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Aug. 31st, 2012 03:12 pmI have a few minutes plus so many tabs open that my computer is slow...ing...dow...n. So here are a few of the most interesting ones.
First for pictures. Bosum Buddies is real photographs of men, some candid, some posed by photographers. This wasn't considered homoerotic. These were just male friends... so I don't see why people write unhappy endings for historic slash. Men could hold hands while walking down the street without anyone batting an eye. I'm not sure it's a good idea to read the article though. The writer laments the 'loss' for people doing gay actions rather than people being gay. Some men on the website I got this link from took offense, and I didn't bother to read more than the first paragraph; the pictures were too distracting.
Then we have an article on J.C. Leyendecker. He was an artist from the early 1900s whose work I fell for at first sight. He mostly drew men (his lover was his model), but he drew some beautiful women as well. I haven't had a chance to read the whole thing, but I really want to get a hold of his art. Only I have nowhere to put it. (The living room is Asain/Art Deco, my hallway is photographs of local landscapes, and my bedroom is Japanese gardens, European castles, and Pre-Raphaelite paintings, which shouldn't match, but do.) The bathroom maybe?
So I asked you, why doesn't anyone write science fiction where people dress like this? I would so read it.
Then we have the heart warming Super Daddy story, which is the cutest thing ever.
Also on the collectors site there is the history of condoms. Did you know that before Trojans, that company made Sheik, Ramses, and Sphinx? All those names sound better than a people associated with allowing something in that they hadn't examined thoroughly enough. It also explains why they are called prophylactics (things that keep disease from spreading). Birth control was against the law, at least in the US.
And for Charis, did you know this? I thought you might because you've written number 7. At the time I didn't believe it.
First for pictures. Bosum Buddies is real photographs of men, some candid, some posed by photographers. This wasn't considered homoerotic. These were just male friends... so I don't see why people write unhappy endings for historic slash. Men could hold hands while walking down the street without anyone batting an eye. I'm not sure it's a good idea to read the article though. The writer laments the 'loss' for people doing gay actions rather than people being gay. Some men on the website I got this link from took offense, and I didn't bother to read more than the first paragraph; the pictures were too distracting.
Then we have an article on J.C. Leyendecker. He was an artist from the early 1900s whose work I fell for at first sight. He mostly drew men (his lover was his model), but he drew some beautiful women as well. I haven't had a chance to read the whole thing, but I really want to get a hold of his art. Only I have nowhere to put it. (The living room is Asain/Art Deco, my hallway is photographs of local landscapes, and my bedroom is Japanese gardens, European castles, and Pre-Raphaelite paintings, which shouldn't match, but do.) The bathroom maybe?
So I asked you, why doesn't anyone write science fiction where people dress like this? I would so read it.
Then we have the heart warming Super Daddy story, which is the cutest thing ever.
Also on the collectors site there is the history of condoms. Did you know that before Trojans, that company made Sheik, Ramses, and Sphinx? All those names sound better than a people associated with allowing something in that they hadn't examined thoroughly enough. It also explains why they are called prophylactics (things that keep disease from spreading). Birth control was against the law, at least in the US.
And for Charis, did you know this? I thought you might because you've written number 7. At the time I didn't believe it.
