About "Cupidity"
Nov. 15th, 2007 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chomijiOK, this is the promised thread for talking about louiselux and emungere's serial fic on their community site curious_spells.
This is an NC-17 story that they summed up as "a demented, porn filled cracktastic [S]aiyuki au where Gojyo is Hakkai's boytoy." However, as of yesterday's installment (Chapter 8), it is turning into rather more than that ... things are getting occult and mythologic as all get out (which had been suggested by the Hakkai-proxy's name, from the first), and the Gojyo-proxy is in wa-a-ay over his head.
Please use topic headings ... . And I'm afraid I've f-locked it. [ETA: I've taken the f-lock off. If someone gets scandalized ... OK, they get scandalized.] Oh, and I'm going to post topics to my own post, if you see what I mean ... .
(Wow, the song now playing is freakily apropos ... .)
Re: Chapter 15 - and 16 !
Date: 2007-11-27 03:23 am (UTC)I love that Robin's the half-breed! Did you see my crack on their Chap. 16 page - wondering whether Angel will be the one with the powerful super-human alternate form? That would be so cool!
Yes, poor Rose is in deep deep trouble - and it's Alberich's curse!
I love Robin trying to make sweet nice love to Angel - and Angel is so into him that it works just fine - and vice versa!
I guess we don't get to find out about the sea gifts yet, though.
Re: Chapter 15 - and 16 !
Date: 2007-11-27 08:13 pm (UTC)I'm thinking that it might simply be the connection between Alberich and curses, a connection that doesn't seem to exist for the fairy king in his Auberon/Oberon aspect (and have you read Little, Big? Or did I ask that already?).
You know, I got a little feeling of unease when Angel was saying how things could be worse: "She could be my mother ... " What if Angel's mother isn't really his mother? This is !Gojyo, after all ... and he has an older brother who left, for some mysterious reason, just like the original ... .
I love Angel quoting Mr. Rogers to Robin to comfort him! And of course, Robin has no flippin' idea what he's talking about ... . And Angel has finally got a bit of the tenderness that he wanted from Robin.
Re: Chapter 15 - and 16 !
Date: 2007-11-29 03:29 am (UTC)I think you're right about the gold - it's far more than just a metal.
(And I started a new thread ... .)
Re: Chapter 15 - and 16 !
Date: 2007-11-29 03:37 am (UTC)I'm drowning you in recs, smilla ... sing out when it starts driving you nuts.
Little, Big (by John Crowley) is a strange, dreamy book about a diffident young man from the big city who falls in love with and marries one of his best friend's cousins: a woman whose family has some strange connections with faerie and whose family home in the country is a nexus of many worlds. It rambles all over the place and has many plots - some of which are just lame - but it's beautifully written and very profound about a lot of things, including love and the passage of time.
Re: Chapter 15 - and 16 !
Date: 2007-11-29 09:54 pm (UTC)I'm sure I will ... my mind likes to seek out equivalents, so I keep thinking of examples from books. Have you actually started any of the dozen or so I've rec'ed in the past couple of weeks? Or are they all still on order?