Slashy Nominations 50: More Than Two Backs in a Bed

[thefourthvine]

An actual, real relationship is generally not PWP. It affects other people, for one thing - friends, family, former lovers. And this is a set of stories that acknowledges that fact - a set of threesomes that aren't what we usually mean by that word.

Best FF That Only Features Sex in Retrospect: Kowalski Is Bleeding, by cesperanza. Due South, Benton

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[thefourthvine]

It's a problem. I totally agree. Although I do rec some unusual stuff, I don't do enough. And I know some fandoms way better than others, and that sort of has an effect on the familiarity of what I rec. I sometimes wonder if there's any point to doing recs if I'm going to be doing so much stuff that's familiar.

Overall, I think there is.

I mean, I do rec a lot of familiar stuff - but sometimes that's good. I know I like it when people do that; I end up re-reading a story I read once, yonks ago, and haven't been back to. (The database/bookmark system is not even close to perfect - sometimes I forget to bookmark, or my browser crashes, or a story stays with me that I didn't expect to. And the way I read, there's no way to reconstruct my linking later, so those stories are just lost. I've been driving myself insane all week trying to remember the name of a specific dS story where F and K are in the arctic and Ray has terrible Seasonal Affective Disorder, the worst I've ever seen in a fic, and the sun is rising for the first

[thefourthvine]

Come July, you will be married. Trust me on this: it will not make you saner. Getting your Master's (am I allowed to ask in what?) - that will make you saner. Providing you do not then go on to get your Ph.D.

I live in the Great Evil to the South, otherwise known as L.A. (Or, really, a suburb thereof. There isn't any there here, as I'm sure you know.) But do not think your bookmarks are safe from me. There are good roads between here and there, you know. And I am stealthful and can travel by night. (On account of insomnia.)

I totally agree on recommending the recommenders. (I love your post on that, by the way, and not just because I'm there. Although it's weirdly nice to see my name there.) It's incredibly useful. We should, in the course of it, mention why we love them: five stories they rec'd that we would also rec, or multifandomness to an extreme degree, or nifty pictures, whatever. I adore recs sites. And recs livejournals, although I've noticed for some reason lots of those include less information than the