The Paster Of Muns.

You better be wearing your diaper, because you're going to shit your pants!

[movingarter]

ITS A DATE!?!? I’ve never seen so much sexual tension in all my years

[dragon-in-a-fez]

said this as part of a larger point in a reblog but I'm gonna make it its own post:

humans have the right to do things that are mildly bad for us sometimes.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

you have the right to eat way too many pierogi and make yourself a little sick. you have the right to go skydiving. you have the right to pull an all-nighter building the Imperial City of Tamriel in Minecraft. you have the right to get drunk in your living room watching football.

life is not about making the safest most logically correct choice at all times. you're a blob of salty meat piloting a flesh mech and you get to act like it.

[moniquill]

[magemance]

Take a bow!

[boop428-deactivated20260202]

The Nebra Sky Disc - the oldest depiction of the cosmos in the world; showing the sun, moon and several other celestial constellations.

Found in a burial in Saxony - Germany, associated with the Bronze Age Únětice Culture

Dated to 1600 BC

[mslanna]

Visit Original Link

Affirmations from yours truly. 😌

Visit Original Link

[heartstoppercomic]

Epilogue - Part 2

The end.

Thank you for everything.

Read Heartstopper Online

More info/buy the books: https://aliceoseman.com/

The Heartstopper webcomic has now concluded.

Epilogue letter in text form:

Dear Heartstopper readers,

The Heartstopper webcomic’s first update dropped on September 1st 2016. Today, on April 11th 2026, the story has concluded.

I don’t quite know how to put all of my feelings into one letter. Heartstopper means more to me than words can express, but I’ll try my best.

Heartstopper has defined the past decade of my life. It started as a fun side project and quickly grew into something much bigger, eventually becoming my career. Despite that huge and unexpected change, making the Heartstopper comic feels the same to me as it did on day one. When I sit down to make Heartstopper, I feel at peace. When the world feels so scary and difficult, I have been able to return to Heartstopper, and everything feels okay again for a little while. 

Nick and Charlie first appeared as supporting characters in my first novel, ‘Solitaire’. In Solitaire, Nick and Charlie represent the idea that hope, love, joy and connection can persist and thrive despite the trials and tribulations of being alive. So maybe it’s ironic that Nick and Charlie have come to represent this in my own life. They have brought me joy. They have given me purpose. They have given me everything, really. And I’m so grateful for every moment I have spent with them.

Heartstopper is profoundly special to me. Which makes it extremely hard to say goodbye.

But it is time. I always knew that Nick going to university would be the end point of the story. And despite how sad I am to be bidding farewell to these characters, I am so, so proud and excited to have made it to the end and concluded the story exactly the way I wanted to.

Any webcomic creator can tell you that making a webcomic requires a heavy amount of determination and endurance. To draw a page almost every day for the past ten years has required a lot of sacrifice and a lot of energy. But every moment was worth it. And now that it is complete, Nick and Charlie’s story can be experienced from beginning to end, for the rest of forever.

I wouldn’t have made it here alone. From the very start, Heartstopper’s readers have offered so much support, love, community, conversation, and enthusiasm. Knowing that there are people out there who love these characters just like I do has given me the strength to keep going. I’ve also had the support of many colleagues, friends, and family members, who’ve all helped in different ways at various points in the past decade. Thank you so, so much to everyone who has been here for the journey. 

I have no idea what I’ll make next. For now, I’m taking a break. And I know that Nick and Charlie won’t simply vanish. I expect I will always return to drawing them and writing about them, probably in smaller ways, for the rest of my life, as long as my body allows.

Nick and Charlie will forever be in my heart, hand in hand on a beach somewhere.

Thank you, everyone.

Lots of love,

Alice x

[movingarter]

Julien has naturally straight hair and sleeps in pin curls every night to get it to look like that

[skodasforge]

*Valley Girl voice*: I must, like, not fear. Fear is literally the mind-killer. Like it’s basically the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will totally face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and? When it’s gone? I’m gonna like turn the inner eye to see its path! Where the fear has gone there will be literally nothing. Only I will remain.

[srsfunny]

Masha The Hero

[asryakino]

They forgot the part where the ambulance actually stopped to let the cat in

[booty-uprooter]

oh good I was worried

[dr-dendritic-trees]

What a good cat. What a kind cat. How can anyone not love cats they are so good and loving.

[squibbbly]

they also forgot the part where they only found the baby because masha was screaming her head off bc she knew this baby was in danger. she went around outside the alley the next morning and yelled at passerby until she got one to follow her to the baby. she kept him warm all night and then made sure someone found him. she was adopted after this bc she was a stray and is in a loving home and is a hero

[pon-raul]

Hero cat

[goaliesarethebest]

Thank you, Masha, you’re such a good girl.

[jenniferrpovey]

See.

Kittens can’t regulate their own body temperature. That’s why they pile up.

Cats see us as colony members.

Masha saw a kitten that was on its own, no mommy, no other kittens to cuddle with. She instinctively knew that was a cold kitten. She knew that a kitten alone on a cold night was very likely to die. Because a kitten would have died too.

So, all she was doing was what any good colony member does - protecting the abandoned kitten. Then when the abandoned kitten’s mommy didn’t come back, she called the rest of the colony for help.

People have this bizarre idea that housecats don’t have a social sense. They do, and it saved this kid’s life. And possibly Masha’s too, as life on the streets is dangerous for a kitty.

We say “good dog” all the time, but Masha was being a very, very good cat…not just by human moral standards but by feline ones.

[cricketcat9]

Rebloging again because who can resist Masha the Hero cat 😻😻😻

[movingarter]

Your goal shouldn’t be to win the breakup… but when u do it feels SOOOOO much better

[whydun]

right now you might be in a situation that you think you won’t survive but six months ago you were in a situation that you didn’t think you’d survive and two years before that you were in a situation you didn’t think you’d survive and the point is you will always surprise yourself and you will always make it through

[oknotgood]

Shane Meta Masterlist

I have compiled a bunch of links to meta posts about Shane Hollander that I encountered and enjoyed. I hope you also enjoy them!

This list will continue to evolve. If you see any posts you think would make a good addition, tag me! 😁

I'm also working on an Ilya version. I will update this with the link when it's done.

To any users I've tagged in this post, I just wanted to credit you, but if you would like me to untag you or remove your post from the list, please just let me know! Also, I think tumblr limits me to 50 tags? If yes, that's why most of the tags in the latter part of the post don't link directly to the user's blog. But all the links to the posts themselves should work.

I will update this with links to some of Hudson Williams' interviews eventually, because Hudson usually has some excellent Shane meta.

Shane + Autism:

@boyguilty : Shane's identity is Hockey Player

@draegmuth : Shane's relentlessness regarding being a bottom

@lavenderprose and @tawnyow-l : Shane likes Ilya's dick autistically

@superkitty21 : Shane and under-stimulation

@sonnyandshare : Shane + insults

@gayhockeyshowenjoyer : Shane's response to Ilya's "I love you"

@soul-wanderer : why a diagnosis might be helpful

@cjjade : Shane on pain meds

@themoonandmyman 's commentary on @my-2nd-account 's post Shane being surprised at the word boyfriend

@butimnomickey :

Shane's autistic moments in ep 1

Shane's autistic moments in ep 6

Shane unmasking in ep 6

Shane + Autism + sexuality:

@whattfisausername : Shane is a breath of fresh air

@mr-stump-sir : Shane is a freaky little slut

Shane + sex:

lavenderprose (tagged above) : Shane's first homosexual experience

@fuckrozanov and @rozanovx discussing how life-altering that must have been for Shane

@family-discord-server : some meta, some headcanon-ing

fuckrozanov (tagged above) : Shane "winter soldier activates"

@sickness-health-all-that-shit : how they make each other better

The Tuna Melt Scene:

@spiders-hth-is-an-outlier : why Ilya brought up Svetlana, specifically (this is mostly Ilya meta but there's a little bit in there about how Shane might have interpreted that conversation)

@swanlakeprincess1 : why that conversation was so scary for Shane

@wtf-is-hockey and an anonymous asker discussing the real reason for Shane's freak-out

@young-waverer : Shane first-naming Ilya was intentional

The lunch with Yuna and David in ep 4:

@shaneswhitesocks 's post about the line, "I don't want you to lie" and @sterling-dragons 's tags in their reblog

and sterling-dragons own post about that moment

@myarchiveforme : that lunch with Yuna and David

@kalinara 's interpretation

Episode 6:

@threehams : why Shane hadn't come out to his parents yet

@illuminetic : *half* his good looks

The Line "I tried really, really hard."

@gffa : "I tried really hard"

@hilarioushilarity : that same line

@gayhockeyshow : their take on that line

@howeverbriefly : the ambiguity of that line

@ahotknife : the costuming in that scene with Yuna

Shane + confidence and emotions:

@raincitygirl76 : Shane introducing himself

@ticklefighthockey : Shane has a secure attachment style ; Shane is the Emotions Dom ; Shane is observant and emotionally intelligent

gffa (tagged above) : Shane goes all in on his relationship with Ilya

@cuteandtwisted : also about Shane being all in

@gutsybitsies : Shane is not the insecure one (TLG spoilers)

@aslongasitsblack : Shane is cool!! (TLG spoilers)

@nevcolleil and raincitygirl76 (tagged above) discussing how Shane enjoys submitting but he's not meek and he is usually the one to escalate things between himself and Ilya

@flower-of-the-desert : Shane being attuned to Ilya

@imaginemyreality03 's commentary on themoonandmyman 's (tagged above) post regarding the phone call in ep 5

@madlori : Shane making himself a safe place

@sunnys1de-d0wn : Shane's behaviour during the Russian monologue

fuckrozanov (tagged above): Shane's earnestness

Shane + race, his public image, need for control, compulsory heterosexuality, internalized homophobia and his relationship with his parents:

some important context from @maxanor about how white professional hockey is

@shanehollanderstits : Shane's internalized homophobia being tied up with being mixed race

@sanjuwrites : Shane being "too different"

ahotknife (tagged above) : Shane not disappointing people

@lifeofbrybooks : Shane's facade of a perfect life

@cchapsticck : Shane's body as a product

aslongasitsblack (tagged above) : Shane's denial

aslongasitsblack (tagged above) : Shane does NOT think out loud

@catalpa-waltz : the "silent retreat"

cchapsticck (tagged above) : Shane's sense of self vs expectations

ticklefighthockey (tagged above) : Shane's cognitive dissonance about his (lack of) attraction to women

@lucydacusgirl : Shane actually can't hide as well as he thinks he can

@dedecorus : Shane being so focused on the optics

@mythmagicetc : Shane's parents just don't understand

@intergalacticmca : Shane compartmentalizing

Other stuff:

@lierdumoa : Shane's diet

@dimir-charmer , @twilitdragoneye and raincitygirl76 (tagged above) discussing Shane living in Montreal as a closeted celebrity

@sylvies-chen with some irl hockey context for the hollanov rivalry

ticklefighthockey 's (tagged above) input on another similarity between the show "rivalry" and the irl "rivalry" by which it was inspired

@freakoutgirl : Shane isn't even pushing the rivalry

@fresh-bag-of-ham : ginger ale symbolism

ticklefighthockey (tagged above) and anons re:

the differences between Shane's and Ilya's relationships with hockey and what Shane's "love" for hockey actually is

(this one is gently critical of RR's writing style, not in that it's not good, just in that the style is not really OP's cup of tea, even though OP did enjoy the books and read them multiple times) difference between the book characters and the show characters (the last part, added in a self-reblog, talks specifically about Shane)

making Ilya wait two years to fuck him

the Rose effect

how Shane must have felt in the time between Sochi and Vegas and an additional post about Shane's possible internal monologue

Shane in The Long Game (spoilers, obvs):

@austenwazright : the power imbalance

@sylvies-chen : Shane's POV

lavenderprose (tagged above) : Shane's disordered eating

@with-my-murder-flute : Shane has no precedent for this

wtf-is-hockey (tagged above) talking about one of Shane's kinks (doesn't actually specifically mention TLG but it's VERY in line with TLG canon)

@shhhhimwatchingthis : why Shane didn't think it mattered that Ottawa was such a bad team

[movingarter]

Family feud but it’s the casts of dimension 20 vs CR

[movingarter]

CAN SOMEONE PLEASSSSE MAKE A HEATED RIVALRY EDIT TO WHAT A GOOD BOY BY THE BARENAKED LADIES PLEEEEEEEASEA IM BEGGIN idk HOW TO DO IT BUT I CAN FICKIN SEEEEEE IT

[movingarter]

Hate that I have to deal with the reality that part of the reason why heated rivalry is so successful is the public desire for escapist media due to the rise of fascism

[heppileppi]

the mighty nein show reminded me of my love for essek so i went back and rewatched all my favorite essek moments from the stream. suffice to say i am excited to see jester and essek interactions becomes ✨animated✨

[movingarter]

This is probably the first hug he received since his mom died…

[ladillados]

[kontrollsysteme]

we’ve gone from the yee haw agenda to the ye olde thot programme

[lloerwyn-deactivated20201104]

Ah yes, those slutty slutty Landsknecht shorts:

[petermorwood]

The bare-legged / hot-pants look was fairly common, since the whole point about being a Landsknecht (or Reislaufer, their Swiss equivalent) was to look outrageous.

Most period illustrations of Landsknechts are black-and-white woodcuts…

…though in 1905 a book called „Geschichte des Kostüms“ - History of Costume - assembled a bunch of black-and-whites and added colour.

If they look excessively gaudy, they’re not, because these next prints were coloured in-period by an artist called Erhard Schön, and it’s fair to assume he was representing what he saw.

In short - or in shorts - those reenactor costumes are spot on. :->

[brightwanderer]

Something mentioned nowhere in this post that I have just learned from googling: these guys were not Ye Olde Medieval Dandies. They were 15th-16th century mercenaries. Pretty hardcore, too. They were exempt from sumptuary laws (ie the rules that said you couldn’t wear certain colours or cloth or styles) and apparently their response to that was technicolour thotpants.

[tuulikki]

I was complaining earlier about costuming in both “historical” settings and in fantasy/scifi. This is exactly what I mean when I say a knowledge of actual history would enrich the conceptual creative palette for things like “hardcore mercenary outfits.”

[optimysticals]

Technicolor Thotpants is my new band.