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So blessed to be part of a fandom where every headcanon, without fail, ends with “and then they fuck about it”
Serious question, why do fic authors think that Shane Hollander is a blubbering baby who needs Ilya to do absolutely everything for him because he’s just so fragile?
‘Cause like, our boy is autistic, which makes him more sensitive to a lot of stuff, but also on a very real note, he doesn’t emotionally process most of his life. I say this as someone who is both medicated and therapized, but I still cannot emotionally process things unless I work through it out loud (AuDHD, baby!). Therefore, Shane internalizes EVERYTHING. He won’t sob or act out or be dramatic, he’ll just go quiet (and then MAYBE he’ll cry if he’s alone, maybe).
Shane hires people to manage things for him, yes, but when it comes to himself, he will Handle That Shit. Yep, it’s not healthy or wise most of the time (his ED, obsessive training, etc), but that’s how Shane regulates his feelings and emotional wellbeing. Again, he doesn’t do regulation well, but rigid routines and rules make him stable enough to present as a functional human (me too, Shane).
Shane doesn’t need Ilya to tell him how to think or feel. He does need to be poked at sometimes to actually talk about things, but Shane will not be the kind of person who has explosively emotional breakdowns at the drop of a hat. Between masking his autism and strict media training, he will never be that kind of person.
It’s also important to note that Shane grew up in a safe, loving home. His parents (from what we know) have a very healthy relationship. Yuna, while a little overbearing, is stable and controlled (behaviour that Shane likely mimics) and David is a very calm, relaxed guy that balances out his wife’s intensity. It’s very likely that Shane rarely witnessed any fights and if he did, it’s unlikely they were highly emotional displays.
Between them, Ilya will be the one who’s prone to emotional breakdowns. With the C-PTSD of his childhood finally catching up and his battle with depression, Ilya will struggle to regulate or push it down, especially since he’s in a place where he has a good support system. It’s part-brain chemistry and part learned behaviour bc his father was obviously abusive (explosively, so, from what we can glean about both Ilya & his mother) and he watched his mother struggle with depression. Ilya can put on a face until he explodes because he has no other way of expression.
TLDR: stop making Shane Hollander cry at the drop of a hat because it’s not him & also very fucking infantilizing (which is a massive fucking problem because people are constantly infantilizing autistics).
Honest (SPOILER) thoughts regarding the GO finale, I think a valuable piece of writing people are kinda overlooking is the INCREDIBLE subversion of their main motivations
Like we as the audience are lead to believe from the start that Crowley is this jaded, cynical little fucker who’s fond of one person and one person only. The typical “nothing in this world matters except you” grumpy who doesn’t give a shit about a universe that rejected him. Aziraphale, likewise, is pretty easily seen as the bigger picture guy, it’s obvious he loves Crowley deeply but it’s the mission of the larger world, the good of the people, that draws his time and energy- he chooses that responsibility more than Crowley. These are the roles we’ve seen them play and the archetypes we’ve kinda locked them in to. It matches with their grumpy vs sunshine attitudes, their aesthetics etc
Then in s2 we started noticing some cracks in it. We’ve met Angel Crowley who is a beautiful sunshiny dreamer who cares so deeply about the gorgeous world around him. Aziraphale starts to get a bit wrapped up in his own self interest from time to time, caring more about his bookshop or Crowley or even Jim than his larger mission. These little moments added depth to their characters, but ultimately didn’t shake our ideas of them. But THEN-
When they were asked by God what they would save, everything in the world has been stripped from them. The universe is lost- all that remains is each other and the final question of “what in the whole of existence matters to you most?” And we think we know what they’ll say, we think the way we’ve been taught all this time- Crowley is the selfish lover and Aziraphale is the heartbroken rejector.
But instead we meet their cores. We meet the truest stripped down versions of themselves and we learn the truth. Aziraphale picks Crowley. His lover, his life, the being that completes him. He makes the selfish, or loving, choice, no matter what it means to the world. And Crowley- Crowley is crying for the world. He is so utterly helplessly desperate for humanity to have their chance that he’s willing to throw away everything out of his sheer love for them. We’ve met the old part of him again, the artist and the lover, the selfless one he’s had within him all along. And for Aziraphale we’ve finally met the lover in him too, the one who’s finally willing to put his love for Crowley above all else.
I don’t know but I think it’s absolutely beautiful to get to know characters that you thought had these black and white motivations, only to discover that when it all comes down to it, they are capable of throwing everything we assumed about them out the window. There’s no black and white or even grey, but a whole world of mixed up colours and choices that make them whole. The sinful Angel and the selfless demon to the last.
feeling unreasonably amused and fond about the idea of bb shane figuring out that timeout=having to go sit somewhere quiet and not have anyone talk to him
and thus putting HIMSELF in timeout especially at family events with a frequency that has other family members pulling yuna and david aside to be like, "he really didn't do anything wrong, he doesn't need to be in timeout. it's okay." and them having to figure out a way to explain that yeah, they know. this wasn't their call. he is free to leave whenever he wants. he's literally not in trouble for anything. he went up to yuna, said "mommy, i need a timeout" and then walked himself off to go sit in the guest room looking SO pleased at this loophole out of having to talk to people when he's tired of it.
Accurate bc I, as a child (and a teenager), would announce “I’m done now” and disappear to my bedroom to either sleep or Not Talk To Anyone.
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post
…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment
likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post
i need all the help i can get for finals
Hey so
the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like.
So you know.
This might be the real one, y’all.
I could use some luck
2 genres of fanfiction:
1) put that guy into situations
2) take that guy OUT of situations for the love of GOD let them REST
Is Shane a slut? Absolutely. But he’s a jock and a slut and it’s important to remember both.
His lingerie is jock straps and athletic socks. He likes when his boyfriend is sweaty and kinda reeks after a hard workout. He likes sex that feels like a brutal gym session, riding Ilya until his thighs burn and pushing past it cause he’s fucking strong enough to do so. His porn searches are gym shower cruising, locker room gangbangs, frat bros in circle jerks. He gets turned on watching rugby, football, hockey, anything where men crash and bleed. He likes when he can see Ilya’s red mouth on tv, gets fucking dizzy with want if he’s on the ice to see it. Shane loves when morning warmups turn into foreplay, when his captain, pushes and pushes him like he does at night, making him run another drill and it feels like when Ilya is forcing an impossible 4th orgasm from him. If he was on Grindr his profile would say masc-for-masc / gym rat wanted. Ilya knows if he needs to butter up his boyfriend, spending a few minutes doing push-ups, make sure his biceps and pecs are bulging a bit before he strolls into Shane’s office (he’s asking for a PlayStation he can 100% afford but watching Shane say yes to anything cause there’s no blood traveling to his brain is much better than swiping his own card). Yeah Ilya has to remind Shane his eyes are up here when his gym tank is a little too low and Shane has comprehended 0% of what Ilya was saying. Shane gets a half chub when he wins games, is inconsolably horny when they destroy another team (3 point winning lead? Yeah Ilya knows he’s getting a late time ft call, gets to stroke Shane’s ego in a way he won’t allow publicly ; “cant believe I’m so lucky, get to have the best player in the league.”)
I don’t understand fics that characterise Eddie as slow to make friends, the man is friends with everyone. Maybe true, opening-yourself-up friends are less common, but he’s the only one at the 118 who is shown to have multiple social circles outside of them. He’s the one who befriended Tommy, he’s got his parents social circle, his firefighters poker group, his pickup basketball game, probably friends at Muay Thai and the gym. I bet he knows his neighbours, his local cashiers, baristas, his mechanic, etc etc. He’s a friendly guy!
I would like Ilya to get a lil forehead or cheek kiss from Yuna in S2, please and thank you
“John’s body isn’t even cold yet!”
What if I told you that John himself wouldn’t want Francesca to grieve forever? There’s a two year time skip between s4 & s5, meaning Francesca had the socially acceptable year-long grieving period as well as another year to grieve. Mind you, there’s no timeline for grief or when it’s appropriate to move on because every person and relationship is different.
“UGH, I just really wanted Eloise’s season!”
In the books, Eloise is in her thirties by the time she gets married. She’s been “on the shelf” for a long time because she never felt the urgency of marriage nor did she care to marry.
In the show, Eloise is categorically, explicitly opposed to marriage and, it seems, men in general. S4 is the first time that she recognizes that marriage isn’t always something bad or constraining, but it can be quite wonderful when the right people find each other. While this is a good step, she needs to figure out how and why marriage might be something she wants.
Maybe Philip encourages the pursuit of higher education (the endorsement of a husband would likely allow her to enroll in a university especially considering her current social standing). Maybe she becomes a governess for his children and love blooms organically that way.
“But the infertility storyline…!”
Were you watching S4 with your eyes closed and with ear plugs in? We witnessed John and Francesca actively trying for children and failing to conceive. We witnessed Fran struggle with feelings of inadequacy for failing to provide John with a child (which she feels is her whole duty as a wife). In fact, I’d argue that the infertility has greater depth in the show because it’s less about the child and more about Fran’s grief.
I’d argue that Francesca doesn’t know if she actually wants children, but lives in a world where that is expected of her. With John, she can see that future because she loves him and knows he will be a good father. However, in the wake of his death, she doesn’t talk about wanting to be a mother but how much a failure she feels for not providing John with an heir. She grieves not having a child because it means that John is gone and she has nothing left of him, not even a child in which she might see his face or hear his laugh again.
“Michael was my favourite!”
Oh, the Michael that threatened to fuck Francesca until she got pregnant & would then HAVE to marry him. Sure thing, babes.
“It’s not historically accurate.”
Be so fucking for real right now.
Gay people have always existed. They lived with life-long “roommates” and signalled other queer people with fashion accessories or certain vocal inflections.
Not to mention that Fran’s a widow. It’s perfectly acceptable for her to never re-marry because she already did it. She fulfilled social expectations by having a husband until he was taken tragically. Michaela being her “companion” would be easily accepted by general society.
“Michaela can’t get her pregnant.”
First of all, believe in her a bit more. Second of all, pregnancy isn’t the only way to have a child, and by harping on this, you’re all perpetuating the idea that a mother whose children aren’t biologically hers is less than. An infertile woman is somehow broken.
“The book—“
Infertility is the least important theme in the book. Francesca is still struggling with her grief and struggling with what it means to fall in love again after the death of her husband. She worries that because her love with Michael/a negates the one she had with John because they were so different.
John was safety, a lighthouse in a storm, a source of peace and acceptance. It was a quiet love that warms like curling up next to a fire with a blanket and a good book.
Michael/a is an inferno. Challenging and at times, infuriating. There is comfort still, but more often, it’s the type of love that pushes you out of your comfort zone. Something that defies every idea you once had for yourself.
Neither love is more valuable than the other. Francesca needed to love John first—needed to live for the first time outside of her chaotic family in peace. Being with someone similar to her let her know that there was nothing wrong with her. With her routines and rigid expectations and puzzles, John took those things in stride, never making her feel embarrassed or uncomfortable to be that way.
Falling in love again means that Francesca needs someone like Michaela. Someone who will grieve with her and honour the love she held for John without letting her drown in it. Someone who understands her peculiarities because Michaela loved someone just as particular. Francesca needs Michaela’s chaotic approach to life because when someone you love dies, they take a piece of you with them. Fran needs to remember what it’s like to live again.
It all leads back to misogyny
Tommy: I think you’re in love with Eddie, the former owner of this house
Buck: okay first of all Eddie did NOT own this house, he rented it. Second of all, he’s straight
Sheriff: I think you murdered your husband, Evan Buckley
Eddie: okay, first of all he likes to be called Buck. Second of all, I would NEVER murder him
jacob tierney could do buffy the vampire slayer but joss whedon couldn’t do heated rivalry even if you gave him 10,000 years and access to every wet eyed bottom in canada
Buck & Eddie fist bump after really good sex bc before everything else, they are best friends (also massive dorks)
Sometimes I think about Shane saying “You’re an awesome player to watch” to Ilya. Well of course he is to YOU, pervert
I'm going to say something so controversial yet so brave but I disagree with the general consensus that Scott clocked hollanov before they came out.
That man hasn't clocked shit. He's a billion years old and has kill bill sirens blaring and gay war flashbacks flashing in his mind at all times while hollanov are exchanging room numbers and being in love while telling themselves they're gonna break it off next time. Scott Hunter is being haunted by his own gay thoughts and failures as a hockey player the entire time, there is no way he clocked anyone's shit, especially his own 💀
The jokes are funny (and i may have joined in on a good ol' baby vs hydrogen bomb joke or two) but it's so obvious his dig at Shane in that fight was about sounding like his greatest rival (aka a known and 'hated' asshole) and how that makes SHANE an asshole, likely because he'd played against the Bears just the day before and Ilya's own chirps were fresh on his mind.
Even at the rookie award afterparty, it's so obvious that when Shane gets weird about the 'your boy rozanov' comment, Scott gets even WEIRDER and basically goes "haha of course not YOUR boy i just meant like your BOY, your buddy, your pal, your archrival yk? Not YOUR boy 😅 cause that'd be weird. And gay. Which you're not. And I'M not 😅😅😅😅 haha. Anyway, how about those shots? 😃"