with how much shane enjoys getting pinned down, i'm laughing about the idea of ilya who knows academically that he and shane are equally matched but who never really transfers that thought to the bedroom because he and shane playfight/wrestle as foreplay but shane enjoys "losing" these particular struggles and thus doesn't really ever use his full strength beyond the opening few seconds
which means the first time shane is riding him and is close to finishing and thus shoves him the FUCK back down when ilya is about to sit up and turn them hits ilya like a fucking FREIGHT TRAIN
man is getting held down with a hand to his chest with a force shane hasn't actually used in bed before and he is about to pass! out! from the force of the horny crashing over him
Look, I get what you're saying, but sometimes you've gotta reach for the low-hanging fruit. Let's get you a proper meal, refill your meds, and unfuck your living space as best we're able; if after that you still want cute girls to kill you with axes, you'll be in a much better physical and mental place to pursue that goal.
If you use Firefox, you can go to the about:config page, search for "media.mediasource.enabled" and double click on it to set it to false. After you restart Firefox, all youtube videos will load entirely even when paused! This also affects other streaming websites :)
go to About:config
find media.mediasource.enabled and toggle it to false
find media.cache_readahead_limit and change it to 9999
find media.cache_resume_threshold and change it to 9999
additionally if you'd prefer mp4 to webm
also in about:config, find:
media.encoder.webm.enabled
media.mediasource.webm.audio.enabled
media.mediasource.webm.enabled
media.webm.enabled
and toggle them all to false
note!
this will limit video to 1080p
and use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/ to kill WebP
Fuck Google
This is an awesome use of what is probably a master's degree if not a doctorate and I am 100% thrilled that she shared it even though it was embarrassing and she squeaked.
this is Hannah Fry, Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
And I think Professors Hannah Fry, the first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at Cambridge University would love being referred to as "adorable scientist"
the idea that hollander "tamed" rozanov is really funny to shane because like. ilya finds it hot and is always going along with it, yes of course my husband is so sexy why do you think i moved to this boring fucking city. for dick. meanwhile shane knows the truth which is that ilya tamed himself. he herded shane like a sheepdog until he was exactly in the right position for ilya to flop down at his feet and say i love you, i am a one man guy, sleep with other people if you want but you are it for me, so shane is always there like ??? ilya. what are you talking about. i was literally prepared to be a secret slot on your roster for the rest of time without even admitting that i was gay until you decided to have me over make me lunch and say my name while you come like a love confession and ilya goes lyubmiyy. shut up. i was untamable you tamed the untamable and so shane has to be like yes, baby, i worked so hard, i used all my tricks but he's rolling his eyes because ilya wants to be a wolf shane coaxed inside to sleep on the hearth but instead he's a cat who snuck through the window and fell in love with his prey. self domesticated. and this is just one of the many perfect games they play
Washington's Dream - SNL - YouTube if you want to laugh about American units of measure this is genuinely one of my favorite videos of all time.
laugjing SO hard rn
i vividly remember my physics teacher teaching about how celcius was created and when we got to the farenheit part he wrote COPION ( basically means copycat) Three Times in the guys forehead
so i've noticed something about orufrey's body language
and i have been going insane about it ever since! kamome shirahama your attention to details will be the death of me /pos
hands are the most expressive non-verbal tool humans have, and since it's also quite literally the tool that gives the witches their magic, watching hands in witch hat atelier is beyond important. implied spoilers up to ch93 under cut! [don't mind the language of half the screenshots, that's beside the point]
qifrey so very often tends to clasp his hands together, rubbing them against each other or simply clinging to his long robes. a gesture so telling of just how uncomfortable due to silverwood he constantly is, always slightly nervous, always tip-toeing around the edge of a cliff.
and he's been doing so since childhood! his emotions are so closed-off when it comes to casual body language, which is both an indicator of his character and the ways in which he deals with his curse. unable to trust even his closest friend, he chooses the only vaguely soothing thing: to curl into himself, to detach, to distance.
meanwhile olruggio, despite his scruffiness, generally comes off as a more open, "simple" man, hands flying all over the place when he's agitated. he expresses his emotions freely, without restrain.
qifrey curls into a ball for comfort, meanwhile olly splays like a star, comfortable in his skin an in qifrey's presence
and what happens when they start to interact?
olly keeps reaching for qifrey, talking some sense into him with his hands, with spontaneous and emotional physical touch.
he does so even upon first meeting
he keeps and keeps reaching out to qifrey, both literally and symbolically.
no matter how hard qifrey tries to run away, to hide deeper into himself, olruggio will always be there to offer him a friendly hand or otherwise
this particular parallel is especially dear to me:
they changed so much,
but they also haven't changed at all
and the culmination of this dynamic in a single image for me is this:
qifrey, gaze averted, hands uncomfortably clasped together, fake smile on his face
and olruggio, calm and confident, leaning into qifrey's personal space with familiar ease, resting an arm on his shoulder in a friendly gesture.
everything that shirahama consistently portrays as the manga goes on and the history unravels, neatly and wordlessly shown in a single static image. the art of showing, but not telling, thus nurturing a deeper understanding of these characters. absolutely brilliant
if I think too hard about how qifrey's entire driving motive is to save his own life so he can be finally feel happy and safe in the home he made with the people he loves without bringing them anguish and that to anyone lacking the context of his past he seems to have some kind of twisted need for revenge that puts everyone he loves at risk i start to lose my fucking mind.
and like i truly cannot blame nolnoa or olruggio or tartah or anyone else for being like "ayo what the FUCK is this guy up to??" because his desperation does come across as corruption because of its raw intensity, and it's so easy to believe he's keeping secrets with nefarious intentions, but he's NOT. he's just trying so SO hard to claw back the freedom that was stripped away from him and he's all alone. and if he's not alone, if he shares the weight of the burden that was forced upon him, then guess what? he's fucking dead.
and now it's become even more urgent as his remaining vision starts to fail because if he can't be the one to find the answer he's been searching for, then he'll be stuck alone in that hell for the rest of his life.
Ok but Ilya not realizing until much later that he hurt Shane with things heād done in the past
One day it randomly comes up as Ilya says something about a time he acted like a dick and Shane is just like āEh itās ok, looking back I understand now that you were in a āIām going to hurt you before you can hurt meā mindset and thatās why you acted like that.ā
And Ilya is staring at him and Shane asks whatās wrong and Ilya goes āI hurt you?ā And Shaneās just like well yeah but it was forever ago donāt worry about it. But Ilya is worrying about it because back when heād done the various hurtful things heād been in downward spirals where he was convinced he didnāt have the ability to hurt Shane because he didnāt matter enough to Shane to hurt him, so he didnāt think the way he acted had any negative effects. And now heās turning pale and his eyes are getting big as heās realizing that oh god when he did those things he hurt his favorite person and he hadnāt even realized it
He makes Shane tell him the different times it happened and Shane doesnāt really want to because clearly this is just going to upset Ilya more, but hiding it or lying is probably also going to make things worse in the long run so itās better to get it out now. So he mentions Ilya ghosting him after they had sex, and then how Ilya acted in Sochi, and that whole night in Vegas, and āI like youā¦ Not as a person, obviouslyā
And the whole time Ilya is silently nodding and looking like he wants to throw up because no no no those werenāt supposed to be things that hurt Shane, those were supposed to be things that bounced off Shane without affecting him because they were only ever meant to hurt or protect himself, Shane was never supposed to have been hurt by those and fuck how did he not see in the moment the way that he was actively hurting Shane by doing that
And now itās even worse because Shane wonāt even be mad at him about it, he keeps insisting on being understanding and not upset and trying to make Ilya feel better when in fact Ilya is the worst most awful person in the world who should be punished for eternity for making 22 year old floppy haired baby Shane SAD like some kind of MONSTER
The next Galina session Shane is also there with Ilya who has his head in his hands and Shane is just like ok so we may have accidentally stepped on a landmine the other night-
frieren is about discovering what makes life worth living after you lost someone before you realized how you felt about them. dunmeshi is about how we are all animals in the end, and confronting the monstrous reality of consumption, in all its forms. witch hat is about how the technology that makes our society function could be used to make peopleās lives better, but especially disabled people are left out, and those in power choose very specifically who actually benefits. how fitting that three of the most popular and poignant fantasy stories of the 2010s-2020s are about grief, consumption, and power.
Young Qifrey: I'm such a mess. I don't deserve friends. Why would anyone want to be around me? I don't even know why this kid follows me everywhere...
Young Olly: You give me reason to live. I find my meaning when you're around. If I lose you, I will lose faith in myself. But you don't need to know to understand this.
Because I'm your friend and that's what friends are for!
Adult Olly: I'm such a mess. I can't even help my closest ones. I'm totally useless. I don't even know why people look at me with admiration...
Adult Qifrey: You're the reason I'm still alive. When you're around, you remind me why I'm alive and motivate me to move forward. You're the brightest star to my sky. But I shouldn't tell you about it.
You're such a kind soul and a hard worker. Everyone must see it but you, my dear friend.
Good morning, can we talk about how vocal Ilya is in the tuna melt scene? And I donāt just mean saying Shaneās name, I mean his breathing and groaning and fucking make me, and how once he and Shane are together for real Shane realizes how much Ilya had been holding back the sounds he really wanted to make, and all the things he really wanted to say, and how Shane would love getting Ilya to come apart for him?
Ilya's used to being the more physically affectionate one in the relationship, constantly craving the next touch, the next kiss, barely wanting a breath's distance between him and Shane at any given moment. Shane's usually the one indulging him, happily adjusting his position to accommodate Ilya's body draping over him like a weighted blanket, absentmindedly running his fingers through Ilya's hair when he plops his head down on his lap, smiling into the fifth kiss Ilya places on his lips.
However, there are days when Shane becomes the clingy one and those days are Ilya's absolute favourite. There is some predictability to when these days occur, for example, they often follow Ilya pushing him particularly hard in bed, Shane drifting off without fully having surfaced from sub space, waking up needy and soft and pliable. They can also follow periods of stress, when whatever Shane's been growing increasingly worried about has finally passed. Any period of separation that lasts overnight usually brings about a day of clingy Shane. But sometimes they happen without warning, Shane just wakes up needing closeness beyond what a usual day offers. Beyond what many people would find reasonable. And Ilya fucking lives for that shit.
On clingy days, Shane can barely stomach the idea of letting go of Ilya, even for a minute. He will keep a hand fisted in his shirt, trailing behind him around the house, plastering himself to Ilya's back as he makes coffee, feet tucked under Ilya's thigh as they eat breakfast. He'll crawl into his lap as Ilya sits on the couch, arms wrapped around him, face tucked into his shoulder or resting on his chest. He'll follow Ilya into the shower, wordlessly, and lather up his hair, wash his skin. He'll keep one arm around his waist even as they brush their teeth. He'll drag him to bed and cuddle up behind him, holding onto him with a grip that boarders on restrictive. On clingy days, Ilya is always the little spoon. Shane's usually quiet on clingy days; preferring not to speak much, voice low when he has to. The majority of his feelings on days like that are communicated through contented little sighs and hums or desperate whines when Ilya pulls away too far for comfort. Not that Ilya ever wants to pull away. He's exactly where he wants to be.
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