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Yesterday I was looking at this picture from Interview magazine, which is funny because it juxtaposes a typically ~sexy~ position with casual faces (maybe it was taken candid, right before or right after shots where they were acting?):



This led to a bit of discussion about how kids on the internet are referring to the lovely Mr. Skarsgård, and then Wax goes, "Well, he goes by Alex. My workplace!BFF Markus went to school with him in central Stockholm." (They're exactly the same age! I mean, Wax, and her work!BFF, and the lovely Mr. Skarsgård. For some reason, he looks older than Wax, to me.)

This led to me pondering how within the last few weeks I've read two epic-ish Generation Kill AUs featuring [the likeness of] him, that one where he's Nate's boss at a company that develops inventions and that one where he's a petty criminal whom Nate recruits and turns into a supersoldier. (I recommend both of those, although for more detailed notes you should see delicious.)

Anyway, it's strange to think that a workplace!BFF-in-law went to school with a Beloved Slash Object about whom I have read extensively: I think this is the fewest degrees-of-acquaintance I have ever been to one, actually. I know that a flister went to school with Pete Wentz, but I don't know her as well as I know Markus. And it's a bit strange to try to fit a BSO into the mental context of an ordinary IRL acquaintance: slightly realer somehow than the abstract reality that such people usually have.

Are other people, I wonder, also bemused by fannish objects within two or three degrees?

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Date: 12 Jun 2010 03:00 pm (UTC)
ilyena_sylph: picture of Labyrinth!faerie with 'careful, i bite' as text (Default)
From: [personal profile] ilyena_sylph
My second cousin is Kristen Stewart. I get letters from my great-grandmother talking about her a few times a year.

This has made me... very, very twitchy when it comes to RPF, RPS, celebrity gossip, and just about everything that has to do with the real people behind the characters.

Edited (more info and fixing a wrong word choice. ) Date: 12 Jun 2010 03:00 pm (UTC)

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Date: 12 Jun 2010 09:17 pm (UTC)
ilyena_sylph: picture of Labyrinth!faerie with 'careful, i bite' as text (Default)
From: [personal profile] ilyena_sylph
Yeah, they live in California, I live in Missouri, and she was on a shoot for... something... when my mother and I went out to see my great-grandmother a couple of years ago. I was pretty disappointed, but we did get to run around with her parents for a while. That was fun. Also, the family history is kind of messy between the branches involved, or was for most of my life.

It... really does. *laughs* I never really did like the gossip mags and stuff, and then it was my own family people were talking about, and -- yeah, that was the end of my tolerance.

*grins* That... kind of falls right along the family tree. None of my Stewart cousins and aunts put up with much crap from anybody.

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Date: 12 Jun 2010 03:17 pm (UTC)
renne: ([misc] stormtrooper john woo)
From: [personal profile] renne
I used to write slash about Australian & international comedians. I had this amazing story in the works about two members of a comedy trio that ended up dead in the water when one of the two spent the comedy festival hitting on me.

That, I think it's safe to say, was the last time I ever wrote slash about comedians.

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Date: 12 Jun 2010 05:14 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] torachan
I went to school with Tobey Maguire, but he doesn't get that much slash that I know of. Really the only I've seen was in The Establishment (and I'm sure he's been a character in other celeb RPGs, of course, but it's not like he's part of a major RPS fandom).

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Date: 12 Jun 2010 09:14 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] torachan
I don't know of anything they were in together, but they're BFFs IRL (or were).

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Date: 12 Jun 2010 10:20 pm (UTC)
lim: Mulder making an "uh huh" face (uh huh)
From: [personal profile] lim
The neighbourhood I grew up in was a bit media/bohemian so I have these weird shocks in fandom sometimes too. I don't like fangirling Real People (not in a proscriptive way! in a for-me way) and maybe these two facts are connected.

The strangest thing for me is, on a tangent, I suppose that Jean Rhys was my grandmother's cousin--it's my grandmother's home in the book--and never have I ever been in any society where The Wide Sargasso Sea was brought up quite so frequently as fandom. I have very much... different associations and feelings about the book.

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Date: 13 Jun 2010 03:13 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] spark
One degree of separation from new UK PM David Cameron. Finding http://archiveofourown.org/tags/David%20Cameron%252FNick%20Clegg/works rather hot. Bemused in so many directions.

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