“is there anything so undoing as a daughter”

multi-fandom but mostly audio fiction (tma, midnight burger, tpp, amelia project, tsv), arcane, whatever else strikes my fancy. header by @arcanegifs. I follow as casthewise.

[quillquiver]

so, if tumblr nukes me for whatever reason you can find me at quillquiver on ao3 and dreamwidth 

[technofinch]

i say "godspeed, soldier" way too much for someone who puts their faith in neither god nor the military

[good-king]

Walker, Witch of the Way - from Oracle of the Tall Temple Bad-King.com

[sharkfiinn]

[eldest-daughter-syndrome]

[lavenderprose]

I hope Connors got climbed like a fucking tree that night in the club God look at his cute fucking face. I think as a little treat for him I'm going to institute a headcanon wherein Connors pulls just INCONCIEVABLE amounts of pussy just by being so fucking earnest and having that funky little mustache. He walks into the locker room and Ilya is like "Connie! Did you take that girl home last night?" And Connors is like, "Oh dude you know I did." And Ilya daps him up and calls him a king and someone is like "Okay I understand Rozanov, he's like objectively hot and he's rich, but Connors I just don't get," and Ilya turns to that guy and says, "Of course you fucking wouldn't, when was the last time you ate pussy," and the other guys just all groan because here we go again...

There's a separate groupchat that someone accidentally added Cliff to and in that group chat someone is like "Hey does anyone else think it's super weird that Cap and Connors talk about eating pussy like all the time. Like they've gotta be capping. Or compensating for something. Like, nobody actually likes eating pussy like that."

"Hate to break it to you," Cliff tells them the next time they're all hanging out at Ilya's place, "But the boys put their heads together and now they think you're both gay for liking pussy too much."

Ilya rolls off the couch laughing. Connors says, "Fellas, if it's gay to eat pussy they're gonna have to put a new color on the rainbow just for me" and then won't stop saying it for the next week.

Ilya laughs every time, mostly because at least half the times he's mentioned going down on someone in the last two years he's actually been talking about Shane Hollander's ass.

[dubiousculturalartifact]

The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

It ain’t Kermit

[anyroads]

Miss Piggy tied to the mast while Statler and Waldorf heckle her from the sea

[mindovermuses]

But who is the single human cast member in this tale? Who gets to put in an Oscar-worthy performance alongside the Muppets and what role are they to play?

[muffinflarp69]

There’s no single human, everyone is a Muppet except for one scene. Circe, played by Janice, turns Odysseus’s crew into humans who still behave animalistic and are all played by Academy Award winning actors.

[actuallysara]

Jacob Tierney for Variety

"It’s different. It really is different," Tierney said during a panel alongside Heated Rivalry book author Rachel Reid Saturday at BookCon at the Javits Center in New York." And the challenge of it is, from an adaptation point of view, is that you’re in much more serious territory. A lot of the initial, there’s still lots of flirting and lots of sex, but this kind of danger, this kind of hotel-room-adolescent-sex stuff is largely gone. And so it presents really new challenges."

"Part of the reason you start off with Heated Rivalry, as far as adapting goes, is because you want to get to The Long Game," Tierney said. "Because The Long Game is an emotionally sophisticated book that takes this couple seriously. What I've always said about this show is there are a lot of books, Game Changer is in Heated Rivalry and obviously, as I think you guys all know by now, obviously parts of Role Model are going to be in [Season 2], to the great surprise of absolutely nobody. But Ilya and Shane are the heartbeat of this series, of my show. It's always going to be about Ilya and Shane, that is what is the trajectory that runs through it as their world xpands."

As Tierney confirmed, Reid's book Role Model, which is part of the overall Game Changer novel series but follows the relationship of hockey player Troy Barrett and team social media manager Harris Drover rather than Shane and Ilya, will be worked into Heated Rivalry Season 2.

"In Long Game you are like, OK, we're here to ground this in something that feels very real," Tierney said. "And the same thing with Troy and Harris, right. I think there's an easy, fascicle way of looking at Role Model as it's very grumpy/sunshine, it's very apple orchard. It can drift into things that you want. But Troy is a really damaged guy. And Troy is quite damaged on the show. I would say we are digging into that even harder. Because that's what's interesting."

[doggosource]

[dailyhollanov]

HEATED RIVALRY | 1.06

[heymacy]

Stay.

[mybloodstream-caffeine]

Shane is a sub bottom to me because it's his canonical preference, but also because - as a queer person whose attempts at heteronormativity resulted in me having Extremely Unenjoyable Sex™ - I think topping for him is not merely unpleasant conceptually, it is also deeply upsetting because it is a reminder of his own past Deeply Unenjoyable sexual encounters.

Sex with women was always incredibly humiliating to Shane - his incapacity to 'perform' was not just a painful reflection of his sexual preferences which he was not ready to grapple with yet, it was also a disparagement of his masculinity and therefore his sense of self - "I'm this super rich and talented and good looking hockey player, why can't I do This Thing™ that 'should' reaffirm my sense of masculinity?"

And while I suppose you could argue that by removing women from the equation, surely topping would then become a reasonable possibility? But I disagree: Shane wants to be the hole, not the peg -> there is still an expectation on some level for him to fulfill a certain kind of role when topping (at least within the preestablished dynamic of hollanovs sexual relationship), and it is not one that makes Shane feel confident or comfortable. He literally froze up in panic when he thought Ilya was asking him to top.

Let me be clear: it is not penetration that's the problem (we see that he is happy to finger fuck Ilya), it is SPECIFICALLY topping that he vehemently rejects, because of a combination of his past experiences and his personal preferences. And I think being made to 'perform' the 'role' of top, even with Ilya, the love of his life, would be incredibly Unenjoyable for him, potentially even more so than his failure to 'perform' with women, because with Ilya he actually has a baseline for what enjoyable sex IS, so he'd have that comparison in his mind at all times making his failure to meet their usual standard that much more embarrassing for him.

And this would be Unenjoyable for Ilya as well!!! No one wants to bottom for someone who has long teeth at the mere prospect of topping, especially when Ilya has been noncommittal about receiving in general, but PASSIONATELY enthusiastic about being Shane's Dom top.

In short: gay people do not NEED to switch it up, especially if they have hard preferences!! Some people treat gay sex, and bottoming specifically, as a dynamic that requires two people to 'take turns'. Now whether that's because people subconsciously associate being on the receiving end of penetrative sex as "the more pleasurable" position, so the top "deserves" to experience it every so often, or because people's assumptions about gender roles equates bottoming (the "woman's" role) with an increased position of vulnerability, so the bottom "deserves" to experience the "power" of topping, I don't know, but both assumptions are widely incorrect and deserve to be challenged.

[actuallysara]

Jacob Tierney on the "We disrupt this broadcast" podcast

About Shane's story resonating with the audience:

"Part of what makes Shane's story resonate so much is I think a lot of us try to be perfect and in our heads perfection never involves queerness. So either put it aside and be so amazing at something else that no one can tell you you’re not great and it's still not enough. That's when you find out, that's the liberating thing about coming out if you can, if it's safe. It's that so much of that nonsense goes away, this idea you have of yourself in your head that you don’t have to hold onto anymore."

About Shane and Ilya's sexuality:

“I love the journey, it felt very real to me, it felt very true. Shane knows something, he's not ready to go all the way. He's not ready to give up this idea that he has to be perfect and to him, being perfect does not involve being gay. I felt that way when I was a teenager, I related to that 100%. With Ilya, it's very different in that he knows exactly who he is. He just can't say it out loud. And he also can't imagine a world where he gets to say it out loud because he is acutely aware of what he would be giving up. And he's right. He's not wrong. He's 100% right."

About Season 2:

"Long Game is such a good book and what's good about it is that it continues to take them seriously. What did they do by the end of the first season is that they're out to four people and they're out to each other in terms of they're in love. And that's great. I think as most of us know who are adults, it takes more than that to make something work, right? It takes a lot of other things. And so what does the rest of it look like now? And I think as people who've read The Long Game know, it's not as freewheelingly joyful as Heated Rivalry is. And there's a lot of difficulty along the way. But I love that, you know, A: I don't need to do the same thing again, B: I also want to take Shane and Ilya seriously. I love that. That's my great privilege. My great joy as a storyteller is to get to think about these guys and reground them and do right by them and do right by the decisions they make and be interested in them. So yeah, that's what's coming."

[evstratt]

Grace looking at Rocky PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)

[pangur-and-grim]

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

[spirkkock]

my friend just had an art show and they were communicating with the gallerist over email. They could clearly tell that the gallerist was using AI to respond to their emails, but just rolled their eyes and moved on.

and then on the day of the show, my friend asks, "where is the camera I requested?"

gallerist: "you didn't request a camera"

my friend: "I did, and you confirmed that you would have one here."

gallerist: "that isn't true."

and then she proceeded to pull up the email thread, and my friend could see that every single email they had sent had been summarized by AI, and that the gallerist had then had AI write a response to them based on the AI summary, and that the AI had detected that they needed a camera, and confirmed on behalf of the gallerist that they would bring a camera, but because the gallerist had offloaded the work of actually reading and responding, she simply hadn't actually made any note of it herself, therefore didn't bring it, nor did she even know one was needed.

so my friend had done all of this communication about their needs and expectations to be able to make the show possible, and the person whose job it was to read that information and get it done had simply.... not read the information and not done it. because AI.

[gaynehollander]

17 year old Shane Hollander pouring over every single game tape he can find of teenage phenom Ilya Rozanov, hunting down the grainiest clips of his regional juniors team in Russia, feeling slightly hot under the collar as he watches him execute maneuverers none of his own teammates would dare try and some of which he's not sure he could perform himself: "I sure am excited to play against team Russia for reasons that are entirely sportsmanlike and rooted in a deep respect for the game and are not at all homosexual in nature."

[zannolin]

damn i wish u guys could read this fic i haven't written and this fic i haven't finished writing and this fic i'm putting off outlining and this fic i outlined but haven't started and this fic i'll never write and this other fic i haven't written and this fic that exists only in vague impressions in my head that fall apart every time i try to commit them to the page and th

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