Growing up
Dec. 14th, 2011 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabeth(Not me. Characters. I'm still in college. At least for ten minutes to talk to a teacher today.)
I was reading a film summary and it's another one of those where a guy is getting married and his best guy friend drags him off into Adventure and Excitement and really wild things. The Peter Pan thing. Guys can be guys and run around playing and blowing things up, but then girls turn up and try and make them be all responsible and grown up. It's why I'm not especially excited at the slashiness of certain pairings: sure, they're about two guys, and one really doesn't want the other to get married, but it's not as queer as it looks. It is queer, because they care about each other and want to spend time together more than they want to be with women, but it's mostly just promoting a certain kind of immature risk taking as being more free than things that might actually work without putting you in hospital. And, also, always, about women not being cool. Boo to that.
There are variants where there's the cool woman too, who runs around having adventures, always following a guy. But I have yet to see the two women variant, where they both have adventures but the stodgy man wants them to slow down. And I have really never seen the three man sort. Granted, the bit where it's all about The Wedding being the final nail on the wild life would necessarily make the setting either quite recent or F&SF, but it could still work.
Also, I can't recall one of those stories where being the one who rushes in actually turns out terribly and they get saved by the one who is always prepared. Which is annoying.
So now I want to write all of those. Only not very much. They'll just join the queue.
... actually, come to think, I have two stories in vague plan form that could fit both the three guy and the two women and a man shape. But not so much being about weddings.
Also, now I've said it's a pattern, I can't actually name a bunch of them. Marriage vs excitement feels like a pattern but all the examples that spring to mind are about women settling down (or not, Ponds :-) )
(And now I have to get up and do the college day. And I don't want to. I don't want to go do essays, or plan essays, or think about essays. I have been doing this basically my whole life and I'm really really really bored. Also, whenever I think about the exam on Friday, I have to remember how to breathe. My exam revision could be going better, if I could work better around that. So I'm bored and panicky. Lovely.)
(What I want for christmas: A reason to get up in the morning. Just in general. Anything that makes awake more interesting than asleep or staring at the ceiling. Bored!)
I was reading a film summary and it's another one of those where a guy is getting married and his best guy friend drags him off into Adventure and Excitement and really wild things. The Peter Pan thing. Guys can be guys and run around playing and blowing things up, but then girls turn up and try and make them be all responsible and grown up. It's why I'm not especially excited at the slashiness of certain pairings: sure, they're about two guys, and one really doesn't want the other to get married, but it's not as queer as it looks. It is queer, because they care about each other and want to spend time together more than they want to be with women, but it's mostly just promoting a certain kind of immature risk taking as being more free than things that might actually work without putting you in hospital. And, also, always, about women not being cool. Boo to that.
There are variants where there's the cool woman too, who runs around having adventures, always following a guy. But I have yet to see the two women variant, where they both have adventures but the stodgy man wants them to slow down. And I have really never seen the three man sort. Granted, the bit where it's all about The Wedding being the final nail on the wild life would necessarily make the setting either quite recent or F&SF, but it could still work.
Also, I can't recall one of those stories where being the one who rushes in actually turns out terribly and they get saved by the one who is always prepared. Which is annoying.
So now I want to write all of those. Only not very much. They'll just join the queue.
... actually, come to think, I have two stories in vague plan form that could fit both the three guy and the two women and a man shape. But not so much being about weddings.
Also, now I've said it's a pattern, I can't actually name a bunch of them. Marriage vs excitement feels like a pattern but all the examples that spring to mind are about women settling down (or not, Ponds :-) )
(And now I have to get up and do the college day. And I don't want to. I don't want to go do essays, or plan essays, or think about essays. I have been doing this basically my whole life and I'm really really really bored. Also, whenever I think about the exam on Friday, I have to remember how to breathe. My exam revision could be going better, if I could work better around that. So I'm bored and panicky. Lovely.)
(What I want for christmas: A reason to get up in the morning. Just in general. Anything that makes awake more interesting than asleep or staring at the ceiling. Bored!)
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Date: 2011-12-14 09:59 am (UTC)Particularly in the first part of the final HP film, Deathly Hallows Hermoine's preparedness (and the success of being prepared) is a very welcome minor theme and Harry gets to make a joke about his own approach ("Planning? What planning? We rush in, everything goes to hell")
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Date: 2011-12-24 04:43 pm (UTC)