homoromoace

[libraford]

Are YOU gonna let THE GOVERNMENT tell YOU what YOUR GENDER is? That doesn't sound like Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness to me! PROTECT your individual FREEDOMS and call your senator: we want the GOVERNMENT to stay OUT OF OUR PANTS! GENDER FREEDOM NOW!

[libraford]

Two men in your neighborhood are married... to EACH OTHER? Congratulate them for exercising their AMERICAN RIGHT to follow the footsteps of our FOUNDING FATHERS! They've got a fully AMERICAN spirit of FREEDOM and REBELLION! GOD BLESS THE USA.

[libraford]

Your coworker has a different RELIGION from yours? Well, that's just INTERESTING and you should talk about it on your UNION-APPROVED LUNCH BREAK. The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA was FOUNDED on Freedom of Religion and ANYONE should be allowed to seek the AMERICAN DREAM!

[libraford]

You think someone might be in this GREAT country ILLEGALLY? NO YOU DON'T! No one is in this country illegally! The minute anyone steps on our SOVEREIGN SOIL they're your FELLOW AMERICAN and where they come from is NO ONES BUSINESS.

[rosslynpaladin]

it's funny yeah, but guys this is actually how you reach the people who prefer these terms to frame all things Good and Correct.

[rosszulorzott]

[gatesofminrathous]

there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.

meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.

[finnglas]

when i was a tiny baby queer (aka a 24-year-old), i went to my first pride festival probably three months after i kicked ex-gay therapy to the curb and came out to my parents. being the people they are, my parents came with me. they weren’t really sure about this whole gay thing, but they loved me and wanted me to be safe and happy and wanted to be involved in what was important to me, so they came along. (i also think my mother still might have thought i might get drugged or murdered or beaten by a protester of which there were plenty.)

anyway i wanted a memento of my first pride, you know, and this one vendor was selling keyrings, and i liked it, so i bought one. do you remember those italian charm bracelets that were all the rage like 10-15 years ago? it was a keychain like that, and it had a rainbow rooster, a rainbow cat, and then just a rainbow, and so I bought it.

i run into my mom a couple of vendors over and she goes oh you bought something? what’d you get? so i showed her, and i was like, “I’m not sure why it’s a rooster and a cat. Seems kind of random. But I liked the rainbows.”

and my mom, who was some form of minister’s wife for most of my childhood and teenagerhood, stares at me like she thinks i’m joking.

“What?” i say.

“…it’s a cock and a pussy, Jules,” she says flatly, and that is the story of how i died at the age of 24 while attending my first pride festival.

[finnglas]

I love how every June this one gets dug up and passed around again, lmao.

[finnglas]

oh no is this what we’re doing now

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[goodman-grace]

I am so fucking sick of DC fanon making women exclusively mature and Wise and So Much Smarter Than The Dumb Boys god fucking FORBID a woman show a sliver of personality that isn't being Better than the Men. God forbid Diana fucks up and isn't the Wise Woman of the JL or Jessica is irrational or Stephanie is immature or Carol is mean or Selina is impulsive or Cassie childish or Artemis is rude you people beg for more stories about women but clutch your pearls when it's not about them being Girlbosses and God Look at How Dumb The Boys Are Aren’t Women So Much Better For Not Doing That.

[bearcosmic]

Dick: No. I refuse, get somebody else to do it.

Tim: Dick, no one else is even in the running. please be so fr right now

Damian: What are you arguing about?

Dick: Damian! Damian can do it! He’d be great at it.

Tim: No, Damian’s gonna follow his paternal grandfathers lead and be a doctor. Everyone only has to take on ONE element of Bruce. Try again

Jason: They are arguing about which one of us should be the newest representative for the Justice League for when Bruce finally conks it.

Damian: That would be an honor no? Richard you would be a competent ruler.

Cas: Leader

Damian: Whatever. I assume Timothy will be taking on WE in the event of father’s passing, so wouldn’t Jason also be in the running?

Tim: No i called dibs on Jason

Jason: What? What are you talking about. You can’t call dibs on me. What if I want to run the Justice League?

Tim: You don’t. You are going to run the Wayne foundation. Take from the rich give to the poor. Modern day Robin Hood—Very on brand for you. Don’t worry I have the contracts and everything ready.

Jason: …

Jason: Ok deal. Sorry Dickie, looks like your going to rule the interplanetary alliance :P

Dick: I don’t wanna!

Tim: What, do you wanna switch?

Dick: Well, no—

Tim: Also you’re the only one that makes sense.

Dick: I’ll do anything else, please that’s too much responsibility.

Tim: Okay. Be Batman.

Dick: …

Dick: Yea never mind. Running the Justice League won’t be that hard.

Damian: Wait so who will be Batman?

Cass: Dibs

Damian, Tim, Jason, Dick: Fair

Bruce, who’s been sitting at the dining room table with them the whole time: Are you done dividing my assets and responsibilities between yourselves now? Can we eat our dinner?

[bruce-wayne-enjoyer]

Working out timelines atm for my batlantern longfic project (starting with Bruce's because of the heavy batfam feature):

And if I'm doing it right:

Cass came to the family (No Man's Land, 1999) after Hal died (Final Night, 1997)

then Hal came back to life (Rebirth, 2004) shortly after Jason did (UTRH, 2004)

and then Damian came into the family in (Demon's Son, 2006) during Hal's cold era away from the JL aka what is essentially his bitter divorce era with Bruce (which lasted until what??? JL 2018??)

And if we're going by consistency's sake (not referencing publication, just what makes spatial-wise), all of this likely happened within a span of months (stretching maybe 1-4 years) with each other

Imagine being Bruce Wayne... your boyfriend dies, you gain a daughter, your dead son comes back to life, your boyfriend also does too (he punches you btw), and you find out one of your ex fiances was hiding a 10 yo genetic soup baby from you

And between all of this, the sun nearly ate the planet, your city was almost abandoned by the national government, then your city gets caught in a gang war (one of your proteges die btw), your childhood friend also tried to destroy your civilian life, the universe experienced another (I think 2?) major crisis event.... all among other things were happening to people you were responsible for too

"Batman has become way too broody and mean since the 2000s" — girl I would be too if that was my life, tf 😭✋

Matter of fact? He should be meaner 😭😭😭

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Me compiling Bruce's side of the timeline and realizing Imma have to do this too for Hal (Hal's life on earth is so hard to map, at least how I'm doing it so far)

Edit: because of Hal Jordan's comics' fuckass naming conventions ("night" "hour" "corps" 😭) I got the sun reignition death comic wrong (check comments for the person who kindly pointed it out and send them love, this was so funny)

[snakeredbirdbatkatana]

Random Rant specifically about skillset/badass ability’s across multiple DC characters! (I will be all over the place so most likely won’t tag all of them)

So something to keep in mind is across the board every single character is a combination of the best fighters/highly trained soldier to ever exist in our world then multiple it by a million. Our best is nothing to their best if that makes sense.

Comparing really any skill set is splitting hairs we will never see a full on all out fight in reference to Heroes because they are holding back. THEY DO NOT KILL PEOPLE!

A discussion I always am invested in is the Marksman one. I love firearms and archery once you are able to see the logistics the competence well it’s hot as fuck.

Deadshot is literally known as the man who never misses. To the point that if someone lives it’s because he decided it they did. Deathstroke is next, but he is technically a meta and his overall skill set makes it so even if he’s not the best at one thing he’s still the deadliest.

Roy Harper is said to be even better than Oliver Queen who has given Mr. Never Misses a run for his money but you can make an argument that Fatherly pride is taking the front seat so of course he thinks his baby is the best.

His baby though is really fucking good sooo fucking good.

Now I am 100% a fan of the Bats those are my favorite little fuckers they are NOT though winning this competition. Jason Todd, yes impressive, yes would beat so many assholes he is not Roy Harper, Oliver Queen, or Floyd Lawton.

In my experience (this is my personal experience) a gun requires less accuracy than an arrow. You can fire off center and still be accurate enough that’s not the game with archery. Someone who does archery can also usually fire a gun with the same precision, but if you give a bow to someone only trained in firearms well I wouldn’t want to bet my life on it. Also there is so much muscle, skill and other random things archers need to master in order to do it that firearms doesn’t need.

Also specifically the Marksmen argument means the other skills that might put certain characters ahead are irrelevant being able to dig out of a coffin drunk and blind is cool but not needed.

In conclusion Roy Harper, Oliver Queen and Floyd Lawton are the shit and if I see even a hint of a Bat logo you are a lying, liar, who lies.

(Ra’s Al Ghul, Lady Shiva and people on that section are left out on purpose they can kill people they are amazing are killing people but again specifically Marksmen isn’t where they excel. Could they win? Maybe? Probably? But it’s not their main thing.)



[nitewrighter]

"All fiction is derivative in some capacity."

Well yeah but if you're making "this book started out as a fanfic" a selling point of a mainstream published book--and I'm saying this as a fanfic writer myself--that doesn't inspire confidence.

[nitewrighter]

"But I've read fanfics that are better than published books."

Me too! But I would argue that a fanfic loses a lot of its soul, its seasoning when it gets poached for mainstream publishing. It's like treating the live-action remake as 'legitimizing' an animated film when the reality is that it's a soulless cash-grab in a creatively bankrupt capitalist market.

I'm not saying a fanfic writer can't go on to enjoy success in mainstream publishing, in fact, I genuinely hope that fanfic writers can break into that market with their own original works (Hello, Homestuck DNA in the Locked Tomb series...), but I do worry about the precedent set by fanfics "breaking containment" and getting picked up by mainstream publishers.

The whole point of fanfic and its legal protections is that writers are writing it for love of the game--sure, some writers are working on building up an audience, building up their craft, and there's nothing wrong with fanfic communities being a sort of writing nursery where writers can build themselves up before jumping into original fiction, but it's also like... fanfic has a point on its own. It has a purpose as transformative fandom. It has a point in subverting and exploring the text and subtext of the media it portrays from various interpretations. If we start treating it as a rough draft for original fiction and not something in conversation with both a community and a preexisting media... something gets lost on all sides when the serial numbers get filed off.

I mean there's probably more nuance that will bleed into "Everyone can do what they want forever"-- I mean Japan has a lot of fanworks in its doujinishi market after all---but I dunno. Fanfiction communities time and again want to have their cake and eat it, too, and I worry that's going to continue biting us in the ass and keeping us on the margins.

[cosmikazie]

hey remember when people said we gotta keep talking about this and then two days passed and it just went quiet. anyways

[cosmikazie]

due to recent (and frankly ongoing as far as this website is concerned) events

[lesbianshepard]

if an archaeologist says an artifact was probably for “ritual purposes” it means “i have no fuckin clue”

but if they say it was for “fertility rituals” they mean “i know exactly what it was for but i dont want to say ‘ancient dildo’”

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

Back in the day I worked at a certain very famous and very high caste art museum in the US as a junior curator. Part of my job was to catalog the objects in the museum database. This includes details like provenance, measurements, and a visual description of what the object looked like.

Like I said, the museum was a pretty snotty institution. It’s got a LOT of objects it’s way famous for possessing, but nobody knew about the absolutely massive collection of Moche erotic pottery it had because the curators were totally embarrassed by this stuff.

Some examples:

Pretty hot shit, right? They never, ever put any of this stuff on public view or published it in any catalogues but - we legit had like several hundred pieces of Moche ceramics in the “dirty pots” category. Anyway, I was left alone to just do my job with regard to the database for several years, ok? And I figured, well, these’re accessioned objects in the museum’s collection - better get down to bidness. 

I catalogued every goddamn bestiality, necrophiliac, cocksucking, buttfucking, detached penis, and giant vulva drinking cup in that collection. I’d be like, 

A drinking vessel in form of a standing man wearing a tunic and cap. He holds an oversized erection in his hands and stares into the distance (note I did not say “like he’s hella-constipated”). The vessel has a hole at both the tip of the penis as well as around the rim of the figure’s head, thus forcing the drinker to drink only from the penis or risk spilling wine all over themselves from the top of the vessel. Red and orange slip covers the surface of the piece.

Pretty straightforward, right? Apparently the deep seated fear of these objects that the curators exhibited was meant to spread to me as well, but - no one ever gave me that memo, because I guess Midwesterners reproduce asexually. When the curators understood that I had catalogued all of these objects in addition to the other, non-sexy pieces in the collection, they were apparently livid, but knew they had no legs to stand on in terms of getting pissed at me for it. 

I visited the museum’s online public access database a few years back and - every single description I wrote of these pieces has been totally neutered to say something like Male figural vase. 

Long story short? Just call a dildo a fucking dildo. It’s all gonna be ok, I swear.

[workfornow]

This is absolutely the MOST unusual reblog I have ever tagged with what is probably my second-favorite tag, “talk to me about your work.”

Plus it’s hilarious.

[cloudfreed]

I love ancient art history !!!!!

[clockshunddachshund]

@lowercasetrashwriter

[scrimblobimblobadimbo-deactivat]

Museums should have sections dedicated to artifacts like these with a warning that says “There’s a lot of private parts in here but we’re dedicated to displaying history so we won’t censor these. Enter at your own risk” or something. It’s prudish to deliberately hide history because of some ding dongs.

[dovewithscales]

Fucking Puritanism.

Unpopular opinion: Sex exists. Making body parts taboo is both psychologically bad for us and kinda stupid.

[waywren]

when i went to the travelling Pompeii exhibit a few years ago it was nice to have a section just gently sectioned off with all the fun phalloi and graffiti. they had a warning on it, but they ALSO had a warning on the ‘hey this is where the simulated eruption happens, if you have trouble with flashing lights or loud noises let us know so we can show you the shortcut’ bit, and I appreciated both.

[kawuli]

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine

[whatbigotspost]

Gen Z men twice as likely as boomers to say wives should "always obey"

“It is troubling to see that attitudes towards gender equality are not more positive," said Julia Gillard of King’s College London.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

>Particularly among Gen Z, our data shows an interesting duality: they are both the group most likely to agree that women who have a successful career are more attractive to men but are simultaneously most likely to agree that a wife should always obey her husband and that a woman should never appear too self-sufficient or independent.

Incredibly stupid things are happening

[cryptiddies]

I know these two things seem contradictory, but there’s nothing a conservative man loves more than to tear off an angel’s wings. There are plenty of women that would willingly choose the obedient SAHM lifestyle, but these kinds of men always seem to go for the opposite. Why? Because it’s a power play. There’s no need to break a horse that’s already broken, and that would do nothing to validate that man, his ego, and his place in a world he sees as designed for him.

[ifoundmybeatingheartagain]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Another factor is that these men avoid dating conservative women who already want the lives they want them to have because those women's standards are too high. Specifically, such women expect to be the obedient stay at home mum, but they also expect their men to be the masculine ideal from the other half of the equation -- they tend to look down on their men if they cry, they expect them to be able to financially provide for the household, they want them to uphold their end of the bargain. You see this again and again in groups of conservative men who go out of their way to date liberal women; there is a power play, to tame someone untamed and bring her into line with his expectations, but there's also her lack of expectations of him. They want a woman who will do all the household and keep the home but ALSO will not reject him for not being able to afford to finance the family alone. They want a woman who'll respect and obey him but ALSO be fun and relaxed and let him show whatever emotions he wants. They want the Perfect Trad Wife who won't expect him to be the Perfect Trad Husband.

You see the same thing in conservatives who complain that all their leftie friends are abandoning them, but who won't just hang out with right wing friends instead. They don't want to hang out with other righties because a group of righties quickly becomes judgy and hateful and socially competitive, and is only fun to hang out with when they want to vent, whereas their leftie friends were more relaxed and fun. They want license to be unpleasant and expect unreasonable things of others, but want the people around them to be pleasant and not expect unreasonable things of them.

[sunspotpony]

We have some excellent commentary here, but I want you to keep in mind an adage that will serve you well on the modern internet.

"If something immediately makes me feel anger, repulsion, or joy, with even a simple blurb, it's probably manipulating me."

First off, Newsweek is hardly an unbiased source these days. The majority shareholder is Dev Pagrad, is exceptionally wealthy, and has been repeatedly pushing newsweek to be an arm of the right wing's propaganda machine. It is HARD LINE far-right, Anti-trans, anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-science To cite the Southern Poverty Law Center (by way of Wikipedia)

In November 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Newsweek had "taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders" since it hired conservative political activist Josh Hammer as editor-at-large. It noted the magazine's elevation of conspiracy theorists, publication of conspiracy theories about COVID-19, views such as support for a ban on all legal immigration to the United States and denying adults access to trans-affirming medical care, and failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest in the content published on Hammer's opinion section and podcast. https://web.archive.org/web/20221106005834/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/11/04/newsweek-embraces-anti-democracy-hard-right

Newsweek, when even linking to the study it cites, doesn't... actually link to the study. It just links to newsweek's "study" tab. It does MENTION the study, which allowed me to track it down. https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/almost-third-gen-z-men-globally-agree-wife-should-obey-her-husband IPSOS is a MARKETING FIRM, whose CEO Jean Laurent Poitou, was the former head of Accenture, under whose leadership, sure did a lot of fraud, engaging in tax avoidance, and other such conservative-leaning behaviors, and who generally is affiliated with the traditional right. Let's add another one. The group "Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s Business School, King’s College London" just so happens to be at the school that the Current CEO of newsweek is not just an alum of, but is a major contributor to the funding for. It's always weird when something extremely polarizing comes from, a group that's directly funded by the CEO or owner of the conservative newspaper that's publishing it, as well as from research done by a Marketing firm in the pockets of wealthy conservatives! Funny how that always seems to happen! But if we actually look at IPSOS's study, you'll see that a lot of the numbers have been gently massaged and their methodology is EXTREMELY opaque. After all, they're not a scientific institution. They're a MARKETING FIRM. The biggest conclusion if you read their own paper, is ACTUALLY, that MOST PEOPLE seem to hold progressive views on women's autonomy, but think that THEIR COUNTRY still majority holds draconian views on women's autonomy. Things their own study says:

A Majority of Gen Z believes that women shouldn't "always obey" their husbands.

A Majority of Gen Z has concerns that their society holds draconian beliefs about women.

What the results of the SPIN on this facts, as well as how many in the comments are reacting, is actually perpetuating the Traditional Right's views on Gender and Marriage. I need you to understand that it actively benefits the traditional right when you lean into gender essentialism and believe that Men Are Evil. That Men Are Monsters. It makes the default assumption of men be that they will always be predators, meaning that when they DO do something predator, nobody's surprised; well that's just how men are; when he finds the RIGHT woman who can Tame Him, then he'll behave; that's the duty of a woman after all; to put up with men abusing her until she finds one who is the Right One, who she can handle. What this article ALSO does, is scare progressive women, scares queerfolk, scares young folk, and makes conservatives feel emboldened and empowered. You need to ALWAYS, ALWAYS, remind yourself: "If something immediately makes me feel anger, repulsion, or Joy, with even a simple blurb, it's probably manipulating me." And more than that, you need to remember the follow up:

WHO BENEFITS FROM MAKING ME FEEL THIS WAY?

[spiderman-3000]

someone give me bamf peter

like ACTUAL bamf peter who kills people an doesn't just say fuck every once in a while

like have you met 16 year olds? yall are mischaracterizing him so bad, srsly, like he's still a teenager. please let him be awful and mean and just a very hurt person who reacts to situations basly despite having concrete morals

[riotdyke]

Man, remember when Free The Nipple was a thing and there was an actual substantial amount of feminists who believed even public nudity wasn't inherently sexual and now if you date a short person hundreds of anonymous idiots online will call you a pedophile.

[penguins-and-glory]

Anyone who is comparing “Off Campus” and “Heated Rivalry” does not understand the shows on a fundamental level.

While they are both hockey romances, each show has a completely different goal for its audience. In Off Campus, the goal is to create a lighthearted romcom that is able to bring hard topics to a broad audience. It’s such a success because of the refreshing emotional maturity in the male characters. It does fun and sexy VERY well, and elicits emotion at the right times. It’s very much a “giggling and kicking my feet show” with the very tough conversations sprinkled throughout. This is shown in its main conflicts. Most of the relationship troubles we see between the couples presented (Mainly Garett and Hannah) is heavily influenced by big external factors. Their relationship progresses with the external conflicts, and reaches a peak with them. This makes the solution mostly straightforward and easy to understand. In this way, Off Campus helps us understand the characters more outside of this love bubble, and creates a cohesive big picture.

Heated Rivalry is completely different. Jacob Tierney aims at using film to guide the audience through a complex and multifaceted queer relationship. The focus IS the relationship. Almost every piece of information we are given, whether it be a friend, past lover, etc… is given to help the audience understand Shane and Ilya’s relationship. He uses masterful cinematography to communicate to us the vast amounts of internal conflict in the story. Unlike Off Campus, most of the conflict in Heated Rivalry is self driven. It is created by the characters choice’s, for the characters. In Off Campus, the conflict happens TO the characters. Because of this, I did not feel the emotion as intensely as I did watching Off Campus. I often times felt suffocated, much like the characters in the show. Heated Rivalry is not funny, despite it being light at times. It is sensual, deep, complex, and thought-evoking. Both of these types of film play important roles in our mediasphere, but to compare the two is to diminish both.

[anyoneunthinking]

if you are from western australia or actually even anywhere else in australia and you’re a heated rivalry fan I desperately need you to know that there’s someone over on ao3 writing a fucking hollanov mining au. a mining au. it’s set at a gold mine in red dirt country in western australia. there’s hi-vis. there are dongas. hollanov are engineers. scott is their boss. rose is hr and shane shields her from the thousands of single male fifo workers starved for female attention. kip is the project manager. he does an acknowledgement of country before a meeting. kip does an acknowledgement of country before a progress meeting. I am losing my mind. shane is worried about ilya getting bitten by a brown snake when he goes for a jog. I don’t think you’re getting this. shane gives some other workers a lift in his work ute. they call him mate. ilya is hired after shane and they have a history that no one else knows about. they’re glaring at each other across conference rooms and arguing over surveys and power blasting and going for sexually charged competitive runs at 5am. am I crying or laughing. I don’t know. this is the most specific au I’ve ever seen. I’m so scared. I’m having the best time ever. I’m losing my fucking mind.