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tenlittlebullets) wrote2010-05-21 05:10 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2010-05-21 05:10 pm
Lol there goes my afternoon
Well, I now have until Sunday for the project. Which is good, because the majority of it is written but it's still buggy as all hell.
And also because how am I ever going to get anything done now that I have discovered that there is smutty Vautrin/Lucien fic IN FRENCH? [Serious spoilers for Illusions Perdues in there, you have been warned.] I have been reading lots of Balzac in my spare time, and after finishing Illusions Perdues the other day, I was torn between "...there HAS TO BE FIC, the gay is so BLATANT" and "...but it is too obscure a fandom for there to be fic." But there is fic! And it's in French! And even if the style is not a direct pastiche of Balzac's, it does pretty much read like the uncensored version of the book's ending--you don't even need slash goggles to realize this is just what the narrator was too polite to say straight-out.
I feel kind of dirty for finding the pairing hot--since it's precisely because of the skeevy power dynamic that it touches off some uncomfortable "okay, that's hot" feelings. Then again, Vautrin is such a textbook example of a Magnificent Bastard that I'm surprised he doesn't have a four-paragraph writeup in the TVTropes article, and Magnificent Bastardry is hot even if the character himself isn't. Especially when there are pretty boy-toys involved.
And also because how am I ever going to get anything done now that I have discovered that there is smutty Vautrin/Lucien fic IN FRENCH? [Serious spoilers for Illusions Perdues in there, you have been warned.] I have been reading lots of Balzac in my spare time, and after finishing Illusions Perdues the other day, I was torn between "...there HAS TO BE FIC, the gay is so BLATANT" and "...but it is too obscure a fandom for there to be fic." But there is fic! And it's in French! And even if the style is not a direct pastiche of Balzac's, it does pretty much read like the uncensored version of the book's ending--you don't even need slash goggles to realize this is just what the narrator was too polite to say straight-out.
I feel kind of dirty for finding the pairing hot--since it's precisely because of the skeevy power dynamic that it touches off some uncomfortable "okay, that's hot" feelings. Then again, Vautrin is such a textbook example of a Magnificent Bastard that I'm surprised he doesn't have a four-paragraph writeup in the TVTropes article, and Magnificent Bastardry is hot even if the character himself isn't. Especially when there are pretty boy-toys involved.