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This entry was supposed to be a comment that it would be interesting to write an analysis of this Life on Mars gen story as symbolic or allegorical slash. The entry ran away with me, though, and I actually ended up writing said analysis, so.
The story, "Every Little Counts", by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lozenger8, is gen (or rather, friendship fic) and about 17,000 words. It concerns Sam and Gene getting fired and setting up as PIs together. (I don't suggest that the slash association is unconscious on the author's part; she's also written a number of slash stories, and it's likely that the features I remark were carefully planned.) Not only does the story bear many of the hallmarks of what I like to think of as classic "nesting" fic, it's also concerned with the development of a closer and quite domestic-looking partnership between the two, and an emotional development in their understanding with each other. Other passages hint at the physicality of their relationship, and a brief explicitly gay case even provides for a bit of suggestive dialogue.
( Damn, it's like a whole essay! Contains quotes as well as some events but does not spoil major plot points. )
The story, "Every Little Counts", by
lozenger8, is gen (or rather, friendship fic) and about 17,000 words. It concerns Sam and Gene getting fired and setting up as PIs together. (I don't suggest that the slash association is unconscious on the author's part; she's also written a number of slash stories, and it's likely that the features I remark were carefully planned.) Not only does the story bear many of the hallmarks of what I like to think of as classic "nesting" fic, it's also concerned with the development of a closer and quite domestic-looking partnership between the two, and an emotional development in their understanding with each other. Other passages hint at the physicality of their relationship, and a brief explicitly gay case even provides for a bit of suggestive dialogue. ( Damn, it's like a whole essay! Contains quotes as well as some events but does not spoil major plot points. )
