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@slothelephant
not to be maya on side but please do not call someone or something “mayan” when talking about our people, culture, etc. “mayan” refers to our language family (a language FAMILY, in which there are plenty of unique languages). we are the maya, not the mayans. i am maya, not mayan. it is the indigenous maya community, not the indigenous mayan community.
you can reblog this 😔
WHY IS THIS SO GOOD?!
SHANE & ILYA + parallels
It would be so funny to me if Shane forgot that he had asked Ilya to come to the cottage when he was high and he just thinks Ilya saw Scott Hunter kiss Kip and immediately called Shane like “I’m moving in, pick me up at the airport”
shane: carying in all the shopping bags from the store
ilya: reaching a hand out to help
shane: immediately switching all the bags to one hand to hold ilya’s hand
My absolute favorite moment of internal monologue we get from the books is Shane after going on his first date with Rose congratulating himself on finally finding a woman attractive. The whole first half of the book he keeps thinking to himself “I like girls. I definitely, definitely LIKE GIRLS.” Then after meeting Rose he was like “Oh thank god, I thought maybe I didn’t actually like girls all that much. Who knew I just have the absolute highest standards. Damn, I’m just exclusively attracted to women of the highest caliber. Heh, I’m such a stud”
the importance of being earnest gdrive link for anyone who missed it or wants to watch it again ✨
the natural progression is actually crazy, especially when you see it put together like this
I love your personality
thank you! its pieces of everyone ive ever loved
Hudson Williams, #1 Shane Understander
I think Shane was a character who, soon as I read him, made all the sense to me. I felt immediately a kinship and an ownership over Shane. I was like, “I need to be the only person to tell this story. I get it. I want to be the person to be Shane and I want to spend time with him.” [x]
(sources below)
Imagine this: Shane and Ilya are on the same team, they are out, their teammates are cool with it, whatever. But the rookies are ... curious. And so they draw straws or they play some kind of little game and whoever loses has to go up to their Actual Captain Ilya Rozanov and Three Times Cup Winner Shane Hollander and ask THE QUESTION.
So this rookie walks up to Shane and Ilya, who are having lunch and talking strategy and he knows: he is going. to. die.
Ilya Rozanov is going to kill him. And then Shane Hollander will kill him again.
But his fellow rookies are giving him thumbs up and egging him on from underneath the table at the other side of the room where they are hiding, and he did lose their stupid game and he can't chicken out now so ...
The two hockey legends look up at him when he approaches. Ilya with a friendly smile, Shane with a questioning frown. The rookie takes a deep breath. "How do you decide who tops?" It comes out in a strangled, weirdly high-pitched voice. He closes his eyes. The question is out. He will die.
No one says a word. He opens his eyes. Ilya is looking at him like this:
Meanwhile Shane is looking at the rookie (but mostly at Ilya) like this:
Ilya (lauging his ass off): Is simple.
Shane (looking like he wants to murder everyone in this room and then himself): Rozanov ...
Ilya: Rock, paper, scissors. If I win, I top. If Hollander wins, he bottoms.
[five minutes later]
Rookie: Wait ...
#all men do is lie finally tell the truth
Jacob Tierney talks about “boring” and “fuck you” meaning “I love you” for Shane and Ilya:
“A really good friend of mine—a person who reads my scripts who's a brilliant novelist named Rainbow Rowell—she read the first episode and she said to me… “just remember that every ‘fuck you’ is ‘I love you,’ and maybe you're saying ‘fuck you’ too many times”
“And I was like oh, that's such a good call. That's a great call. Because it was just a reminder of all of the things they say to each other that are not ‘I love you’ and that are not—”
“Boring, you know, when Ilya calls Shane boring, he's saying he's in love with him. And he's not boring, [Ilya] is endlessly fascinated by Shane. And the only way he can communicate that is by making fun of him and calling him boring, because anything else would rip his soul out through his face.”
“Like that's the idea, and so even the words we use to obfuscate matter, you know?”
(via live Q&A with Stage 32 on March 24, 2026)
Advertising peaked at the Discovery channel “Boom de Yada” commercials
Absolutely classic
give yourself a gift and rewatch it :)
every now and then i want to bring this back, its just so pure of a sentiment as well as a mission statement about why educational programing is awesome i love the whole world and being part of it
Boom De Yada Supercut my beloved
Y'all.
I’d never seen the 2020 version!
One more addition: the live performance!
i saw a post on twitter by a european saying americans are fake for their random compliments to strangers and their general cheery demeanor and like no. no no no you don’t understand. if you get a random compliment from an american on the street about your outfit or whatever, that is 100% genuine. we mean it. we aren’t lying we are making a small but fleeting connection with you because our lives are shitty but the human condition is enduring. oh god i’m clutching my chest
If you get a compliment from a random American on the street, know that they tried their best to keep from saying a peep to you but they literally could not hold it in. They HAD to say something.
The other day a tiny gay man in a hurry bumped me on the Metro escalator and said "Sorry, great dress by the way" and then he stopped at the top of the escalator and turned around and said "AND a great hat. THAT is how we do summer!" and SPRINTED for his bus and I coasted on that for the rest of the day.
Love this post!
When I first moved to Prague I had a colleague who had such great style, and I always complimented her because I thought she was hot and cool. Years later when we were friends, she told me that she always suspected me of trying to manipulate her somehow because that is not how Czechs roll, and it was really inconceivable to her that I was simply complimenting her with no ulterior motive, but that's culturally normal to me?
Also, I am married to a British person, and his mother is an artist -- she's a collograph print-maker, and she told me that whenever she wants a pick me up, she sends photos of her latest prints to me, because I can be counted upon to say something nice. What can I say? I love her work? Her prints are beautiful, so...not faking?
Americans have a lot of blind spots and issues, but saying the nice thing in their brains to other people is fine? Like? A little more kindness and connection isn't hurting anyone?
There was a post on r/askanamerican just the other day, by a guy living in Eastern Europe who has a fun backpack (it looks like a reeses cup package with a bite taken out of it!) and said he constantly got compliments on it from American tourists
And he was like...are all of you like that? You say nice things to total strangers as if you're life-long friends??
And the entire comment section was like: Yup. Absolutely. This is 100% a thing we do.
And someone looked up a picture of the backpack and shared it and we were all like OMG THAT IS AN AMAZING BACKPACK yeah if I saw someone in any city on earth wearing that thing I would in fact say something.
Sometimes posts on that subreddit are a trash fire, but we were all so happy to talk about times we've told strangers compliments or been complimented by strangers.
And genuinely, it's one of the few things that makes me proud to be American. Like. We have a reputation for telling total strangers when we like something they're wearing/doing. And we mean it, every single time!
Even Darwin had his bad days.
