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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.

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[hapakitsune.livejournal.com]

THAT TRAILER LITERALLY MADE ME SNORT WITH LAUGHTER.

[extemporally.livejournal.com]

RIGHT

THE MOST EAGERLY AWAITED MOVIE OF THE YEAR