Water and Shows

[zebra363]

I was at work yesterday in hot sunny Perth when cricketk sent me a photo from a news site of flooding on the highway near my street. I couldn't get away, but my mother drove out to see what was going on at my place. I'm glad she did since there was water in the house (from leaks and rain coming in open windows, not from floodwaters!) that would probably

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[revbiscuit]

Sorry to hear about your weather woes, it's hard to imagine that kind of extremes when you live in place that's perpetually damp and temperate. I hope you can sort out all of your repairs without too much hassle.

I was a bit confused by how slashy the movies are. Who are they aiming at with that stuff? I wouldn't have thought big-budget films targeted slash fans, so the things we get all excited about must appeal to the masses in different ways.

I am too, and it almost makes me feel like bromance is now mainstream. Just one way to rejuvenate the old buddy routine if you think about it. I just think that as slash fans we don't see it that way. Almost like watching the Simpsons, where kids hear a joke one way and adults another. I say that because a couple of years (?) back I was listening to a film review programme on the radio and the commentator was saying things like "...He's fat so it won't make it slashy" about one of the characters in I love you man or whatever the film was called. The comment wasn't played as a punchline, nor was there a bizarre pause or sharp intake of breath afterwards. They just carried on talking. If you didn't know what slash was you could probably have missed the comment altogether. Whilst films may not be aimed a slash fans, it's certainly deemed normal to discuss it on Radio 4.

One thing I have noticed socially though is how young blokes especially are much more open to playful innuendo with their friends; even though it's plain they're joking, they don't seem to do it in that almost violent way I remember lads acting up when I was in my teens.

I wonder if people in general are just getting used to the idea of men being more upfront with emotions etc., and because we are exposed to a lot of slash we (slash fans) go straight to the slash instead of seeing the platonic and playful side of these exchanges.

Oh that was too much thinking after lunch, I need a lie down.

[zebra363]

Interesting that it was just mentioned with no explanation in that interview, as if everyone would know what it was (maybe they do by now!).

In this Washington Post article from a few years ago, the executive producer of Rome called relationships like Denny and Alan's on Boston Legal and Vorenus and Pullo's on Rome "wish fulfillment" for men. If things that we'd call slashy have lot of appeal to straight men, I can understand why they get made! I still wonder about scenes like one in Sherlock: Game of Thrones where Sherlock and Watson are thoroughly entangled on the floor and Sherlock's only partly dressed - do straight men like that too?