[ticklefighthockey]

if this is your first rpf ship here are my personal rules to doing rpf ethically:

accept that rpf occupies an ethical gray area. rpf can be super fun and joyful, but it involves working with (the public images of) real people. therefore you as an rpf shipper have more responsibility than fans of a traditional media property to behave well and model good behavior for other fans. the onus is on YOU and other shippers to respect boundaries and maintain clear lines, NOT on the celebrity, who is simply a person living their life.

don't ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever interact with the actors or creators or public figures on any social media platform, or with anyone connected to them (friends, family, makeup artists, etc.). never. don't show them art, don't show them fic, don't ask them about your ship, don't ask them about the person you ship them with, don't don't don't. just don't.

keep your rpf fic locked. keep your rpf twitter private. understand the risks of engaging in rpf on platforms that use algorithms to serve fandom content to people outside of fandom circles (tiktok, twitter, insta). personally i think we should NOT be doing rpf at all on those platforms but i accept that there are thriving rpf communities there. (thriving rpf communities that often have terrible boundaries!!)

remember it is not real. It Is Never Ever EVER Real. the more invested you are in a ship the more intense your feelings will be about their fictional romance and the more you are at risk of convincing yourself to believe in the fictional stories you and your friends are constructing. you must remember that it is not real. they are not actually dating, fucking, yearning for each other, whatever in real life. and if they WERE doing any of those things they clearly don't want YOU to know about it, so you should continue to operate under the ironclad belief that your ship is not real. you are playing with characters based on real people, not the real people themselves. you might know a lot about the characters you have invented but you know NOTHING about the real people. and that is how it should be!

[cheaphalloweencostume]

[firstprinced]

Heated Rivalry | end credits

[hollanov-ann]

😘

[hayaosmiyazaki]

Who is you, Chiron?

“We weren’t necessarily trying to find actors who looked alike or had the same build; we were looking for actors who had the same feeling. [Walter Murch’s] thesis was, ‘The eyes are the window to the soul’… I thought if I could find actors with the same eyes, the audience would connect with [Chiron’s] soul.” — Barry Jenkins

[elgreytea]

What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)

[hothockey]

if it really was no big deal and totally fine to use AI for "a few lines" of a fanwork, as some folks claim, then people wouldn't be rushing to edit their works clean of any trace of it, right now. period. but its not and we know it's not and they know it's not.

the datasets that these tools, even grammar/spellcheck ones use, are built on stolen writing from the very creatives that these people are creating alongside. ao3 has been scraped and fed to these sets to take advantage of free writing. to not know this or care about this is a problem because fandom is a community.

at what juncture do we respect the community we are in, more than we crave the capitalist satisfaction of production? at what juncture do we collectively enforce community standards and practices that tell folks to reach out to other human beings for art and build connection in order to find a beta, to find a mentor to tell them how to establish boundaries with pushy readers, to tell them how to be a fan and support a creator, to explain how to comment and reblog and post on the same platform with people and ENGAGE with others. how do we guide each other in learning how to exist in a collaborative art remix of a media object we all love? how do we create tangible infrastructure in our social networks that affords us the benefit of each other and discourages manipulation, disinformation, and isolation?

we have to be open to dialogue.

to learning. to critique. to growing. to educating. to taking a breath and a moment. to being wrong. to being vulnerable in reaching out to others. to talking.

and when we aren't open to these things - when we seek One True Fanon Truth or idolize the canon/showrunners/authors/etc., when we cannot handle critique of our own work, when we police fans of color in our spaces, when we don't listen to concerns and make our own educated judgements, when we fail to discuss outloud WHY certain fandom community standards are the way they are and the history of how they came to pass - we let new and apathetic actors enact their own rules into our spaces, in bad faith, and for their own benefit. and we, collectively, are the ones hurt.

fandom, as ever, remains a conversation and the conversation starts with each one of us knowing how to listen and how to speak up.

[cuppydogshane]

connor storrie's character acting choice to make ilya kiss like someone who eats pussy like crazy

[rainbow-femme]

Various thoughts on The Hospital Scene

-Ilya just lost his father to an illness affecting the brain and the person he loves most just got a brain injury and he doesn’t yet know how severe

-Ilya has been made to feel unwelcome by his family for years and probably isn’t sure if Shane will be mad that he’s there, tell him to leave, be embarrassed that he’s there, or laugh at him for thinking he wants him there

-It’s also notable that this is one of the few times they’ve interacted where hooking up isn’t an option, and when it wasn’t an option in Russia Ilya reacted coldly to Shane and told him to leave, and doesn’t know how Shane will react to a situation now where the only thing he has to offer is his presence

-And Shane’s reaction is unbridled delight at seeing Ilya and he makes grabby hands until Ilya comes close enough to hold hands with him

-Ilya’s family have never had problems showing how they feel about him, which is usually insults and contempt. Shane is affectionate with him but clearly has emotional walls up a lot of the time. This is the first time Ilya has interacted with Shane where he has no inhibitions blocking how he treats Ilya, and he treats him with so much delight and love and affection, showing that the only thing he’s been holding back is just how much he cares, rather than any judgements

-When Shane asks Ilya to come to the cottage he doesn’t say “We could have so much sex” but “We could have so much fun”. Showing that Ilya is not just a hookup but someone whose company he enjoys just as a person

-Shane mentions that he was already planning to ask this. Meaning it’s not a spur of the moment impulse because he’s high on pain medication, sober Shane was going to ask Ilya to come be with him as well

[clytemnestraaa]

what do you think of the concept of WAGs?

if you give a man the power to feed you you give a man the power to starve you.

so you’re on all the bank accounts. do you have an account of just your own that he can’t access? because he has one. do you have a way to get money into that account uncontested? because he does. do you have a credit card in only your name? he has one. do you alone qualify for a mortgage or car loan? he does. do you have employment history? he does.

have you considered that if he hurts you and you file a report or get medical attention, that will damage his career as a public figure, and his career is your only income? have you considered that unless you are 100% certain you want to divorce, it’s in your best interest to keep everything as quiet as you possibly can? have you considered that your husband plays a sport with high rates of CTE and drug and alcohol abuse which all correlate to rage and loss of impulse control? have you considered that at any time he can get traded and you’ll be off to utah in 24 hours? have you considered that your support system is a group of women in the same place as you who consider this all normal and even enviable? are you a good wife? are you a caring mother? are you a hot girlfriend? have you learned to find value in your commodification? if you broke up with your boyfriend and cut your hair and changed your name would your friends still be your friends? would your community still be your community? it all seems exciting and romantic and like a perfect story when you are 21 and he proposes on the beach. it seems like the way you want your life to go. now you’re 31 with 5 kids and no work history in a place you didn’t grow up surrounded only by women in your same situation.

and maybe nothing bad happens! maybe he loves you and treats you well. maybe he is kind and caring and a good partner and a good father and a good husband. maybe you are respected and valued.

isn’t that benevolent of him?

[recenterhudmilan]

The people who saw him live like this at the Toronto premiere are blessed by the gods. He was just out there self styled and groomed looking like a ten course meal.

[apocryphics]

oh ok

[gorps]

[trinidemgyal-deactivated2026051]

[larkstonguesinaspicpart1]

[coughloop]

Wait how the hell does she have two different bangs at once

[larkstonguesinaspicpart1]

You cannot comprehend the powers of an italian woman from new jersey

[probablily]

tiny camp au ficlet | 435 words

Shane lies on Ilya's chest, hand fiddling with the cross on the end of his necklace. Ilya strokes his hair, waiting for the moment Shane remembers he shouldn't be doing this, then freaks out and says it can never happen again.

Instead, Shane asks, "Why do you sing along to the worship and campfire songs even though you don't believe in them?"

Ilya blinks. Not five minutes ago he was inside Shane's ass, Shane's come is still smeared across their stomachs. "What?"

"You always sing so loud, and not just the, like, the fun songs, but the serious ones too."

"I know."

"Do you not feel like a liar?"

Ilya pushes down the defensive response. Don't you? That would be the quickest way to make Shane leave.

"I like singing. I don't think much of the words all the time."

Shane's hand moves from the necklace to play with the hair on his chest instead. "I think about the words."

Ilya hums. Wonders if maybe today's one of the rare ones where Shane'll let them go a second time.

"Sometimes I feel awful," Shane says, suddenly. He's making eye contact with the cross, fingers still stroking across his chest. "I sang lead to me the cross and I thought of yours."

"Oh." Ilya can feel his heart in his throat. He'd watched Shane yesterday, when he was singing it. Shane's a good singer, but shy about it. He'd never want to lead worship, but Ilya likes hearing him. Lead me to the cross, where your love pours out.

"I sang bring me to my knees and I thought of..." Shane trails off. His face is red. "Sorry."

"Is okay." Ilya says. He knows why Shane feels awful now. He probably felt like the biggest blasphemer, thinking about Ilya's cock when he's supposed to be worshipping God. It's also heady... Ilya can't stop thinking about the rest of the lyrics. Rid me of myself.

I belong to you.

Sometimes, Ilya thinks that he'd be a better god to Shane Hollander than his current one. He could never say that to him. Instead, he watches as Shane blinks hard, tears in the corners of his eyes.

"I shouldn't be doing this."

"It's okay," Ilya tries again. "I'm not— We're in this together."

"We shouldn't be doing this then." Shane rolls off Ilya. "Where the heck are my pants?"

"On the other side of the bed." Ilya's stomach sinks, but he knows better now than to try and stop him. He doesn't want to start an argument.

Everything I once held dear, I count it all as loss.

[quasi-normalcy]

We have this interesting situation where we basically no longer have privacy nor the expectation of privacy, but we also don't have community or meaningful connection with others, so we're all simultaneously both completely exposed and absolutely alone, and please understand that when I say this situation is "interesting", what I in fact mean is that it's "nightmarish and I wish I could wake up"

[void-flesh]

[connorstorriegifs]

Connor Storrie + offline, confused king

[rimonoroni2]

i think we should be talking about the semi-recent advancements in cystic fibrosis treatment like all the time every day. there hasn’t been a drug like this since AZT medications for HIV infection it is truly fucking miraculous and very important

[rimonoroni2]

basically: cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease which makes the mucous a person generates extra sticky. it used to kill people in infancy, then with advancements in medical tech it killed people in young childhood, and until very recently cystic fibrosis patients could expect to live until about thirty years old with consistent painful lung infections and complications.

in 2019 the FDA approved a drug called trikafta (which is really three drugs in one) for cystic fibrosis treatment. what it essentially does is patch up the malfunctioning proteins that cause the extra sticky mucus. trikafta is effective on about 90% of cystic fibrosis patients.

people who had spent their entire lives in and out of hospitals, on and off of ventilators, suffering from pneumonia and sometimes treated through painful procedures like intubation took this drug, got out of bed, coughed up an entire lifetimes worth of mucus out of their lungs over the course of a few hours, breathed clearly for perhaps the first time in their lives, and now go on to live well into their seventies.

like isn’t that insane. isn’t that amazing. doesn’t that give you hope for the future of medical advancements and treatment. fuck. i think about it all the time……

[kittydesade]

There’s a WHAT.

For WHAT.

[sweetdreamspootypie]

It's been amazing!

My ward is the respiratory ward - CF is one of the things we specialize in.

Since this med came out we haven't had a SINGLE CF admission to the ward

There used to always be a CF patient spending a couple of months with us at a time

There's a man who is 23 years old who I was sure would not survive his next admission (aim saturations 85% is end stage lung disease)

There's a set of the local frequent flyers that we all know so well

Except

No we don't

On the CF specialist ward (with reasonable staff turnover)

Half the staff have probably never even seen a CF patient

They are going to live

[anartificialsatellite]

For the people asking "well how do we know people are living that long if it's so new????" Here's a page from the CF foundation about life expectancy.

Additionally, it should be noted that metrics like life expectancy are in no way a guarantee of... Anything. There are significant outlier CF patients who are at an advanced age now despite the odds due to a variety of different factors, having lived the majority of their lives before the development of modulators.

But the fact remains that the odds are better now than they have ever ever been before, by leaps and bounds. It isn't cured, and many patients still need significant treatment in addition to Trikafta, but it is so much better than anyone could have dreamed of twenty years ago, and that is a triumph.

[kittyoverlord]

Yes! My sister has a serious form of cf and finally is living a more comfortable and active life. She was also part of many of the clinical trials leading to these breakthroughs due to the nature of her cf. It's been very exciting to see.