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Dira Sudis ([personal profile] dira) wrote2011-06-15 09:46 am

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

I'm not actually finished with DEADLINE but I have, crucially, read past page 338 and I need to squee NOW oh my GOD.

(That is DEADLINE, by Mira Grant (aka Campbell-award winner [livejournal.com profile] seanan_mcguire), sequel to the Hugo-nominated FEED--if you haven't read them I will soon be doing a pimping post because oh my god this is so on my Yuletide list! There's a pretty nifty book trailer for the books, although a) I don't think Shaun's voice really sounds like that and b) pfft, like the zombies are actually the point.)



Fingers trailed down the length of my chest, coming to rest just above my navel. "Good night, Shaun," whispered a voice, inches from my ear.

God. For the first time in longer than I could remember, the world felt like it was actually back the way that it was supposed to be. I brought up a hand to brush my knuckles against her cheek, smelling the sweet-salt-sex smell of her, and smiled.

"Good night, George," I said, and slipped away into sleep.


:D :D :D :D :D

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Because. Okay. Here is my thing.

Shaun and George in FEED and for the first three hundred pages of DEADLINE were ALREADY the most totally incestuous sibling OTP imaginable. They just were. Their lives were so utterly, entirely, til-something-way-worse-than-death-do-us-part, no-one-else-will-ever-love-or-understand-me, us-against-the-world entwined that it honestly did not matter if they were having actual naked-time sex in actual canon. Their relationship already had all the horrible/awesome no-boundaries-ever claustrophobic up-to-eleven intensity of your basic sibling incest pairing in really good fic. My buttons, they were pushed so hard that I honestly did not mind if there were never any orgasms. I mean, it made me a little bit sad to think there might never have been any orgasms, but orgasms or not, Shaun and George had each other and that seemed to work for them, so okay.

BUT NOW! NOW! Now we find out that George and Shaun were not so entirely the sad, post-apocalyptic wire-cage monkeys that they could have been that they missed out on the orgasms. :D There were sexytiems! There were actual for real sexytiems. Possibly, Shaun being how he is, there are STILL SEXYTIEMS.

I WANT ALL THE SHAUN/GEORGE FIC, IS WHAT I AM SAYING HERE. AND BY FIC I MEAN PORN, WITH A SIDE OF CUDDLES. ALL OF IT. FOREVER. BUT I AM WILLING TO WAIT UNTIL YULETIDE IF I HAVE TO.

I just. I mean. There is NO OTHER FANDOM where fucking your brother actually is, ultimately, the life-affirming and happiest-available choice. But oh my God. SHAUN. AND GEORGE. AND SHAUN/GEORGE. AND. YES. CANON. YES FOREVER. ♥ ♥ ♥

And now I have to go finish reading DEADLINE so please no spoilers for the ending in the comments? JUST SQUEE. ALL THE SQUEE.
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No spoilers, but see me when you're done!

[personal profile] rivkat 2011-06-15 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
:)
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Re: No spoilers, but see me when you're done!

[personal profile] rivkat 2011-06-16 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
So do you think they really did sleep together before, or just wanted to?
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Re: No spoilers, but see me when you're done!

[personal profile] rivkat 2011-06-16 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Interesting--because I read it as ambiguous, which to me was part of the overall theme of to what extent any source can report what really happened, given the inevitability of distortion for all sorts of reasons, from self-protection to self-exaltation.

That said, I do think they both wanted to! And I can't wait for the third volume.
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[personal profile] reginagiraffe 2011-06-15 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I bought it last week but haven't started it yet.

*bookmarks this post*
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[personal profile] mumblemutter 2011-06-16 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Oh god I totally made a rambly comment in chat about the incest while reading the first book, and exploded at my poor chat partner when I got to that part in the second. Like, holy shit.
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[personal profile] reginagiraffe 2011-06-25 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm on P. 209 (!!!OMG!!!). Will get back to you soon.
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[personal profile] reginagiraffe 2011-06-26 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Another OMG!

I mean, you knew they were close. But the fact that neither of them mentioned any sexyteims *ever*... made one doubt that it happened.

But now we know!!
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[personal profile] reginagiraffe 2011-06-28 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Where is this spoiler post? I looked but I couldn't find it.

TYK!