crack_van | ALL THAT REALLY MATTERS, IN THE END by Luxover (R)

Fandom: FC BARCELONA
Pairing: Thiago Alcantara/Rafa Alcantara
Length: 6148 words
Author on LJ:

luxover
Author Website: fic list
Why this must be read:

First off, if incest is a dealbreaker for you, don't click. It's fully consensual and both characters are past the age of consent, but I don't want to be responsible for hitting anyone's squicks. That said, you'd be missing out on a really beautiful and nuanced story; it deals with the issues without turning into a melodrama, and there's a lot of gorgeous domesticity and teenage boys goofing off.

This fic belongs to a subsection of Barcelona fandom that I wish were bigger, namely the junior teams. Most of the fic is understandably written about the much-publicized senior team, but Barcelona also runs a football academy, and the B team (the reserves, just below the first team in the hierarchy) gets a fair amount of local media coverage. Plus most of them are on Twitter, charmingly unguarded at times (she says, revealing her stalker tendencies), and utterly adorable! Thiago, the older Alcantara brother, has been promoted to the first team since the fic was written, so fandom is likely to see a lot more of him, and the media machine is already gearing up for Rafa. Might as well get to know them now!

(Blah blah in the interests of full disclosure the kinkmeme prompt this fic was written for was mine, blah blah blah.)

All That Really Matters, In The End