she went to the fair with the dude on my icon. he almost threw up on one of the rides.

[schmerica]

Hi, you guys! I just wrote the first 500 words of a totally self-indulgent story about my Completely Random and Totally Unlikely Het Crossover RPF OTP. It's awesome. It occurs to me that not all of you immigrated into bandom from due South and other such climes, so it's worthwhile for me to do a picspam at this juncture, so you will have some clue where we're coming from.



This is Ellen Page.



You may have heard of her! She has a new movie coming out, Juno, that's getting a ton of positive buzz.



I first heard of her through due South fandom -- which has a tendency to become a general "Canadian actors" fandom, what with everybody's having worked together. Ellen was in Wilby Wonderful, which starred Paul Gross, Callum Keith Rennie, and Sandra Oh. Most of us were pretty distracted through the movie by CKR basically playing a queer angel, but when we could drag ourselves away enough to notice? Ellen Page was really good.



Probably what she is best known for right now is the indie film Hard Candy. This is possibly the most disturbing, hard-to-watch, traumatic movie I have ever seen, but I'm still glad I watched it, even if I never will again. Because seriously, this girl? Is a fucking amazing actress.





She was also in X3, as Kitty, which is definitely her biggest profile role to date. She talks about that as being a good experience, but partly because it allows her to take lots of the quirky interesting small movies that she really loves.





She's picky about her roles, too, because the average teenage girl role in the movies isn't interesting to her. Teenage girls aren't all paper dolls; they can be intelligent and complicated.





She also speaks openly about her feminism in interviews.





She's really smart. She's quirky. She's her own person. She's interesting.





I kind of want to be her best friend, to tell you the truth.





Also, to be honest, she's really pretty.



And sometimes she looks like Ryan Ross.



Apparently once in a while she even steals his wardrobe.



So, yes. Ellen Page! Made of win! LOVE HER.

Comments

[x--kes--x.livejournal.com]

I knew who Ellen Page was, but I didn't know she could look so much like RyRo...

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I didn't either!

[sobota.livejournal.com]

so wait, are you pairing her *with* ryan ross? or someone else?

she would be cute with spencer too! or maybe joe? or nate cobraaaaaa!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Someone else, yep! Although not any of the people you mentioned.

[kristiinthedark.livejournal.com]

Well, you've sold me. *g*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I wonder how many people I am going to get to read this despite the bandom content!

[kristiinthedark.livejournal.com]

Dude. ELLEN PAGE. I think a lot!

[althea5000.livejournal.com]

Ellen Page *and* Bandom?! Where is the bad? I'd actually read het for that!! (though am I just missing something, or are you purposely not tell us who the other half of the pairing is?)

(also, um, hi. I friended you a million years ago, and think you're cool, but these days I seem to only poke my head back into fandom every couple of weeks when I'm procrastinating on something life-y. I also can't figure out which of your stories it was that caused me to friend you, since I seem to be into *all* of your fandoms. But whichever ones it was, obviously I really liked them.)

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

She also looks a lot like Eliza Dushku. At least, to me.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Huh, I can kind of see that, though I see Linda Cardellini more.

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

*draws hearts around you and Ellen*

I can't wait to see how it all ends up.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

<3<3<3<3

[mcee.livejournal.com]

I LOVE HER SO MUCH.

This (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y159/pearlo/ellen%20page/ellenpage9.jpg) is my desktop at the mo. ♥

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

She is so cool I can't really take it, to be honest.

WINGFIC AM I RIGHT?

[gigantic.livejournal.com]

I just got back from seeing Juno! I enjoyed it a lot. She's great.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I am really excited about seeing it!

[violin-road.livejournal.com]

Wait wtf, is it out?!!??!/1/1

[hobbledehoy.livejournal.com]

ollywood premierething was on the third.

and i really need to watch wilby for a third time.

i have seen all of the movies you said about! *beams*

[hobbledehoy.livejournal.com]

sorry. i have a bad habit of addressing comments to multiple people.

[ubixtiz.livejournal.com]

This post makes me so happy. Yay Ellen Page!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

YAY INDEED.

[violin-road.livejournal.com]

ELLEN PAGE, WHERE WERE ALL THESE PICTURES OF YOU WHEN X3 WAS JUST COMING OUT AND I WANTED TO ACTUALLY USE YOU AS A PB FOR KITTY IN AN RPG I WAS JOINING. WHICH AS I RECALL I ENDED UP JOINING. BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT.



>|

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

SHE WAS AN INDIE CANADIAN ACTRESS THEN, SHE WAS OBSCURE. Now she is an American indie darling! It's completely different!

[violin-road.livejournal.com]

I SEARCHED ERICA. I SEARCHED. THEY HAVE THE INTERNET IN CANADA, I KNOW THIS.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

THERE WERE SCREENCAPS OF HER BEING CUTE IN WILBY WONDERFUL. I KNOW THAT BECAUSE I MADE SOME.

(CALLUM KEITH RENNIE HUGS HER, JORI. HER HEAD FITS RIGHT UNDER HIS CHIN.)

[jocondite.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I haven't come across her before, and now I think I'm a little bit totally in love with her.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

\o/

[jezrana.livejournal.com]

Oh, X3 is where I've seen her before! *couldn't remember* She seems really cool, and I want to see Juno.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yes! She was cute in X3, even if it didn't fully show her awesome.

[warmingweather.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I adore her. Between her and Allison Janney and Jason Barteman and Michael Cera and Kimya Dawson (...wow), I am all ♥__♥ at Juno before if I've even seen it!

(And I would totally read fic about Ryan Ross trying to shake up the type of girl he dates, then creepily deciding that Ellen Page is his one true love and trying to win her heart or something.)

[hobbledehoy.livejournal.com]

[warmingweather.livejournal.com]

That picture confuses me because with so much awesome in one place, shouldn't the entire world just explode or something? KIIIIIMYA. Jason. *draws little hearts around them*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha oh man, Ryan/Ellen is totally not what I am writing, but SOMEONE SHOULD, because that would be hilarious and great.

[soundslikej.livejournal.com]

*flails at you*

Hi, my girlcrush on Ellen Page is epic. I gleefully anticipate your crossover.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*twirls you*

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

I WAS PLANNING ELLEN PAGE RPF YESTERDAY.

...Remind me to make you talk me through that.

♥

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

YAYS!

I keep thinking about how Ellen smoking up for the first time with Sandra Oh at Camp Wilby is canon in my head, but I don't think it will fit into the story.

[marginaliana]

Her face is definitely familiar, so I know I've seen her around before, but none of the film names you mentioned are ones I've seen. Huh.

:D

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heh. At least you know now why she's awesome! Knowledge is power.

[eleanor-lavish.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I adore Ellen Page. she is so effing smart. also, in a world where she was not a movie star, I like to think she'd be a kickass college sophomore writing amazing slash that I could read. She seems the type, you know? *grin*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Oh, MAN. I approve of this speculation completely. Now I wish I could peek into that alternate universe, because wow, her stuff would be wonderful.

[book-of-calm.livejournal.com]

I am suddenly reminded I have not yet finished the third season of ReGenesis. Ellen Page is only in the first season, but she was so damn good.

She is kind of ridiculously awesome.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

As wonderful as ReGenesis is, Ellen Page was seriously my favorite part of it, so it was harder for me to watch after she left.

[brooklinegirl.livejournal.com]

duuuuuuuuuuuuude. I haven't seen almost ANY of these pictures before! how is she so completely PRETTY AND ALSO AWESOME? and your subject line made me clap with glee. YAY.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Dude, aren't they awesome? All of these are from 2007, too, which is probably why you haven't seen them -- she's been getting a lot of press lately.

If she wins the Golden Globe, I am going to squee forever. ELLEN PAGE.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Thank you for these.

ELLEN WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE?

[scenesalsa.livejournal.com]

I won't be having kids, ever, but if I did, I would totally give you my firstborn for introducing me to Ellen Page.

If this is the sort of thing I'm missing out on, maybe I should start paying more attention to the ongoings happening outside my head!

As if her looks weren't enough to win me over (which, let's face it, they totally were), that interview scan you showed definitely sealed the deal. HOW SO AWESOME, ELLEN PAGE?

She's totally my female celebrity crush now (...well, one of them, anyway. But, the top one!). I almost want to revert back to my 12 year old self and stick pictures of her on my wall while gushing to all and sundry about how perfect she is.

Now I'm going to go read your story featuring her. And then scour the internet hoping there are more, because clearly what the world needs more of is lots of bandom fic starring Ellen Page.