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sub_dividedProfessor Israel must be cackling to herself right now, because Regeneration by Pat Barker is more homoerotic than any other piece of published fiction I have ever read.
I wonder what the rest of my (90% male) class thinks of this book -- I mean, not only are there toxic levels of UST between every two male characters who share so much as a single page together, but the author coyly pretends that it is all accidental, that there is nothing besides perfectly manly heterosexual affection going on. I think. Anyway there's no way I can believe that all the pale thighs and ball-cupping and mock wresting and phallic dreams and atractive young men showering/swimming/walking naked in the rain who have deep feelings for their (Fruedian) psychiatrist are unintentional. Clearly they aren't (note: only read the first few chapters, it's possible that at least some of these men are made explicitly homosexual later on (signs point to Burns at least)).
EDIT Oh wait, the reason no one is upfront isn't that the author is being coy, it's that she's using the language of the time. 20th century England = homosexualty largely an unacknowledged concept, plus I think there's some thematic importance since there are many other things the characters feel equally uncomfortable discussing. This book could be a manual, "1001 ways to delicate imply that someone is homosexual without explicitly saying so." (Looks like I posted too soon, accck!)
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trimgular asked for a picture of the most horrifying t-shirt I own, here it is: http://pics.livejournal.com/sub_divided/pic/00001qht/
Still taking photograph requests.
Other news:
1. Finally got around to updating the Death Note Links and General Links pages of my website. The Links page was especially outdated -- last update was August of 2004! -- but sadly, it's still pretty lacking. I don't really do that much websurfing, or at least not that much interesting websurfing.
2. edited the untitled Eternal Sabbath fic to be (slightly) less incoherant. I know there were people who liked it the way it was, but that was because they weren't familiar with the series and expected it to not make sense -- whereas if I wanted to post the fic to, say, fanfiction.net's Eternal Sabbath section before the official American release of the manga on May 30, I thought it would be better to clear up at least some of the confusion.
3. browsing through the journals friended to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
s2flexisquares (something I enjoy mostly because those journals are SO PRETTY though the prettiest are always friends only, what's up with that?), I found megaupload links for the first episode and the Ninja Baseball episode of Samurai Champloo: Episode One, Episode Ninja Baseball. From finnigan_geist.
I wonder what the rest of my (90% male) class thinks of this book -- I mean, not only are there toxic levels of UST between every two male characters who share so much as a single page together, but the author coyly pretends that it is all accidental, that there is nothing besides perfectly manly heterosexual affection going on. I think. Anyway there's no way I can believe that all the pale thighs and ball-cupping and mock wresting and phallic dreams and atractive young men showering/swimming/walking naked in the rain who have deep feelings for their (Fruedian) psychiatrist are unintentional. Clearly they aren't (note: only read the first few chapters, it's possible that at least some of these men are made explicitly homosexual later on (signs point to Burns at least)).
EDIT Oh wait, the reason no one is upfront isn't that the author is being coy, it's that she's using the language of the time. 20th century England = homosexualty largely an unacknowledged concept, plus I think there's some thematic importance since there are many other things the characters feel equally uncomfortable discussing. This book could be a manual, "1001 ways to delicate imply that someone is homosexual without explicitly saying so." (Looks like I posted too soon, accck!)
trimgular asked for a picture of the most horrifying t-shirt I own, here it is: http://pics.livejournal.com/sub_divided/pic/00001qht/Still taking photograph requests.
Other news:
1. Finally got around to updating the Death Note Links and General Links pages of my website. The Links page was especially outdated -- last update was August of 2004! -- but sadly, it's still pretty lacking. I don't really do that much websurfing, or at least not that much interesting websurfing.
2. edited the untitled Eternal Sabbath fic to be (slightly) less incoherant. I know there were people who liked it the way it was, but that was because they weren't familiar with the series and expected it to not make sense -- whereas if I wanted to post the fic to, say, fanfiction.net's Eternal Sabbath section before the official American release of the manga on May 30, I thought it would be better to clear up at least some of the confusion.
3. browsing through the journals friended to
s2flexisquares (something I enjoy mostly because those journals are SO PRETTY though the prettiest are always friends only, what's up with that?), I found megaupload links for the first episode and the Ninja Baseball episode of Samurai Champloo: Episode One, Episode Ninja Baseball. From finnigan_geist.