Shut up and dance with me.

Kieran. Fandom/personal of @phoenixtawnyflower. Mostly Heated Rivalry these days I'm afraid. Khashana on AO3.

[romcomanov]

ordered a pack of socks that had this sticker :)

[hudconera]

my obsession

[khashanakalashtar]

obsessed with how this is NOT the same man

[thestuffedalligator]

Human Is is a 1955 Philip K. Dick sci-fi short story where a guy goes to another planet for work and when he comes back to Earth his personality has flipped from an asshole to a sweet, kind, considerate man. Everyone's immediately convinced that an alien has taken over his body, this goes all the way to court, and in court his wife testifies that she's noticed no changes at all and so the charges are dropped.

And then there's a bit right at the end of the story as the wife and the husband are walking out of court:

Jill turned abruptly. "What is your name? Your real name."

The man's gray eyes flickered. He smiled a little, kind, gentle smile. "I'm afraid you would not be able to pronounce it. The sounds cannot be formed..."

Jill was silent as they walked along, deep in thought. The city lights were coming on all around them. Bright yellow spots in the gloom. "What are you thinking?" the man asked.

"I was thinking perhaps I will still call you Lester," Jill said. "If you don't mind."

"I don't mind," the man said. He put his arm around her, drawing her close to him. He gazed down tenderly as they walked through the thickening darkness, between the yellow candles of light that marked the way. "Anything you wish. Whatever will make you happy."

And I. God. There's something there. A soupcon of monsterfuckery. To tell your partner in a moment of intimacy that yes, you're something so inhuman that the lips you're stealing can't speak your actual name. You're a parasite that not only had the ability to burrow under this man's skin and take over his life, but you were so desperate to escape a dead, dry, blasted planet that you did.

And for your partner to then turn around and go "I know, I've always known, and I love you" is just. God I know it's not a great Dick story but something about it is making me lose my mind

[thestuffedalligator]

Also it's explicitly stated that the guy's consciousness is still alive and preserved on the alien planet. Jill is told this and then proceeds to defend the alien anyways, ensuring that her husband's brain is stuck in a jar on a desert planet. You love to see it

[khashanakalashtar]

dash did a thing

[linolinoing]

STRAY KIDS — 'THIS & THAT' TEASER IMAGES ☕️

[twirlingfreckles]

my hudcon RPF belief is that they’re in love but they’re not in a secret relationship but they ARE fucking but they also don’t want people to be able to say for sure that they’re fucking so they’re hiding their secret hookups under the guise of being so blatantly obvious and obnoxious and performative about the fact that they’re hooking up that people start to think well surely if they’re actually fucking then they wouldn’t be so obvious about it and so we the audience all joke and jest about how it’s sooo obvious they’re fucking and they’re like haha soooo true here’s a pic of our bathroom hookup 😜 because everyone is looking so closely at their performance of two people who are fucking that no one is going to notice when that performance tips over into actual fucking because the general public tends to have a much narrower definition of sex than we philosophers do on tumblr dot com. because I think even if they’re not having sex offscreen I think that what they did on screen counts as sex even if they had modesty garments and intimacy coordinators and the penetration was fake and the orgasms were fake it was still real sex and I think that when they recorded ember and ice that was essentially phone sex. and also even if they didn’t fuck in that bathroom the fact that they’re taking semierotic nonsexual photos in the bathroom specifically to titillate their audience is arguably also sex.

[khashanakalashtar]

hang on, what's that about a bathroom?

[pregnanthudsonwilliams]

and the fact that ilya kisses shane in front of david and yuna. ilya who has just met these people after being outed to them and after years of them believing he is both an asshole and their son's mortal enemy. and he already feels safe enough to kiss shane in front of them. we are good here.

[khashanakalashtar]

and he hasn't forgotten either, he shoots them a little look and visibly makes up his mind to kiss Shane anyway!

[delectabledelight-blog]

Dreamsicle Float - French Vanilla Ice Cream & Orange Soda (by Kilo 66)

[khashanakalashtar]

SPIDER

[fakelawyerbug]

I've seen a bunch of "fandom etiquette" posts on my dash today and I'm going to say something that is maybe going to be unpopular but;

The absolutely pervasive mentality that unwanted criticism or critique shouldn't be given and should be ignored is why fans of color don't stay in fan spaces.

And I am not going to mince words here:

A lot of you are racist. A lot of your fan works are racist.

That might have been difficult to hear. And if it was, you should probably reflect on why that was.

"Fandom etiquette" has created a space where fans of color either bite our tongues and eventually leave or say something, get dogged on, and then eventually leave.

So much of "fandom etiquette" seems to be about insulating creatives from Feeling Bad and hostility to any kind of negative feedback is a pretty big contributor to why bigotry festers in these spaces.

[iridescentoracle]

#imo the potluck analogy applies- it would be rude to critique someone's icing technique at a potluck bc it wasn't as good as at the bakery #but if they had decorated their cupcakes w hate symbols it wouldn't be rude to tell them that's gross and gtfo #in fact it would be inappropriate to NOT say anything in that situation #or to complain that another guest who did point it out was 'ruining everyone's potluck' #and pointing out racism in fan works is 100% the second thing not the first! (via destructions-daughter)

[sinmonger]

HEATED RIVALRY | SEASON 1 (2025)

[clytemnestraaa]

always such a struggle when you get to the sex scene part of the fic you're writing and you're not horny at all. i don't know. their things were touching. without ANY underwear. the end.

[mildmayfoxe]

we developed powerful teeth and jaws to rend the flesh of the devious sourdough loaf

[khashanakalashtar]

anyone else craving a devious sourdough loaf

[khashanakalashtar]

I've officially been in this fandom long enough to need to start a list of ideas

Rose to Ilya: you should be glad it was me

Miles telling someone off about being upset they weren't in the loop

Acespec Shane

[khashanakalashtar]

Ilya visits his younger self

kpop au

[khashanakalashtar]

regency au

(temporary!) shane/svetlana au--they meet outside of ilya and shane is so happy to have a girl he can talk puck with but then he meets her best friend

[ao3commentoftheday]

hi there hello!

I absolutely do not presume that you know the answer to this question. but. i desperately want to know the answer.

namely - is there ANY WAY to sort my bookmarks based on whether I've privated the bookmark?

I had a major scare recently - found out that Google's AI knew WAY too much about me. I'd love to private all of my AO3 bookmarks, but I have so many of them that I'd love to find a way to at least filter out the bookmarks I've already "locked down".

any hints or help very much appreciated; even if just to confirm that such a filter does not exist.

Yes, you can filter your own bookmarks by whether or not you have marked them as private.

In the bookmark filters, scroll down to the More Options section and find the box labelled Search bookmarker's tags and notes

You can find your public bookmarks by entering private: false into that box and then hitting the Sort and Filter button.

You can find your private bookmarks by entering private: true into that box and hitting the Sort and Filter button.

Since I'm here, I might as well share a few other ways you can filter your bookmarks, this time in the Search Within Results field (which is just above the one for Searching a bookmarker's tags and notes)

restricted: true for bookmarks of restricted works only (aka locked so that only logged in users can view them)

restricted: false for bookmarks of public works only

complete: true for bookmarks of complete works

complete: false for bookmarks of works in progress

bookmarkable_type: ExternalWork for bookmarks of external works

bookmarkable_type: Series for bookmarks of series

You can also use this bulleted list of filters in a bookmark search by entering them in the Any field on bookmark box of the search form.

[fractally]

Oh one BIG reason I think the general public in Canada especially would be extremely pro-Shane Hollander even post-outing: he imports Ilya Rozanov and he doesn't leave Canada even when the situation in Montreal goes sideways

It's honestly impossible to overstate what a big deal that is. Canada constantly losing their hockey talent to US teams and the Stanley drought...it doesn't fucking matter what went down with those French Canadians, the rest of the country is ignoring that, he's still their hero.

When Ilya steps out in a Team Canada jersey at the 2026 Olympics and they crush team USA 6-0 in the gold medal match Shane would be instantly deified as the first Canadian saint.

[argillaforma]

hollanov at their kid’s autism assesment and the doctor says that autism can be genetic and asks if anyone in the family has autism and shane says no at the same time as ilya says yes

[gimmiekiss1221]

ilya when shane answers no:

[lavenderprose]

The boy blushed and gulped when he was told to drink more water. And then he did it. And you think he has a secret latent desire to dominate.

[khashanakalashtar]

#I'M BACK ON MY BULLSHIT#heated rivalry#shane hollander#Which one of you said that the workout room was their first sex scene #I know I saw that post but I was at work so I couldn't respond properly and then I lost it #Or maybe it was a comment on a different post #Either way I am smooching smooching your big wrinkly brain

#baby's first submission and oh god. he was feeling it. #imaging the way that switch in his brain must have flipped actually gives me shivers. #he probably felt so good and had no context for what was happening to him. ughhhhh