In honour of the fact that mephron offered to apply to play Egon Spengler at Milliways, I did some screencapping from the "Xmas Marks The Spot" episode of the Real Ghostbusters. Bases behind the cut. Mostly Egon. Four Peters.
George Manville Fenn (http://www.athelstane.co.uk/gmanfenn/index.htm) was a Victorian-era author who wrote adventure stories for boys, with lots of manly hand-holding and kissing of unconscious friends. daegaer was inspired by him to write "A Walk In The Karakorum" (http://daegaer.rulesthe.net/karakorum/index.php) and "On Her Majesty's Martian Service" (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=derien&keyword=daegaer+fic+-+OHMMS&filter=all), the first of which is a sequel to his "Fix Bay'nets!" (which is unfortunately not yet available on the Athelstane site I linked above) and the second of which is a Jules Verne-ish Alternate Universe of same.
Oh! I ran across people talking about his stuff a lot this past year, but I never caught the author's name. I believe it got referred to as Extremely Manly Fiction, or something like that.
Yup, I think Daegaer started a fad. I actually read one, and I think GMF is not as good a writer as she is. :) (I do think it's ironic, though, that his middle name is Manville.) Apparently there was a bit of a fad back in Victorian and Edwardian times of writing stories where schoolboys (and girls) do a lot of being really attached to friends of the same sex, and get physical about it to an extraordinary degree, without apparently realizing there's anything possible odd about what they're doing. I ran across a mention in the book about gay history that I was reading a few months back of a review done in Victorian times of one of these purported kids books where the reviewer was complaining about the suspiciously feminine behavior of these manly boys, so apparently it wasn't just normal behavior for the time.
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Date: 2005-12-04 09:09 pm (UTC)Um... sorry, got pretty verbose there, didn't I.