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[mont-ventoux]

people who don’t watch sports are seriously missing out. You could all be so much angrier

[actuallysara]

[chiefavenueglitter]

I love encountering a post by a mutual that has been reblogged by another mutual, and then finding all of my friends in the comments section. Like, the whole gang is here 🥹

[silverssorrysoul]

i made a Heated Rivalry fic rec quiz!! have fun!!!

what it says on the tin

[chiefavenueglitter]

Beloved mutuals please keep me in your hearts for the next twelve or so hours. I've got real "due today, do today" energy going on with my thesis revisions.

[chiefavenueglitter]

Update: headache.

[chiefavenueglitter]

Still not done. All wounds currently self inflicted. Has anyone looked into what happens if I simply do not turn this in.

[chiefavenueglitter]

Fucking finally.

[fuckrozanov]

goodmorning this is your assigned shane of the day

[writingdose]

I'd go to war for archive of our own

[ariesrin]

I love characters who would die for each other but will not, under any circumstances, communicate a single honest feeling.

[flomps]

posted the first chapter of the story that has been eating my brain:

god, i loved you so 1/4

''Boy meets boy, boy falls in love with boy, boy falls out of love with boy, boy files for divorce, boy discovers rare and shocking pregnancy, boy gives birth two weeks after divorce is finalised, boy makes colour-coded custody schedule spreadsheet.'

Not all love stories have happy endings.'

i have been thinking of it as 'divorcefic' but i suppose that should be 'getting back together fic'. somewhat surprisingly for me there is past mpreg in it, because this is the effect that shane hollander has on all of us. anyway there we go! title is from my favourite line from the last five years, aka the ultimate divorce musical.

[flomps]

i did CHAPTER TWO

honestly i don't think this story is particularly good but it is doing my writing brain good, so there we are!!

[hoodienanami]

Boys Gone Wild! Forget Will & Grace: Gay men are in lust with Johnny Knoxville and the skater punks of Jackass by Carl Swanson (2002)

[wonderwall]

We finally figured out what makes Kristen Stewart smile: hot wings! The “Twilight” star posed for this amazing photo after dining at a Hooters restaurant in Texas recently. Get the details at Wonderwall.com.

[shanebug]

these russian language videos that keep getting recommended to me are getting a bit specific. i think instagram knows what kind of heated rivalry fanfic i read.

[audible-smiles]

My memory of The Birdcage (1996) is always that it's more dated and more difficult to watch than it actually is. You hear "drag-themed comedy from the 90s based on a musical from the 80s based on a play from the 70s" and you brace yourself just a little, right? But the film has a strong gay perspective, so the fruity fag jokes mostly come off as warmly affectionate. There is a surprising amount of poignancy in Robin Williams' portrayal of Armand, grudgingly agreeing to his beloved son's request that he go back into the closet for an evening ("do me a favor and don't talk to me for a while"). The drag club's staff attempting to redecorate the apartment with stuff straight people might like (a taxidermy moose head, an enormous crucifix, and Playboy magazine) is extremely funny. Albert's histrionics are a point of tension because he does often come off as a stereotypically pathetic/comic figure, but towards the end of the movie he makes it very clear that he's aware of how people see him, and asserts that trying to copy a stoic masculinity he doesn't possess for the sake of social approval would be more pathetic. In the 1983 musical adaptation, they give "Albert" (Albin) the only good song in the whole show, "I Am What I Am", which Gloria Gaynor covered to the delight of gays everywhere. Apparently Nathan Lane wasn't (publicly) out yet in 1996, which is amazing because it means that at one point in this movie you're watching a gay man playing a straight man playing a gay man playing a straight man, in a movie about how it's important to be yourself, an absurdity that does seem to encapsulate the state of gay America in the 90s.

[silverhand]

I'm seeing a couple of posts circulating about the gay 90s and this movie. The above is a very good summary, and I think it's worth adding a few other points.

This movie got made because Robin Williams said yes to it (and it's important that Gene Hackman did as well). Williams in the 90s was a mega-star of a type that's not present in the current media environment (maybe Tom Cruise, but I personally think that's echo from his salad days). Even his flops made money on the back end in the video rental market, which also doesn't exist anymore (streaming is different). Hackman was on the other side of his A-list career but still Hollywood nobility if not full royalty.

Playing gay was considered career suicide in the 90s. There had been a number of actors who put lie to that belief stretching back decades, but this was Williams and Hackman (yes, being on screen next to a gay character was enough to get you blacklisted) saying "screw that" and doing it anyway.

Being gay and out was career suicide in the 90s.

Nathan Lane had a really nice gig going for himself. The Lion King put him into the Disney rep company with people like Williams, Bette Midler, and Whoopie Goldberg (check their IMBD list from the 90s--they were making bank at Disney).

Lane didn't come out until several years later (nice summary: https://deadline.com/2024/06/nathan-lane-robin-williams-advice-coming-out-birdcage-1235975010/).

I don't want to imply that this was a Sorkinized moment where everything changed because of one thing, but this was a very important movie that caused real movement in the needle on queer acceptance.

It also proved that there was a market for films with gay characters, which had the knock-on effect of gay filmmakers being able to find distributors of their gay-themed films. Which meant that more people than ever (queer and non-queer) got to see representation on-screen.

[lakevida]

when youre inadvertently 1% too nice to a straight guy you can usually pinpoint the exact moment where he decides you must be acting that way because you want to fuck down on him crazy style and it is at this point that one would be well advised to have a cyanide capsule under a false tooth or an equivalent fast acting response

[rozanovshane]

troy: hey as a fun team activity you guys could make me carry a wooden cross from toronto to ottawa and then crucify me at center ice

[chiefavenueglitter]

Beloved mutuals please keep me in your hearts for the next twelve or so hours. I've got real "due today, do today" energy going on with my thesis revisions.

[chiefavenueglitter]

Update: headache.

[chiefavenueglitter]

Still not done. All wounds currently self inflicted. Has anyone looked into what happens if I simply do not turn this in.

[creekfiend]

the only fic i've ever seen that thoughtfully incorporated elements of real life dog sex into omegaverse was hockey rpf but they were breeding hockey players to produce more hockey players and they were the only ones who did this. people who weren't hockey players just had human sex

lots going on here that I really don't feel qualified to comment on but thank you for sharing it with me. enriching to know this is occurring out there somewhere. baruch hashem who makes the creatures different