SO many things to say. I don't know where to start. So I really won't.
BRILLIANT dissection. Loved the post.
Actually one phrase taht made ME nuts was this:
but for some reason his privileged background caused the keishi to have a hard-on for him.
I may be wrong, but that is SUCH an American English slang phrase that I gaped at it. WTF? In the Japanese character's POV?
Gah.
Well. I'm going to have to do MORE research for my Set In Cornwall in 1905 story, although I have to say, I have a better clue about that culture than this person has about Japanese.
OH. And if I my BITCH a moment, the whole Ladylike Homsexual Fiction thing makes me absolutely NUTS. I know it's written for women by women. But guys, even the biggest queens on the planet (and living here, I know some of 'em) wouldn't think in the phrase "full softness of his lips". I am a mouth guy; it's one of the first thigns I notice. MY first thought in that case would be "Beautiful mouth; I'd like to kiss him."
And wispy hair? Gack.
The whole overly feminized thing makes me NUTS. Because even when a guy is effeminate, he isn't that kind of gushy gushy faint away feminie kind of thing. And an ex military man? NOT A CHANCE (even if many of them ARE bottoms).
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Date: 29 Sep 2007 10:00 pm (UTC)First...just OH MY GOD.
SO many things to say. I don't know where to start. So I really won't.
BRILLIANT dissection. Loved the post.
Actually one phrase taht made ME nuts was this:
but for some reason his privileged background caused the keishi to have a hard-on for him.
I may be wrong, but that is SUCH an American English slang phrase that I gaped at it. WTF? In the Japanese character's POV?
Gah.
Well. I'm going to have to do MORE research for my Set In Cornwall in 1905 story, although I have to say, I have a better clue about that culture than this person has about Japanese.
OH. And if I my BITCH a moment, the whole Ladylike Homsexual Fiction thing makes me absolutely NUTS. I know it's written for women by women. But guys, even the biggest queens on the planet (and living here, I know some of 'em) wouldn't think in the phrase "full softness of his lips". I am a mouth guy; it's one of the first thigns I notice. MY first thought in that case would be "Beautiful mouth; I'd like to kiss him."
And wispy hair? Gack.
The whole overly feminized thing makes me NUTS. Because even when a guy is effeminate, he isn't that kind of gushy gushy faint away feminie kind of thing. And an ex military man? NOT A CHANCE (even if many of them ARE bottoms).
GACK.