(2) because he interacts with you sometimes. You’re quite famous in his fandom if you didn’t know that before! I wanted to write you because I understand that there’s different community in your fandom, and as I see it the fans of Gillian Anderson have treated Orlando Jones very poorly. I read some virulent insults against him from bloggers who were so proud of themselves to shit on him. I know you never did that. I never sent them asks, but I still would like to understand why. Orlando LOVES Gillian. He worships her and he never fails to talk about her with pride and care. He loves the idea of Gillovny too, which is a beautiful idea based on love, respect, and deep feelings. I don’t know how one can dislike this idea. Anyway, I digress, I just wanted to say thank you for being nice with Orlando Jones, and thank you for your blog. Could you also tag him so he sees my message if you don’t mind 🙂 (and sorry for my English, I’m Italian, not from Portofino haha)
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First of all, don’t apologize for your English, no one will blame you for that here! And then, thank you for writing me, you’re as legit as anyone else! I love Orlando to the moon, not only because of who he ships, but I love his acting too. He was great in American Gods, I wish we would have seen him more, and it’s funny because just yesterday, I watched “Madiba” where he plays Oliver Tambo, and he’s really good and moving in it.
I despise the fuel he got from some people here, and I do not understand it. He’s a shipper. We’re all shippers, and there’s nothing wrong in it, no matter who you are, famous or not. I read some crazy stuff such as he was supposedly an anti-feminist who was trying to decide what Gillian should do with her body and who she should sleep with. Or that he was using Gillovny to gain some popularity. I found all this beyond stupid. He’s a fan who happens to be famous, so his voice reaches more people than ours, but how is it a problem? Being a fan, and being a shipper is supposed to be fun and entertaining, and that’s what he is. He never disrespected neither Gillian nor David. You’re right, he worships her and he’s friend with him. He even said they’re both okay with him publicly shipping them, so it’s really not for us to judge. Those people who were insulting him appeared to me as jealous and petty for nothing. They don’t have his talent, nor his popularity, nor his relationship with David and they wish people would follow them as they follow him. They run blogs for Gillian to see, which won’t happen. Based on nothing but their hate, they think Gillian isn’t okay with Orlando Jones doing what he does, so they throw shit at him. They don’t realize that if she indeed, wasn’t okay with it, he would have stopped a long time ago.
I’m just happy and grateful to have him in our fandom. He doesn’t take Gillovny as seriously as we do here, and he’s probably right! He doesn’t give a shit, he lets his inner fangirl out, he’s not hurting anyone, and he doesn’t allow a few haters to get under his skin. I love him for that.
But you know, you shouldn’t be angry at those people. I always feel like when you can’t disagree with someone without throwing insults and dirty words everywhere, you’re always the looser and I feel sorry for you. If they can’t understand the concept of being a shipper, they’re really missing something beautiful. Painful sometimes, but beautiful still.
And there you go, @theorlandojones, you have real fans in this fandom 🙂 (just stop saying the word Gillovny, please. You can’t pronounce it, and no one is allowed to. Never. Thank you. :D)
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