Square Three: Vehicular (16 recs - fic, art, vids - Inception, House, SGA, Top Gear, Multi)
I went to three car dealerships today. I earned this post.
Square 1: Ageplay Recs
Square 2: Food Recs
Square 3: Vehicular Recs (not wrecks)
Square 4: Subspace/Headspace Recs
Square 5: Verbal Humiliation Recs
If you'd asked me last week what I thought of "vehicular kink," I'd have gone straight to Crash. Not the racism one; the David Cronenberg one with people getting off on crashing cars and injuring themselves. Literally, that is people having orgasms because of cars, and in cars, and on cars, and while thinking about or talking about cars and other people who've died in them, etc. etc. If you did not know, James Spader + Elias Koteas (+ car) = hot.
Fic-wise, vehicular first of all made me think of characters having sex in and on cars, and on motorcycles, and in the back of cabs (vehicular + exhibitionism), and in spaceships and on planes. And certainly there are some hot-and-heavy PWPs in this vein:
Inception
between my reflex and my resolve by gyzym - second section (Lotus Elise)
untitled Arthur/Eames car porn-ish by pennyplainknits, with short prequel (Aston Martin)
when we touch it turns to gold by anonymous (red Jaguar)
Untitled Arthur/Eames car art on Tumblr submitted by T.B
Which does not even cover Mile High Club stories like, say, eleveninches' Don't Fall In Love with a Dreamer.
House
The Corvette:
In Gear by Kass
No Regrets by miss_violet
The Second Diabolic Plan by movies_michelle
The bike:
No Fear by miss_violet
Touch by Kass (indirectly)
…Okay, friends, which House fics did I forget this time? delicious.com and other search engines are no use when people don't log their fic there.
ETA: And I forgot Mechanically (or The Sex That Happens in the Garage) by nakeno and finding_jay. Mm.
SGA
With Intent by shaenie (John/Rodney makes puddlejumpers float)
And one from the POV of the vehicles hosting the sex: In the Jumper Bay by damerel
So that got me thinking about characters like House, who loves his shiny Mafia convertible and his rad motorcycle (see deelaundry's post for pictorial confirmation), and John Sheppard, who loves 'jumpers and F302s and, presumably, helicopters. Cameron Mitchell, too, I'm sure, if I watched much SG-1. Wolverine and motorcycles. James Bond and... everything. Supernatural's Dean Winchester and his Impala.
And suddenly a whole class of vehicular kink opened up: characters who love one specific vehicle. Kirk and the Enterprise! Geordi and the Enterprise D! Kaylee and Serenity! Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon! Tank Girl! The Doctor and the TARDIS! (Especially if you're watching the Neil Gaiman episode, it seems.)
Which leads to sentient vehicles like KITT from Knight Rider and Megatron-well, everyone-from Transformers, where you can consider actually having a relationship with them. For that matter, what about Laurence and Temeraire from Naomi Novik's novels, Atreyu and Falcor from The Neverending Story, Sirius Black and Buckbeak in Prisoner of Azkaban? (No, really, there was Buckbeak fic. I remember it.) Not that a sentient creature is nothing but a vehicle. …Okay, the Kink Wiki says that's animal play and not vehicular, so never mind.
A sidestep, and there are car-centric canons like The Fast & The Furious, which I haven't watched but gather are all about sexy cars and sexy people. And there are car-centric TV shows like Pimp My Ride and-ah! went my brain. Top Gear.
Top Gear. A British show featuring three witty men who have incomprehensible amounts of spending money hard-ons for top-of-the-line cars and arguably for one another as well. Watch any episode and you are guaranteed a sexual remark from Jeremy Clarkson about either a sports car or a co-star. Richard once declared his love for a car he named Oliver; it was actually a touching story. Besides which, the series is full of lingering, sexualized, male-gaze-type shots of cars and specific portions of cars. But instead of re-posting episodes here, how about some vids that draw out the love between hosts and cars? Yes.
First up, Fourway carlovin' by Draco the Lizard, whose notes say: "Because the Bugatti Veyron loves ALL Top Gear presenters! Set to Rihanna's Shut Up And Drive, which is clearly entirely about carshagging."
Second, Accidentally In Love by DarthCulf. Cute recap of the Richard/Oliver plot.
Third, Oliver vs. Daytona by Dunalqua. Richard loves Oliver, but what happens when the Daytona tries to steal his love away? This may be the only car/man/car love tug-of-war I've ever seen depicted.
Many thanks to ahab99 for helping me find these.
And that is a glimpse of Top Gear. Now go watch some. It's a good time.
At the end of this mental wandering through some different aspects of vehicular kink, a fabulous vid came to mind that reminds us that it's not only men who love their cars and planes and bikes and broomsticks. Around the Bend by danegen, which premiered at Vividcon last summer, is an energetic celebration of women through the decades-fictional and not-and how they love their vehicles and love each other in them. Highly recommended.
Kinks, explicit or gen or anything in between. The more you think about them, the more they telescope outwards.
My Bingo card
Square 1: Ageplay Recs
Square 2: Food Recs
Square 3: Vehicular Recs (not wrecks)
Square 4: Subspace/Headspace Recs
Square 5: Verbal Humiliation Recs
If you'd asked me last week what I thought of "vehicular kink," I'd have gone straight to Crash. Not the racism one; the David Cronenberg one with people getting off on crashing cars and injuring themselves. Literally, that is people having orgasms because of cars, and in cars, and on cars, and while thinking about or talking about cars and other people who've died in them, etc. etc. If you did not know, James Spader + Elias Koteas (+ car) = hot.
Fic-wise, vehicular first of all made me think of characters having sex in and on cars, and on motorcycles, and in the back of cabs (vehicular + exhibitionism), and in spaceships and on planes. And certainly there are some hot-and-heavy PWPs in this vein:
Inception
between my reflex and my resolve by gyzym - second section (Lotus Elise)
untitled Arthur/Eames car porn-ish by pennyplainknits, with short prequel (Aston Martin)
when we touch it turns to gold by anonymous (red Jaguar)
Untitled Arthur/Eames car art on Tumblr submitted by T.B
Which does not even cover Mile High Club stories like, say, eleveninches' Don't Fall In Love with a Dreamer.
House
The Corvette:
In Gear by Kass
No Regrets by miss_violet
The Second Diabolic Plan by movies_michelle
The bike:
No Fear by miss_violet
Touch by Kass (indirectly)
…Okay, friends, which House fics did I forget this time? delicious.com and other search engines are no use when people don't log their fic there.
ETA: And I forgot Mechanically (or The Sex That Happens in the Garage) by nakeno and finding_jay. Mm.
SGA
With Intent by shaenie (John/Rodney makes puddlejumpers float)
And one from the POV of the vehicles hosting the sex: In the Jumper Bay by damerel
So that got me thinking about characters like House, who loves his shiny Mafia convertible and his rad motorcycle (see deelaundry's post for pictorial confirmation), and John Sheppard, who loves 'jumpers and F302s and, presumably, helicopters. Cameron Mitchell, too, I'm sure, if I watched much SG-1. Wolverine and motorcycles. James Bond and... everything. Supernatural's Dean Winchester and his Impala.
And suddenly a whole class of vehicular kink opened up: characters who love one specific vehicle. Kirk and the Enterprise! Geordi and the Enterprise D! Kaylee and Serenity! Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon! Tank Girl! The Doctor and the TARDIS! (Especially if you're watching the Neil Gaiman episode, it seems.)
Which leads to sentient vehicles like KITT from Knight Rider and Megatron-well, everyone-from Transformers, where you can consider actually having a relationship with them. For that matter, what about Laurence and Temeraire from Naomi Novik's novels, Atreyu and Falcor from The Neverending Story, Sirius Black and Buckbeak in Prisoner of Azkaban? (No, really, there was Buckbeak fic. I remember it.) Not that a sentient creature is nothing but a vehicle. …Okay, the Kink Wiki says that's animal play and not vehicular, so never mind.
A sidestep, and there are car-centric canons like The Fast & The Furious, which I haven't watched but gather are all about sexy cars and sexy people. And there are car-centric TV shows like Pimp My Ride and-ah! went my brain. Top Gear.
Top Gear. A British show featuring three witty men who have incomprehensible amounts of spending money hard-ons for top-of-the-line cars and arguably for one another as well. Watch any episode and you are guaranteed a sexual remark from Jeremy Clarkson about either a sports car or a co-star. Richard once declared his love for a car he named Oliver; it was actually a touching story. Besides which, the series is full of lingering, sexualized, male-gaze-type shots of cars and specific portions of cars. But instead of re-posting episodes here, how about some vids that draw out the love between hosts and cars? Yes.
First up, Fourway carlovin' by Draco the Lizard, whose notes say: "Because the Bugatti Veyron loves ALL Top Gear presenters! Set to Rihanna's Shut Up And Drive, which is clearly entirely about carshagging."
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
Second, Accidentally In Love by DarthCulf. Cute recap of the Richard/Oliver plot.
Third, Oliver vs. Daytona by Dunalqua. Richard loves Oliver, but what happens when the Daytona tries to steal his love away? This may be the only car/man/car love tug-of-war I've ever seen depicted.
Many thanks to ahab99 for helping me find these.
And that is a glimpse of Top Gear. Now go watch some. It's a good time.
At the end of this mental wandering through some different aspects of vehicular kink, a fabulous vid came to mind that reminds us that it's not only men who love their cars and planes and bikes and broomsticks. Around the Bend by danegen, which premiered at Vividcon last summer, is an energetic celebration of women through the decades-fictional and not-and how they love their vehicles and love each other in them. Highly recommended.
Kinks, explicit or gen or anything in between. The more you think about them, the more they telescope outwards.
My Bingo card