In A Mood
I am In A Mood. Have some pictures:
Apparently, this is from a Dolce & Gabbana ad shoot. I approve of the wildly sensual, hedonistic vibe paired with the sharp suits. (NSFW)
this is a lot more straightforwardly pornographic. I will admit it's the dogtags that did me in. Stargate fandom has obviously done something to me.
this is het. I know, weird, eh? Barely PG-13, and probably I should not admit how freakishly hot I find it. There also seems to be a certain commonality with the last one...
miriad wrote Five Short Tales about Four Johns and a Jack. These are tiny bitlets about John Winchester, John Sheppard, John McClane, John Crichton, and Jack O'Neill (John/Aeryn and Jack/Daniel). I love this all to pieces.
Interestingly, miriad is also the person who pointed me to what is now one of my favorite vids of all time- Boulevard of Broken Songs by destina, the one about Jack O'Neill, Mal Reynolds, John Crichton, and Dean Winchester.
As I more and more consider myself part of slash fandom, as opposed to a slash-loving fan of whatever particular thing, I'm starting to collect These Men. They're... I want to say built on the same character template, but that's not it. And it's not a couple of related templates either. It's... a set of characteristics, recombined in different ways and manifesting themselves differently (which is how John and Dean Winchester are both These Men, despite their different relationships to the idea of family- and how Jack O'Neill and Mal Reynolds both are, as well).
And they come up in the strangest places- I'm rewatching West Wing, and utterly non-violent, non-soldier Toby is one of these men, a little bit, in his own way, so it's not just a soldier thing. And it's not just men, because first-season Starbuck is one of Those Men, but her existence as a counter example can't keep this from being pretty deeply gendered, in my head. And these men aren't the only men I love- Daniel Jackson isn't one, for example, nor Rodney, nor Geoffrey Tenant or Hawkeye Pierce, though Hawkeye and Daniel both have pieces of it and move in that direction.
It's about protectiveness, and dedication to a cause, and personal loyalty, and the way those things conflict with each other and are beaten down by the realities of the world and the way these men cling to that devotion and protectiveness and loyalty through it all. And yes, it normally tends to involve a lot of emotional intensity and daddy issues and slash. And, yes, a lot of violence, and I will admit that that frisson of violence really does it for me.
I just... I love these men, and their intoxicating mix of strength and vulnerability, the pain of their histories, their unshakable personal devotion and loyalty, their fundamental, deep-down urge to defend, to protect, to turn all their great strength and determination to that cause. I love these men.
Um, that was all.
Apparently, this is from a Dolce & Gabbana ad shoot. I approve of the wildly sensual, hedonistic vibe paired with the sharp suits. (NSFW)
this is a lot more straightforwardly pornographic. I will admit it's the dogtags that did me in. Stargate fandom has obviously done something to me.
this is het. I know, weird, eh? Barely PG-13, and probably I should not admit how freakishly hot I find it. There also seems to be a certain commonality with the last one...
miriad wrote Five Short Tales about Four Johns and a Jack. These are tiny bitlets about John Winchester, John Sheppard, John McClane, John Crichton, and Jack O'Neill (John/Aeryn and Jack/Daniel). I love this all to pieces.
Interestingly, miriad is also the person who pointed me to what is now one of my favorite vids of all time- Boulevard of Broken Songs by destina, the one about Jack O'Neill, Mal Reynolds, John Crichton, and Dean Winchester.
As I more and more consider myself part of slash fandom, as opposed to a slash-loving fan of whatever particular thing, I'm starting to collect These Men. They're... I want to say built on the same character template, but that's not it. And it's not a couple of related templates either. It's... a set of characteristics, recombined in different ways and manifesting themselves differently (which is how John and Dean Winchester are both These Men, despite their different relationships to the idea of family- and how Jack O'Neill and Mal Reynolds both are, as well).
And they come up in the strangest places- I'm rewatching West Wing, and utterly non-violent, non-soldier Toby is one of these men, a little bit, in his own way, so it's not just a soldier thing. And it's not just men, because first-season Starbuck is one of Those Men, but her existence as a counter example can't keep this from being pretty deeply gendered, in my head. And these men aren't the only men I love- Daniel Jackson isn't one, for example, nor Rodney, nor Geoffrey Tenant or Hawkeye Pierce, though Hawkeye and Daniel both have pieces of it and move in that direction.
It's about protectiveness, and dedication to a cause, and personal loyalty, and the way those things conflict with each other and are beaten down by the realities of the world and the way these men cling to that devotion and protectiveness and loyalty through it all. And yes, it normally tends to involve a lot of emotional intensity and daddy issues and slash. And, yes, a lot of violence, and I will admit that that frisson of violence really does it for me.
I just... I love these men, and their intoxicating mix of strength and vulnerability, the pain of their histories, their unshakable personal devotion and loyalty, their fundamental, deep-down urge to defend, to protect, to turn all their great strength and determination to that cause. I love these men.
Um, that was all.