ActuallyRandomPerson

my gay hockey beloveds,,,,,, they're calling me,,,,,,,,, feel free to message or ask me something!! ember, pronouns change but they/them is always safe. daily writing sideblog here

[kosmikowboj]

bumping my phm fics because I’m proud of them :] all of them are gen, some have mild language. in no particular order (just chronological by posting date):

on water-based life: lack of touch and the need for oxytocin

grace is egregiously touch-starved, and, given that the only other being around will literally kill him if they touch, has no idea what to do about it. featuring rocky shenanigans :) read on ao3 [~3.4k]

just stop your cryin’ (it’ll be alright)

stratt-centric fic about the aftermath of the beetles arriving to earth (set roughly 16 years after they do) and the toll the entire project has taken on her. read on ao3 [~1.4k]

risk tolerance

a brief exploration of what if grace doesn’t want rocky to go to earth? read on ao3 [~2k]

I also have a trans!grace fic in the works but it’s getting a bit away from me…LOL. also planning a more explicitly aroace!grace fic, which should be shorter and more manageable haha.

[actuallyrandomperson]

desperately in need of a cracky check please x heated rivalry fic in which Jack and Scott are somehow on the same NHL team and simultaneously gay kiss their boyfriends on the ice after winning the cup. it's completely unplanned but no one in the media believes them

[livingasaghost]

genuinely i do think it's crazy how this show hit every single mark for no reason other than pure love of the game. like this wasn't a money grab and it didn't think it would be a big success, jacob just read a book he enjoyed and thought huh i think that would be a cool thing to make into a tv show. and then he brought on hudson and connor and they're fresh and passionate and not bogged down by the industry yet and they instantly became best friends and wanted to just have fun bringing these characters to life. and they didn't have a huge budget but they did the most with what they had and everybody took the show seriously and everybody took the book seriously. the cinematographer worked his magic. the music supervisor managed to snag a well-known queer hit and an up and coming new release and old school gems that have been around since the 2000s. it's canadian to the core, built from the ground up. it takes russians and the russian language seriously. it uses sex in such a specific, meaningful way that almost no other show has done thus far, and especially not in a queer context like this. they interlaced every episode with callbacks and parallelism and self-references. they didn't take themselves too seriously. they took everything so seriously. there is love and care baked into the core of this show and it's deeply queer and it doesn't shy away from the horrors of toxic masculinity and hockey culture but it is also, always, a story of joy and love and happiness. and on top of everything, it's almost word for word, the original source material from the book.

like damn it's no wonder this thing has made us all insufferable and become a huge fucking success! so few productions in hollywood are doing it like this!!!

[shut-up-gwen]

The show’s so serious when it comes to treating the subject matter with care and respect, be it the queerness, the sex, the languages, the cultures…

But then, it’s so deeply unserious when it comes to just having fun. Calling the podcast ‘man in the crease’. The extra banana jokes. The fucking top and bottom jerseys.

It’s such a perfect balance and I don’t think it could have been achieved by anyone else other than Jacob Tierney with the help of Canadian tax money.

[biblionerd07]

Jack Zimmermann watching Heated Rivalry: “When are they going to play hockey?”

[actuallyrandomperson]

if i had a dollar for every time i consumed a gay hockey thing where a couple came out with a dramatic on ice kiss after one of them won the Stanley Cup I'd have 2 dollars which isn't a lot but I'm THRILLED that it's happened twice

[actuallyrandompersondaily]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I wrote another knives out ficlet 👉👈 LMAO

unsurprisingly has spoilers for Wake Up Dead Man as I saw that in cinemas today!! For both the mystery side of things and the character side of things. Given that most people have not watched it yet I'll ALSO take today as a moment to plug my first Knives Out ficlet (attached to this one on ao3 through a series) bc I'm also aware a lot of folks don't even know knives out fanfic exists and it's a fun little sandbox even though I've not actually finished the one case fic I've had sitting in my docs for it 💀

[actuallyrandompersondaily]

gonna bump this now that more people have watched wudm bc it's on netflix

[identitty-dickruption]

like I'm sorry but I will keep posting about this until people stop being cunts and shitheads so I think we'll be here a good while. every time I talk about the colonial framing of australia and how colonialism is at work in modern day understandings of this country I only need to count to ten before every european and usamerican in sight starts spouting complete bullshit. why don't you all take a deep breath and examine why the fuck you're so wedded to the idea of australia you have in your head

[identitty-dickruption]

"suggesting that Australia has uniquely hostile flora and fauna isn't wrong" FACT CHECK:

what do you mean by "uniquely hostile"? is it based on amount of harm to humans? because I can tell you now. horses killed more people in 2023 than spiders did. how would you feel if I said that europe introduced the uniquely hostile horse to the australian environment?

look at these stats: https://www.firstaidpro.com.au/blog/leading-causes-of-death-in-australia/#elementor-toc__heading-anchor-1

now look at this: https://www.vice.com/en/article/cows-and-horses-are-australias-number-one-killers/

can you please give me a list of examples of flora and fauna that you would place in this category?

"aboriginal tribes" FUCK OFF!

if you can capitalise Australia you know how to capitalise Aboriginal

"tribes" is not the right word here even remotely. try again next time. "Aboriginal people" would be a great start. being able to name even one country or language group would shock me to death. give it a go though

"marsupials reign supreme" don't make me laugh

CHECK: why are you using language that inherently ascribes a particular morality to animals? what motivates you to frame Australia as uniquely 'ruled by animals'? what else might this imply and where might this framing have come from?

"most venomous and hostile" why are you putting those adjectives together?

Australia's most venomous snake (the inland taipan) has not killed a single person in recorded history because of how rare it is for that snake to come anywhere near humans. again, refer to the stats above

"hostility" is another example of ascribing negative moral values to an animal where it is not at all appropriate

"one of the less hospitable places on earth" colonialism check!

hospitable to whom?

you mean that pre-colonial Australia didn't follow western ideals of housing and agriculture don't you? (<- there very much was agricultural practices in First Nations groups for the record)

you're implying that the land had to be tamed by colonisers, aren't you?

come on. be so for real right now

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

"very much one of the less hospitable places on earth"

> looks inside

> hospitable to some of the oldest continuous cultures on earth

[micewithknives]

@acearchaeologist Ace i cannot let you leave this fantastic essay in the tags

[stripper-mining]

this post has healed me in a way, it can be hard being a non-american on Tumblr lmao let alone be an Indigenous Australian so thank y'all 🥹

it's a big part of the discussion I don't think a lot of people are ready to have; how the myth of an inherently violent Australia places it's Indigenous people in a dangerous position.

also it's just not true lmao, this country has taken care of us for thousands of years and will continue to do so! it's just saddening to see our beautiful land get shat on time and time again.

it reminds me of this moment in my college, me and some friends we were yarning up about our country and just missing home and we got joined by a white person who wanted to listen and learn and we were more than welcome to let her join! as shes asking us questions she goes on to ask us about our totems. for very quick context please Google for more information lmao but totems are something from country that is connected either to your mob, family group and/or a personal totem. they signify our intricate relationship with country - we don't own it, we are connected to it. it is our responsibility to protect our totems, so no hunting/killing of your totem animal for example. it was specifically when one of my friends shared that her totem was a huntsman spider that this whitefulla started sharing how, if that was her totem she just wouldn't be able to do that! Aussie spiders? no no no they're so scary and big and dangerous and could KILL YOU.

and it's just so fucking insulting and aggravating because how dare you. we share with you the beauty of this practice, how we all are connected to our country through it's flora and fauna, and how conservation/protection of country is inherent to Indigenous culture and that's all you got out of it? that you would kill that scary spider.

also cunt I'm just as scared as spiders as anyone, but huntsmans are a fucking so lit, they're a natural pest controller cause they eat flies and mozzies, they also don't make webs (it's like it's in the name?) like fuckin hell cuntttt.

big rant lmao but this is just such a deep deep thing that persists and when I meet non-australians and they see that I'm a ratbag cunt from the country who is Aboriginal, I can see the excitement as they expect me to perform this facade of Australia, this idiot larrakin who has "tamed the wild scrub", not understanding that that "wild scrub" includes my people too.

lastly, thank you to the aussie tumblr users that help spread the good word! love ya fullas!

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

Reblog if you love “—” and have never used ChatGPT

[redscrawl]

no i will not make separate blogs for my fandoms, everyone who follows me must experience ALL my insanity

[tincanaudio]

The new Audible Harry Potter series is bad in uncomplicated, straightforward ways.

It is bad because it supports a woman who is actively funding groups that are seeking to deprive trans people of their rights in the UK and especially Scotland, where I live, where people inside the government are quietly remarking that they are struggling to fight against the groups she funds, as she has more money than God. Any money made from this new audio adaptation goes directly to funding these groups and these cases.

It is also bad because commissioning such an expansive series with such a well-known cast (Riz Ahmed?! Come on man) has eaten up the majority of Audible's commissioning budget. In the UK, the only people commissioning audio drama are the BBC (separate conversation) and Audible, and this new Harry Potter series has hoovered up resources that could have otherwise gone to new stories, new voices and money to creators that aren't actively trying to erase trans people.

I am angry at anyone who signed up to star in this, I am angry at the production companies that took on this commission, I am angry that this series continues to have a stranglehold on the UK media landscape despite all that its creator has done.

It is bad for trans people, it is bad for audio drama, it is bad for anyone working in media in the UK right now.

Do not listen to it

[tothechaos]

being a fan of dan and phil rn is like getting hit with hammers every single day and youre going "YAAAAAY HAMMERS" while at the same time going "i never thought the day would come where they would hit us with hammers"

[actuallyrandomperson]

I know there are still people who are concerned we're not going to get more gaming videos etc even with dnp having mentioned gaming and shit before the phodcast announcement so I'd like to ALSO point out that last time they went on a gaming hiatus they went insane and aged up Dil and Tabitha and had a grand send off, vs them actively talking about future plans for Dab and Evan in the most recent sims vid!!! They are incapable of being normal about their sims son we would know if we weren't getting any more of him

[slashersirens]

great podcast but unfortunately my body didn’t know the difference between hearing "i'm fast asleep, what do i hear next to me" and being shot in the chest 26 times

[themostfuniveverhad]

you think you're starting to process and then they hit you over the head and knock you fucking unconscious

[shed-some-light]

yeah no i can't hang out today. yeah it's british youtubers again. yeah it'll be all day.

[actuallyrandomperson]

literally at work on the counter scrolling my tumblr dash I'm so mentally ill over confirmed phan. like why did they have to post it when I gotta work the next day instead of binging every video they've ever made

[banieboo]

phil’s secret wife and child finding out he’s been cheating on them with that evil twink for 16 years