Slash Goggles and their effects.

[erastes]

My weekly column on Jessewave’s blog is up – This week I’m talking about Slash Goggles, what they are and how they affect my everyday life. And GOD, do they affect my everyday life.

Do come along and join in the silliness.

http://reviewsbyjessewave.blogspot.com/2009/05/they-call-me-cock-eyed-optimist.html

Comments

[sleveen.livejournal.com]

OMG LOL! Slash goggles...

I am preparing something for The Macaronis on the effects of taking one's characters around with one in everyday life...especially when one's characters are from a different historical era. :)

Slash goggles...I wear my slash goggles 24/7 and have been since I was like...oh, 11 years old or so? :)

[paddynmoon.livejournal.com]

I am preparing something for The Macaronis on the effects of taking one's characters around with one in everyday life...especially when one's characters are from a different historical era.

Ooo, I have to read that, esp as I appear to be living with a house full of these gentlemen...

:)

[feed-your-muse.livejournal.com]

I shall have to wait until I get home. There are too many nekkid bute-ocks on jessewave for me to look at it at work. :o(

Thanks for the reminder though, I've really enjoyed your posts so far (even though I haven't commented, I have read them!)

Merry

=^..^=

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Icon LOVE. Talk about slashy....

[ethelnorthbrook.livejournal.com]

once i put them on i never seem to take them off:D sometimes it gets really scary...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Be brave - come out of lurkdom!

:) I'm glad you've enjoyed them.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Oh good - I look forward to reading that!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Mine are completely glued to my face! :)

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

Cool column!

Have you seen the trailer for the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes flick ? (See http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810045845/trailer
if you have not.)

Definitely Holmes/Watson for the prize! Yay Slash Goggles.

BTW, I am currently researching underwear in the late 1880s, and can find nothing good on Google for British gentlemen. Can you advise? (I know what my Americans would wear, since there are Sears Roebucks catalogs everywhere, but apparently British men were too reticent to leave any clues, or my google-fu is too weak!)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I don't think there would have been any difference at all in the type of underwear at this point - silk or cotton or fine wool made of two pieces and all made by hand. "Long johns" although worn (more likely by lower classes who didn't have the luxury of such fitted trousers as the rich, some of which were very tight - resulting in the invention of the Albert cock piercing, after all) were in existence, but were not called so until much much later.

Dont forget male corsets, either!

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=387284

poor men would be as likely to wrap their shirt tails around the groin.

It's interesting that women were less likely to wear undergarments than men until more recent times.

[txilar.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to read it. I sometimes think I had the laser slash goggle surgery, so it's permanent now. ^_~ Thought it must be contagious in some form: my imp now points out potentials to me.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

OMG - That's brilliant. Laser Slash Goggle Surgery! I wish I'd thought of that! If I use this in future, I will credit you forever.

Nice to hear from you, mushie. *glomps*

[txilar.livejournal.com]

*glomps back*

Hee! Yeah, I'm 20/20 now. Gives that slash between the numbers a whole new meaning. ^__^ I loved the article. I've found that the more I look, the stronger my goggles get.

My only problem now is that my 'period' is the Ottoman Empire (early 1700s) and hard to find good info. I read 'facts' in one book only to find out they are questionable/wrong/Orientalist fantasy in another. *sigh*

But! Instead of breeches there is robe gropage. Maybe it's just me... ^_~

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm.....Robe gropeage.... (this sounds very wrong in a Homer voice.) (and now I'm imagining the original HOmer saying that, not the yellow one and snorting caffeine drink through my nose)

I find when I've looked and looked and find conflicting positions, then it's pretty safe do go with either, because after all, you did try to find out.

I know what mean about the "slash" - when ever I hear a news announcer say "go to bbc.co.uk slash swine flu" (or something similar) I have to have a minor giggle. Because i'm 12.

[txilar.livejournal.com]

*invokes Homer--the yellow one* Doh!

go with either

Now, why couldn't I have thought of that? Seriously. You make a great point. Thank you! Honestly, I just fret over which one is wrong and get so stuck in quicksand that I never write anything. I feel so free!

Is totally 12 too. Here at work we list coordinating engineers with a slash and sometimes the combos really crack me up. Though sometimes they elicit a loud 'EWWWW! NOOOO! ACK!'
'What's wrong?'
'Nothing! Just uh... lost a file.'

[paddynmoon.livejournal.com]

Hee, isn't he gorgeous?! :D

Speaking of Federico, are you going to see Little Ashes?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I VERY much doubt if it will come to Norwich sadly, but I will definitely be nabbing it on DVD asap. I mean... that CAST....

[paddynmoon.livejournal.com]

Cinema City from 22nd to 26th May. I've got my ticket (and the DVD on preorder).

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

Thank 'ee kindly, mum. :-)

I can give you a link to the non-HD version, but it hung on me, so I used the one that worked on this machine.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/05/18/must-watch-first-trailer-for-guy-ritchies-sherlock-holmes/

I hope that works better for your machine than the HD trailer.

In other news, I did NOT have me slash goggles on for the new "Star Trek". Since I can remember the very first Kirk-Spock story that seduced me into having slash goggles in the first place (and it was -- yes! the very very firstest Kirk-Spock sexxors evar!) "Shelter" by Leslie Fish -- I was expecting to have them very firmly affixed for the movie. No go -- it was het vibes all the way, baby. Disappointed me to some extent, but.... that's the way my perception is slanted.