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turlough ([personal profile] turlough) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2012-02-02 08:36 pm
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Pillow Talk by akamine_chan (Explicit)

Hi! I'm [livejournal.com profile] turlough and I'll be driving the van for bandom this month. I read almost exclusively in the My Chemical Romance part of the fandom and Gerard is my OTC so you can expect to get a lot of Gerard-centric My Chem recs.

Fandom: BANDOM
Pairing: Gerard/tentacle!alien
Length: 4,130 words
Author on DW: [personal profile] akamine_chan
Author on AO3: [archiveofourown.org profile] akamine_chan

Why this must be read: Gerard always knew that there had to be life on other planets. He just never planned on meeting it. - The one where Gerard is seventeen and meets an alien and looses his virginity.

I didn't think it was possible to make tentacle!sex lovely and sweet while still being scorchingly hot, but it's exactly what akamine_chan has done in this story. It also has a wonderful teenaged Gerard characterisation and a fascinating alien. I love the excitement and wonder and joy that permeats the meeting between Gerard and Pillow. Their mutual exploration seems so natural and the way it leads to sex almost inevitable. An absolutely lovely story that you all should rush and read right now!

Excerpt from the story:

Pillow edged out of the corner and moved closer, reaching out toward Gerard with a long tentacle. Holding his breath, Gerard leaned forward and met Pillow halfway. Pillow wrapped its tentacle around Gerard's hand, squeezing lightly.

Ray's older brother kept a snake, Rosa the Rosy Python, as a pet. Pillow's tentacle reminded him of the way Rosa felt in his hand: dry, firm and muscled, but without scales. Unlike snakes, Pillow was obviously warm blooded, almost uncomfortably so. Its skin radiated heat and it felt good against Gerard's cooler skin.

Gerard turned his hand over, wanting to get a closer look at how prehensile the tentacle actually was, but it was dim, and his night vision wasn't great. He sighed, defeated. Here was a chance to check out an alien life form and he couldn't, because he didn't have a working fucking flashlight.

Pillow wiggled its tentacle and suddenly there was a soft, blue glow coming from Pillow. It was enough light to see by.

"Bioluminescence," Gerard whispered, looking at Pillow, who was kinda...twinkling, spots of blue light shifting on its skin. "The Abyss had aliens that glowed. Pretty."

Pillow looked a lot like an extra-large octopus. Its body was about double the size of Mikey's pillow, wider than it was tall, a rounded head shape with tentacles. Pillow had two really big eyes, no nose that Gerard could see, and a beaky mouth.

He counted ten tentacles, several feet long and thicker than his wrist; at least two of them sprouted smaller tentacles at the end, like fingers, including the one wrapped around his hand. At intervals along the tentacles, there were metal cuffs of various widths. Some looked decorative, like jewelry, with etched designs, and the others looked purely functional.

There weren't any suckers on the tentacles, just smooth, soft skin. "Wow. A tenolandopus." He giggled and Pillow giggled back in Gerard's mind, a ripple of happiness that sent shivers down Gerard's back. "Oh. That felt good."

Carefully, Gerard touched the end of the tentacle in his hand, trying to see the finger-tentacles. It fanned open like a flower, reveling five smaller tentacles. "Cool," Gerard whispered. He held up his other hand, fingers spread. Five. Pillow spread out its finger-tentacles, holding them up to Gerard's fingers. "So fucking awesome." He was totally having his own Close Encounters moment here.

Pillow was curious. It played with Gerard's fingers for a minute, before trailing its fingers up his arm to his face. It examined his hair, tugging a little, seemingly fascinated by it. "Yeah, the dye job's fading; need to get Mom to redo it," he mumbled. From Pillow was only the feeling of touching something new and wondrous.

"What are you doing here, Pillow? I don't mean in my house, though I'm curious about that as well. But here here, on Earth." How did that translate, exactly, into something that Pillow could understand? Gerard really wished he had a better way of communicating than with his feelings; he wasn't exactly good at that.


Pillow Talk (on AO3) or here (on DW)
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[personal profile] akamine_chan 2012-02-02 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I <3 you.

[identity profile] andeincascade.livejournal.com 2012-02-18 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Best story!