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_green_. So pretty. :;pets her and them gently:: Here's one of them.
Heh; got an odd review today; signed, not flamey, but someone had read my Giles/Xander spanking fic thinking it was Buffy/Giles (?!) and said that it was disturbing (preens self) and that as a B/A shipper they didn't want to ever (what, never? No, never) see Xander in a relationship because of the Lie. :;boggles:: Not even one where he's getting his backside blistered? No? Oh, well. Whatever.
Just finished Heyer's 'Simon the Coldheart'. Oddly, it concerns the very close friendship of three men called the Poet, the Soldier and the Knight. I started 'Snowbound' before re reading it and it's medieval not Regency so it shouldn't have been in my head...but I seem to have sort of stolen that idea. And some of the manner of speaking. I'm a sponge.
Except Heyer's story is way slashier than mine. Just saying. Really. Simon, a virgin until his thirties because he doesn't like women, they're just not on his radar, is followed around the entire novel by men who want to be his slaves (they say it) have hissy fits if he lets another squire take off his boots and adore him unconditionally, especially if he's cruel to them. He falls in love with a woman who is fierce and strong, and the reserve of decades is shattered when he sees her dressed as a boy struggling in the arms of another man. The textual inferences could be explained away by referencing the chivalrous ideals prevalent in that era, but I prefer to point and scream, 'Slashy!' because I'm that kind of person.
_green_. So pretty. :;pets her and them gently:: Here's one of them.Heh; got an odd review today; signed, not flamey, but someone had read my Giles/Xander spanking fic thinking it was Buffy/Giles (?!) and said that it was disturbing (preens self) and that as a B/A shipper they didn't want to ever (what, never? No, never) see Xander in a relationship because of the Lie. :;boggles:: Not even one where he's getting his backside blistered? No? Oh, well. Whatever.
Just finished Heyer's 'Simon the Coldheart'. Oddly, it concerns the very close friendship of three men called the Poet, the Soldier and the Knight. I started 'Snowbound' before re reading it and it's medieval not Regency so it shouldn't have been in my head...but I seem to have sort of stolen that idea. And some of the manner of speaking. I'm a sponge.
Except Heyer's story is way slashier than mine. Just saying. Really. Simon, a virgin until his thirties because he doesn't like women, they're just not on his radar, is followed around the entire novel by men who want to be his slaves (they say it) have hissy fits if he lets another squire take off his boots and adore him unconditionally, especially if he's cruel to them. He falls in love with a woman who is fierce and strong, and the reserve of decades is shattered when he sees her dressed as a boy struggling in the arms of another man. The textual inferences could be explained away by referencing the chivalrous ideals prevalent in that era, but I prefer to point and scream, 'Slashy!' because I'm that kind of person.