Today I would like...

[kangeiko]

... more META.

*ping*

Meta-fy me, flist! Do your funky dance and bring all the postmodernists to my yard!





(today's silliness is brought to you by k being forced to be at work when there is no work for her to do. See k try to look busy. *fiddles*)

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[selenak.livejournal.com]

I wrote three meta posts in a row during the last three days, m'dear, I'm all meta'd out.

[kangeiko]

But they are all primarily about Heroes, which I do not watch. Woe.

Meta-fying by your command!

[kayliemalinza.livejournal.com]

Ok ok ok, here's some meta (random and fetal as it is) for a show I just started watching over winter break, and got only halfway through season 2 before I have to come back, a show I assume you've seen at least some of because you have an icon of it: Boston Legal.


The central relationship of the show is the one between Denny Crane and Alan Shore. As a die-hard slasher, I firmly believe and desire this relationship to be non-sexual. Yep. That's right. They're straight and that's completely fine by me! The relationship is such a good one-- it's tight, they communicate, they have issues and then work them out, they genuinely like and care for each other, and they readily admit it. One of my favorite lines is when Denny comes out to the balcony and sees his fiancee and Alan there and says, "Ah, my favorite girl and my favorite boy." Major squee. Seriously. I woke up my dog. The relationship hits several of my-- not kinks, per se, because they're not sexual, but... squee buttons? Let's just call them squee buttons.

Squee Button #1: I like it when men freely express emotion to each other. I find it disturbing and unjust that current social strictures make men feel unmanly if they convey emotion or show affection. So when I see men hug each other and be supportive and say things like, "I enjoy your company" without a whit of awkwardness and mean it, I feel like I'm in a happy magical paradise with sunshine and bunnies. Except, you know, more realistic-like. It seems logical that slash would be a natural extension of this--- inserting displays of affection where they are not provided. It explains why I don't feel the need to slash Supernatural, since the brother relationship facilitates such displays in canon. Ii don't think my desire of male displays of affection fully explains my slash impulse (do be honest, I don't know, nor have I pondered why I slash), but neatly explains why sometimes I don't have a slash impulse. As a side note, another of my favorite lines is when Alan describes the Betty White character as "a woman who frankly I adore."

Squee Button #2: I forgot what Squee Button #2 is. :/ "Explosions" is usually a good stand-in.


ANYWAY. Some meta on the relationship and the characters involved therein:

Denny and Alan are not particularly nice people. To be perfectly honest, they are douchebags. Again, I'm completely fine with that. I am myself a douchebag. The really sweet thing, though, is that Alan truly believes, or even needs to believe, that there are good people in the world, even if he isn't one of them. That's why he's so upset when the tiny man strikes again after Alan got him out of a trial, and when the Betty White character takes matters into her own hands concerning the tiny man (I'm trying to avoid spoilers for the sake of random passersby :P).

And and and, crap. I got distracted and forgot what I was going to say. Give me a break, it's the end of the week! I'm still trying to get back on the LJ horse. :/

Re: Meta-fying by your command!

[kangeiko]

Hee! Boston Legal meta! I am happy. *glows*

I firmly believe and desire this relationship to be non-sexual.

While ordinarily I'd be arguing this, as all middle-aged men have sex in my world, Denny and Alan strike me as curiously asexual... yes, even when they're actually shagging people. (Which is why, while I totally love Shirley, I could make her shag either one of them, either. Doesn't work for me.)

I had more, but then my brain fell over. I may think on this and get back to you.

Totally with you on the squee buttons.

[bluerosefairy.livejournal.com]

Seeing as I am SO VERY BORED, give me a topic to meta on. I can't promise postmodernism, but I could probably rustle up some gender crit or a lit-geek viewpoint on modern works.

[kangeiko]

Hmmm, ok -

tlak to me about genderswap fic. *beams* See? Not postmodern in the least as postmodern as it could have been. :)