AUs - non-explicit variety

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

I was talking to draycevixen in her post about fandoms about AUs.

Here is my discussion with her:
http://teaandswissroll.livejournal.com/380163.html?thread=5173763#t5173763

Do you know of any? Non-explicit AUs, that is? :)

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I can't think of any specifically gen AUs offhand, but I don't know the Prosfanfic gen fic, and I'd imagine that's where you'd find them if they exist... Pros is and has been such a slash fandom, so most fic/AU fic I can think of is focussed around that (depending how non-explicit you want it to be, too...)

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

I don't like reading explicit sex (het or slash), and most long stories don't seem to be marked with any sort of indication whether they're explicit or anything else.

So the only way for me to know if there are non-explicit AUs (or gen AUs or pre-slash ones) is to ask. (If there aren't, there aren't.) :)

The only gen one I've seen so far is Gil Hale's awesome "Cowley's Irregulars." I liked that a lot.

Anyway I love imagining the characters in different times and places, so I thought I would ask.

I'm not trying to ask for something that isn't there, just if it IS there, and I didn't know it. :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I'm not trying to ask for something that isn't there, just if it IS there, and I didn't know it. :-)
Oh yeah, I know - and it might be that someone else thinks of one (for instance I do know and love Cowley's Irregulars, but I'd forgotten about it - also I tend to read things as slash whether there's a sex scene or not, the same way as I view the eps, so I tend not to think of stories I like as labelled "gen" cf "slash" in many ways. I just thought you might like to know they might not exist rather than that people were ignoring your question... *g*

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

I just thought you might like to know they might not exist rather than that people were ignoring your question... *g*

Okay. Thank you! :D

[firlefanzine.livejournal.com]

What do you mean exactly with non-explicit?
They can be a couple, but the relationship isn't the main theme of the story?
Or the sex? Don't you like the explicit sex scenes?

Jaicen once gave me the tip to read Legacy of Temptation by Ellis Ward. And she is a gen author. Maybe your tastes are similar?
I love the story! It's aslo a bit weird, because it's a ghost story. ;-)
But there is sex...

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

I don't like reading explicit sex (het or slash), and most long stories don't seem to be marked with any sort of indication whether they're explicit or anything else.

So the only way for me to know if there are non-explicit AUs (or gen AUs or pre-slash ones) is to ask. (If there aren't, there aren't.) :)

The only gen one I've seen so far is Gil Hale's awesome "Cowley's Irregulars." I liked that a lot.

Anyway I love imagining the characters in different times and places, so I thought I would ask.

I'm not trying to ask for something that isn't there, just if it IS there, and I didn't know it. :-)

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

Sorry, double answer, here. :)

I'll have to check out L of T by E. Ward. Thanks for the thought. I don't like ghost stories mostly, so I won't hold out too much hope for loving it. (I love everything I've read from Jaicen, however.)

[lukadreaming.livejournal.com]

The Larton Chronicles by Rhiannon is a charming AU series, set in a Cotswold village with Doyle as a writer and Bodie a horse-mad Irish soldier. It's slash but totally non-explicit and very witty. It may, though, only be available as a zine.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Now see, why oh why did I not think of this as a non-explicit AU?! And in fact all Rhiannon's stories are non-explicit, though definitely slash - though none, sadly, are online there's a couple on the Proslib CD: Rhiannon's stories (http://www.palelyloitering.com/Authors/Rhiannon.htm).

Actually Irene tends to be non-explicit too, I think - though again, zine-only... Irene's stories (http://www.palelyloitering.com/Authors/Irene.htm).

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

*bites her knuckles* I'm going to have to save some money or something, aren't I? Do you know the ordering information? :D
(Sorry to be such a n00b!)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

The ProsLib CD can be ordered via the ProsLib archivists (http://hatstand.slashcity.net/proslib/intro.html) (if you get stuck, email hagsrus who's one of them! *g*)

Irene's stories are in the Roses and Lavender zines (Allamagoosa Press) are found here... (http://www.palelyloitering.com/sources/Allamagoosa%20Press.htm). Reports say that service tends to be incredibly slow but usually gets there eventually. There's more information about the publisher at loiteringpalely, if you're a member...

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much for the info! :)

I will have to save some money. Well maybe by then I'll have more sense than to spend money on fandom that I really shouldn't.... ;)

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

That sounds so wonderful! *___*

Maybe I can sell something on eBay to buy it. (I guess I'm hooked on Pros.... @_@)

Hey, do you know the ordering info? Or should I just look around till I find it?

[lukadreaming.livejournal.com]

It's available from Gryphon Press in the UK, who are very efficient. I don't have ordering details to hand, but you may be able to find them on one of the Pros comms. Or, if you belong to the Proslib mailing list, there will be details in their files.

Good luck!

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!!!! :-D

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

Can you give me a link? I can't find it through Google.

Sorry to be annoying...

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Rhianne can be found at The Hatstand and The Circuit Archive:

http://hatstand.slashcity.net/
http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/

[hutchynstarsk.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D