Cookie and the Quest for Joy

A young adult just trying to figure all of this out. Reblogging all kinds of fun goodies from around the site! She/Her

[storm-of-feathers]

tumblr is great bc its like a diary where I can take other peoples diary entries and glue them into my own diary

[beejwatch]

funny joke

[smooththegoofyshark]

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Some flowers for anyone not feeling their best today

[phorusrhacidae-lesbian]

little miss auditory processing disorder would like you to repeat what you just said then immediately respond to you before you finish

[corneliaavenue-ao3]

Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

[gnar-slabdash]

Reblog to give prev the TIME to write their fanfiction

[cutebutalsostabby]

Reblog to give prev the hocus focus to write their fanfiction.

[septic-dr-schneep]

Reblog to give prev the energy to write their fanfiction

[imsopopfly]

Reblog to give prev the executive function to write their fanfiction

[joshdonnasdaughter]

bartlet: 300 IQ points between them, and they can't find their way home. I swear to God, If Donna wasn't there they'd have to buy a house.

this is extra funny because it is 100% true. she's the one handling most of their navigation (granted, josh does come up with some stuff but she beats him to it) i think it would've taken them twice as long to get back to dc if donna wasn't with them 😭

both are very smart but donna is able to stay way more together under stress.

[depsidase]

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, coach John makes the period stretches more accessible

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[vespertinecat]

This is the most considerate advice for doing stretches I've ever seen??? Initially I started to go, "...but I can't do that with my knee-" then he showed a way I could do it. I was like... whoa. A video for stretching that is actually considerate towards my disabilities. Astounding and impressive.

[nitewrighter]

Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

[nettlepixie]

i know that in role model/the long game troy and ilya mostly bond over secretly being nicer and softer and gayer than people realise, BUT i choose to believe that one day (maybe post the stanley cup the centaurs win with the power of friendship) the team all goes out to the club and there’s throwback edm hits playing and troy and ilya’s fuckboy party personas activate like fucking sleeper agents and they have the biggest night of their lives together

[karenandhenwilson]

I think to maybe fully understand The Long Game, one has to read Role Model. Because it provides an important view on Ilya from two outside characters for a big part of The Long Game. And following that thought, I also think The Long Game would have profited a lot from a book running parallel to The Long Game, following another player on the Voyagers to get that same outside look on Shane and to get a better look at Shane's locker room.

Because I think Shane is set in his perception, anything we would've seen from his view of the Voyagers' locker room wouldn't have told us any more than the scene of Shane thinking about Theriault's homophobia and how he barely even registers it anymore already did. But if there would've been another character on the Voyagers who had decided not to come out because he saw how Shane was treated, it could've given us a lot of important and interesting information.

The problem that so many people in their arguments about The Long Game ignore is that both Ilya's and Shane's POVs are horribly unreliable narrators. We can't trust either of their perception, and that's what is causing all the tension that explodes in the Boxing Day fight. And then, of course, after the emergency landing, the cause of the conflict shifts to the outside, but they're still both unreliable narrators.

Role Model provides us a great view on how Ilya is seen from the outside, though. We know in The Long Game how much he is suffering from his depression and from the self-imposed isolation because of the depression. But we also know that from the outside, it's not visible. The men who see him every day have no idea how bad off he is, even if he doesn't manage to keep his mask up. And then with Shane, it's shorter periods where he has to find ways to keep that mask up, and he is more motivated with him because he doesn't want to waste the little time he has with Shane.

I think that's the reason why it came to the fight on Boxing Day. That was the first time in a long time where they could spend more than a couple of hours or a day together. And Ilya just reached his cracking point about keeping that mask up. That he pulled up that mask and retreated into that isolation at all isn't Shane's fault, by the way, before anyone comes into my comments here. That's depression brain talking for Ilya, and it's really difficult to overcome that.

I think if more people read Role Model and concentrated more on the actual story told there, and less on how much we all "have" to hate Troy, they'd be able to learn a lot about Ilya and why Shane didn't fully see or react to Ilya's depression. Or maybe they'd understand that the moments Shane does see Ilya's very well hidden longing (Fabian's concert) and his depression (when he tells Ilya it's okay to seek help) show us how attuned those two really are to each other even while they try to hide their struggles from each other.

[pusheen]

[i-need-of-a-hobby]

shane will be reading one of his hockey books and ilya will be whining about how his husband isn't paying attention to him and 'how is that book more interesting than me hollander' so shane just decides to start reading to ilya.

now ilya would definitely complain about how boring it is, while being (not so) secretly contented because he gets to listen to his husbands voice who is threading his hand through ilya's hair, but neither of them think ilya's paying attention enough to absorb any of the information.

that is until one day at practice weibe is explaining a play he wants them to do and ilya comments on how 'oh, this is like the <insert name> maneuver from the 1988 playoffs' or something (i don't know hockey) and the rest of the team turns around to stare at him thinking holy shit it's actually happening, they're morphing into one person.

it takes him a second to realize but when the notices them all staring at him he instantly starts to backtrack, 'i didn't mean that, shane, you're turning me into boring canadian, what the fuck, is this what is like in your head??'

shane has never been so turned on in his life.

[stabthroughme]

There is a photo deep in the Centaurs media reel archives from a community day thing where baby Shane (7) is running away from Chuck the Beaver and being “protected” by the then-Captain of the Centaurs.

Harris finds it while combing through the archives for fun comparisons to the current team.

Instantly posts it with a picture of Ilya pulling Shane away from a fight single handed, and with the photo from Shane and Scott’s post-game fight when he was a Metro.

“It only takes one Ottawa Centaur to keep national treasure Shane Hollander safe. How many Metros does it take to stop gay on gay crime???”

[yesornopolls]

do you have a dedicated cheese drawer in your fridge?

Do you have a dedicated cheese drawer in your fridge?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJul 10

[lexicanons]

David Hollander signs up for IG to post pictures of his hot wife but after Shane and Ilya are outted and married, his IG goes from being a Yuna Hollander fan page to a Yuna, Shane and Ilya fan page. He loves to post candid shots and videos of his three favorite people and his IG account blows up overnight. Millions of people follow his page to see the cute videos of them at brunch and a random photo of Shane carrying Ilya on his back. He turns down a number of brand deals because he just wants to keep the page about his family. He never tells Yuna that he turns down brand deals because he knows she’ll put him six feet under.

[keplercryptids]

hey, it's okay if the only thing you did for pride was exist. i'm glad & grateful you are in the world. your survival is a celebration.