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Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote2010-06-09 02:58 pm

In Which Riona's Journal Becomes Heat Magazine.

So it turns out that Charlie Brooker and Konnie Huq are engaged! I am a bit sad that the media found out, because I suspect that the plan was to get married secretly and then go 'LOL WE'RE MARRIED AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WE WERE DATING', which would have been hilarious. Alas, it was not to be.

I won't pretend my reaction to the news wasn't mixed, given how unexpected it was and the part of my little fannish heart that massively 'ships Brooker with David Mitchell/Victoria Coren/me. But the two of them are charmingly mismatched, and Huq seemed adorable during Konnie's Great British Wee (parts one, two): 'I'm Konnie Huq. I'm thirty-three years old, but I look about nine, and for as long as I can remember I've been fascinated by the world of urination.'

(I really hope that Konnie's Great British Wee was how Huq and Brooker first met. I can't imagine a better answer to the question 'So, how did you two meet?' than 'Well, we were making a documentary about weeing in public...')

Also, Brooker has seemed happier and calmer in recent months than he used to be, and perhaps that's due to Huq's influence. If so, that's a good thing. Brooker's misanthropy and rage may be entertaining, but I disagree with comments I've seen on the Internet criticising him for becoming more mellow; it's absurd to wish unhappiness upon someone we admire for the sake of our amusement (and, in any case, I think he's still hilarious even in his mellowed state). I wish them the very best of luck.

(My only real selfish concern about this is how it will affect the Brooker fandom. I love this fandom, but this revelation has made me feel a bit guilty about writing for it. I hope I'll be able to get past this, because Brooker and Mitchell are such a joy to write (and read) for. I'm not ready to switch fandoms yet.

I suppose I can always write gen.)

[identity profile] derryderrydown.livejournal.com 2010-06-09 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't even know Mitchell had a brother, which makes me feel distinctly less creepy for the amount of other stuff I know about him.

My problem with RPF is that I adore fandoms that let me do shedloads of research. With fictional fandoms, this is fine. Learning German so I don't have to rely on dodgy subtitles? Great! Going to Syria and Jordan to follow TE Lawrence's travels? Nothing wrong with that!

However, knowing the village where Brooker grew up? Creepy. As. Fuck. (Which is why I have an anonymeme prompt currently stalled.)

But I think my issue with a Huq-less AU is how often women get ignored/sidelined in fanfic and I don't especially want to do that. But, equally, I don't want to write Brooker/Huq because OMFG WAY TOO CREEPY EURGH. And I'd probably feel equally EURGH, with bonus inclination to pull all my fanfic offline, if Brooker and Mitchell were engaged.

(When I was in Top Gear fandom, I wrote in a universe in which their personas on the show were actually 100% totally real and things accidentally caught fire all the time and there was no such thing as health & safety. This meant that, because Jeremy and Richard had both mentioned their wives, they were married. However, James was single because, at that point, he hadn't mentioned his girlfriend. And the Stig was an alien. Probably with tentacles. On his face.)

Oh, RPF, why are you so complicated?

[identity profile] nixwilliams.livejournal.com 2010-06-09 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
come on, stig as a-man-in-a-suit is a preposterous idea!