Due South week! ~Intro post~
To all the fans I've gained over the last year in Star Trek fandom: I have failed to squee more about Due South to you guys, since most of you have only known me post-ST, which has consumed my fannish life. So I declare the rest of this week Due South week on this journal in honor of my second favorite fandom of all time and my second favorite OTP, Fraser/RayK, which is also my #1 comfort ship of all time (sorry K/S...get a happy ending!!!) That's right, all week I'll have only Due South on the brain, unless something major happens in ST fandom like Pinto's sex tape coming out. I'll be posting meta, vids, fic recs, art, and maybe possibly some new gifs or I'll just post the old ones I've made and add a couple of new ones to the list. I even changed my journal header temporarily to reflect the awesomeness of this week. Of course it doesn't mesh with my layout, but I'm lazy and it's only for one week. :)
An explanation: I first "discovered" Due South well over two years ago. I read somewhere that Due South is the secret of slash fandom. Someone will go "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" and tell you about it and then it will ensnare you. I don't know if that's true, but it is indeed one slashy fucking fandom. At least in my mind it's only beaten in slash by Star Trek fandom and let me tell you, it took a lot for me to say this at last because this fandom is damn gay. We all throw around Roddenberry quotes and we talk about how the actors are cool with it and all, but we have plain proof in Due South fandom. Paul Gross, who played Fraser and later went on to write and take the reigns of the show as producer in the last two seasons, knew what slash fiction was and said that slash fandom will love "the new guy" (Callum Keith Rennie) because he's sexy and the dangerous side of Fraser. In the blooper reel (found here, and 1:30 is where the part I'm talking about starts) there's a hilarious segment set to romantic music with Fraser and RayK, and the actors take an extremely slashy line and make it even gayer by one bending over and the other grasping his hips and saying, "brace yourself." The actors and the writers were unambiguously in on it.
If you love slash and quirky comedy, this may be right up your alley. I already wrote a PSA on why everyone should watch Due South, so I'll spare the details of what the show is and why the world is missing out in this post, but let me tell you, I can't go on enough about it. Due South is an odd little show in and of itself, so even if you don't watch it for the slash, it's just a good show. It can go from delightfully funny to intensely dramatic to wtf is this I can't even. I mean, to sum this all up, my favorite way of explaining this show is via truepenny and her initial thought that this was a sitcom about a Mountie with a wolf in Chicago, when in reality it's "a Mountie, who is haunted by his dead father, with a deaf half-wolf, in Chicago."
And to those on my flist who already know and love Due South: this week's going to be awesome. LET'S MAKE OUT.
Oh, and if you guys want to dive in and watch, here's the Pilot movie on youtube and This channel seems to have the first two seasons uploaded in good quality. Or you can wait because I'm uploading the series now, but that'll take a couple of days.
An explanation: I first "discovered" Due South well over two years ago. I read somewhere that Due South is the secret of slash fandom. Someone will go "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" and tell you about it and then it will ensnare you. I don't know if that's true, but it is indeed one slashy fucking fandom. At least in my mind it's only beaten in slash by Star Trek fandom and let me tell you, it took a lot for me to say this at last because this fandom is damn gay. We all throw around Roddenberry quotes and we talk about how the actors are cool with it and all, but we have plain proof in Due South fandom. Paul Gross, who played Fraser and later went on to write and take the reigns of the show as producer in the last two seasons, knew what slash fiction was and said that slash fandom will love "the new guy" (Callum Keith Rennie) because he's sexy and the dangerous side of Fraser. In the blooper reel (found here, and 1:30 is where the part I'm talking about starts) there's a hilarious segment set to romantic music with Fraser and RayK, and the actors take an extremely slashy line and make it even gayer by one bending over and the other grasping his hips and saying, "brace yourself." The actors and the writers were unambiguously in on it.
If you love slash and quirky comedy, this may be right up your alley. I already wrote a PSA on why everyone should watch Due South, so I'll spare the details of what the show is and why the world is missing out in this post, but let me tell you, I can't go on enough about it. Due South is an odd little show in and of itself, so even if you don't watch it for the slash, it's just a good show. It can go from delightfully funny to intensely dramatic to wtf is this I can't even. I mean, to sum this all up, my favorite way of explaining this show is via truepenny and her initial thought that this was a sitcom about a Mountie with a wolf in Chicago, when in reality it's "a Mountie, who is haunted by his dead father, with a deaf half-wolf, in Chicago."
And to those on my flist who already know and love Due South: this week's going to be awesome. LET'S MAKE OUT.
Oh, and if you guys want to dive in and watch, here's the Pilot movie on youtube and This channel seems to have the first two seasons uploaded in good quality. Or you can wait because I'm uploading the series now, but that'll take a couple of days.