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.

Comments

[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.

[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. :(((((((((