Fandom of the Week entries
I'm doing this week's Fandom of the Week for DCSlash, a group on FB/DW/Discord for slash fans in the DC area. Three guesses what I picked!!!
No fair! You looked at the icon. ;-) Here are the two preliminary posts I made today--the first one is long, so it's under a cut. Fic recs will follow!
Post #1
Fandom of the Week: The Rat Patrol (in color!)
Rat Patrol was a half-hour action-adventure about Allied commandoes in WWII in North Africa. About half the episodes also featured their nemesis, the resourceful Captain Dietrich of the Afrika Korps.
How slashy is it? The Rats in general and their leader Troy in particular develop respect for their honorable opponent, Dietrich and vice-versa. Meanwhile, Troy has to learn to get along with Moffitt, a new Rat added to the team in the pilot. So it's really all about the relationships.
In place of a link to a ship_manifesto entry, I offer two brilliant tumblr posts by justastormie, whom I do not know but whose episode commentaries I hugely admire. She describes Troy and Dietrich as "rolling around in UST and testosterone" (Chain of Slash) and further observes that "no one ships [Troy/Dietrich] like the Rats ship it" (Cave of Slash).
https://justastormie.tumblr.com/post/34398423918/the-chain-of-death-raid-aka-the-chain-of-slash
https://justastormie.tumblr.com/post/94169545795/the-two-against-time-raid-or-the-cave-of-slash
Post #2:
Fandom of the Week: The Rat Patrol
In case the previous entry was tl;dr at this hour of the morning, I offer you just one of justastormie’s screenshots-with-caption. Enjoy!
This entry was originally posted at https://amedia.dreamwidth.org/424225.html.
No fair! You looked at the icon. ;-) Here are the two preliminary posts I made today--the first one is long, so it's under a cut. Fic recs will follow!
Post #1
Fandom of the Week: The Rat Patrol (in color!)
Rat Patrol was a half-hour action-adventure about Allied commandoes in WWII in North Africa. About half the episodes also featured their nemesis, the resourceful Captain Dietrich of the Afrika Korps.
How slashy is it? The Rats in general and their leader Troy in particular develop respect for their honorable opponent, Dietrich and vice-versa. Meanwhile, Troy has to learn to get along with Moffitt, a new Rat added to the team in the pilot. So it's really all about the relationships.
In place of a link to a ship_manifesto entry, I offer two brilliant tumblr posts by justastormie, whom I do not know but whose episode commentaries I hugely admire. She describes Troy and Dietrich as "rolling around in UST and testosterone" (Chain of Slash) and further observes that "no one ships [Troy/Dietrich] like the Rats ship it" (Cave of Slash).
https://justastormie.tumblr.com/post/34398423918/the-chain-of-death-raid-aka-the-chain-of-slash
https://justastormie.tumblr.com/post/94169545795/the-two-against-time-raid-or-the-cave-of-slash
Post #2:
Fandom of the Week: The Rat Patrol
In case the previous entry was tl;dr at this hour of the morning, I offer you just one of justastormie’s screenshots-with-caption. Enjoy!
This entry was originally posted at https://amedia.dreamwidth.org/424225.html.