So, apparently, there’s an Avengers fan meme, “Science Bros”, that casts Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner/Hulk and Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark as a couple. There’s art, cosplay, fiction, you name it. I wasn’t previously aware of this, but it’s, like, a thing. Mark Ruffalo was also unaware, until just a couple of days ago. But then…
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Mark Ruffalo isn’t the sort of actor who demands adoration: He had to be convinced to accept an activism award last night at the Annual Riverkeeper’s Fishermen’s Ball, and while there, he said that self-obsession just isn’t his bag. “I’ve never Googled myself on the Internet,” he told us. Does that mean he’s never heard of “Science Bros,” an Internet subculture celebrating the friendship of Bruce Banner and Tony Stark, the characters Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr. played in The Avengers? “No, what is that?” he asked. And then the giggles began.
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He kept scrolling. A pertinent question suggested itself. “So, are they all quasi-homoerotic?” he asked. "Like tinged with … " Yup. “That’s cute!” He alighted on a drawing of Stark leaning onto Banner’s shoulder suggestively, offering him something out of a bag. “Would you like a gummy worm?” Ruffalo murmured, supplying his own caption.
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My favorite part is that in the 24 hours since this story came out, "gummyworm"has alreadycaught on.
Oh my god that is the best thing I’ve seen all week. Thank you so much for this - I think you saved my sanity. I’ve been valiantly ignoring the Stark/Capt’n shippers because I just find that totally unbelievable, so this is … much better. Much. We just need to find someone to hook Loki up with, and life will be perfect.
Now my computer is going to be full of teh gay again. Damnit.
Even better still: Has your co-worker in the next cubicle over ever googled you and found out you’re a star of gay erotica? And then asked you about it?
I had that experience (sort-of) a few years ago.
Next-cubicle-neighbor asked me if I had my own web site. Uhhhh, no. Why?
He had googled my name and found a web site named [noparse]www.LastnameFirstname.com[/noparse] (with my name in there), which, upon closer inspection, proved to be a gay male porn site.
I did a bit of research myself. I found the IP address was assigned to a commercial ISP in a big city far far away from me (in the same country). Googling my name, I found a person with the same name as me in that state. I’m guessing that was his handiwork, although I never determined for certain that that particular person was connected with that web site. But there was evidence for it. I think that person operated the ISP in question.)
(More recently, googling that name, I find that site is long gone, and I find an news article on-line having that person’s obituary. And I find yet another person with the same (uncommon) name in the same area, who is 20-some years older. I’m guessing a father and son with the same name – and the younger one died first.)
There’s also a Lord of the Rings one out there but I forget the exact circumstances and I’m at work right now so I don’t want to go looking too hard. At a press event, some fans showed some of the hobbit actors (IIRC) a photo manipulation of their characters having sex. The media caught their looks of shock and (what seems to be) disgust.
No, but a google search of my full name brings up a serial killer in Texas. Luckily, I was 5 years old when the murders occurred, so there was no case of mistaken identity.
