SOFT FANGIRL
WARM FANGIRL
LITTLE BALL OF CRY
SOBBING FANGIRL
CRAZY FANGIRL
DIE DIE DIE
…..This was directed at me, wasn’t it.
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The Brain of a Fangirl
why is tumblr so small?? It takes up the majority of my brainspace right now. Probably an equal amount of that and sexual frustration
Don’t concern yourself that it’s small. It’s saying tumblr is your brainstem. That is the source from which all else ultimately follows.
Wikipedia: ” It also regulates the central nervous system, and is pivotal in maintaining consciousness and regulating the sleep cycle. The brain stem has many basic functions including heart rate, breathing, sleeping and eating.”
Yeah. That’s where Tumblr belongs, alright.
Furthermore...
Alright, so this interview puts the last few things I’ve seen / read about Tom Hardy into better perspective, and I have a newfound respect for him as a person in “modern” society.
Have you ever had any sexual relations with men?
As a boy? Of course I have. I’m an actor for *beep*’s sake. I’m an artist. I’ve played with everything and everyone.
But I’m not into men sexually. I love the form and the physicality but the gay sex bit does nothing for me. In the same way as a wet vagina would turn someone else into a lemon-sucking freak.
To me it just doesn’t compute now I’m into my 30s and it doesn’t do it for me and I’m done experimenting.
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But there’s plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life. A lot of gay men get my thing for shoes. I don’t think I’m metrosexual but I’m definitely my mother’s son. I have definite feminine qualities and a lot of gay men are incredibly masculine.
The website quoting the interview text points to the essence of Hardy’s words to be “that sexuality is more fluid than most people admit and that men experiment with other men — as he did once.”
It’s refreshing to see people in the public eye acknowledge that human sexuality isn’t so cut and dry as to be between bio-males and bio-females. Or even to pigeon-hole it to be that people can only be one thing, gay, straight, bi, whathaveyou. Recognizing that experimentation and exploration is part of the human experience (in general, as well as with sex) is so important.
I tend to do my fair-share of “fangirling/fanboying” when celebs say things that can be taken as inferring gay tendencies, or when they share stories of “one night, after the party…” times, I really do. Especially on Tumblr. And I won’t take back one post, nosiree ma’am.
But sometimes, in that excitability that I have, I think I come off as being only sensationalist, only being giggly about “OMG is he GAY?” and all that. When really, I just love shipping people together because it’s fun and I have a vivid imagination…
…And I firmly believe human sexuality is a fluid thing. It’s not rigid, it’s not even a sliding scale or a spectrum, in my opinion. It is what it is. You seek pleasure where you seek pleasure, and where you seek it today might not be the same place you sought it out yesterday, nor the same you seek for it tomorrow.
Now, don’t get me wrong… Not gonna stop shipping same-sex characters (and slashing their actors) together… can’t stop that, it’s impulsive and fun. And, hey, if they ever actually did stuff or ‘got together’ yeah, my head would explode in the best of ways…
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Ahem. But really, I just don’t put people into boxes. I can’t fit into one box or another, no one label feels like it suits me no matter how much I try to rationalize it, so why should I force someone else under one?
I also can’t just pick one shipping fandom. I mean, look at this shit:
Excuse the fuck out of me.
Some of us live in places where the only place you can buy comics is Barnes and Noble.
Some of us don’t like comics because of the decades of continuity, complicated multiple universes, and the fact that, while there is a huge amount of talent in the industry, there are countless comics that have been tainted by poor writing and artwork.
Some of us prefer films because it is more relevant to our interests.
Some of us don’t have the income or time to spare to enjoy comics.
You don’t need to have read the comics to appreciate or be a fan of a character.
This attitude of superiority from people who are “real fans” because they read the comics makes me rage so hard.
Maybe people would be more eager to read comics if comic fans were more inclusive.
Oh, you wanna throw in “You can’t like Loki because you never read the old Norse runes.”, too?
It’s a matter of taste. Personally, I’ve never enjoyed reading comic books because I find them to be a) too expensive, b) hard to come by, and c) too complicated for me to understand what with all the new timelines, multiverses etcetera. It’s just not my cup of tea. I try to read as much as I can, but when I do, it’s usually stand alone graphic novels that exist in “their own universe”.
Saying “you’re not a real fan because you haven’t read the comics” is like telling someone “you can’t like banana ice cream because you’ve never tried bananas”. Oh, I’m sorry, never mind then, I’ll just stop liking this character, because clearly you’re much better than me since you’ve read the comic books. Do you want a parade, too? Maybe a monument? A T-shirt that says “I LIKED IT FIRST”? It’s just silly, and this kind of behaviour angers me so much. There’s no prize, you don’t win or gain anything by putting others down, so please, just don’t. It will only make you look silly in front of millions of fans who appreciate the character and story. Plus make you look like a huge ass.
Where I grew up, there were no comic book shops, nor could I find any at the local library. But I liked to read Belgian and French bande dessinée (comics), like Astérix, Tintin and Les Schtroumpfs. Some of you elitist comic book fans probably enjoyed the Smurfs as kids, right? Or liked to read Tintin’s adventures? Well, if you didn’t read those comics in French, clearly you aren’t real fans, because the original is in French, and only those who read the original are true fans, and those who like adaptations better are not, right? There. Have some of your bullshit.
^ to the creator of this post and everyone that has reblogged. There are too many people that feel they are more “real” fans just cause they have “read the very originals” or some bullshit like that. 8C /rage
Yeahhh. I knew of the comics, knew some of the characters, but I never had the money as a kid or later to collect them, so why bother reading one in every 150 when the stories wouldn’t make sense? Comic book stores aren’t libraries, they don’t really like it if you stand in there for hours reading comics you can’t buy.
And libraries where I was then didn’t HAVE comic books. Not real ones.
I have a few Batman and Star Wars universe comics from back in the day… maybe a Spiderman. But I just never plugged into a subculture of comic fandom. *shrugs* I watched some of the cartoons, too, but didn’t sit in front of the TV all day.
I have always had a thing for Norse myth, and Loki has been my favorite mythological character for ages, but I don’t consider myself any more of a Loki fan than someone who didn’t know that name existed until “Thor” or “Avengers” came out. It’s simply part of the myriad reasons I happen to like the character. If Susie and Tommy Joe read the comics, then that’s part of THEIR reasons to happen to like the character.
In the words of Tom Hiddleston, the actor who PLAYED Loki (teehee, like you don’t know, Tumblr…), “Having compassion for a character is no different than having compassion for another human being.”
You don’t have to know every scrap of information ever written about or said about a person to feel things about / for them, do you? No.
Same with characters. *nod*
Oh, and there ARE Loki fanBOYS, too, people.
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