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it's not gay if you were rookies together

"I love you, Louis. You are loved. I send my love to you, and you send it round back to me. And this circle, this home we've barely had a glimpse of, know it frightens me as much as it does you." - Interview with the Vampire

#sob #guys of all time #heated rivalry #hollanov

folklorebrunette

Louise Glück / My Neighbor Totoro (1988) dir. Hayao Miyazaki / I Knew it, I Knew You by Taylor Swift

#ghibli #taylor swift

aroace-ryland-grace

I NEED to write fanfiction <- guy who is not writing fanfiction

#about me

angelbabymikaa

“potentially mature content” yeah that’s my pervert friend i hope it’s mature content that’s what i followed them for

ilyasmole

ilya + smiling because of shane pt. 3 (prev parts) (heated rivalry 1.04)

#heated rivalry #hollanov

boitterfly

it’s so special to me that so much of fan culture is textual analysis for the love of the game. like thank god there are people in my phone who are also thinking about this thing i love so much that they are writing transformative fiction as character studies and setting clips of the show to music with theme-relevant lyrics and writing long text posts analyzing every line of dialogue like!! yay!!!

#about me

aropride

ao3 is an awesome website for people who love "open in new tab"

anonymoustxt

#hockey #words #ouch

fyeahhollanov

by.aikaflores Hudson Williams x Bell Media Upfronts

ilya happy trail and bush ٩(^ᗜ^ )و ´-

#right right right #heated rivalry

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

#important