ext_7647 ([identity profile] daemonluna.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2005-05-07 10:56 am
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Neutron by Basingstoke (PG)

Fandom: HARD CORE LOGO
Pairing: Billy/Joe
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] basingstoke
Author Website: http://www.ravenswing.com/~bas/slash/

Why this must be read:
A lot of Hard Core Logo fic are introspective, first-person vignettes, or monologues. Basically, everyone wants to get into Billy's head--or what's left of Joe's. Basingstoke describes this one as "the physics of Hard Core Logo," but really, it's the physics of Billy and Joe, in sharp, vivid prose.
You can put water together with regular hydrogen, or you can put it together with buddy hydrogen, and it's all water, but the buddies kind is heavy water. So that's Billy. Silent place. Heavy water. Deuterium.

Neutron

(I'm Ophelia, and I'm going to be driving the Hard Core Logo crack van this month. (And no, I didn't let Pipe bring his blanket along.)

I fell madly in love with HCL when I saw it. Specifically, with that particular obssessive, destructive, codependent, dysfuctional sort of love-hate thing Billy and Joe have going. HCL fic is pretty well all slash, by canon if nothing else. I don't like WeepyWoeIsPoorMePassiveVictim!Billy and AbusiveBoyfriendWhoCouldn'tCareLessAndNeverReallyLovedBilly!Joe. But I'm oddly fascinated with young and oh so stupid yet somehow oddly appealing and my god officer, I was sure they were eighteen, could you believe such young, innocent boys could use such language Billy and Joe.

Unfortunately, a lot of the older HCL fic was lost to the ages when the Ten Buck Fuck archive went away. It's been replaced by Touch My Stump, but not all of the original archive was duplicated. Of course, there's always [livejournal.com profile] groupsession, too.)