in ur libraries, slashin ur kiddie-lit!
Jan. 28th, 2008 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meretriculahmm. has anyone read the trilogy by Megan Whalen Turner beginning with "The Thief"? they're quite good books, and rather interesting in what they do and don't borrow from Greek culture. the setting is a place that's sort of like ancient Greece but isn't really. people have Greek names, eat Greek food, and live in varied terrains that sound like Greece to me, but their gods and governments are different.
but this is me! we all know what I'm reading the books for. the first book is purely gen, the second is het (and a scary pairing indeed, though it ends up being weirdly cute) and the third still centers on the scary-but-cute het pairing, though slashiness abounds amongst the minor characters. the narrator's best friend is named Aristogiton! nobody is fooled here, people. (for those who don't recognize the reference, Harmodias and Aristogiton are the Tyrannicides, probably the most famous homosexual couple in ancient Greek history.)
aside from Costis and his flamboyantly named best buddy, my slash-tinted glasses are looking at you, Teleus and Relius! your names rhyme, which makes you a bit revoltingly twee, but I forgive you, because... oh. basically because Teleus carried Relius out of a dungeon cell with such tenderness. and because they had such dramatic tension when they both thought Teleus was going to have to execute Relius. ~cuddles the puppies of angst~
speaking of angst-puppies, the brothers Erondites get very little time together and yet fit in so much fraternal love! pretending to hate each other to protect the one from the father's wrath! confessing to attempted murder to save the other from execution! oh, boys. and oh, Eugenides, who sees straight through the facade.
so where is the slash for The King of Attolia? I cannot be the only person seeing the potential here.
but this is me! we all know what I'm reading the books for. the first book is purely gen, the second is het (and a scary pairing indeed, though it ends up being weirdly cute) and the third still centers on the scary-but-cute het pairing, though slashiness abounds amongst the minor characters. the narrator's best friend is named Aristogiton! nobody is fooled here, people. (for those who don't recognize the reference, Harmodias and Aristogiton are the Tyrannicides, probably the most famous homosexual couple in ancient Greek history.)
aside from Costis and his flamboyantly named best buddy, my slash-tinted glasses are looking at you, Teleus and Relius! your names rhyme, which makes you a bit revoltingly twee, but I forgive you, because... oh. basically because Teleus carried Relius out of a dungeon cell with such tenderness. and because they had such dramatic tension when they both thought Teleus was going to have to execute Relius. ~cuddles the puppies of angst~
speaking of angst-puppies, the brothers Erondites get very little time together and yet fit in so much fraternal love! pretending to hate each other to protect the one from the father's wrath! confessing to attempted murder to save the other from execution! oh, boys. and oh, Eugenides, who sees straight through the facade.
so where is the slash for The King of Attolia? I cannot be the only person seeing the potential here.
