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[yendi]

Saw the Disney Tarzan the other night for the first time, and had a very disturbing thought (so disturbing that shadesong wants it livejournaled):

Tarzan hit manhood still believing he was a gorilla. Wanna bet that someone has written a fanfic (can't technically call it slash) with Tarzan and Turk? I mean, as far as he was concerned, she was a female gorilla and his closest companion. I'm sure nature must have taken its course.

And no, even if the fic is out there, I'm not interested in reading it.

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[edie22.livejournal.com]

I'm not even looking for it. ew.

Cowards!

[tikimama.livejournal.com]

As usual, it's up to me to delve into the disturbing world of fanfic. After MASH slash fic, I am impervious to harm.

Alas, I found no interspecies love Tarzan fic (though one guy had to take his stories down at Burroughs' estate's insistance, so let's imagine, ok?) I did find this fine crossover:

The Angel(the Marvel comic, not the bloodsucking fiend)/Tarzan(Disney) (http://www.slashcity.org/~xmenslash/tangerine/luckyfall.html)

No, I didn't read it. Bad dialogue. It's NC-17, in case you're of a sensitive nature. I did wander into a Gambit/Wolverine one (hot, but then, Wolverine always is) and a Wolverine/Toad/Rogue one (slight trauma).

Re: Cowards!

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

You're just scary.

Re: Cowards!

[yendi]

Never having read the M*A*S*H Slash, I've yet to build up my defenses.

Re: Cowards!

[merde.livejournal.com]

are you sure you're impervious to harm?

http://www.femgeeks.net/rs-x/worsefor.htm

Hmmm, I dunno.

[scarcrest.livejournal.com]

Though this topic has been mentioned before -- I once read a piece written by Alan Moore, I think, in which he mentioned the psychoses behind various archetypical characters. One example was that although no one talks about it, there's little doubt a young Tarzan would, at puberty, have experimented sexually with other primates; and that James Bond has, at his core, a deep, abiding contempt toward women.

I want to say it was Alan Moore writing in a trade paperback of Dark Knight Returns. But I may be wrong about it being Moore -- maybe it was Harlan Ellison.

Re: Hmmm, I dunno.

[yendi]

I'll have to hunt that up -- the idea of the various archtypes having those issues makes sense. What really amazed me was that Disney actually made it so easy to assume that Tarzan had experimented. There was simply no reason Turk had to be a girl (in fact, Elayna thought Turk was a boy until I told her otherwise last night).

[phantom_wolfboy]

In Burroughs's Jungle Tales of Tarzan, consisting of short stories of Tarzan's youth, Tarzan is attracted to a young female ape (named, I believe, Teeka). As he's not very good-looking for an ape, she's not all that attracted to him, and he eventually realizes that he's of a different species anyway (though not in those particular words) and lets her go on to mate with his main competitor.

In other words, yeah, it could have happened. Of course, Tarzan was probably keeping himself pure for Jane.

And, while Disney's Tarzan had a lot of faults (don't get me started) it's still one of the best interpretations of the character himself that's come out on film so far. One thing that really impressed me was that they actually thought out how he would learn to walk like a gorilla if raised by gorillas