oh no he didn't
Dec. 14th, 2009 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asimplechordOK, so I'm reading this m/m ebook, Lessons in Love, right? I mentioned it a couple of posts ago, for the "fictional book" entry of the 30-day meme.
Yeah. Being as two Fellows at Cambridge could lose their positions (or be sentenced to two years' hard time, like Oscar Wilde) back in that era, the sexual part of the relationship between the two main characters is developing slowly, behind closed and locked doors. Which I'm fine with. There's something about that era that, despite behind-closed-doors Victorian licentiousness, makes restraint sort of fitting, to me. Plus, part of the focus has been on the mystery of two murders in their college.
But. BUT.
In an effort to make progess with their physical relationship, one of the characters tells the other about his past, complete with abuse by other boys at his boarding school. And then. THEN. HIS FIRST LOVE. His first love was so perfect and wonderful that he volunteered at a soup kitchen, where he caught TB AND DIED.
I AM SRSLY SITTING HERE WITH A OMGWTF EXPRESSION ON MY FACE. Hey, hi, just when I was thinking that you WEREN'T badfic, this scene came along and changed my mind.
Yeah. Being as two Fellows at Cambridge could lose their positions (or be sentenced to two years' hard time, like Oscar Wilde) back in that era, the sexual part of the relationship between the two main characters is developing slowly, behind closed and locked doors. Which I'm fine with. There's something about that era that, despite behind-closed-doors Victorian licentiousness, makes restraint sort of fitting, to me. Plus, part of the focus has been on the mystery of two murders in their college.
But. BUT.
In an effort to make progess with their physical relationship, one of the characters tells the other about his past, complete with abuse by other boys at his boarding school. And then. THEN. HIS FIRST LOVE. His first love was so perfect and wonderful that he volunteered at a soup kitchen, where he caught TB AND DIED.
I AM SRSLY SITTING HERE WITH A OMGWTF EXPRESSION ON MY FACE. Hey, hi, just when I was thinking that you WEREN'T badfic, this scene came along and changed my mind.
