hopefully not a new fandom...

I totally slept too late last night thanks to a fabulous (and LONG) AU in a fandom I'd absolutely no knowledge of or interest in: Sixteen Days in September by tevere, a Generation Kill Brad/Nate AU where Nate (who is, in canon, a lieutenant in the Marines) joins the Peace Corps and gets caught up in the East Timor elections in 1999. Brad is one of the Marines that ends up guarding him. I knew (and still know) very little about the book/series, but I got totally sucked in. Riveting, with the attraction between the two more like a spice to make the harrowing narrative better. *_*

Then I woke up the next morning and looked for fics. Couldn't spend too much time before work, but I did find The Road Not Taken by hackthis. Another AU, this time where Nate doesn't join the Marine Corps and becomes an English professor. Rather over the top, but so much fun. Nate teaches a seminar called "The Fraternity of Men," and the conversations he has with his students (all ex-Marines) are hilarious. Brad as stalker is creepy but hot. I felt for Nate, though it was so fighting the inevitable.

I love AUs. LOVE. And when I have time I really want to find more good fics in this fandom. But not get too sucked in.

i *was* going to write about crappy Bl novels...

But I read more Generation Kill fanfics. Most just didn't work for me, but I did find a delightful one that made up for the meh-ness of the rest: On How Sergeant Colbert is Nothing At All Like Winnie the Pooh, and Other Important Lessons That Can Be Learned While Observing the Sergeant Laying under a Jeep by sparky77. Just the title is made of win, but the fic just gets better. A tidbit:

"Hey, Sergeant," Lilley shouts in the general direction of the hummer. "Tell Ray to stop making shit up about you."

"The Sergeant can't talk right now," Ray says after a moment. "He's busy achieving enlightenment by staring at the underside of a Hummer. Gather round, kiddies, and your Uncle Ray-Ray will tell you a story about the great Sergeant Colbert's formative years."

"It's amazing," Poke observes. "I can actually see the words coming out of your ass."

"Stop looking at my ass, then."