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18 January 2007 @ 01:41 pm
A Brief Observation on Justin's Hands  
I'm finishing up an assignment that's due in less then one hour, but I need to take a brief break before doing a final proof of it or my head will explode. So I glanced over at my beloved wife [personal profile] happier_bunny's post on [profile] qaf_coffeeclub about the important licking theme in Queer as Folk.


Hey, it's MEDIA ANALYSIS!

And so I, thinking it might stop all flow of blood to clear my head, watched one of the scenes indicated as being a good example of this theme, hotel!sex. And in addition to the important thematic licking, I was reminded of something else.

I spend hours and hours working hard to get all the nuances of my characters right when I write fan fiction. I agonize over it. I may fail, I may succeed, but I really try. I care. I do research, and not all of it as pleasant as watching hotel!sex over and over.

So let this serve as notice to all Brian/Justin fan fic writers: Justin does not have "small hands." Stop saying he has small hands. Stop mentioning his small hands in your stories and sex scenes. In addition to being a little creepy, It's Not. True.

Justin has really big hands. Go watch hotel!sex. Force yourself. Justin puts his hands on Brian's waist while he's licking him (there's that important thematic thing again), and they are large. They really are.

That is all.
 
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[identity profile] jane2005.livejournal.com on January 18th, 2007 11:26 pm (UTC)
Hey, Xie, can I use this as guest commentary on my next bad!fic chapter review of Kiss Me Alrigh?
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[identity profile] xie-xie-xie.livejournal.com on January 18th, 2007 11:30 pm (UTC)
Sure, and if you'd like to know what I think about the word "toddle" I'll be glad to expand on the theme.
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[identity profile] jane2005.livejournal.com on January 18th, 2007 11:34 pm (UTC)
I'm commenting specifically on this:

The boy looked hesitantly at the huge chair, then again at Brian’s rigid face and finally plodded with small steps in the ordered direction.

A little clumsy, he climbed on the unfamiliar sitting accommodation and peered one more time at the prince before timidly gripping the shiny fork. Shyly he began to eat.

Specifically, the large number of linguistic markers in these two paragraphs infantilizing a boy who is already mentally and emotionally digressed to about age 4 by autism.

Feel free to add your $.02 and I will include that too!
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[identity profile] xie-xie-xie.livejournal.com on January 19th, 2007 12:03 am (UTC)
I am a mere two hours late with my article *sobs* but as soon as it's done and I decompress, I'll do that.

I had SERIOUS sound issues with the part of my interview where the subject was holding her baby, sigh. It was visually cute but disastrous for sound quality.

Xie
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[identity profile] jane2005.livejournal.com on January 19th, 2007 12:09 am (UTC)
Sorry to hear about your problems. I know how much it sucks to be under a deadline/time frame and something completely unexpected delays finishing. Hope it's not too aggravating.

But, yep, sounds good! Don't feel you have to. Here's more, you'll love this:

“Justin.” The boy told him a little absently and crooked his head as he tried to discover his own fingers in the princes’ huge hand.

Is Brian's hand so big, or is Justin's so small? And are there really multiple princes in the room?
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[identity profile] zortrana.livejournal.com on January 19th, 2007 02:25 am (UTC)
Regardless of how many princes there are, whether it be two or twenty, they only have one huge hand. Singular. Which must frustrating for them.
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[identity profile] jane2005.livejournal.com on January 19th, 2007 01:51 am (UTC)
Update: I need to get work done myself, so I'm gonna go post this now - but please come by and add your .02, or send me what you got and I'll ETA it. This worked in perfectly to what I got, that's for sure!
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[identity profile] vlredreign.livejournal.com on January 19th, 2007 12:08 am (UTC)
Boy-huge chair...how old is said boy, btw? Are we edging into chan, here?

Since when is a chair unfamiliar? This is getting scarier by the second!
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[identity profile] jane2005.livejournal.com on January 19th, 2007 12:15 am (UTC)
OMG HAVE YOU NOT BEEN READING THE BAD FIC REVIEW?

Here's the summary:

Autistic Justin Taylor (18) gets transferred from the children and youth psychiatry/Harrisburg to St. James, an institution for mentally ill people in Pittsburgh....and Justin is really concerned because the new tower is so much higher than the last one and how should the prince ever be able to find him now? A story about the love for a very special person and how to look at the world with different eyes. Written by Nicky, translated by Bine
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[identity profile] vlredreign.livejournal.com on January 19th, 2007 12:22 am (UTC)
I read your Part 1, but I must have missed the abby-normal big chair.

But still...this thing is so messing with my worldview!
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[identity profile] jane2005.livejournal.com on January 19th, 2007 12:32 am (UTC)
Oh, okay, sorry for yelling in surprise.

Yeah, that's a preview of the next chapter which I was messing with. It's a treat!
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[identity profile] lit-writergirl.livejournal.com on January 19th, 2007 02:04 am (UTC)
Sorry to hijack this comment, but I have to say that the description of Justin there just freaks me out beyond belief! If I didn't know what it was about I would assume that description was about a very young child. Just eeewwww!!!!!
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[identity profile] xie-xie-xie.livejournal.com on January 19th, 2007 02:08 am (UTC)
It is.
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