What's weird?
Dec. 6th, 2002 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321I'm normally mild-mannered and meek on LJ but this has not been a good day (nor a good month), so herein is my first rant.
People keep telling me the men I pick in this fandom are weird. People keep telling me I'm weird for liking these men and suspect me of doing it for effect.
Here's my response in rant form:
a) They're not weird.
There is no earthly reason why, for example, Andy Serkis is any more 'weird' than Orlando Bloom. He's just a guy in the same movie we're all obsessing about. If anyone's weird, it's us who can't stop sticking these men into bed with each other.
b) People think someone's weird if i) he's rarely seen, ii) he's rarely slashed, iii) he's not pretty and 23, iv) he's not manly and 42, v) he's over 50, vi) he doesn't appear in front of the camera 75 percent of the time, vii) he's shorter than 5 feet, viii) he's not Anglo-Saxon.
To me, that doeth not weirdness constitute. That just shows the limitations of fanon.
c) These people are not weird. Andy Serkis, for example, is gorgeous. Look at those eyes!!! (see pic below)
d) I also like mainstream guys (ahem). To me, the difference between drooling over Dom and drooling over Andy is that when I'm drooling over Dom it's a mass orgy: I'm joined by about 5 zillion others around the globe. When I'm drooling over Andy, I have to convince-convince-convince and probably write 13 fics with him in it just to get people on board.
e) It is true that I do try to *post* stuff about the non-mainstream guys because most others tend to neglect them. So if there's a choice of linking Orli /Karl (linked by a dozen others already) or linking Andy, I'll go for Andy.
f) What is wrong with being weird, anyway? (Once we have established a workable definition of the very malleable and subjective term 'weird'.)
g) I suspect that the people who say 'weird' secretly delight in the 'weird' and project it outward onto somebody else.
h) Anyone who thinks slashing a soft toy is weirder than thinking Elijah is gay because he wears a yellow tie and stands next to Dom, um, should re-think.
i) I love the weird. I embrace the weird. But I don't like to be the lightning rod for everyone's repressions about weirdness.
People keep telling me the men I pick in this fandom are weird. People keep telling me I'm weird for liking these men and suspect me of doing it for effect.
Here's my response in rant form:
a) They're not weird.
There is no earthly reason why, for example, Andy Serkis is any more 'weird' than Orlando Bloom. He's just a guy in the same movie we're all obsessing about. If anyone's weird, it's us who can't stop sticking these men into bed with each other.
b) People think someone's weird if i) he's rarely seen, ii) he's rarely slashed, iii) he's not pretty and 23, iv) he's not manly and 42, v) he's over 50, vi) he doesn't appear in front of the camera 75 percent of the time, vii) he's shorter than 5 feet, viii) he's not Anglo-Saxon.
To me, that doeth not weirdness constitute. That just shows the limitations of fanon.
c) These people are not weird. Andy Serkis, for example, is gorgeous. Look at those eyes!!! (see pic below)
d) I also like mainstream guys (ahem). To me, the difference between drooling over Dom and drooling over Andy is that when I'm drooling over Dom it's a mass orgy: I'm joined by about 5 zillion others around the globe. When I'm drooling over Andy, I have to convince-convince-convince and probably write 13 fics with him in it just to get people on board.
e) It is true that I do try to *post* stuff about the non-mainstream guys because most others tend to neglect them. So if there's a choice of linking Orli /Karl (linked by a dozen others already) or linking Andy, I'll go for Andy.
f) What is wrong with being weird, anyway? (Once we have established a workable definition of the very malleable and subjective term 'weird'.)
g) I suspect that the people who say 'weird' secretly delight in the 'weird' and project it outward onto somebody else.
h) Anyone who thinks slashing a soft toy is weirder than thinking Elijah is gay because he wears a yellow tie and stands next to Dom, um, should re-think.
i) I love the weird. I embrace the weird. But I don't like to be the lightning rod for everyone's repressions about weirdness.
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Date: 2002-12-07 06:36 am (UTC)But anyway, I think maybe that's what some of the people who have called your pairings "weird" probably meant. They probably meant that your pairings are often pretty kinky. Which isn't to say that those guys shouldn't be slashed, though. I love you for slashing older guys, not as popular guys, etc... the only reason I believe not many of us do it is probably because it is so much easier to write a person so well known ; we kind of know how to write them. That Andy guy isn't bad looking or anything, but I'll be honest, I don't know him. Meaning I'd never be able to actually write him convincingly. Now if YOU can and do, all the more power to you. I'm sure I'll enjoy every line of the story you'll write about him.
h) Anyone who thinks slashing a soft toy is weirder than thinking Elijah is gay because he wears a yellow tie and stands next to Dom, um, should re-think.
Like I said before, slashing a plush toy is kinky. Now, thinking Elijah is gay BECAUSE he wears a blue tie and stands next to Dom is weird. I don't particularly like weird. Not in that case, because it tends to border on crazy/weird. But plush toys? Come on, we might not like to admit it but... who hasn't experimented with a couple of toys at the tender age where we start exploring our sexuality? I'd be very interested in hearing what a great number of dolls and other plush toys out there have to say about that... ;-) and that's NOT weird.
So yeah, I guess what I meant to say was... you go, girl! And if anybody gives you a hard time, point them out to me, I'll make sure to show them just how much weirder they are than you. ;-)