an affront to heterosexual women

[freckles_and_doubt]

Wheeee! four-day weekend. This is not a job I want in the long-term if I feel so good about a minor break from it. Said four-day break was ideally ushered in by a slightly belated Salty Cracker last night at Cargill's, which is warm and small and intimate and slightly off-beat, and provides truly excellent food. Including duck. Eventually my Seekrit Mission to have ranked the duck in every restaurant in Cape Town will be accomplished. (Cargill's is currently in the top 3).

On the even further upside, my Thursday was utterly made by the Pajiba report on the latest bit of gossip from the Sherlock Holmes movie, featuring the slashy pairing of RDJ with Jude Law, together with an unbelievably oblivious and bigoted response to same. The tone of the Pajiba article is wonderful - that's quality sarcasm, that is. The comments are also enormously entertaining and not a little scurrilous. Also, I'll be in my bunk.

Am I alone, incidentally, in finding a slashy subtext to Sherlock Holmes entirely inevitable from the Conan Doyle originals? Holmes is such a desperately iconoclastic eccentric, I don't think it would surprise me to find that his list of indulgences included Turkish boys and flogging as well as cocaine and the violin.

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Most anticipated movie of the year

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

I can't wait.

[(Anonymous)]

Not alone. In fact, I always thought Julian Sands might make a good Sherlock.

[khoi-boi.livejournal.com]

...that was me

Julian Sands as Mr Holmes

[egadfly.livejournal.com]

Hm, yes, I think that would work very well.

Re: Julian Sands as Mr Holmes

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I like the Jude Law quote where he talks about Guy Ritchie's view of Holmes and Watson - "They’re both mean and complicated". This works for me. I agree on the probable awesomeness of Julian Sands in the role, but in fact I'm dying to see what RDJ makes of it, he has the necessary intensity and basic no-holds-barred iconoclasm. Also, RDJ with a British accent makes me curl up my toes in fangirly glee.

Also...

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

You see homoerotic slash everywhere :). I'm surprised you didn't mention it in your review of HP, all that "teacher and favoured pupil" stuff really creeped me out.

Re: Also...

[nimnod.livejournal.com]

all that "teacher and favoured pupil" stuff really creeped me out.


"Should I let him collect me?"

*runs screaming*

Re: Also...

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

The implication, of course, being that Dumbledore is basically pimping Harry. I dunno, I found it all very mentor-y and ultimately a slightly lame not-quite-well-written Rowlingish attempt to provide yet another in the long array of inadequate father figures for Harry. I don't really respond to an eroticised teacher/pupil subtext, if it's there, because I suppose I don't want to - I'm a teacher, and some things are a complete no-no. Also, I prefer my slash to involve Hot Young Men, or at least Hot Older Men Of Approximately The Same Age.

Re: Also...

[nimnod.livejournal.com]

Do you think it was in there in the hopes of a positive response from people who like eroticised teacher/pupil subtext? I had chalked it down to them not quite realising how creepy it was.

Re: Also...

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I agree that it wasn't deliberate, I think Rowling's grasp of motivation and human interaction is a bit shaky at times, and these implications kind of fill in the gaps. As I say, I didn't find it creepy, I more or less glossed over the implications because I really can't enjoy them in the way I can enjoy other slashy subtexts ;>.

Re: Also...

[(Anonymous)]

I must admit, nothing in HP could creep me out any more since I realised "Uncle Vernon" is played by "Uncle Monty"

"There is a certain 'je ne sais quoi' about a firm, young carrot..."

[nimnod.livejournal.com]

You're not alone - there's quite a big H/W slash fandom based on the originals.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, of course there is. If you can imagine it, the Internet has created it. See wetriffs.com and other delirious in-jokes. But Holmes/Watson does seem particularly inevitable and appropriate, in some ways for the same reason that LotR slash is - any text which focuses on intense relationships between men while sidelining women totally is fair game.

[nimnod.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, of course there is.
I didn't realise it was a rhetorical question, sorry !

[schedule5.livejournal.com]

I really like your user pic :D

[nimnod.livejournal.com]

It's not mine - you're welcome to help yourself to it assuming you credit correctly (check my userpics page for whoever made it) =)

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Oops, sorry, it wasn't a rhetorical question, didn't mean to sound crushing. My response was more of a "duh, I should have realised, of course there'll be a fandom for H/W slash." Because, when you think about it, it's inevitable.

Now I'm not sure whether I want to go and hunt it down... probably not, unless I can find a fic writer capable of reproducing Conan Doyle's voice, which I rather enjoy.