Am fearing brain damage ...
Jan. 11th, 2004 03:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hildigunnurSo I think my craving for Legolas/Aragorn slash is passing. Which is a very good thing. I'm a non-shipper in LotR in the theirloveisso... sense of thing. I totally love the bonds that exist and are forged in LotR. (e.g; Legolas and Gimli) The romance part of things ... I've been of the opinion that I should just mostly leave that to others.
So this sudden urge to read Legolas/Aragorn threw me off course. Still, I dediced early on in the reading that I couldn't just do this for my gratification only.
I sensed in the stories I've been reading something I haven't encountered in the smutty HP slash I normally read. The subtle struggle who's top and who's bottom. Because in R/D for instance ... it's just "We are horny teenagers and we are going to fuck one way or the other."
Horny teenagers are a luxury that L/A slashers don't have. Instead they have three thousand year old elf and a man whose life expectancy exceeds most men by a century. And on the top of that, they are both royality. Thus we get a certain power stuggle. Typically they are big on the love declarations, talking about some decades of being in love and then they go all, "I'm older, I should top." "Well, I'm king, therefor I should top, elfling." (well, not literally but that's what the subtext screams).
I'm quite amused by this. Especially I've never understood this need in slash to have one domineering the other if you know what I mean. Perhaps because I'm all about equality. Also it is absolutely hilarious to picture this kind of struggle between Aragorn and Legolas.
Another thing. Lubrication ... always a hard thing for LotR slasher. What do they use? They can't do lubrication charms like in HP and well, Astroglide wasn't a common commodity in Middle-Earth. In one fic they use sword oil. This kind of always makes me realize the absurdity of it all. (Tolkien is turning in his grave as we speak).
Anyway, I should shut up and hopefully forever on Legolas/Aragorn slash. Found a nice dose of antidote here.
So this sudden urge to read Legolas/Aragorn threw me off course. Still, I dediced early on in the reading that I couldn't just do this for my gratification only.
I sensed in the stories I've been reading something I haven't encountered in the smutty HP slash I normally read. The subtle struggle who's top and who's bottom. Because in R/D for instance ... it's just "We are horny teenagers and we are going to fuck one way or the other."
Horny teenagers are a luxury that L/A slashers don't have. Instead they have three thousand year old elf and a man whose life expectancy exceeds most men by a century. And on the top of that, they are both royality. Thus we get a certain power stuggle. Typically they are big on the love declarations, talking about some decades of being in love and then they go all, "I'm older, I should top." "Well, I'm king, therefor I should top, elfling." (well, not literally but that's what the subtext screams).
I'm quite amused by this. Especially I've never understood this need in slash to have one domineering the other if you know what I mean. Perhaps because I'm all about equality. Also it is absolutely hilarious to picture this kind of struggle between Aragorn and Legolas.
Another thing. Lubrication ... always a hard thing for LotR slasher. What do they use? They can't do lubrication charms like in HP and well, Astroglide wasn't a common commodity in Middle-Earth. In one fic they use sword oil. This kind of always makes me realize the absurdity of it all. (Tolkien is turning in his grave as we speak).
Anyway, I should shut up and hopefully forever on Legolas/Aragorn slash. Found a nice dose of antidote here.
