WTF?

[elspethdixon]

So, can any of you explain to me what the heck has happened to Thor fans on tumblr?  The last time I saw reactions like this to an actor getting married, it was LOTRPS and J2 fandom over Orlando Bloom dating.. I forget which actress, and Jensen Ackles marrying whomever it is he's married to (Daneel Harris?  Or was that Jared Padalecki?), and in those cases the guys were the center of huge, tinhat-filled RPS fandoms.

Also, what happened on on the Avengers kink meme?  I stop checking it or a few months, and suddenly there's (possible?) plagarism and long discussion threads on The Meme That Must Not Be Named about whether or not it really was plagarism wherein no one actually seems to know anything about it.

Comments

[elspethdixon]

Who do they tinhat ship him with? LotR and J2 ended up with tinhats because in both cases the actors worked on the same project for years (and bandom I presume has them because of the whole making out on stage thing and also spending years working together).

And if it's not about RPS and "Noes! My OTP!" then I really don't get it, because while I can understand "Die for our ship" rage, non-RPS fan outrage and woe just seems... pointless. It's like when fangirls freak out upon learning that a hot actor is gay. "Oh no, my chance of ever dating a man who's never met me, probably will never meet me, and who's possibly fifteen years older than I am to boot has just gone from 0.00001% to zero!" I mean, I used to occasionally think that it would be cool to marry Prince William and become Queen Elizabeth III of England when I was in elementary school and found out that the future king of England was the same age as I was, but I also knew even when I was eight that that was about as likely to actually happen as winning a billion dollars in the lottery or developing magical powers overnight.

Hiddleston isn't shipped with anyone

[jazzypom]

They fell for him hard in Loki, and he seems to be good guy re: Avengers, and people were throwing themselves after him, then.

[velithya]

They ship him with themselves ^_~

Ah yes but Elspeth, you see, you see, they don't have the benefit of our age or experience (or life partners) and THEY COULD TOTALLY DO IT. ...or something.