Sir, Butler and Boy ~ For Starters ~ Page 11
Roses are such a yaoi cliche, but victorian rose gardens are a genuine thing and they’re not just appearing from magical yaoi air.
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Ahhh but the rose gardens only became such a trope because for some reason a lot of those stories are set in a psuedo-Victorian-esque age… or at least the one we are all probably thinking of is…
I clearly need to brush up on my yaoi- I’m thinking of Gerard & Jacques?
Well I was thinking of Teahouse for trashy Yaoi full of bad stereotypes.
But it was so pretty!
Yes, it was indeed very pretty and shiny, so much that I was willing to suffer through the bad writing and terrible characters until they completely flubbed the whole thing.
So much disappoint.
But Linny! He is so great :-)
I liked Teahouse, but even if you didn’t, it’s over now and trashing it in the comments of an unrelated comic seems kind of unnecessarily mean-spirited.
It’s a bit more difficult to pin down than that. Possibly, it’s because erotic woodblock prints, which were not just portraying straight couples, were popular in actual Victorian times (though most Japan was not particularly familiar with the West then). Or maybe because the ‘ero-guro-nonsensu’ (erotic, gross, and/or nonsense) genre in which homosexuality in literature regained public acceptance also contained a lot of (translated) British crime novels, which were usually set in Victorian times, so maybe they became associated somehow. My bet is on the second one, personally, because of British Victorians and their roses of love.
I feel like grabbing all those roses and yelling “GO-JASU!” in a Japanese accent *-*
Young, upstanding, blushing like a virgin bride boy
Heh. John in panel 3 has that “So you’re finally gonna ask” look about him, covered up by a very unsuspecting innocent expression. He was totally waiting for this.
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I’m just trying to figure out where the ‘tap tap tap’ sounds are coming from. His coat is not made of wood, is it?
Leather can make a pretty loud sound since it’s so stuff, so maybe that’s it?
He may well have tapped the door frame and then moved past it?
I think he may be goiong down some stairs. Well, that’s how I read it anyway.
I think he’s just tapping his arm restlessly?
I think you may be right. I didn’t really realize that he’s looking off to the side. He looks pretty nervous, which I guess is pretty understandable.
Yep, it’s a jittery arm tap!
And I always read his “Jefferson will not tell me about your games.” statement in a petulant voice, as though he’s impatient for the information and on the verge of being Quite Upset.
“join in”
James’s hair has a life of its own in this page. The part in it switches from the right side of his head to the left side by the time we get a close-up of his face. LOL
(BTW, I used to go by A. Just uncomfortable using my real initial and primary email addy with online comics but it took me a while to figure out just what to do.)
Haha I never said I was consistent :P
(And hello commenter previously known as A!)
I love how different the dynamic is here. Reminds me a bit of a parental thing, like when a child asks one parent about something then, unsatisfied with the response, goes running to the other.
Ha- time to go ask Daddy?