lead characters.
I’m about to rec a story that is hard to read, the Kept Boy AU. Not hard to read because it’s bad, far from it, but just logistically. It’s from the TSN kinkmeme, and for some reason was never transplanted onto AO3. Not sure why not, because it’s a wonderful story.
It actually kind of irritates me not knowing who wrote it, because I *totally* want to read her other work in other fandoms. But, you know, authors have every right to stay anonymous if they want to. It's not all about me. It just makes life a little more inconvenient, because you end up reading the story in about 14 million parts, because each section can only be as long as an LJ reply, although it does make use of the comment threading function very efficiently, so it's not *that* difficult to read.
It’s an AU, and it makes it obvious how damn YOUNG the characters are when the crisis hits them in the movie. In the AU, they’re 4 years older when the crisis hits, and because it’s an AU, it’s a different crisis. They deal with it a little more gracefully, and I’m not sure if that’s because the author softened the characters a tad, or if it’s simply because they’re 24 and 25 rather than 20 and 21 and have grown up a little more.
The unnamed story also finishes with the loveliest anticlimax I’ve ever read. Anticlimaxes are usually disappointing, but this one is wonderful, and feels totally earned. I’m being vague on purpose here, but I think you’ll see what I mean if you get to the end of the story. Oh, and there are two Easter eggs, that I didn't spot the first time I read the story, here and also here. But read those after you've finished the main story, or they won't make any sense.
Oh, and there is a LOT of sex in the first, say, 30% of the story. It's not a total porn-fest, there's plot, and a good one, but there's also a lot of sex. If that's not your thing, be aware that there are sections coming up later which have less sex. I mean, personally I think the sex in the story is hot, but you never know, someone might not be a fan, and might *really* be in it just for the plot. But the sex does something interesting, illustrating the passage of time and the maturation of the characters. At the start of the story, Mark is 20 and Wardo 21, and neither of them is the same person sexually that they are four years down the road. It's hard to explain to someone who hasn't read it, and I'm not explaining it well, but suffice it to say the sex isn't only there to be hot.
Getting away from the AU story, and back to the actual movie, I was reminded upon re-watching that (cutting for spoilers for TSN): ( Read more... )
I’m about to rec a story that is hard to read, the Kept Boy AU. Not hard to read because it’s bad, far from it, but just logistically. It’s from the TSN kinkmeme, and for some reason was never transplanted onto AO3. Not sure why not, because it’s a wonderful story.
It actually kind of irritates me not knowing who wrote it, because I *totally* want to read her other work in other fandoms. But, you know, authors have every right to stay anonymous if they want to. It's not all about me. It just makes life a little more inconvenient, because you end up reading the story in about 14 million parts, because each section can only be as long as an LJ reply, although it does make use of the comment threading function very efficiently, so it's not *that* difficult to read.
It’s an AU, and it makes it obvious how damn YOUNG the characters are when the crisis hits them in the movie. In the AU, they’re 4 years older when the crisis hits, and because it’s an AU, it’s a different crisis. They deal with it a little more gracefully, and I’m not sure if that’s because the author softened the characters a tad, or if it’s simply because they’re 24 and 25 rather than 20 and 21 and have grown up a little more.
The unnamed story also finishes with the loveliest anticlimax I’ve ever read. Anticlimaxes are usually disappointing, but this one is wonderful, and feels totally earned. I’m being vague on purpose here, but I think you’ll see what I mean if you get to the end of the story. Oh, and there are two Easter eggs, that I didn't spot the first time I read the story, here and also here. But read those after you've finished the main story, or they won't make any sense.
Oh, and there is a LOT of sex in the first, say, 30% of the story. It's not a total porn-fest, there's plot, and a good one, but there's also a lot of sex. If that's not your thing, be aware that there are sections coming up later which have less sex. I mean, personally I think the sex in the story is hot, but you never know, someone might not be a fan, and might *really* be in it just for the plot. But the sex does something interesting, illustrating the passage of time and the maturation of the characters. At the start of the story, Mark is 20 and Wardo 21, and neither of them is the same person sexually that they are four years down the road. It's hard to explain to someone who hasn't read it, and I'm not explaining it well, but suffice it to say the sex isn't only there to be hot.
Getting away from the AU story, and back to the actual movie, I was reminded upon re-watching that (cutting for spoilers for TSN): ( Read more... )
