Dostana for me tomorrow

Today I discovered that yes, indeed, my local cinema is going to show Dostana twice! So I am going to see it tomorrow, by hook or by crook. I am rather excited!

For those of you who haven't yet heard: this is the new Bollywood hit that features two gay guys. Well, they're not really gay; they're "pretending" to be gay but then, hey, so does every actor in every movie.

And I will get to see ( this -- pic spoiler )

And this, given the circumstance that kissing in Hindi films is very, very rare!!

Not that you all haven't ogled this youtube video...

ETA: This is an rps'ler's wet dream. *licks lips*

Merlin: a new fandom

This new fandom is fun. Not 100 percent fun as it seems to be a) one-pairing, b) one-pov, c) only pretty and not enough manly, d) based on television wot i would have to watch to gain insight into canon and e) bereft of any Bollywood stars.

However! It makes up for its shortcomings by having a) much ust, b) someone who is Ron Weasley magic, c) someone who is lordly, d) thereby enabling much servant/master, bottom/top, bottom turns top, angsty stuff, e) a Muggle magic-hating king, f) thereby enabling more angsting and outing and mapping of homosexuality-in-closet onto magic-in-wardrobe, g) a yaoi/manga dichotomy of black-haired/blond, h) hurt/comfort in the guise of Rodney-like saving-the-lord's-life-all-the-time through scientific magical means, h) a canon that can easily be expanded!

At the moment I am expanding the canon by reading Chrétien de Troyes's Lancelot legend. I don't like TV but I do like literature! Fandom is so educational!

And by expanding the canon, I get me the manly (because hey, in the spirit of Harry-Potteresque future!fic, the boys can be any age, from 21 to 58, or in the case of Merlin, perhaps even 102?) and I get me the beyond-the-one-pairing (Lancelot, Galahad, Percival, yum yum).

( pic of Merlin as a manly mage )

Some canon from King Arthur

A short excerpt from Chrétien de Troyes's Lancelot about a night of passion. Lancelot/Queen Guinevere, wife of Arthur. Het. Very sexy, mediaeval-style.

( Read more... )

If only thamiris were here to talk to me about this. She loved mediaeval language and literature.

FIC: Love is a Kind of Magic (Arthur/Merlin) Gen/UG

TITLE: Love is a Kind of Magic
AUTHOR: Lobelia; lobelia321
FANDOM: Merlin
SOURCE: Chrétien de Troyes's Lancelot
SPOILERS: Lancelot (as above). TV series: None.
PAIRING: Arthur/Merlin
RATING: Gen / UG
LENGTH: 916 words
SUMMARY: The King is upset about his Queen's infidelity. But only because it reminds him of his own...
THANKS: To frogspace for instant fandom info. :-)

( Love is a Kind of Magic )

Dostana fandom, here I come!!!

Saw Dostana this afternoon.

Am now all a-swoon.

Am (for the time being) abandoning all the new fandoms I collected day before yesterday (all two of them: Merlin and Aamir Khan/Dominic Monaghan) in order solely to wallow in Kunal / Sameer.

Shall post a review of this movie soon. Must first write fic.

Eep! Just discovered that there is a ready-made fandom for me!

Nay, two of them!! bolly_fics and bolly_rpf.

How had I not known...?? Why did nobody tell me? *eyes thelana*

Yumyum. "Tum mera dost hai." "Aur main tumhara dost hoon." (Is that correct? Who knows, whee. All my Hindi stems from Bollywood films and from one Teach-Yourself-Hindi-In-Thirty-Lessons book.)

ETA: I totally forgot to post the pictures of the two lovely men waltzing. ( pictures )