heart before head, every single time

ciel/30+/latine transmasc puppy (he/they). i follow from here! main blog is @gaybravado. header art by kaneoya sachiko, sidebar art commissioned from mel tow.

[meanbuddhist]

*turns my attention inwards* mmmmm. no *turns my attention back outwards* oh god

[reinapepiada]

shipping a consensual, safe & sane pairing all the while i'm shaking my head in disapproval so the audience knows i still love wildly toxic abusive fictional dynamics

[glorious-spoon]

anyway the thing about fanfic is that it's not essentially bad or good; it's essentially amateur. some people are absolutely out there writing award-worthy prose (some fic writers ARE award-winning writers IRL!), but that's not the point. the point is that we're all telling campfire stories. it's a community, and it's a way to spend some more time in the worlds and stories that we love.

[elwenyere]

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

[forestdeity]

everything is divine punishment if youre delusional enough

[robertfagden]

at some point The Character stops being a character and starts being a close personal friend

[probablily]

okay not really New or Original thoughts here but i do think a lot of shane, who's trying So Hard to hide this part of him from even himself. and i think about him laying awake some time after the first hookup with rozanov, wondering how rozanov *knew*. what did he do to give it away? shane couldnt tell about rozanov, how he could he tell about him? he's trying so hard to hide it. what is he doing wrong?

and then rose. rose also knows. and thats different because shane knew what he was doing wrong that time but it doesnt make it any easier. he failed at hiding it, at performing and rose call him out.

but the worst one i think is his parents. "i think we thought maybe you were gay" is devastating. because they knew the whole time then. shane thought he was hiding it but he was failing the whole time. what gave it away? what is he doing wrong? how do they Know?

[ravenclairee]

HUDSON WILLIAMS arriving at the Giorgio Armani fashion show — Milan Fashion Week (January 19, 2026)

[hollanderthoughts]

Bouncin on it

[hollanderthoughts]

Maybe I just haven’t met the right woman….

[hollanderthoughts]

……..bouncin on it

[eroscestlavie]

What do you guys do for work. Job share time. I want to know

[whatimages]

where's that post about he has anxiety and he's ten inches throbbing he didn't mean it.

[jellbell]

[ily-a]

HEATED RIVALRY (2025-)

[gaynehollander]

I love Shane Hollander. I love how anything other than first place is repugnant to him, how a silver medal may as well be a dead rat for all he wants it. I love that any emotion that’s slightly too strong will bring him to tears and I love that he stubbornly refuses to let them fall. I love how snarky he is. I love that his vocabulary is 60% cursing and how his media persona would never betray that. I love his need to solidify himself as the unofficial face of the NHL. I love that he shoulders the responsibility of winning so entirely that every loss is a personal failure. I love that his true desires are buried so deep he barely ever even allows himself to recognise them. I love how much he loves being filled, how he craves having Ilya inside him, how he can’t let him leave without tasting him, even after he already fucked him. I love how the only time he can truly let go is when he trusts Ilya to bring him physical pleasure. I love his awkwardness and his pretty face and his freckles and his complete inability to communicate effectively. I just love Shane Hollander.

[shanesloverboy]

“Williams’ victory feels especially well deserved because Shane Hollander is not an easy character to portray. As we wrote in our review of the series, Williams delivers “a masterclass in micro-expressions and physical restraint.” Shane spends much of the story fighting against himself, suppressing emotions he barely allows himself to acknowledge, and Williams manages to communicate entire emotional arcs through a glance, a tense jaw, or a slight shift in posture. Every crack in Shane’s carefully constructed armor lands with devastating impact because of the work Williams puts in throughout the series.

Seeing that performance recognized on one of Canada’s biggest stages feels incredibly rewarding. Williams’ win is also historic in its own right. At just 25 years old, he became the youngest performer ever to win Best Lead Performer, Drama, at the Canadian Screen Awards, accomplishing the feat on his very first nomination.”

- Q+ Magazine

[giveherswords]

Jenny Holzer, Black Book Posters, 1979

[shutyourmoustache]

When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*

[party-gilmore]

HAPPY LOS JIBBITIES EVERYBODY!!!

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

The time for Los Jibbities has arrived!

[toddsolondz]

destroying and betraying yourself for nothing all by yourself, handsome?