Summary: A surprising challenge in a game of Truth or Dare leaves high school jock Jameson lost for words. Warnings: None. Review: This one's a classic. Originally posted on Shousetsu Bang Bang (an online m/m magazine on livejournal) it was posted under the author Shukyou. It is now hosted on AO3 as well and listed under Ladysisyphus, so I definitely need to check that out. If you're an old hat at m/m fiction, you've probably already read this fic, but if you joined later you might have missed it, so I thought I'd go back and give it a nod. The writing is great, it reads like an old movie dialogue, with plenty of interesting comments from our narrator. The narrator in this fic is a teenage jock who's recently broken up with his popular girlfriend Cynthia. He runs into Cynthia's much more underground step-brother Tristan, and sparks fly in the best way. Actually, one of my favorite parts of this fic is how put out Tristan is by the fact that jock-narrator Jamesone is NOT being a total asshole about the gay thing. That he's just a genuinely nice guy, and Tristan has NO idea how to handle that. Sex in this fic isn't anything on the 50 Shades level of over-the-top, but it's fun and spontaneous and intrinsic in the way that only teen-fics can manage. The length of it is nice. At just over 11k of words, this fic has enough time to give us the full plot, but doesn't have any spots that seem slow or unnecessary. With that amount of words, if it's happening, you need to know about it. Finally, I wanted to give a quick nod to the gorgeous artwork in this fic. Calintz does a beautiful job with three manga-esque drawings that really capture the life of the fic in simple, black and white drawings. Links: Shousetsu Bang Bang Archive Of Our Own
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