why the fuck do people always describe penises like cute little animals I’m trying to read porn but I just keep imagining puppies
Somehow I’ve been fortunate enough to have never come across any of those expressions in any fic that I can recall, though the cock bobbing thing does happen and looks just as silly as it sounds. Also twitching…and yes, throbbing. Really, the more you think about anything related to the physicality of sex the sillier it all gets…
“You will never be able to convince me Thomas is nice.” — Thomas haters everywhere
My sweet summer children, no one is trying to convince anyone that Thomas is nice. I, personally, am never trying to convince anyone to become a fan of any character, actually, but if I were to try the point…
Amen to all of this. Thomas is many things – he is manipulative, loving, immature, secretly emotional, snide, selfless when he truly loves, petty, and vulnerable. And sly, oily, and smug. But not nice. Why should he be nice? If life hasn’t been good to you, “nice” is often a mask worn for the sake of others. Some people can wear it, and others find it exhausting. Thomas haters are missing the point entirely. We love him because he is himself – not because we think he’s “nice”.
And of course what’s so good about bland niceness without any other notable traits? At least flat villains can provide conflict (hopefully for more interesting characters); flat "good” characters are often at best only generically supportive.
Side note: Early in S4 I was actually planning a lengthy meta exploring this subject in more detail with regard to Anna and how she annoys me exceedingly for this very reason, but then E3 happened and I got the feeling I ought to wait a bit before criticizing her too much…
I do not suggest the Midwest. I daresay it is quite Anglo.
I’m well aware of that. All my travel itineraries would either go far west to California or east to Atlanta and then north up the Atlantic coast to see all those Anglo Northern cities people fuss over. Of course, I’d…
If you do get a passport, go to Quebec City for true Francophone culture without having to delve into the rural areas of the province. Montreal is much more heavily multilingual and multicultural. (And I find Quebec a lot more unique.)
Really late reblogging this…but I’ve heard that from others as well. The problem is that I’m not fully fluent in French (and by that I mean European French – I’ve never studied québécois at all and am barely aware of the differences), so my capacity to communicate in purely French-speaking areas of Québec would be limited. Of course the same could be said of my traveling to France as well… *sighs*
I wouldn’t worry too much about that, if you really want to go. My husband only speaks English; he got by fine in Quebec, and only had to call on me to rescue him once in France (he and a hotel clerk were at a communications impasse over directions to the nearest gas station.) I’m sure you could find some nice man to help you out! 😀
The differences between Canadian French and French-French are comparable to those between British English and Canadian (or American, or Australian) English. Differences in accents and some slang terms, but very understandable to one another. We get the same French dub of Downton Abbey as they get in France, for example.
Understandable, yes, but the Canadian French accent is very different from the one in France.( though we have so many different accents in Fance..) A lot of french people have trouble understanding canadian french, especially with all the english slang they translate into weird “anglo-french” words. It’s kind of hilarious and adorable at the same time!
I’m pretty sure the french speaking people of Quebec speak fluent english too. – Unlike french people from France..-
Ah, the dreaded Franglais! 😀 I can only speak from my own experience, but in France nobody knew I was a foreigner unless I told them (probably the result of all those different French accents), while in England, nobody ever needs telling.
You must have a pretty convincing Parisian accent then, Gigi. All my Franco-Ontarien/Quebecois friends are immediately recognised as the quaint little cousins from Canada. Whereas, with my accent, everyone just immediately speaks English lol.
We were in some pretty out of the way places. And when they heard me speaking to my husband in English, they inevitably assumed we were from England, so I wouldn’t put too much stock in their accent expertise! 😀
Wow, lots of good anecdotal information, and much better than my broken and despairing (and only English-speaking) relatives speaking reverently of a paradise across the Atlantic which may or may not be synonymous with Heaven and that has not forgotten about us languishing in this hell of a swamp (though privately I think it has). I’ve also had a bit of minor help from Francophone students I’ve tutored at university, like one of them telling me that I should prepare to be insulted and called an American. That doesn’t discourage me though, as I’d be disappointed if I ever met a group of Francophones who wasn’t abrasively rude on first meeting. Créoles are habitually that way, as are the Cajuns, even to each other. (I’ll never forget the time when a Cajun called me an Anglo “because [I] have such pale skin” – while I was giving him a blowjob. Needless to say, my mouth found it immediately expedient to be put to work giving a lecture instead.)
sounds about 100 times more fun than what most M.A.s in (I assume) English do with their degrees.
I suppose so, though being a quasi-aristocrat is considerably less fun when the money ran out approximately two generations ago. I hope I don’t give anyone the impression that modern New Orleans Creoles live in some urban French version of a Downton lifestyle…my parents’ families had to let their last servants go at various points in the 1960-80s, and we now live off inheritances, paltry business earnings, and very much on the hope of early deaths.
“It’s like all the symbolism and stereotyping is reaching critical mass, and by the end of the season Jimmy will be so busy redecorating the servants’ hall and giving every woman in the house a makeover that he’ll barely have time to ride Thomas’s cock.”
Lol! Or maybe Jimmy doesn’t have a problem with his sexuality at all; it’s just that he finds Thomas too straight-acting and isn’t into that.;)
Never in all my years of being a consummate boy-whore have I heard of a man being criticized for being too straight-acting. It’s such a fetishized thing that I have a hard time imaging a gay guy actively disliking it.
Out of idle curiosity I decided to check the Jivy tag to see if it’s getting any fresh activity (or hatred, more likely).
The only thing I learned is that apparently Jivy is already the name of a ship for RuPaul’s Drag Race. I didn’t even know reality shows like that could have ships…
Bleh…I appear to be in some sort of writing slump, though I’ve still got that long post series I’m working through in the background. Don’t really have any short prompt ideas to help me write my way out of it, unfortunately.
Gascon-en-exil: Gallophilic Cultural Posturing 