...and stay on the path

♦ Lenne. they/them. 33. Incurably Dutch. ♦ I like tabletop games, singing, fairytales, video games, mushrooms, tea and warm wooly socks. Formerly: thelastofthemadones ♦ infinitehazels ♦ Barely on but will pop up once in a blue moon. ♦ Sidebar gif credit: lyriumnug

[creaturey]

i think r/BenignExistence is my favorite subreddit 🥲 i love these pleasant little glimpses into strangers' lives

[4mtns]

NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter

[chocoholicbec]

@hamletthedane’s tags: #Vincent Van Gogh is crying somewhere in the after and I’m crying just thinking about that#you knew!! you saw the patterns!! there is a whole planet painted in the oils from your brush!!#TIL that the craft Juno went as close as 4000km from Jupiter’s weather surface#for context: the craft was closer to Jupiter than NYC is to LA#which is space terms is like. basically being on the planet#holy shit

[chernozemm]

do you ever have such a monumentally bad brain day that you just take away its mic?

like...... buddy, you are producing insanely bad thoughts today and believing them, I'll take it from here, get off the stage

[chernozemm]

I don't know if this is asked in earnest or just a thought but since I'm waiting for my therapy session, here it goes

The method I worked out for myself is to pretend that there's this personal assistant (Barbara) to my brain. The thoughts and emotions are clients who either come to pitch an idea or to demand attention from the boss.

Most are important and relevant thoughts; but sometimes they come at the wrong time (if I wake up at night worrying about a task I just imagine Barbara in her pyjamas groggily telling the thoughts to come during office hours).

And some clients (mean thoughts, false beliefs, anxiety jabs) I just imagine as panicked or rude customers that need to be treated as such. You are not getting audience with the boss until you can state your purpose calmly and clearly. If you insist on being rude, I'll throw you out.

It helps you separate yourself from the thoughts and gives you time to evaluate if they need to be acted on. My therapist loves Barbara

[naamahdarling]

Keep in mind, this sort of thing is a SKILL. That means you can get better at it if you practice! It works quite well!

(You may not have a Barbara. You may have a Kevin, like I do, who is the one saying the insanely bad thoughts, and every once in a while you have to be like "nobody asked you, Kevin" and shove him into a locker. I normally engage with those thoughts a little, to make sure they aren't covering up a real immediate need, but sometimes you just know there's nothing good in there and you can safely just shut the lid on the dumpster for the night.)

[painkillerscoffeeandcathair]

I love both of these SO MUCH

[verdijeva-opera]

Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia

[northern-punk-lad]

Being prime minister of the uk has a higher regret rate than being trans

So the solution is to ban prime ministers

[northern-punk-lad]

[galaxyspeaking]

No one has painted me in over 400 years.

[themoonandmyman]

baby Ilya’s tiny angry Russian ranting when Irina won’t let him stay on the ice and his cheeks are all bright pink and his little nose is wet and he’s plopping down onto the ice and crossing his arms and yelling NYET NYET NYET.

Across the ocean at the exact same time, the exact same thing is happening to a very exhausted Yuna Hollander.

[littleewhitelotus]

i just HAD to draw this

[percysfoxblog]

[preserving-tiktok]

[mutinsfromthemoon]

ilya mic’d up talking with his teammates about recipes he’s been trying recently and tricks he’s been trying to teach anya. and shane mic’d up barely having something that producers can actually use because of the amount of swears

[dauen]

gdańsk, 4th december 2025

[badassdemonsword]

Heated rivalry shouldve been about 2 ugly old guys that play mahjong then maybe id consider watching it

[krownest]

i don't remember them playing mahjong but they do other old man things like going to the wet market together and drinking soup and taking walks. anyway go watch suk suk / twilight's kiss

[krownest]

"ok but where's the old chinese lesbians" go watch all shall be well. it's by the same director and the old chinese lesbians are also at the market

[one-two-two-one]

My attempt at Heated Rivalry text/tweet/tumblr edits 47/?

Image descriptions and text for accessibility below the jump:

1. Image description: Ilya standing at the edge of the ice while telling each of the players on his team “I love you” as they exit the ice after a game against the New York Admirals

Text [by Noorthevirgo on Twitter]: I’m only nice to men in private. I have a persona to uphold.

2. Image description: Ilya holding Shane’s chin as they talk in the Vegas hotel public bathroom during the MLH awards ceremony

Text [by tomwambsgirl on tumblr]: favorite ship dynamic: having gay sex would be less gay than whatever these two have got going on

3. Image description: Shane leaning close to Rose’s face as Miles is breathing on the back of Shane’s neck as they dance at Ciel

Text [by milkygoddess on Twitter]: in the club naming 5 things i can see 4 things i can feel 3 things i can hear 2 things i can smell and 1 thing i can taste

4. Image description: Ilya squatting in a Moscow graffiti tunnel tearing up as he vents in Russian on the phone with Shane

Text [by darkcomedies on tumblr]: i don’t want to date i want to form a reluctant friendship with someone seemingly incompatible with me and over several years form a profound bond and realize in the middle of a particularly vulnerable 3 AM conversation that i’ve fallen madly and irrevocably in love

5. Image description: Ilya tenderly cradling Shane’s head with his lips and fingers in Shane’s hair as they cuddle on Ilya’s couch pre-tuna meltdown

Text [by steph_teasley on Twitter]: So many people need a hug, a forehead kiss, and a grilled cheese cut diagonal.

[plumstreet]

when you have plans in the morning you can still live an eventful & fulfilling life afterwards but when you've got plans in the afternoon? well that's your whole day

[honourablepirate]

writing is such a trippy pastime. like, one day you're unable to grind out any damn words and every word feels like moving through fucking quicksand or traversing a football field of legos barefoot or navigating a particularly dense fog and you can't see your own hand in front of you. then the next day it's suddenly four in the fucking morning, you haven't slept a wink but oops? you're now accidentally 38k words and 99 research tabs deep into a project. it's nowhere nearing completion but you're still steadily churning out words like a man possessed and okay maaaybe it was supposed to be a short story at conception but who cares? it got away from you. we go where the muses dictate we go and they decided it was here. and there's absolutely no inbetween.

[perotovar]

shane hollander appreciation week: day five favorite relationship: familial -> his relationship with his dad, david ♥

HEATED RIVALRY (2025-) dir. Jacob Tierney

[pret-boy]

"I wish we met sooner" is such a gentle sentiment. I love you so much I not only want you in my future, but in my past too. I want to have known you when we were small stupid kids, have held hands together as we played outside. I want to have stressed out over exams together, nudging a mug of still steaming hot chocolate against your elbow to get you to focus. I want to have told you I love you before I did anyone else. I want to have held you in my arms when all those sad memories you describe to me were still fresh wounds. I want my past to have been full of you, and full of meaningful memories with you. I want my past lives to have been spent with you, whether as two lovers, or two housecats cuddling by the fireplace on a snowy day, or two flowers that just happened to bloom on the same day, next to each other. I want to have consumed your existence and intertwined it with my own since my birth, never to be separated from you for a moment. I want to have loved you throughout it all, for all time.