I suppose
there are many ways I could go on about the subject, but I like my own from a
few months back, when I stated that Tom Hiddleston was the most perfect man on
Earth, but that no one had ever said that
there had to be only one perfect man on the planet... I like the way I made that sentence work; the
second part I mean, cos I have been telling and retelling the anecdote to
anyone who cares to hear it, and when I finish up with my usual “He denied it,
but I don’t believe him, I know he is the most perfect man on Earth”, I have
had some mean stares from a couple of guys, and a bit of eyes rolling and
stuff... I’m often mean and do not finish my own
sentence, but there is a reason I do that: women are always being compared to actresses,
models and basically any other female that walks by when we’re with our male friends. We’re supposed to act like it doesn’t
matter. A lot of times it doesn’t matter. But when you turn the ball around, a lot of
guys explode a little, even if they don’t say it. Oy, where am I going with this...? Oh, yeah, the current flow of excessively
available world-wide media is slowly making us believe that beauty is not only
empirical, but that it has to be accepted by all in all at all... And that’s not fair. I say it because the number of teenagers (and
people of all ages, really) harming themselves or recurring to surgery to make
themselves more “agreeable” to the beholders has been sky-rocketing as of late,
and that is no news to anyone.
To begin
with, when we like someone it is because they have something that we either
have or wish to have. It could be
physical, their eyes, their nose, their lips; it could be a trait, their style,
their voice; how well they act or write or sing; if they’re in a charity or if
they’re a total bad-ass... whatever of
these things, if they remind us of us, or if we wish we were like that, reacted
like that, had that fashion sense or confidence or attitude. Whatever. Anything you can think of. That goes for people you’re interested in
sexually, romantically or friendshipsically, it doesn’t matter. Oh, and it goes for role models as well,
whatever gender they are, or whether you’d like them to be more than just role
models or not. This is usually explained
the other way around: if you don’t like someone, anyone, it is because they
resonate negatively on you; you have the same thing you don’t like in the
other. I’m not going to get into the
psychology of this, or into self-help stuff or whatnot (if you find it useful
and interesting, do some research into it, because by finding out why you
dislike someone or like another, you can reach into your bag of traits and
figure out a way of developing yourself into the person you want to be. Good luck and enjoy the process!), but I will
talk a little more about the actual liking of certain types (or stereotypes, or
maybe even possibly archetypes).
Let’s begin
with Loki. (And possibly finish with him, too, cos there are so many elements
to this guy that I doubt there’ll be any space within this entry to bring another
character in! Lol.) First question: who is it that we fans like, Tom Hiddleston or
Loki? And why? For basically everyone in
the Marvel Universe Fandom, Loki came as a gift from Heaven, erm-- Asgard. He is young and beautiful, extremely
charismatic, smart and clever enough to get away with most things he does... and
probably the funniest bad guy that ever existed in any superhero movie, what
else can we ask of him? Well, the
comic-book fans can bring in a little disagreement into this (I wouldn’t know
how much cos I’ve never read, and probably never will, any of the comic books),
but they’re not the ones to worry about:
I am sure there are many scholars of the Nordic mythology who are going
What the hell?? And that is, I am very
sorry to say this, my friends, indisputable.
What we are seeing on screen is a new version of Loki, not necessarily
true to the truth (true to the myth? No
that sounds wrong), but nonetheless phenomenal.
Here’s where it gets tricky: he
is not an empirical Loki (if there ever was such a thing...), but he is surely
an empirically awesome character.
Whether people like him or not, the truth is that the character is great
(in terms of the good creation of a good character), and he shall be respected
for that. Historians, he is a recreation
from an old character, that is all; and in the end they all are! Not just superheroes/villains, but anyone
from a book-to screen film: they are
adaptations based on the likes of the directors and producers, adapted to
screen-time and the interrelation to the other characters... whether they’re good or bad, that’s a whole
other matter (that is to say, some are empirically good, some are just not, and
some are well liked even though they’re not good... and some are not as liked even though they
were empirically better than other versions.
Like I said, that is a whole other matter).
Hm, an
empirical Loki... that actually sounds
scary, if you think about it mythologically...
Moving
on. So, Tom... he’s young, hot, and full of character and charisma
and energy. He’s also humble and very,
very human. He can bring a spark to his
characters because he has an especially clever sense of humour, and that makes
anyone be alive and gleaming as soon as he steps into that skin. Not the vampire, Adam, he wasn’t alive and
gleaming (thankfully!!), but you know what I mean. I know there are many of us who believe that
Loki wouldn’t have become so popular if it wasn’t for Tom. The lot of us who spent hours devouring the YouTube
videos where he’s majestically making fun of himself, and of the character (and
of *other* characters), with that gleam in his eye and easy laughter can vouch
for what I am saying. And maybe some,
like I did, fell in love with him because of that. Maybe the healthy thing to say here would be
Please don’t fall in love with Loki, the guy’s evil! Fall for Tom instead; he’s just as handsome
and won’t want to take over the world someday-- I think. I’m not judging, it’s just a suggestion. And on that note, I know there’s many people
who’ll go, Nah, he’s not my type, and this turns us back again into what Harry
said to Sally long ago: he’s empirically
gorgeous, but he’s not everyone’s type, and that’s all right.
(Still,
going for Loki is a little pathological, don’t you think? Then again, Tom’s an actor, we only see him
on screen or magazines or the really lucky ones in the theatre or such, so it
might be *a little pathological* to fall for him, too). Meh.
By the by,
I never got a picture with any Loki on Comic Con... they were all either girls or really young boys... and I only got two Tenth Doctor ones; they
were all really young boys! (And some
really cocky ones at that). OK, this has
nothing to do with what I’m saying, I just wanted to vent, hehehe.
Tastes
then... that’s how it works. I always give my example of Brad Pitt (and
for the last few years I’ve just gone Brangelina on it): I respect them both sooo much as actors, I
think they are incredibly professional, and amazingly human, and the whole
charity thing they’ve got going on, long live the king and queen! right? I just don’t find *either* of them
attractive. Never have. I was gonna add Never will but that sounds
doomish... Eh, so, I was talking about
this with a friend and she was like “Yeah, Sandra, but you’re the crazy one, not everyone else in the world”, and she’s
right. There are some of us who just
don’t see what the majority of people see...
You might say: Yo, you just devoted an entry to Tom Hiddleston! Fair enough, but probably 90% of the world
know who Brad is, and we cannot say the same for Tom. (This is not an official number, I’m just
trying to show here that likings will always also revolve between particular
groups and/or fandoms). Me, I like ‘em
skinny and athletic (a little muscle does fine, just remain human...); I like
brown eyes and hair and white skin (because we’ve already established that I am
quite vain), but will adapt to other colour schemes; I have
a thing for long and crooked noses, and used to be laughed about that in high
school... I was the one who wished could
back to old-time Hogwarts and go “Hey Snape, wash your hair and begin to act
confident and maybe we’d get something going on, wink wink”, but probably never
would do that even if I had a TARDIS cos that would change a few fixed points
in British History and who’d want that, right?
And I also like them nerdy. There
is no way Brad Pitt can ever fit into any of those descriptions... Most of my perfect men in my perfect men list
kind of do, but that’s, once again, a whole other story... So then, am I crazy? Yes, but not because of not liking Brad; I’ve
got *other* things going on. The truth
of the matter is and will always be that people are different, and that even if
they know someone to be perfect for other people’s eyes, they might not think it that much
themselves...
Here’s
where it gets self-helpy: same goes for you!
You might think you’re making yourself agreeable for a bunch of people,
but what if the one you’re meant to be with does not think you’re becoming
perfect and instead keeps on looking on for his/her perfect mate? I don’t ever mean to say that everyone should
stop exercising or not wear pretty clothes or accessories or makeup or
whatever... wear whatever makes you look
like *you*, like the real you, the one you wish people would adore, because
everyone is worth looking at with adoring eyes by someone, and no one should
ever need to hurt themselves or to go to great lengths to change this or that
to get that... Tom doesn’t try to claim
attention, he just does what he does, so he just *is*; Brangelina don’t do all
they do to get attention, they’re humanitarians and that’s a great thing to be,
they are healthy and look the way they do because they want to, not to make the
public happy (okay, the producers sometimes, hehe), and that makes them just be
*them*. And on that note: it’s awesome to find someone “perfect”, just make
sure that you’re looking deeper into that person and really consider if they
have other traits than just being physically gorgeous ;)
So then, I
hope I was able to say what I was trying to say in a fun way. I think the blog is just a very convenient
way for me to deliver my peculiar psyche to the world, so please don’t take it
the wrong way if I do a superficial ramble every once in a while... sometimes there’s just too much going on in
my head, and I need to let it out some way or another ;) and hopefully someone
will take something nice out of it, and hopefully the others will just laugh
and come back later to see if I’m a grown up again next time...
Cheers to
all, and have a lovely one!
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