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Hornblower and Bush--they even sound like the title of a porn film

Mar 02, 2010 17:59

I've finished reading Lieutenant Hornblower, widely considered the slashiest of the Hornblower novels. This isn't surprising, since it's told from the POV of Hornblower's deeply enamored friend William Bush, he of the hand-caressing and stealth!snuggling.

( mild spoilers, although not for major plot points )

books, fandom: hornblower, awesome gayness

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kindkit March 4 2010, 18:06:14 UTC

Cool, thanks for the links! Through more careful searching I've managed to start finding some good bookverse fic (I've been reading quigonejinn's stuff and loving it), but I'm very glad to find more.

I've been rewatching the TV series, which is now weird because my love for Bush makes me look with a colder eye on Kennedy, and yet of course it's impossible not to feel a bit awwwwww about Kennedy because he was specially designed to be the woobiest woobie EVER IN THE UNIVERSE.

Also: much love for your icon! Every once in a while on the show it's really obvious how little Paul McGann is compared to the other actors (I think when possible they stood him on a box, but they can't do that for long shots) and it makes me peculiarly squeeful.

lullabee_lj March 4 2010, 19:11:28 UTC

I no longer can comprehend why so few people seem to be into short guys. It is so freaking cute how little McGann is. Just... awwwww. Every time I see a photo of him where they seem to have found a brand-new way to make him look like a little tiny person (there's a photo of him and three other guys who worked on the Eight audios, and he's near the center and posed kind of awkwardly like he's standing on tiptoe to put his arms around their shoulders, and I've been looking at metebelis3's picspam masterlist, where I know it is, to find it because it is crazy adorable but I am behaving like a person who has free time right now and I am not), I can't help grinning. Men are allowed to be cute too ( ... )

kindkit March 4 2010, 22:55:04 UTC

I like short guys!

The gender binary, I guess...

Yeah, I think so. It's all about masculinity = physical power, physical dominance, all that crap. And part of the reason I like short guys is that their masculinity is to some extent separated (freed?) from that simplistic equation, which makes it more interesting to me.

caldosangue October 26 2010, 21:54:32 UTC

Thank you for the links! <3

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