file under: I Want One

[nenya_kanadka]

First of all, Happy First Contact Day! Only forty-six more years until the Vulcans land in Montana! :D

Today would also have been Gregory Peck's 101st birthday. In honour of which, please have some screenshots of him as a young, ridiculously pretty priest, kneeling down and kissing his mentor's hand.









All from The Keys To The Kingdom, 1944. The one where he's looking up all puppy-dog-eyed like, "Please approve of me!" (which is pretty much the context) is doing things to me. (Peck in a 1987 interview: "I hadn’t learned how to relax and how to concentrate. All I had was sincerity." HELP)

File under: Oh, The Things I Would Do To That Man, subcategory: Please, Santa, I'll Be So Good.

And, you know, it's not that I find either the Pope or John Gielgud attractive in any way, but Peck does it again in The Scarlet & The Black (1983) (also one of my favourite movies ever):







The hair-petting, argh! The fact that this scene is a small moment of personal approval from someone the character respects, after a whole movie of incredible, inconspicuous bravery and self-sacrifice!

File under: I Don't Have A Fealty/Praise Kink, YOU DO


(According to Wikipedia, in real life Gregory Peck was also outspoken against the House Un-American Activities Committee and was a faithful Catholic who disagreed with the church about contraception and abortion. While having excellent taste in women and an almost 50-year-long marriage. I'm fond.)

Comments

[kore]

ALL MUST LOVE PECK AND DESPAIR.

[muccamukk]

It is technically all NASA's fault, you know.

[kore]

omg don't hit me with the McGann icon when I've already been Gregory Pecked

[muccamukk]

I HAVE NOT BEGUN TO McGANN!

[nenya_kanadka]

have lost ability to can

[kore]

I would reply but my brain melted

[nenya_kanadka]

He just wants to be loved! <3

[muccamukk]

Just remember, he thinks hatred is his due! Because he is terrible.

[nenya_kanadka]

I think he mostly thinks he's terribly incompetent and therefore a bad priest. So he completely accepts people judging the shit out of him. But he really just wants to be loved!

(And ofc the things he thinks make him a failure are the ones that make him such a lovely person!)

I don't even have an icon to express these feels. ❤❤❤

[muccamukk]

Your icon, tho.

Who's down for Phryne Fisher Climbs Every Character Played by Gregory Peck Like a Palm Tree: The Movie?

Please, Santa, I'll Be So Good.

I doubt that.

[gaslightgallows]

Who's down for Phryne Fisher Climbs Every Character Played by Gregory Peck Like a Palm Tree: The Movie?

Meeeeeeeeee ME ME ME ME ME ME!

[muccamukk]

This is where all his WWII movies come to sudden advantage. She can either bang his WWII characters when she's older, or get them when they're young and bambi-like.

[gaslightgallows]

Oh, how to choose... hmmmmmm...

[nenya_kanadka]

I also approve of this plan and am delighted to see that you and Mucca have taken my late-night choice of Phryne icon (I'd gotten as far as "Phryne would appreciate a pretty man too" but no further) and run with it. <3<3<3

[nenya_kanadka]

Please, Santa, I'll Be So Good.

I doubt that.

It's like Lent for agnostics. (Instead of giving things up, I'll write fic? And possibly steal that icon because goddamn.)

[muccamukk]

I'm worried that you have Santa wrapped up in your ideas of Lent, lol.

[gaslightgallows]

This is an evil post. ...It is also a good post.

...You see my dilemma. >:D

[muccamukk]

Nenya had just gotten up, and I played first capped scene for her without any kind of content warning, and she said, "Good LORD!" and then was speechless for several minutes.

[gaslightgallows]

That is a heck of a scene to spring on someone, first thing in the morning. Not that I've been gazing lovingly at those caps for the past few days or anything...

[rivendellrose]

Glad I'm not the only one keeping a countdown in my head of how long we have until the Vulcans finally show up and we start to get our butts into gear.

Come on, world. Vulcans in 46 years. We've gotta start cleaning up our act, damn it.

File under: I Don't Have A Fealty/Praise Kink, YOU DO

...Whoops, yeah, there's another kink I hadn't ever quite put words to. XD

[nenya_kanadka]

But of course! They can't give a historical date like that that's likely to be in some of their viewers' lives (I will be 83, but both my grandmas have seen 83) and not expect people to count down!

...Whoops, yeah, there's another kink I hadn't ever quite put words to. XD

Hee! Yes. "Fealty" is the word that kept coming up when I tried (and failed!) to search for hand-kissing + kneeling on AO3. Along with "loyalty kink" which is a name I already know, but can encompass other kinds of loyalty. And apparently I'm all about the praise kink when it's coming from a respected superior to someone who's done a very good job in an earnest, non-egotistical way. IDK man. Feels. Right in the solar plexus.

<3

....also I REALLY need to find out where the hidden stash of hand-kissing knight/lady (or /lord) fic is, because I know there must be some! Maybe people just aren't tagging for it? *grumble grumble*

[st_aurafina]

All this hand kissing and head bowing is doing things to me. O.O

[nenya_kanadka]

Right? Right??

*sighs* Sometimes fiction gets it right. 😍

[garrideb]

As someone who also has a fealty/praise kink, THIS IS LOVELY. Thank you for sharing!

[nenya_kanadka]

Have just come back to re-perv my own post, and realized I'd never replied to you. :D I AM PLEASED, WELCOME ABOARD!

lol <3