random DAAS thoughts
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kindkitCut to spare those who are sick of me talking about DAAS (most of you, I fear).
1) I have inchoate ideas about Paul McDermott and masculinity, which I'd like to turn into a proper post at some point. But I'm not sure how much of what's swirling around in my brain is really thought and how much is just "Oh, yay, another model of unconventional masculinity, happy happy happy!"
McDermott's performance of masculinity was definitely more transgressive when he was younger (the braids! the bracelets!), but it's still unconventional even now. I love this clip in which McDermott catches a ball and is told "That's the most masculine thing you've done in ten years."
This all connects with stage gay and the verb "to queer" and, um, stuff. Real post eventually, I hope. Probably not narrowly focused on McDermott, as the issues he brings up for me are larger than just mymad crush on interest in him.
2) I wish I could get a better look at the ring Paul is wearing in Dead and Alive. I thought at first it was a claddagh ring, and got extremely squeeful when I noticed Tim is (definitely) wearing a claddagh ring too. But because Paul will not hold still even for half a second, I can't see his ring well. Alas, though, I am now leaning towards it not being a claddagh ring, but an ordinary ring with perhaps a flat top surface. I may write the fic anyway.
3) I've read that the boys' costumes got very battered because they were never replaced (also possibly never washed). Which is entertaining, but I don't think it can be true, because Tim's and Richard's costumes look fine; it's only Paul's that's practically in rags. And that was already the case as early as DAAS's first appearance on The Big Gig, when Paul's trousers were torn down the right leg and held together with safety pins. I now half suspect him of sitting around backstage ripping his costume up on purpose. Really, it's about the only explanation for the extraordinary state of his cuffs in Dead and Alive.
4) Richard is quite pretty, especially in profile.
5) The bit in Dead and Alive when Paul makes the joke about multiple sclerosis (or, as he accidentally [?] pronounces it, "multiple cirrhosis") is painful to hear. I know Tim hadn't yet been diagnosed with MS at that point, but apparently he was already having serious, if intermittent, symptons and was probably worried sick about his health.
6) One of the challenges of writing proper fic in this fandom will be balancing the boys' humor with what I imagine was sometimes a lot of underlying discontent and sorrow. And I do tend to be drawn to the angsty stuff, such as what seems to have been a long estrangement between Tim and the other two after the group broke up. But lord, this fandom has enough angstalicious badfic already.
1) I have inchoate ideas about Paul McDermott and masculinity, which I'd like to turn into a proper post at some point. But I'm not sure how much of what's swirling around in my brain is really thought and how much is just "Oh, yay, another model of unconventional masculinity, happy happy happy!"
McDermott's performance of masculinity was definitely more transgressive when he was younger (the braids! the bracelets!), but it's still unconventional even now. I love this clip in which McDermott catches a ball and is told "That's the most masculine thing you've done in ten years."
This all connects with stage gay and the verb "to queer" and, um, stuff. Real post eventually, I hope. Probably not narrowly focused on McDermott, as the issues he brings up for me are larger than just my
2) I wish I could get a better look at the ring Paul is wearing in Dead and Alive. I thought at first it was a claddagh ring, and got extremely squeeful when I noticed Tim is (definitely) wearing a claddagh ring too. But because Paul will not hold still even for half a second, I can't see his ring well. Alas, though, I am now leaning towards it not being a claddagh ring, but an ordinary ring with perhaps a flat top surface. I may write the fic anyway.
3) I've read that the boys' costumes got very battered because they were never replaced (also possibly never washed). Which is entertaining, but I don't think it can be true, because Tim's and Richard's costumes look fine; it's only Paul's that's practically in rags. And that was already the case as early as DAAS's first appearance on The Big Gig, when Paul's trousers were torn down the right leg and held together with safety pins. I now half suspect him of sitting around backstage ripping his costume up on purpose. Really, it's about the only explanation for the extraordinary state of his cuffs in Dead and Alive.
4) Richard is quite pretty, especially in profile.
5) The bit in Dead and Alive when Paul makes the joke about multiple sclerosis (or, as he accidentally [?] pronounces it, "multiple cirrhosis") is painful to hear. I know Tim hadn't yet been diagnosed with MS at that point, but apparently he was already having serious, if intermittent, symptons and was probably worried sick about his health.
6) One of the challenges of writing proper fic in this fandom will be balancing the boys' humor with what I imagine was sometimes a lot of underlying discontent and sorrow. And I do tend to be drawn to the angsty stuff, such as what seems to have been a long estrangement between Tim and the other two after the group broke up. But lord, this fandom has enough angstalicious badfic already.
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Date: 2010-09-29 03:20 am (UTC)5. Oh my god, yes. It made my stomach twist the first time I heard it. Mostly I just skip that bit now, unless I'm listening to all of Dead And Alive, all the way through.
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Date: 2010-09-29 04:56 am (UTC)