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Tamara (FuckYeah-Nagron) - Canada
Had to post this again as Tumblr farked up and my other one is gone. :’( *sniffles*
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(Sorry, couldn’t find the answer box, so I had to reblog instead …)
WolfenM - USA
Gah, sorry it’s taken so long for me to getting around to posting this … In this week’s Sequential Tart, I have:
- a review of Spartacus, War of the Damned Ep 4: Decimation - http://sequentialtart.com/reports.php?ID=8598
- a review of Once Upon a Time 2.15: The Queen is Dead - http://sequentialtart.com/reports.php?ID=8597
- a review of Jack the Giant Slayer - http://sequentialtart.com/reports.php?ID=8601
- and a review of Rin-ne Vol. 11 - http://sequentialtart.com/reports.php?ID=8602
My review of “Wolves at the Gate” for Sequential Tart: http://t.co/5OlxtQrj
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Rating: PG-13
Series: Hidden Things
Genres/Themes: Angst, Romance, Slash, Missing Scenes, Episode Tag, Introspection, Character Study, Non-Graphic Violence, Canon Death, (Accidental) Drug Use, Hallucinations, Nightmares, Grief
Spoilers: All the Spartacus episodes up through Spartacus: War of the Damned, ep 2, “Wolves at the Gate”
Summary: Memories of a lost loved one haunt Agron, interfering with his ability to fight when the rebels take the city — and increasing his fear of losing Nasir ….
Relationships Featured: Romantic: Agron/Nasir. Friends: Light Agron/Crixus and Agron/Spartacus
Length: a little over 4150 words
Notes:Exclusively Agron’s POV. This fic is some missing moments from “Kill Them All” and “Wolves at the Gate”, as well as introspection during scenes in the ep, and close-ups of background moments. While it’s part of the Hidden Things series, it can be read without reading any of the other installments.
Read it at deviantART or AO3.
@spartacus_starz #WeWantNAGRONPromoPics Let’s spread the word \(*O*)/ #FuryFamily
My Nagron-centric half of a two-part article series at Sequential Tart, on why you should watch the most recent season of Spartacus.
*Edited to add* Thanks go to Janoda, for pointing out my goofs regarding when certain events took place! Gods, I hope I fixed it before DeKnight, Hema-Taylor, or Feuerriegel might have seen them. ^^;
did this and forgot to upload it last night
but guys
agron is super smooth
clearly
(it’s cool man, just give it two more episodes)
These are all my Spartacus-related fanfics and articles (with fan-art hopefully coming soon).
ARTICLES:
Tart Roundtable: Watch This or Die: Spartacus: Blood and Sand
Review: Spartacus: Vengeance, Episode 10 - “Wrath of the Gods”
Watch This or Die: Spartacus: Vengeance
Review: Spartacus: War of the Damned, Episode 1 - “Enemies of Rome”
Review: Spartacus: War of the Damned, Episode 2 - “Wolves at the Gate” *NEW*
FANFICS (All fics rated PG-13 unless otherwise noted):
One-Shots:
“Agony” - Nasir anxiously waits for Agron’s return from a rescue mission to save Crixus, and contemplates their relationship — with a little help from Chadara. Meanwhile, on the way back from the mission, Agron does some fretting of his own. Read it at AAoOO or deviantART.
Series:
Hidden Things - Nagron-centric Missing scenes and episode tags to Spartacus: Vengeance (and probably to next season as well, so this series will be without updates for a long while ..).
Rating: PG-13
Series: Hidden Things
Genres/Themes: Romance, Fluffy, Angst, Slash, Missing Scenes, Episode Tag, Hurt/Comfort, mention of Canon Character Death
Relationships Featured: Romantic: Agron/Nasir, light Crixus/Naevia.
Spoilers: All the Spartacus episodes up through Spartacus: Vengeance, ep 10, “Wrath of the Gods”
Length: almost 3750 words
Summary: A friend dies, and the rebels slowly starve on Mount Olympus. Meanwhile, Nasir keeps a secret that’s eating him up inside.
Notes: Some missing moments from “Wrath of the Gods”, as well as introspection during scenes in the ep, and close-ups of background moments. Sequel to my fics “Across a Crowded Temple”, “Wild Dogs”, “Worth Wait”, and “Amends”, but could be read without reading any of them first.
Sample:
“When the time comes, do not look back,” Agron had warned Nasir, back when they were examining their escape tunnel, during the early days of their stay at the temple. “Move quickly and confidently, and set example for your friends from the villa. If you stop, everyone else stops with you, and last in line could get sword in back. If you run, others may follow suit, and someone may get trampled. I trust you to get others to safety while I cover rear.”
And who will cover you? Nasir had wanted to ask but didn’t. He wanted Agron to be able to rely on him. Agron was the warrior, and though Nasir knew a hundred times more about fighting than he once had, Argon was still far superior in that regard. It made sense for Agron to defend the rear. That didn’t mean Nasir had to like it. Still, he suspected that if he remained, he would prove a distraction to Agron, who would doubtless feel the need to defend Nasir’s flank along with his own. And Nasir did want to make sure his friends made it out safely. So even after they reached the outside, where they were almost caught by the Romans and Spartacus ordered them to retreat, Nasir didn’t seek out his beloved, but rather made his way up the mountain with bold and unrushed strides, torch in hand, silently encouraging those behind him by making forward motions with the light. It took everything he had to not look back and make sure Agron was following. All he could do was pray to the gods with every step that he and Agron would be reunited at the mountain’s peak ….
Read more at An Archive of Our Own or deviantART.
Disclaimer: Nasir & Agron belong to Starz.
Rating: PG-13
Genres/Themes: Friendship, Romance, Fluffy, Slash, Missing Scenes, Episode Tag, light Hurt/Comfort
Relationships Featured: Romantic: Agron/Nasir, light Crixus/Naevia. Friends: Nasir/Lugo, Nasir/Spartacus, Nasir/Oenomaus, Nasir/Gannicus, and Nasir/Naevia; light Agron/Crixus. Rivalries: Nasir/Lugo, Agron/Crixus
Spoilers: All the Spartacus episodes up through Spartacus: Vengeance, ep 9, “Monsters”
Length: about 2500 words
Notes:Some missing moments from “Monsters”, as well as introspection during scenes in the ep, and close-ups of background moments. Sequel to my fics “Across a Crowded Temple”, “Wild Dogs”, and “Worth Wait”, but could be read without reading any of them first.
Rating: NC-17
Genres/Themes: Romance, Fluffy, Slash, Missing Scenes, Episode Tag, light Angst and Hurt/Comfort (Nasir/Naevia)
Relationships Featured: Romantic: Agron/Nasir, light Crixus/Naevia; Friends: Nasir/Lugo, and Nasir/Naevia; light Agron/Spartacus/Nasir, Agron/Nasir/Mira
Spoilers: All the Spartacus episodes up through Spartacus: Vengeance, ep 8, “Balance”
Length: a little over 3200 words
Notes: The lead-up to and aftermath of the infamous “hallway scene” of ep 8, “Balance”. Sequel to my fics “Across a Crowded Temple” and “Wild Dogs”, but could be read without reading them first.
DISCLAIMER: Two lines in the fic are from “Balance”: Agron’s “Time passes too slowly” and Nasir’s “We must be quick then.” Agron, Nasir, Naevia, Mira, Lugo, and the depiction of Spartacus and Crixus, as in the Spartacus series, all © Starz. This is just fanfiction, not an official story for the series, and no profit is being made by the author.
NOTE: You’ll see a couple different styles of section breaks here.
o——o means that the section after is it from Nasir’s point of view (it’s meant to be shackles).
O=]===========> means that the section after it is from Agron’s POV.
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Nasir fought not to run through the temple as he looked for Agron, buoyed through the halls by the news he couldn’t wait to share. He found Agron outside the room where the Roman woman was being kept; Spartacus was patting the man on the shoulder.
“Thank you, my friend,” Spartacus was saying.
Agron nodded, then noticed Nasir, his face splitting into a grin that lit the hall. Nasir felt himself reciprocate, his lips moving of their own accord — not that he disagreed with their action, but it still surprised him (in a good way) that his body reacted so strongly to Agron of its own accord. It was responding in other ways, too, for that matter ….
Agron kissed him, chaste but affectionate. Nasir bit back a growl of frustration — he wanted more, and he’d wanted it now. Hadn’t they waited long enough?
Sparty doesn’t love Mira like Nagron — they’re more lke friends with benefits. Rhaskos & Chadara didn’t love each other. Gblaber & Seppia don’t, whatever Seppia thought at first. Lucretia and Ahru is horrifying. The wait with Nagron suggests a deeper meaning, much like Crixus and Naevia had too wait (even if that wasn’t a situation of their controlling.) When we do see the boys together, it will be a gift, not them ion display fr us like we’re romans at a party with an orgy in the background. This teasing glimpses of more affection than sex is, to me, MUCH better than the causal banging of everyone else. But I won’t say no to seeing more, I’m just enjoying them taking their sweet time. ;P
~WolfenM, aka hellyeahtrickster
Still, it’s all starting to feel a bit affected on the part of the show’s creators. If sexuality is so “integral” to the canvas that is the show (why else do we need to go back to the whorehouse each week?) then why have we not seen Agron and Nasir in flagrante delicto? Think of it—we’ve seen…
See, that’s just it. *I* still see Nasir.
I saw him welcoming the newcomers and getting to know them, and getting lifted into a bear-hug by Lugo. I saw him offering moral support to Mira and Naevia. I saw him grieving Chadara. I saw him fighting the Germans after Sedullus stirred things up. Part of the brilliance of the series is that there is sooooooo much going on in the backgrounds of the scenes, so much more story happening than just the dialogue. Even when the characters are in the foreground, there’s often some beautiful, unspoken stuff happening. If he’s arguably been a bit underused of late, well, he got a lot of screentime after first being introduced — they can’t all get big, juicy parts every ep. I’m sure he’ll get more again.
But Agron’s a slightly more important character, so if Agron’s gotten more scenes without Nasir than Nasir’s gotten without Agron, or if Nasir’s been used to shore up Agron a bit — offer support and help Agron grow as a person — that makes sense. Nasir is supporting cast, Agron is main. But there’s a difference between JUST shoring up another character, and doing so *and* also developing one’s own at the same time. Aside from all the stuff I mentioned, we’ve seen Nasir go from shy to bold — like when he got a bit drunk and tried to hit on Agron (with that suggestive little eyebrow raise when he was holding the wineskin). He noted when Agron went through the crowd to try to bury the hatchet with Crixus — we saw his little smile as he realised what Argon was doing. And Agron would never have done it if not for Nasir, so I really don’t get the idea someone else posed that he’s useless now. It may be subtle, but he’s had great influence on Agron simply because of who he is, and that’s not nothing. And I’m sure he’ll have influence on others besides Agron. The romance is *part* of his character, but I hope I’ve shown that there *is* indeed more to him.
Anyway, I think it says a lot that it took them so long to get to this point in their relationship — I have a hard time connecting to Mira/Spartacus because their relationship seemed to me to have been based on sex *first* rather than, as with Nagron, a deep bond that has now taken on more physical intimacy. (I’m not against Mira/Sparty, I like them, but when Nasir suggested Sparty loves Mira, I was all “are you sure?”)
And my love for Nagron is not just because they are a slash couple: *I’m* bi-poly. Whether it’s boyxboy, boyxgirl, or girlxgirl, or any variation of genders, or even androgyness, at the end of the day, what I want to see is *love*. That’s what I see in Nagron — and have a very hard time seeing in real life. And just because I see and treasure it doesn’t mean I or any other Nagron fanatic are oblivious to any other aspect of the characters or the show.
If it’s madness to celebrate love and find such joy in it (I suffer from depression a lot, and little has made me as happy of late as Nagron), then I guess I am mad!
If there’s not enough non-nagron in the Spartacus tag for your liking (and I don’t mean specifically nayaritism — I very much appreciate that you’ve taken the time to explore other’s feelings,; this is more in reply to another post I saw), consider adding more non-nagron content *yourself* instead of suggesting others should stop posting what they enjoy or assuming that just because you don;t see value, others shouldn’t either or that it’s not there to be found. :)
~WolfenM, aka hellyeahtrickster
Excellent points! I loved this! And I know for me, I’ve never been Anti-Nagron, just more Anti the madness of it all. But I guess that IS because I’ve been there through the Barca and Pietros relationship, that DIDN’T get this kind of love, and that relationship broke me. So it’s interesting to have another side of the opinion with this with fresh eyes, not still holding on to Barca and Pietros. And my only REAL gripe with this is for the love of gosh can we bring Nasir THE CHARACTER back, not just the romance.
First, an important bit of context:
For all the love the Nagron pairing gets, their moments take up less than 2 minutes of what is an hour-long show. We’ve taken longer (and more explicit) trips to the whorehouse in every episode than what we’ve gotten out of Nagron - and their pairing makes up…
Rating: PG-13
Genres/Themes: Character Study (Nasir and Agron), Drama, Romance, Angst, Hurt/Comfort (emotional), Introspection, Fluffy, Missing Scenes
Relationships Featured: Romantic: Agron/Nasir, light Crixus/Naevia and Spartacus/Mira; Friends: Nasir/Chadara, Agron/Spartacus/Nasir, and Agron/Nasir/Germans; light Agron/Nasir/Naevia, Nasir/Oenomaus, and Nasir/Mira
Spoilers: All the Spartacus episodes up through Spartacus: Vengeance, ep 7, “Sacramentum”
Length: almost 5500 words
Notes: Agron has brought some “wild dogs” into the fold of the rebellion; when his motives are questioned, a certain other wild dog leaps to his defence. Takes place before and concurrently with the events of ep 7, “Sacramentum”. Sequel to my fic, “Across a Crowded Temple”. See deviation description after fic a link to the previous fic, and for acknowledgements.
PREVIEW:
Nasir didn’t want to say goodbye, so he didn’t. He didn’t tell Agron to return to him, either — anything even remotely suggesting that there might not be a reunion between them felt like it would be tempting the Fates’ crueler sides. But just in case, he had taken the ghost of Chadara’s advice, making the most of every moment in the two-week wait before Agron’s mission to Neapolis, not taking a single second for granted. If the Fates proved unkind, he would have no regrets.
Well, save for that his wound had, by both Agron’s insistence and that of the Medicus, prohibited anything more intimate than a kiss or a caress; the Medicus had only just released him from sleeping under her watch! But that wound had reunited another pair of lovers, and Nasir would not regret that. He only hoped that the Fates would bear that in mind ….
So he hugged his beloved, and kissed him, trailing fingers and eyes across Agron’s skin and committing everything about the man to memory.
It seemed Agron was trying to do the same.
“I will miss scent of you nearly as much as feel and sight,” Agron complained, burying his nose in the crook of Nasir’s neck and breathing deeply.
“And I, yours,” Nasir agreed, breathing in as well.
“I have notion!” Agron suddenly announced, pulling away. Nasir lamented the absence for all of half a second, until Agron then ordered, “Take off vest.”
Nasir obeyed, half afraid that his heart was about to burst as he did so. Were they going to throw caution to the wind, and risk the ire of the Medicus? Nasir did feel better ….
<B>DISCLAIMER:</b> One line in the fic is from “Sacramentum”: Nasir’s “Your people, they lift spirits!” Agron, Nasir, Chadara, Naevia, Mira, Lugo, Sedullus, and the depiction of Spartacus, Oenomaus, and Crixus, as in the <I>Spartacus</i> series, all © Starz. This is just fanfiction, not an official story for the series, and no profit is being made by the author.
