"Hark!" Biggles ejaculated

[rachelmanija]

Will you all please look at this cover and tell me what you think they're doing.

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[rheanna]

Why, those two men are taking a quick breather to recover from the exertion of climbing up that rocky, icy mountainside, of course. What else could they possibly be doing?

(I haven’t read any Biggles but I’m enjoying your reviews an awful lot!)

[rachelmanija]

Ah yes. Of course. And they had to strip because their mountaineering clothes were so hot and heavy.

[philomytha]

Amazingly, my son has borrowed this precise edition from our local children’s library and I never did more than glance at the cover... if you turn it over you can see the same image but with the text ‘WRECKED’ directly underneath.

Clearly when you’re plane-wrecked by a hurricane, you need a quickie on a storm-lashed rock to cheer you up again.

[rachelmanija]

I literally burst out laughing. You know the slang meaning of "wrecked," right? Because I'm positive whoever designed that cover did!

[davidgillon]

The pose of the one in front, I most associate with "Oh, god, I'm never drinking that much again!'

Meanwhile, the other seems to be stripping off his pants...

As for the two together, I can only conclude everyone who reviewed it was either particularly unimaginative, or in on the joke.

(I was helping my mother sort out stuff in the loft over Christmas and now know where my childhood Biggles books are, though not the illustrated Flight of the Condor, unfortunately)

[rachelmanija]

I'm reminded of the meeting to review a new logo for the company I briefly worked for. It was a dog catching a frisbee, seen in mid-leap. Very cute and innocent...

...until they presented the final design, in which the dog was leaping straight at the viewer, crotch-first. The CEO seemed completely unaware of what it looked like, and enthused about the callback to innocent childhood play with his own dog. Nobody wanted to be the one with the dirty mind about a DOG.

Privately, we called it the Flying Rape Dog.

[vass]

I can only conclude everyone who reviewed it was either particularly unimaginative, or in on the joke.

And nobody at Marvel noticed.

[swan_tower]

The one in front has dropped a contact lens, clearly, and they're trying to find it on a rock in the middle of crashing snow avalanche sea waves. (Edit: the one at the back thinks it's long gone into said crashing snow avalanche sea waves, hence not looking as closely.)

[isis]

This was my first thought!

[oracne]

*cough*

[cefyr]

They were obviously a bit past that point in the Shipwrecked Experience where you tear your shirt into strips to fashion into a flag to wave at passing aircraft, and then the weather turned bad so they decided no rescue was coming and they might as well have a good time, only now the plane has turned up despite the weather, turning the whole afterglow situation a bit awkward, and the man to the left is frantically trying to look as if he was wearing trousers the whole time. (The other one is too blissed out to care.)

[sholio]

This is obviously exactly it.

(The other one is too blissed out to care.)

Either blissed out or currently experiencing dramatically rendered feelings of NOOOOO because they were just getting to the good part.

[black_bentley]

I'm not even going to pretend I'm not planning to write a fic to go with that image...

[cefyr]

I approve of this on principle :D

[rachelmanija]

Yes please.

[ratcreature]

Some hypothermia mental breakdown caused them to strip off clothing despite it bring winter in the mountains? Though to be fair the background could also be a rock in stormy water or something rather than snow.

[marjorie1170]

Hahahaha! That's quite the location.

[sabotabby]

Having a gay old time.

[sheliak]

Not the most practical spot for sex, but I guess they can't go anywhere until the waves quiet down, so might as well?

[mildred_of_midgard]

I totally thought it was an avalanche, but maybe I have snow on the brain. ;)

Wow, I'm going to have to show that image to my wife, she will get a kick out of it.

[mildred_of_midgard]

Upon reread: this comment is ambiguous without context. The sex was obvious at first glance, the part I was weighing on was the actual controversial part, rock with waves crashing around it or snowy mountain? :P

My wife's reaction: "They're having buttsex, obviously. That's what you do when you're on a mountain..." *closer look* "or whatever."

Admittedly, she may also have snow on the brain for the same reaction!

[sartorias]

Why, the one on hands and knees is bug hunting in the laves below the cliff, and the standing one is, ah, encoring him in his scientific pursuits in a healthy and yet manly but completely Hayes-compliant way.

[rushthatspeaks]

First glance:

tfw the sex causes an avalanche this will be so embarrassing in the Park Service report

Second glance-- oh, those are waves:

tfw the ocean itself applauds the sex but you were kind of hoping it wasn't paying attention because now supposedly-impersonal nature is making it weird

[rachelmanija]

I hate it when that happens.

[vass]

Well, they're on their knees, so they're probably... praying?

[snowynight]

It looks very erotic. I assume it's unintentional, but will be very glad if I'㎜ mistaken.

[carbonel]

You mean they're not searching for a lost contact lens?