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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[redbraids]

Wow! I am sorry to read about all of the damage!

[zebra363]

The erosion is the only one I can't fix very well myself. The driveway is a bit sad (the firebreaks too, but I see more of the driveway!).

[bardiegrub]

Sorry to hear about the storm damage. What crazy weather we're having!

[zebra363]

Isn't it. I wish I'd been at home to see all the rain.

[redteekal]

And then by the afternoon it was back to stinking hot again. Freaking WEIRD! Wow lots of rainfall for you! Shame about the work needed now though.

Jody I think doesn't have another way of showing how she's worried for the boys, she knew how much they meant to Bobby, can see how they're dealing (or not) and to be honest one look at Sam's desolate and often lost in his own head hell hallucinating expression and I'd be all about looking after him too! It's those damn earnest eyes!

Yeah the 2nd sherlock movie and the 2nd season of sherlock both upped the slash factor I thought. Hasn't hurt the ratings at all though and that is a very good thing. :)

[zebra363]

The rain isn't much use when it pours like this and it all runs straight down the hill. It definitely does more harm than good this way.

Jody's being helpful and nice - I guess mothering is just a strong anti-kink of mine!

[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

[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?

[galwithglasses]

That's a heck of a lot of water in a short time. It's winter here but this would be summer for you, right? Is this usually your rainy season or is this a fluke? Hope the clean-up goes ok.

With Jodi and Sam, I just thought it was sad that Sam probably has no idea what the mom voice really sounds like.

[zebra363]

Yes, it's summer and that normally means virtually no rain at all. This was the most rain my place has had in the eight years I've lived here.