You may have all seen this. I hadn't until a dear friend sent it my way. And I needed to see this. So very much. If you haven't, you need to see this also
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Anyone who changes his name from Ralph to Rafe deserves to spend a Saturday night in New York sitting around in someone's basement wearing flannel pyjamas drinking hot cocoa and reading slashy Voldeporn. Pretty tame Voldeporn as such things go, too.
In fairness, his parents named him Ralph-pronounced-"Rafe". It is apparently an Old English pronunciation - or so his parents told him. His parents are academics, so the pretension was handed down to him, not chosen by him. (Though I'm sure he has plenty of his own!!) My ex refused to call him anything other than Ralph Finneys though...
and regardless of his name (hell, he can call himself Tiberius, Fido or Emperor of the Known Universe if he wants) he can come sit around my basement (well, I don't have a basement, but if I did...) drinking hot cocoa in flannel jammies any-damn time he wants!! I lust mightily for him. I won't lie...
He is a weakness of mine and has been lo these many years. When the quantas flight attendant thing happened and everyone else was disgusted, I was like, "dude, it just means he's easy; maybe we have a chance!!" I can forgive him everything up to racist rants or scientology. There I would have to draw the line....
He appears to be a nice-looking man with a solid blue-stocking background and interesting life, and speaking as someone who was saddled with one of the most pretentious names in Canada, I know all about fruitladen burdens upon progeny. *nods* (Still, Twisleton ... seriously?)
If you have a chance, I say go for it. I thought he was gay, but I think I'm confusing him with another actor with the same style of physique and mannerisms. Truly, all actors look somewhat the same to me. That's because when I was working in film, it was all about the symmetry of the features and the eyes being just a bit too far apart and the chin not extending past the lower lip line and the average height being 5'7"/140 lbs. for an actor ... so I tend not to notice celebrity persona thing.
In spite of having worked (very breifly) in film and being deeply unimpressed with the celebrities I actually met (outside of some b, c listers) I am still drawn to actors. I think I fall in love with the characters - the fiction. I've fallen hard for some of RF's fictions. I'll leave it there, because I'm sure I could bore you forever with my amature self-psych eval!!
Not gay. Left his wife Alex Kingston (recently of Dr. Who fame) and was in a long-term relationship when a lovely (allegedly; I've not seen her) flight attendant from Quantas came up to him on a flight and asked him to "follow me" to the restroom where they joined the mile-high club together. She told the story to he tabs; he didn't deny it and his relationship (with older Brit actress Francesca Annis) ended. Why is my brain filled with this crap?
I'm more interested in the fictions that you fall for than the character himself. I think those sorts of fictions are deeply connected to the soul. I suppose I've had the corneas of my rosier purview scratched off, and will probably never look at men again and see their fictions except with the same sort of nonchalant disinterest extended to their clothing or the stuff they buy ... which is not to say that I blame them or judge them for creating and donning those fictions. Nor am I interested in drenching my persona in glitter in order to delude them, so it goes both ways. I'm more interested in what veils hide, than the veils themselves.
I like flawed and emotionally scarred FICTIONAL men. I have no patience for real men, not any more. And I tend to find them a bit boring and soulless, but I have much love for fictional representations of men. Their strengths and vulnerabilities are so much more EPIC. I try not to let that carry over into an obsession for the actor portraying the character, but it invariably happens anyway. (And then I seek out information about those actors and fill my brains with trivia, etc. This is why anime characters make GREAT CRUSHES. There is no "reality" to interfere with the fantasy. More and more of my obsessions are drawn from manga/anime and I think this is the reason). This is especially true when an actor does multiple roles that attract me. Not that looks have nothing to do with it, but I think that the character and the enthusiasm/skill of the portrayal has more to do with it than looks...
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He is a weakness of mine and has been lo these many years. When the quantas flight attendant thing happened and everyone else was disgusted, I was like, "dude, it just means he's easy; maybe we have a chance!!" I can forgive him everything up to racist rants or scientology. There I would have to draw the line....
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Hokay. I haz no idea wut that wuz. [/lolcat]
He appears to be a nice-looking man with a solid blue-stocking background and interesting life, and speaking as someone who was saddled with one of the most pretentious names in Canada, I know all about fruitladen burdens upon progeny. *nods* (Still, Twisleton ... seriously?)
If you have a chance, I say go for it. I thought he was gay, but I think I'm confusing him with another actor with the same style of physique and mannerisms. Truly, all actors look somewhat the same to me. That's because when I was working in film, it was all about the symmetry of the features and the eyes being just a bit too far apart and the chin not extending past the lower lip line and the average height being 5'7"/140 lbs. for an actor ... so I tend not to notice celebrity persona thing.
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Not gay. Left his wife Alex Kingston (recently of Dr. Who fame) and was in a long-term relationship when a lovely (allegedly; I've not seen her) flight attendant from Quantas came up to him on a flight and asked him to "follow me" to the restroom where they joined the mile-high club together. She told the story to he tabs; he didn't deny it and his relationship (with older Brit actress Francesca Annis) ended. Why is my brain filled with this crap?
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In terms of fictional men, I've always seen them as representations of the male aspects of my own psyche, flawed and virtuous alike.
*nods* Anime characters are great to write because the universe is well-contained. Actors are really kettled animals.
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