I don't give a good gorram about relevant, Wash. Or objective. And I ain't so afraid of losing something that I ain't gonna try to have it. You and I would make one beautiful baby. And I want to meet that child one day. Period.

Zoe ,'Heart Of Gold'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


billytea - Jun 05, 2011 6:06:03 pm PDT #11509 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I caught part of SatC2 on cable late one night, and I couldn't look away. It was surreal and ridiculous and offensive. And I used to like the show! Although my favorite character was always the city.

You're going to make the sex jealous with opinions like that.


Kat - Jun 05, 2011 6:07:10 pm PDT #11510 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I always felt a little guilty for watching SaTC at all. It felt like gay-boys playing paper dolls instead of actual characters. But it was CRACK.


Hil R. - Jun 05, 2011 6:08:43 pm PDT #11511 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I always felt a little guilty for watching SaTC at all. It felt like gay-boys playing paper dolls instead of actual characters. But it was CRACK.

When my sister first saw Queer As Folk, her reaction was, "Oh, it's like Sex and the City, but with gay men."


§ ita § - Jun 05, 2011 6:10:57 pm PDT #11512 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Well, I changed the channel away to something else I don't understand: True Blood. Then I went and read the wikipedia entry on the movie, and I'm glad I didn't bother finish it up. I mean, it's not like it was going anywhere other than "Can Carrie accept an unconventional marriage?" and the answer is patently no.

True Blood? I'm killing time and waiting for something to click while my sleep meds kick in.


P.M. Marc - Jun 05, 2011 6:14:14 pm PDT #11513 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

That one. I'm just commiserating with Plei.

MY MISERY NEEDS YOUR COMPANY!

Seriously, I've read ONE, maybe TWO believably IC Ace Sherlock stories, the one series that's John/Lestrade, and I think something on the kinkmeme.

Ah. That's why I have no trouble seeing him as asexual homoromantic, because I don't see "romance" as needing to be as described by your shorthand. It doesn't work for me as a demi/grey A/whateversexual, but I am not short on romance. So I figure Sherlock's "romance" would not look like DeBeers would like it to.

I'm starting to feel like words have lost all meaning! (insert emoticon here, as my tongue is partly in my cheek) Fandom's writing of him aside, I do see him as largely, primarily aromantic. If I read him as ace at all, it's going to be as an aromantic ace.

His emotional connection to John is they exception to most of his rules (esp. as we have no indication in BBCverse that there is a Victor Trevor in his past, though if he is, I've mentally casted him with a couple of different guys, and yeah, ANYHOW), and exists in a space that's epic and beyond normal friendship or romance.


Cass - Jun 05, 2011 6:21:48 pm PDT #11514 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

MY MISERY NEEDS YOUR COMPANY!

Our misery can bitch together. It'll be fun.

I just paused the tv so see if I could clearly hear if that's really thunder. Um, the noise is my fans. So not as effective as I'd have liked. But if it rains, I am putting on outside clothes and going out to let it drench me. It's been a little warm for a couple of days.


erikaj - Jun 05, 2011 6:25:35 pm PDT #11515 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

SATC2 is like crazy fanfic. Not that I enjoyed it any less. But it totally is.


Steph L. - Jun 05, 2011 6:30:21 pm PDT #11516 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

His emotional connection to John is they exception to most of his rules

I can go with that, w/r/t him being an aromantic ace.

My brain just went off on a rabbit hole wondering if Frodo is ace.


Cashmere - Jun 05, 2011 6:47:01 pm PDT #11517 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

Frodo and Bilbo are the bachelor scholars and priests Tolkien grew up around. And the female characters are his mother and wife.


sarameg - Jun 05, 2011 6:48:27 pm PDT #11518 of 30001

I can't comment on any of the above.

But I finally got rain and my parents have the nephews in their custody. I think they are stunned, as per usual. They'll live. Ahahaha!