#a lot of us exaggerate ppl's physical traits we're attracted to or whatever but this one sometimes feels like it's playing into A Pattern yk

[raytorosaurus]

wait but honestly some of us have met and hugged frank irl and he’s legit barely taller than me and i’m 5’4” 🫣

yeah and some people are 5'6 and have taken photographs with him where he looks taller than them...like the only accurate way of knowing is with a wall and a measuring tape lol, it's not something you can rly eyeball. but mainly i just find it a bit off-putting that people care so much about it...sometimes it rly feels like ppl want him to be especially short bc they think it Means something about him which is just uncomfortable all round to me.

like...you know how fandom has that homophobic issue of putting m/m ships into top/bottom or dom/sub binaries where "the bottom" is submissive and smaller and skinnier (and usually paler) than "the top"? well that pattern is even more obvious and even more uncomfortable when it looks like a similar type of thinking seems to warp people's perceptions of actual real life humans, yk? like, yeah, frank is below average height, but the way some people are so insistent he's shorter than he actually is sometimes feels uncomfortably fetishistic in a way that isn't just specific to him, but is a common pattern across fandoms with a lot of m/m shipping

#a lot of us exaggerate ppl's physical traits we're attracted to or whatever but this one sometimes feels like it's playing into A Pattern yk #answered #anyway this was initially in reaction to people on twitter excitedly claiming he MUST be 5'2-5'4 like pls be fr 😭