Slashy Nominations 108: The Deadliest Foe to Virtue Would Be Complete Self-Knowledge

[thefourthvine]

When you slash your average pair o' characters, you've got some questions you need to answer if you're going to make it believable

Comments

[nolivingman]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there is such a story. I won't link to it unless you ask, but know that it does exist, and it's not badly written at all, and so it is soooooooo heartbreaking.

[nolivingman]

It's by seascribe and the link is here.

[fanofall]

It's really wonderful, even if it's... well. You know.

[thefourthvine]

Yow. I am *so* going to read this, and then I am *so* going to hate myself. But possibly love the story, which would be an acceptable trade-off.

Ah, FF: what the mind can conceive, some writer has already achieved. With added sodomy. How can you not love this? Even if it does feature an occasional execution-for-violation-of-Article-XXIX.

*moves off to gaze at scary story, pretending to be brave but not fooling anyone*

[nolivingman]

What amuses me is that M&C fic is pretty universally sweet and happy, and that makes this fic stand out just that much more. I was in Whedonverse fandom and so I'm used to the Fandom of Pain. There is very little pain in M&C fic.

[thefourthvine]

Yeah, but that's the whole appeal of M&C. (Well, aside from the inherent appeal of boats and ropes and captains and bitchy drug-addicted surgeons and so on.) It's the fandom where schmoop is the native tongue and happy endings top the list of first principles. Which is why a story like that is so much more shocking and painful than it could possibly be in, oh, Jossverse or Stargate or HP.

And now I think I have an exceedingly large number of M&C schmoop fics to re-read - sort of the FF equivalent of a security blanket. ("See? Didn't happen. They're safe. See? Safe. And, hey - fucking!")