- I 100% agree that Shane does not experience Queerness like Ilya does, I am fully in the camp of give this man a butch lesbian bestie and let him talk about Sports - he has a lot of internalised homophobia to take care off buttttt I love the idea of after he's like, accepted himself he goes. Right. Time to be good at Gay™. But like, he buys books on theory of sexuality and different identities, books about Stonewall riots and the politics of Queerness in Canada, goes to a Gay Event with the other hockey gays and is like, why is everyone drunk and grinding and wearing makeup, why does no one want to talk about Robert Dover who competed in the Seoul 1988 Olympics, the first openly gay Olympian, what the fuck is a Beyoncé
- He is really into the PWHL like, Hockey is his favourite thing what do you mean he gets to play incredible Hockey, and then also watch an entire league of Top Tier Hockey that he isn't in?? And he can just be a fan??? He is SO excited when Leah and Max say yes to the camps, he has wanted to ask Leah and very specific question, about how she (insert hockey thing), for about 3 years when he caught a game she was playing and Will Not use social media
- I love the idea of him being HOT on Pronouns and sexuality identities - Ilya! They have BOXES here!! No baby it's okay if you don't wanna be in a box you go be your repressed-Slavic-bitchy-queer-menace self, I can stay in This Box!! It has He/Him Pronouns on it!! and says Demi-Romantic, Monogamous and Homosexual!!
- He doesn't want to watch Ru Paul, he doesn't want to go to night clubs, he isn't camp. People are like, yeah but you're so fussy and bitchy about your skin care routine and he's like, what the fuck do you mean that's gay?? my skin is part of me why wouldn't I take care of it? I eat the right food, I wash my face and moisturise it?? Like I am a MAN and I have SKIN and if it goes DRY it gets SPOTTY?? EWW?
- He doesn't want to be involved in Drag, he would rather eat his own hand then go to a drag brunch (But respects it because did you know Ilya drag has a very intertwined history with Queerness and breaking down of patriarchal norms) and the moment His Big Strong Man Boyfriend who can Pick Him Up even though he's 200lbs puts on some eyeliner he is down on his knees faster than Ilya can put away the pencil. Watching Ilya become confident in himself and his masculinity and his campness makes Shane Very Happy and he will stand there in his Good Sensory outfit and hold Ilya's drink when Ilya has to punch a bigot or go dance like a slut with Harris. Go babe Go! He's good! He's listening to a broadcast about the women's Montreal teams chances in the playoffs and drinking his ginger ale
I love Shane so much and I know he has so much repressed shit to work through in terms of feeling inadequate but I fully believe he would get so interested in wanting to understand sexuality it scared him for so long!!
re:shane angst/whump, I feel similarly about fics where (only) Shane gets outed. Especially when it leads to him playing for Boston. As much as I love to read same team hollanov fics (and I don't mean to yuck anyone's yum, this is a strictly personal preference!) it really feels like Shane is being put in these traumatic situations because Ottawa "ruined" Ilya so if Shane were to join Boston, especially after experiencing trauma, all of their problems would be magically fixed or something. And Boston is always painted as this group of supportive protective bears like... Okay. We've now just gone around in a circle and reinvented Ottawa Centaurs. People love to look down on TLG but like. That's pretty much the same thing I feel? Now with extra Shane whump or whatever and ilya gets to play The Saviour™. There's also something to be said about Americanisation of very distinctly non-(US)American literature which (as an Asian who's never stepped out of Asia and is sick of Americanisation) doesn't sit right with me. Like why would they be in trump's America
Yeah I get you anon, there was a heavy trend there for a bit of Shane -> Boston fics because it was floated around as a "solution" to the whole Ottawa problem and like, tbc, I do enjoy a ton of fics with that premise. I do think they're fun so this is my throwing up my hands here and begging people not to read this as me criticizing fic in general or any specific fic. I love fic I love fic authors I love the Boston stories
That said I do think the trend is funny, how Boston is written as this paradise when canonically Ilya says it sucked lol. And all the Cliff headcanons and stuff, it's just a completely alternate fanon at this point. Which is fine, I support people having fun, but as you say---we just reinvented the Centaurs. It is just TLG with more Shangst / Shwump (and less Ilyangst) lol. People want to make the little bottom boy suffer and they want him to be comforted by his big strong top
I also said this once about the Americanization thing. I think a lot of (presumably) American authors are a lot more capable and comfortable imagining a life in Boston, which in the American imagination has a clear identity and landmarks, than Ottawa which is a complete hole in people's minds or Montreal, which has this vaguely foreign sheen to it (they speak French?). It's again one of those things where it's the trend rather than any specific fics, like I can't think of any Ilya -> Montreal fics (please rec 'em if you've got 'em) and I'd love that, tbh, I would really love reading a Montreal fic from someone who really knows the city
(This also reminds me of a Reid comment---I read The Shots You Take recently and it was so beautifully grounded in being in Nova Scotia and you could feel her love for that place on the page and I wish we'd gotten that kind of place setting in the GCU. I think that would have made a huge difference for the fandom's perception of Montreal especially, because Montreal is a fucking awesome city)
Anyway this question did make me wonder, who's outed more frequently in fic when they're outed separately? I feel like it's definitely Shane but maybe that's *my* bias like this is what I end up reading? But I love an Ilya outed solo fic actually I'm trying and failing to write one
There is one topic that keeps coming back to me. Regarding the one and only Heated Riverly.
Is it possible that people persive Russian accent as hot truly just escaped me before now?
I have been thinking about this recently and I think people just believe that they find the accent hot because they find the character desirable and the actor handsome.
Am I the only one thinking about this?
Or is the accent really hot you?
And does it mean that Slavic accents are somehow or kinda hot as well?
This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!
I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.
I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.
The villain from the inside in season three isn't Alastor. It's Lucifer.
Look at his s2 arc - depression, failure, publicly humiliated and revealed to be unable to harm any sinners in a really emasculating way. Abandoned and kicked out by his daughter (which would trip over his divorce trauma), and then violated and tortured magically. And to top it off, when he escapes the torture device, no-one actually seems to care.
This all stemmed from the thought that Alastor as The Bad Guy kind of seems trite at this stage. He's definitely a bad dude, but he feels more like a misdirect after having teased him as a villain for both S1 and S2 🤔
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
I find it kind of funny that human babies are so fragile and helpless and useless that natural selection went like HARD-hard on humans finding babies cute. This thing is a wailing messy resource sinkhole so please find other reason to enjoy it. And the humans that did find baby cute and invest time in them, the crazy bastards?? Lived!!
And now there’s so much spill-over from “baby cute” gene that humans see literally any “baby” creature that even slightly resembles us, like
and we’re like 😍🥰🤩🥺🥺🥺 I wanna love you so bad. I wanna make so many images of you, you are so small, just baby. I’m inventing new emotions as we speak bc I love you so much.
Like, I’m almost convinced humans didn’t even domesticate dogs bc we thought they’d be useful, we saw some puppies and it activated our Big Boi Primate Baby buttons, it wasn’t even logic time baby, it was 🥺 time.
The funniest thing about that is the fact that neuroimaging of elephant brains have proved that they think that we – humans – are cute in exactly the same way. They most likely want to squish and cuddle us the way we want to do with puppies based on the firing of their neurons.
Actually hatebros, “survival of the fittest” means you have to make as many friends as possible in one lifetime. Naruto understands Darwinism better than you.
(These images are sourced from ethical places to interact with elephants)
Okay, I was not expecting this at all and I have to admit, I have not listened to any music from Chappell Roan before, my fault and that is going to change...but this is hauntingly beautiful and it's beautiful to see so many people come together to do something for not only themselves, but for this video too.
This needs to be shared everywhere really, it really is beautiful.
I know this song well but hadn't listened to it in a few months, and this version just made me cry and made me think about various queer regrets and frustrations I had during the era I grew up in. It means so much to see people come together to sing this.
Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
My brain is oatmeal today, so I don't even know if this will make sense, but...
I really do think Bond adores it when Q lectures him, nags him, bosses him around, and just generally oversteps his boundaries re: a 'normal' quartermaster-agent relationship.
I think Bond would love it if Q butted in and started trying to run Bond's personal life, manage Bond's finances, or pester Bond about his routine medical/dental care.
I think people observing this dynamic from the outside would expect Bond to hate it and resist it with all his might. They'd expect him to make Q's life a living hell for even attempting this.
But I think that, while Bond would definitely be Performatively Uncooperative about the whole thing, he'd actually be quietly ecstatic every time Q did this. He'd lap up the attention and come back for more! He'd try to find new ways to bring various (dysfunctional) parts of his life to Q's attention, just so Q could start bossing him around and trying to tell him what to do about this part of his life, too!
Something something, old dog who desperately wants to belong to somebody.
Old dog who needs a handler issuing orders, whether or not he even plans on obeying.
Old dog who is tired sometimes just wants to know that someone else is going to take care of him and make sure his needs are provided for, and that he doesn't have to roam the streets on his own forever if he doesn't want to.
