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performance diets can be normal/standard practice in the industry AND shane can have unhealthy thoughts/attitudes towards his diet. both of these things can coexist‼️

hollandar

Hudson Williams, #1 Shane Understander

I think Shane was a character who, soon as I read him, made all the sense to me. I felt immediately a kinship and an ownership over Shane. I was like, “I need to be the only person to tell this story. I get it. I want to be the person to be Shane and I want to spend time with him.” [x]

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feyd-meowtha

The History Boys is a very strange little play/movie about englishness, grammar school, growing up, and the idea that a little bit of casual noncing is simply a natural part of the academic experience (???)

I highly recommend it to people interested in such topics, and am looking at my boyfriend in a new light knowing that he and a friend chose this play to produce and star in during their sixth form years (and am absolutely baffled that the school let them do it)

black-coffee-balletomane

it very much requires nuance (that's one of my favourite things about it), but I absolutely adore it and studying it at 16 and obsessing over the nuances, interpretations, intertextuality and comparisons I could find in it (and also Samuel Barnett) was one of the things that kept me going in an incredibly difficult time.

the "casual noncery"— the way it is downplayed and almost seen (at least by characters if not the true message/belief of the play or Bennett himself) as necessary or integral to a wider coming of age and education (more an annoyance than a trauma), the idea that sexual maturity (and specifically sexual debut) is conflated with other forms of maturity and that reaching it is fundamental to and inseparable from truly reaching "adulthood", having fulfilled a certain level of education to reach that point, with sex often being seen as yet another thing to earn an education in, is something that pops up in many, many other texts and that I have been fascinated by as portrayed in fiction ever since first studying the history boys. this is by no means my favourite part of the play, it's probably the most disturbing, but it is one I find incredibly interesting and thought provoking so wanted to add to what you were saying

#add the complexity of closeted homosexuality in 1980s and earlier Sheffield #multiple characters actions are inexcusable and the intent/lense is not clear #other textual aspects were far more important to me on a personal level but this is one that can take miles of analysis #I find it very hard to read the intent so mostly leave it alone when analysing #Samuel Barnett and Posner will always have my heart

feyd-meowtha

The History Boys is a very strange little play/movie about englishness, grammar school, growing up, and the idea that a little bit of casual noncing is simply a natural part of the academic experience (???)

I highly recommend it to people interested in such topics, and am looking at my boyfriend in a new light knowing that he and a friend chose this play to produce and star in during their sixth form years (and am absolutely baffled that the school let them do it)

lavenderprose

Actually no I'm not done talking about this.

Does Rachel Reid know she gave Shane an eating disorder? Because she did. She wrote a character whose sense of self-worth is heavily tied into his ability to Win At Hockey and then she said that he's now on an incredibly restrictive diet that he wants to stay on because he won a Stanley Cup while doing it.

People who have eating disorders like to do this fun thing where they pretend that it's good for them and they're super healthy, actually, and they feel good when they're engaging in their disordered eating. Shane expresses multiple of these sentiments.

I'm only about six chapters into The Long Game but so far nobody has acknowledged Shane's obvious disordered eating aside from basically implying that he's being fussy. I don't fuckin like this lmao. If I was Ilya I would be very concerned about my partner's very obvious struggles with food-related control issues but the way Rachel Reid writes Ilya he almost seems...amused? Maybe annoyed?

Not to be this way but this seems to add proof to the idea that people just genuinely don't know what an ED looks like and that diet culture wants it that way.

But yeah. Definitely keep yourself safe if you have/had an ED and are reading The Long Game.

punksalmon

the "shane hollander has an eating disorder" allegations are hard to beat when this is the second page of the sequel

the-dead-poets

alvallah

One of my favorite things about loving someone or developing a closeness or fondness towards someone is also loving and developing a fondness for the things they care about. When you learn to see the world in a new way, or you learn to appreciate the things you’ve previously overlooked, or they become your excuse to get into an interest you always thought was cool but thought you didn’t have time for. When a connection makes your world bigger and warmer and fuller and more beautiful.