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a meme
I am annoyed by absolutely everything today. Therefore, I meme. Grabbed from around, slightly modified.
Give me a character and I'll tell you some things:
1. How I feel about this character
2. All the people I ship romantically and/or sexually with this character
3. Favorite gen relationship(s) for this character
4. My unpopular opinion about this character
5. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
6. Random pet theory about this character that you won't convince me is not true.
7. A song or piece of music I associate with this character.
Any characters in any fandoms I know are fair game. But a lot of my fannish thoughts currently are about The Magnus Archives, Rusty Quill Gaming, and Stellar Firma.
Give me a character and I'll tell you some things:
1. How I feel about this character
2. All the people I ship romantically and/or sexually with this character
3. Favorite gen relationship(s) for this character
4. My unpopular opinion about this character
5. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
6. Random pet theory about this character that you won't convince me is not true.
7. A song or piece of music I associate with this character.
Any characters in any fandoms I know are fair game. But a lot of my fannish thoughts currently are about The Magnus Archives, Rusty Quill Gaming, and Stellar Firma.
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Brother Jerome--Cadfael TV verse
1. How I feel about this character
He is such a little weasel and I love him so. I mean, he's objectively awful a lot of the time in how he treats people, and that's not good, but I also can't help sympathizing with him. I, too, am someone who can't understand Why People Don't Just Follow the Rules.
2. All the people I ship romantically and/or sexually with this character.
Prior Robert. It is really interesting to watch Jerome's body language etc. towards Robert. Kudos to Julian Firth for doing an amazing job at something I think is one of the great pleasures of watching good British character actors: telling another story that's not in the dialogue at all.
3. Favorite gen relationship(s) for this character
No one else is real for Jerome apart from Robert, is the thing. I do think his relationship with Cadfael has the potential to be interesting in certain ways (and I tried to explore it in my still unedited story), but to my mind that's more a matter of Cadfael seeing and understanding Jerome, and wanting to be kind because that's what Cadfael does, rather than Jerome seeing or understanding Cadfael at all.
4. My unpopular opinion about this character
I don't know what would constitute an unpopular opinion in this context!
5. One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
We should have seen consequences for his attempting to murder someone. There are consequences in the books, but on the show, while there are some during the relevant episode, everything resets back to normal in the next episode.
6. Random pet theory about this character that you won't convince me is not true.
He's genuinely devout and he believes in the Rule, even when he doesn't follow it. He's such a stickler for rules/the Rule because he's trying to save himself from a feeling he believes to be sinful, and also simultaneously hoping that if he follows the Rule in every other respect, and makes damn sure everyone else does too, then he can get away with cherishing a love and desire for Robert that he never intends to act on. (By the standards of medieval monastic Christianity, he ought to be trying not merely not to sin in his acts, but to eradicate his sinful thoughts. It does not work and eventually he can't bring himself to try any more.)
7. A song or piece of music I associate with this character
Chant! All the chant! There's a lovely tension in chant, from a certain perspective, between (on one side) the religious subject matter and the seeming austerity of the form, and (on the other side) the overwhelming beauty of the male--in this case--voices. Music can't get away from embodiment, and vocal music all the more so.
Also, there's a whole medieval Christian genre of quasi-erotic, and in some cases frankly erotic, devotional poetry, e.g. homoerotic meditations on the body of Christ. I think a lot of it is later than Brother Jerome's era, but I strongly associate him with it.
Re: Brother Jerome--Cadfael TV verse
People who can tell stories with their bodies are treasures. What does Michael Culver do in return around him?
I don't know what would constitute an unpopular opinion in this context!
I think liking him counts as an unpopular opinion, so you're good. Go know.
We should have seen consequences for his attempting to murder someone. There are consequences in the books, but on the show, while there are some during the relevant episode, everything resets back to normal in the next episode.
TV show status-quo resets even bugged me as a child. Is this something you would write fic about? (I know, your copious free time.)
He's genuinely devout and he believes in the Rule, even when he doesn't follow it. He's such a stickler for rules/the Rule because he's trying to save himself from a feeling he believes to be sinful, and also simultaneously hoping that if he follows the Rule in every other respect, and makes damn sure everyone else does too, then he can get away with cherishing a love and desire for Robert that he never intends to act on. (By the standards of medieval monastic Christianity, he ought to be trying not merely not to sin in his acts, but to eradicate his sinful thoughts. It does not work and eventually he can't bring himself to try any more.)
If that's the core of your still unedited story, I really want to read it.
There's a lovely tension in chant, from a certain perspective, between (on one side) the religious subject matter and the seeming austerity of the form, and (on the other side) the overwhelming beauty of the male--in this case--voices. Music can't get away from embodiment, and vocal music all the more so.
I like that way of looking at it.
Also, there's a whole medieval Christian genre of quasi-erotic, and in some cases frankly erotic, devotional poetry, e.g. homoerotic meditations on the body of Christ. I think a lot of it is later than Brother Jerome's era, but I strongly associate him with it.
Any pieces in particular?
Thanks!