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Introduction

Slash, het, gen, the works. Movies are cool. I like fic about them. What more is there to say?

Current Fandoms: A Knight's Tale, Beauty and the Beast, Gladiator, James Bond, and Lawrence of Arabia/A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia. See also Askewniverse, Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean recs.

A Knight's Tale

moonwhip's Listen manages to pull off both second person and a convinving Chaucer-voice at the same time. I am in love with the way moonwhip fits words together, the vague chill of the imagery, the way the story is so much darker than the movie and yet true to characterization. There, in front of you. Men in priestly robes. The Black Prince, who is not beautiful but wears a saintly look that you resolve to love, immediately. (Chaucer/William)

Addictions, by Collie, has spot-on, adorable Wat-Chaucer banter, and poor sexually confused Wat, and is just full of cute, if bizarre, flirtiness. And isn't that what we love about these boys? I know I do. The thought occurred to him that he'd best initiate the conversation once again, lest he turn around and maul the boy. (Wat/Chaucer)

The Slashy Chants, compiled by Collie, aren't a fic, but are a bit of obscene and highly amusing insanity. Definitely must see the movie first, though. He's reserved but not aloof; he's a great, big, fucking pouf! Lichtenstein! Lichtenstein! (William -- and damn near everyone else in that movie -- is just so gay.)

Beauty and the Beast

I never thought I'd read, much less enjoy, a story based on Disney's Beauty and the Beast, but I saw a link to Sophia Jirafe's Passing of a Winter Love on someone's rec page, clicked, and read, and I'm not sorry. It isn't really very dependent on the movie and could, in fact, be simply a postscript to any number of versions of the fairytale, but it's tragic as I knew it had to end, for how could any Beauty be content with the Prince when she fell in love with the Beast? Cold, bright prose. All she had left of their winter together was in his eyes, those familiar eyes that had once loved her, and as time passed she lost even that. (Beauty/Prince)

Gladiator

odi et amo, by elegy, is of a compellingly insane Commodus and a Maximus with reservations. It works, and works beautifully. (Maximus/Commodus, contains borderline non-con)

James Bond

Bondslash. Yes, you heard me, Bondslash. Not only that, but Bondslash involving Bond which manages to be plausible and good and hot. Eleanor K.'s Close is just this, and it has everything that I like in a Bond fic (okay, so far, I haven't found it in any other Bond fics): Bond who's showing his age, M being snarky and her all-around fabulous self, and a Charles who is more than just a pretty face. "As I was saying," Charles continued in the space left by James' stunned silence, "If you'd keep your face out of some blonde's snatch for more than a minute at a time, perhaps you'd see that there are people around here who care for you." (James Bond/Charles Robinson, post-Die Another Day)

I saw the Bond/Trevalyan subtext, certainly, but it's hard for me to actually buy them as a Relationship, or even as Friends Who Fuck. This sadly short snippet by Marzilla is one of the best I've found. Despite its shortness and the situation, the characterization rings true for both of them. "Just close your eyes and think of England, Alec. I'll take care of the rest." (James Bond/Alec Trevalyan)

Lawrence of Arabia/A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia

[Lawrence/Ali is one of my three favorite pairings, one of those pairings that gets to me on a very deep level. I speak here of the movie version of the characters, as I consider the real T.E. Lawrence and Sherif Ali to be very different people. Although I will read fic influenced by Seven Pillars of Wisdom, pure RPS in this case makes me very uncomfortable. Odd boundaries, I have. Since seeing A Dangerous Man, I have expanded to reading Lawrence/Feisal, on the assumption that Feisal and Ali are fairly similar in role, but it's not quite the same thing. Omar Sharif obsession, y'know. But Ralph Fiennes' giggle and his general insane hotness (in both senses) help a lot. LoA = Lawrence of Arabia, ADM = A Dangerous Man.]

Tides of men, by Jane St Clair, is painful and raw and beautiful. Feisal smells like dry spaces, even in this European coldness. Lawrence likes to imagine that they are still in Damascus. (ADM, details from LoA, Lawrence/Feisal)

Moth to the Flame, by Madelyn Scott, mixes military planning and sex quite well, and while I still prefer Ali, her Feisal is compelling enough on his own. "When men who were not permitted to use Arabic by day dreamed in it at night," I said drowsily, "and the pages of every book in the universities seemed to speak of battle and honor." (ADM, LoA timeframe, Lawrence/Feisal)

Derry's Welding Souls and Spirits is perhaps one of my favorite pieces of fanfiction. It's beautifully written, with both the feel of the movie and Seven Pillars of Wisdom, painful and fierce and bright. (LoA, Lawrence/Sherif Ali)

During the Night, also by Derry, is also painful, but in a different way. Lawrence in winter, and love, and (dis)honesty. (LoA, Lawrence/Sherif Ali)