Inquiring minds.

[hackthis_archive]

Out of utter curiosity, if I was chained up in your attic (I prefer attics, basements are damp and cold, attics theoretically at least have windows), and I had to write you one story, what would you request? (demand?) Or alternatively, what's something you always hoped I'd write but know is never going to happen?

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[hackthis.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD. THOSE TWO. When I read that book I got the "vibe" early on and I thought surely not, I don't tend to have slash thought in my usual reading, and isn't Le Carre rather mainstream, but it really seemed strong and then as it went on I was like, well he sure as hell seems to be going there. And then he was all THEY WERE EPIC LOVERS AND THEN BILL SOLD OUT HIS MAN AND JIM WAS HURT AND BILL WAS A WHORE AND DAMN HIM. I'm sorry for the shouting, can you tell it makes me a bit excitable. To be honest I don't think I could make a better story than the one that exists already.

[melodylemming.livejournal.com]

It does kind of go astmosphericspynovel atmosphericspynovel astmosphericspynovel EPIC GAY LOVE, doesn't it? I think Bill and Jim were my first slash ship--I first read the book when I was, like, twelve. And I do love their story as it is--idyllic Oxford phase, the iron fist in the iron glove, betrayal, doom, etc.--but we never get to see any of the good bits, only the way their relationship looks after it all goes to hell.