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[extemporally]

I now have a forochel in my room. She's visiting for a couple of days, and today we watched The Eagle while eating dinner - man, that is a terrible film, but it made me think. Rundown: it's about a Roman who goes to the north of Britain with his slave and gets captured by a tribe of which his slave is a member, upon which the Roman becomes his slave's slave.

(forochel: "Are you chatting to someone now?"
me: "No, I'm telling the Internet about The Eagle."
forochel: "IT SUCKED!!!")

ANYWAY. The point is, why has this trope not been used in any slavefic I've ever read? It made me think interesting thoughts, about, uh, the reversal of roles that people play out of necessity when they're operating within (for the lack of a better word) society.

(forochel: "Tell them I am eating all your oranges.")

I would read a slavefic that used this particular plotline. Hell, I would watch a movie that executed this plotline, all over again, except better. I don't have the strength to watch an equally crappy movie - not after The Eagle.

Here is a video that amused us very much when we took a break from watching The Eagle: William & Kate: the official trailer

You're welcome.

Comments

[lemniciate.livejournal.com]

HI, HI YOU GUYS. TOTALLY JEALOUS YOU GET TO BE BREATHING THE SAME AIR RIGHT NOW.

TOTALLY JEALOOOOUS ♥

[extemporally.livejournal.com]

JENN. Come hang out with us!!!

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

that is a really great idea, actually. i hope someone runs with it!

[extemporally.livejournal.com]

I really hope so! I would read that fic so hard.

[blindmouse.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I would also read that fic. Maybe that kind of role reversal would be the only way to truly equalise the dynamic in a master/slave or ex-slave situation. (Or, more likely, it would fuck both of them over completely, but, you know, that could also be a good read?)

[extemporally.livejournal.com]

Yyy I was thinking about that too! The complete fucking over of, I mean. It would be so hurty.

[hapakitsune.livejournal.com]

THAT TRAILER LITERALLY MADE ME SNORT WITH LAUGHTER.

[extemporally.livejournal.com]

RIGHT

THE MOST EAGERLY AWAITED MOVIE OF THE YEAR

[perculious.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA THAT TRAILER. I want to get really drunk and watch that in a big group.

today we watched The Eagle while eating dinner - man, that is a terrible film, but it made me think.

I thought you were going to say you were thinking about, like, the nature of humanity, or the complex dynamics of servitude. But nope. Hot sexy fanfiction.

[extemporally.livejournal.com]

... the nature of humanity and the complex dynamics of servitude as embedded within hot sexy fanfiction? :D?