ext_19750 ([identity profile] jasmasson.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2011-12-22 10:26 am

Kept Boy by Anonymous (NC17)

Fandom: THE SOCIAL NETWORK
Pairing: Mark/Eduardo
Length: Long - completed in 17 parts
Author on LJ: Anonymous, alas, but posted on the [livejournal.com profile] tsn_kinkmeme
Why this must be read: I have to rec this. I physically cannot NOT rec it because I love it too much even though it was never de-anoned or reposted so you have to look at it in comment-sized chunks. It doesn't even have a proper name. 'Kept boy' was the prompt, but the author called it angsty mini-fill, and then angsty fill when the mini became increasingly inaccurate!

Sean finds his golden goose in Mark and wants to keep him happy. He brings along his favorite happy-making young ladies, but they get no response from Mark, then he brings along Eduardo... and definitely gets a reaction. Eduardo stays and uses Mark's credit cards, and worries Chris (who is not saying he's a gold-digger, but...) but is the perfect kept boy. The relationship between them develops fantastically: Eduardo is beautifully broken and Mark is brilliantly characterized here.

"description and discussion of child abuse, description and discussion of homophobia, both verbal assault and physical assault, description and discussion of suicidal ideation and suicide, description and discussion of substance abuse (moreso than just Sean Parker warrants), description and somewhat discussion of really fucking bad parenting."

This is sexy as all hell, complex, well-constructed and above all perfectly characterized. A+++++, anon.

Anyway, Mark's family knows about Wardo, but they have never met or talked to him and they always sound vaguely disapproving when Mark mentions him during one of his phone calls home. This lasts until Mark's mother comes out to Palo Alto to visit ("Because if I left it to you to see you again, it would probably be at my funeral, Mark." No one guilt trips like a Jewish mother.), and Wardo squires her around San Francisco (because there is pretty much nothing to do in Palo Alto unless you are as good as surgically connected to a computer), and apparently they go dancing, or something, Mark doesn't even know, just when they get back that evening his mother looks about ten years younger and is flushed and laughing, and she calls Wardo sweetheart, and Wardo looks adorably sweetheart-like in return, like he hadn't just last night been on his back moaning Deeper, god, harder, ah, ahn, Mark, Mark.