I read the print-out in bed last night. I just wallowed! It was like diving into sweet fresh water. I loved reading this so much! It is a wonderful spin on aliens-made-me-do-it because Rodney wanted to do it. I loved Rodney having experimented loads already before John even got to him, and Rodney being unashamed. I loved Rodney's breasts!!! The descriptions of Rodney's body are all fantastic: the big nipples, the big breasts, the soft belly, the waist. And ah, the hotness of John at the end...
What I love here is how the characterisation works through the sex, and how the sex is an expression of character. There is a seamlessness between character and sex; I just love that. And the way John has his hands up on the wall at the end, when Rodney is a man... *wipes brow*
I loved also the way the story takes apart gender stereotypes, the way Rodney gets annoyed with John's limitations, the 'careful' lady-sex of John, all that that says about John and about Rodney and about men in general and about us.
I loved how we got bad-sex-John, and then finally, the pay-off of John losing it (anticipated so nicely in Rodney's earlier wishing that John would lose it a bit more). I love it how John is the fucked up one, and Rodney not. I love the zest of the prose, and the pacing that skips from delicious bit to delicious bit and glides effortlessly over the stitching-together bits.
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Date: 2/7/08 07:15 pm (UTC)What I love here is how the characterisation works through the sex, and how the sex is an expression of character. There is a seamlessness between character and sex; I just love that. And the way John has his hands up on the wall at the end, when Rodney is a man... *wipes brow*
I loved also the way the story takes apart gender stereotypes, the way Rodney gets annoyed with John's limitations, the 'careful' lady-sex of John, all that that says about John and about Rodney and about men in general and about us.
I loved how we got bad-sex-John, and then finally, the pay-off of John losing it (anticipated so nicely in Rodney's earlier wishing that John would lose it a bit more). I love it how John is the fucked up one, and Rodney not. I love the zest of the prose, and the pacing that skips from delicious bit to delicious bit and glides effortlessly over the stitching-together bits.
Thank you!