Climb That Mountain.
Episode 8.03 of Waterloo Road has just finished and, er, whoops, I think I might be full-on 'shipping Josh/Tariq. Tariq is a practising Muslim and the Qur'an is not, to my knowledge, particularly wild about homosexuality, so there might be a bit of an obstacle there. Although I suppose his faith has taken a few knocks of late. And he doesn't seem to have any problem with Josh's sexuality; just with the fact that Josh won't stop helping him go away Josh.
At the very least I suspect Josh has a bit of a crush on Tariq. Josh has a type, and that type is trouble.
So now I'm slightly conflicted. On the one hand, I really like that Josh is a gay character who has crushes and boyfriends but also has storylines that don't have anything to do with his sexuality (this is one of the very few things Waterloo Road actually does right). So it'd be nice for his friendship with Tariq to be just that - friendship - because Josh may fancy boys, but that doesn't mean that he fancies all of the boys. On the other hand, how delightful would Josh/Tariq be?
The answer: probably not actually that delightful, because this is Waterloo Road and so horrible things would happen to everyone involved. But I would be delighted regardless.
(I've just remembered that I made notes on what Tariq's daemon would be, even though Tariq didn't appear in the His Dark Materials AU I inexplicably wrote. I seem to remember that she wasn't settled, she favoured canine forms and she generally didn't get along with Tariq at all. Sambuca's daemon would be a grey squirrel.)
Something I forgot to mention in my earlier entry on Revenant Wings: there's a wonderful bit where Tomaj asks 'Do you wanna know what I think?' and your options are 'Okay, okay' and 'Not if I can avoid it'. I couldn't resist choosing the second. Sorry, Tomaj.
Being asked 'Who do you like?' during the weapon-crafting process also amused me. The possible answers include 'None of your business!' and 'It's Pe- personal!', but my favourite is 'I like everyone!' It's just so Vaan.
Also, Filo's crush on Llyud is adorable. And Vaan tries to scout out whether Llyud is interested in her! She's eleven, Vaan. Llyud is twenty, and aegyl only live for forty years, so by the standards of his species he's middle-aged. This seems really inappropriate.
At the very least I suspect Josh has a bit of a crush on Tariq. Josh has a type, and that type is trouble.
So now I'm slightly conflicted. On the one hand, I really like that Josh is a gay character who has crushes and boyfriends but also has storylines that don't have anything to do with his sexuality (this is one of the very few things Waterloo Road actually does right). So it'd be nice for his friendship with Tariq to be just that - friendship - because Josh may fancy boys, but that doesn't mean that he fancies all of the boys. On the other hand, how delightful would Josh/Tariq be?
The answer: probably not actually that delightful, because this is Waterloo Road and so horrible things would happen to everyone involved. But I would be delighted regardless.
(I've just remembered that I made notes on what Tariq's daemon would be, even though Tariq didn't appear in the His Dark Materials AU I inexplicably wrote. I seem to remember that she wasn't settled, she favoured canine forms and she generally didn't get along with Tariq at all. Sambuca's daemon would be a grey squirrel.)
Something I forgot to mention in my earlier entry on Revenant Wings: there's a wonderful bit where Tomaj asks 'Do you wanna know what I think?' and your options are 'Okay, okay' and 'Not if I can avoid it'. I couldn't resist choosing the second. Sorry, Tomaj.
Being asked 'Who do you like?' during the weapon-crafting process also amused me. The possible answers include 'None of your business!' and 'It's Pe- personal!', but my favourite is 'I like everyone!' It's just so Vaan.
Also, Filo's crush on Llyud is adorable. And Vaan tries to scout out whether Llyud is interested in her! She's eleven, Vaan. Llyud is twenty, and aegyl only live for forty years, so by the standards of his species he's middle-aged. This seems really inappropriate.