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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?

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)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.
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Date: 12 Jun 2010 09:12 pm (UTC)But yes, wow, I imagine that would do. She's right in the top four or five on the paparazzo hitlist right now! I love her no-nonsense fuck-you attitude to them.
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Date: 12 Jun 2010 09:17 pm (UTC)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)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 09:13 pm (UTC)That is an awesome story that you got out of it anyway, though! XD
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Date: 12 Jun 2010 10:20 pm (UTC)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 01:47 pm (UTC)I've often wondered whether the fairy tale novelizations from the "villainess"'s point of view which were so in vogue in the 90s were inspired by it, although of course it's not the first or only prominent example.
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Date: 13 Jun 2010 03:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 16 Jun 2010 09:56 pm (UTC)I did not know about that pairing. Er. fandom? at all.
*stares*