Slashy Awards 140: It Is Not in Mortals to Command the Hot Gay Sex

[thefourthvine]

In the past, I've gone into the concept of the Aliens Make Them Do It story - oh, have I ever - but aliens can't take full responsibility for all the sexing, you know. Even the most assiduously lascivious extra-terrestrial needs a break sometime. But never fear, because anything, properly applied, can get the characters into the appropriately

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[kalpurna]

(Let's face it. If ever there was a man who could have an orgy accidentally, John would be that guy. Hell, is that guy.)

I just. I don't thing I have ever read anything more true than that sentence.

[thefourthvine]

He just never sees it coming, you know?

And I bet that was a lot more challenging back on earth; at least in Pegasus there's a limited number of people, and everyone in the city knows him. (I can see the new crew orientation now: "Lieutenant Colonel Sheppard seems like he's flirting, but if you respond, he'll stare at you like you're speaking in tongues. Save yourself the trouble and heartache and crush on Lorne instead.") At home, though, he probably had the experience of being invited to what he thought was a pick-up game of basketball and ending up at a sex party.

In fact, he probably had it more than once.

[ninasis]

Ever since I got sucked into The Sentinel fandom, I've wanted to dip my toes into due South as well. (Seems like just about every good TS writer is/was active in dS also.) And here you come along with a rec that makes me want to read a story even though I have no clue about any of the canon characters or events.

You're the fannish version of Dwight. Dwight was the crack dealer that used to live three houses down from my parents. Of course Dwight is in prison now - or, well, he was *sent* to prison a couple of years ago, but knowing the Texas justice system he's probably out by now. Um...anyway...long way of saying THANK YOU for bringing the fandom crack. I am a rabid repeat customer of yours!

I'm off to read about these Fraser and Ray people now...

[malnpudl]

Butting in uninvited (hi!)... these might help orient you, if you're interested:

Due South introduction at crack_van

And They Lived Happily Ever After: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski at ship_manifesto

Okay, crawling back into my cave now...

[ninasis]

Ooh...thank you! Now I know what I'll be doing all day tomorrow. Hee

[thefourthvine]

I am proud to be a fannish crack dealer. It's my vocation.

And malnpudl is absolutely right with her links - she knows from dS. The CV overview is what I used to get into this fandom, and the Ship Manifesto is great. And, because dS people tend to love their fandom long and loud, I'm going to offer you a number of links. You'll probably have seen some of them before, but - well, just in case.

DS has some of the best infrastructure I've seen in a fandom, both on LJ and off. On LJ, there's the famed ds_flashfiction community, which is still going strong, and which has a huge back catalog in the memories. New stories and other related stuff is announced in ds_noticeboard. Off LJ, there's the Due South Archive, which is one of the few all-inclusive fandom archives I've seen, and Due Slash, which is, well, slash. If you see a broken link (which is a problem in a fandom this old), odds are good you'll find the story at one of these two sites.

I recommended a couple of good starter stories in my dS FIHL, which is old, but the canon is closed, so that doesn't matter too

[rokeon]

(Insert Fandom-Appropriate Third Party Here) Made Them Do It: The Rec Set.

*standing ovation* Truly a thing of beauty.

[thefourthvine]

Because I've always said that there's nothing more beautiful than sex induced by external forces. (Can't wait for the sex pollen/pheromones set!)

[rokeon]

You know, Batman is like my anti-fandom, but I've still read sex pollen stories. They really are inescapable.

And then there's always the SGA fics that boil down to "Hey, look, a giant field of alien poppy-like flowers! Let's walk through!"

[kindkit]

Oooh, you recced my story! *bounces* And thank you so much for what you said about the story. Your recs are always so thoughtful and interesting, which makes it extra thrilling to be among the recced.

[thefourthvine]

*beams*

Thanks right back at you for the compliments and the story, both of which I adore.

[impactbomb]

The Hercules story made me laugh so hard I cried. That is so incredibly pitch-perfect, from beginning to end, it feels like it could just be another episode of the show.

Oh, Herc.

[thefourthvine]

I've never actually seen the show, but your comment kind of makes me want to. I mean - bone-headed demigods. Scrappy mortals. Women in leather. If that's what the canon is like, how could it not be fun?

[impactbomb]

Hercules canon is the greatest because - as the pig-in-a-Herc-suit incident proves, there is nothing fandom can come up with that the show hasn't already hinted at slyly or just plain already done. Mpreg? Canon (almost)!

And yes, there are lots of women in leather. And more than one bone-headed demigod. And more than a little Iolaus/Herc slashiness. (The guy died three times over the course of the series. And each time Herc went after him to save him. I mean, how much more obvious do you need your slash to be? [Herc even put up with Crazy Alternate Clown Iolaus for an entire season because it was Iolaus. Need I say more?] To put it in perspective - Jim and Blair are gay, you know? But Herc and Iolaus [and Xena and Gabrielle, too] are gay. They make Aziraphale look straight as a razor by comparison.)