I like my icons to be something I can use outside of show context. So I was thinking I couldn`t use the porny sculpting shots. But then I realized, all I have to do is put the word "gratuitous" on the icon and then I can use it! For other things that are gratuitous. Of which I predict there will suddenly be a lot.
'Objects In Space'
Cable Drama: Still Waiting for the Cable Guy to Show Up with the Thread Name...
To be determined... (but it's definitely [NAFDA])
So now I'm caught up (cablefree person is on Hulu delay), and holy crap, that was slashier than Two Axes.
Hi. I have pink sparkle hearts. For serious.
Wait... doesn't slash imply non-canon??? ;)
At this point, if it`s not canon I dunno what it is. There was weeping, y`all. And choked calling out of names.
So (now that I've seen it), how does the rest of the world read this relationship? I know I have the slash goggles, and those of you who don't are at least aware of the slash goggles, but my god. How else do you read this episode? Really really intense friendship with tears?
Also, I love Peter and Elizabeth's marriage. We can just slot Neal right in the middle there...
NEKKID
ahem, I mean yes, I think most people see it the way you do. How could you not?
I've read people on TWOP describe it as brotherly, but seriously, people.
Yay, I'm glad you saw it, Dana!
I have no idea how anyone else sees it. I mean, it all makes perfect sense through the slash goggles. But since I've been looking at their relationship that way since the beginning, I don't have any problem fitting those particular pieces together.
I think up until this episode, I could have seen it read as buddy cop kinda bromance. But it seems like it would be really baffling to try to read this straight at this point. I suppose gay denial is pretty strong in the mainstream media perception, so I guess it could still look that way, if you were trying.
But boy howdy does it not ever look that way to me.
And I suspect that one way or the other it's going to need to be made explicit and then one group or the other is going to be very very confused.
I mean, Neal was CRYING over leaving Peter. He'd wanted kate for so long, he didn't know how not to, even though his heart was telling him to be with Peter. How could anyone not see that?
Sparkly hearts. I'm just saying. Sparkly hearts.