The sour smell of madness

Everything I could possibly want to talk about that's related to fandom.

[monostardust]

My favorite headcanon/canon divergence rn is Shane Hollander is so fucking hot he turns everyone a little gay. Like everyone. Even the gay guys get gayer with Shane. Scott? Already gay? Even gayer after Shane. Troy? Much gayer than he was in his relationship. JJ is straight? Wrong, gay. Yes even the metros. All of them just gets attacked by those wet big brown bottom eyes and they fold like a lawn chair immediately. Raging boners everywhere after Shane plays like a beast on the ice and wins them a game. Ilya gets an aneurysm but gets resurrected by the sheer force of his will and starts killing everyone who's shared a locker room with Shane and got a boner.

[adhdevankinard]

[monostardust]

So I dunno if any of you read A stepmother's märchen but I just want to quickly discuss the visual storytelling in this manhwa. It just looks so beautiful and it serves more than just aesthetics as well. So in this chapter we get these panels (I have no idea if I interpreted these panels right btw but I still want to share).

The narrator is addressing someone specifically those who are "thirsty" they tell these people to look up to the sky because the dazzling waves of the golden ideal is up there which we get a panel of the sun. I have no interpretation for the next that the narrator says but then we see in the next panel is Richelieu which hints the narrator is talking about him.

Richelieu is the thirsty the narrator is telling to look up at the dazzling waves of the golden ideal. And saying that even if he claims it all he would still be greedy for more. Then finally the narrator says the last line.

"Stare deep into the thirst that has taken root into your soul"

And the panel shows us a glimpse of Shuri. If Richelieu is the thirsty that is being told to look up at the golden ideal which is the sun and at the same time being told to look at the thirst that has taken root into his soul with Shuri at the next panel looking like this

then Richelieu is a thirsting man who is greedy for power but even if he claims it all as the narrator says even if he succeeds in all his plans and becomes pope he will still thirst over it and that thirst is Shuri herself.

Then we get a panel of his eyes reflecting the sun (golden ideal) but not Shuri which could mean he's seeing the golden ideal and Shuri as the same. He wants the golden ideal and also has "thirst" in his soul and this could mean if he gains power (becomes pope) he thinks he's able to automatically have Shuri as well. Since the golden ideal is presented at the same time as Shuri so he's assuming if he succeeds he will also have her.

Also in the next chapter where we see a zoomed out version of the earlier panel of Shuri. The sun almost looks like a halo on Shuri it's like this really big halo on her that might represent him seeing her as somewhat divine and why he wants her? Honestly I have no idea but I think it's a really cool panel that may have more purpose than just aesthetics.

[monostardust]

I have lost a fic. (Again 💀) The fic is Shane fails to talk to Ilya in Tampa and has a falling out and they wait to meet until a charity in New York but this guy from the admirals (I think?) just came out as gay as well. That's it. That's where I stopped reading the summary and copied the link but waited too long to paste it so now it's gone. Please help a dumb bitch out 😭🙏

[everlastingday]

i will say one last thing before i stop tuning into this discourse for my sanity, but rachel/her fans thinking that the people criticizing her aren't intelligent enough to understand that shane isn't a real person IS the problem. y'all think we're just idiots who love to complain - we fucking KNOW shane isn't a real person, that's not the fucking point. the point is that YOU wrote a book and are actively capitalising on who and what those characters represent. you know who IS real?? all the asians and autistic folks who find the way that you wrote a character that you claim to represent them to be a bit offensive! so you being flippant about it is actually showing your true colours.

"you just don't understand rachel's humour" - no, i understand that SHE thinks she's funny, i'm not actually stupid like she thinks we are and i do actually understand that. i just don't personally find her sense of humour funny in the same way that i don't find comedians that punch down funny.

[ravioliet]

god's weakest soldier is scrolling tumblr instead of being productive or participating in any of their hobbies

[coldeveryseason]

here's an expanded version of the primary poster comparison i made for this post btw in case y'all want a clearer visual wrt the antiblack double standard between how amc marketed s1-s2 (with louis as the title character and unambiguous lead) v s3 (with lestat as the title character and unambiguous lead)

[galactic-dragoness]

[loszeged]

[neko-mancy]

[bugmoment]

[an-eldritch-nightmare-deactivat]

[monostardust]

Hello Tumblr people I came here today because I must ask do any of you know that fic where Yuna and Shane go to Russia and Yuna becomes Ilya's team's coach and Shane joins in? Ilya fucks his coach's son except it's not Sasha but Shane.I just need confirmation that it still exists and wasn't a figment of my imagination coz I can't find it.

Edit: For anyone curious, yes it exists it has been confirmed to me and this is the title plexiglass box by robotribosome.

[duvetdaybooks]

IT’S THE CHAIR 🥳🫡👏👏👏👏

[under-the-oof-tree]

OUR GOAT!!!!!!!!

[monostardust]

Bitch hell yeah!! This fucker about to get MESSED UP!!! 🗣️‼️

[0-therw-0-rldly]

Y’all, two things can be true at the same time! How amazing is that!

It’s absolutely fantastic for Heated Rivalry to win this award and to be proud of everything this show has done for people. A Peabody is an amazing achievement.

At the same time, from a marketing standpoint, that social media post isn’t helping optics. They chose to post a single actor/character in this. It would have been a lot better that as a show winning this award they posted either Both Hudson/Connor (because this isn’t just a show about Ilya, it’s about Hollanov), or they should’ve posted the whole cast.

When socials only post one actor for a show winning, it makes it look more like just the actor won. I would say the same thing if it was just Hudson on the graphic!

Optics are always optics. It’s okay to critique WHILE being happy for the award. 🫶 Have nuance always.

[writingdose]

a writer’s struggle

[barbie-verse]

thinking hudson williams is hot is the most embarrassing reputation ruining annoying thing I could have done tbh like ohhh my god really? tall big muscles golden skin pretty hair and big brown bottom eyes kind man is hot? god fucking really. are you fucking stupid I hate myself. oh you think shane hollander is hot? fucking shane hollander? groundbreaking type shit going on here oh my god he’s tall should we tell everyone he’s tall and he's kind to people and his eyes twinkle wow she thinks the attractive man is attractive. you and everyone else. is pizza your favorite food too. fuck you. everyone look at her she thinks SHANE HOLLANDER is hot boundaries are really being pushed over here should we get her a medal because she thinks Mr Smile is easy on the eyes. “hear me out” and it’s a fucking marching band. should we call people magazine. vanilla. I DISGUST myself. summer blockbuster. I should be killed

(insp)

[extraaa-30]

[kairadiamond]

[monostardust]

They really know how to get me

[monostardust]

So uh... is Langdon gonna fail his drug test coz he took advil?

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

I hate to be the one to issue a correction, but that post going around saying that Xie Zheng would ask if Fan Changyu would love him as a worm, it's just wrong.

Xie Zheng knows that Fan Changyu would love him as a Yan "Worm" Zheng, she would build him a whole worm habitat and butcher pigs to support him, that is not his problem.

He needs to know if Fan Changyu will still love him as a dragon. As one of the deadliest, most competent, and powerful people in the kingdom.

He pretended to be a worm for so so long so she would keep taking care of him.

He's half a moment of despair away from chopping off his arms and legs to turn back into a worm.

The worm thing is covered. Edit: it's a wyrm problem (people in my notes being funnier than me again)

[cyrjovie]

Xie Zheng, any chance he gets: I'm married *divorce letter is in his hand* this? Ignore it. I'm married. My wife sent me these candies, the only sweets I eat. Sui Yuanqing has my wife's sister, I'm going to save her at the risk of my own life and 1,000 of my men, but our lives are only at risk if we fail, and we won't because I WILL save my wife's sister. *pauses for a few moments* Have I told you about my incredible wife and her sister?

Fan Changyu, at least a few times a day: I'm looking for my husband. *divorce letter in bag* don't look at that. My Yan Zheng is too good at martial arts to die in battle, so I'm going to find him, make sure he's okay, and then see about bringing him home. Have I mentioned he married into my family and is very smart and handsome and good at martial arts?

[monostardust]

No coz they were straight up ignoring the divorce letters they had 😭