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[nny]

I apologise, but I find all the Merlin love faintly freaksome. They're so very young!

(I'm entirely too conscious of my age, at present. I suspect I shan't do anything at all for my birthday, save go to work and then tuck myself into bed with a cup of tea. I'm going to be 26 - any exertion and I rather fear my limbs will protest the use and fall off.)

Comments

[gaffsie.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way. I could never get into that fandom. They're just kids!

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I prefer my men irascible and receding.

*prim*

(I'm also hugely amused by how very English I become when I'm writing Good Omens.)

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Hah, that's such a polite way of putting it.

PS: I have something TRULY HORRIBLE planned for you. Email me so I don't have to talk about it in public, please.

[refche.livejournal.com]

Enjoying the show over here, and I keep going boys but not in any fannish way. More like, it's ridiculous how young they are and how true to their age the characterized is considering Destiny.

Then again, I like watching The Sarah Jane Adventures and honestly adore Johnny Maxwell, so... you know. I think I'll be the same at 45. So while I'm not fannish about Merlin, and the slashers are kinda freaking me out (especially since I've known so many of them to be ridiculously het for years with shows that have much worse female characters, while this one has awesome girls) I can see how other people would be into it. They're young, but not that young. And they're not even that young considering the age they're growing up in. Not to mention, when I like something in a fannish way I don't like it in the same context as my real life. It allows me to think with fondness about Them exploring sexuality and other silly things kids do that someone older would find improper. (Or at least find improper that someone that's not a kid thinks of these things.)

Then again, I am seeing a 20 year old boy so this might just be me feeling defensive.

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

I agree with the comment above - I kind of adore them BECAUSE they're such teenage boys in the face of ZOMG DESTINYYYY and their very teenage boy love is just adorable.

The porn and actor-fandom bit does kind of freak me out, though, cause the guy playing Merlin is a year younger than me and apparently this hits my eeep button! Who knows. :) Apparently there really is nothing as old-inducing as people flailing over someone younger than you! (Thankfully Arthur is older than I am and therefore finding him very pretty doesn't bother me at all. *snort*)

[lavvyan.livejournal.com]

But they're so cute. So earnest and drama, it's just adorable.

And I'm even older than you are. ;p

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

They're the same age as Panic! (Who are also very young, yes, shh!)

[crysothemis.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm watching it and enjoying it, and philosophically, I have absolutely nothing against finding someone younger than myself attractive. (I'd better not, seeing as I'm three years older than my Other Half, and I started dating him when he was a mere babe of 18.)

But I haven't been feeling particularly fannish about it (not yet, anyway), and I think their age has something to do with it. It doesn't freak me out; it just doesn't appeal to me in the same way characters closer to my own age do.

[argosy.livejournal.com]

That's how I felt when I found out the American Idol guy was seventeen. That fandom is RPF so it's especially pervy. :) I suppose I shall have to give Merlin a try at some point...