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Always banging on about socialism and antifascism, and also currently losing my shit about these goofballs fandom-wise

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my OFMD stuff on the AO3

My 9-1-1 fics on the AO3

My Ted Lasso fic on the AO3

also me on twitter, come say hi

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the funeral industry is legit weird, you can cold call them at 11 PM and some random woman on an answering service is ilke 'well of course we'll just scoop up the earthly remains of the love of your life and then you will owe us thousands of dollars' hang the fuck on Carla I'm gonna need at least a f2f vibe check with a rep from your organization first, until then he ain't going anywhere capisce

#death cw #like seriously though #bitch I'm not relying on google ratings at this juncture wtaf

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emziess

Oliver Stark & Ryan Guzman at Rescueverse Nashville

#I love seeing them have a good time with fans #happy smiley boys #ryan guzman #oliver stark

911onabcbts

Ryan with a fan, credit @/nauseousbuckley

#the glasses say 'whatta man' that is AWESOME #ryan guzman

911onabcbts

Ryan and Oliver today, thank you @buckstattoos for sending to me 🤍

#HELLLOOO slutty crop top ryan?#ok I know it's not a crop top but that shirt RIDES UP BABES #ryan guzman #oliver stark

teeny tiny hockey thoughts

Heated Rivalry and certain RL things happening recently have made me nostalgic for the Canadiens and the hockey games I watched with my dad in the Seventies and Eighties. I just watched the disastrous conference final against North Carolina and then I went looking at some of the stats and, uh...what do you mean it's been over three decades since a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup?

#hockey #les habs

leoholzer

You've gotta fool 'em, Starsk. You've gotta make it. And you know why? 'Cause without you, Starsk, there's no me. (x)

#I still remember when T (a certified Lesbian) shouted “they're LESBIANS” at the handholding in the squad room scene #starsky & hutch #aka the prime time homos #who is doing it like them

vibecheckd

Lolita is not fundamentally about a teenage girl with a crush on an older man or a sexually charged young woman making an older man uncomfortable. It is about Humbert Humbert exploiting, abusing, and manipulating a child while attempting to present himself as romantic and sympathetic. The tension in the novel comes from predation and power imbalance. By describing Abigail as a "young girl with raging hormones" and calling the dynamic "Lolita-ish," the interview reduces the novel to a stereotype that strips away the very thing that makes it disturbing in the first place.

It is also a poor fit for Eddie's characterization. Throughout 9-1-1, Eddie is consistently portrayed as protective, duty-driven, and often excessively responsible for vulnerable people. The discomfort in the Abigail storyline is not that viewers believe Eddie might reciprocate her feelings; if anything, the tension comes from the audience recognizing Abigail's unhealthy attachment before Eddie does. On screen, the dynamic reads as a story about grief, loneliness, idealization, and blurred emotional boundaries. Many viewers saw meaningful parallels between Eddie and Abigail in their repression, religious guilt, and desire to find salvation through another person. Those themes emerge naturally from the episodes themselves and connect to Eddie's broader character arc.

The interview answer feels jarring because it reframes a storyline that many viewers understood as tragic and psychological into something primarily sexual. Rather than focusing on Abigail's vulnerability, Eddie's savior complex, or the emotional consequences of their relationship, it centers the idea of a hormonally driven young woman fixating on an older man. In doing so, it misses both what Lolita is actually about and what makes the Eddie-Abigail storyline compelling. The uncomfortable part of the story is not sexual temptation; it is watching two damaged, lonely people become entangled in a relationship that neither of them is equipped to navigate safely.

#how does this guy set out to write drek and end up with something nuanced? is it all the actors? how does this HAPPEN #or are the other writers doing all the work and he's completely misinterpreting what they're writing about #like jumping jesus christ #911 on abc

lliaq

what it says on the tin

#a fucking classic for the ages #buddie #comphet

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Anirudh via Empire Conventions.

#this motherfucker knows he's pretty as hell #and you know what I have no problems with that #anirudh pisharody

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Give them your best smolder. Oliver Stark & Ryan Guzman for Creation Entertainment

#it’s really hard not to jump into the handbasket to hell #when these two goofballs are already in there #oliver stark #ryan guzman

itseasytoremember

Look, we all agree that Aragorn is hot.

Viggo Mortensen is absolutely a handsome man, but his character in Eastern Promises doesn't have most of the global population ripping their hair out foaming at the mouth screaming crying throwing up horny.

It's something about the combination of long hair, stubble, a mysterious past, quiet confidence, and looking like you've just been riding a horse for 2 weeks, that drives people crazy.

We will call this phenomenon The Aragorn Effect. My theory is that if all those same elements are combined with the correct proportions, any actor may be able to experience The Aragon Effect.

In 1989 movie Roadhouse Sam Elliot plays a veteran bouncer who is asked by Patrick Swayze to assist in a particularly difficult bar. He 1. Has Long hair 2. Has Stubble 3. Looks like he eats cigarettes. In this essay

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For reference, this is Sam Elliott in every other role he's been in:

And THIS is Sam Elliott in road house, for literally no reason at all:

lamardeuse

I mean this movie predates LOTR by over a decade so it’s a little like calling Elliot’s 1970s hotness in The Lifeguard as the Baywatch effect, but at the end of the day who gives a fuck bc guhhhhh

#sam elliott #one of my teenage crushes tysm for posting

cesperanza

Hi!

I was checking some of your fics in this link https:// www.trickster(.)org/speranza/stories(.)html and next to the titles there is a number like for example Eight Sessions (270K) -my favorite dS fic ever- and I was wondering what is the number? I thought it was the number of words but I didn't remember that fic being so long so I checked ao3 and yeah it says 34,432 words. Then, I checked other fics' word count in both pages and at least some of them don't match. What is that number then?

LOL - I love this question, even though it makes me feel OLD AS DIRT.

In the olden times of the dial up internet, the number you put next to a story was NOT the word count but the FILE SIZE - it was 240k in size, this is to say, a quarter of a mb--and this told the reader how long it would take to LOAD in your BROWSER. Now of course 240k is not very much, but understand me when I say that my first computer/word processor was an Atari 130, which had as its total system memory, 130k!! (Which was double my dad's computer, which was an Atari 65, which had--yes--65k total memory!)

Anyway Eight Sessions was written in--hm, looks it up, May 2002! Which means that only 20% of people had broadband internet at that time - so 80% would have had dialup and have to get the story through a modem. I posted the story to the F/K email list in parts, and then when it was only you wanted to make sure people knew how big it was so that they could anticipate the loading.

I didn't even have a LJ yet in May 2002--I caved and got one in December of 2002. Yikes!

#the ancient texts #I was there #it would take days to download one vid #maybe weeks