#!prison

Highly recommended. 

Title: Bent Author: Sean Mathias Format: Film Published/Free: Published Length: 105 mins Status: Complete Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic violence, rape (m/f, implied), imprisonment, all your fun concentration camp stuff. It cannot be unseen. Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118698/ Summary: Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He tries to deny he is gay and gets a yellow label (the one for Jews) instead of pink (the one for gays). In camp he falls in love with his fellow prisoner Horst, who wears his pink label with pride. Review: This is not a happy movie, I just found it really, really powerful and memorable. There's a lot of decadent guy-on-guy action at the beginning to juxtapose the harshness of the camp later in the movie, and you get a bonus of seeing Mick Jagger in drag :D. But really, it's a story about desperate but doomed love in the harshest place imaginable. Like a lot of Holocaust movies, there's a few scenes that are really tough to watch, but I think in the end I'm glad I got through it all. It really sticks with you. Anyway, if you're not interested, I've gotta tell you about this one scene that totally blew me out of the water: Towards the end of the movie, there's a scene where the leads literally have sex without touching, or even looking at each other. They're just standing there, fully clothed, in broad daylight, talking, and it's the hottest, most brilliant piece of writing and acting I've ever seen. You've really gotta check it out, if only for that. (Original Post)

Title: Polaris Breach Author: teromain (also known as Alyn Drasil on Fictionpress) Format: Novel Published/Free: Free Length: 90k Status: Complete Rating: Mature Warnings: Mild language Link: http://teromain.livejournal.com/103972.html Unfortunately, this story is friend-locked. But as far as I know, becoming a friend of the author is as easy as commenting here. Summary: Marlowe has been a guard at Panopticon for four years when radical extremist Jaeson Arthur is arrested and placed on his cell block to await his death sentence. Review: At first I was hesitant to read this, because stories that have a prison setting are usually centered around torture. But thankfully, the torture in Polaris Breach takes place entirely in convict Jaeson Arthur's mind, as he prepares for his future execution. The actual prison that Jaeson stays in is quite tame compared to most slash cliches, and is well-run by newly-made Senior Prison Guard (and main protagonist) Marlowe Spelle. Both Marlowe and Jaeson defy the usual guard and convict stereotypes. Marlowe has a pet rabbit and an interesting past, and Jaeson is jailed not for murder or thievery but because of his involvement with the Railroad, a newspaper that is illegal in the novel's technologically-advanced, dystopian society. Yet the story involves much more than Jaeson and Marlowe's interactions in Panopticon, and in the end this is one of the best slash stories that resulted from NaNo this year, with both a well-written, complicated romance and an engaging plot. (Original Post)

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