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basically all HR right now (past and future obsessions currently on hold for the most part)

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Connor Storrie | RAW Artists LA Showcase | June 2018

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Connor YSL ad x Dirty Dancing | for @arthistoryandtea

[setulose]

The one thing about gender is that frankly my ideal gender situation has very little to do with me and infinitely more to do with everyone else on the earth who cannot be fuuuuuuuuucking cool about anything ever

[hppjmxrgosg]

all you new fandom members need to QUIET DOWN oh my god you're going to get us KILLED. we're happy to have you but if you keep talking about BULLSHIT like PUBLISHING fanfic for MONEY, Anne Rice is going to come back from the dead to KILL US. looking at YOU, maurauders fans, heated rivalry fans, byler fans...out here giving out interviews to news channels SHUT UP. we're going to have to start setting off firecrackers to keep the rent down.

[northstarfan]

#unfortunately the kids raised on hustle culture and lack of privacy don’t know much about discretion online and letting hobbies be hobbies

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[ijustwannawritepls]

How to Write When You Don't Feel Like Yourself

There are going to be days (or weeks, or months) where you sit down to write and feel... disconnected. From your voice, from your characters, from your ideas. Like the person who used to write your stories just packed up and left.

They didn't. They're just tired. Here's how to keep writing anyway:

Lower the bar (Until it's on the floor) You are not here to write something brilliant. You are here to write something. A paragraph. A sentence. A single line of dialogue. Movement matters way more than quality.

Write around the story Don't force it. If you can't write the scene, try: ⋆ A character ramble / journal entry ⋆ A conversation that won't be included in the final draft ⋆ A list of things the character would never admit out loud ⋆ A messy summary of what should happen Engage with the story from a different angle.

Borrow a voice until yours comes back No, not with AI. Read something that feels close to what you want to write, or watch a scene that captures the tone, then write immediately after. Not to copy, to reignite your instincts.

Write the emotion, not the plot. What is your character feeling in this moment? What are they afraid of? What do they want but won't say? What's being kept from them? The emotion leads, the plot catches up later.

Stop trying to "feel like a writer" first. You don't write when you feel like a writer. You feel like a writer because you write.

You are still a writer, even on the days it feels distant. Especially then.

[russianblush]

all scenes of shane hollander with his headphones in but he's just blasting Slayyyter

[sturionic]

"Learn the fundamentals first" seems like really sound universal advice, and as a former classical musician, I can vouch for it. You will have a more solid foundation for increasing complexity if you put in the time to study in a structured way. If you don't, you'll have a lot of shit to fix later.

As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.

I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!

The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.

With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.

Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!

Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.

You have official permission from your local pretentious classical music snob: fuck the fundamentals. You can always unfuck them later (but only if you want to).

[hollanov-ate-my-baby]

Have we considered that the reason Shane "What do you mean this isnt a regular hookup experience" Hollander is so baffled by people's shock at his & Ilya's sex life is because his closest and dearest friend, Haden Pike, has been sharing his own insane sexual exploits with his Smoking Hot Wife™️ for years???

Anywho, walk with me because I feel like we're sleepin on the narrative that they actually get down so freak nasty. And the thing is, Hayden really isnt a kiss and tell kind of guy. He doesnt share this info willy nilly. He explicitly asked Jackie "Can I talk about this with Shane please i want to brag about you so bad but if any of the other men on our team even thought of you in a sexual way I would burn down our stadium with them inside, please?" And she said something like "yeah sure. I have a couple friends i talk to about things. Discussing a new experience with a trusted friend is a healthy way to process, in fact!"

So Shane has been getting the run down on the wildest, kinkiest buck wild sex via Bedtime Story for nigh on a decade.

I just do genuinely feel like "4 kids by 28" tells a Hittin It Raw kind of story and I just dont necessarily jive with the people who jump straight to Mormon. (Didn't they canonically meet by grinding on each other at bar during a team celly and making out all night? Even if Hayden is religious that just doesnt scream Mormon to me ??? Idk, I'm just imagining Hayden giving Shane a blow by blow the next day like "yeah and then we fucked Tantrically for hours" as like... a first date recap. How can we blame Shane for having some Misunderstandings at that point amiright?)

I feel like this should come to light at an all star game - some player is whining about "blue balls" and theyre like "excuse me gentleman, how often are you engaging in coitus with your partners?"

And Shane is just like "hmm like... 1 or 2 times a day when we're not on the road." And Hayden responds like "oh yeah, no penetration until I get snipped but yeah, a couple times a day."

And they just sort of nod at each other as if to confirm that they are Normal and Correct. 🙂‍↕️🫰🙂‍↕️🫰

[beebeesiims]

Also hear me out bc his OTHER friend is J.J., who’s tall as hell and gorgeous and has a French accent so ass is getting thrown his way constantly and his reaction to thinking Shane is in an unrequited crush is to be like oh finding someone is easy I’ll do it for you. So like I do think if there is a Roz on the team in terms of the man whore hours, it’s J.J.. So you have freak Hayden on one side and hook-up king J.J. on the other.

AND THEN COMES ROSE, who is so sexually confident that she KNOWS she can’t be the issue and who puts Shane right in the middle of a sandwich with Miles (who was kissing on Shane did yall see that?) and I maintain that if Shane had asked, Miles would have come home with them that night.

So until they run into some lame-o who thinks going down on his girl is a chore, there is NO ONE to tell Shane that his sex life isn’t normal THEYRE ALL FREAKS.

[shaneholeander2481]

I would like to add sub hayden dom Jackie to this discourse. I saw a comment about the swear jar being metaphorical and involving sex bets and have not been able to stop thinking about it let Shane and hayden be freaky sub besties together please and thank you. I love being able to talk about wild submissive bdsm sex with my best friends and Shane deserves the same

[realcardiac]

why is shane at his most beautiful and perfect while saying the phrase "swear jar. 2 times" to his straight best friend?? let's get our best scientific minds on this

[whitenoisefanfiction]

Hot take but Shane Hollander's Sub Tendencies (tm) were trained into him by Jackie Pike *mic drop*

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[starredfishing]

its such an interesting and important thing to note that everyone ESPECIALLY other women thinking alice is a bitch and a major cunt but the same people adore roy for his bluntness and aggressive behavior is such a #feminism thing. like the fact that roy loves her bc shes exactly like him. AND SHES NOT EVEN AS BAD* AS HIM shes NOT even that rude im gonna be so real i see NO problem with her at all shes just blunt and no nonsense!!! its about how women can't be anything but polite bubbly and upbeat to be liked and this perpetrates through All of society. and shes allowed to be mad and rude as fuck since her Qualified and hard worked position was taken by a man A MAN

[whtbout2ndbrkfst]

What Asexual People Can Teach Us About Attraction

We’ve Been Measuring Attraction Wrong

"Asexual people are often assumed to “lack” attraction. But in reality, many report rich and varied forms of attraction that don’t map neatly onto sexual desire.

So instead of asking “how does attraction work?,” we asked:

What do people actually mean when they say they feel attracted to someone?" "Drawing on both qualitative and quantitative data, we identified and validates seven different forms of attraction:

intellectual

aesthetic

emotional

platonic

sensual

romantic

sexual

These aren’t just theoretical distinctions. Statistically, they show up as separate but related dimensions—meaning people really do experience attraction in multiple, distinguishable ways." "Our findings demonstrate that both asexual and non-asexual experience multifaceted forms of attraction.

Put differently, the seven forms of attraction our study identifies are not “ace-specific” categories—they’re general features of human attraction. But starting from an asexual lens helped us see those features more clearly."

"If you only measure sexual attraction, you miss a huge part of how people relate to each other. And that’s true whether you’re working with asexual people or not."

[arthistoryandtea]

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[red-garden]

MAGA boomers SHOCKED by 20y/o commie speaking fluent hog

[red-garden]

Hog 201 for anyone interested in trying this:

Bodily autonomy (like abortion, anti draft, etc) -> “The government shouldn’t be able to force anything on my body I don’t want.”

Anti surveillance -> “I don’t trust big government/big tech (big brother if you’re feeling frisky) with the ability to spy on me and my family.”

Immigration -> “Next to all of us immigrated at some point, I don’t see why the elites get to decide who’s allowed to be where. What’s to stop them coming for me?”

Climate Change -> “Big oil shouldn’t get to determine whether or not I get to go places. I don’t want to be dependent on some big business to survive.”

State Violence -> “I don’t want the goddamn secret police breathing down my neck! I trust my community a whole hell of a lot more to help me than I do the state!”

The vast majority of conservatives think of themselves as underdogs being repressed by the government/the elite, and they value personal freedom (specifically their personal freedom, they don’t care about other people). The will almost always agree with leftist points if you can find a way to blame the problem on their vague enemies (useful, since rich people are the root of most problems), and tie it back to their ability to say fuck everyone else. NEVER appeal to science, theory, logic, or human goodness. Make it seem as if you are a paranoid lunatic who trusts no one. They love it.

[dinosaurjam]

#you need to tailor your arguments to people's existing values and priorities if you want to convince them #the flip side is that it's every bit as easy to tailor conservative arguments to convince a leftist audience #so don't get smug #you're not immune to this either <- prev extremely true

[lobstabear]

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

[knittingontheroad]

I became a tattoo artist at 49.

Married the love of my life at 50.

Got my Class A CDL at 59.

You've got time.

As long as you're breathing, you've got time.

[arthistoryandtea]

Shane wants to be normal so bad

Ilya is queer (and not gay) but Shane is gay and not queer

👆not very inspiring - kind of work like thought terminating clichés and the thoughts are specifically nuance and a deeper understanding of the characters.

Let’s take these statements and ask - what about the show/books creates this impression? What are possible reasons for these things that extend a bit further? Where might these reasons stem from?