00Q and Whishaw stannish feelings, I have them

[sevenswells]

You guise, 00Q is a BABY FANDOM.
IT'S ADORABLE.
I was (more or less) there when it was born and now I'm watching it grow with motherly pride. The fans are calling themselves "00Qties" or are hashtagging everything with "#00Qpioneers4satan" (after an inside joke between friends on tumblr apparently) and they're all very cute and enthusiastic and there are more and more fics on AO3 everyday and NOTHING HURTS.

We've discussed it with berylia, and the reason we think 00Q is a ship that took off so quickly is that right now almost every major fandom is on hiatus. Most of us fangirls are waiting for season 3 of Sherlock, and Teen Wolf , the next Avengers movie and Iron Man 3, and I don't know where they're up to in Supernatural but I'm guessing it must also be on hiatus since, when I look at the people reblogging 00Q stuff on Tumblr, most of the usernames have to do with the aforementioned fandoms. So Skyfall had in fact the right timing to make us fall in love with the pairing, I don't think it was calculated, but well done, and I hope that they're going to take that into account for the next Bond movie, especially since there are rumours that Mr Cumberbatch might be the next Bond villain (personal wishlist: I hope Benedict plays a highly intelligent criminal mastermind that targets Q himself and then Bond has to save his darling from evil!Benny's clutches, IT WOULD BE SUPER AWESOME)

We went to see Skyfall again yesterday, then we watched my DVD of Brideshead Revisited (I LOVED it, it was actually a very good film even though it broke my heart a bit) and now I feel I'm becoming dangerously obsessed with Ben Whishaw, which is really unfair, because I have enough British actors ruining my life already. I learned on Tumblr that Whishaw also played Andrew Scott's gay lover onstage and that fucked me up a bit more and the image in my head alone makes me want to curl up on the floor and start crying.
So at 2 in the morning yesterday I watched interviews of him and completely melted because he's so fucking kawaii and looks so horribly shy and intimidated in front of cameras when he's not acting:

In real life apparently, he's dating Bright Star's music composer Mark Bradshaw AND THEY LOOK REALLY ADORABLE TOGETHER:



SO. FUCKING. KAWAII.

I've heard Skyfall opens in the US starting tomorrow, GO SEE IT, American people from my f-list, you need it in your life!

Comments

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Well they're not as bad as Sherlock or Who (or Avengers) but they're not exactly quiet.

[berylia.livejournal.com]

What fandom is quiet ? Isn't it the very nature of fandom to be quite rowdy and vociferous ?

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Oh man. Lots of fandoms are pretty quiet. You have no idea. Some are pretty shy and skittish. Some hide under bushes, and stock pile cans and munitions for the apocalypse. Some hide in members only clubs and you are not invited. Some throw this wild party every year and are hibernating the rest of the time. Some take place in libraries and they have well ordered discussions and if you speak out of turn or too loudly you will be glared to death.

No, not all fandoms are rowdy and vociferous.

[berylia.livejournal.com]

I think I've only been into vociferous fandom then. Those where you squeal all you can and flail and have big epic clashes and all the merry adventures of fandom.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if that makes you lucky or not.

Never stuck to a fandom while it was dying, then?

[berylia.livejournal.com]

No, I think I'm a sort of rat, I abandon ship and indeed let it die slowly, wich shows that while my passion burns high it also fades, not that I don't love the ship anymore but slowly I get into other things...

I am disappoint with myself...

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

well it's the smart thing ^_^ going down with the ship can be depressing.

[berylia.livejournal.com]

I know but what about the promise we all make to go down with this ship... Rhaaaaa... makes me sad....

Let's have a ship :

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

that's a pretty ship!!

[berylia.livejournal.com]

That's the 00Q ship. Wich I find marvelous.