Sentinel Thursday Challenge 197 No Pain, No Gain

[laurie_ky]

Title: Compromising... Positions
Author:  Laurie
Word Count: 1000ish
Rating: Gen
Type: Pre-slash, Gen
Warnings: None

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Comments

[slipperieslope]

Aieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I really enjoyed this! But you cannot leave it there. I need Blair pumping iron with Jim in the weight room filled with sweating beefy types. Grunts, resin rags flying, spotting for each other, showering in the locker room...

*is distracted by the mental images*

And yoga - slow graceful warm up exercises with Blair molding Jim into the correct positions... music... candles... and then they could move on to the couples erotic work outs... *dreams*

Oy, what you do to me. I have to admit that my favorite moment was when Blair dropped trou! Blue Moon of laurie_ky, indeed ; )

[laurie_ky]

Yes!! The subtext came through. ::joins you in distracting mental images of workouts and Yoga sessions::

Blair had to moon Jim, he just had to, given the situation and his, ugh, position.
Love your icon and how you made it fit with my name. By the way, if anybody else has read your comment the ky stands for Kentucky.
thank you for your enthusiastic comments.
Laurie

[t_verano]

::hugging you many hugs back!::

Really liking the new things a lot! -- especially: "And you make a nice target, if somebody wanted to…” and the guarding / feinting action in front of Blair's room.

Sweet and fun and such delicious potential. And it's Blair, upping the ante (friendship, or otherwise) -- leave it to Blair! And leave it to Blair to do it by sticking his ass up in the air as invitingly as possible. ::happy smile; eyes just slightly unfocused, picturing...::

[laurie_ky]

Thanks for the kind words and the beta'ing. I put this at fairly early in their friendship and trying for an effect that they are attracted to each other and their subconscious' have figured it out but haven't clued in the rest of their respective brains. I know you got the subtext;I really wonder if it came across to other readers or if they just saw the surface effect. Sort of wonder if the story appears to be too manipulative for including the subtext the way I did.
Laurie

[t_verano]

Hmmm, reading people's comments -- some people saw subtext, some not; so that's kind of like the show, right? Which, to me, is *good* for this kind of thing, if it can be read either way. And I don't think playing along the edge, where something can be interpreted in different ways by different readers (and in a way, that's what subtext *is*), is manipulative at all.

Sheesh, I can tell I'm about to get wordy, so I think I'll just email you the rest. :-)

[janedavitt]

They're so very different, aren't they? This really brought that home... and yet, as you show at the end, they can still meet in the middle.

Lovely.

[laurie_ky]

Yes, they do come from different cultures but I'm thinking that's part of the attraction, because they look a little exotic to each other. And I like your icon, very subtle in its support of your statement. Blair with his (I guess) back pack and his too big coat, which screams poverty student type here, and Jim with his police t-shirt and gun (it is his gun isn't it::peers at the picture::,looking tough and efficient and not somebody you want to mess with.
Laurie

[janedavitt]

I like this icon very much; it's by scientistsdisco

[zanesfriend]

I would go even farther--each is what the other, by background and upbringing--has been taught to dislike and distrust; but they learn not only to admire and respect one another, but to rejoice in their differences.