Forbidden lusts

[lobelia321]

An update on my latest obsession -- and by latest, I mean: as in last night. (Yes, things move fast in the land of Lobelia. They lurch from Second Life to Sims2 to yaoi manga to to nekkid Shahrukh to daytime soaps. *is dizzy*)

This is about daytime boy/boy (http://gaydaytime.blogspot.com/). This is a whole sub-genre of the category of Daytime Soap! The boy/boy angst and love!

Ever since thelana introduced me to this a few days ago, I have been mainlining Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love -- what a title!) non-stop on youtube. (Go to the link above and scroll down. You'll see what I mean...) And drooling over the story of Christian/Olli and the delicious triangle plot of Christian/Olli/Coco.



The latest ep features this:


Video of The Kiss here:
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=qiIDFsvBnTQ

And with English subtitles:
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=DMd1dKqqWRI



There is also this:


http://www.myvideo.de/watch/2424063/Marienhof_Suelo_und_Mischa
Angsty pretty boy/older Turkish man lust love and angst plus gorgeous pianist's hands. To quote thelana: Guh. It's called Marienhof.



What's been happening in daytime soaps since the last time I looked (around 1978)??!! All this pretty boy love -- who knew?! And how international it is! Germany, Catalonia, France, Mexico --

Melodrama is insatiable. It spins its evol hypnotising web over everything (and made me burn my cauliflower last night). Gender? Class? Ethnicity? Who cares, it's all fodder for the maw of Melodrama.

As long as there are FEELINGS, all else is fair game. But there must be FEELINGS and LOVE HATE JEALOUSY DEATH plus deus ex machina catastrophes ("my house burnt down and I lost all of my CDs and my job!" "Olivia got shot!") but only in order to enable more FEELINGS and more JEALOUSY and more LOVE to take place. Sex, too, plays an entirely functional role in this universe: sex only occurs in order to facilitate angsty FEELINGS and incite JEALOUSY.

A favourite ploy of The Melodrama is THE LOVE TRIANGLE (see my icon for Essence of Melodrama). And in order to proliferate the triangle's possibilities, it seems that these days gender limits just fly out of the window. Because how much more delicious is the triangle when it's boy/girl, boy/boy, girl/boy -- and these soaps have girl/girl action as well. Insatiable, as I said.

Also note some scrumptious Melodrama dialogue:

"But ever since you walked into my life and turned everything upside down... you... with your face..." *angst ensues, and kissing* (Sülo)

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"So what was sex like with your hot one night-stand?"

"He kisses beautifully. And he's so tender. And understands what I want to say before I say it." *jealousy ensues* (Oliver)

Sex is about 'kissing beautifully' and being 'tender'?? Oh, *hearts*.

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"It's not because I'm a coward but... but because I desire him!" *said with much weeping and hair-tearing* (Sülo)

It's customary in these situation to *point fingers* at the evol temptress wot lured one in but I'm going to say: Thank you, thelana!!

*cackles in deranged fashion*

*is fourteen*

Literally.

Because it's at age 14 that I penned my first melodramatic slash story. I just didn't know it was a genre yet, is all. *digs around in attic in hope of finding said gem*

Comments

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Tom. That nose and actually all of him. Just sooo not my type for teh pretty. Of course, Ulli is almost too pretty but yes.

And seriously? Woot. That's like - erh, forgot the name but the actor who plays Michael on Queer as Folk liked to be vocal like that, too. maybe he still is? No idea as I'm no longer in that fandom.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, Ulli, looking like the twinkiest twink who ever twinked. :)

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Perfect description of him with the bambi look. heh.