a conversation with my sister...

[kat_rowe]

not QUITE verabtum, but very close:

“You still write fanfiction?”

“Only when I’m having trouble making progress on my Original.”

“Uh huh. And you write slash fanfiction?”

“Only if it’s canon like on Torchwood, or might as well be canon like on Sanctuary.”

“‘Might as well be canon’?”

“Well, yeah. I mean Will obviously had a ginormous man-crush on

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[tjh102]

I love it. Possibly the best LJ entry I've read all week.

So true though.

[kat_rowe]

:) Glad you approve. I probably COULD have explained it a little better, but it wasn't like I was going to sway her over the Dark Side (science fiction) anyway.

And, like you said: True. I'm not sure if it's just because he's played by Peter Wingfield, but it's hard to watch some of those scenes between Watson and Druitt and, to a lesser extent, Watson and Will and NOT see a load of subtext. He is practically undressing Will with his eyes in the scene where they first meet, and the "For God's sake, John, it was YOU!" exchange speaks for itself...

I don't slash House and Wilson or Jim and Blair, so it's not like I'm slash-happy the way some writers are who'll read subtext into any deeper-than-average friendship or affinity. It's actually THERE in Sanctuary.

[tjh102]

I'm pretty much anti-slash, and I even wrote multiple slash pairings in Polyamory. It really is embedded in the subtext.

I got to thinking about it later on, and I suppose that one could argue that the friendships between the five are like our strongest, closest friendships but heightened so much more by age. But the Five in Victorian Oxford didn't have that "heightened" bond.

What difference does Wingfield make?

[kat_rowe]

Wingfield=Methos. Do you REMEMBER how much slash Methos inspired

[kat_rowe]

*sighs and goes off in search of a Watson/Druitt icon*

"jilted eye sex between Sherlock Holmes and a reformed, teleporting Jack the Ripper" ... lmfao. Not that that isn't EXACTLY what was going on, but that's a hysterical turn of phrase. I may have to send that my sister's way just to prove I'm not the only one. And to freak her out. Freaking out typicals is a good passtime for an abnormal like me :)

Seriously, though, between Christopher and Pete? There was DEFINITELY something there. The "eye-sex" in the Crypt was great, but you were even getting hints while they were drinking in the study. No wonder Will looked like his head was about to explode from the awesome. You just KNOW he's a rabid fanboy for both Sherlock Holmes AND Jack the Ripper (well, really, who isn't?). You could almost see him thinking "Wow, so that short story I wrote in high-school was actually accurate..."