Smallville: slashiness galore.

[dangermousie]

Watched a few Smallville eps (first season) and Good God. I am usually slash-blind as a bat, but there is no doubt that Man of Steel and Lex Luthor are getting it on like bunnies in the back of the barn.

I mean, seriously, forget the tepid and wooden Lana. The action that's going on ain't involving any het play. I am generally canon Naziish, but what can I say? What with Clark being all bare-chested and wide-eyed "oooooh, ooooooh, Lex you are so cool and I bat my ridiculously long eye lashes at you" and Lex being all older/sophisticated/silk shirt wearing "ooooh, here are tickets for you Clark, here is me saving your farm Clark, would you like my heart on a silver platter Clark," there is no question who is finding out what "alien lovin'" really means, and it ain't Lana.

It doesn't help that MR can act and KK not so much and that TW has better chemistry with Lex than with Lana. Heeeee.

I so see matching designer ties and a commitment ceremony in their future. Well, if Lex can refrain from going evil that is. I guess Clark should just keep him in bed all day or similar.

Also, I read some Clark/Lex slash and it was goooood. Probably the first slash fic I ever liked.

The show is dreadful though.

Comments

[katranna.livejournal.com]

This is why it's known as "Slashville" among fans. :-P

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

You are kidding, right? Because so appropriate. ROFL.

I mean, anything that makes me see the slash HAS to be something out of the common way :P

[katranna.livejournal.com]

Nope; totally serious. I don't watch it, but I know that fact. It's precisely because of its complete in-your-face slashyness.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Heh. I have never seen anything slashier in my life.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

LOL. I actually think Smallville had to start giving the two of them less screentime together because of that. What did they expect when the guys have more chemistry than any female on the show.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

the guys have more chemistry than any female on the show

That's not really hard though :P

The problem with trying to do the whole thing is about The Undying Love For Lana is that by looking at the screen it's clearly all about Severe UST Between Clark and Lex :P I mean, I never see slash possibilities, and I do here, so that's saying something.

Of course, less screentime together is booooring because it's way too much fun watching them together (basically, most of the fun I got from that show so far. That and watching Lex by himself. Clark is so wide-eyed I want to smack him).

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Really Tom Welling is the most white bread actor I've ever seen. The only thing that gets him by are his looks. He has all the acting intensity of a traffic pylon though. Rosenbaum on the other hand, is pretty good. I think that combination really makes the slash evident with the two of them. I remember watching the first season thinking "the fanfic writers are going to have a heyday with this".

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

acting intensity of a traffic pylon though

ROTFLOL!

May I say that your icons are making me drool?

[syliasyliasylia.livejournal.com]

Hee! I don't know why I do this to myself, but I still watch smallville just for the sake of Michael Rosenbaum... About Clark/Lana, meh, now that they are together that's the most boring pairing ever, even worse that Veronica/Dunca, believe me!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

that's the most boring pairing ever, even worse that Veronica/Duncan

Wow. That bad? I simply must get a look then, because I wouldn't have believed it possible.

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

Comparatively speaking, Veronica/Duncan are wildly entertaining compared to Clark/Lana. Both pairings do have very poor communication skills in common, though, along with secret keeping, avoidance, and denial. Heh. Somehow, although in the last few years the actress playing Lana has gotten good at playing off almost any other actor on the show, put Clark and Lana together and all the chemistry is sucked away into blandness. I'm not sure how that works, exactly.

But yes, the slash in the first two-three seasons is off the chart. It's much less so in following seasons, but it's impossible to ever deny entirely.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

put Clark and Lana together and all the chemistry is sucked away into blandness

I can't figure out why TPTB keep pushing Clark/Lana because as far as I could see from my brief scan of the fandom, so few people actually like them together. Bizarre.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Well there are the supposedly 10595 members of http://lana-clark.net/ (at least according to their forum).

But I think they rarely venture out anywhere (I go there sometimes to post comic scans).

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

As thelana says, there are a few large enclaves of Clark/Lana shippers. However, the main reason as far as the rest of the fandom can tell is that the creators of the show love Lana, and love the actress playing her.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Why? She looks like she is related to Dawn from Buffy and acts about as well.

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

Don't ask me. But pretty much every interview with them out there has them gushing over her.

And actually, I like Dawn loads better.

[syliasyliasylia.livejournal.com]

LOL! Really, they are boring indeed... the epitome of blandness and blah dialogues... NOt to mention the peachy rosy blush make-up artists apply on Tom Welling on a regular basis! A least now that Lana/Clark are together they don't get as much screentime as in previous seasons and that's good, real good... unlike Veronica/Duncan *sighs*

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

they don't get as much screentime as in previous seasons and that's good, real good... unlike Veronica/Duncan

Well, there is a reason the ship abbreviation for Veronica and the Donut is VD

[syliasyliasylia.livejournal.com]

That abbreviation is the best ever *hee*

[thelana.livejournal.com]

The Lana=Duncan parallels are definitively there ;D

My fave is that a degoratory name for the Clanas from the Clexfans used to be Clunkies. And later somebody figures out that clunkies is actually a name for a fetish where people like to watch robot sex. :D

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

robot sex

And we are back to Veronica/Duncan :P

[thelana.livejournal.com]

I told you there were parallels :D

(clunkies the scarest thing seems to be that there are actually a number of people devoted to it O___O)

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I didn't get any sleep last night and it really, really shows.

*disturbed*

[thelana.livejournal.com]

I'm deeply amused even though I can't really say why :D

What are you watching? Season 1? Wait till you get to Heat and Red in season 2 :D

So, which Smallville slash did you read? Any recs?

I remember being very amused by the AU challenge. But you are probably not much into AUs.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I'm deeply amused even though I can't really say why

Probably because it turs out my affinity for Dominant Fandom Ship outweighs my Canon Love? :P

What are you watching? Season 1? Wait till you get to Heat and Red in season 2 :D

Yup, Season 1. What happens in H&R?

As to recs, I liked:

Marble (http://yearningvoid.net/stories/julad/000032.html)

Lex Luthor and the Edge of reason, Dairy of a Millionaire Singleton (http://www.kryptonsite.com/forums/showthread.php?s=4f0ac2abcfeac3e722e2c6a5e634085c&threadid=46145&perpage=15&pagenumber=1)

and two stories I have in my memories under Smallville. I have no idea how IC they are because I am not very familiar with canon, but I like them as stories.

you are probably not much into AUs.

Actually, I enjoy AUs when well done.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Nothing particular happens in H&R, it's just that I was mostly blind and indifferent to Clex but in H&R even I was saying "Ok, they are being too obvious".

Me, I kinda thought that season 1 Clex was creepyn a lot of the time, especially from Lex's side. Aside from the whole "20something guy befriending a 15 year old", there is the fact that in episode 2 he is already announcing that they are bestest friends (me: err, need much?), being all stalkerish, showering him with presents (here, take a car, and a leaden treasure box, and tickets and help for the farm, take, take, take!). So, I always had issues taking their relationship seriously as a friendship (everytime somebody goes on about the beautiful Clex friendship, I'm always: "Huh? where?"). Smallville actually makes *more* sense if you pretend that they are romantically into each other to some extent than to assume that they are not.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Randomly, did you know that Lana/KK is going to play a traumatized Indian girl in love with a Muslim in a movie about the Partition?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes I did.

Though I still cannot figure out how as she does NOT look Indian. Plus, I already have Gadar (only substitute Sikh for Muslim) for that storyline :P

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm with you. The casting struck me as extremely random when I heard about it.

[emily-anne.livejournal.com]

Hee!

Ah, the joys of season 1 Clex. It's mostly downhill from here but the fic in this fandom is soooooooooo good!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Any fic recs?

[emily-anne.livejournal.com]

Personal faves off the top of my head. Most of these are pretty porny:

Corner of the World by Serafina - basically re-writes the series with Clark and Lex as a couple. She's currently writing chapter 51 and is midway through season 2 but don't let the size of the thing put you off. I even like Lana in this one!

Conflicts of Interest by Rageprufrock - Not really all that slashy until the end but this is just fantastic. It's told from the POV of nine year old Conner Luthor, the canon son of Clark and Lex. (No really, in the comics they have a biological child!)

Anything by Henry Jones Jr - personally I love Family, Friendship and Love. It's mpreg but please, please, please don't let that put you off!

Heart of Darkness and Language of Love by Dogpoet. Both AU. The former is set in 1910 and has Tarzan!Clark, the latter gives us Professor Lex and student Clark.

Omiai, I'm Carrying my Gay Alien Lover's Child and Roots and Wings by Rose Emily. Omiai takes the cliche of the arranged marriage then turns it upside down, shakes it all about and makes it do the hokey pokey. In I'm Carrying My Gay Alien Lover's Child, Chloe acts as a surrogate for Clark and Lex and in Roots and Wings their son is thirteen and acting like a little shit, as all good thirteen year olds do. Really, anything by her is worth reading. Very funny writer.

The Constellation Series by Rhiannon is great, as are Blue Always Knew and Indigo is his Own on the same site.

The Road Not Taken by Joyfulgirl41 - AU land. What if Lex hadn't been raised by Lionel?

Ad Astra Per Aspera by Kat Reitz and Tzigane - how much angst can you take?

Yellow Means Slow by Rageprufrock - No really, how much angst can you take? Be sure to have tissues ready before you tackle this one.

Love for Sale by Lenore and As The Night The Day by Alax and Dana - two variations on hooker!Clark. Both fantastic.

Okay, I'll stop now.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thanks! *loves* I'll check them out!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

P.S. "Yellow Means Slow" is EVIL. I am bawling. It's ridiculous...

[morwen_peredhil]

I know! My usual reaction to slash pairings is "You're kidding, right?" but even I can see that Lex and Clark are so doing it.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yup. I am generally not a slash girl, but here you'd have to be blind not to see the slashiness.

[ayn-rand-fan-13.livejournal.com]

I've heard that about the show, though I've never seen it.
Completely off-topic, but your icon reminded me; The actress (I forget her name) who played Jane in the new Pride and Prejudice looked a lot like Kaylee. I kept wondering why Kaylee was blonde.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Huh, that's odd. Rosamund Pike is the name of "Jane" btw.