Comments | kestrelsan: Original m/m recs

kestrelsan

Original m/m recs

Nov 12, 2011 16:17

I wish they were more searchable, but I couldn't face posting them all individually and tagging the genre keywords. They're organized by author, on a (mostly) sliding scale of kink from light to heavy. I have a set of unpublished/free recs (not very long at the moment) and a longer set of published recs ( Read more... )

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topaz119 November 13 2011, 04:43:26 UTC

Oh, thanks very much! This is definitely one of those areas where random people reccing things is not particularly helpful, so this is much appreciated.

kestrelsan November 13 2011, 05:16:04 UTC

You're very welcome! I find your own kink stories blisteringly hot, so I suspect we have similar tastes :). I hope this is helpful to you!

arallara November 13 2011, 21:13:16 UTC

Oh bless you for this!! I got sucked into The Captive Prince last summer, thinking it wasn't going to really be my thing. But then it...was. Oh yes! So invested now!

Anyway, it was refreshing to read original fiction that hit my buttons in the way that certain kinds of fanfiction does--I'm not used to having those particular buttons pushed by anything else--and I'm bookmarking this for long winter nights when I want a good wallow.

kestrelsan November 13 2011, 22:10:52 UTC

Yay, I'm glad! I hope you find this helpful (and find good things to read on it!).

One of these days I'm going to actually put together my thoughts on slavefic and gender, and all the sub-genres of slavefic and what they say about restrictions on the body, and why as a woman I find them so relevant and relatable even when I can't articulate why :). What I love about Captive Prince is that it feels both like reining in the masculine (Damen's slavery) and also a feminine desire to be free of restrictions on the body (rooting for Damen's release). Also, it's awesome :).

arallara February 12 2012, 16:40:34 UTC

I've had this comment notification sitting in my inbox for ages because I wanted to come back and say: yes! Write that! Please! :) I would love to read your thoughts on slavefic and gender.

It's not one of those AU tropes that I have to read in every fandom (no, that would be the high school AU for me, hello my issues, heh) but it definitely works for me a lot of the time, and just your few thoughts here had me nodding my head.

kestrelsan February 19 2012, 22:30:28 UTC

I would, but my brain is still fried from the awesome hotness of the last chapter :).

I love high school and college tropes - J2 was such a perfect fandom for that. I admit, though, that I'll read slavefic for fandoms I don't even know. But I find it so easy for my kinks to glide over into squick - so much of slavefic is like curtainfic with a vastly unequal power relationship, which for me feels pointless (I don't mean a consensual power exchange relationship; I like those just fine). I really do feel like it's a way to talk about the inequality of gender without bringing in the baggage of gender, and the more I read in it the more I read in my own discontents, like the soul-sucking dehumanizing conformity of the modern corporate workplace. I'm sure there's a connection! At some point I'll have to actually organize my thoughts about it *g*.

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fourfreedoms November 13 2011, 23:43:30 UTC

I have been saving this list for the moment when I had some spare time. I'M SO EXCITED TO DIG IN!

kestrelsan November 14 2011, 00:24:40 UTC

Yay! I hope you find some stuff you like! I've had many hours sucked away by these *g*.

oracne November 14 2011, 15:58:38 UTC

Thanks for this! You listed some I already liked and some I'd never even heard of!

I have read The Administration - very distant origins of the series were in Blake's 7, I believe.

kestrelsan November 15 2011, 13:06:36 UTC

Excellent! I hope you find some more things you like on here - I'm excited that it's a growing genre. I'm always coming across new stuff.

I really loved the Administration - I think I had read that the characters had started out as OCs in a Blake's 7 story. It makes me want to watch Blake's 7 :).

oracne November 15 2011, 14:24:12 UTC

You should totally watch it. You just have to embrace the outfits and hair.

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kestrelsan November 15 2011, 13:13:35 UTC

You're very welcome! My general approach was to browse Amazon with keywords then download a million samples to my Kindle, then delete the ones that were really unreadable or that I otherwise couldn't get into. Once I found an author I liked, I'd check out all their other stuff. Kind of a messy process *g*. I hope you find some things on here that you like!