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im about to maul someone.

"stories dont need conflict" girl anything can be a conflict if ur story is about chickens going on adventures the conflict is the fucking fence they gotta hop over. if ur story is about making a lovely cup of tea the conflict can be turning on the stove. like u literally cannot write a story without conflict

fagcrisis

ALSO i hate mfers who say this shit and then go "thats why i like ghibli movies cuz theyve got no conflict" OH YOU MEAN HOWLS MOVING CASTLE, NAUSICAA, PRINCESS MONONOKEY CASTLE IN THE SKY ETC THAT ARE ALL ABOUT THE HORRORS OF WAR

fagcrisis

even the ones that arent about the horrors of war. in kiki's delivery service kiki growing up and learning to trust people and accept help is the central conflict of the story!! my neighbour totoro's central conflict is how the girls are dealing with their mom being sick and the responsibility they feel this puts on them!! i could go on!!

eeby-deeby-dark-and-creepy

octobaba

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This genuinely is not a criticism because I loved the books, but I wonder why Shane and Ilya are the only main Game Changers pairing that DOESN’T get to come out on their own terms…TWICE no less.

#hollanov #game changers series

Srsly. Has no one done a Hollanov video set to Rewrite the Stars?!?

#heated rivalry #hollanov

I want to talk about Shane and Ilya and autism

I realized I can post this here! Because I don't have anyone else to scream at about this.

ILYA IS SHANE'S SAFE PERSON.

I haven't seen anyone else talk about this (I'm sure someone has, I haven't been online much lately).

From the get go, Shane has absolutely no problem letting Ilya touch him. He can maintain eye contact easily. He thinks about Ilya all the time. Something important happens for either of them, he texts Ilya first.

After Vegas (and no kissing) the rejection sensitivity is at an all-time high because his PERSON has blown him off.

He takes Rose's breakup easily because while she's a safe space for him, someone he can talk to easily, she's not his PERSON.

The tuna meltdown? Shane's the one who walks away because he's afraid of being rejected by his PERSON for being too clingy, for needing him too much.

Yes, a lot of these things can be chalked up to being in love and the circumstances of their relationship, but since we know for a fact that Shane is autistic, I can't help but read it through that lens.

BONUS: The first time they shake hands, Shane is all blinky. I need to go back and check, but when he's with Ilya from then on I don't think he is.

#autistic shane hollander #hollanov

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allthingswhumpyandangsty

gr8writingtips

writing tip #3778:

you don't have to write every day to be a writer! you just have to feel guilty every day that you don't

phantomrose96

Really crazy how "writing" is not a universal skill and "fiction writing" vs "technical writing" vs "writing peer reviews for work" are somehow all different muscles

phantomrose96

Like man I'll write short fiction about a ghost boy getting ripped apart no prahblem but then I go to write a peer review for a coworker I deeply respect and my first draft will be like, "I deeply enjoy working with you. Due to how good and skilled and nice you are. At your job."

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smokingtigerhiddengun

You know, I'm honestly shocked that I haven't seen any Hollanov pro-wrestling AUs yet, seeing as their entire rivalry is really just the classic kayfabe dynamic of Menacing Russian/Soviet Baddie vs. National-Hero Golden Boy, starring Ilya "The Heel" Rozanov vs. Shane "The Face" Hollander.

josephinecarttanneur

Heated Rivalry studies

our-trans-punk-experience

in the absence of ao3 I think we should go become tattoo artists, flowershop owners, students, members of a band, long term rivals, coworkers, or get selected for a politically advantageous arranged marriage.

Let's take this shit to the streets

dancecinema

GREGORY HINES & MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV White Nights (1985) dir. Taylor Hackford

fandomwithjoy

Masters of their craft.

trollprincess

My favorite thing about this sequence is that if you don’t know who Hines and Baryshnikov are, and I tell you one is a ballet dancer and one taps, you should be able to figure out who’s who based on their specific movements, even though the choreography is the same.

elljayvee

ABSOLUTELY. It’s so obvious in the way they move, and things like the positioning of the hips as they do the same step. Where the weight is in the leg. All those things. It’s one of the things that makes the sequence such a pleasure to watch – you can see that both of them are amazing dancers and you can also learn a lot about their specific disciplines and the differences between them watching it.

elljayvee

OK OK I am actually going to go through those gifs one by one to talk about the things that really strike me in each one as demonstrating the two styles of dance. I’m sure I am missing some things, this is just what is obvious to me.

1. Look how they lead the movement as they step back. Baryshnikov moves his leg following a hip/torso movement. Hines comes very close to leading with his knee. You’ll see that knee-leading motion in a later step, too. You can probably do this yourself: stand with your feet and hips square to the front, then turn your hips towards the left and use the pull of it to lead your leg into the step. Then go back to square, and take a step back by letting your knee open to the side and go backwards. You should be able to feel the muscles working pretty differently – the first movement engages a lot more of your core, the second relies more on your various thigh muscles.

2. The leg extension in the air – that perfect straight leg is ballet to the core – and look at how differently their hips and feet are when they land! Baryshnikov’s hips are squared to the side and his feet are aligned; Hines’s hips are angled and his back foot faces the front and is flat. If a ballet dancer had his foot like that – and he might – his hips wouldn’t be doing that angle.

3. This is a tap sequence and it’s where that knee-lead comes in again. Hines’s hips are loose and his knees seem to be leading the movement – almost like they are pulling both his hips and his ankles along for the ride. You can see where his feet will strike by watching the knees. Baryshnikov is not a tap dancer and it really shows here! Once again you can see that he moves his hips in order to shift his knees and weight.

4. There are a few things here but the biggest to me is how they land out of that jump. Hines lands…well, like a tap dancer. He comes down hard and flat – you can see the little jolt as he hits – like he’s slammin’ that tap shoe down to make a big ol’ noise. Baryshnikov’s landing foot isn’t as easy to see, but he comes down toe-first, as is correct for ballet.

5. Again there are a few, but what I find most striking is the looseness/rigidness of posture. Both of them have immense body control, but Hines is letting his joints flex more in the air. It looks to me like again he brings his heel down harder, as well, on both back and front legs – in fact I kind of wonder if the heeled boots Baryshnikov has on are to make it easier for him to match Hines’s foot movements in certain sequences, since he won’t have to bring his foot down as far. (They’re both in shoes with some degree of heel, but Hines’s are much less so.)

6. Aaah both of these are lovely spins. Again with the rigidity vs looseness in the joints, but also, Hines traces MUCH more of his foot on the ground, which is common in tap spins but uncommon in ballet. His weight is slightly less centered over the support leg, and you also can see the knee-lead vs hip-lead here as well – look how Baryshnikov shifts his weight, then look how Hines does it. And as they come out of it, Baryshnikov has his toe pointed and his heel up, while Hines snaps his heel down against the floor.

brainfuzz

To me, a non-dancer, their dance styles are like comparing French and German - one is all crunchy sharp hard stops and the other is fluid smooth and soft. And something that is specific (I believe) to Baryshnikov is during the jumps - when Hines is in the air, it looks like he’s fighting gravity and is actively going up and then coming back down. Baryshnikov on the other hand looks like he is flying and is choosing to land. IIRC from when I was young and this movie first came out and Baryshnikov became my first blorbo, the amount of time he spent in the air and how gracefully he did it was a thing that even people who knew ballet were baffled and impressed by.

unlikelychildchaos

My headcanon of the day is that Ilya is not used to getting calls from family members unless they need something from him. Nobody ever calls him (maybe apart from Shane) to just simply check up on him. So the first time David calls him on a random day of the week, asks him about his day, hands the phone to Yuna to do the same—Ilya is a little confused as to why these people are just randomly calling him. He even texts David after they've hung up to confirm if they needed something and have just forgotten to mention it. When David texts back "no son we just wanted to check up on you" Ilya sits and stares at that text until he feels his throat close up and there's an odd sting in his eyes.

escapepodding

The miscommunication in Heated Rivalry is because they're living in different romance types to begin with:

Shane: In some sort of Austen-esque existence where hjs ill-advised flirtation with a notorious rake goes too far. Scandalised by the intimate use of first names he flees, concerned what society and his goodly parents will think, his reputation at stake. He tries to find a proper marriage prospect but alas his heart is lost to the rake! But he finally follows his heart and invites Ilya into his home too (and accepts first name usage!)

Ilya: Smoldering in mirrors and out of windows and getting emotionally wuthered screaming Shane's name on a moor. My man is byronically going through it gothic style

escapepodding

Scott Hunter is trying to live his best modern rom com life and is side-eyeing the fuck out of these two. No idea what's going on there and franly doesn't want to

homoerotic-friction

can't stop thinking abt shane getting an autism diagnosis and being scared to tell ilya and then the conversation going very similarly to when shane told ilya he was gay bc ilya is sitting there like

???? yes ??? this is not news ???? did you not know this ????

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