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Recommendations of Smallville Slash Stories by Fajrdrako |
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Recommendations of Smallville Slash Stories by Fajrdrako |
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Author |
Pairing |
Comments |
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Blow Your Mind |
jenn |
Clark/Lex |
Lex
asks Clark to drive him home from a party. "Your virtue is safe with
me," he assures him. |
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Boxed |
Thamiris |
Clark/Lex |
After
the events of the Pilot episode, Clark decides to face his fantasies,
with help from Lex and a stone angel. Delightfully visual and visceral. |
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Breathing Water |
Shrift |
Clark/Lex |
Moody
and beautiful. |
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The "Camping"
Series by Helena Handbasket
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Helena
Handbasket |
Clark/Lex |
"Eleven
letter Words" uses Clark's crossword puzzle as counterpoint to one of
the most tense and funny conversations I have read in fiction in a very
long time. Jonathan and Martha are both better at the game than
I am; it must come from being Clark's parents. (And what was that about
Lionel's underwear?) "Botta Secreta" is a bridging moment, notable for Lex's fencing fantasy. "The Denny's Napkin Incident" is Helena Handbasket's pièce de résistence, a tour do force, a masterpiece of writing that is both off the wall and mundanely familiar, a terribly convincing interlude that has the funniest and sexiest mathematics I have ever seen. (Trust me, I have never called a mathematical sequence 'sexy' before. Ever.) Clark's discovering of his heat vision is a moment I will not soon forget. I consider it bad form to beg for a sequel, but I do hope Helena Handbasket continues this series. I need to see the telescope maneuver that is bound to follow! |
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Daddy Longlegs |
Beresford Lane |
Lionel/Whitney |
Lionel
Luthor takes a very personal interest in Whitney's career. “Lionel was a performance artist,
and Whitney's pleasure was just a byproduct." It even salvages Whitney's character
and his friendship with Clark. Convincing, sexy, beautifully written
and hard to put down. |
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Don't Look |
Te |
Lex/Bruce Lex/Lionel |
Weather.
The Luthor mansion. Incest. A gothic sense of voyeurism. |
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Everything |
Kel |
Clark/Lex |
An
edgy, sexy portrait of Lex. |
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Excessive Force |
Penemuel |
Lex/Phelan |
It
was the slutty-teen Lex I loved here. |
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Five Things That Aren't True |
Basingstoke |
Clark/Lex |
Years ago,
Larry Niven wrote a famous piece called "Man of Steel, Woman
of Kleenex". It's fun to read, but I never bought into the
logic of it. Nevertheless, Basingstoke's first section here is the most chilling extrapolation of that thesis I've ever come across. Superb characterization, superb thinking in all parts of this story. Basingstoke is one of the authors who make me think not only, "I wish I'd written that," but also, "I wish I could have written that." |
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| Ghosted | Jane St. Clair |
Lex/Bruce
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Two
lost young men. |
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Girl |
Basingstoke |
Lex/Bruce |
Bruce
Wayne is a delightful hero, seemingly tailor-made for slash" dark, mysterious,
dangerously dysfunctional. Basingstoke gives him just the right
combination of incisive intelligence with alienation. It seems right that death also belongs in a Bruce Wayne story. |
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| Haiku I
- Beginnings |
Angel |
Clark/Lex |
Overview of Lex and Clark's feelings. |
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| Here,
There and Everywhere |
Zahra |
Clark/Lex |
Lex carries pebbles to remind him of Clark. |
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| Insects |
Jane St. Clair |
Lex/Lionel |
Lex
learns to manipulate his father. The first Smallville story
I ever read, long before I'd seen an episode. |
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| Marked | Jenn |
Clark/Lex |
Lex shaves Clark, then does a few other interesting things to him. |
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| A Nice, Friendly Game |
Koi |
Clark/Lex |
Characterization
balanced between the subtle, the profound, and the exaggerated. Outrageous
and tender: a test of wills between Lex and Clark, proving that though
Clark may not be a student of Machiavelli, he isn't bad at plotting. As
for Lex: there's more to him than meets the eye. One of the best slash stories ever. |
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| "I don't think you understand how I regard Clark."
- Lex Luthor, in "Reaper"
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Rebirth of Slick |
Jane St. Clair |
Clark/Lex |
Textures
of light and darkness, dryness and wetness, light cloth and steamy night
heat. |
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| Red as Blood |
Brighid |
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Evocation
of Lex's life through the image of his mother's blood. |
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| Seasons |
Marag |
Clark/Lex |
Time,
place, perceptions of a life. |
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Setting the Rules |
ShimmyGloss |
Clark/Lex |
Plotting, both on the part of the author and the part
of Lex Luthor. Who will - or will not - seduce whom? Martha's
role in this delighted me on several levels, as did Lex's use of video
cameras and Clark's taking matters into his own hands. |
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Sleep While I Drive |
jenn |
Clark/Lex |
A wonderful evocation of personality and intensifying
relationship, as Lex picks Clark up after school and tells him to drive.
Their cross-country wandering takes them out of time, and away from
normal perceptions and responsibilities. Does Lex want sex? What
is happening in his life? I liked both set-up and resolution, despite
some head-scratching along the way. |
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Shift in Perception |
Andariel |
Clark/Lex |
Not so much a First Time story as a First Kiss story. Beautifully written, especially the line: "You know you're in trouble when fantasy so far outstrips reality" and its counterpoint. | ||||||||||
Skeletons |
Ryu I. |
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A
Jonathan story. A glimpse of Clark's not-entirely-legal adoption,
and of Lex's past. |
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Some Days Better Than My Heart |
Nestra |
Clark/Lex |
Simply
beautiful. |
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Sweet |
Te |
Clark/Lex |
Sexy,
fun, Te at her playful best. Clark and Lex fight for a chocolate
bar. |
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Subtext |
Te |
Clark/Lex |
Funny,
sexy, clever, and just about perfect. Clark and Lex go to a
movie, and Lex explains about subtext. All this and the young Kiefer
Sutherland too. |
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| The Thing That Goes By Night: The Self
That Lazes Sun |
Ilexa |
Clark/Lex |
Awake at night, Lex remembers his mother's
comments about the moon. |
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Tithonus |
Nestra | Clark/Lex |
About aging, and love. | ||||||||||
Trio |
Willa |
Clark/Lex |
A triptych
in two viewpoints. |
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| Trivial Pursuit |
Kel |
Clark/Lex |
Glimpses
of dialogue, mostly between Clark and Lex, over many, many trivial episodes
- and some not so trivial. Delightful, but don't read too many
in one sitting. |
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Velvet |
Amy |
Clark/Lex |
When
did I start to like crossdressing stories? Maybe it's something
about the writing in Smallville fandom; maybe it's something
about Lex Luthor. |
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The Wasteland |
jenn |
Clark/Lex |
There is something about Jenn's style and characterization of Lex and Clark
that I find compelling. There's a surreal quality to this story,
where things aren't quite explained and yet everything fits, everything
makes sense. There were a lot of things I liked here: Clark's quiet loyalty to Lex; his trust; Lex's wild bender; the role of Gabe Sullivan; the sense that in some ways Clark needs Lex as desperately as Lex needs him, to get his life back into balance. |
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Welcome Home |
Edie |
Clark/Lex |
A lovely
moment of slashiness. |