so totally on the guilty pleasures recs.

[quigonejinn]

OK. So I'm such a newbie in this fandom that I don't know whether this is like recc'ing Cassie Claire, but OMG. Compay Segundo. NC-17.

And yes, I know it's another one of those fics about the Great Jedi Tradition of a master pegging his Padawan up the ass, but what makes this fic readable -- let alone surprisingly, surprisingly good -- is the execution. Gloriana never a takes quite the route that you were expecting. Her sex scenes communicate real, genuine knowledge of what it's like to have sex like that. Above all, though, she makes her Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan sound like Jedi. She invests in the whole silly tradition; she gives it cultural background, and hello, there is Qui/Xan, OMG.

True, stella_belli pointed out some quibbles with the Qui-Gon characterization, and there are some parts of this that would have had me rolling around the bed with hilarity if the rest of it weren't so well-executed. At one point, in fact, I was telling Dilly that the fic had not only jumped the shark but also dogfish, lungfish, and groups of amphibians.

The author sold me in the end, though. She even redeems the sappy true-love ending by having Obi-Wan realize some rather nasty truths about his relationship with Qui-Gon, and man. :D This is 314K of solid gold crack, man. Solid.

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[neotoma.livejournal.com]

I think it works because the author keeps with the premise of its a weird ritual that all padawans go through and Obi-Wan is having trouble with it. The fact that it's a *sex* ritual doesn't distort the story -- Obi-Wan's trouble and the conflict of the story would be the same if it was an endurance ritual.

[mozart.livejournal.com]

That was like a roller coaster of a fiction. Some parts had me completly wild, other parts caused me to look away in embarrassment, keep myself from laughing, and other parts i just found strange. I didn't know if I should be hot, or amused!

but it was well written, and there were some scenes I loved. Also, how it starts off profain, but the two work a nice banter into their relationship that I really enjoyed. I can completly imagine an AU where Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are lying around just talking about erections and th like, just casual and every day.

Gods, he wanted his master to rim him. He'd never once conceived of Qui-Gon's mouth on someone else's arse before, and now he was lying there, waiting for it to happen to him. The realisation had him burying his head in the bedclothes once more, a hot wave of furious flushing tingeing his skin pink all over.

That was horrifyingly sexy. I have never thought about a man licking that bit and then gone, "gods...." but this did it for me XD

Actually, this is the first fic I've read that used sex as a a ritual for Jedi. that I don't like, it just seems really blasphemous and odd.. but despite how much I didn't like, theory wise, I can say I loved this story.

[mozart.livejournal.com]

and the last bits just made me very sad.

He studied Obi-Wan's face when Obi-Wan flinched at the words. "Will you tell me? You don't have to, but perhaps I can help ease your pain."

"It doesn't hurt anymore." Obi-Wan sniffed and wiped his face on the corner of his robe. "Oh, that's not altogether true, and I suppose it will hurt from time to time, but I have made my choice, Master. The hardest part was understanding that there was a choice at all."

"Between being a Jedi," Qui-Gon probed cautiously, "or being something else?"

Obi-Wan smiled, a feeble effort. "No, that was Xan's question, not mine. If they denied me my knighthood and exiled me for years on a desert rock, I'd still be a Jedi. The question is, what kind of a Jedi? The one I wanted to be -- or the one the Force needs me to be?"

"Tell me what you wanted." Qui-Gon folded his hands into the sleeves of his outer tunic.

Obi-Wan brushed away a fallen thread from the band tying his braid. "A child's dream."

[mozart.livejournal.com]

godddd the more i read it, the more i love it.

Obi-Wan looked at Qui-Gon, sitting there quietly discussing a future without him. His master's face was smoothed, sunshine flattening the contours of harsh lines and sharp projections which normally gave it such definition. It was cleansed of all emotion by the light.

He'd been staring at Qui-Gon for a third of his life. Yet in three short days he had reversed his whole way of seeing. Or perhaps it had been in that one moment, when he watched passion recast those well-known features from master into lover. Either way, he knew that the face now presented to him was nothing but a mask, controlled as carefully as were the hands lying still on Qui-Gon's knees.


i'll shutup now.

*runs away to cry*

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

That part got me too. I mean, I'm usually a fan of well-written rimming to begin with but OMG. Yes. The notion of Qui-God ifjkjgdfad my brain is melting just thinking about it again, and then Obi-Wan's reaction, and the sex in that is, aside from a misplaced word here and there and the constant WEEPING COCKS, really insanely hot.

And you're right. It swerves all over the place on the meter for me. Sometimes, heartbreaking, sometimes insanely hot, sometimes hysterically funny, both intentionally and unintentinonally. Fun times. XD

[citizenjess.livejournal.com]

Agh, no. Why did Cassie Claire have to write fucking "Star Wars"? I liked it when all the wank that followed her could just be contained within HP/LOTR. :(((((((((

[citizenjess.livejournal.com]

... okay, nevermind, I misread the first sentence. Carry on. :X

[babel.livejournal.com]

Haha, I thought the same thing when I read that sentence too. Knee jerk of ARGH NO, and then... Oh. Phew.

[citizenjess.livejournal.com]

Okay, good, I don't feel like such an idiot now. :D

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

dkfjad;lgdf AHHAHAAHAHAHAHAH DRACO FORCEDASSFUCKITAS. Staring a suddenly-sexy Bant as Ginny, and a Darth Sidious who wears snaekrjlgdf.

Sorry. I used to run a little with Cassie Claire and the Diagon Alley crowd back in the day, and yes, I'm still a little bitter about how she attempted to write Tom Riddle fic after it got massively popular, but I am absolutely fascinated by this rep that HP has for being teh absolute craziest for wank. I've seen it TWICE in the past day, and yeah.

What incidents gave rise to this horror that you have for CCwank?

[citizenjess.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have no idea what's going on with HP nowadays, but about three years or so ago when I used to travel those parts myself, it was just really ridiculous. Not saying that every fandom doesn't have its own penchant for wank, but HP's always got somebody with a stick up their ass somewhere. And for some reason, it always gets traced back to Cassandra Claire - like, you could almost make a six degrees of CC game out of it. I'm not saying she's a horrible writer, yadda yadda, but I kind of enjoy my current fandom not having her association because I just get SO tired of hearing about her.