Lost in Manhattan: Dirty Underwear & The Tardis
I
wasn’t 100% convinced about the blogging project. I didn’t want something else
that I would eventually find boring and abandon yet again. However, I bounced
the idea off an almost friend of mine that I met in my building this past february February.
We
bonded over the Marvel movies and the men who star in them while washing our
dirty underwear in the basement laundry room.
Parker and I are of the same breed, though our sections of fangirling
varied slightly: she was obsessed with 'Doctor Who', 'Sherlock', & 'Supernatural' and yaoi 2drawings of her favorite characters. I didn’t watch those shows but we agreed
on the important things such as one fucks Han Solo, marries Malcolm Reynolds,
and Kills Mr. Darcy.
Since
then, sometimes we’ll text each other to see if the other wanted to do laundry
together. We also follow each other on
Tumblr, but I didn’t know a lot about Parker. That is, until I brought up my blog
project idea over laundry yesterday. She was immediately drawn to my idea because,
much like most of our generation, we all were desperately curious as to what
each other were up to. Parker liked reading blogs because a.) She was a
self-confessed snoop and b.) She liked talking with other people who were in a
LDR.
I
didn’t know this, but apparently Parker was in the most modern of all romances:
she was in a long distance relationship with someone she had met off of
Tumblr. Now this is something I wanted to write about because I loved hearing
about couples that met off the Internet.
I
probed her for more details and the jest of it was this: Last August Parker started talking frequently
with a mop top boy from the Great White North (Canada). They shared a
rather obsessive (my wording) love of Doctor Who, and quickly fell "in love" but have yet to actually meet each
other. However, they had plans to cosplay together at San Diego Comic Con this July.
It
was hard wrapping my mind around the fact that they were maintaining a
relationship that didn’t include any physical touch. In response to this, Parker
admitted to spending the majority of her time on Skype that occasionally
included “cam and phone sex”. She also
argued that due to her thesis and multiple jobs, she didn’t have much energy or
the funds for a live in boyfriend. This situation gave her the emotional
support she needed without having to spend too much time away from her
computer.
I
asked her if I could use her for my project and she agreed, but with some
hesitation. I wouldn’t use their real names (of course), due to the fact that
she has to keep her relationship a secret. Her boyfriend was “kind of Tumblr
famous” for his 10th Doctor cosplay. She didn’t want anymore hate mail than she
already receives from girls who are suspicious of their online flirting.
“I
shall call him The Tardis,” I promised. And it was so. Check out the previous entry in the "Lost in Manhattan" series: Gelato & an Idea
1 All names have been changed to protect the identity of the people involved. Under no circumstances will I reveal their personal information, including Twitter handles and photos of mentioned individuals.↩
2 Yaoi, also known as Boys’ Love, is a Japanese popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male androphillic sexual relationships, usually created by female authors.↩
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