There are some difficult emotional things going on in my life right now. I'll still be around and talking about fandom, because fandom is a happiness and a comfort for me. But I may be a bit flaky for a while. Your patience is appreciated if I, for example, fail to answer your comment promptly (or at all). I don't plan on that, because I want to
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my head canon is that Tintin is oblivious to sexual undertones when Haddock first meets him
*nods* My own developing head-canon is that Tintin didn't quite connect his own sexual urges with other people or with emotions; mostly he dismissed his sexual feelings as unimportant distractions, and it takes him a long time to understand that what he feels for Haddock has a sexual component. That lack of emotional connection may have protected him from sexual abuse (when he was a young boy--I'm thinking he'd somehow been living on his own from the time he was fourteen or so--unprotected among adults, there must have been someone who tried to take advantage) because no one was able to twist and exploit his affection.
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