"OMG HE WAS. He's bigger than the BUILDING they were using." XD OMG YES. Temeraire-brand subtlety is amazing to behold. He's bigger than the metaphorical elephant in the room. I'm sure that he makes inappropriate comments every so often and then goes back to pretending like they don't know he's there.
""(also, the return of Granby's pejorative SIR used against someone else = WIN)" When Jane tells the story later, she doesn't quite grasp the significance, but Granby goes beet red and Laurence cheers up a little." YES PLZ. <3 <3 <3
"Very much feels more grown-up than the rest, there's a lot of politics and actual overthrow of the government and it's ALANNA AND GEORGE'S BABY GIRL. She's awesome. She wants to be a spy. They both said no. They seemed to think it would work." IT IS NOW ON MY MENTAL SUMMER READING LIST. I've been meaning to reread all of Tamora Pierce's books for a while... A new awesome series is as good an excuse as any!
"Laurence is a gentleman, still, and even if there were some brief adventures with boys, it was probably quite practical and hand-for-hand." It's my headcanon for situations in which I want him to be in a relationship with another man, and others have used this justification in fanfic before. :) It's practically fanon! ;)
"(Ninety years or so later, men that had sex with men had wives waiting for them at home.)" I've read about things like that! The history of homosexuality, and the lengths that people had to go to... fascinating stuff. Have you heard of Boston marriages? Popular in the early 1900s? They're two single women living together, purportedly for practical reasons like paying the rent, but it's believed that a significant amount of them were at least party sexual in nature.
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Date: 2011-02-28 01:32 am (UTC)""(also, the return of Granby's pejorative SIR used against someone else = WIN)" When Jane tells the story later, she doesn't quite grasp the significance, but Granby goes beet red and Laurence cheers up a little." YES PLZ. <3 <3 <3
"Very much feels more grown-up than the rest, there's a lot of politics and actual overthrow of the government and it's ALANNA AND GEORGE'S BABY GIRL. She's awesome. She wants to be a spy. They both said no. They seemed to think it would work." IT IS NOW ON MY MENTAL SUMMER READING LIST. I've been meaning to reread all of Tamora Pierce's books for a while... A new awesome series is as good an excuse as any!
"Laurence is a gentleman, still, and even if there were some brief adventures with boys, it was probably quite practical and hand-for-hand." It's my headcanon for situations in which I want him to be in a relationship with another man, and others have used this justification in fanfic before. :) It's practically fanon! ;)
"(Ninety years or so later, men that had sex with men had wives waiting for them at home.)"
I've read about things like that! The history of homosexuality, and the lengths that people had to go to... fascinating stuff. Have you heard of Boston marriages? Popular in the early 1900s? They're two single women living together, purportedly for practical reasons like paying the rent, but it's believed that a significant amount of them were at least party sexual in nature.