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isaacsapphireWell, a general report of three shinny things on the internet that I thought you all might be as fascinated by as I've been.
First up is the "Gay bomb". I recommend this concept to anyone who wants to write sex pollen fics in a realistic universe. Also, I'd like to go on record and say that the US Air Force was a bunch of sick fucks to come up with this.
I found a news piece on romance novels and their growing academic significance. Several of the points related to sex/gender made outright or alluded to in the article are very interesting.
This picture caught my eye the first time I saw it as a thumbnail. Then I learned more about it - it's a promo still for Bruno, a movie by Sacha Baron Cohen, the same guy who did Borat. Bruno is pretty much the same thing, just this time he's a flamingly gay Austrian fashion designer instead of being whatever it was that Borat was. Apparently a lot of people strongly dislike the film, walking out after about ten minutes. Interestingly enough, I also hear (Here scroll down to the first comment. Of course, I don't think the commenter knows jack about BDSM and generally strikes me as being one of those people who think they're open-minded but aren't.) that the first ten minutes is a BDSM scene, which might explain the walking out. It also makes me change my plans regarding watching this movie from being Definitely Not to Maybe.
But back to that picture. Some versions of it are trimmed so you can't see the horse's hooves, which look weird. On the largest resolution version (the one I linked to) though, I finally could see clearly enough to figure out what was going on; the horse is wearing four Easyboots. What I want to know is why the hell they didn't take them off before the shoot, because as much as I'm a fan of Easyboots for using, they don't look cool (unless you're an endurance rider. Maybe.) and I'm sure that a lot of less horsey people are going "WTF?" over the horse's lumpy feet.
Horse-geekary aside, it sucks that the only time you'll get a picture of a vaguely attractive mostly naked guy on a pretty horse is in the promotional material for a crass comedy.
First up is the "Gay bomb". I recommend this concept to anyone who wants to write sex pollen fics in a realistic universe. Also, I'd like to go on record and say that the US Air Force was a bunch of sick fucks to come up with this.
I found a news piece on romance novels and their growing academic significance. Several of the points related to sex/gender made outright or alluded to in the article are very interesting.
This picture caught my eye the first time I saw it as a thumbnail. Then I learned more about it - it's a promo still for Bruno, a movie by Sacha Baron Cohen, the same guy who did Borat. Bruno is pretty much the same thing, just this time he's a flamingly gay Austrian fashion designer instead of being whatever it was that Borat was. Apparently a lot of people strongly dislike the film, walking out after about ten minutes. Interestingly enough, I also hear (Here scroll down to the first comment. Of course, I don't think the commenter knows jack about BDSM and generally strikes me as being one of those people who think they're open-minded but aren't.) that the first ten minutes is a BDSM scene, which might explain the walking out. It also makes me change my plans regarding watching this movie from being Definitely Not to Maybe.
But back to that picture. Some versions of it are trimmed so you can't see the horse's hooves, which look weird. On the largest resolution version (the one I linked to) though, I finally could see clearly enough to figure out what was going on; the horse is wearing four Easyboots. What I want to know is why the hell they didn't take them off before the shoot, because as much as I'm a fan of Easyboots for using, they don't look cool (unless you're an endurance rider. Maybe.) and I'm sure that a lot of less horsey people are going "WTF?" over the horse's lumpy feet.
Horse-geekary aside, it sucks that the only time you'll get a picture of a vaguely attractive mostly naked guy on a pretty horse is in the promotional material for a crass comedy.
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Date: 2009-07-20 07:16 pm (UTC)I don't think I have ever walked out of a movie theater because I didn't like a movie. *shrugs*
Oh and lol, Adrian! I had no idea you were a horse-geek! Haha. I pretty much had no idea what you were talking about but I think it's really cool that you know a bit a bout them. :D
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Date: 2009-07-20 08:18 pm (UTC)Regular horseshoes are metal and nailed on (hoof is like fingernails; it doesn't feel) Easyboots are more like people shoes in design and aren't something you'd know about just doing lessons or reading most intro-level books, as likely as not. (I did specify them for a centaur cop character I was playing once in an urban fantasy setting)