[...boldly proving that I've never taken a gender-theory course in my life]

Thinking of cathexys' entry on slash queering and also just celebrating masculinity/gender-mapping stuff in conjunction with this utterly fascinating, huge(!) scholarly article on Q/Picard slash in Star Trek (that is, how it's pretty much intentionally on the show on the actors' side), I'm struck by the connection between queerness/gender (gender-queerness?) and theatricality, especially with this quote from the genders.org article:
    For Q gender is clearly a matter of performance. In fact, for Q just about everything he does in his interactions with humans is a matter of performance; de Lancie, an experienced stage performer, infuses his character with a hyperbolic theatricality.

This reminds me of the 'obviously gay' character in HP, for me (at this point), which is Draco (duh).

( ...cut to spare y'all. )

...Though I think most of what the article made me think of was, 'man, I really really enjoy the idea of Q/Picard, but omg most Q/P fics I read cross that line between subtext and text, boldly going towards utter romance-novelish extravagance'. Which, I suppose, would suit Q all right :> To me, though, it's more... delicious when implied (though if I thought either of them were all that hot, this would naturally be different). Or... it could be the extravagant power differential; really now. ^^;;
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    Trying to further the squee:
    I keep meaning to make a post on hydaspes' Merry_Smutmas fic, A Very Long Misadventure, but being distracted and-- eh, it's not gonna happen. But it's my first, 'eeeeeee, what I wanted, eeeee, IC!Harry&Draco! yeay, plot!' fic since `Eclipse'. Heh. (And now I'm picturing the next round of people who'll avoid it 'cause I recced it and later anonymously tell me my taste sucks-- ahhh, internets making me paranooooiiid). Anyway.

Yeah, time-travel, 5th century England, a Harry who keeps on truckin' with the being-distrustful-of-Malfoy and disliking-Malfoy-on-principle and a Draco who's snarky yet pathetic yet kind of cute. And also like, magic and time-travel and stuff. It basically hits my kinks; usually the author's fics have Draco be too in need of hurt/comfort, which just turns me way off since post-HBP!H/D + hurt/comfort = TEH DEVIL OMG!!1 (in my eyes), so Draco's (mostly) normalcy in this fic just allowed me to revel in her H/D dynamic more purely. Aaaand, it's got fumbly boysex (score!)

And on the yaoi front:
    I was actually thinking about how I don't just like angst/drama/romance stuff, I can like fluff a lot and I can prove it-- and I was gonna whip out the latest one-shot scanlation released of Yamada Yugi (which I posted at yaoi_daily here), and then I realized... uh.... That's not fluff, that's snarky cuteness. D'oh. -.-

...

Maybe I should wear a sign: if you're homophobic, stay the bloody fuck away from me.

Of course, that doesn't work when we're talking about one's mother :/

Who isn't a fundie or religious, so of course there's lots of quasi-science and 'who wants to be proud of being like monkeys' and 'it's scientifically sick' and 'if we/the penguins were all gay, the species would die out' and on and on and on.........


*repeatedly beats head against wall*

PS: This all started 'cause I said 'slash is a better hobby than Sudoku' ^^;;;;

...and now she's smiling at me like nothing's wrong.