The awesome Toshiko Sato

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A QUESTION FOR MY TORCHWOOD PALS REGARDING TOSH IN GREEKS BEARING GIFTS

[Poll #1439526]


The reason I ask is because I am reasonably familiar with old skool lesbian pulp fiction novels (umm... here, have a brief introduction), the gist of which is usually something along the lines of an innocent girl being Tempted Into Lesbian Experimentation by an Evil Lesbian, 100+ pages of reasonably tame sex ensue until finally the innocent girl is rescued from the Evils of Sapphic Desire by a Manly Man who Forgives her her Disgusting Aberration and maybe even decides to touch her down there if the thought of it doesn't gross him out him too much. The End. Anyway, that's what Greeks Bearing Gifts was to me, a lesbian pulp novel. And I wonder if one has to be familiar with the genre in order to see it that way, or if it struck more people just generally as kind of a squicky storyline. Feel free to comment and let me know.

Comments

[hanuueshe.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the writers were more or less writing along the lines of louiex's answers, and not really aware of any sort of lesbian negative subtext presented there. I've got her labelled in my head as bi for my own peace of mind, so as far as the Tosh that I write is, that's what she calls herself. I'm not too sure about canon!Tosh. If you take it as a one-time "yeilding to temptation" thing, it is squicky.