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I started keeping a file of all the bizarre names that show up on spam, and anywhere else. And things that randomly sound as though they could be names. I don't know what the heck I'm going to do with it, but it might come in handy some day.
Watched a movie aboutgay Victorian soldiers, tonight. If you'd like some major spoilers for Four Feathers, I'll tell you the whole story here...
Brief synopsis:
Harry's a young Lieutenant (or leftenent, but whatever), engaged to be married. When his regiment is called up to go fight in Sudan he resigns his commission. Three of his friends send him white feathers, which indicate cowardice, which reach him coincidently just as he's telling his betrothed, Ethne (or something like that) that he's quit. She's appalled - she's all about the soldiering thing. Her father died in the service and all and she's totally bought into it, so she gives him a feather, too.
Harry's friend Jack is the only one who doesn't send him a feather, and comes close to beating up the first guy who called Harry a coward. He, for some reason, says "He'll be there" - meaning, when they're actually in trouble. And guess what? He is.
Harry is spurred on by the feathers to go be there to try to help out his friends. He disguises himself as a Beduin and hangs out among the regiment's porters. But not before nearly dying in the desert and being saved by a helpful big, burly Black guy - although for some reason Harry's not aware that this guy originally found him in the desert half dead. Anyway, Abu takes him on as his own private case and keeps hauling Harry's ass out of the fire time after time, getting himself whipped by the other English idiots when he attempts to take a message from Harry to them to save them from an ambush.
They nearly all die in the ambush... in fact, they really should ALL have died, but for some reason most of Harry's special friends just happen to survive. Well, Harry manages to save Jack after Jack's blinded so that he doesn't know it's Harry who saved him. Harry hauls him off to some ruins nearby the ambush and finds that Jack's red coat is padded out with letters from Harry's former fiance, (I'm sure the letters deflected bullets or something), and he very nearly wants to let Jack wander off and die, but Jack's so helpless that hefalls for him yet again softens toward him, but doesn't speak to him.
Then he goes into prison to save one of the other guys, Trent (who's, I think, Scottish?) from prison, and Abu has to save them both, with numerous plot devices.
Anyway, upshot of it is that Harry eventually gets back to England and saves one of the three guys who gave him feathers, and Jack, and helps out lots of the others, and then Jack kindly bows out and lets him marry Ethne, who regrets having doubted him.
Except I really can't picture Jack bowing out, totally. He doesn't have to - it's obvious that they are a triad that's meant to be. It totally sucks that the movie doesn't allow for that fact.
Or you can skip that and just read my conclusions re the slash and poly potential in this movie: Lots. Harry/Jack is readily evident right in the beginning, Harry/Abu is all through the middle (Abu totally drags his ass out of the fire constantly for no particular reason), Harry/Jack/Ethne is the obvious real happy ending for the movie. You could even do some Harry/Trent prison slash.
This movie has been remade five times, the first version in 1921, according to IMDB, but I can't seem to see if it was actually based on a book. It seems so totaly like something that would come from the pen of a fevered Victorian.
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Harry's a young Lieutenant (or leftenent, but whatever), engaged to be married. When his regiment is called up to go fight in Sudan he resigns his commission. Three of his friends send him white feathers, which indicate cowardice, which reach him coincidently just as he's telling his betrothed, Ethne (or something like that) that he's quit. She's appalled - she's all about the soldiering thing. Her father died in the service and all and she's totally bought into it, so she gives him a feather, too.
Harry's friend Jack is the only one who doesn't send him a feather, and comes close to beating up the first guy who called Harry a coward. He, for some reason, says "He'll be there" - meaning, when they're actually in trouble. And guess what? He is.
Harry is spurred on by the feathers to go be there to try to help out his friends. He disguises himself as a Beduin and hangs out among the regiment's porters. But not before nearly dying in the desert and being saved by a helpful big, burly Black guy - although for some reason Harry's not aware that this guy originally found him in the desert half dead. Anyway, Abu takes him on as his own private case and keeps hauling Harry's ass out of the fire time after time, getting himself whipped by the other English idiots when he attempts to take a message from Harry to them to save them from an ambush.
They nearly all die in the ambush... in fact, they really should ALL have died, but for some reason most of Harry's special friends just happen to survive. Well, Harry manages to save Jack after Jack's blinded so that he doesn't know it's Harry who saved him. Harry hauls him off to some ruins nearby the ambush and finds that Jack's red coat is padded out with letters from Harry's former fiance, (I'm sure the letters deflected bullets or something), and he very nearly wants to let Jack wander off and die, but Jack's so helpless that he
Then he goes into prison to save one of the other guys, Trent (who's, I think, Scottish?) from prison, and Abu has to save them both, with numerous plot devices.
Anyway, upshot of it is that Harry eventually gets back to England and saves one of the three guys who gave him feathers, and Jack, and helps out lots of the others, and then Jack kindly bows out and lets him marry Ethne, who regrets having doubted him.
Except I really can't picture Jack bowing out, totally. He doesn't have to - it's obvious that they are a triad that's meant to be. It totally sucks that the movie doesn't allow for that fact.
Or you can skip that and just read my conclusions re the slash and poly potential in this movie: Lots. Harry/Jack is readily evident right in the beginning, Harry/Abu is all through the middle (Abu totally drags his ass out of the fire constantly for no particular reason), Harry/Jack/Ethne is the obvious real happy ending for the movie. You could even do some Harry/Trent prison slash.
This movie has been remade five times, the first version in 1921, according to IMDB, but I can't seem to see if it was actually based on a book. It seems so totaly like something that would come from the pen of a fevered Victorian.
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And I think it is based on a book . . . yes, by A. Mason, pub. 1902
I need to write some Bracy/Gedge! Anything you'd particularly like to see?
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You are truly the Victoriana Research Goddess. :)
I'd be delighted to see anything in the Bracy/Gedge line, you know that. :)
I don't have any sick fantasies about Bracy being captured by the Martians and Gedge trying to go after him and save him, no, not at all.From:
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Dear me, but that's part of the next part of Mars Manliness,if I ever get round it!From:
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Ack, the season is starting to get to me. I just started musing about Gedge's mum. Is she lonely at Christmas? Are there other Gedge siblings who take her baskets and such?
Nooo, I'm falling into a pit of Victorian Christmas smaltz!
And why were ghost stories a thing for Christmas in Victorian times?
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I suppose Mrs Gedge probably is lonely, poor thing. I have a feeling Bill is an only child (if he had siblings they died as babies). He has some of his pay sent to her, so he can feel he's doing his filial duty (while indulging a young man's taste for
tall blond officersadventure). I think that once he and Bracy set up home, Bracy probably maintains her in a way that somehow preserves Gedge's dignity and that of his mother.From:
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