They most definitely are going to move in together at some point - that's one of the timestamps I have planned - and I think it WILL do a lot to calm Jared's nerves about Jensen. The problem is that Jensen wants him to calm down before he agrees to move in, and Jared feels like he can't really calm down until Jensen's with him all the time. Oh, what a tangled web.
And you don't know how hard I'm smiling right now at everything you said about the D/s. I love a good D/s fic, but I'm not a BDSM fan. This fic, originally, was just my attempt to separate the two, because I feel like people use them interchangeably sometimes, and they're NOT the same thing.
They also have a slightly-D/s themed relationship, but just like any other kind of relationship, I think it's tailored specifically to their desires and needs. That was the other thing I wanted to show - subbing for Jensen means letting someone he trusts make the decisions that he doesn't want to, or feel comfortable, or care to make on his own. It's not about bowing and titles, and collars and cuffs.
I'm a big fan of stripping big, and sometimes cliche, concepts down to their barest bones and rebuilding them to look completely different. There are some beautiful D/s stories out there - some I have bookmarked and read over, and over, and over again. And like you said, beyond a few choice pieces, it's easy for this theme to get trite and contrived and overdone. I certainly never wanted do the same old thing. I love that this reads differently to you - seriously love it!
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And you don't know how hard I'm smiling right now at everything you said about the D/s. I love a good D/s fic, but I'm not a BDSM fan. This fic, originally, was just my attempt to separate the two, because I feel like people use them interchangeably sometimes, and they're NOT the same thing.
They also have a slightly-D/s themed relationship, but just like any other kind of relationship, I think it's tailored specifically to their desires and needs. That was the other thing I wanted to show - subbing for Jensen means letting someone he trusts make the decisions that he doesn't want to, or feel comfortable, or care to make on his own. It's not about bowing and titles, and collars and cuffs.
I'm a big fan of stripping big, and sometimes cliche, concepts down to their barest bones and rebuilding them to look completely different. There are some beautiful D/s stories out there - some I have bookmarked and read over, and over, and over again. And like you said, beyond a few choice pieces, it's easy for this theme to get trite and contrived and overdone. I certainly never wanted do the same old thing. I love that this reads differently to you - seriously love it!