Day the Third
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aruanToday, we take a look at a fascinating phenomenon within popslash fandom.
This is something I initially found interesting, then amusing, then oddly perverse, then downright bizarre - the Lance as calculating, shamelessly manipulating, dispassionate snarky bitch characterization. Now, obviously I still haven't watched my fair share of footage because this must come from somewhere. The worst I've seen is a few fleeting facial expressions and some overly diplomatic answers. I suppose I can see how some would call his features reptilian - the cool eyes, the calculated smile, the ("perpetually sarcastic") arch of his left eyebrow.
[None of this, of course, is to say that his personality is something anyone who doesn't know him personally (duh) can know definitively. So the best we can do is "canon" (fanon? I don't think I mean that though) Lance, who isn't a matter of right or wrong (by canon, I only mean the character that exists for those involved in the fandom, not Lance himself.)]
His almost total inability to act is a testament to his earnestness - I'm as sarcastic as they come, yet when it comes to acting, there's just too much that's me in everything I do.
Yeah, they all say he's the biggest liar. He *will* give you an "Are you really asking me that?" look he does so well if you deserve it. But I've never come across articles about Lance throwing diva fits, hassling crew, or the like (to indicate that his real personality is something he keeps strictly under wraps for the cameras). I just don't *get* that from him.
However, I hope this recommendation will reflect my strange affection for this choice of portrayal regardless of the aforementioned. Forgivably non-canonical hotness in my book.
Don't by Tiffany Rawlins
Lance is going to have fun, he's going to find something fun to do with his night if he breaks his jaw smiling. He is twenty-two years old and he has a good body. Hell, he almost has a certifiably great body by now, and he may not be sure how much he likes the pants their stylist picked for him but he is still going to get laid. He can get laid. He's good at getting laid. If his jaw's gonna hurt tomorrow it might as well be because it got used proper.
Hers is a name that will come up more than once as the month goes on. Here, Lance decides he's not having enough organized fun and decides to corral some of his own. It's sharp and hard-edged and lets just say Lance gets more than what he bargains for with that cavalier attitude.
This is something I initially found interesting, then amusing, then oddly perverse, then downright bizarre - the Lance as calculating, shamelessly manipulating, dispassionate snarky bitch characterization. Now, obviously I still haven't watched my fair share of footage because this must come from somewhere. The worst I've seen is a few fleeting facial expressions and some overly diplomatic answers. I suppose I can see how some would call his features reptilian - the cool eyes, the calculated smile, the ("perpetually sarcastic") arch of his left eyebrow.
[None of this, of course, is to say that his personality is something anyone who doesn't know him personally (duh) can know definitively. So the best we can do is "canon" (fanon? I don't think I mean that though) Lance, who isn't a matter of right or wrong (by canon, I only mean the character that exists for those involved in the fandom, not Lance himself.)]
His almost total inability to act is a testament to his earnestness - I'm as sarcastic as they come, yet when it comes to acting, there's just too much that's me in everything I do.
Yeah, they all say he's the biggest liar. He *will* give you an "Are you really asking me that?" look he does so well if you deserve it. But I've never come across articles about Lance throwing diva fits, hassling crew, or the like (to indicate that his real personality is something he keeps strictly under wraps for the cameras). I just don't *get* that from him.
However, I hope this recommendation will reflect my strange affection for this choice of portrayal regardless of the aforementioned. Forgivably non-canonical hotness in my book.
Don't by Tiffany Rawlins
Lance is going to have fun, he's going to find something fun to do with his night if he breaks his jaw smiling. He is twenty-two years old and he has a good body. Hell, he almost has a certifiably great body by now, and he may not be sure how much he likes the pants their stylist picked for him but he is still going to get laid. He can get laid. He's good at getting laid. If his jaw's gonna hurt tomorrow it might as well be because it got used proper.
Hers is a name that will come up more than once as the month goes on. Here, Lance decides he's not having enough organized fun and decides to corral some of his own. It's sharp and hard-edged and lets just say Lance gets more than what he bargains for with that cavalier attitude.
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Date: May 6th, 2003 09:29 pm (UTC)It certainly does and until I'd seen the footage I was also mystified as to why people portrayed Lance as bitchy and queeny, but let's just say footage like Total Access 24/7: On the set of On the Line and the Rolling Stone interview totally changed my mind and then some. And yeah, it may have made me love him even more than I had previously, too. ;)
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Date: May 6th, 2003 10:25 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: May 6th, 2003 10:41 pm (UTC)Really? Well, they certainly seemed so to me. ::shrugs:: It's all highly subjective of course.
Just out of interest, what have you heard *is* demonstrative of the characterisation? I haven't been in the fandom *that* long, so I'm sure there's a whole heap I haven't seen, either.
Any specific instances in them or any other that come to mind?
The Total Access special in its complete form is a great example of bitchy, queeny Lance. He orders Joey around the supermarket, he's a diva in the kitchen, he wipes his mouth thoroughly after he and Emmanuelle tape their kissing scene (I was half expecting him to say "ewwww! girl germs!)... I could go on. But it's all done with a smile on his face, it's all good-natured, which I guess is how i see Lance. He seems bitchy, yes, but a happy, positive, good-natured bitch, nonetheless.
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Date: May 6th, 2003 11:12 pm (UTC)Lance is the one ordering Joey around in the kitchen?! I've seen the screencaps, but that's got to be adorably incongruous. And the thing with Emanuelle! Bwahahahaha!
*wipes a tear* Thanks for those visuals, truly. I can see him having opinions of annoying/insipid people and that coming out, but his baseline does seem genuinely good. He knows what he likes and doesn't feel he should have to put up with the rest. :) A common enough trait - after all, there's a little diva in everyone.