Alien recs

[resonant]

saridout and _inbetween_ evidently haven't consumed their recommended daily allowance of "Aliens make them do it" stories, so here's a small collection of my favorites. I welcome other recs!

Blake's 7 (Avon/Tarrant): Duty by Pat Jacquerie. Long and hot and hits nearly every kink I've got; this is one of my most-often-re-read stories.

Stargate Atlantis (Sheppard/McKay): Proof by Contradiction by astolat

Stargate SG1 (Jack/Daniel): Objectives by astolat

Voyager (Paris/Torres/Kim): Epiphany by Merri-Todd Webster (aliens aren't the first cause, but they have input)

Voyager (Chakotay/Paris): First Contact by Ruth Devero (this is a pose-as-slaves story)

Who on earth wrote that Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy slash? It was called Aliens Make Ford and Arthur Have Sex, and I thought it was at Yuletide, but I can't find it.

For obvious reasons, these stories are a lot more common in sci-fi universes than in realistic or magical ones. In Harry Potter I suppose the equivalent would be "Death Eaters force them to have sex" -- those usually hit my torture squick, but I quite liked icarusancalion's Ron/Draco story, Beg Me For It.

Comments

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I felt a little weird about that when I found out, too.

I've never been in B7 fandom, so I'm sure I found the story by means of a rec; I had no context about it and had no idea who the author was or anything. But I had read it many times and recced it far and wide before someone gently informed me that, uh, there was a really good reason why the author was no longer writing ...

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Now, my problem is, as you may already know from my post, the ending. I really feel quite glum about it and let down, and it makes me re-evaluate the rest of the fic. I don't think this is one I could read and re-read. When I think about it, the fics I re-read all have happy endings. I don't seem able to stomach sad endings in my slashfics, and for me 'sad' means 'guy doesn't get his guy, love doesn't get acknowledged'.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

It's funny -- until you said that, I didn't really think of it as a story with a sad ending; I thought of it as a story for which a sequel clearly exists, which I just haven't read yet.

I hate stories that end in such a way that it's impossible for the guys to get together, and I hate ones that end in such a way that the author convinces me that it's a bad idea for the guys to get together.

But in this case, it's clearly both possible and desirable, and so I read it as a story in which this inevitable thing just hasn't happened yet.

In fact, I find that I've spun a number of different scenarios in my head (all of them rather vague, as I never watched the show) of ways that they could break through this foolish determination to stay apart, and eventually acknowledge, in whatever manly nonverbal way they might be able to stomach, that it's real.

[fenris_wolf0]

To be fair, a lot of the best B7 stories end really badly: without spoiling the show, it's the nature of the beast... I cannot imagine even a het pairing ending happily, nor the more obvious slash pairing of Avon/Blake. Not realistically, anyway: the B7 universe is simply not skewed that way, IMHO.

Also since this show dates back over 20 years, it is not all that surprising that several of its authors are dead by now, it's a problem which affects the Pros fandom too. *panics*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Woman, you give good rec because, although I hated the story for about a day after I hit the ending (because I felt so let down!), it has been haunting me since nevertheless and it is actually an excellent fic. I did go and read the sequel to it (which is not finished because she died, I guess) and it is horrible. It is all about how they are still apart and how one of them gets tortured by evil aliens and there's a whole lot of other-plot about the fargoneans and other Blake's 7 people which bored me to the point of speedscrolling. So the fic in effect doesn't have a sequel. I didn't think it read like the sort of fic that was angling for a sequel; it is quite self-contained and I liked that, it was well-crafted. And the ending made sense in that characterverse, too, that was the dreadful thing: it was so plausible! But it wasn't happy nor slashy!! However, as it's been haunting me, I've come round to the view that it's the type of ending that shouts out to readers to spin out a sequel in their heads. It shouts out for its own fanfic, in a way. Because I, too, couldn't help but imagine *some sort of life* in which these two could confess their undying love.

in whatever manly nonverbal way they might be able to stomach
And I love this! Both the formulation and all the guh it conjures up.

She is very, very good at writing sex, though. Much to learn there.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

It shouts out for its own fanfic, in a way.

Yes, that, exactly.

And, god, yes, on the sex thing. I love the way the tension is always winding tighter and tighter.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I was scrolling through that fic again when I was reccing it for a paragraph to paste as a teaser and I did now notice flaws in the prose. She does use 'the other man' a lot, and I hate that phrase. And the writing is very prosaic, a bit old-fashioned, if that makes sense; it reminded me of old Star Trek fics. But still!!! It haunts.

But I've read julad since and god, can that woman write.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

She's something else, isn't she? She's a terrifying and deadly beta; she makes everything better, but you build the better out of your own blood cells.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

God, that does sound terrifying. But strangely wonderful, too. And I adore the formulation!! Making it better out of your own bloodcells.. what is it about writing??