What was I supposed to be doing?

Kaitlyn~27~she/her~Registered Nurse~ Everything I like to do when I should be doing something else.

[poupon]

Wow thanks for the ingot man let me just inspect the quality real quick

Dude come on

[arcolan]

11 year old border collie: gets a special shot for his chronic back pain this morning

2pm: "where's the dog he can't possibly have jumped over the fence"

3pm: "hi i live in [another village]! I got your dog here, if you can come fetch him?"

"well at least that new medication is working 💀"

[emcapi]

[yagrandmapeach]

Take a sip, babes

[sunshine-gumdrop]

Someone call the refs because there is too much chemistry on the ice and off it.

Also there’s something uniquely compelling about two elite athletes dating each other because the understanding runs so deep. Laura knows exactly what it costs Marie physically and mentally to be Marie-Philip Poulin. The pressure, expectations, constant “captain clutch legend” mythology. And MPP clearly relaxes around her in a way she doesn’t publicly very often.

That’s how civilizations fall. Historians won’t tell you this because they’re cowards.

[reggiemess]

Sometimes people think they're dealing with a Torment Nexus but what they actually have is a Jumanji. And sometimes people think something's a Jumanji but oops it's a Torment Nexus.

[reggiemess]

Now. Sometimes you have a third thing- you'll have yourself a Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. And buddy, I can't help you there.

[reggiemess]

So a Torment Nexus is something that is either a metaphor for a larger societal problem (e.g. The Platform, The Long Walk) or a social issue/trend taken to an exaggerated extreme (e.g. The Purge), with a lot of shades of grey in between (e.g. Squid Game). If it isn't about a larger societal issue/trend/structure it isn't a Torment Nexus.

A Jumanji can be dangerous and high-stakes (to the characters), but it doesn't need to have a metaphor or lesson, it can easily just be a "Would this be fucked up or what?" situation (e.g. a lotta Goosebumps stories). If there IS a lesson/metaphor, it will be on a smaller scale like psychological issues (e.g. Magnus Archives), family/relationship issues (e.g. Zathura), or about a specific topic (e.g. Magic School Bus). Large-scale social issues may be present (after all, Everything Is Political), but they take a definite backseat.

Now. A Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory is a trap based around morality and vices. These can be cultural, religious, or bonkers bullshit like "children shouldn't chew gum." There is generally not discussion or criticism of this morality system. Regardless of the morality system used, if it's not a trap, it's not a Chocolate Factory.

[ospreyonthemoon]

So a saw trap is a willy wonkas chocolate factory and the twilight zone is a jumanji?

[kmoche]

I can’t stop thinking about Shane Hollander playing hockey in the same city as the Montreal Victoire.

The Metros/Voyageurs go to a PWHL game for a press thing and Shane Hollander watches Marie-Philip Poulin, one of the best and most beloved women’s hockey players of all time, score a goal assisted by her linemate and WIFE.

Watches them crash together on the ice in the goal hug and everyone KNOWS they love each other. The crowd celebrates the Wife Line. They wear matching bracelets on the ice! There’s a meme about them! The Canadian press covered their wedding!

And he can’t decide whether it’s hope, or jealousy, or anger twisting in his gut because he wishes he and Ilya could have THIS, but in his heart he knows they never will.

[penandinkprincess]

okay but ilya and cliff being besties but ilya rooming with connors during the club episode makes me laugh because i'm just imagining him being such a demon to everyone that they had to put being his roomie on ROTATION

[penandinkprincess]

"SOS IT'S A SHIRTLESS AND YELLING NIGHT. I REPEAT. IT'S A SHIRTLESS AND YELLING NIGHT."

[shhhhimwatchingthis]

The most dangerous thing about being a queer hockey player in the Game Changer universe is NOT being outed to the homophobic NHL its the 100% chance of experiencing an Ilya Rozanov jump scare.

like you will end the interaction with good advice and your life improved. but also it's Ilya Rosanov. he was kind of a dick the whole time. and now you owe him a favour. it's excruciating.

[mosslingg]

My liege im sorry to break it to you but your advisor that's actually evil and wants you dead turned out to be straight. I know you really wanted to have an enemies to lovers situation with him. Yeah I'm afraid the poisoning didn't hold any romantic intent behind it. The king of the enemy kingdom is bisexual though, I could send him a letter? Yes, I'll make sure to include multiple threats of homoerotic nature. You will have your toxic yaoi, my liege

[rageagainsttheapathy]

Whatever you do, don't think about what happens to Grace's biodome after he dies. Don't think about it becoming a monument to the first inter-planetary friendship. Don't think about the generations of Eridian scientists who will visit it to learn about Earth and prepare for visits when they work out the whole space-travel thing outside of an extinction-level emergency.

Any whatever you do, do NOT think about the little Eridian schoolkids who go there on class trips and play in the water in their special exo-suits and listen to lessons that Grace pre recorded while he was still alive and become inspired to be biologists and astronauts and teachers themselves.

Don't imagine Rocky joining them, so that he can hear his old friend teaching children about the wonders of science once more and pretend, just for a moment, that he's still there with them.

[letterful]

[finelytaylored]

“can’t believe you treat your gf like this Hollander 😔” has me crying lmao please someone write this

[vityamins]

The face of a man who thinks he's about to hear his boyfriend explain the word fuckbuddy to his mom

[aavec]

I understand that people have issues with ep 3, but I’m grateful for it bc it gave us the Scott/Shane fight and therefore all of these great posts on Tumblr.com

[1410-1221-dec2008]

[hailed-marys]

get in the hail mary, grace

[fractally]

Love "terrible at being gay" Shane and Ilya. They do some interview for Pink News and it comes out that neither of them have any idea what Stonewall is. A confused Shane's looking sideways at Ilya while Ilya's like, "What? Who threw brick at wall?"

They're semi-frequently cornered by Rose's LA club gay friends and Fabian's arthouse gay friends who constantly bring up random gay culture stuff. Ilya knows 10% of it Shane knows 0%. They're all in a mutual hatred society

Shane's never heard of PrEP. Health Canada approaches him as a potential spokesperson and he's leafing through the documentation going, "Ilya did you know about this? Should---should I have been on this" and Ilya crashes out like, "Oh now it comes out, you let the Mexican guy fuck you bare"

They go to see Rent on a double date with Scott and Kip as some kind of publicity stunt for a charity and they're both just sort of confused the whole time. Ilya gets mad about the dog thing. Shane keeps leaning over to Ilya to whisper loudly, "It's actually really important that tenants pay their rent. How else are landlords supposed to maintain the buildings." Kip tries to stab him during intermission