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kalichan

stuff and things

Jan 21, 2011 00:54

~ There is a really brilliant article about sex work in Salon today, entitled: To all the girls who envy my life.

"...We're taught from an early age to keep an eternally vigilant (and critical) eye on our appearance, and it takes a strong, studied will to refuse to pose the questions many of us have had running in our head since puberty: Is she ( Read more... )

fandom: lotr, fandom: doctor who, links, sex, gender, geek

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eumelia January 21 2011, 07:23:38 UTC

I've decided that Orlando Bloom in those movies was kinda like Tom Hardy is now.
I'd agree, but I've seen Hardy's BBC things and Bronson and other stuff that that wasn't Rocknrolla and despite his huge rise in popularity all of a sudden, Bloom would kill to be half as talented as Hardy, seriously. I don't know what you thought of Kingdom of Heaven which is the only other movie I can think of seeing Bloom in other that PotC and damn, he's bland. Blandy, bland, white-bread, bland.
Hardy is more like a cake! With lots of surprise chocolate chips and nuts inside!

kalichan January 21 2011, 07:27:14 UTC

Oh, yeah, I didn't mean to compare the size of their talents. I just meant that in LoTR, Bloom's not really a main character at all, but he made people insane in that movie (including me, I might add), and I thought he was in it way more than he actually was, if that makes sense? And then there was how he used to talk about Viggo in interviews, all gushy. It was adorable. And I see people doing the same kind of spin on Inception.

I haven't seen Hardy in a lot of other stuff but I've no problem at all believing he's a better actor. I loved Orli in PoTC 1, and LoTR and that was it for me with him.

eumelia January 21 2011, 07:32:06 UTC

Oh! Haha! The things we read into things!

But yes, oh yes, total agreement. I wasn't all that into Bloom at the time, I'm much more of a Viggo girl (seriously, I have a poster of "The Return of the King" hanging in my room, I've had it there since I was 18... I'm now 25, yeah).
Also, you watch interviews with Tom Hardy and I get all gushy, because I'm a sucker for hardship stories in which a person downplays their pain (it is something I do not do...).

kalichan January 21 2011, 07:40:01 UTC

LOL. I was only lurking in fandom with LoTR, but it was my first "ACTORS ARE AWESOME" thing, I think. I loved Viggo too; I think that was part of Bloom appeal, it was all "I love Viggo, he's so awesome" - he sounded like a crazed fangirl. Actually they all kinda did, which was awesome.

I know very little about Tom Hardy actually, but clearly I ought to catch up. Esp. since D. just informed me that he has a bit of a crush on him. I can't be outdone in fangirling by my own partner, that's just ridiculous.

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heavenscalyx January 21 2011, 15:35:38 UTC

The Craigslist entry just... boggles me. And why the photo indeed?

FYI... purple_leatherc January 22 2011, 05:32:34 UTC

There is a reading/discussion group called the Red Umbrella Diaries, curated by Audacia Ray, that focuses on the lives and stories of sex workers. It meets the first Thursday of every month at the amusingly named Happy Ending Lounge on Broome Street near Chinatown.

bodlon January 24 2011, 01:31:40 UTC

Okay, I'm a little afraid of that teleportation experiment. It'll be interesting to see if it's replicable. It's alarmingly close to spontaneous generation, and would make a lot of science very difficult to do.

On the other hand, hell yes to time travel, and to Ten and Amy in the same room.