Story! Coldfire story! whee! Gerald and Damien!
It's posted to the
yuletide archive as a New Year's Resolution story for
giddygeek, as well as to my site.
Before the face of the sun (105 K). Learning to live in daylight. PG.
Before the face of the sun on the yuletide site
Before the face of the sun on strangeplaces doubleagent
whee! finally finished!
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I promised myself I´d go back and read Fumarole again, (nice to know what it´s all about now!), but I´m afraid it will have to wait. *g*
Sooo happy!
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Was not the second half of Crown of Shadows the slashiest thing ever? ;)
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Actually, there´s a scene near the end of WTNF that reduces me to a puddle of goo every single time I reread it. Damien faces Gerald and the bad guy sitting side by side in that hall and You-know-who asks Gerald "Was he always like this?" and Gerald smiles (one of those smiles of his!) and says: "Unfortunately." For me, that´s the sweetest declaration of love ever - whee!
Anyway, back to the story.
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I like smut as well as the next girl and when I had finished the series the first thing that came to mind was the famous quote about Pride and Prejudice: "I wouldn´t have minded...a twenty-page sex scene...with Mr. Darcy...aquitting himself uncommonly well."
Still, I applaud the wisdom of reserving the explicit stuff for Damien´s encounter with a "safely nameless stranger" (how I loved that line and its layers of meaning!)
With Gerald and Damien, before the face of the sun, a more tentative approach is appropriate. That doesn´t mean the emotional impact of the story is any less powerful.
There is something to be said for smut, of course.
I particularly loved Gerald´s "gloriously messy hair" in Fumarole. Friedman constantly refers to his hair which doesn´t bother me in the least; I have this hair kink myself. But Tarrant is usually such a Not-a-hair-out-of-place kind of person that seeing him all disheveled and rumpled after a night of ( ... )
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I'm very glad you liked it. I don't think they're quite ready to be, um, explicit, in this particular timeline, but they did pretty well with the schmoop in their own way. ;)
particularly loved Gerald´s "gloriously messy hair"
*beams at you* I think after centuries of being well-groomed and evil and not getting laid, he deserved that. :)
do you feel inclined to linger in this fandom
I'm still completely in love with it, that's for certain sure. Maybe we could start some type of writer recruitment program. :)
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Leigh
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"I still have a great trouble believing any slash set in the Coldfire trilogy, for several reasons (biggest among those is that Coldfire is made to be both a paramount of a certain type of gothic novel and a certain type of antihero, and a satire of thereof.. which includes the debunking of redemption by romantic love in such cases) On the other hands, there's no reason it would be totally out of the question,... but in the fics I read - though they were well written and in character - didn't convince me one bit and it was all coming out of the blue"?
It is from www.livejournal.com/users/etrangere.
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"And since I /was/ reading it again to check for slash potential, my conclusions :
- Both Tarrant and Vryce have a particular look out at women that they don't have with men. Karril actually tells us right away that Vryce is straight. For Tarrant it /might/ be mostly because he's such a sexist bastard.
- /However/ Vryce does spend a lot of time being awed by how pretty Tarrant is. Okay, in an annoyed way, but who spends so much time fascinated with another man's look ?
- Thought iextactly by preference, Tarrant doesn't see anything against feeding from Vryce throught the link, and that despite how obviously sexualized his feeding is.
- < spoiler >Another good question is what becomes of his sexuality once his sadism and taste for hunting are gone/ Obviously you can't use both this and the previous rationale at the same time ( ... )
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