Slashy Awards 142: Let Us Wear Theirs and They Our Clothes, and What Is the Difference?

[thefourthvine]

My other choice for the title today was "Dress You up in My Love." Aren't we all glad I went with the slightly higher-brow option? Well. I mean. I've probably already used the other one, anyway.

Today: clothes. And not just any clothes, but clothes that are, from a cultural standpoint, inappropriate. So I guess my other alternate title could've

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[thefourthvine]

Ooo. I read those, but a long, long time ago (well, in fan years, anyway), and I had totally forgotten about them until now. Thank you for reminding me.

(And can I just say how much I love that the first story starts out with Tim already a girl? Because the DCU means never having to explain the crack; I mean, you really can't get crackier than the canon itself.)

[laughingacademy]

Just be grateful I didn't share the story about the guy who gave me a ring I atched him find in the trash - shoved it onto my finger, actually - and then asked me to marry him.

*gapes*

Dear lord.

Also, I now have the chorus of “Dress You Up in My Love” on a loop in my head, so thanks for that.

[thefourthvine]

Yeah. Really not kidding about the fine quality of persons I dated in my youth. "What was I thinking?" pretty much perfectly sums up The Life of TFV, aged 12 - 17.

*looks back in - well, unbridled nausea, in many cases*

Also, I now have the chorus of “Dress You Up in My Love” on a loop in my head, so thanks for that.

*hums along in an irritating fashion, occasionally bursting into the kind of singing people do when they don't really know all the words*

[derryderrydown]

I always beam madly when you rec one of my stories. *g*

A Form of Confession was actually co-written with Prop, notpoetry, so could you possibly amend it? Thanks!

[notpoetry]

Gracias! *beams* And that's one of my favorite stories we've written together -- so freakin' twisted, but omg porn.

/shallow!

[thefourthvine]

so freakin' twisted, but omg porn.

Very true. Actually, come to think of it, that pretty much sums up everything I love about the DCU. (Twisted, tortured souls in spandex!)

And, um, sorry for leaving you off there. Fixed now!

[notpoetry]

No worries, thanks for fixing it! *g*

[petronelle]

In case anyone's wondering, the piece of canon where Tim crossdresses is here, and a charming young lady he is.

My favorite DC crossdressing canon is still this series of daily comics from 1946, in which Batman really has no choice but to force Robin to dress up as Marie Antoinette, even though Robin would rather be the Little Red Riding Hood to his Big Bad Wolf.

[thefourthvine]

Ooo, thank you for the link. (Especially since I wanted to show those pages to Best Beloved, who did not believe that Tim had canonically crossdressed for justice.)

The Dick Greyson bout of crossdressing, though, is just...very, very disturbing. I love how it's the first thing that comes to Batman's mind. Because of course if you need a date the first thing that occurs to you is to dress up your teenaged ward as Marie Antoinette. I'd've done the same.

I think anyone would, really.

[theodosia]

Scrubs really did have a musical episode, maybe two years ago? The guy who plays The Janitor turns out to be a really good singer, BTW.