burn bright, fade fast

al/somehow twenty three/ so tired background

[nope-nora]

three time olympic medalist, two time world champion, six time japanese national champion, two time world silver medalist, four continents champion, grand prix final champion, world junior champion, junior grand final champion, and youth olympic silver medalist. the first man to land a quad flip in competition. you have quite a lot to be proud of, shoma uno. we’ll miss you.

[so-many-ocs]

[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories

[orcboxer]

Have you seen the new show? It's on Tubu. It's literally on Heebee. It's on Poodee with ads. It's literally on Dippy. You can probably find it on Weeno. Dude it's on Gumpy. It's a Pheebo original. It's on Poob. You can watch it on Poob. You can go to Poob and watch it. Log onto Poob right now. Go to Poob. Dive into Poob. You can Poob it. It's on Poob. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.

[totallynotgayforyou]

[orcboxer]

Poob has it for you.

[noradurstig]

[parkayquarts]

trout reznor (trent reznor if he was a fish): my whole existence is cod

[parkayquarts]

nine inch scales. whatever.

[shesnake]

be gay do crimes

[frightstricken-deactivated20260]

i avoid printers at all costs but deep down i think i should've been a printer. life so easy. i sit there all squarelike and when someone has a minor task for me i goFUCK YOU

[persimmontea]

A small gif set of *that* part of Shoma's programs the past few seasons ⋆˙⟡♡

Happy birthday Shoma! Your skating is truly special and unmatched. Wishing you the best in your journey towards finding your self-satisfaction~ Hope you have a great year ahead of you! ⋆˙⟡♡

[yourviolence]

trent reznor, lowlands festival, 2013

[three--rings]

There’s always a lingering question that I ask myself, which is why do I, a cis bisexual woman, enjoy romance between two men so much?  

There are easy answers, like that it’s just fetishizing.  And like, I find men attractive, yes.  But I also find women attractive.  I don’t have a problem with enjoying het romance, assuming I can find good ones.  I enjoy stories with female characters I can relate to.

But there’s something much deeper at play, IMO.  A friend of mine who is a gender studies professor was the first person to point this out to me, but a lot of women enjoy m/m romance and gay porn because of the lack of women.  It removes a source of pressure and sexism.  Without any women present, you don’t have to constantly evaluate the sexism of their portrayal, or be reminded of negative experiences in your own life.  It allows women to experience romance and especially sexuality without all the baggage that comes with it in our patriarchal society.

This was recently illustrated to me rather dramatically.  I read a recommendation for a het romance.  And it sounded cute, and came highly recommended.  The tropes at play were fun.  Until I read a snippet and realized this was a romance between a woman and her boss.  I had a visceral negative reaction.  

Instantly I’m thinking of sexual harassment stories I’ve read and heard from other women. I’m thinking of how uncomfortable it would be to have your boss develop feelings for you.  How icky the power dynamics would be, etc.  

And then I realized…this wouldn’t bother me if it were two men.  Now, there’s no logical reason for that.  Sexual harassment is just as wrong when its object is a man.  But I know I’ve read fics with a similar premise and never thought about it.  Because when it’s two men I can accept this is just a light romance, a fantasy, meant to be fun and sexy and not to represent the real world.

But I can’t when it’s a het relationship.  There’s too much baggage there.  Too much societal history of abuse.  I can’t relax enough with the premise to enjoy that story.  

Now some people can.  And that’s fine.  And some people are never going to be okay with power imbalances like that regardless of gender.  That’s also fine.  I don’t think having either reaction makes one morally superior.  It’s okay to just enjoy light entertainment for what it is without going into deep analysis.

But it’s much more difficult for me, and I think for many women, to relax and enjoy romantic and sexual stories when they involve female characters.  We’ve been burned too many times by shitty depictions, by shallow role models, by abuse portrayed as romantic.  We have developed a stress response, a trauma response to heterosexual romance.  We are hyper-reactive to a wide variety of triggers in regards to it.   But removing women from the equation makes stories safer for us.  And maybe it shouldn’t?  In an ideal world?  But for many of us, that’s the truth.

[tofublock]

Cat tart

available as a sticker for patreon

[lillietberne]

figure skating is the best bc it's performance art. it's interpretive dance on ice. but it's also a stats-based competitive sport and everyone who participates in it just has to grapple with that inherent conflict all the time constantly

[sarenderpity]

Op your tags were the best part of this

[ethereal---spirits]

May 20th, 1998, MALICE MIZER released their fourth single from the album merveilles, “Illuminati [P-type]”. Along with an instrumental version of the song, the single also included the song “N-p-s N-g-s (N-Type)”.

[julieterbang]

[rocktheholygrail]

Jennifer’s Body (2009) Hannibal (2013-2015)

[rylandsgrace]

Lives (mine) were forever changed

[zoeydotexe]

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system of a clown. if you even care