Lex Appreciation week: poll + recs

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So mskatej has declared it Lex appreciation week, and she's talking about hot and dirty Lex sex here, which reminded me of some recs I wanted to do, all with the theme of "hot, dirty, wrong Lex porn."

But first, a poll.


[Poll #716924]

If I were really good, I would have recs for *all* these scenarios, but I'm going to leave some of them for readers to suggest in comments. But here are

Clex dirty-wrong recs

Lex and Clark are brothers but still in love: seperis's Looking Glass. I should be fired for not including this in my list of Luthor family stories , since it's pretty much the best Luthor family story ever: Jonathan reacts rather badly to discovering the alien baby, and as a consequence Martha leaves him, marries Lionel, and eventually gets revenge on Jonathan and the rest of the town for the way they treated Clark. Meanwhile, Clark gets to grow up with Lex. I love this story to death; Martha and Clark as Luthors is so, so wonderful.

Kal-El and Alexander take over the world: Well, I already recommended aelora's "Mirror, Mirror" (currently a WIP, parts one, two and three, which is her Hudsonverse version of this. I'm sure there are more stories like this that I am forgetting.

I also wanted to recommend a story that's somewhat similar in tone to "Kal-el and Alexander take over the world" stories: roxymissrose's Firebird and the Grey Wolf , which is an amazing AU set in Romanov-era Russia, in which Kirill (Clark) is found and raised by a sadistic master, and eventually given to Alexei (Lex), a Russian military officer. This is a fascinating, disturbing, twisted, and very hot exploration of what Clark and Lex's relationship might have been like if neither of them had ever encountered kindness before they discovered each other. Warning: BDSM and extreme violence.

There are a ton of good Clex slave fics--my current favorite is hrd02ca's And Desire Shall Fail which I've recced before, but not, I think, since she finished it. What's your favorite?

Non-Clex dirty-wrong recs
I was thinking of non-Clex Lex sex, lately, partly because acampbell posted a link to a story of hers I don't remember reading before: Shifting Priorities , which is Martha/Lex (and hot like a HOT thing). acampbell writes some of the best Martha characterization in SV fandom, and this is a really interesting look at Martha's desires. I'm not so sure why the fandom uniformly assumes Martha's only attitude toward Lex would be maternal, given that many of us are around Martha's age, and our feelings toward Lex are certainly not maternal!!!

Another interesting Mex story is rivkat's A Sort of Walking Miracle , which is futurefic in a big way (like a century in the future), where the Clex never happened, and Martha and Lex are still alive, thanks to meteor intervention. Martha and Lex need each other, but they still have very different perspectives on life, which eventually lead them to conflict.

And as long as I am doing rare (or dirty wrong, as the case may be) Lex pairings, here is a very hot Lex/Jonathan story: Kat Reitz and Tzigane's Wrong , which is a little outtake from their massively long Family Portrait (by the way, another Lex and Clark as brothers who shag story. In this case, Lex ends up getting raised by the Kents).

I'm not going to give a specific Lionel/Lex recommendation, since I have a whole page of Luthorcest recs here .

My favorite Lexana story, which I have recced before, is rivkat's Tertium Quid . I'm also pretty fond of mskatej's recent Untitled Lexana porn .

I would like someone to rec me some Chlex I haven't read, because I really love that pairing. I have recced this before, but it is still my favorite for this pairing: toomuchplor's Carte Blanche . Amazingly hot and angry Chlex, with some Chlexark thrown in for good measure.