Original m/m recs

[kestrelsan]

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 I have a set of unpublished/free recs (not very long at the moment) and a longer set of published recs

Comments

[arallara]

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]

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]

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]

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*.

[kestrelsan]

I actually have this J2 slave fic I've been wanting to finish forever - and reading back over what I just wrote above, I don't know that it does anything that I claim to like *g*. It probably is more like cracky curtainfic.