you can fly even higher

sophia • she/they • ella/él • ghost fic scholar

[freakkduo]

happy anniversary to these two

[freakkduo]

professional cycling is like what if i ate you

[annabelle--cane]

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

[unalivejournal]

"there cannot be this much to say about heated rivalry" take an English class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There's an infinite amount to say about everything

[cryptotheism]

Playing with friends might as well be drugs

[hollandar]

Hudson Williams, #1 Shane Understander

I think Shane was a character who, soon as I read him, made all the sense to me. I felt immediately a kinship and an ownership over Shane. I was like, “I need to be the only person to tell this story. I get it. I want to be the person to be Shane and I want to spend time with him.” [x]

(sources below)

PANEL 1 Out

PANEL 2 (fear/desire) The Permanent Rain Press

PANEL 3 (vegas bathroom) Numero Netherlands

PANEL 4 (tears) Harper's Bazaar

PANEL 5 (ilya inverse) Teen Vogue Image: [x]

PANEL 6 (additions) (4 gifs) Numero Netherlands Entertainment Weekly

PANEL 7 (good job) Them

PANEL 8 (dichotomy) eTalk CTV CBC News Images: [x] [x] [x]

PANEL 9 (cottage home) Variety

PANEL 10 (heart eyes) Timid

PANEL 11 (evolution) Much Image: [x]

PANEL 12 (yuna) Variety

PANEL 13 Timid Numero Netherlands Out Image: [x]

[deerjawz]

[nathanielthecurious]

academic writing these days is always like “be/longing” “re-membering” “(under)standing”

[mothprincess]

A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

[murheissaan]

Muhammad Ali as St. Sebastian for Esquire, 1968

[freakkduo]

summer is about the disruption of norms. winter is about the Time Loop.

[freakkduo]

brokeback mountain. dirty dancing. on earth we are briefly gorgeous. heated rivalry the cottage. high school musical 2.

[freakkduo]

summer is about the disruption of norms. winter is about the Time Loop.

[amphibifish]

never do any sort of collaborative storytelling with your friends youll get addicted for life

[magneticghouls]

i wish i knew how to quit you // does it fucking kill you, too?

[ccrux00]

keep up!

[nevver]

At this hour, Losel Yauch

[likematingcall]

Canada, Hockey, Masculinity, Race, and Belonging

little bits I found interesting while reading about Canadian masculinity + hockey + race and thinking about Shane Hollander

First excerpt is from "Selective Memory in a Global Culture: Reconsidering Links between Youth, Hockey, and Canadian Identity" by Brian Wilson, 2nd chapter in Artificial Ice ed. David Whitson & Richard Gruneau

All following excerpts are from Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voice of South Asian Canadians by Courtney Szto