Ilya Rozanov’s pouty lips

Just me screaming about Heated Rivalry The author is dead, baby: do what you want.

[jakeperalta]

2025 replay requests → @theswizzle16 asked: heated rivalry

#32 - this song by conan gray “your brown racer jacket, my hands through the sleeves, the smell of your perfume is all over me.”

[casmarotta]

besties

[daiiku]

𝑺𝒗𝒆𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒂 |𝑬𝒑4

[hollanov-ann]

flirting with their eyes

[depsidase]

[eugeniedanglars]

“shane was trying to prove to himself that he was straight by dating rose” “no, he knew he was queer, he was just trying to prove to himself that he liked women” folks i gotta be honest i don’t think shane was thinking about his sexual identity when he dated rose, i think he was trying to prove to himself that he was Normal. like i don’t think shane was thinking of himself in terms of gay vs bisexual or even attracted to men vs attracted to women, i think he was thinking of himself in terms of Mistake I’ve Been Making With Rozanov vs Normal Acceptable Expected Behavior I Need To Get Serious About Performing. like his actual desire and attraction is so divorced from his understanding of what he’s supposed to be doing as a masculine professional athlete that he doesn’t even consider whether he’s attracted to rose when he dates her, or rather he avoids considering it until she forces him to. In My Opinion.

[geyfrog]

As far as my personal experience goes “men ain’t shit” is actively a counterproductive attitude to getting straight women out of unpleasant relationships. Like, if men ain’t shit, the implication is that (barring lesbianic conversion) any relationship she’ll be in will be shitty, and thus there’s not really a point in trying to do better, because the only other option is being single. And this exact attitude IME is very common in women in unhappy relationships. But it’s not true! Some men are good partners! It is possible for these women to find a fulfilling heterosexual relationship! And they need to believe that to give up on an unfulfilling one!

[geyfrog]

The mostly non-actionable “ugh, I hate men” supplants the very actionable “ugh, I hate Brad”. In this kind of situation, you gotta swallow your smugness about being a lesbian for a bit to give them hope that they can be happy while straight

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

The most obsession inducing trait a character can have for me is knowing somewhere in their heart That They Are A Bad Kid

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

This isn't necessarily literal. It can apply to characters who aren't children too. But there's something about characters who are either certain of the fact, or terrified of the possibility, that they are just fundamentally wrong and bad at their core

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

It is also important to me that it is not true. No one is fundamentally broken and evil.

[prokopetz]

Degrees of secondhand fandom:

I don’t watch/read/listen to it, but I follow the summaries on the wiki

I rarely pursue information about it, but I have enough incidental contact with the core fandom that I’ve picked it up via osmosis

I strive to avoid it, but I’ve been indoctrinated against my will by the fucking memes

I can cite the canon chapter and verse, but I have no recollection of how or why I acquired this knowledge, and that concerns me

[bornt-urnge]

[prokopetz]

Amusingly, the first big boom in mainstream popularity for the YouTube video essay format happened circa 2018, so this post actually very slightly pre-dates the Video Essay Era.

[ilyarozanovspoutylips]

Also don’t forget “I don’t go here but I love this fanfic author, so I’m going to read regardless of not knowing who these characters are or wtf their deal is. It’s okay, I’ll pick it up as I go.”

[ilyarozanovspoutylips]

Connor is great, but thinking he’s great is not going to make me love that YSL ad. I think it’s just silly. I don’t think they have any idea how to use that man &/ I am clearly not the market for YSL’s advertising. Just full on incoherent nonsense.

[pookieshane]

obsessed with his little head nod

[calebwittebane]

its actually crazy how much local art events and other potentially interesting stuff i completely miss out on just because the orgs all post on instagram and facebook only. two standouts among the worst fucking platforms in the world with the most egregious ui and slop saturation, so dogshit that id be unable to use them regularly even if i wanted to. stop it you all. get on tumblr or something

[calebwittebane]

even orgs and collectives that used to have proper websites of their own now just put all their updates on fb and ig. stop! stop it! youre making me feel like an old geezer! ok well old geezers nowadays are very much on facebook... an ancient geezer. youre making me feel like A Ancient Woman

[awesomefringey]

Beautiful art by Tonios_artgallery

[swagsmeister]

a very happy hr season 2 filming day to all who celebrate

[adiabat]

my pet theory is that there is a fairly significant percentage of people with brains primed for analysis of one kind or another but who lack the necessary framework to do so in a productive and meaningful way. maybe they grew up in an area with little educational opportunities or struggled in the conventional modern school system. no shame in any of that since no one is born with an innate understanding of ontology and epistemology but it does mean that a lot of people are the equivalent of an understimulated border collie in a studio apartment, brainpower-wise. and sometimes you see someone neck deep in meaningless internet discourse and it’s like please pick up a philosophy textbook you will love it i promise

[dailyhollanov]

#ilya was in heaven

[userilyarozanov]

CONNOR STORRIE as ILYA ROZANOV in HEATED RIVALRY season 1