always an angel, never a god

sports & stuff • 23 • following from @ivy1975

[redbullseb]

diversity loss! your mutual suffers from charles leclerc derangement syndrome.

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

"hey i invented a machine to replace your workers"

"is it cheaper than the workers?"

"it is right now"

"ok everyone's super, super fired. now what"

"well now we're raising the price"

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

possible ways this could go wrong: 0

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

"they'll never see it coming" & they fuckin DONT

[genomilfkin]

sibney crosby have ever heard of olivia rodrigo because there is this one song called drop dead that i think you personally would really relate to. on a personal level.

[genomilfkin]

i saw you in latvia and knew how lucky i was that i was going to be your teammate. like.

[goodysaurus]

mutuals what perfume or cologne do you use? 👀

[shadowseductress]

"are you sexually active" the only thing that eats me out is guilt

[starrynet]

problematic olympics roster age gap

[givemebackmypills]

[bitchautism]

the online identity and gimmick-ifying of autism is so odd. I'm diagnosed with autism and yet I barely identify with any stuff I see about it anymore. It feels like autism is being rebranded as the Silly Guy Disorder that gives you smart and beautiful hyperspecific interests. it's not that I mind silly jokes or being lighthearted about being autistic- but when the entire social movement is based around marketing us this way, I just can't help but feel isolated from it. it feels like I'm not the right kind of autistic. I'm not marketable and digestible to common audiences, and therefore I am discarded by the movement in the name of progress and acceptance. it feels foul.

[frasermittens]

person who hates change becomes sports fan. 100 found dead

[triviallytrue]

really wish humans could fight each other without doing irreparable damage to our bodies

[triviallytrue]

getting punched is a deeply satisfying experience that cannot be easily replaced by other sensations and also if it happens to you too many times horrible things will happen to you

[shostposting]

this sucks so bad i need to [remembers sleeping under the stairwell with a small briefcase jokes only worsen my mental health] write the best symphony the USSR has ever seen

[sleepysidcros]

SETH JARVIS TURNED MY BROTHER BI CURIOUS 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[meowriimo]

[beauvilliers]

Seth Jarvis scores in overtime to tie the series!

Stanley Cup Final 2026: Round 4, Game 2 Vegas Golden Knights @ Carolina Hurricanes | June 4, 2026

[gabelandeskog]

 islanders @ flyers | 01.31.21

[hockeyheritageposts]

Hockey Heritage Post

[dilftanger]

don’t date. a sports team can also let you down for the rest of your life and doesn’t move into your house.

[notlayingroses]

in my opinion, the question isn't "Is RPF ethical?" but rather "Are you engaging with RPF ethically?" and even more importantly, "Are you being stupid about it?"

I personally hate any kind morality thought policing. I'm not Catholic or religious and I do not feel guilty over my thoughts. You are not an inherently evil person because you saw two athletes in an interview and went "Hmmm...... what if...." The Feds are not going to come banging down your door because you wrote about one band member dicking down the other and sent it to your friend.

Wondering about other people's lives is very human. Being nosy about their personal lives is very normal. People have been writing fiction about other people's lives since the dawn of time. Some people even manage to write New York Times Bestselling Books that are "historical fiction" or "alternate reality." It does not make you inherently bad to be curious about the details of someone's personal life. That's being human. Being nosy is kind of fun.

The problem, however, comes with the ways in which people engage with it, and involve the real people in this. Harassing an musician's real girlfriend because it doesn't fit into the RPF ship. Showing up at real sporting events holding signs about how certain teammates should kiss. Trying to get actors to sign art of them fucking their coworker. Flooding social media with comments using the celebrity's full name and speculation. There's a line, there's a fourth wall, and there's fandom etiquette.

I hate the question of "Is RPF ethical" because it feels like morality thought policing. Post your fics on locked accounts, censor someone's name when you tweet about it, blow up your groupchat with hundreds of "DID YOU SEE THE WAY THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER??" texts. It's not inherently evil to wonder what other people are doing when they're out of the spotlight. Kill the cop in your mind.

But just have some basic decency and do not involve the real people. Don't cross the line without caring how it affects them. This is basic fandom 101 and lately we have been flying too close to the damn sun! Everyone get more normal about RPF so major news outlets and magazines stop posting articles about "Is RPF ethical?" and blowing up our spot!