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miss maggie ([personal profile] bossymarmalade) wrote2004-04-15 07:10 pm

those inscrutable americans. what are they up to now?

On my winamp, there is apparently an option to watch internet television. I am now blissfully luxuriating in a steady stream of commercials from the 50's, for Cracker Jack and Maypo and Butter-Nut coffee. But the best one so far has been the Jell-o commercial about a "little Chinese baby" who was served Jell-o, but then couldn't eat it because he couldn't pick it up with his chopsticks -- until his mother gave him "great Western invention", a spoon. All narrated in a "Chinese" accent, which meant a lot of talking about raspbelly and chelly and glape and olange. Oh yes indeed.

[identity profile] chrismm.livejournal.com 2004-04-15 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, yes. The fifties, a period of great enlightenment. *rolls eyes* Though they did make cool dresses, and fun dishwear. But really. Is that a good enough reason to go back? I don't think so.
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[identity profile] bossymarmalade.livejournal.com 2004-04-15 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Watching these commercials is so much fun! Although I am *terribly* glad that things are such that I can afford to watch the hideous stereotyping with fond indulgent amusement from my perch of 2004 sensibilities. *g*

[identity profile] chrismm.livejournal.com 2004-04-16 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. *grin* Fun to watch, not so fun to live. I'm just concerned because it seems like the Bushes et al would love for us to go back there (as opposed to pointing and mocking from here), and actually have that as a goal. Euw.

[identity profile] carta.livejournal.com 2004-04-15 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Reminds me of the commercials from the 1970's where the guy would take his dirty laundry to the laundromat - which was run by Chinese, and they would say their detergent was an "Ancient Chinese Secret!" in this horrible accent, when in reality it was Tide. Or something like that.
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[identity profile] bossymarmalade.livejournal.com 2004-04-15 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohhhh, dear. Thank goodness that kind of thing is no longer acceptable; now all we gotta do is get rid of the commercials that blatantly objectify women, and we'll be set! *g*

[identity profile] evilprettykitty.livejournal.com 2004-04-16 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Dude, that commercial was on FAAAAAAAAAAR into the 80's. It was for calgon, which always confused me because I didn't realize at the time that they made more than bubble bath.
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[personal profile] copracat 2004-04-15 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"great Western invention", a spoon

Good thing no-one thinks ludicrous things like that anymore, hey?
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[identity profile] bossymarmalade.livejournal.com 2004-04-17 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. Good thing indeed. People are so informed and even-handed now!

*giggle*

It's like Buckwheat in a headlock

[identity profile] chootoy.livejournal.com 2004-04-15 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
raspbelly and chelly and glape and olange

Oh dear. That's just not right. Not right!
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Re: It's like Buckwheat in a headlock

[identity profile] bossymarmalade.livejournal.com 2004-04-17 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
So not right at all. Seeing what used to be acceptable is sometimes really mind-boggling, yo.
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[personal profile] cynjen 2004-04-16 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
band-aid plastic strips - flesh-coloured, almost invisible!

Would that be flesh-coloured for slighty orangey-pink-coloured people, by any chance? I'm white and those things are never my skin tone, so there's not a hope in hell for anyone with any other colour skin...
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[identity profile] bossymarmalade.livejournal.com 2004-04-17 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
ahahaha! I never saw a band-aid that blended into somebody's skin, now that you mention it. I thought that was because I have dark skin, but I guess they're just equal-opportunity unnaturalness. *g*

[identity profile] indirajames.livejournal.com 2004-04-16 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Heeey, I got your card! It's so fucking cute, I love it. Thank you! You're so sweet.
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[identity profile] bossymarmalade.livejournal.com 2004-04-17 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
awwww. You're welcome! I'm very glad that you liked it, dumpling. *mwah*
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[personal profile] isilya 2004-04-17 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
You probably don't remember, but I owe you a ficlet from waaaaay back. Finally, I come through!

The brief was Justin/Justin, and this is totally riffing on your scarily fabulous SpiderJustin story.


This is my lung, here on the floor.

---

Chris has been feeling a little odd for a few days, wandering around his house feeling like something is missing. He checks his pockets for his keys constantly, opens up his office and stares at the gold records there -- Congratulations *NSYN!, and Joey, Justin, Lance and Chris -- Triple Platinum! ,making him feel a little edgy.

He leaves messages on Lance's cell and turns up at Justin's door with a pizza and bottle of vodka. Justin smiles when he opens the door and Chris forgets to ask him if he's feeling okay.

They sit in the living room and pick at the pizza and play cards.

Justin holds the vodka in his left hand, shuffling his cards with his right. Chris leans back a little, trying to see Justin's cards and Justin swings at him. Vodka puddles on the floor as Chris raises his fingers to his forehead and feels blood.

Justin's eyes are wide for a moment before he grins and gets to his feet lightly.

"Here," he says, pressing an old t-shirt to Chris's head. "Try not to bleed on my carpet."

Chris's head throbs and he tests his tongue against his teeth, sure he bit it off. Justin squats down in front of him and pulls back the t-shirt a little to look at the cut. The vodka is spilling out onto the carpet.

Justin is so close Chris can feel his breath on the edges of the cut. It stings a little and he flinches back. Justin reaches out and taps Chris's nose with one long finger. Chris goes cross-eyed.

Justin is almost folded in half, watching Chris. His knees are too long, his finger -- waving in front of Chris's eyes -- is too long. The angles of his face are all wrong.

"That's what happens to cheaters," Justin leans in to whisper in Chris's ear. "You should be careful."

Chris shudders as he feels Justin's tongue in his ear. It flickers and is gone, like it might be burrowing down into Chris, buzzing into him like a lost mosquito. He twitches, paws at his ear, wanting to rip it off and run and wash himself.

Instead he lets Justin push him down to the floor. His eyes slide shut, he feels Justin's eyelashes fluttering against his breast bone, hovering above his madly beating heart like a nest of infant spiders. He opens his mouth to Justin's thumb, bites until he can taste something liquid and oily.

It tastes like raw sewerage pouring down his throat and he suckles greedily. He opens his eyes and sees himself in the reflection from the TV screen. He blinks but the image remains the same; Justin spread-eagled on the floor, and another Justin, crouching over him and feeding delicately from his throat.

Chris closes his eyes again. Justin catches him around the waist and rolls them over and over and Chris finds himself clasped close, swathed in something sticky.

Chris feels his skin start to stretch and yield as Justin wriggles inside him. Justin pushes at him, blunt nudges of nose against neck, elbow against chest. Justin's thigh slips inside his thigh with a little effort and Chris hears Justin grunt, shockingly loud, inside his lungs. He wrestles for a moment, trying to keep his own breath, fighting the rise and fall Justin is setting. His mouth snaps open and he tries to scream, to bite, to claw in air. But Justin's tongue snakes inside his mouth instead and he forgets that he was ever trying to breathe.

****

Justin glares at himself.

"Will you let me talk!" he snaps.

Justin rolls his eyes. "Sorry," he mutters.

****

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[identity profile] bossymarmalade.livejournal.com 2004-04-21 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
ooooooh! And also, EEEEEEE! I'm so thrilled!

Justin is almost folded in half, watching Chris. His knees are too long, his finger -- waving in front of Chris's eyes -- is too long. The angles of his face are all wrong.

"That's what happens to cheaters," Justin leans in to whisper in Chris's ear. "You should be careful."


mmmm. You manage, somehow, to convey the intimacy, the sexiness of this as well as the extreme *wrongness* all at once. I love the next bit about the mosquito, about Chris wanting to run off and wash himself, but he doesn't move, he just stays right there. That says so much about how *caught* he is.

It tastes like raw sewerage pouring down his throat and he suckles greedily

ugh. and *yes*, because Chris can't resist; he's aware of the badness but he needs it anyway. And again, you write it in such an erotic, appealing way that I don't question why Chris would want this; it makes perfect sense to me.

Justin pushes at him, blunt nudges of nose against neck, elbow against chest

This last part is so strange and visceral and brutal, Justin grunting and gasping *inside* Chris, and urk. Gives me the shivers.

The whole thing is full of dread and desire and that's a damn hard balance to keep, but you seem to do it effortlessly and the result is entrancing. Thank you so much for this, honey! It's utterly delicious. In a horrible, terrifying way. *g*
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[personal profile] isilya 2004-05-06 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
Dude, I'm sorry it's taken so long to get to this -- I'm going to use the old excuse of missing the lj comment because my email filters got messed up, but it's true!

Hah, I'm so pleased you liked the little story, which, let's be honest here, doesn't even approach your level of sinister sexy creepiness in the spider story.

I pay homage, I can never be.

not at all related but...

[identity profile] remainthesame.livejournal.com 2004-04-17 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
I just got your card and thank you! You=fabulous!!! :-)