I'm going to publicly embarrass myself and share the celebrity crushes(?) I've formed over the years. I put the ? because it's not actually a crush, it's not really romantic in nature. I just think they're cute and lovely and I've had a clear obsession with them at some point. This is more for my own reference than anything else. Starting from earliest to most recent:
MIKA - singer/songwriter
Colin Greenwood - bassist for Radiohead
Roland Orzabal - singer/songwriter for Tears for Fears
Jerry Harrison - guitarist and keyboardist for Talking Heads
Mark Gatiss - director and actor
John Linnell - singer/songwriter for They Might Be Giants
Celebs I admire but haven't had an obsession with:
the traditional career paths for final girls post-finale are returning to their normal lives with some bad dreams, never expecting that it’s going to happen all over again, or (occasionally) becoming sexy killers themselves. so i really enjoy how james cameron takes both ellen ripley and sarah connor and says what happens to a final girl post-finale? well she becomes mean and tough and hypervigilant, constantly braced for it to happen all over again. she bleeds all the femininity out of herself because she remembers what happened to her coworkers and friends who indulged in softness on that day. she’s a bundle of raw nerves and live wires, mentally trapped in a slasher film when all the characters around her are in a different genre altogether, and that makes her seem unappealing and dangerous—and she is. she has made herself as dangerous as her one-time enemy, and she can never be normal again
fun fact: when i add alt text to an image i literally open my screen reader and test it out to make sure that it's understandable. mine doesn't read out quotation marks and that's why i write quote and unquote