Most of y'all have probably already read it, but I did find Te's thoughts on slash to be really helpful in articulating a lot of my inchoate thoughts (and questions) I'd had on the subject.
Specifically, her working through the notion of friendship/intimacy at the core of her slash interest, the historical paucity of male/female friendships which drove (and drives) a lot of slash; and spun off other thoughts about the problem with gender in narrative. Just that there's so much cultural and historical pressure leaning on het pairings that it all tends to force it down into the same three or four stories, and that squashes a lot of ambiguity/subtlety.
I've encountered most of these notions before, but just the way she worked through it on a personal level let me get inside those ideas much more deeply.
::dies laughing::
That really needs to be somebody's tagline.
they honor the Scary Bat-God With Their Union
Dude, you know what? It's funny, but it's SO true. I can't think of any 2 other Batverse characters for whom it would be as true.
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In the setting of a pairing that I believe, that is. So no Dick/Ra's.
Man. I'm not sure how many of you saw the genesis of the Scary Bat-God reference in comics chat -- I wonder if Te put that in her memories...
t wanders off to search
Christ. I just lent a co-worker Y: Last Man, and now I want to take it back. I forgot there were boobies. I must make a note not to hand him Fables either.
I read Hush, and am sad. I thought it was Tommy, and then I thought it wasn't, and then ... poor Bruce.
However, the love story bothered me. It's not Batman/Bruce in love, because I kinda liked the whole
Sasha revelation in Fugitive 3.
I just don't get why her. I even prefer Talia.
Lend him the one where Yorick reminisces about losing his virginity—the reaction to that ought to be entertaining.
I keep forgetting that my comics have, like, bondage and sex and nudity and violence and gore and profanity and other controversial stuff. Some relatives were over for Thanksgiving while I was catching up on a giant stack of comics, and some of them were exclaiming, "I haven't seen one of these in years!" Got all grabby-hands. I wasn't bothered until I recalled that so many of my comics were not family friendly like whoa.
Had to do some fast swapping out with less
interesting
titles.
I'd previously lent this guy Red Son -- innocuous, and then The Ultimates, which he proposed reading to his son. Yeah. Talked him out of that.
Finally
I have TT #18. Hey! Fun! Dead people! Bad people!
Something in X4 annoyed me. Well, two things. The thing about which I write was a categorisation of heroes. In which reality are Johnny Storm, Storm Storm and Cyclops energy-emitting supers, and Gambit isn't? I don't think I'll be getting the rest of teh series.
Maybe they're saying Gambit converts matter into energy instead of simply creating it? But I was under the impression he imbued objects with energy, since he talks about "charging" things so it does seem weird.
