[mobydyke]

rosencrantz is dead, guildenstern is dead, and me I feel also not so good

[diotimas]

dune: part 3 dir. denis villeneuve

[wulfhalls]

THE TWINSIES ON GOD THE TWINSIES

[doodlespatulas]

"Doomed yuri" this, "doomed yaoi" that

WHAT ABOUT DOOMED SIBLINGS

What if we were two sides of the same coin. What if i lived in your shadow all my life but found comfort in the darkness and dont know what to do once youre gone. What if youre the only person who understands. What if you have have no idea what i went through. What if we went through the same traumas but ended up with oposite conclusions about our suffering. What if i dont recognize you anymore. What if i see the ghost of my former self reflected through your eyes. What if it never had to go this way. What if this was the only way things were ever going to go

[balalaijka]

buffy spinoff set between buffy’s death in season 5 and her resurrection in season 6 where kendra gets revived due to buffy’s death—which made her a slayer the first time it happened, so why not get called back when buffy dies again, seemingly much more permanently?—and she and faith have to team up to protect a city and it’s so hard at the start because they’re so different but not so different because they were both created from death and the girl who should’ve been the perfect balancing point between them is in a grave and they eventually find their rhythm because if there’s anything they agree on its that a slayer is efficient and it’s a bit like love and then the unthinkable happens and buffy’s back. and now what?

[aethersea]

#i love the idea of faith finally finding her footing as a slayer and then buffy comes back and all the self doubt rushes in #she falls back on old patterns of comparing herself to buffy and then kendra snaps her out of it by reminding her of who SHE is #and what SHE has accomplished. and faith says something about always being in buffy’s shadow and kendra shakes her head and asks #what shadow could a buried woman cast

@vargamornight what a LINE

[uhhhhmanda]

Just came home from a dinner party with the friendgroup at which several people kept saying "Ask Pedro" or "Pedro will know" and I was terrified that they were referring to an AI like Claude but no, thank fuck, they were referring to a cardboard cutout of Pedro Pascal that someone left upstairs and who has been designated a kind of patron saint status in the household.

[balalaijka]

heated rivalry recs part 3 (part 1, part 2) because i have no self-control; will be sporadically updated

i get so ugly without you - this one just has the first chapter but it’s already made me so insane already, incredible OCs and delicious bad decision making

lenticchie per capodanno - ilya and his lesbian photographer beard and shane’s totally not-jealousy

animal - the melancholy of realizing your depression will still exist even when you’re happy

your body as my mirror - soulmate au where your worst self doubts are written onto the other’s skin, made me bawl several times

HOLLANDER & ROZANOV ARE DEAD - an absolutely delightfully done concept with the absurdity of self and fame

We Planned for This (poorly) - ilya and svetlana’s terrible no good night out, dysfunctional disaster bonded pair do not separate

wherever you go, there you are - hockey player rose and actor shane, lovely rose pov and hockey sections

get gone - a lovely counterweight to the usual cheerful voyeurism of socmed fics, aka as in the tags “shane gets his lily rose depp moment”

i could have been somebody else - rose’s gender crisis stemming from a conversation about sucking dick, incredible execution

The Crow’s Nest - marleau and the shadow on the wall that is hollanov, delightful marly characterization

Reward Is Always Measured Backwards - before shane meets ilya, he goes through the junior leagues, lots of descriptions of toxic hockey culture and hazing

ring true - fragmentary and glittering ilya pov

decadent stress chamber - aka the frat au that manages to capture the sheer anxiety of toxic masculinity and hierarchy in an environment outside of hockey and it is absolutely amazing

[balalaijka]

giving my dad a crash course in queer interpretation has been worth it purely for watching jaws and getting to the scar-comparing scene and hearing him ask “is this supposed to be homoerotic???”

[allyriadayne]

You order burgers. You don't like burgers

[loopnoid]

i've been told there's a repost of this silly old comic going around so here's the real one

[loontattoo]

so here are my takes

I think there is a broad cultural problem with the current state of fanfiction that likely stems from the proliferation of fics-turned-published-novels wherein fic authors now feel they have a duty to churn out a high volume of content at an inhuman rate. and in order to meet those demands, they resort to AI. and that sucks.

I think readers and consumers of fanfiction broadly speaking also have a bad habit of feeding into this culture by demanding and expecting a high volume of content churned out at an inhuman rate, and it often prevents them from accurately assessing the quality of what they're reading, leading to a general degeneration of fic quality, feeding an audience that is getting worse at recognizing good art vs. bad art. and that sucks.

going from 1,800 fics to over 38,000 fics for a single ship in less than six months is not normal and should have been a warning sign for people that there was likely a fuckton of slop being produced and posted. and that sucks.

I don't like the excuse that some authors are using that they only used AI to beta their work. there are plenty of humans who would happily beta your fic for you. and if your reasoning for not using a human is because you wanted your work beta'd faster, I would implore you to examine WHY you feel like you are on some kind of binding schedule in a hobby space. kill the profit-driven manager in your brain and take your time making shit.

generally speaking, I believe this is a problem that is driven by both readers and writers but at the end of the day, the real driver - as ever - is capital, and its influence on art and creativity. I don't blame authors or readers for falling victim to this because the world around us sucks, but my god we all need to at least try a little harder to resist.

if you're a reader, be critical of what you're seeing and consuming. and if you're a writer, stop giving away any piece of the creative process to AI. silence the part of you that insists you must post as much as possible all the time. you do not have to capitulate to hustle culture and also your fanfiction will probably not actually make you rich and famous, even if all those comments and kudos are making you feel important.

ultimately we have got to get back to writing and reading fanfic for the love of the game. also I don't think the callout posts about authors using AI are helpful either btw like I think the best choice if you're reading a fic that you suspect might be AI is to simply not read or engage with it. and then go read and engage with something made by a human.

[clytemnestraaa]

Ilya thinks he is both the princess locked in the tower and the evil dragon keeping her in and he thinks Shane is the knight that will come and save the good parts of himself and kill the bad whereas Ilya and Shane are actually both locked in prison and there are dragons but the dragons are "the national hockey league" and "homophobia" and "chemical imbalances" but crucially they dug a tunnel between their cells using spoons and Shane is like yay #mytunnel and Ilya is like god I wish I knew what fresh air felt like but that's selfish of me because shane is actually the atmosphere so I have enough and am not allowed to be sad #myatmosphere

beautiful and true they are mole person 4 mole person

[maezanilla]

Pyrrha… cannot stop thinking about her…

[yabagofmilfs]

i'm trying to organize my thoughts on this.

i struggle to have any sympathy for people who use ai for fanwork. i also think these witch hunts are giving people an “ethical” excuse to be mean. i think we’ve let consumerism and capitalism infect fandom, and this is the inevitable result. i think the erosion of fandom as a community opened the door for this, but these people made the deliberate choice to step through it. i think the why matters and should be the focus of the conversation, but i also think it's equally important that we don't let the reasons excuse or normalize the actions.

i think the relentless call outs and the immediate memeification of everything, the fics and authors who use ai becoming running mean girl jokes, is only furthering the degradation of fandom, and creates a space that feels unsafe for someone new to create without the crutch of ai. i can empathize with people not being sure how to form connections other than through producing content people will talk about. the root problem is that everyone is hungry for community, but we've lost sight of what that means and how to build it.

i don't think i can find any sympathy for the people who loudly professed to be against AI and used it anyway, or those who doubled down after being called out months ago and wrote treatises about being victimized. that's deliberate deception and manipulation and cannot be excused or enabled.

i'm conflicted, all of my thoughts are contradictory, but i guess that's human. and i guess if i have any clear stance it's that i think the only productive way to approach this issue is as humans capable of nuance and not moral litigators. our focus needs to be on working the problem, not meting out punishment.

[mariacallous]

Going to extremes: Russian authorities’ persecution of the LGBT community has entered the realm of the absurd

In May 2026, Russia’s Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit seeking to designate the “Alliance of Heterosexuals and LGBT People for Equality”

In May 2026, Russia’s Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit seeking to designate the “Alliance of Heterosexuals and LGBT People for Equality” as an extremist organization. More than a dozen LGBT organizations in Russia have already been declared extremist, and the process continues to expand. Russian courts handle all such cases very quickly and behind closed doors. At the center of every case is an “expert assessment” produced by the Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Insider reviewed the document. The “experts,” whose familiarity with LGBT issues appears to be superficial at best, reach paradoxical and often absurd conclusions. 

[clytemnestraaa]

top 5 character traits

well it’s different for a man and a woman and a character that is not a man or a woman. for a man:

cowardice

collusion/collaboration

desperate loyalty

flamboyance

cleverness and cunning that proves ultimately useless

for a woman

a core of animalistic rage

ambition + hunger

cruelty

sorrow + regret

pragmatism

if not a man or a woman:

wit

chaos

fear

curiosity

amoralism

[probuccalfat]

the highest recorded wet bulb temperatures in the world occur in india, jsyk. in odisha, they’ve hit 34.6 degrees celsius. the human survivability limit is 35 degrees celsius but the body faces significant risks, potentially fatal risks, even at 30 degrees as it starts failing to cool itself, like i’m talking organ failure levels of risk. climate change isn’t coming to peak, it’s been in the global south where you can’t see it or feel it.

[probuccalfat]

imagine temperatures that high and humidity as high as 75%—you make more heat than you can ever cool. your sweat cannot evaporate fast enough. you literally boil alive. heat deaths in india are underreported and they already hit the thousands. there is no plan, for a nation of almost 2 billion people. no plan. nothing.

[probuccalfat]

man, i’m sorry—this breaks my heart. i went to odisha during one of the trips home to india to visit my mom’s family and it is one of the most remarkable and deeply wondrous places that i have ever seen. i wish that was how i could speak about it all the time. it’s a place that eternalizes human creativity and devotion towards the sublime. i wish anybody cared about india as much as it deserves to be cared for, starting with care from our own government.