pitiful destiny, point your finger at me

queer. in my 20s. I like fiction; movies, comics, books, anime. d20, marvel, dc, star trek, supernatural, hannibal, teen wolf. I try to tag characters + title. open to chatting.

[dramatic-dolphin]

not to sound like the friend that's too woke but why does this police station toyset for a 5yr old need a weapons safe full of tiny toy-sized automatic rifles. just asking.

[alphacrone]

my favorite part of psych is that shawn isn’t some born genius, every episode opener shows that he’s the product of a very insane detective father who specifically was trying to engineer the Perfect Crime Solving Machine

[ragehangover]

thinking about how meaningful it would’ve been that — after the voyagers essentially leak that shane is gay to the rest of the league — another nonwhite hockey player contacts shane and comes out to him in solidarity. maybe even two. or three. genuinely can’t believe shane is outed like three separate times in that book and not a single other closeted player finds solidarity in him instead of ilya

[ancillarybat]

much prefer the original origin of nightwing's name. where dick wanted to grow up and be his own separate hero but still acknowledging the people who helped make him who he was today (bruce and clark)

nightwing wasn't a Kryptonian god or legend, it was the name of a Kryptonian bird. clark and jimmy needed to sneak into kandor and had to come up with aliases, so they named themselves after the birds nightwing and flamebird. and those aliases became a batman and robin reference, nightwing being the batman of the duo. so dick called back to when clark made an homage to batman and robin and in turn became an homage to superman himself

[clarkcvnt]

Tales of the Teen Titans (1984) #44, by Marv Wolfman and George Perez

Superman (1939) #158 by Edmond Hamilton and Curt Swan

[gaysie]

if shane and ilya were in the hunger games ilya would Loveeee to get on that tv with a barely suppressed grin and say “If it weren’t for the baby…”

[andorology]

brooding men who cannot communicate their feelings if their life depended on it are only hot when they're fictional. if i have to deal with one in real life i will curse him and pray for his downfall every night before i go to bed

[kestrel-tree]

It's because the writer communicates their feelings for them. If people wanna pull that off in real life they need to hire a guy to walk around behind them narrating.

[bananonbinary]

#can i be the guy#ill narrate SO incorrectly#theyll all learn how to talk for themselves just to shut me up (via @cirrus-grey)

i'm loving the implication that this isn't something they hired you for, but something you'd do as some sort of public service.

[ahedderick]

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

I love the sochi outing au for so many reasons (like omg it has Obama rpf and hollonov are having their everlark plot) but my favourite thing about it is that Shane's ending is so much better than canon. He gets to keep his dream of staying at montreal!! He's going to retire there!! That's his city!! This version of Shane is probably more traumatised then Canon and yet the ending is so much better that it really goes to show just how bad the tlg ending is. For so many reasons but also bc it ruins the hr ending for me. The reason shane brings up ottawa is bc they can afford to pay ilya what he's worth, he can be captain there, and he can be the first line centre. The fact that apparently none of this matters to ilya when he suggests Shane moves to ottawa just makes him look like a massive dick and also makes me think that ilya should just have gone to montreal at the end of hr. "Oh but the rivalry means - " if people found out Shane got Ilya to come to montreal they would be high fiving him on every street in the city. Ahhhhhhhh thank you for writing aus that are saving me from this dog shit ending that I pretend is not real

YOURE SO RIGHT THOUGH

In the books, when they’re talking about Ilya switching to a Canadian team, Ilya proposes leaving Boston for a Canadian team himself. It is brought up explicitly because America is bad for Russians at the moment, and he wants non-Russian citizenship. And during the conversation, Ilya has this moment where he can tell Shane wants him to come to Montreal, but Ilya doesn’t want to because Montreal could never afford both of them. Ilya says “Not Montreal,” and Shane immediately understands. He proposes Ottawa as an alternative because it needs a star center and has the cap space for Ilya.

And, critically, I cannot find a single mention of the fact that Ottawa is a bad team in Heated Rivalry itself.

Like. Please correct me if I’m wrong. I can’t remember any mention of the fact that Ottawa is terrible. I pulled up the pdf of the book and searched couldn’t find a single mention of the word “Centaurs” in it. I searched every mention of the word “Ottawa” and couldn’t find a single mention discussing how Ottawa was a bad team. The closest we get is Shane saying that they need a star center, but still needing a star for one position is a very different thing than it being the shittiest team in the whole league. And you’d think that Ilya would maybe bring up the fact that that team is absolute ass and would destroy his career if he went there if that was a legitimate concern. The Long Game rewrites its own canon to victimize Ilya and make Shane the villain in the Ottawa move. Its claims are fundamentally and irrevocably inconsistent with the explicit text of Heated Rivalry.

The entire dialogue around Shane being selfish in the Ottawa move drives me absolutely raving insane because it is fundamentally based in revisionist history. Shane is at no point in the conversation a driving factor in Ilya’s decision to leave Boston. Ilya decides he wants to be on a Canadian team before he even talks to Shane. The fact that he wants to come to Canada specifically is because of Russia, not Shane. And picking Ottawa is for the sake of Ilya’s career.

Signing with Montreal is outright considered and rejected by Ilya so he doesn’t have to take a pay cut. The explicit reason why he doesn’t want to sign with Montreal is the fact that Montreal cannot afford both of them. And that decision is later recast entirely into Ilya picking Shane over hockey. If Ilya wanted to pick Shane, he would have just taken the pay cut in heated rivalry and they would have been playing on the same team since fucking 2018–and it would have been on a team that Ilya himself describes as “the most legendary team in the entire league.” He would have had a great team and been tearing it up winning Stanley Cups but he didn’t want to take the pay cut or hit to his captaincy and his position and Shane fucking understood that and found him an alternative that wouldn’t require him to sacrifice his own position.

They explicitly pick Ottawa so that Ilya’s career doesn’t have to suffer and then the Long Game revises the entire narrative to turn it into how Ilya sacrificed his career for Shane. It is absolutely nonsensical when read in light of their conversation around the move itself. They outright reject playing on the same team so Ilya doesn’t have to sacrifice his own career.

And then!! All of the reasons why Ilya shouldn’t have to sign with Montreal suddenly do not matter at all when it’s Shane who has to suffer them. Shane has to take a pay cut? Laugh it off. Hubby will provide. He loses his entire career as narrative punishment for “making” Ilya sacrifice his career, but signing with Ottawa was explicitly so that Ilya wouldn’t have to sacrifice his career. Ilya actually does what Shane is accused of and villainized for in The Long Game, and Shane never did it to begin with. I feel like I’m being gaslit by an entire fucking fandom. Can anyone hear me hello

Shane gets to keep his team in the Sochi outing au. He gets to retire there. I put him through so much shit in the sochi outing au, but he gets to keep his team. I am building him a dream team in my mind and it will be so fucking narratively fulfilling so help me god

[mollyjames]

I acknowledge that there are a lot of different elements that go into making a really good movie, but also I am personally convinced it's like... 70% the writing

[mollyjames]

Yeah you get it

[tarragonthedragon]

if i can be mean for a second here. if you can't pretend to be at least mildly interested in someone else's life for like, three minutes of small talk? that is a problem you should be aware of and working on. nobody needs you to be the world's best actor or suddenly be besties with every stranger you chit chat with but a brief "oh i dont know much about fishing, do you go a lot?" goes a lot way towards not being needlessly unpleasant to other people

[wertfi-penguin]

Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

[geekyhistoriansunite]

[anartificialsatellite]

The older I get the more I admire people who are earnestly, genuinely into whatever their thing is. I know it sounds like an annoying cliche but unless you're being cruel or hurtful there is really no need to be normal about things. The dude with the bad fake accent at the renaissance faire is having the time of his life. The people having photoshoots with their fashion dolls are loving it. The old lady with a yard unreasonably full of tacky ass lawn ornaments is having a blast, HOA be damned.

Don't waste your time being too cool to have fun, y'know?

[balcklion]

A circulating video of sisters who bought the same clothes for their husbands 😂❤️

[g1sunstreaker]

this gag NEVER fails to make me laugh. watching them all file in one by one and collectively laugh harder every time the next guy walks in…i could watch videos of this practical joke all day

[cumaeansibyl]

Their faces as they collectively realize they’re married to the funniest women on the planet

[the-real-seebs]

whenever people say “it’s just a prank” about minor cruelty, remember: the people laughing hardest here are the people being pranked. you’ll notice that they aren’t hurt, or upset. they’re enjoying it. they feel loved and included.

that’s how you make a good prank.

[serenitynerd]

I keep putting this back in my queue because it means I restumble upon it and it always makes me laugh. So delightful

[isthehumanvideo-cute]

Cute! These humans are amused by the fact that half of their social group is all dressed the same without coordinating.

[wyatthazy]

three apples tall ✅ 0 days old ✅ the littlest ever ✅

[argillaforma]

heated rivalry has ruined all other sex scenes for me forever i fear like sorry but if your characters don't look like they're actively transcending to another dimension of pure love-drunkness and devotion then i don't want it

[goldfishpudding]

shout out to all those making chinese media accessible to non-speakers. honestly lads my gratitude is huge, you raise my serotonin levels on a daily basis and i appreciate you so much

[ottawacentaurshq]

HUDSON WILLIAMS APPRECIATION WEEK

favorite look: just... THIS

[filmfliiicks]

a fic where fanon Ilya meets post-tlg Shane and Ilya and is horrified by how emotionally neglected Shane is please. 😌