maximum effort

Kate, 31, she/her, previously free-piza. Extremely Online. On here since 2011.

[medrawawi]

stay-at-home dad ilya 🙇 (and shane at work)

[jesuschristssupernova]

this coffee tastes like i can still have a beautiful life

[ottawacentaurshq]

first (future) husbands of hockey 🏒

[exeggcute]

one of my favorite this american life segments of late is about the people who played orchestra pit for phantom of the opera on broadway and how, like, a sizeable majority of them had literally been playing the show since it opened in 1988 (on broadway. I know it opened in 86 on the west end, you random pedants, but I am specifically talking about broadway musicians) because their contracts stipulated that they'd have jobs throughout the show's entire run... but nobody anticipated that phantom would become the longest-running broadway show of all time.

and none of these people wanted to walk away from a guaranteed job, so very few of them ever quit. they just kept doing the same show eight nights a week... for twenty or thirty years... and by the time it finally closed last year most of these musicians (who had been working together for DECADES) hated each other and really really fucking loathed phantom. I can't stop thinking about it. it's indescribably hellish to imagine but also the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.

[exeggcute]

can you imagine.

[bisexualshakespeare]

[ID: excerpt from an article reading: One of my favorite stories, which should drive anyone who has every played in a band crazy-- there’s this bassoon player who has sat next to the same clarinet player since 1988. She’s convinced he plays half a note4 flat on every note he’s every played. He denies this. /]

[cleverlittlefox]

[cleverlittlefox]

[cleverlittlefox]

[grntaire]

breaking my silence. it is insane that a marriage is more celebrated than earning a degree.

[handsywoman]

strangers to colleagues to friends to soulmates <3

[gaygoatshane]

[gaynehollander]

Imagine being Hudson Williams, in late 2024/early 2025, absolutely dead set on becoming an actor (like, will die trying level of committed). You've been making these funky little short films with your friends and in every single one of them you play a little freak. You write the role of a little freak for yourself. And you better believe every single role requires you to be at least a little bit naked. And then. Then. You get a script. There's this character. Shane Hollander. And he's the freakiest little sub to ever do the damn thing and the role requires nudity and he also happens to be Wasian, and it's a Canadian production, looking to cast local unknown talent, and someone else will be getting this role over your dead body.

[euclyptodis]

thank god i was so fucking weird and unpopular in high school because i just keep getting eleganter these days... i feel like i'll never peak and i love that

[cecoeur]

And the Canadian Screen Award goes to ... - Hudson Williams, Best Lead Performer Drama Series -

[russianblush]

Best Lead Performer, Drama Series is....Hudson Williams!

[ily-a]

I will do anything if it will make you touch my dick right now. HEATED RIVALRY | 1.06 The Cottage

[fuer-diesen-sommer]

Information

[deletiaclementine]

If you take nothing else from this remember that Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie are proof that in a year your entire life could be different

[themetros]

Shane through a lens

Heated Rivalry (2025-)

[jemimaland]

i personally believe that post coming out ilya would always call shane the best in the league. every chance he got.

“my husband, da, the best in the league.”

“do you know my husband? best player the nhl has ever seen?”

i just think he loves to brag. regardless of stats, hockey doesn’t mean as much to him as it does to shane so i don’t think he would mind deferring so much even if it’s not true and they’re equally matched. there’s also something to be said for the fact that shane works harder for it, ilya probably thinks that shane deserves the title more than he does, but it’s mostly a lighthearted joke.

sometimes reporters will then ask shane, “and you? do you think your husband is the best in the league?”

and shane will be like “no. 🙂 i’m the best in the league. like he said.”

secretly, shane is very much in awe of ilya’s raw talent and doesn’t think that either of them is ‘the best’ but he’ll never, never admit that.

[sunnypeachyy]