"Genesis"

[reena_jenkins]

 
Title: Genesis
Author: rivkat 
Reader: reena_jenkins  
Fandom: Smallville
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Clark/Lex
Warnings: dark themes, swearing, bondage!porn
Format/Length: mp3, 01:12:12
Author's Summary: "Dividing the light from the darkness... those who control the past, control the future."

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***If anyone knows of any Smallville fic/podfic/fanworks comm that I could cross-post this to, and wouldn't mind letting me know where, that would be lovely.***

ETA: Thanks to madame_d for reminding me that I forgot the warnings...aparently, this podfic is not safe for public transportation ;-)

Comments

[cybel]

Posted a podbook. :-)

[reena_jenkins]

Ooooh, thank you :-)

[self-machine.livejournal.com]

I'm so excited! I just finished re-reading this for the 10000 times & to find your podfic, it just made my day :)

Thank you!

[reena_jenkins]

Oh wow - really? I'm really glad you like the fic (I have to agree, it's a pretty great story), but now I'm nervous about whether you'll like the podfic as well...... ;-)

[aphelant.livejournal.com]

http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/genesis

:)

[self-machine.livejournal.com]

I loved it! I listen to it last night and I loved every minute of the podfic!

[reena_jenkins]

Oh, good - I'm glad! The First Person POV was a novel experience for me - especially since I'm neither a guy nor a superheroic alien - and it's good to know I didn't flub anything. Thanks for the positive feedback ;-)

[reena_jenkins]

Thank you!

[madame-d.livejournal.com]

Whee! More Clex podfic from you!

[reena_jenkins]

This one's a little less funny, and a little more porny.....let me know what you think (though, this isn't the one I mentioned before (that one's still in editing))?

[madame-d.livejournal.com]

There's... porniness? Mmmmm.

[reena_jenkins]

Hope the porniness lives up to your expectations..... ;-)

[crinklysolution.livejournal.com]

This was smokin'! Great job with it, much enjoyed by me as I did chores this weekend...

[reena_jenkins]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

Also, you are so much better than me at this 'commenting on podfics I enjoyed' thing. I am in awe.

[madame-d.livejournal.com]

Okay, so maybe reading porn aloud is different from reading it on the page, or just listening to it, but dear god, I was purple by the time I finished listening. Some fics are just so not conducive to public consumption. Or consumption in public places, such as public transit! And in first person! How did you do it? *boggles*

That fic is... I don't know, it disturbed me. It was probably supposed to. Also, maybe I'm projecting, but I could swear your voice changed between the time Clark went into the past, and in the current, changed, present (future?) - he's softer, gentler, somehow.

[reena_jenkins]

Well, I got the idea that the Clark the story starts out with (all vengeance-driven and out to kill) is a lot different from the Clark the story ends with (since the intervening events between the 'present' and 'future' were changed - and so, the Clark who is shaped by those events is a different one). It's really cool that you thought I accomplished a distinction between the two!

Okay, like....there was this pop-philosophy book I read, and I can't actually remember who's theory it was, but the main idea is that who you are now is still the same you as you were then because you can remember being you then. Like, you-at-age-15 is the same you as you-at-age-5, because you can remember being age 5. And, the you-at-age-25 is still the same you as the you-at-age-5, 'cause even if you don't remember being 5 anymore, you still remember being you-at-age-15. Does that make sense? So in my head, because Clark-of the-future-at-the-end-of-the-fic doesn't remember all the things that would have had to have happened in the intervening years that ultimately didn't happen, he's no longer the same as Clark-from-the-future-at-the-beginning-of-the-fic. (Plus, he's a lot more dependent on Lex - and because he doesn't have Lex pulling against him to sharpen all his edges (adverstity and antagonism build character, right?), Clark can afford to be a bit softer.)

As for the porn....well, for one thing, I'm a lot less open about NC-17 materials in 'real life' than I am on the internet. I'm not entirely sure I could have read this fic aloud if there were an audience in the room... ;-) Sorry to make you change colors?

[madame-d.livejournal.com]

Okay, like....there was this pop-philosophy book I read, and I can't actually remember who's theory it was, but the main idea is that who you are now is still the same you as you were then because you can remember being you then.

It makes perfect sense, and that's why I thought I was projecting - that maybe you didn't change the voice at all, but because so many things have changed, and Clark's past was different because he'd gone back and changed it, I expected Clark to be different from what he'd been and, ergo, your voice speaking his lines would be different (since Clark is) and I thought my expectations altered my hearing. :D

I'm always really leery of the first-person narrative. I think one of the reasons I had been unfamiliar with the story, despite loving rivkat's work, is because of that. And I did enjoy it, even though I found it creepy and disturbing. Apparently, not all fic is sunshine and puppies and rainbows - huh, who knew?

I'm a lot less open about NC-17 materials in 'real life' than I am on the internet.

Nooooooooo, really? Aren't we all? ;) I shocked a coworker the other day by uttering the word 'twink.' In conjunction with Jensen, no less. She was all, "I didn't know you knew such words!" So... yeah.

Sorry to make you change colors?

To borrow a line from you, I'm a lot less open about NC-17 materials in 'real life' than I am on the internet. ;)

[reena_jenkins]

AH! I just checked up top, and I thought I warned for the bondage!porn, but I didn't. I'm going to go do that, pronto...and when I get around to posting the podfic with threesome!porn, I'll be extra sure to warn for it.

She was all, "I didn't know you knew such words!"
I'm pretty sure that, thanks to my newfound love of podfic, I have learned many new words ;-)

And I did enjoy it, even though I found it creepy and disturbing.
On some sort of scale, which do you think is 'darker': this one, or Looking Glass? 'Cause, I thought this was, yes, chilling...but still just a time-travel fic, so of course there's the off-putting element of, "Who made you God?" But, I actually felt that Looking Glass was 'worse'(i.e., farther down the scale), because Clark with a Luthor mindset is SCARY. I think a large part of it, for me, is the contrast - you're so used to seeing Clark as the utmost bastion of all things Righteous, and the person he is in Looking Glass is anything but. As a Superhero, Clark has a simplistic view of Right and Wrong, which only stands to showcase his alien nature...but as a Luthor child, he's so much more Human (and therefore much more devious and creepy).
Discuss.

[madame-d.livejournal.com]

I'm too paranoid to access LJ at work, hence the long delay in my replies. Sorry.

and when I get around to posting the podfic with threesome!porn, I'll be extra sure to warn for it.

Warnings are important. Especially for things that aren't everyone's cuppa, like dub-con, threesomes, or bondage. Though I'm not usually pro-bondage, but it didn't bother me in this fic.

I'm pretty sure that, thanks to my newfound love of podfic, I have learned many new words ;-)

Bwahaha! Comes with fanfic territory. ;)

but as a Luthor child, he's so much more Human (and therefore much more devious and creepy).

Hmmm. Interesting. I see your point. Personally, I view it as nature vs nurture argument. I'm not familiar with the Superman comic (or cartoons, for that matter) so my knowledge comes from the late Christopher Reeve movies, and Smallville. So, the Kents strike me as very simple, salt-of-the-earth, American heartland type of people. Unlike Luthors, they don't play games, they have firm morality, and they don't subscribe to the 'shades of grey' belief.

Which, to me, is why Superman is so boring and so black/white, right/wrong type of person. To me, it doesn't underscore his alienness; it's just the way he was raised - without understanding of the concept of subtlety, or subtext, or things not black or white.

Ergo, it makes total sense to me (and doesn't creep me out) that, raised by Lionel (and Martha, but Lionel, too), Clark would turn out totally different from the one raised by Martha and Jonathan - someone with a fluid sense of ethics and morality who sees the world in shades of grey, instead of black/white.

Additionally, the prologue of the story kind of sets up Jonathan and his co-conspirators in an utterly unflattering light: they see alien, they fear alien, and they kill alien - and not, frankly, for being alien, but for killing (inadvertently!!!) all those good folk of Smallville. The guilt for which is a concept explored far and wide in fic (and possibly canon - I can't remember details of ten years past). Point is, he was a baby, it wasn't his fault, he was innocent, etc. They kill a toddler - yes, alien, but helpless and innocent-looking (as far as they knew back then, anyway). If they had killed (or tried to) an adult, who could've fought back, fine, they're right bastards but crap happens. But a baby? They deserved the Wrath of Clark raining upon them. *shrug*

By contrast, in Genesis, Clark knowingly goes back, exerts somewhat ridiculous amounts of control over Lex, by basically fucking him into submission to his will, and kills Lionel. Knowingly. The Clark Kent raised by Martha and Jonathan would never do that. No matter the circumstances. Even beyond the apocalypse and the end of the world as we know it. Especially since in Smallville canon, Clark messing with the past results in him saving Lana and killing Jonathan (granted, inadvertently, but hey, balance in the world and all that).

Which is why it's so creepy, to me, to see such sheer proof of Clark's alienness and loss of Superman's humanity in Genesis, whereas in Looking Glass it's just a consequence of his upbringing, plus horrendous memories of his first encounter with the earthlings.