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Devastating news. Our faithful Watcher, Wise Librarian, Kind and Forgiving Father Figure. Just gutted 💔
if you ship bucktommy in any form, can you like/repost this?
I’m trying to see something.
People out here find one word in the HR series and then write the craziest theories about the sexist, racist, ableist, kink-shame, kink-praise, disordered, chaotic, satanic, blah, blah, blah meaning of this word as if the context and rest of the entire novel doesn’t exist. Buddies, friends, viewers, as an English lit teacher, I beg you, receipts or it ain’t real. Please preface your unhinged rants as au fan fiction theory, because it is not literary criticism.
I know there is a group that thinks it’s about fetishizing queer men, but it’s just the exhaustion with patriarchy, yall.
Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”
If the text says the curtains are blue you can argue about what that means; but if you’re going to claim they’re actually yellow you’d better have a really good argument.
i know the curtains better than the author. thank you for coming to my ted talk
Fandom has such unresolved mommy/daddy issues about authors. If you apply a little reading comprehension skills to my original post you’ll see I didn’t say anything at all about the author. You guys always make “interpretation” about your beef with the author. You’re all obsessed with the author. This post is just about deciphering what is there in canon. Figuring out what is being communicated by the canon itself with all the words and images and basic formal elements that are there in canon. That’s all it’s about. It really doesn’t matter if the author intentionally put all those things there in a pattern that might support the idea that this one character’s queer. That’s not what this is about. What matters is if you can compellingly argue there’s a pattern of evidence there. Or not. Everyone is conspiring together to make me go insane still adding shit about authorial intent on my post.
When your favourite Ao3 author hasn’t posted a new chapter in five days and you are dying inside.
Hockey is DRAG
Do you ever just get lost thinking about how scarecrow Fiyero looks like Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Bacon had a baby?
Why do so many au’s put Shane in a femme role? Can we not celebrate Jock for Jock? That Sub tones are not inherently femme? That anxiety and emotion are not female? Like, you do you, or whatever, but interesting that it’s pretty exclusively Shane that is feminized.
"Sewing is a gateway drug to thinking through complex problems. It seems really simple; culturally, we make it women's work. Let me tell you: real sewing at any kind of level of proficiency is a bloody magic trick. Sewing, like mold making, involves mental frames that require one to think inside out and backwards. It requires one to work on an order of operations that is often taking into account the reverse. It's a really, really important skill, and if you learn how to sew, you're mostly on your way to carpentry and welding and sheet metal work. I'm not kidding: these are planar forms meeting under rules and conditions. And if you can make a sleeve work, I swear to God, you could build a house."
--Adam Savage
Totally NOT CANON, but I love the idea that Shane doesn’t learn Russian because Ilya asks him not to. Being able to say how he is honestly feeling to Shane without him understanding has become and important part of Ilya learning how to drop his mask and be vulnerable. It’s a safe space for him to say the words and not be punished for them. To build up courage to say them in English to the world.
And Shane loves it. He has to weigh so many things in English. The meaning of the words, the subtext, what his response should be, what his responsibilities are. Communication has always required a little bit of extra work, it seems, than it does for his friends. But when Ilya speaks Russian, he can drop his mask and just flow on the beautiful sound rolling out of the man he loves. Syllables and intonations rising and falling that he is free to let wash over him and just sit with, without having to sort through or organize them. A puzzle he can enjoy without solving. 💜
Dear Rachel Reid haters,
I’m not sure at what point you picked up this little Harlequin gay sports romance and confused it for “Racial Trauma” by Kenneth V. Hardy, the DSM-5, “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love” by bell hooks, or “Born on a Blue Day” by Daniel Tammet, but boy, you have opinions about it.
Two thoughts here:
1. As someone who has worked in advocacy environments for two decades, it has been deeply woven into me by equity denied advocates that we will never be perfect in our advocacy, but that’s okay. Write with love for the character when you write someone whose experience is not your own (ie ALL CHARACTERS). Rachel has been pretty clear about her love for both characters, despite expressing frustration when her writing wasn’t what she envisioned or how she wanted it to come out. That’s life and that’s writing. No writer is perfect, but if we tell them not to include diverse characters and experiences in their writing, how does that exposure begin?
2. In the genre she is writing in, she brings attention, she doesn’t teach. It is not her job in this novel to explore the complexities of an equity denied athlete in hockey, except for the ways it consciously and directly impacts the plot. It is to the reader to bring your knowledge or to expand their knowledge to connect with the text. That is literary analysis. This isn’t non-fiction, it isn’t dramatic fiction, it is romance. The requisites for a Harlequin romance tend to follow specific tropes and be light enough for people to pick up and put down without too much brain power.
My point is, by all means, wish it was more. Take the work, research, and write a dissertation on the real impacts of race on athletes, on neurodivergence in identity, on the impacts of childhood trauma on mental health, on neurodivergent, anxiety, and disordered eating. But don’t turn around and shit all over a writer because she didn’t use her vehicle, that was designed for something else, for not doing it. If you don’t like it, put it down. There is no need to lambaste and tear down someone because you dislike what they created, OR because you feel like you know their creations better than they do.
Stop being mad at Rachel Reid for running sprints because you decided she should be running a marathon.
shane riding it crazy style in a backwards baseball hat is like level up of white crew socks as lingerie. i think it would give ilya a nosebleed
no bc shane bouncing and moaning on it in just the white crew socks and backwards baseball hat and maybe his smartwatch notifying him he's hit his cardio goal for the day would give me a nosebleed too
@mina-logan absolutely zero pressure BUT I can picture this drawn in your style so clearly it’s like a vision from god
Baby I’m taking NOTES because YES.
Anyway I did it.
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Bummed out because the guy you couldn’t come out for is in the park looking like this…
Sorry Scott, everything worth having comes from risk 🤷🏻♀️