Intersex Trekkie

Mostly DS9. Queer stuff. Star Trek avatar by @urfavisintersex

[intertrek]

Star Trek intersex character roundup

So I was inspired by this recent post on intersex characters in the Star Wars universe to do a roundup of my own of all my intersex headcanons in Star Trek.

Some of them, like Tendi, I think have a solid basis for being intersex. Others are more just for fun. I as an ipsogender intersex person like to see intersex representation!

Let's start with DS9 because it's my favourite. 💛💜💛

Nog

At no point in DS9 is it ever explained why Nog is so much shorter than other Ferengi. And like Jean-Luc's bald head I think that is great. Normalise bodily variation. It doesn't need to be explained. People can just be.

Real life Aron Eisenberg (Nog's actor) said his growth was stunted due to a malfunctioning kidney. But in my headcanon, Nog is short due to some form of Ferengi hypogonadism. I'm thinking something like Kallman Syndrome. But Ferengi.

Julian Bashir

Trans Julian is a common headcanon. I dig it. And I say: "yes, and" to it! Intersex people can be trans too! (I have him with the ultergender flag here.)

We know young Julian had a developmental disability including learning difficulties. This is canon. Some intersex variations (usually the chromosomal variations) do have higher levels of LDs and/or slow development.

What jives for me is XXYY Syndrome - it's associated with being taller than usual, developmental delays, ADHD, and autism. Sounds to me like our dear doctor.

Elim Garak

Okay so his big titties are a meme in DS9 fandom. I have lost track of how many tumblr posts I have seen (and reblogged) about them. And Garak's build is shorter and stockier than the other Cardassian men we see.

I'm thinking he would have an intersex variation that shows up at puberty. De la Chapelle Syndrome in human men is associated with breast growth and a puberty that isn't quite like the usual testosterone puberty. So maybe a Cardassian version of that, or similar.

Phlox

Speaking of men with tiddies. Phlox comes from a very sex-positive society and I like to think it is totally nbd to be intersex there, to the point where it never crosses his mind that it could be an identity.

In my mind he's got a Denobulan equivalent of XXY (Klinefelter syndrome). XXY folks tend to have less body hair and be taller than average, and their intersex-ness tends to be less obvious (at least compared to XXYY, XYY, etc). We haven't seen that many Denobulans on-screen to gauge how his body hair compares to other Denobulan men but it seems totally plausible to me.

It also just makes me happy to envision intersex representation where the person's intersex traits are fairly subtle actually? That's pretty common for intersex people and I just wanna see more boring intersex bodies.

Jett Reno

So unless I've missed something, Reno's flat chest has not been explained in Discovery. Real life Tig Notaro had breast cancer. But this is the future! Surely breast cancer wouldn't be a thing. (Right???)

So to me that means either she had breasts and had them removed, or she never had them. Honestly in terms of probability, it's probably the former. But I like the idea she has Aromatase Deficiency, and just never developed breasts. Aromatase Deficiency is also highly correlated with osteoporosis and this also tracks with her various back/etc pains.

I've put her with the intergender flag because even with my intersex headcanon she still has strong nonbinary vibes for me. If she grew up sans breasts it's worth noting she chose to leave them that way.

D'Vana Tendi

Now here's a character where I think it's pretty clearly implied they are intersex. Tendi's on-screen reaction to whether she can use her female Orion pheromones was that "I’m not even that kind of Orion."

And when in a later episode she's asked about her female pheromones she says outright "We don't all have those!".

My interpretation is she might have an Orion equivalent of Turner Syndrome (where you only have one X chromosome). Consistent with Turner Syndrome: she is petite, she has a higher voice than other Orion women we've seen, her ears are relatively low-set.

(Thank you to @urfavisintersex for the intersex Tendi flag!)

Rok-Tahk

Rok-Tahk's very introduction on ST:Prodigy is Dal mistaking her for an adult male. And sure, Dal hasn't talked to the Brikar much, but he has been around them his whole life.

So I interpret this as Rok has some sort of intersex variation that has sped up her physical growth - probably a form of hypergonadism.

So far we've only had one season of Prodigy and don't know that much about the Brikar yet so I'm not sure whether hypeestrogenism, hyperandrogenism, or Aromatase Exccess Syndrome would be the closest analogue to Brikar physiology. I think all of them seem plausible so far - again, given she is an alien and things would probably be a bit different than for humans.

Final Thoughts

My expectation is that whoever winds up being the first canonically intersex character in Trek, they're more likely to be a new character rather than a well-established one. Fingers crossed for Rok-Tahk and Tendi!

I made a point of picking specific intersex variations for all the characters above because a lot of intersex representation in fandom doesn't do this and it makes a big difference for realistic intersex representation.

If I've missed any potentially intersex characters in Trek let me know! Fun headcanons too!

[intertrek]

More Expanse Blorbos!

(Sequel to this post)

I'm giving Elvi Okoye a demisexual flag. Her whole, very-long journey to Ilus she doesn't hook up or date anybody else on the ship and seems kind of weirded out by everybody else doing this. It gave me ace-spec vibes. Her relationship with Fayez Sarkis has a sexual element to it, but her attraction to him starts long after meeting him and really after they start to bond as friends. I considered grayace since she has a crush on Holden, but I didn't get sexual vibes from it.

Julie Mao is canonically pansexual

Theresa Yao is getting a butch flag based only on vibes.

Praxidike Meng is described as petite and I headcanon him as intersex (thinking PAIS or hypogonadism). I'm giving him an ultergender flag. The story that his parents were all "oops we named you with a woman's name" doesn't quite vibe with his class background (highly educated etc). I interpret it as: his parents expected a girl, they got an intersex kid who turned out to be a boy.

Rosenfeld Guoliang has he/him pronouns in the books and she/her in the show and I understand Rosenfeld as a genderfluid individual who uses both pronoun sets.

Similar deal with Sakai: he/him in books, she/her in TV, so why not both. Got more of a bigender vibe from Sakai.

Nico Sanjrani uses they/them pronouns in the TV show and he/him pronouns in the books. Giving Nico the nonbinary flag.

Hutch in the TV show is based off a unnamed genderqueer character in the books that Amos nicknames "Butch". Butch seems to accept all pronouns and doesn't really care, and gave me agender vibes.

[coffeeworldsasaki]

Oh Avasarala you would have hated all the people using baby talk like "grape", "unalive" or "PDF file"

[intertrek]

Some flags for my Expanse Blorbos

While the books don't tend to use a lot of labels, there's just a TON of very casual queerness, reflecting a future where queerness is just very ordinary and accepted. 💜

Reasons I chose these flags for these characters:

Anna Volvodov is canonically married to another woman. IIRC she uses the term lesbian at some point but honestly do not remember

Admiral Souther canonically sleeps with men.

Book Michio Pa / TV Camina Drummer is in a polycule and sleeps with both women and men.

Chrissie Avasarala sure liked being in Julie Mao's old racing suit =)

Bobbie Draper, especially in the books, is described as having a very large, muscular, build. The book very consistently describes her as much larger than other Martian women. I headcanon her with NCAH, but other intersex variations like PMOS or 5ARD would work equally well. Really appreciate how her hyperandrogenism is never pathologized.

Fred Johnson as trans is a bit more of a headcanon. In the books, it comes up that he doesn't use the condom catheter in his space suit. There are a bunch of reasons that could be, and I am going to use it to headcanon him as trans because I can. The books' authors are on record with basically "it's the future, literally any of the characters can be trans" so also that.

Clarissa Mao and Amos Burton are pretty clearly described as being in a queerplatonic relationship in the later books. QPR isn't used as a term, but a consistent description along the lines of: "they're in a relationship and it's platonic." We know canonically that Amos fucks (hence the aro flag), whereas I did not get that sense from Clarissa so giving her an ace flag.

[intertrek]

Replying to tags by @gettingbyi:

Very good point that having sex does not preclude being ace! Amos' casual sex relationship with Wei gave me a sense that he experiences sexual attraction. Also his comment that he'd have sex with Naomi "if she'd let me" also gives me sexual attraction vibes (but he may have just been trolling Holden there lol).

But can definitely see how others would interpret him as ace (or ace-spec)!

[intertrek]

Some flags for my Expanse Blorbos

While the books don't tend to use a lot of labels, there's just a TON of very casual queerness, reflecting a future where queerness is just very ordinary and accepted. 💜

Reasons I chose these flags for these characters:

Anna Volvodov is canonically married to another woman. IIRC she uses the term lesbian at some point but honestly do not remember

Admiral Souther canonically sleeps with men.

Book Michio Pa / TV Camina Drummer is in a polycule and sleeps with both women and men.

Chrissie Avasarala sure liked being in Julie Mao's old racing suit =)

Bobbie Draper, especially in the books, is described as having a very large, muscular, build. The book very consistently describes her as much larger than other Martian women. I headcanon her with NCAH, but other intersex variations like PMOS or 5ARD would work equally well. Really appreciate how her hyperandrogenism is never pathologized.

Fred Johnson as trans is a bit more of a headcanon. In the books, it comes up that he doesn't use the condom catheter in his space suit. There are a bunch of reasons that could be, and I am going to use it to headcanon him as trans because I can. The books' authors are on record with basically "it's the future, literally any of the characters can be trans" so also that.

Clarissa Mao and Amos Burton are pretty clearly described as being in a queerplatonic relationship in the later books. QPR isn't used as a term, but a consistent description along the lines of: "they're in a relationship and it's platonic." We see Amos in a sexual relationship with Wei so I'm not sure where on the ace-spectrum he is, so I'm gonna dance around that question and give him the aro flag.

Whereas I did not get any sexual vibes from Clarissa so giving her an ace flag.

[flamingbluepanda]

Taskmaster is legitimately the best show ever like. Five comedians compete for zero money and minimal prestige, which means they're all there to have fun and cause chaos and you can tell that theyre all enjoying it. The two hosts have a weird psychosocial bdsm dynamic and they make it everyone's problem and they both actively consent to it and enjoy it. They have fancy chairs and a house on a golf course that get destroyed regularly. Everyone embarrasses themselves and has a great time doing it. The host whos the "sub" and regularly gets verbally and at times physically abused by every single person on the show organizes everything including a large portion of the abuse. They put every single episode for free on youtube along with lots of bonus content so that every single person can watch it. They have a ton of memes and references and Easter eggs hidden all around but it doesnt limit your enjoyment if you miss something. You find yourself rooting for a special little guy but its equally fun when your special little guy looses. You can pop it on in the background and tune in when you see something funny and laugh but it also makes great background noise. They even have a cow.

[kushandwizdom]

Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

ches

I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..

[shez-a-b0mbshell]

Reblogging for those of you who think Africa is only what the media and movies portrays it to be

[teddybearnova]

This fucks me up because it’s scary to think that we can be showed something all our lives and not even know it’s a lie

[2ollux-double-bulge]

And that my friend is the power of propaganda, indoctrination, and media

[the-collecting-turnip-deactivat]

Are these pictures of South Africa or of Africa as a whole? 

[fgsshinyhoard]

@the-collecting-turnip From top to bottom:

1. Port Elizabeth (South Africa)

2. Unknown

3. Nairobi (Kenya)

4. Pretoria (South Africa)

5. Aburi Botanical Gardens (Ghana)

6. Cape Town (South Africa)

7. Pretoria (South Africa)

8. Harare (Zimbabwe)

9. Windhoek (Namibia)

10. Windhoek (Namibia)

To @kushandwizdom this is a rather unfair portrayal of Africa as a whole since half of these are literally just South Africa.  So Instead to add to this post and better dispel the myth of Africa as the vast wasteland of poverty most people think, I found a much more mixed collection of pics from various countries.

Luanda, Angola

Agadir, Morocco

Lagos, Nigeria

Cairo, Egypt

Port Louis, Mauritius

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Algiers, Algeria

Tripoli, Libya

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Tunis, Tunisia

So, there, a much better case demonstrating the various major cities around Africa showing it isn’t some technologically backwards continent, but actually pretty up-and-coming in the world of commerce.

[scoops-aboy86]

Younger writers. Please, just know that you could not skip to different songs on a cassette tape, that’s CDs. With tapes pressed fast forward or rewind and prayed.

Also, VHS tapes did not have menu screens. Your only options were play, fast forward, rewind, pause, stop, or eject.

Y’all are making me feel like the crypt keeper here, I’m begging you 😭

[stedestielfrattficlover]

And while we (the old people) are at it . It was " a video" or " a video tape" as in "Let's go to Family Video and get a few videos ( or movies)" . Or I'm going to put the video tape into the VCR now. We didn't call it a VHS or a VHS player. It was always a VCR.

[sighinastorm]

A few of the better tape decks could seek to the next song—not instantly, of course, and not exactly. They would look for a magnetic blank spot between the songs, kinda like how we could tell where the start of tracks on an LP were. Anyway these were uncommon in my experience. Probably a proprietary technology.

[icantbearsedtothinkofone]

Also! If you wanted to listen to one cassette while rewinding another and didn't have a dual-deck player (or you were recording tape to tape with the double one) you could stick a pencil through the hole in a tape and spin it like a football rattle. Sometimes we did it that way just because we could, that's how bored we were most of the time.

[bomberqueen17]

I would sometimes make playlists to line up so that if i listened to a song I liked, then flipped the tape, there'd be a related song i liked on the other side. Sort of like.... if I just kept playing to the end of the side, it was one playlist, but if i flipped it was a shorter, more direct playlist.

This wasn't exact and was done by guesswork, or by accident sometimes.

my other favorite thing to do would be to record one genre to side A and a different genre to side B. we made a bunch of road trip mixtapes like that, and the rule was that you couldn't eject them, you had to gamble that side B would be palatable.

(Early cassette players didn't auto-flip, you had to pull the cassette out and reinsert it the other way. But car ones did auto-flip for you. Cars having cassette players was a big advance; before that it was radio only, and before that, you wouldn't have been able to hear a radio over the road noise anyway. If you've never ridden in a pre-1970 car you have no idea how loud they were.)

[ramshacklefey]

Re, the pencil thing: It's very very easy to pull the tape out of a cassette or video tape. Very easy. And small children love this activity!

You could rewind it into the cassette with a pencil.

Oh, and they were called "mix tapes" for a reason. If you had a dual deck player, you could record one song from a tape, then switch to another tape to record another song, etc. But, see again, it's a pain in the ass to find a particular song on a tape, so this was not an easy process.

Oh lmao, and my mom had a couple movies on VHS that she'd censored sex scenes or really gory moments out of. You could do that by going to the start of the scene on the tape and then hitting "record" and playing to the end, but not have anything there for it to record. It'd just make a blank spot.

[garakcore]

my hottest take is that the star trek fandom needs to get normal about fat people, and i mean specifically that we need to stop acting like characters are fat when they are Not. some people are acting like kirk is chubby or even like. fat. he's just built. that is not an "uwu chubby tummy" he's got solid muscles. if you saw my stomach you would throw up probably. and even as much as i love writing garak as a fat character, garak as he appears in deep space nine is Not fat.

it just kinda feels bad when people refer to average-built characters as fat. i love headcanoning and everything but i think the fandom needs to accept 1) as always, fanon =/= canon, and 2) having a bit of a round face or a stomach that is not concave does not equal being a fat character. i am fat and proud in real life! but it really is disappointing to see yall's standards for what being fat means.

[sindar-princeling]

Bilbo barely passed Old Took's record lifespan after having a supernaturally-life-extending ring for 60 years. which begs a question. what the hell did Old Took do

[perihelions-babyteeth]

I have a theory that somewhere back up the line gandalf fucked a took. This sounds like complete crack but hear me out. The tooks are rumored to have “fairy blood” which in LOTR terms means either elves or maia. There is an ancestor who’s unusually tall and many of them are noted to live unusually long lives unless they meet with illness or injury, same as the numenorians did. They don’t hve extra pointy ears and elves don’t have a special interest in the line. But who DOES have a special interest in looking after tooks (and bilbo who is a took on his mother’s side/his adopted son frodo)? Gandalf. That dude is ALWAYS fussing over some silly little guy. He regularly brought the old took birthday presents.

Back in the day some bold hobbitess decided to climb that old man and ever since then gandalf has been looking after his line of tiny crazy bastards and no one will convince me otherwise.

[english-history-trip]

Gandalf's attitude towards Pippin just took on a whole new layer.

[antiterf]

Its kind of ridiculous how difficult it is to find critical intersex literature if you don't know where to look.

That said, here are frequently cited things I've found. For the one's that are behind paywalls, I have a Google Drive folder set up to hold them for access. The only things I leave behind a paywall are books by individual authors. They are not organized at all, I'm sorry.

Intersex Variations Glossary by InterACT

Narrative Symposium: Intersex—Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (NIB) Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 2015.— Trigger warning for intersex genital mutilation (IGM), sexual assault, and medical trauma—it's honestly a lot but incredibly important. (Drive)

A human rights investigation into the medical "normalization" of intersex people - A report of a public hearing by the Human Rights Commission of the City & County of San Francisco

Surgical Progress Is Not the Answer to Intersexuality - Cheryl Chase. - TW for IGM and images of genitalia (Drive)

The Intersex Roadshow, a blog of Dr. Cary Gabriel Costello - Costello is an intersex trans man and tries to bridge the gap between trans and intersex issues

Beyond Binary Sex and Gender Ideology - Cary Grabriel Costello - Chapter 12 of The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment (Drive)

Transgender and intersex: theoretical, practical, and artistic perspectives (book/textbook) (Drive)

Intersex: Stories and Statistics from Australia (Book) (Open Access)

Fixing sex: intersex, medical authority, and lived experience (Book)

The harms of medicalisation: intersex, loneliness and abandonment (Open Access Article)

Intersex: cultural and social perspectives (Open Access Article)

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Technical Note on the Human Rights of Intersex People. Basically, if you want an easy way to say that doctors are going against human rights by performing IGM.

An experimental philosophical bioethical study of how human rights are applied to clitorectomy on infants identified as female and as intersex (Open Access Article) - People were more likely to support the same surgery on infants labeled as intersex than they were on infants labeled as female.

Caught in the Gender Binary Blind Spot: Intersex Erasure in Cisgender Rhetoric by Hida Viloria - About how cisgender often doesn't accurately express the experiences intersex people have. Costello, mentioned earlier with Intersex Roadshow, coined Ipsogender for this reason.

Introduction for Intersex Activism - A guide for allies

Sex, Science, and Society: Reckonings and Responsibilities for Biologists (Open Access Article)

Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis by Georgiann Davis - TW for medical trauma

Spectacles and Scholarship: Caster Semenya, Intersex Studies, and the Problem of Race in Feminist Theory by Zine Magubane (Drive)

Owning Endosex Privilege and Supporting the Intersex Community: WPATH, Intersex Genital Mutilation (IGM), and Sex Variant Bodies by Margo Schulter

The Spectrum of Sex by Hida Viloria and Dr. Maria Nieto

A long way to go for LGBTI equality from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights - Before the UK left the EU

If anyone wants to add, feel free! This was the non-medicalized stuff I had saved in Zotero, and definitely not all that's out there.

[tsitpfrvrbonrad]

The Gay Hockey Show

So...I got shit to say...bear with me. 😘

So, here's my thesis: Straight men don't understand the sex in Ilya and Shane's relationship nor the important role that it plays in that relationship, and they also like Scott and Kip better because their relationship is the closest the show comes to the traditional rom com archetypes of "male" and "female" dynamics.

A few disclaimers immediately: 1. Of course, this does not apply to ALL straight men. 2. I've seen a few straight women have similar reactions. 3. I love Scott and Kip. I loved episode 3 and wept unabashedly when Scott calls Kip down to the ice in episode 5. Likewise, I am in NO WAY trying to imply that *I* believe that Kip is the "female" and Scott is the "male" in that relationship. They are both cis gendered men, who identify (or seem to) as cis gendered men.

However...

Straight men, particularly ones for whom mlm romance is brand new, who are watching the show simply because EVERYONE is watching the show, find it much easier to "get behind" Kip and Scott because their story more closely resembles the traditional male/female dynamic of most romance.

For example, Scott is physically larger than Kip, Scott makes a lot more money than Kip, Scott is more broody than Kip, Kip is more nurturing than Scott, Kip is "waiting at home" when Scott gets back from work, there are just little things like this in their relationship which makes it easier for straight men to digest. They can understand it easier.

Also, the sex between Scott and Kip is straight forward from the start, relatively vanilla (no dom/sub kink even hinted at) and very romantic, making it much more digestible for straight men. *Again, please don't think I'm bothered by this - I love Skip's story, and I love the ease and openness of their feelings for each other.*

I'm simply using Skip as the counter to Hollonov. Many of the straight male reactors and reactions I've seen, despite their best efforts sometimes, are uncomfortable at the sex between Shane and Ilya.

The sex between Ilya and Shane is intricate, detailed, deep, complicated, communicative, and changes drastically over the course of S1, for those who are paying attention. Unfortunately a lot of straight men don't pay very close attention to the gay sex because it makes them uncomfortable. I understand that to a certain extent - this is sex that they almost NEVER see portrayed in media. And no matter how accepting or open-minded they WANT to be, a lot of these grown men have been subtly and not-so-subtly told their whole lives that sex between men is taboo - that sex between men in and of itself is kinky. So, it makes them uncomfortable even if they try hard not to feel that way.

(I actually saw two straight male reactors say that HR is "SO much worse than GoT even." when in reality, GoT is full of violent sex, r*pe, inc*st, female degradation, and so many other very questionable sexual scenarios. But...you know, it isn't loving, intimate, consensual sex between two men, so whatever, they're good with it. 🙄)

It's much easier for these men to accept and sort of tune out the sex between Scott and Kip. Their sex scenes are sweet and sexy, but they don't inform the couple the way sex between Shane and Ilya does. So, the straight men watching don't need to pay close attention...it's just sex within a relationship, something they've seen lots before in heterosexual romance stories.

When you don't pay attention to the sex between Shane and Ilya, however, you miss a LOT of story telling, you miss a LOT of characterization, you miss a LOT of their love story. This leads many straight men to, by episode 4, brush off Ilya and Shane's relationship as shallow and merely physical.

It's also why so many of them seem shocked by the feelings that are expressed by the boys in episode 5. I've seen many of them claim that it felt like their confessions just "came out of nowhere". After Shane and Ilya's sex on the couch ended in episode 4, another straight male reactor said that, "as a viewer, I'm so done with this failure to connect", COMPLETELY missing the whole point of the scene - the fact that they connected so deeply and let their guards down so completely that it scared the shit out of Shane and made him run. (most of these same people, also don't notice that Shane and Ilya say their first names for the first time here too - again because they weren't paying attention, they were trying to disassociate from the gay sex.)

A lot of these same people (though I've seen a few straight women and one queer women not get this part either) never seem to understand the gentle dom/sub dynamics within Shane and Ilya's relationship. One straight female reactor said that Ilya was "barking orders at Shane" and "threatening him" during the Vegas scene in episode 2. Um...ma'am...does it LOOK like Shane feels threatened? 🤦‍♀️ I think he's good.

Anyway, all this rambling is just to say that I'm so grateful and happy that this amazing show has broadened people's views, taught some people more about taboo subjects, and opened the door to more mainstream acceptance of gay love and gay sex.

But there's still a long way to go and I wish people, (and straight men in particular) would open their minds a bit further and try to better understand sex and love that appears in a form they may not have seen before.

Lastly, not all media is meant for all people. If sex scenes *truly* make you uncomfortable, for one reason or another, either don't watch the show, or skip those scenes, but try to find an analysis of the scenes that will explain the point of what happens in them, otherwise you won't be able to understand the story.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

[intrigued--obsessively]

HEATED RIVALRY LOCATION #2

"Can I call you?"

"Yes"

THE TUNNEL FROM EPISODE 5!

It was amazing being able to visit the iconic tunnel from episode 5 where Ilya delivers his heartbreaking monologue in Russian to Shane. Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov is imo the best performance of 2025. The vibes here were immaculate. I stayed here the longest on my HR locations adventure. Fans have started to leave HR related graffiti here since the tunnel was repainted after filming. Located at Shamrock Park in Hamilton Ont

[vadergf]

When heated rivalry blew up and i saw all these influencers and celebrities follow and talk sbout connor and not hudson i really thought it would be one of the cases where the white costar gets all the popularity and not the actor of color (bridgerton s2, tatbilb, rwrb etc there's a huge list) but I'm so so beyond glad that it's not happening to hudson. Like hes a HOT topic and people in the industry love him and he just mentioned today that he's been getting a lot of scripts and I can't explain how awesome it is to see happening Finally

[femaustinpowers]

david hollander is the true winner of the idgaf war. he doesn’t know what youtube is. he doesn’t care about shane’s sponsorships. he understands why shane doesn’t wanna go to wimbledon and is just happy to go with his wife. he sees his son making out with his supposed arch enemy and turns 180 degrees, gets in his car, and doesn’t tell a soul. he pulls out the vodka when his newly out gay son is having a freak out at the dinner table. if shane had even 1% of his idgaf powers he would be unstoppable. unfortunately that boy inherited his mom’s gaf-ability, which is constantly set to 150%.

[raincitygirl76]

Well, you’re definitely not wrong. About David, Yuna or Shane. Shane got the anxiety and the ‘tism from Yuna, I suspect. The obsessiveness about hockey from her as well. Although David played hockey for McGill University as a student, so maybe Shane got his athletic ability from David.

And you’re right, David didn’t tell Yuna what he saw at Shane’s house. He respected Shane’s privacy. In the book, David had already told Yuna what he saw when Shane and Ilya arrive at their cottage.

David is pretty damn chill for an economist! (If he works for Treasury Board of Canada, as Shane says early in 1.06, he’s almost certainly an economist by training)

[surprisebitch]

Hockey player Jesse Kortuem publicly comes out as gay, crediting ‘Heated Rivalry’ with helping him share his story 🥹 one reason why GREAT LGBTQ REPRESENTATION MATTERS

[mlleclaudine]

from pbsgreatperformances' Instagram