darththalia (darththalia) wrote in tpm_flashback, @ 2004-10-17 12:07:00 |
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Original poster: gloriana
Title: Heroes of the Galaxy
Author: Nansi Alexander
Rating: Q/O (Will/Ian)
Pairing: R
Warnings:
None
Author's LJ : emrinalexander (Nansi's earlier TPM work was published under the pseud Emrin Alexander)
email: nansi_alexander@yahoo.com
website: http://www.trinityslash.com/emrin_annie/i
Link to story: http://www.masterapprentice.org/archive/h/h
Reasons for recommending: Sansei_55 has just posted a link on M_A through to this journal: dear_mralley, which is fandom's collective response to a gentleman who was kind enough to say, I find it patently absurd to put straight women's interest in gay sex on a par with the obsession of straight men for girl-on-girl "action." Clearly the majority of women are not seriously aroused by scenes of sex between men. Female sexuality just doesn't work that way.
By odd coincidence, the story I'd already chosen for this evening, written way back in May 2000, pokes gentle fun at just that attitude.
Because it's Emrin, though, it's not just funny: it's also sexy and soppy and scrumptious. This was the story that showed me how erotic fade-to-black could really be, and it's because the emotions in it read so true. The plot, however, might seem a bit opaque if you're coming to it without having read any of Terri Hamill's Riding the Wheel of If, especially Episode 16. Heroes of the Galaxy is a spinoff from an alternate universe Obi-Wan visits in Wheel 16, in which he finds that the counterparts to himself and Qui-Gon are actually a pair of actors, Will and Ian, playing Master Jinn and Padawan Kenobi in a popular daytime soap. Emrin took up where Terri left off, after Obi-Wan has vanished again, leaving a confused Will and Ian behind him. Read the Wheel episode first; they're neither of them very long.
Quote from story: Ian often groused about the fact that his contract wouldn't let him change his hair, but somewhere during the second season the long Padawan braid, tucked behind and flowing down from his left ear, had become really his as well. Qui-Gon/Will often teased him by tugging on it. And then there was his most remarkable feature, his eyes. Changeable eyes that seemed blue one second, brown the next, and then green. Added to a lithe, well-muscled body, lush, very kissable lips and. . .
Will sighed. Very kissable and very off-limits. He ran a hand over his short beard, reminding himself firmly that he was too old, too tall, too plain and way too male, to appeal to Ian McLawson.
Extra comments:
This is a real fan story, as much about us and what we desire of TPTB, as it is about the relationship we fantasise between Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan. Indeed, if one were to be truthful, Terri set up Will and Ian to be quite dissimilar to Qui and Obi, either fanon or canon version; but Emrin has managed to drag Ian back towards the earnestness and boldness that characterise Obi-Wan, and she plays very skilfully with Will as the older man no longer confident of his charms, a common bit of Qui fanon (cf Ladonna King's Noise). Just as Wheel shows Terri's fluency in capturing the tone and setting of a multitude of sf and fantasy worlds, Heroes shows how fans pervert canon to their own desires. It's knowing meta-fiction, and great fun.