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extemporally) wrote2010-03-25 07:04 pm
extemporally) wrote2010-03-25 07:04 pm
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I want your bad romance!!!
My days are now enlivened by quoting bits of Be Good Johnny Weir. I know this makes me sound like I am crazy; also twelve, but I'm sorry. It's true! Quoting, to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
forochel, as she is marginally invested in skating RPF because I made her read the accidental marriage WIP (see how I subtly linked you all there again?) without, uh, telling her it was a WIP. I AM A CUNNING BASTARD.
Anyway. I've torrented and watched all the episodes of Be Good so far except the latest (which only became available today) and it is seriously ridiculous how quickly I've become overinvested in Johnny Weir's life. It is the most hurty thing on earth! There is so much, idk, losing confidence and falling sick and slipping on ice (in competition, even), and last night I was reduced to making squeaky noises of woe at my computer. FOR REAL. My face, it was truly sad last night.
(Then I had to laugh, of course, when the last episode I watched ended with Johnny frotting against his foot massager. OH JOHNNY.)
Anyway, my point is, I just keep quoting him. It is probably very annoying to people I chat with these past few days, but: "And people are like, 'Why do you have a dog on your costume?' and I'm like, 'It's not a dog, it's a gargoyle. Can't you see that it's a gargoyle? Are you stupid?'" and, ""Can I give you a wisdom inspiration from an older person? Everybody gonna die!" SHUT YOUR STUPID FACE JOHNNY WEIR.
Johnny Weir was a taller girl once, too. *________________________*
There was this really interesting discussion here on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
weirsjohnny about Viecheslav Romanov, Johnny's Russian reporter alter-ego. It filled me with thinky thoughts! And also made me really happy, because genderbending, and clever Johnny Weir. It's a pretty great post, tbh.
(Not to say nothing Evan Lysacek, obviously -- the first couple of times we chatted about figure skatingforochel kept asking me, "But why do people hate Evan?" and I had to explain, no, of course people don't hate Evan, STOP BEING STUPID. They would not slash him with Johnny Weir otherwise! ... then I realised that I actually liked Evan and had to read some more fic to deal with that epiphany.)
And, I also want to talk about! Remember that time Popnography wrote about Panic's show and about Brendon's fey pointed-toe curtsey and we were all like, "... did a fandomer write this?" Well, look at this --
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From here. This article is like that Popnography one times one million, which I'm actually... pretty uneasy about. I'm not quite sure about the tone of the article as a whole, which seems weirdly uncomfortable and condescending at some points.ashlein suggested that it might that even though the writer recognises that his desire to see Johnny Weir's big gay flamboyant show is kind of wrong-footed, it's still there. I thought that was pretty true, and the insistence on that was disturbing.
But. This is also true:
There's just something so true about this -- countless are the times that I've wanted to refer to Be Good as a documentary series! It makes me want to read really long character-driven fic, and even though so far I've been reading all the ridic figure skating fic, I think I could actually be invested in the way that makes me want to think thinky thoughts, and read canon-heavy angst fic, and spend all my time overthinking things in general. Maaaaaan. ♥
forochel, as she is marginally invested in skating RPF because I made her read the accidental marriage WIP (see how I subtly linked you all there again?) without, uh, telling her it was a WIP. I AM A CUNNING BASTARD. Anyway. I've torrented and watched all the episodes of Be Good so far except the latest (which only became available today) and it is seriously ridiculous how quickly I've become overinvested in Johnny Weir's life. It is the most hurty thing on earth! There is so much, idk, losing confidence and falling sick and slipping on ice (in competition, even), and last night I was reduced to making squeaky noises of woe at my computer. FOR REAL. My face, it was truly sad last night.
(Then I had to laugh, of course, when the last episode I watched ended with Johnny frotting against his foot massager. OH JOHNNY.)
Anyway, my point is, I just keep quoting him. It is probably very annoying to people I chat with these past few days, but: "And people are like, 'Why do you have a dog on your costume?' and I'm like, 'It's not a dog, it's a gargoyle. Can't you see that it's a gargoyle? Are you stupid?'" and, ""Can I give you a wisdom inspiration from an older person? Everybody gonna die!" SHUT YOUR STUPID FACE JOHNNY WEIR.
Johnny Weir was a taller girl once, too. *________________________*
There was this really interesting discussion here on
weirsjohnny about Viecheslav Romanov, Johnny's Russian reporter alter-ego. It filled me with thinky thoughts! And also made me really happy, because genderbending, and clever Johnny Weir. It's a pretty great post, tbh. (Not to say nothing Evan Lysacek, obviously -- the first couple of times we chatted about figure skating
forochel kept asking me, "But why do people hate Evan?" and I had to explain, no, of course people don't hate Evan, STOP BEING STUPID. They would not slash him with Johnny Weir otherwise! ... then I realised that I actually liked Evan and had to read some more fic to deal with that epiphany.)And, I also want to talk about! Remember that time Popnography wrote about Panic's show and about Brendon's fey pointed-toe curtsey and we were all like, "... did a fandomer write this?" Well, look at this --
There is absolutely an air of homoeroticism at work in the series — we get many close-ups of Weir's wiry frame and plenty of lusty, lingering shots of his cutesy-pootsey competitors: clean-cut American rival Evan Lysacek, lupine Swissman Stéphane Lambiel, and frequently shirtless Frenchie Brian Joubert.
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The two boys are shown in the first segment of the show naked-ish in a bathtub, conducting a fake interview about Weir while he wears a blonde wig and affects a Russian accent. In another segment, the two gents roll around on a bed together, loose-limbed and seemingly unconcerned (or perhaps deliberately provoking?) the inevitable questions about the exact nature of their relationship.
From here. This article is like that Popnography one times one million, which I'm actually... pretty uneasy about. I'm not quite sure about the tone of the article as a whole, which seems weirdly uncomfortable and condescending at some points.
ashlein suggested that it might that even though the writer recognises that his desire to see Johnny Weir's big gay flamboyant show is kind of wrong-footed, it's still there. I thought that was pretty true, and the insistence on that was disturbing. But. This is also true:
What did seem shiny and gay and ridiculous in promos is, in fact, a strangely ruminative and Terrence Malick-esque affair. ... what we get in the actual airing is a pleasingly left-of-center portrait of a moody and driven man on a mission, one who acts the way he wants to act and talks the way he wants to talk because he ultimately trusts his skating to speak for itself.
There's just something so true about this -- countless are the times that I've wanted to refer to Be Good as a documentary series! It makes me want to read really long character-driven fic, and even though so far I've been reading all the ridic figure skating fic, I think I could actually be invested in the way that makes me want to think thinky thoughts, and read canon-heavy angst fic, and spend all my time overthinking things in general. Maaaaaan. ♥
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Oh man, yes. It was heartbreaking. And he was all sad and then Paris showed us his apartment and said how happy he was now and it was even worse.
I think it has something to do with the voice, it just sounded more masculine, and I think if he was trying for female he could have made it, well, more female. ;)
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You have a good point there! I wonder if Johnny really intended for us to read Viecheslav as "female" while giving him a deliberately male name just to fuck with us, or if he was supposed to be UNQUESTIONABLY male.
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