ext_28881 (![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
abundantlyqueer.livejournal.com) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fellowshippers2003-09-03 02:00 pm
abundantlyqueer.livejournal.com) wrote in fellowshippers2003-09-03 02:00 pm
Rant: A Waste of Good Genetics -- OB centric :P
aka: i don't like it when reality interferes with my perfectly fashioned fantasies ...
so, i went to in-person register for courses, because of course i procrastinated past the mail-in date, and the online date, and down to the last two hours to follow a paper-trail that takes at least a full day to complete. anyhow, that's not the point. the point is ...
i'm standing there in the hugeoid line for the registar's office, caffeinated to the eyeballs and jittering like a lunatic, gazing around me in desperate search of *something* to amuse me. we're in a blank hallway, and the only reading material is the forms we just filled out. so i'm looking around at the other people in the line, and about six people in front there's a group that includes a guy that makes me go -- shit! he's the spit of orlando bloom!
another two seconds perusal and i realize he's not, he's the spit of orlando bloom's less attractive twin. he's got the height and the physique and the fairly short dark curly hair (like in the 'dom and orli throw elijah off the dock' period). from the cheekbones up he's a dead ringer (i experimented with shifting so that someone else's head was blocking the rest of his face, so this is data, not opinion), even to the habit of wrinkling up his forehead when he talks. the rest of his face was close, but not there. the nose was too prominent, jaw too short. think the mouth might have actually been pretty close. had sort of almost there very long sideburns, just like the ill-advised attempts at facial hair our own dear boy seems so set on.
okay, so he catches me looking a couple of times, but i'm rationing it out, looking at least three other people in the line between glimpses of him. this is like the time i met the guy who was keefer sutherland's doopleganger. i'm taking hasty mental notes about what these features are like in the flesh, so to speak. best yet, they're close enough that i can hear what he's saying, and he's trying to persuade the people with him that they don't have to go to whatever departmental thing they're meant to be at tonight, they can go out drinking instead. yeehee.
and THEN ... god, i can hardly type it. the conversation turns to flying back after the summer vacation, and after some yackyack i hear him going on about how the "fuckin' stupid
stewardess almost made him miss his flight even though he was flying first class". and the clincher is, and i quote directly, "for someone as good looking as me, i'd expect better service".
i was seething, literally shaking from annoyance (oh, okay, that could have been the double shot latte i was drinking while i was in the line). and the worst part! after i finally got done with registering (one hour and twenty minutes, a new speed record, urgh), he and his friends were hanging around in the doorway of the accounts office, and when i walked by he had the temerity to do the eyebrow raise "how y'doin'?" thing. GOD. took me all my time not to walk up to him and tell he's walking around with some sizeable fraction of orlando bloom's genes but none of his ability to (accurately or not) give the impression of a charming personality.
which brings me to my questions.
Does this mean that orli (who is clearly genetically pretty similar to this guy) is also a primo asshole in real life? say it isn't so, even if it is.
Will i ever get over this? i'm filled with the urge to get elijah The Hell Away from orli, which will bomb everything i've ever written.
Or am i just lotrips obsessed? i mean, i know i am. i'm asking if it's so bad i maybe *imagined* he looked like ob, when really he looks like a monkey with a bad haircut.
i'm trying to soothe myself with the thought that it's never bothered my one way or the other if the guys are gay in rl; i know they clearly don't care if people *think* they're gay, and that's practically the same thing. surely (she said plaintively), any guy who's willing to look Pretty Damn Gay can't be all bad? CAN HE???
and if, god willing, he's a slash reading lj user, then YEAH, this means YOU.
so, i went to in-person register for courses, because of course i procrastinated past the mail-in date, and the online date, and down to the last two hours to follow a paper-trail that takes at least a full day to complete. anyhow, that's not the point. the point is ...
i'm standing there in the hugeoid line for the registar's office, caffeinated to the eyeballs and jittering like a lunatic, gazing around me in desperate search of *something* to amuse me. we're in a blank hallway, and the only reading material is the forms we just filled out. so i'm looking around at the other people in the line, and about six people in front there's a group that includes a guy that makes me go -- shit! he's the spit of orlando bloom!
another two seconds perusal and i realize he's not, he's the spit of orlando bloom's less attractive twin. he's got the height and the physique and the fairly short dark curly hair (like in the 'dom and orli throw elijah off the dock' period). from the cheekbones up he's a dead ringer (i experimented with shifting so that someone else's head was blocking the rest of his face, so this is data, not opinion), even to the habit of wrinkling up his forehead when he talks. the rest of his face was close, but not there. the nose was too prominent, jaw too short. think the mouth might have actually been pretty close. had sort of almost there very long sideburns, just like the ill-advised attempts at facial hair our own dear boy seems so set on.
okay, so he catches me looking a couple of times, but i'm rationing it out, looking at least three other people in the line between glimpses of him. this is like the time i met the guy who was keefer sutherland's doopleganger. i'm taking hasty mental notes about what these features are like in the flesh, so to speak. best yet, they're close enough that i can hear what he's saying, and he's trying to persuade the people with him that they don't have to go to whatever departmental thing they're meant to be at tonight, they can go out drinking instead. yeehee.
and THEN ... god, i can hardly type it. the conversation turns to flying back after the summer vacation, and after some yackyack i hear him going on about how the "fuckin' stupid
stewardess almost made him miss his flight even though he was flying first class". and the clincher is, and i quote directly, "for someone as good looking as me, i'd expect better service".
i was seething, literally shaking from annoyance (oh, okay, that could have been the double shot latte i was drinking while i was in the line). and the worst part! after i finally got done with registering (one hour and twenty minutes, a new speed record, urgh), he and his friends were hanging around in the doorway of the accounts office, and when i walked by he had the temerity to do the eyebrow raise "how y'doin'?" thing. GOD. took me all my time not to walk up to him and tell he's walking around with some sizeable fraction of orlando bloom's genes but none of his ability to (accurately or not) give the impression of a charming personality.
which brings me to my questions.
Does this mean that orli (who is clearly genetically pretty similar to this guy) is also a primo asshole in real life? say it isn't so, even if it is.
Will i ever get over this? i'm filled with the urge to get elijah The Hell Away from orli, which will bomb everything i've ever written.
Or am i just lotrips obsessed? i mean, i know i am. i'm asking if it's so bad i maybe *imagined* he looked like ob, when really he looks like a monkey with a bad haircut.
i'm trying to soothe myself with the thought that it's never bothered my one way or the other if the guys are gay in rl; i know they clearly don't care if people *think* they're gay, and that's practically the same thing. surely (she said plaintively), any guy who's willing to look Pretty Damn Gay can't be all bad? CAN HE???
and if, god willing, he's a slash reading lj user, then YEAH, this means YOU.
no subject
And just from what I have heard Orli is a really nice person, very down to earth. So I hope you can get over this. I am sure Orli would want you to. ;)
no subject
thats crazy.
thats like saying if there is this bitch who kinda looks like you, that YOU are a bitch as well.
no subject
no subject
if they were related, that would be a different story....
but I know what you mean though....
no subject
no subject
i am charmed to know that, Scientifically Speaking, i share DNA with Elijah Wood. why o why didn't i get the hair?
glad they're teaching you something in that fancy skool of yours.
don't worry, dear, i'm sure you'll be back to your old Orli-loving self in no time. go home and watch him rubbing Ian's belly some more.
no subject
Do us a favor and delelte this community - entry. It´s OT.
am not flaming. it´s just ridiculous to post something like this into a community.
no subject
no subject
no subject
In short, that guy's behavior is no reflection on Orlando Bloom.
no subject
but, she said in very small wan voice, doesn't the same line of logic apply to orli? worse yet, i tried therapy via writing billy/dom, and *that* turned out dandy, they're engaged in a blood-drawing fist fight now. hopefully my angst-resistant coating will reassert itself pdq.
no subject
no subject