Ah, people. Failing since evolution began.

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1. The word of the day is clusterfuckiest. Trufax.

2. I'm a big fan of the part where a summer camp that rented a pool in north PhillY for $1900 were told they weren't welcome, because they changed the complextion of the pool. Keep it classy, racist assholes!

3. If I think too hard about the confirmation hearings, I might stroke out, so...

4. YAY, Leverage premieres tonight!

5. And Matt Damon is going to be on Entourage! So, that means that Matt and Ari are going to be hanging out. And I didn't even have to write it! Yeah, I know, who's the man? All they need now is RDJ... you know since I write it and it happens. Excuse me, I have to go write myself winning ten million dollars. BRB.

6. Ryan Gosling is releasing his album in October. I WANT IT NOW.

6a. Anybody got the new Regina Spektor album (Far) that they wanna share with the class.

7. An Offer: Anybody who wants to come over here and give me a photo prompt that maybe might result in some drabble porn to make the masses happy is more than welcome.

If you just want to picspam the pretty to you know, help the general mood, that's awesome too. In fact, feel free to come and post photos and write your own porn too! But it's gotta be a photo. And SFW. It can be a party!

Mostly I'm just trying to make romanticalgirl smile, so help a sister do a good deed.

Comments

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

I notice your Brad is in a bottoming mood. Why is that?

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[amberlynne.livejournal.com]

Because he knows it's FUCKING HOT? And because he cares.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, but normally he's all, 'Nate's ass is MINE' so I was just asking!

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Doesn't mean it's not. But there are all sort of interpretations to such a thought. *pokes A* You started it.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Would *you* turn down the chance to get fucked by Nate Fick? More importantly -- position does not matter. Getting off? That matters. It's not as though, they're not able to switch things around.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

Of course not, but my point is more that Brad seems to have a tendency to be all, 'I am going to fucking defile your ass' and it usually ends up with Nate on the bottom. I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH EITHER SCENARIO. Just curious if this was a new thing for Brad or if I haven't been paying attention.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Maybe in other's people stuff. I think you'll find in my stories that Nate likes to assert himself. Brad may be more vocal about what he wants, but Nate's right in there making his case.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

Dude, you can top from the bottom. As Nate does. And of course Nate likes to assert himself, he's a badass.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Which then begs the question, why do you think Brad just wouldn't want to bottom all the time. Or that Nate would even want to bottom. He may have very strong feelings about not getting fucked.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

Shit, I wrote someone a whole long thinky e-mail about power dynamics and appearances and self-esteem (<---that's totally L's fault)...I think I need to find that.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[romanticalgirl.livejournal.com]

Why is everything *my* fault?

::pouts::

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

Because you make A cry! With everyone leaving Brad and Brad not thinking he's the awesomest that ever did awesome and, y'know, all that.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[romanticalgirl.livejournal.com]

I give them happy endings! And porn! That has to count for something.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Yes, but you make them suffer hardcore, baby. I have a nickname for you, Marchioness de Sade.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

So. It's a self-esteem thing now? Real men don't get fucked? *raises an eyebrow* I don't think that gives them very much credit.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, taking it up the ass makes you less of a man. Totally. ::nods::

Obviously *I* don't believe that, but a lot of guys seem to think so. And you're the one who's always going on about boy-thinking! I'm just saying.

Found the e-mail (which was specifically wrt the very beginning of a relationship between Brad/Nate):

I actually have trouble seeing Nate topping at times. And Brad bottoming, too. Because while Nate's a badass and hardly effeminate, he is very aware of power dynamics. He takes his responsibility for his men very seriously. He's in a position of authority; there's no way around that. And this is the reason fraternization isn't allowed (ignoring the issue of homosexuality). Nate has both legal and moral authority over Brad. Adding a relationship into that dynamic introduces all sorts of potential issues (from abusing one's authority to clouding one's judgment), so the fact that Nate does have a thing with Brad goes against his better judgment...but at the same time, he can't stay away, so he's kinda fucked no matter where he turns. In my head I can understand him being reticent to fuck Brad to avoid even the perception of the abuse of authority. Not that anyone's looking, but hell, Nate's conflicted. We were all shocked to hear.

But because Brad is Brad, I don't think this comes up as an issue, at least, not at first. Brad's whole identity is based on not showing weakness in front of the pack. He's the alpha male of Bravo Company. Hell, he's the supreme alpha male above all the other alpha males. His reputation, even identity, is based on being the baddest badass that ever did badass. He doesn't bow down before anyone.

RL!Kocher once said something interesting (it might've been in the making of) where he likens the officers as renters and the NCOs as owners of recon. Officers come and go, but the senior NCOs - the Sergeants - they're really the guys who run the show. It makes sense since recon generally operates on the team level, where Brad would be the highest ranking guy in the field. Given that, submission to/respect for officers is mostly a formality. Certain officers who prove themselves, like Nate and Patterson, are worthy of real respect, but the rest is just for show (and to avoid punishment). We saw that with all the officer-bashing in the mini.

I digress to make a point. I think he'd have an issue bending over for Nate, I do. I think it would seem to him like he was showing weakness, that he was willingly submitting to another, which goes against the code by which he lives. Now, do I think this is conscious? Probably not, at least not at first and especially not in the heat of getting Nate naked. But I think it plays out in how they react once they are naked. I think Brad's assumption is that he'll be fucking Nate; the reverse doesn't even occur.

Brad's self-esteem issues also contribute to this, in my mind. Nate's completely secure in who he is; I don't think he'd connect bottoming with showing weakness/being submissive/being judged negatively by others. Brad, otoh, is a little less secure. I think it'd take a while before he was comfortable enough for those things not to be a concern.

Does that mean it's impossible for Brad to bottom? No. Hell, I wrote a whole story about just this. I think once Brad consciously thinks about it and puts it in the context of Nate, whom he trusts and respects, it'll be less of an instinctual belief that he'll be fucking Nate.

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The self-esteem thing comes from L and I discussing why the boys would never have a threesome with another guy. Akin to, everyone leaves Brad, what, is he not good enough? And then L makes me want to cry.

And I remember why Brad bottoming raised an eyebrow! In fat, I think we've had this discussion before. Even YOU wrote that one rilly hot story where Nate had to work to get Brad to bottom.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Obviously *I* don't believe that, but a lot of guys seem to think so. And you're the one who's always going on about boy-thinking! I'm just saying.

I was poking you because I didn't think you believed that, but you know, it was implied in the sentence. That worried me. Then again, we have no sarcasm font and I've been here since 7:30 this morning and am only getting to eat at 3pm, so please excuse anything that might be construed as me getting pissy. I'm a little irritable at the moment, Now, as to this...

In my head I can understand him being reticent to fuck Brad to avoid even the perception of the abuse of authority. Not that anyone's looking, but hell, Nate's conflicted. We were all shocked to hear.

You make some excellent points and this bit in particular pinged me, because now I want to write about Brad trying to convince Nate to fuck him and Nate being all, no, it wouldn't be proper and Brad would be all, yeah, okay, gay sex, with superior, in the military, are you really trying to pull THAT card. REALLY?

And I love the Kocher remark b/c I got to take it a step up and think that the NCOs are the owners of the rent controlled building. The officers are the tennants, and the landlord is the military only in this case the landlord is making all the decision and not the owners!


Now, do I think this is conscious? Probably not, at least not at first and especially not in the heat of getting Nate naked. But I think it plays out in how they react once they are naked. I think Brad's assumption is that he'll be fucking Nate; the reverse doesn't even occur.

I think this would be a pretty spectacular thing to see, because I can almost see them both going into this thinking they're going to be on top (yes, it goes against the above, but let's face it, that's a shoddy arguement when lined up with all the other things Nate's breaking -- ths is not to say that Nate wouldn't hold on to it like a high school trying to lose his virginity on prom night -- but. Wait, I just have to give myself props because that was an awesome simile. Anyroad, where was I? Ah yes, the tussle once the clothes come off and they're rolling around and for a minute I think things go from playful to a little violent when Brad realizes things aren't quite going the way he thought. I can see his wide eyed expression when Nate has him pinned to the bed, not physically restrainign him, but Brad's legs around Nate's waist or maybe just the way that Nate's physically on top, griding against him taking what he wants, and the way Nate's face shifts as he relizes what's going on in Brad's head. And then there's that decision to do it this way to get what he wants,

I am very interested in this Brad self-esteem thing. I would love to see that one explored a little bit, possibly by me, but I'm not sure I'll have the time.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

Jumping in to offer my two cents that I could read a Brad-that-likes-getting-anally-penetrated-regardless-of-d/s-implications pretty easily. Mostly because of his totally open and unapologetic love of a good shit. He seems like someone who's very in touch w/ his own ass. Not that fetishizing the taking of a good shit necessarily leads to enjoying a dick up the ass, but he's so terribly matter of fact about that use of his ass that it's not a stretch at all for me to see him enjoying getting assfucked - with the right person, of course.

Obviously the relationship with the LT, professionally, complicates that, and I could *totally* see a Brad (and particularly a Nate) where who penetrates who is uber-fraught w/ meaning (and like it, and write it). But.

Something about his matter of factness about his love of a good shit makes me think that - if he'd already been introduced to the pleasures of getting penetrated anally - he'd see it as no more intrinsically submissive (or at least, no more indicitive of "so then I'm the bitch in this relationship") than sucking dick. He's not dumb enough to be unaware of the implications in general, or that his partner might have issues with it, but I feel like he'd be like "A: I get off on it, B: if I expect you to take it up the ass, and I do, I'd be a hypocrite to deny you the same and C: I'm not bending over for you. I don't bend over for anyone. I'm throwing you on the ground and riding your cock, using one hand to jack myself off, using the other to smother the screams of ecstasy I'll make you make, removing it only to shoot so hard I miss your chest entirely and splatter that slutty fucking pricktease mouth of yours. Or just ride you hard till you come, then suck you hard again while I fingerfuck you open enough to cram my cock inside you.

Which is not to say I don't see hung-up-on-taking-it Brad as working. But he reads to me as slightly more... secure enough in his alphaness that - if he's going to be in a relationship of equals w/ someone he respects, like Nate - he's not going to take taking it as anything intrinsically submissive or indicative of being the bitch if the other person isn't. And if the other person is, he's not someone Brad wants to be fucking.

I also kind of see Brad as the kind of person where, even when he does bottomy actions, he does it in a really toppy way.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

WHAT SHE SAID. *nods a lot*

I suppose I should not be surprised that K could bring this though, since this is the chick that had people drinking out of toilet bowls and made me think it was insanely hot.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

Even the thought of that story still just breaks something in my brain.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Inorite!

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

*g* You have no idea how glad I am that that got the hoped for response, instead of a *backing away slowly now*.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I am open-minded. I can be convinced of a lot of things when written by the right person. ;-)

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

You're reading my mind; I literally JUST replied to your comment asking if you'd read the bottoming thread.

For some reason I've never taken Brad's liking of a good shit as...literally as others, I guess. I always interpreted it with a deeper meaning. Yes, he appreciates shitting, and is all about being combat effective, but I figured he appreciates what it means more. Which is - the basic comforts of home, regularity, normalcy. Those are the things he doesn't get in theater.

I've always figured he thought of it as an act and a symbol. And the symbolism was more important.

Which is a complete digression.

I don't have a problem with Brad bottoming; I certainly don't think he'd swear off certain sexual practices entirely. But in the beginning...yeah, I could see that. Where they're establishing how they're going to be around each other. Which is possibly giving them too much credit since in the beginning it's just gonna be loads of rilly hot sex, anyway.

I don't bend over for anyone. I'm throwing you on the ground and riding your cock, using one hand to jack myself off, using the other to smother the screams of ecstasy I'll make you make, removing it only to shoot so hard I miss your chest entirely and splatter that slutty fucking pricktease mouth of yours. Or just ride you hard till you come, then suck you hard again while I fingerfuck you open enough to cram my cock inside you.

Heh. Well, that certainly sounds like Brad.

Re: boys being totally innocent and hard-working and above-board

[logans-mom00.livejournal.com]

Ok, that is the sexiest not-deliberately-porn thing I have ever read. I'm throwing you on the ground... Yes, please! How much do I love this fandom, where the character analysis can get as hot as the fiction? Lots and lots and lots and....