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which_chickWell. It's Monday night before an election, so regular readers will know that this means pie. It's apparently my duty and damned if I don't bitch and moan and whine like hell and... well... do my duty. Buggerit. Fucking responsibility. If I could find where the damn module installed itself, I'd rip it the fuck out. Bloody malware and the damn thing is made out of stainless steel that I burst my heart's hot shell upon it [1] to absolutely no effect.
An unexpected side-effect of the Gilbert and Sullivan function on Sunday (see flock for Saturday) is my burning desire for pirate smut. Pirates, see. Pirates have been a lust object in my world for far, far too long but I expect that the whole mess dates back to a horrible piece of fluff from the eighties called The Pirate Movie. This is not particularly a work of cinematic excellence. Quite the opposite, in fact, but I watched it enough to wear out a VHS tape in the summer of 1983. It takes a lot of watching to wear out a VHS tape. The ostensible reason for all the watching was Christopher Atkins, who was, y'know, acceptable. He was pretty enough, I suppose, and nobody was going to ask me stupid questions like "Why do you like him?" because he was young and blond and an acceptable lust object for my thirteen year old self. At the time, though, I honestly thought the hottest thing in that movie was Ted Hamilton. Still do. It was probably the hair. And the tight black pants. And the flowy white shirt. These were all points that I told![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
electroweak and ksleet that they should have in their pirate-based webcomic because if they were ever going to get around to making a webcomic, it would of course feature nicely-dressed pirates bulging with homoerotic potential. (I don't just visit my fantasy world. I'm there so often I finally broke down and bought a condo.) As it turned out, the guys did eventually make a webcomic, but not one with pirates in it. *sigh* (I was really hoping for pirates.) I read it anyway. It DOES have mad science, which is almost as much fun as pirates. (SRMD is a delightful concept and something I really wish I'd thought of myself. It explains so much of geek pop culture... It's not often that I'm envious of other people's ideas, but this is one of those times.) Anyway. Back to pirates as, y'know, objects of lust. The PotC movie did not help. At all. If anything, it refined my pirate fixation. (I blame the internet, really. Judging by the volume of PotC fic out there, I am not even remotely the only person fixated on pirates.)
When I went to the Gilbert and Sullivan thing, there were selections from Pirates of Penzance (music from same features heavily in The Pirate Movie, is how this all matches up in case you didn't get where I was going with it all) and all of a sudden, there I was again. Pirates are sexy. So then. Pirates. I need more pirate smut. When's that damn movie coming out again?
N.B. The first person who says word one about One Piece is going to be summarily executed. I'm currently in denial WRT One Piece, in exactly the same way that, once upon a lifetime, I swore I would not characterize anyone from the Potterverse as a sex object and refused to entertain that first impure thought about Hikaru. On that sort of thing? You'll find the pain is like the shame -- you only feel it once.[2]
[1] Moby Dick
[2] Dangerous Liaisons, the movie
An unexpected side-effect of the Gilbert and Sullivan function on Sunday (see flock for Saturday) is my burning desire for pirate smut. Pirates, see. Pirates have been a lust object in my world for far, far too long but I expect that the whole mess dates back to a horrible piece of fluff from the eighties called The Pirate Movie. This is not particularly a work of cinematic excellence. Quite the opposite, in fact, but I watched it enough to wear out a VHS tape in the summer of 1983. It takes a lot of watching to wear out a VHS tape. The ostensible reason for all the watching was Christopher Atkins, who was, y'know, acceptable. He was pretty enough, I suppose, and nobody was going to ask me stupid questions like "Why do you like him?" because he was young and blond and an acceptable lust object for my thirteen year old self. At the time, though, I honestly thought the hottest thing in that movie was Ted Hamilton. Still do. It was probably the hair. And the tight black pants. And the flowy white shirt. These were all points that I told
electroweak and ksleet that they should have in their pirate-based webcomic because if they were ever going to get around to making a webcomic, it would of course feature nicely-dressed pirates bulging with homoerotic potential. (I don't just visit my fantasy world. I'm there so often I finally broke down and bought a condo.) As it turned out, the guys did eventually make a webcomic, but not one with pirates in it. *sigh* (I was really hoping for pirates.) I read it anyway. It DOES have mad science, which is almost as much fun as pirates. (SRMD is a delightful concept and something I really wish I'd thought of myself. It explains so much of geek pop culture... It's not often that I'm envious of other people's ideas, but this is one of those times.) Anyway. Back to pirates as, y'know, objects of lust. The PotC movie did not help. At all. If anything, it refined my pirate fixation. (I blame the internet, really. Judging by the volume of PotC fic out there, I am not even remotely the only person fixated on pirates.)When I went to the Gilbert and Sullivan thing, there were selections from Pirates of Penzance (music from same features heavily in The Pirate Movie, is how this all matches up in case you didn't get where I was going with it all) and all of a sudden, there I was again. Pirates are sexy. So then. Pirates. I need more pirate smut. When's that damn movie coming out again?
N.B. The first person who says word one about One Piece is going to be summarily executed. I'm currently in denial WRT One Piece, in exactly the same way that, once upon a lifetime, I swore I would not characterize anyone from the Potterverse as a sex object and refused to entertain that first impure thought about Hikaru. On that sort of thing? You'll find the pain is like the shame -- you only feel it once.[2]
[1] Moby Dick
[2] Dangerous Liaisons, the movie
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Date: 2005-05-17 12:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-17 03:02 am (UTC)If you want some good schlock fantasy that includes pirates, let me recommend Robin Hobb's "Liveship" trilogy. Buckles are swashed fairly frequently through these three books,
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Date: 2005-05-17 01:20 pm (UTC)current music
Date: 2005-05-17 01:23 pm (UTC)Re: current music
Date: 2005-05-17 09:53 pm (UTC)Re: tawny man
Date: 2005-05-18 02:33 am (UTC)Re: tawny man
Date: 2005-05-20 03:23 am (UTC)The middle trilogy is can't-miss, and you'll find the one pirate's, em, issues verrry entertaining.
Titles: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest, Ship of Magic, Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny, Fool's Errand, Golden Fool, Fool's Fate (pirate books bolded, though all the books reference each other to some degree).