Crush
There's been a little side discussion on CleanPlace about crushes. Most of the girls (guys noticeably absent) that weighed in have admitted to having crushes, on actors, fictional characters, and real-life guys. What's worse? Having a crush on some famous person you know you'll never have a chance with? Or having a crush on someone who doesn't actually exist?
That's about as deep as my thinking goes about the matter. I ask the deep questions, and then I get distracted by all the fictional characters I have crushes on. :P
My first crush was on a fictional character. I was five years old, and I had to shut my eyes (and cover my ears) when Bruce Banner turned into the Incredible Hulk. But when Bruce, played by the late Bill Bixby, was calm, I thought he was beautiful. Dark hair, blue eyes, bell bottoms . . . And he seemed so serene when he wasn't hulking out. Very peaceful.
Of course I had a crush on MacGyver. Who didn't have a crush on MacGyver? He was adorable and brainy and jumped out of planes. The trifecta of desirable traits. Also, it would be so helpful to have a guy around who could get you out of any troublesome situation with a paperclip and some duct tape.
I have crushes on book characters too. Harry Dresden is pretty crushworthy. He's the main character in the fantasy book series The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher.* I had a big crush for a while on Benton Wesley, a character in Patricia Cornwell's mysteries. He's an awesome forensic psychologist and FBI profiler who is way too good for medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. I was so mad at her when it appeared that she'd killed him off. I almost stopped reading her books.
HUGE crush on the Doctor from Doctor Who. The Doctor is awesome now, but it was the tenth incarnation that I had the biggest crush on. When my brother first introduced me to Doctor Who, he said, "You'll probably think he's cute, since you like dweeby guys." And my friend Amy once told me, "You always did go for the dorks." :P It's not just the dork in the Doctor, although I do swoon whenever his reading glasses come out. The Doctor just puts himself out there--however he feels (and he feels everything deeply and strongly), he shows it. Anger, sadness, fear, joy . . . It's all right there, no guessing needed.
I do have another dweeby crush. Inspector Lewis is a British mystery series that airs on PBS sometimes. Inspector Lewis's junior partner, Sgt. Hathaway, is pretty dreamy. In my world, anyway. He's sort of goony, tall and lanky and makes these weird faces. But he's just awesome. He was studying to be a priest, but went into the police force instead. Which makes sense, I suppose, since I have a bit of a thing for priest characters (don't ask me why--it's a mystery even I can't fathom).
My biggest fictional crush, though, is on Peter Bishop. Excuse me while I swoon. And I reserve the right to swoon multiple times as I write this. I've always thought the actor who played him, Joshua Jackson, was pretty darn good-looking, as far back as the Mighty Ducks days. And that voice. Swoon.
Peter Bishop is a character on the sci-fi show Fringe. How do I love him? Let me count the ways . . . The voice. Okay, I admit that's a characteristic of the actor himself, not the character. Ditto with that slow-blinking thing he does that I find rather irresistible. Double swoon. Peter is sort of enigmatic. When we meet him in the pilot, he's in Iraq, being kind of shifty. We're never told exactly what he was doing there, just tantalizing bits like the fact that his name is on several watchlists, that he can fix anything, that he faked his way to a degree at MIT. You know he's been a bad boy in the past, but you don't know how, and that draws you to him.
Peter is sarcastic and funny and charming. He can talk his way out of most situations, but he's not afraid to get physical. Yeah, I found myself cheering the time he nailed a fleeing bad guy with a crowbar. Oh, I swoon. There's nothing dorky about him--he's a little too cool to be dorky--so he goes against my so-called type, but who cares. Peter is awesome.
If this was a normal blog, I suppose it would resolve the questions posed at the beginning. But like I said, I ask the deep questions and then I get distracted by things like this:
*I do not have a crush on Jim Butcher because a) he's married, b) his hair is way too long, and c) his author photo always reminds me of that scene in Napoleon Dynamite where Deb is taking Uncle Rico's picture, and she says, "Now make a fist, and bring it up slowly under your chin."
There's been a little side discussion on CleanPlace about crushes. Most of the girls (guys noticeably absent) that weighed in have admitted to having crushes, on actors, fictional characters, and real-life guys. What's worse? Having a crush on some famous person you know you'll never have a chance with? Or having a crush on someone who doesn't actually exist?
That's about as deep as my thinking goes about the matter. I ask the deep questions, and then I get distracted by all the fictional characters I have crushes on. :P
My first crush was on a fictional character. I was five years old, and I had to shut my eyes (and cover my ears) when Bruce Banner turned into the Incredible Hulk. But when Bruce, played by the late Bill Bixby, was calm, I thought he was beautiful. Dark hair, blue eyes, bell bottoms . . . And he seemed so serene when he wasn't hulking out. Very peaceful.
Of course I had a crush on MacGyver. Who didn't have a crush on MacGyver? He was adorable and brainy and jumped out of planes. The trifecta of desirable traits. Also, it would be so helpful to have a guy around who could get you out of any troublesome situation with a paperclip and some duct tape.
I have crushes on book characters too. Harry Dresden is pretty crushworthy. He's the main character in the fantasy book series The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher.* I had a big crush for a while on Benton Wesley, a character in Patricia Cornwell's mysteries. He's an awesome forensic psychologist and FBI profiler who is way too good for medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. I was so mad at her when it appeared that she'd killed him off. I almost stopped reading her books.
HUGE crush on the Doctor from Doctor Who. The Doctor is awesome now, but it was the tenth incarnation that I had the biggest crush on. When my brother first introduced me to Doctor Who, he said, "You'll probably think he's cute, since you like dweeby guys." And my friend Amy once told me, "You always did go for the dorks." :P It's not just the dork in the Doctor, although I do swoon whenever his reading glasses come out. The Doctor just puts himself out there--however he feels (and he feels everything deeply and strongly), he shows it. Anger, sadness, fear, joy . . . It's all right there, no guessing needed.
I do have another dweeby crush. Inspector Lewis is a British mystery series that airs on PBS sometimes. Inspector Lewis's junior partner, Sgt. Hathaway, is pretty dreamy. In my world, anyway. He's sort of goony, tall and lanky and makes these weird faces. But he's just awesome. He was studying to be a priest, but went into the police force instead. Which makes sense, I suppose, since I have a bit of a thing for priest characters (don't ask me why--it's a mystery even I can't fathom).
My biggest fictional crush, though, is on Peter Bishop. Excuse me while I swoon. And I reserve the right to swoon multiple times as I write this. I've always thought the actor who played him, Joshua Jackson, was pretty darn good-looking, as far back as the Mighty Ducks days. And that voice. Swoon.
Peter Bishop is a character on the sci-fi show Fringe. How do I love him? Let me count the ways . . . The voice. Okay, I admit that's a characteristic of the actor himself, not the character. Ditto with that slow-blinking thing he does that I find rather irresistible. Double swoon. Peter is sort of enigmatic. When we meet him in the pilot, he's in Iraq, being kind of shifty. We're never told exactly what he was doing there, just tantalizing bits like the fact that his name is on several watchlists, that he can fix anything, that he faked his way to a degree at MIT. You know he's been a bad boy in the past, but you don't know how, and that draws you to him.
Peter is sarcastic and funny and charming. He can talk his way out of most situations, but he's not afraid to get physical. Yeah, I found myself cheering the time he nailed a fleeing bad guy with a crowbar. Oh, I swoon. There's nothing dorky about him--he's a little too cool to be dorky--so he goes against my so-called type, but who cares. Peter is awesome.
If this was a normal blog, I suppose it would resolve the questions posed at the beginning. But like I said, I ask the deep questions and then I get distracted by things like this:
*I do not have a crush on Jim Butcher because a) he's married, b) his hair is way too long, and c) his author photo always reminds me of that scene in Napoleon Dynamite where Deb is taking Uncle Rico's picture, and she says, "Now make a fist, and bring it up slowly under your chin."
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