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Do you or any other followers still around have any book or other media recommendations that have a similar feel/similar characters to the series? Thank you!

I think i’ve answered an ask like this before with this suggestion, but I cannot recommend Good Omens by Gaiman and Pratchett highly enough, especially since it is now being made in to a miniseries. It’s a supernatural buddy cop kind of set up, in part, about an angel and a demon trying to stop the apocalypse.

In terms of pseudo-medieval fantasy setting and the vitriolic best buds set up of the novels, you might try BBC’s Merlin.

other pseudo-medieval fantasy stories include much of Tamora Pierce’s works

TA Barron I recall is good - I have parts of the Merlin series he wrote

there was one pseudo-medieval fantasy author who... didn’t allow fanfiction, or FFN didn’t accept fanfic for their stories? I don’t know, it was years ago

If you’re a Fisk/Michael shipper, I’m told The Song of Achilles is the heartbreaking gay novel we all need to cry over (though I, criminally, haven’t read it yet)

For a more platonic/gen tilt:

the real-world example of a duo of bantering best buds, Buzzfeed Unsolved, is one of my favorites right now

NB: If you follow my rec into BFU and then join the RPS fandom I will disavow all knowledge of you bc I don’t fuck w that.

I also highly recommend Psych, about two childhood best friends who solve crime and bicker a bunch

if you want to read some of the earlier influences of this story, I suggest Don Quixote [full free English text here] and of course Spenser’s Faerie Queene if you want to get really nerdy

GALAVANT.

Because I’m a slut for any Unlikely Duo Solves Crime set up, here’s a bunch of TV series worth a shot:

Bones, Castle, and Moonlighting are all detective series about odd duos - albeit all of them white m/f will-they/won’t-they couples

Elementary is the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation ever and I love it, good banter, good complex friendship; I highly recommend Elementary

Technically both House MD and Supernatural are built on variations of this, with the former being Doctors and the latter being Monster Hunting Brothers

Criminal-Cop Duo: I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention White Collar, about a con artist working with the FBI

there was a brief, cancelled tv series called Battle Creek which had a set up for a Vitriolic Best Buds dealio that was never fulfilled

And for technically unrelated stuff that gives me the same warm fuzzies as this series, the found family crime hijinks of Leverage (crime crew that does crime but for good causes!!!) and of Community (community college study group)

I’ve seen several members of this fandom are also fans of Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle, but I can’t personally vouch for it

If anyone else has suggestions, chime in!

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waqasamjadme · 4 years

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What is Platonic Love and How Far is Romance From it?

Typically two wholesome, sexually-active adults might be shut associates with one another with out there being any intercourse concerned.

Though many individuals consider such unions are unimaginable, they do exist and in reality present sound expertise that may profit partakers once they do get into sexually-intimate relationships.

1 What's Platonic Love?

2 Platonic Love vs. Romantic Love

3 Platonic Love vs. Friendship

4 Well-known Quotes about Platonic Love

WHAT IS PLATONIC LOVE?

The unique idea of platonic love shouldn't be as it's interpreted as we speak. The entire concept was created by the traditional Greek thinker Plato, and it was used to explain the love an individual has for “the divine” facet of life. In different phrases, an individual who needs to grow to be godlike by way of the pursuit and achievement of non secular objectives was stated to be motivated by platonic love.

As time went on, platonic love grew to become the time period related to the idea of a robust but non-sexual cross-sex friendship. Nevertheless the “divine” factor was nonetheless concerned, as this attraction was stated to nonetheless be based mostly on the pursuit of advantage although by way of affiliation with the actual pal concerned. In different phrases platonic love meant an individual was attracted to a different based mostly on what they perceived as the opposite individual’s increased stage of spirituality.

Within the trendy world, platonic love is usually outlined as a robust relationship between two members of the alternative intercourse who're inside suitable and certainly expected-mating ages. However regardless of what would usually seem as an intimate relationship, the 2 events usually are not engaged in sexual exercise or any actions that might point out an precise romantic relationship.

That stated, this doesn't imply the idea of sexual intimacy is completely absent in platonic relationships. As an example, contributors might jokingly flirt with one another.

PLATONIC LOVE VS. ROMANTIC LOVE

Platonic love differs from romantic love in that in a romance there's some stage of precise or outrightly meant sexual intimacy.

Thus the manifestation of a platonic love is completely different from that of a romantic one. As an example, since there is no such thing as a intimacy concerned, contributors are extra cognizant to respect one another’s private area. Furthermore, since there's little prospect of an enduring intimate relationship ever creating, contributors are much less inclined to impose their private wills onto the opposite individual. Alongside the identical vein this lack of high-level private attachment additionally permits contributors to be themselves extra, as in they aren’t afraid to show their true mannerisms and beliefs since there's much less concern of the opposite individual abandoning them. In different phrases, the primary causes an individual might really feel extra snug round their platonic versus romantic love, regardless that logic would dictate the reverse be true, is that platonic relationships have fewer expectations and guidelines concerned, which in flip means contributors might make really feel freer. And this freedom in fact can translate to an elevated sense of happiness or enjoyable.

Finally the easiest way to establish the distinction between a platonic and romantic love could also be by learning the objectives of the contributors. Put in another way, if even one member has the lively aspiration to sleep with the opposite, than it's secure to say that his or her sturdy affection could also be based mostly in romance than commonplace friendship.

When one individual in a platonic relationship begins to develop sexual emotions, this may threaten the character of the connection and certainly put your entire affiliation in danger. If one of many contributors in a platonic relationship is feeling with discontent together with his or her romantic love, this might encourage them to view their non-intimate, platonic pal in a doubtlessly romantic capability.

Some argue that throughout the course of a platonic love, it's inevitable that at the least one of many contributors develops intimate, sexually-based emotions for the opposite. It's the pervasiveness of this perception which explains why many individuals have a tough time accepting the concept of a purely non-sexual cross-sex love.

Platonic loves may also be used as foundations of romantic ones. In different phrases, the communication expertise and sensible information one attains by having a platonic love can help them in coping with the alternative intercourse once they really do embark on a romance, even when it isn't with the identical individual.

PLATONIC LOVE VS. FRIENDSHIP

Platonic love positively has a robust factor of friendship. For instance, folks concerned in a platonic relationship are sometimes described as “simply associates”. Nevertheless, one of many major variations is that in platonic love there's a normal notion of their being an intimate relationship whereas such might not exist in a friendship. In different phrases, two folks, even of the alternative intercourse, might be associates with out it being platonic love if as an illustration, they're co-workers who affiliate as a consequence of circumstance or associates from early childhood who folks wouldn't usually view as potential lovers.

There's a skinny line between the notion of a platonic love and of a normal cross-sex friendship. Nevertheless, since within the former, the phrase “love” is concerned, it may be gleaned {that a} platonic love is extra intimate than a standard friendship, even when no intercourse is concerned. Merely put, having a platonic love is greater than the standard pal. It’s like having a bestie of the alternative intercourse. Beneath such circumstances and given common ideologies on courtship, these fortunate sufficient to expertise a platonic love may even should take care of the distractions of societal pressures that dictate the 2 of them must be sexually concerned.

A powerful friendship between two relations of childbearing age belonging to the alternative intercourse, particularly when they don't seem to be siblings, could also be outlined as a platonic love. Nevertheless, usually they don't seem to be referred to as so. The first motive is that in such associations, simply the concept of the potential to get sexually concerned doesn’t exist, as there are usually taboos in opposition to such practices between blood-related relations who might naturally share shut ties.

Even when contributors in a platonic love determine to take it to the following stage and truly have sexual activity, they usually select to not interact in an all-out, ongoing romantic relationship. The rationale for that is that they worth the friendship factor of the connection a lot that they don't wish to jeopardize it by participating in a doubtlessly fleeting romance.

FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT PLATONIC LOVE

Under is a compilation of some well-known quotations about platonic love:

Even earlier than I met you I used to be removed from detached to you. Oscar Wilde

He reached out and took her hand. Neither cared that somebody would possibly see. They'd been taught all their lives that the one deep emotions between women and men have been sexual, however now they knew that it was a lie. They have been associates and so they cherished each other, and their hand-holding was completely harmless. It was yet another factor to rejoice in, yet another approach through which that they had risen above the system, above the machine. William Sleator

Platonic or Divine Love: The boy is so good-looking! God has created him so superbly! Vulgar or Earthly Love: The woman is so scorching! I want I might kiss her! Md. Ziaul Haque

[A]s individuals are starting to see that the sexes type in a sure sense a steady group, so they're starting to see that Love and Friendship which have been so usually set aside from one another as issues distinct are in actuality carefully associated and shade imperceptibly into one another. Girls are starting to demand that Marriage shall imply Friendship in addition to Ardour; {that a} comrade-like Equality shall be included within the phrase Love; and it's recognised that from the one excessive of a ‘Platonic’ friendship (usually between individuals of the identical intercourse) as much as the opposite excessive of passionate love (usually between individuals of reverse intercourse) no onerous and quick line can at any level be drawn successfully separating the completely different sorts of attachment. We all know, in actual fact, of Friendships so romantic in sentiment that they verge into love; we all know of Loves so mental and non secular that they hardly dwell within the sphere of Ardour. Edward Carpenter

For love is a celestial concord Of doubtless hearts compos’d of stars’ concent, Which be part of collectively in candy sympathy, To work one another’s pleasure and true content material, Which they've harbour’d since their first descent Out of their heavenly bowers, the place they did see And know one another right here belov’d to be. Edmund Spenser

And people who solely know the non-platonic love haven't any want to speak of tragedy. In such love there might be no kind of tragedy. Leo Tolstoy

Ah, mate. My soul loves yours. It does. However this lifetime, my physique received’t get on board. Molly Ringle

I’ve been questioning if in actual fact superb platonic love isn’t simply an intensely concentrated type of what evokes one of the best academics. Edmund Marlowe

They see nothing indecent in sexual activity, whether or not heterosexual or gay, and take pleasure in it fairly overtly, in full view of everybody. The one exception was Socrates, who was all the time swearing that his relations with younger males have been purely Platonic, however no one believed him for a second, and Hyacinthus and Narcissus gave first-hand proof on the contrary. Lucian of Samosata

That males of this type despise ladies, although a not unusual perception, is one which hardly seems to be justified. Certainly, although naturally not inclined to ‘fall in love’ on this course, such males are by their nature drawn quite close to to ladies, and it might appear# that they usually really feel a singular appreciation and understanding of the emotional wants and destinies of the opposite intercourse, main in lots of circumstances to a real although what is known as ‘Platonic’ friendship. There's little doubt that they're usually instinctively wanted by ladies, who, with out suspecting the true trigger, are acutely aware of a sympathetic chord within the homogenic which they miss within the regular man. Edward Carpenter

I've felt so many loves so deeply: love of associates, love someplace between friendship and romance that our society doesn’t outline, love of artwork, love of life, love of dying, love of language, so many loves such a mess greater than romance. But I've by no means been in a “relationship”. Noella Handley

It might appear possible that the attachment of such a one is of a young and profound character; certainly, it's potential that on this class of males now we have the love sentiment in considered one of its most good types—a type through which from the requirements of the scenario the sensuous factor, although current, is exquisitely subordinated to the non secular. Edward Carpenter

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londontheatre · 7 years

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Jake Byrom as Rasputin with Robyn Hampton and Jessica Townsley. Photo by Zac Cooke.

The principal prerequisite for a successful musical is to get the sound right: quality, balance, tone and volume. Unfortunately, Rasputin Rocks fails to bring any of these crucial elements under control. Sound Engineer Ays Kura has, I’m afraid, to carry the can for this though both Musical Director Connor Fogel and the Director of the show (who we’ll come to later) must also hold up their hands and take responsibility.

There’s a great little chorus trio of singer/dancers – Robyn Hampton, Charlotte Shaw and Jessica Townsley – who pop up in various guises throughout the show and who belt out the opening number but we immediately see that the sound failings are crucially evident in any ensemble/chorus numbers, in which voices appear to be competing rather than harmonising. And the balance is so poor that we have to endure a cacophonous mishmash of unrelated sounds in which the lyrics if there are any, are entirely indecipherable.

Purely for the visual symmetry of the stage setting the four-piece band is split into two – guitar and drums on one side, bass and keyboard – played by the MD – on the other. It’s quite a wide stage. Why do bands of all different styles, scope and size never do this? Because it doesn’t work. The onstage band needs to be together, next to each other, as a tight-knit group.

Maria Alexe as the Emperor of Russia with Robyn Hampton, Charlotte Shaw and Jessica Townsley as the Kremlin Imperial Guard. Photo by Zac Cooke.

And the completely overpowering prominence of the drums – drummer Livio Polisano only has two stops on his kit – loud and louder – makes any semblance of balance impossible. The ho-hum derivative score is by Alistair Smith who surely cannot be sitting in the auditorium thinking: this is exactly how I want my music to be delivered.

The set (Jamie Owens) – consists of four tri-lite towers on trucks which are fussily swivelled and adjusted constantly by actors throughout the show to no discernible effect and these are complemented by the worst lighting design (Daniel Spreadborough) I have seen on the London stage this year. The Stockwell Playhouse has a great set of LX toys: use them!

So to the plot: it’s a kind of Kingsman meets the Thick of It. Female Emperor of Russia (I thought that was an Empress but hey, let’s not wake up the gender police) is dying so wants to destroy the world – cue EML (evil manic laughter). There’s a Resistance, of course (there’s always a Resistance) who she’s going to brutally put down – cue MEML (more evil manic laughter). Her secret weapon to help achieve her nightmare is Rasputin. Yes, that Rasputin – mad monk and beardy weirdo – cue LMEML (lots more… you get the picture). Rasputin, wouldn’t you know it, was frozen alive back in the day and now is being melted (is that the term?) a hundred years later. The hard graft of melting falls to a group of hi-vis- jacketed, manual-labouring Poles (no racial stereotyping here, then). And into all this wanders, entirely unaccountably, Tony Blair – cue EMS (evil manic smiling). The Blair sequences, full of intricate Blairist detail, are mildly amusing and vaguely satirical but what the borsch are they doing here? It’s kind of like the writer wanted to do a satire on our erstwhile leader and needed a vehicle to do so and thus the melting of Rasputin seemed a reasonable way to combine EMS with EML. This was all unfathomable to me until I read the programme – after the show as is my wont. The plum role of Tony Blair is played (or pretty much mimed as much of his dialogue is sub-sotto voce) by Andrew Hobbs. The show is written by Andrew Hobbs. The show is directed by … Andrew Hobbs (tell yourself to speak up, Andrew!) So whilst everything points to Rasputin Rocks actually being the Tony Blair show it is, in fact, the Andrew Hobbs show.

The one really good singer in the troupe is Tanya Truman as rebel Svetlana who makes a good fist of rising above the disjointed band with the overwhelming drums. Jake Byron as Rasputin, complete with awful fright-beard that doesn’t match his stubble, lurches from ranty-snarly to whispery-smarmy with nothing in between: in other words from indecipherable to inaudible. He screech-screams his numbers with a good dollop of EMC (Evil Manic Caterwauling) and seems to think that a bit of mad staring and eye-rolling is all you need to create the character of a mad monk.

The audibility problems are exacerbated by the bewildering variety of cod Russian accents on display. Difficult to sustain, of course, during the two and a half hour length of the show, but when these falter a bit we can at least make out what they are saying. Chief culprit for indecipherable accent combined with “stage whispers are my thing” is the strange Frank Spenser-esque character, Anton. He delivers his first line from the front row facing the stage.

Apparently, it was funny as the people sitting next to him laughed but goodness knows what he said. At least the cast – and director – could hear him. Anton, despite having to change into bright pink trousers due to some kind of unspeakable accident – a rather laboured device to get a cheap laugh – inevitably turns into a hero of the resistance rescuing Tony Blair. But we still can’t make out what he’s saying.

At one point Tony Blair blurts out “Enough of this idle prattling”: believe me, bro, I feel your pain. And, Mr Hobbs, on this very day when The Old Vic gave an unreserved apology to the twenty people from our industry who had their lives seriously affected by the inappropriate behaviour of its former artistic director it is unseemly and disrespectful to try and get some bargain-basement humour out of a name-check for Kevin Spacey.

Review by Peter Yates

Set in the near future, Rasputin Rocks! features an insane Russian emperor who’s been diagnosed with a terminal illness and decides to take the whole world with him in a global nuclear armageddon. He has also discovered that the legendary mad monk Rasputin has never in fact died. After Rasputin’s would be assassins failed to kill him, they instead froze him in a vast underground icy prison, which the Emperor has now located and released him from to aid him in his evil plan. Only hero of the free world Tony Blair and a ragtag group of revolutionaries led by Svetlana who are obsessed with the cheesier aspects of Western culture stand between them and the end of the world.

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