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Het Will Make You Grow Taller, Slash Will Make You Grow Shorter
Since I am shipping Mad Swan (one of the few het pairings I've encountered in semi canon of anything where I'm genuinely, authentically like "I'll be in bunk") I have read a lot of fic about them. Which brings me to a pet peeve that only grows stronger every day.
Stop saying he's tall. Geez, seriously, stop it.
He's not tall. He's not so short that you could put him in your pocket or anything(he's taller than Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr, I believe) but he's certainly not tall enough to ever be described accurately as "tall". we've been through this already
look at him standing next to both Lana Parilla and Jennifer Morrison in 'Hat Trick',. He is taller than them but not by enough for it to be something worth remarking on, just in the general way men are often taller than women.
And yet a lot of OUaT het fics go out of their way to make sure we know Jefferson is "tall". I ran across a random fic that had Emma and Ruby describing him as "six foot three". In what alternate universe where he is played by a different actor?
It's like the opposite of that slash trope where writers make/draw one of the guys- usually the uke/bottom as extra short. And use of the word "little" has appeared in some Hatter slash (he's almost always the bottom in OUaT slash). But Kings fic usually correctly observes that Jack and David Shepherd were nearly the same height.
Other young men on OuAT as their heights compare to Jefferson:
Josh Dallas (David/Charming) is six foot one.
Colin O'Donahue (Hook) is five foot eleven
Eoin Bailey (August) is six feet
Jamie Dornan (Sheriff Graham) is six feet
David Anders (Dr Whale) is six feet
Not only is he not six foot three (at five eleven, he's below average and one of the shorter guys in this cast), none of these guys are. It wouldn't surprise me if they deliberately tried to make sure Prince Charming was the tallest guy in the cast. And notice, Josh Dallas is not even six foot three. Do these writers not understand how tall six foot three actually is?
Sebastian Stan has added muscle recently, but...your height is your height once you've reached it (he's twenty eight) until you get old and start shrinking. And he's five fricking eleven (in some places reported as five ten or even five nine but let's go with five eleven).
In Jacob Clifton's recap of this episode of Gossip Girl, he nicknames Carter Baizen "a wee sexy Hobbit".
Look at a lot of photos of Stan (as I have recently) and notice that he's often wearing boots with thick soles or a slight heel to them...
Stop saying he's tall. Geez, seriously, stop it.
He's not tall. He's not so short that you could put him in your pocket or anything(he's taller than Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr, I believe) but he's certainly not tall enough to ever be described accurately as "tall". we've been through this already
look at him standing next to both Lana Parilla and Jennifer Morrison in 'Hat Trick',. He is taller than them but not by enough for it to be something worth remarking on, just in the general way men are often taller than women.
And yet a lot of OUaT het fics go out of their way to make sure we know Jefferson is "tall". I ran across a random fic that had Emma and Ruby describing him as "six foot three". In what alternate universe where he is played by a different actor?
It's like the opposite of that slash trope where writers make/draw one of the guys- usually the uke/bottom as extra short. And use of the word "little" has appeared in some Hatter slash (he's almost always the bottom in OUaT slash). But Kings fic usually correctly observes that Jack and David Shepherd were nearly the same height.
Other young men on OuAT as their heights compare to Jefferson:
Josh Dallas (David/Charming) is six foot one.
Colin O'Donahue (Hook) is five foot eleven
Eoin Bailey (August) is six feet
Jamie Dornan (Sheriff Graham) is six feet
David Anders (Dr Whale) is six feet
Not only is he not six foot three (at five eleven, he's below average and one of the shorter guys in this cast), none of these guys are. It wouldn't surprise me if they deliberately tried to make sure Prince Charming was the tallest guy in the cast. And notice, Josh Dallas is not even six foot three. Do these writers not understand how tall six foot three actually is?
Sebastian Stan has added muscle recently, but...your height is your height once you've reached it (he's twenty eight) until you get old and start shrinking. And he's five fricking eleven (in some places reported as five ten or even five nine but let's go with five eleven).
In Jacob Clifton's recap of this episode of Gossip Girl, he nicknames Carter Baizen "a wee sexy Hobbit".
Look at a lot of photos of Stan (as I have recently) and notice that he's often wearing boots with thick soles or a slight heel to them...