Rec: A Deeper Season, XMFC
Dec. 15th, 2011 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sasha_featherI have been reading a lot of good XMFC fic these days. Thanks to all you good folks who write, read, and rec it.
I just read A Deeper Season by Etirabys, a fic in which Erik is a teacher at a private school for one year, and Charles is an isolated senior student. I really enjoyed it.
(Here I talk about the story, with some spoilers)
They have a relationship despite Erik's reservations, and that in itself is part of the appeal of this story-- Erik knows he should resist, he knows it's inappropriate, but there is something about this person, this relationship in particular that keeps drawing him back. There is some fear of discovery but it's minimal compared to Erik's self-imposed boundaries, and the crossing of them. It is a battle of willpower and "should" versus lust and love, and in this case the main barrier is that one of them is a teacher and the other is a student; these characters are pretty comfortable with their own queerness: it's different boundaries that they are pushing. It is that push and pull of boundaries that I found particularly appealing. This one character, Erik, is dealing with shame and sexuality along an axis that is not queerness (although he is queer), and he is navigating and surviving that, and he comes out OK.
I just read A Deeper Season by Etirabys, a fic in which Erik is a teacher at a private school for one year, and Charles is an isolated senior student. I really enjoyed it.
(Here I talk about the story, with some spoilers)
They have a relationship despite Erik's reservations, and that in itself is part of the appeal of this story-- Erik knows he should resist, he knows it's inappropriate, but there is something about this person, this relationship in particular that keeps drawing him back. There is some fear of discovery but it's minimal compared to Erik's self-imposed boundaries, and the crossing of them. It is a battle of willpower and "should" versus lust and love, and in this case the main barrier is that one of them is a teacher and the other is a student; these characters are pretty comfortable with their own queerness: it's different boundaries that they are pushing. It is that push and pull of boundaries that I found particularly appealing. This one character, Erik, is dealing with shame and sexuality along an axis that is not queerness (although he is queer), and he is navigating and surviving that, and he comes out OK.
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