Here I go with the fapfapfap over Connie's androgyny again
So, yeah, you know that mess personal pronouns cause when you switch from het to slash or from slash to het, right? And since I've mostly been writing m/m slash forfuckingever, you'd think I would just end up calling everyone "he", right?
Except with fucking Connie, I invariably keep slipping and calling him "her". GOD FUCKING DAMN IT. I only slip with the "he" with the girls sometimes, but for some bizarre reason, parts of my mind read Connie and his characters as so femme the feminine pronouns just come out. This is actually ridiculous but kind of hilarious.
Also, last night, just before falling asleep, I realised another reason why I find his androgyny so attractive and why it is so different and so powerful from other androgynous people's in comparison. You know how very often, androgynous people have kind of slid towards the other gender quite a bit? Or a lot? How you can find some butch lesbians who are just as manly and gruff as bouncers and how you can find some camp gay guys who are as ditzy as that shopgirl next door? To the point where some people basically become caricatures of gender stereotypes whether it matches with their birth sex or not. And I just realised that fucking hell, Connie doesn't do that. He does both--well, *all*--genders at the same time; he does a mix. And it's something that very few people do, and to contain all that and to use it to the fullest where neither side is dormant--holy crap. No wonder he was so insanely powerful sexually. He didn't do the full macho or the full camp, he just did *sex*. And that's just... wow. Dude. o_O That's kind of terrifying. I was just saying to a couple of people that basically, he did the whole genderfluid trickster god thing, then, and what with his obsession with suggestion and possession, he pretty much was like a movie star version of the androgynous shaman. Holy crap.
Basically,
a) WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE
b) we need to go back in time and make an old timey version of the Avengers so he can play Loki.
And here's a 30-year old Connie as Cesare Borgia just because I can't make a post without pics of him now. Goofy wig aside, he's deffo doing the full life-ruining androgyne thing here.
He basically looks like a hot 19th century lesbian poet.
Bastard.
Except with fucking Connie, I invariably keep slipping and calling him "her". GOD FUCKING DAMN IT. I only slip with the "he" with the girls sometimes, but for some bizarre reason, parts of my mind read Connie and his characters as so femme the feminine pronouns just come out. This is actually ridiculous but kind of hilarious.
Also, last night, just before falling asleep, I realised another reason why I find his androgyny so attractive and why it is so different and so powerful from other androgynous people's in comparison. You know how very often, androgynous people have kind of slid towards the other gender quite a bit? Or a lot? How you can find some butch lesbians who are just as manly and gruff as bouncers and how you can find some camp gay guys who are as ditzy as that shopgirl next door? To the point where some people basically become caricatures of gender stereotypes whether it matches with their birth sex or not. And I just realised that fucking hell, Connie doesn't do that. He does both--well, *all*--genders at the same time; he does a mix. And it's something that very few people do, and to contain all that and to use it to the fullest where neither side is dormant--holy crap. No wonder he was so insanely powerful sexually. He didn't do the full macho or the full camp, he just did *sex*. And that's just... wow. Dude. o_O That's kind of terrifying. I was just saying to a couple of people that basically, he did the whole genderfluid trickster god thing, then, and what with his obsession with suggestion and possession, he pretty much was like a movie star version of the androgynous shaman. Holy crap.
Basically,
a) WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE
b) we need to go back in time and make an old timey version of the Avengers so he can play Loki.
And here's a 30-year old Connie as Cesare Borgia just because I can't make a post without pics of him now. Goofy wig aside, he's deffo doing the full life-ruining androgyne thing here.
He basically looks like a hot 19th century lesbian poet.
Bastard.