“this is ilya, i will never listen to your voicemail” and shane takes that to heart!!
he thinks ilya doesn't ever listen to his messages, so maybe he starts leaving one here and there. maybe they're nothing really, just a note to say he tried to call. sometimes leaving off with "oh, this is shane. by the way" he calls when he knows ilya won't be able to pick up; "hey, uh. i know you won't get this, but i was thinking about you. i miss you. i know you're just in ottawa but... sometimes it feels a lot further. i love you." and sometimes he'll be watching a game and god. he wants to talk to ilya about that play, so he'll leave message about it. shane never really tells ilya that this is something he does.
ilya knows, of course. watches his voicemail fill up little by little. always makes sure there's space for new ones. has ones that he listens to so often that knows them by heart. memorizes the way shane laughs because he thinks no one will hear it, the sound of his breath on the other line between words. he listens to every one of them.
Coach Wiebe caught between genuinely wanting the league to stop being homophobic and for queer players everywhere to be safe and happy vs benefiting from hockey being so homophobic that he gets some of the best players in the league for cheap
SOILER WARNINF IF U HAVENT FINISHED/READ THE BOOK! he looks funky here <3
I JUUUUST FINISHED reading "in memorium" by alice winn and. what can I say. wow. new brainrot material
sidney ellwood is a gorgeous name and I envy it but also he's gorgeous as a person and I love him and he's my everything and here's my contribution. he's in brazil and at, well, relative peace! <3
mmm my favorite: guy who looks dumbfounded when he looks at his crush and guy who denies himself the possibility of being perceived as anything but a platonic
in my head, in brazil, they own a cat named marie. marie loves henry. marie despises sidney. the compromise? they keep marie.
ps!! thank u to my dear friends @loafwins for supporting the initial headcanon, and @jovienna for supplying the meme content 🙏 my actual darlings and saints of IM thank u very much <3
the inherent homoeroticism of war media: a completely unserious presentation by me
[note: some slides have been removed because they're literally just fancams and also i had more than 30 slides boo tumblr image limits]
BIBLIOGRAPHY (just going in order of slides)
and your knees are driving me wild - mash s02e08
george mackay has found his niche in homoerotic war movies
war stories are inherently homoerotic. that's how we got stucky
hangman you look good - top gun: maverick (gif by babyrooster)
letter of recommendation: watching masters of the air secondhand
it's not just sports - masters of the air e02
1 being not gay at all, 10 being liberace in an f-16
we'll go to chicago - band of brothers e01 (gif by @fkmylif3)
it is the law that every piece of war media
kim is a homoseggsual - kath & kim s01e02
Untitled (You Construct Intricate Rituals) - Barbara Kruger
The Secret History of Australia's Gay Diggers - Ben Winsor (+ Paul Fussell quoted within)
Sexuality, Sexual Relations and Homosexuality - Jason Crouthamel
Soldiers bathing in Malaya - AWM
Private Frank Crocker letters featured in Sebastian Faulks and Hope Wolf, A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War (2014), pp. 75-78.
mike's mic screencap my beloved <3
winnix gifs by @bandofbrothers2001 @preacherboyd @galebucky
**i tried to tag/link everything, if anything is broken or unsourced please let me know and i will endeavour to fix it! standard disclaimer that a) any discussion about war media based on real life people is based upon the fictional portrayals of those people and not the actual dudes. and b) this powerpoint was made for fun, it is not rigorous academic analysis. all opinions expressed are my own. please do not take it too seriously! that's all <3
I’VE NOT BEEN DRAWING BECAUSE I’VE BEEN READING THIS BOOK ITS THE BEST BOOK I CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT I’M LOSING SLEEP AND I DREW THIS SO FAST I FEEL LIKE I’M COMING DOWN WITH AN OBSESSIVE FEVER BUT I HAVEN’T FINISHED READING SO NO SPOILERS I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU SPOILER!!!!
WHY IS THIS NOT REBLOGGED IVE SEEN THIS A HUNDRED TIMES IVER I LOOKED AT IT A THOUSAND TIMES OVER AAHFHWHFJEJEJDJSKEF YHESE MEN I CHEW THEM UP I EAT THEM THEY SHALL STAY SAFE WITH ME FOR THE REST OF WTERNITY JESUS
OIAHXHAHDHS I LOVE THESE SO MUCH IVE SEEN THEM I HAVETHEM SAVE DDOWBLOADED MUCH AND I LOOK BACK AT THEM BUT WAHHH THWYRE SO SILYL I LOVE THEM SO MUCH JO URW A GENIUS THANK UUU MWAHHWMWAM<3<3<3
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