Catching up on fannish things...

Watchmen
Yesterday I finished reading Watchmen in one go and I'm still overwhelmed by this graphic novel. I'll definitely buy this book as I'm quite sure I'll want to read it again. I can see how existentialism, the thought of that age, has affected it. I just wish I could fully feel the Cold War angst that's so fundamental to it - but I was too young in the 80s to have a lasting memory of what it must be like to have a nuclear war looming just over the horizon.

It's a pity only the IMAX version will be uncut. The only screening I can go to on weekdays is 9:30 pm but it'll be close to 12:30 am when it finishes and the IMAX cinema is over an hour away from my home :(

Supernatural RPS
Why did I wait so many years to dip into the SPN RPS fics? And why do I have hang-ups about AU fics again? It's amazing there are so many talented people in the SPN fandom. Not only are the meta great. There are some really great fics too. And in some really unexpected forms no less - like, housecat!Jared/hamster!Jensen slash. Never have interspecies(, non-human) love feel so hot and cute!

ETA: Watchmen is yet another wonderful thing that SPN has led me to try out. But for Jeffrey Dean Morgan, I'd never have read the graphic novel no matter how much the fanboys love it (I still haven't watched Ironman) as I've always been suspicious of what fanboys like.
 

Welcome Home, Bobby

I was about to give up on this TV movie but then I saw Bobby (a highschooler) met this slick businessman in the city, started an unlikely friendship despite their age difference, oblivious to how the man was attracted to him, the man confessing his love and offering to remain just friends if Bobby wants, they lived together as something like friends with benefits... It was just too much like Clex for me to turn away. And it helped me to really visualise what Clark and Lex's friendship will look like if a real 15-year-old was cast for the Clark role. It's real bummer, though, that the TV movie made the city guy to be a pedophile in the end. To be honest, I don't believe a real pedo would have so much acceptance from ordinary gay men as to have them (all presumably not pedo, except for that star athelete) around for dinner, for instance.