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David Blaize by E.F. Benson

[aurilly]

What It Is
A gently humorous novel about boys at an English boarding school in the early 20th century. This time with canon homoerotic feelings and angst.

What Makes It So Iddy
This is a boarding school novel where the boys are explicitly flirting, whipping one other with racquet handles, fainting in one another's arms, cuddling in bed, reciting romantic poetry to one another while swimming naked, repressing their desperate feelings for one another, literally actually saving one another's lives with the power of love... I can't.

The iddiness largely resides with David's best friend Frank Maddox. Frank is handsome, brilliant, athletic, friendly—and yet not at all annoying—and the object of David's intense hero worship. Frank's only 'flaw' is that he is gay and desperately in love with David, and has also hooked up with other boys. His internalized homophobia and repression and self-loathing are deliciously angsty. But he's also really fun and playful. He's a wonderful creation.

There's a sequel is about David's years at Cambridge that you don't need to read to fulfill most requests. Since Frank is three years older, they don't overlap much, and Frank is away being an archaeologist in Greece (swoon!) for large swaths of it. But the parts he's in are fantastic, and their UST is possibly even more ridiculous than in the first book. And they don't get canon het endings! \o/

Where You Can Find It
'David Blaize' is free on Gutenberg here. I found an online copy of the sequel here. The sequel is, to be honest, a bit dull, given that Frank keeps leaving. My recommendation is to read it on a web browser, control-F-ing for his name and reading only the parts where his name shows up a lot. That's what I did.

There's also a totally unconnected book called "David Blaize and the Blue Door" that is the author's attempt to write an Alice In Wonderland-style novel. It's set when David was really little and has no connection to the other books. (I haven't read it and I don't know of anyone in the fandom who has; don't bother.)

Likely Requests
Frank/David is, obviously, the main fandom OTP, and there are often requests for them. However, I'll be requesting Frank/many various crossover men.