Fannish five!
Five best signs of affection from one character to another.
Have stuck to fannish media for this:
1) Alias, "The Box" -- Jack, who has only recently been unveiled as not-actually-carved-of-ice on the show, is thoroughly businesslike as he helps Sydney navigate through the SD-6 offices during a takeover by hostile forces (led by, no shit, Quentin Tarantino). Sydney goes crawling through some air ducts toward Great Danger. Although Jack remains incapable of showing genuine emotion to his daughter, he puts one hand on the air duct, and for one split second, all that fear and love is visible ... only to the audience.
2) Lost -- There are any number of moments between Sun and Jin I could choose; that couple just tore at my heartstrings a hundred ways from Sunday. But the one standing in my mind right now is the time he was leaving on the raft near the end of Season One ("Exodus," one and two) and she brings him that list of English phrases and translations to help him on his way. They begin that conversation speaking to each other across a great emotional gulf, but her one simple gift breaks that down and by the end they're openly crying, their love for each other fully acknowledged in a way we sense it hasn't been in years.
3) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "The Visitor" -- It's difficult to choose one moment, since the entire plot of the episode is What Jake Did For Love. The relationship between the Sisko men was one of my favorite elements of that show; in a franchise and a genre known for trotting out tired, worn daddy issues as backstory for any male character (and some female ones), it was so awesome to see three generations of men who had warm, caring relationships, where the military man had no problems with the chef and the writer or vice versa, and they genuinely had fun cooking, talking and just hanging out. (Of course, the women are all absent -- though DS9 did a better job of making these absences a critical part of the overall plot than is the norm. But I digress.) Anyway, Ben's trapped in some temporal thingy, linked to Jake, reappearing briefly at various points through Jake's long life. Jake essentially devotes his whole life to trying to save his father ... much to his detriment. He finally gets the answer: If he dies while his father is there, they'll snap back to that first moment, and Ben will have a chance to be free. Great sacrifice! And yet the moment I'm calling out from this episode is a moment of Ben's love for Jake. During that final meeting, Jake is very, very aged -- asleep and frail when Ben appears -- and nothing really matches the sheer tenderness with which Ben regards his now-elderly son.
4) Bones -- I am SO OVER Bones right now, but it doesn't change the fact that, of all heart-meltingly shippy things I've seen in the last couple years, Booth setting up that Christmas tree outside Brennan's dad's prison trailer is probably number one.
5) X-Men -- first film. I don't care if, as a romantic 'ship, the years are all wrong. I don't care if it's platonic or not. I don't care if the filmmakers later threw the entire franchise under the Wolverine steamroller. None of it really matters, or at least, none of it takes away from the scene I have in mind. That moment near the end, atop the Statue of Liberty, when Logan takes off his glove and holds his palm to Rogue's face in hopes of saving her -- then, when he thinks she's dying regardless, folds her in an embrace just because she was so lonely and wanted the comfort of simple human touch so badly -- that is just completely beautiful.
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I farmed my sofa out to some friends today, which has now made it psychologically Very Real that I'm moving in short order. Also, it has made it Very Real that I now hire movers for a reason, because it was up to us to get the sofa out, and JESUS. First of all, the movers who got me in here were obviously geniuses, because MY SOFA DID NOT FIT THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR. I mean, it did not. We tried it many, many ways. At one point, we thought we had it, but no! We had figured out how to wedge the sofa in there so that it would not move front or back, and for a while the lodging appeared to be near-permanent. Ultimately I ended up finding the emergency maintenance guy on duty for the building this weekend and slipping him a $20 to take the door off the hinges and then put it back. Second, though no one thing was that heavy (they also took several of my bookshelves; in the middle of my bedroom is now a Book Mountain of impressive proportions), I haven't done a lot of lifting in a while and apparently I forgot that whole "legs, not back" concept. OW. ETA: As the evening wears on, I realize that I used the legs too, because the pain is spreading down into the thighs. Not sure I will be able to move tomorrow!
Also! For the first time ever, I am playing on a kink meme (XMFC). Should I be posting fills anonymously? What is the etiquette on this kind of thing? I retain all original objections to the movie, but mama's got an hc_bingo card to fill, and Xavier/Magneto is sooooo good at that.
Have stuck to fannish media for this:
1) Alias, "The Box" -- Jack, who has only recently been unveiled as not-actually-carved-of-ice on the show, is thoroughly businesslike as he helps Sydney navigate through the SD-6 offices during a takeover by hostile forces (led by, no shit, Quentin Tarantino). Sydney goes crawling through some air ducts toward Great Danger. Although Jack remains incapable of showing genuine emotion to his daughter, he puts one hand on the air duct, and for one split second, all that fear and love is visible ... only to the audience.
2) Lost -- There are any number of moments between Sun and Jin I could choose; that couple just tore at my heartstrings a hundred ways from Sunday. But the one standing in my mind right now is the time he was leaving on the raft near the end of Season One ("Exodus," one and two) and she brings him that list of English phrases and translations to help him on his way. They begin that conversation speaking to each other across a great emotional gulf, but her one simple gift breaks that down and by the end they're openly crying, their love for each other fully acknowledged in a way we sense it hasn't been in years.
3) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "The Visitor" -- It's difficult to choose one moment, since the entire plot of the episode is What Jake Did For Love. The relationship between the Sisko men was one of my favorite elements of that show; in a franchise and a genre known for trotting out tired, worn daddy issues as backstory for any male character (and some female ones), it was so awesome to see three generations of men who had warm, caring relationships, where the military man had no problems with the chef and the writer or vice versa, and they genuinely had fun cooking, talking and just hanging out. (Of course, the women are all absent -- though DS9 did a better job of making these absences a critical part of the overall plot than is the norm. But I digress.) Anyway, Ben's trapped in some temporal thingy, linked to Jake, reappearing briefly at various points through Jake's long life. Jake essentially devotes his whole life to trying to save his father ... much to his detriment. He finally gets the answer: If he dies while his father is there, they'll snap back to that first moment, and Ben will have a chance to be free. Great sacrifice! And yet the moment I'm calling out from this episode is a moment of Ben's love for Jake. During that final meeting, Jake is very, very aged -- asleep and frail when Ben appears -- and nothing really matches the sheer tenderness with which Ben regards his now-elderly son.
4) Bones -- I am SO OVER Bones right now, but it doesn't change the fact that, of all heart-meltingly shippy things I've seen in the last couple years, Booth setting up that Christmas tree outside Brennan's dad's prison trailer is probably number one.
5) X-Men -- first film. I don't care if, as a romantic 'ship, the years are all wrong. I don't care if it's platonic or not. I don't care if the filmmakers later threw the entire franchise under the Wolverine steamroller. None of it really matters, or at least, none of it takes away from the scene I have in mind. That moment near the end, atop the Statue of Liberty, when Logan takes off his glove and holds his palm to Rogue's face in hopes of saving her -- then, when he thinks she's dying regardless, folds her in an embrace just because she was so lonely and wanted the comfort of simple human touch so badly -- that is just completely beautiful.
**
I farmed my sofa out to some friends today, which has now made it psychologically Very Real that I'm moving in short order. Also, it has made it Very Real that I now hire movers for a reason, because it was up to us to get the sofa out, and JESUS. First of all, the movers who got me in here were obviously geniuses, because MY SOFA DID NOT FIT THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR. I mean, it did not. We tried it many, many ways. At one point, we thought we had it, but no! We had figured out how to wedge the sofa in there so that it would not move front or back, and for a while the lodging appeared to be near-permanent. Ultimately I ended up finding the emergency maintenance guy on duty for the building this weekend and slipping him a $20 to take the door off the hinges and then put it back. Second, though no one thing was that heavy (they also took several of my bookshelves; in the middle of my bedroom is now a Book Mountain of impressive proportions), I haven't done a lot of lifting in a while and apparently I forgot that whole "legs, not back" concept. OW. ETA: As the evening wears on, I realize that I used the legs too, because the pain is spreading down into the thighs. Not sure I will be able to move tomorrow!
Also! For the first time ever, I am playing on a kink meme (XMFC). Should I be posting fills anonymously? What is the etiquette on this kind of thing? I retain all original objections to the movie, but mama's got an hc_bingo card to fill, and Xavier/Magneto is sooooo good at that.