It all makes me wonder if Dumas could've made it so eminently interpretable all by accident, or if he meant to put in all that innuendo.
I'm never entirely sure either. I'm almost certain it has to unintentional, but... but... There's just so much of it. And the continual descriptions of Aramis and his girly girly OMGgirly! beauty don't help.
19th century novels are some of the best slash fodder ever penned. I'm sure most of those men and women swearing eternal devotion and clasping one another to their bosoms are doing so in a completely platonic fashion, but you occasionally have to wonder if the writers ever really thought about what they were writing. Then again, people in Dumas' time also wrote floridly romantic letters to friends of the same gender and never seemed to think twice about it. To quote somebody else on lj whose name I'm blanking on, "Curtain fic has no schmoop like a Victorian man talking about his 'particular friend.'"
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I'm never entirely sure either. I'm almost certain it has to unintentional, but... but... There's just so much of it. And the continual descriptions of Aramis and his girly girly OMGgirly! beauty don't help.
19th century novels are some of the best slash fodder ever penned. I'm sure most of those men and women swearing eternal devotion and clasping one another to their bosoms are doing so in a completely platonic fashion, but you occasionally have to wonder if the writers ever really thought about what they were writing. Then again, people in Dumas' time also wrote floridly romantic letters to friends of the same gender and never seemed to think twice about it. To quote somebody else on lj whose name I'm blanking on, "Curtain fic has no schmoop like a Victorian man talking about his 'particular friend.'"