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Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote2009-04-02 08:38 pm

The Theme Of This Entry Is 'Riona Shouldn't Be Allowed To Make Entries'.

From the article in which Derren Brown very quietly came out in September 2007:

You should always come out; life is so much easier. People generally aren't as bothered by your intimate secrets as you are. It took me being in a relationship with a guy for a month before I told anyone I was thus inclined.

I probably shouldn't, but I really, really want mildly angsty fanfiction about Derren coming to terms with his sexuality. I like to think that he didn't actually realise he was gay until he was well into his thirties, and that he became quite angry with himself for taking so bloody long to work it out. I like to think that he couldn't quite suppress his Christian guilt, despite having shaken off his Christian beliefs years ago. I like to think that Derren still thought of himself as straight for about two weeks into his first gay relationship.

I like to think that I am not a bad person despite wanting people to write stories about a real person's sexuality angst, but I have a suspicion that this may be too much to hope for.


In other news: erm. All right. I have been trying to put this off with entries about Avatar and Doctor Who and Derren Brown, but I suppose it had to happen eventually.

You see, I visited [livejournal.com profile] th_esaurus a couple of weeks ago, and she showed me some things, and, er.

Er. Well.

I find myself sort of charmed by the Jonas brothers.

I'm so sorry, guys.

(SHE SHOWED ME KEVIN'S RIDICULOUS SOS DANCE. HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO RESIST THAT DANCE?

Also, Nick Jonas looks like he could be the Doctor. And Kevin has a tendency to rub himself against Joe whilst they perform in a rather unbrotherly manner. (I tried and failed to find an example of this on YouTube, so I'm afraid you'll have to take my word for it, unless anyone can help in the comments.)

If Nick is the Doctor, Kevin is the Master, driven to evil by his unrequited love for Joe, Nick's companion.

...I can no longer even pretend to think that I am not a bad person.)

[identity profile] serriadh.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I like the fact that he has subsequently (I think, I'll see if I can find it somewhere) backtracked slightly on his initial 'oh I'm the most self-aware person ever and am now a confident and persuaive performer, not the nervous little overachieving too-bright-for-his-own-good child, BUT I KIND OF OVERLOOKED THAT I WAS GAY BECAUSE GOD HATES IT' and went with 'of course it's never a secret to your family and close friends, but eventually you have to make a statement or the press thinks it's a big secret and it all gets weird'. I SAW WHAT YOU DID THERE DERREN.

I want strangeumbrella to write it, please. Or you. Or anyone, frankly. Also, MY DERREN WON'T HAVE SEX WITH ANYONE. WHY NOT, DERREN, GILES IS IN YOUR HOUSE LOOKING AT YOUR BOOKS. SEX HIM NOW.

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[identity profile] dracothelizard.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"WHY NOT, DERREN, GILES IS IN YOUR HOUSE LOOKING AT YOUR BOOKS. SEX HIM NOW."

I guess Derren and Giles think that books > sex, and I can't quite blame them.

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[identity profile] emmarrrrr.livejournal.com 2009-04-03 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
WAT

GILES/DERREN IS THE BEST THING EVER

JUST

DFKJDHBGKJDFHGKJDFHG MY MIND EXPLODED WITH AWESOME

[identity profile] dracothelizard.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I like how you're basically admitting you're charmed by the Jonas brothers in the same post that has Derren and his coming out interview. Why were you so ashamed about this, Riona? As Derren already says: "People generally aren't as bothered by your intimate secrets as you are." You should accept your Jonas-liking self!

[identity profile] moogle62.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
SEE: EMAILLLLL

[identity profile] moogle62.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
also: trufax, I saw the trailer for that film where Matthew Perry becomes Zac Efron, and I turned to my mother and said, "That needs to come out while I'm at Riona's, so we can see it!"

Alas, it is not out until I have left your home DDD:

BUT I WOULD HAVE SEEN IT WITH YOU

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[identity profile] make-a-move.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
One by one, my flist is slowly falling victim to the Jonas Brothers. I'M GOING TO BE THE LAST ONE LEFT. It'll be like And Then There Were None.

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[identity profile] nomelon.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
The Jonas Brothers?? Say it isn't so! You, missy, have no fannish willpower WHATSOEVER.

Though, yeah, okay, he does look rather like the Doctor.

[identity profile] dancesontrains.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
...Is this a SPN thing? Sad2say I am blaming it for being an incesty gateway >:(

Srsly, I'm going to show you some Bollywood films and you will love them <3

[identity profile] thrennion.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
First of all, that article is awesome and lovely. He has such a way with words, doesn't he? And it kinda makes me feel better about my own coming out. n_n I would love to write that 'fic if I had more knowledge and writing-skillz in order to make it good.

Secondly, WHAT. THE JONAS BROTHERS. I REFUSE TO GO INTO THIS FANDOM WITH YOU, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS. SERIOUSLY. I WOULD LOSE MY INDIE CRED.
Or, whatever Indie Cred I have left.

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[identity profile] calamitysxchild.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"I find myself sort of charmed by the Jonas brothers."

*jumps out of her window screaming *

D:

[identity profile] bubl.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh Riona. I'm so ashamed. (Also, RPS incest? What has become of you?)

I'm tackling this entry backwards- I would like that fic very much! You could write it you know *nudge nudge*

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[identity profile] amy-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
...damn you, damn you Riona!

I hate it when people tempt me with fic I probably shouldn't write because it could way too easily turn into thinly disguised talking-about-my-past-personal-issues fic. (I'm fine. But I still tend to handle assorted comings out by email, preferably from at least a continent away.) It's just all fitting together: the not-getting-it, the "How could I have been so clueless?" moment, the vague and extremely confused religious guilt of the irrational "I'm quite sure there isn't actually a god, let alone a specifically homophobic one, but GOD HATES IT!" sort. It's just all falling into place inside my head, and it's clearly a bad idea!

Up until this point, my only vaguely-autobiographical fic were the one where Richard Hammond's caught in a coup attempt, and the one where the Doctor's stuck in Versailles (...yes, I'm a bit odd).

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[identity profile] reipan.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sort of with amy_wolf here; I've so far resisted writing any coming-out fic at all, because it's a little too close to home and I fear I'd end up sounding whiny and dogmatic. (Not, again, that my experience was so very traumatic in the grand scheme of all comings-out ever; it's more a worry that I'd sound cheesy than a worry that I'd COLLAPSE FROM THE PAIN.)

I don't actually know who the Jonas brothers are. (And I'm okay with that, I hasten to add.)

I haven't told you how I was in Leicester Square on the night of the UK premiere of 17 Again, have I? I had to fight my way through a crowd of screaming Zac Efron fans. It was...mildly surreal.

[identity profile] amy-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-04-02 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
That's it! I don't have Epic Trauma. It'd just sort of awkward and dorky and tedious and possibly whiny. But Derren Brown fans seem to like awkward and dorky, so there's that.

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[identity profile] vzg.livejournal.com 2009-04-03 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
JONAS. FUCKING. BROTHERS. Last time my best friend was in the city with me she got me into them. (I wonder what crazy thing she'll get me into this time around!)

Image

DO THEY NOT LOOK LIKE A RAG-TAG TROUPE OF GAY TEEN RUNAWAYS HEADED FOR HOLLYWOOD (OR POSSIBLY NEW YORK)? They so do. Admit it.

[identity profile] vzg.livejournal.com 2009-04-03 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I meant to say a rag-tag troupe of gay teen runaways headed for Hollywood/New York in the '80s.

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[identity profile] honeymull.livejournal.com 2009-04-03 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
I now have to share your wishful thinkings on the processes of Derren's sexuality, if only because those processes were TOTALLY MINE and I want to share something with Derren.

*shifty eyes*

Oh god. I'M IN TOO DEEP. I think watching Evening of Wonders again will help me, um. Get...out. Yes. I should do that.

[identity profile] bubbles-san.livejournal.com 2009-04-04 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Were the two slashy Jo-Bros the same ones that weren't the main singers in Camp Rock? Because if they are, I noticed the shashiness between them as well. (By the way, how are you coming on that SPN/CR crossover?)