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[hayaosmiyazaki]

Who is you, Chiron?

“We weren’t necessarily trying to find actors who looked alike or had the same build; we were looking for actors who had the same feeling. [Walter Murch’s] thesis was, ‘The eyes are the window to the soul’… I thought if I could find actors with the same eyes, the audience would connect with [Chiron’s] soul.” — Barry Jenkins

[batman-polls]

no prep time or ability to plan ahead but usual weapons and gear allowed, who wins in a fight between cass and jason?

No prep time or ability to plan ahead but usual weapons and gear allowed, who wins in a fight between Cass and Jason?

Cass

Jason

It's a draw

See results

Voting ended onJul 5

[stingchronicity]

i always see “tag fav fruit” posts but i’ve never seen a fav veg post so rb & tag your favourite vegetable

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round One, Bracket 1

Allison Argent (Teen Wolf) vs. Cersei Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones)

Allison Argent

Cersei Lannister

Voting ended onJun 20

Propaganda below the cut:

Cersei Lannister:

Makes excellent decisions that move the plot along. No one is more stalwart in her convictions than this woman.

Allison Argent:

Fandom hated Allison and made #KillAllison trend on Twitter for…reasons? I think they were mad she got indoctrinated by her parents briefly? Who knows.

Allison grew up with parents who hated werewolves and hunted them but she turned their code around and used it to protect people and fell in love with a werewolf.

i'll be honest all my friends in high school said she was annoying which is not really a fandom wide event. however i believe she is a worthy candidate as a main character turned fridged woman

beautiful headstrong girl you will live forever in valhalla

[socialistwh0r3]

And another thing I got pissed on this week at work

And then my clothes got blood on them and I had to throw them away.

Rip the only white tank top that fit perfectly without the need for a bra

[jehovahhthickness]

Tell the truth.

Why are y'all single?

[deadpoets]

SAVING FACE (2004) dir. Alice Wu

[ellisonwongparty]

i'm bored so i'm gonna make some sweeping generalizations.

i feel like most people can be split into two groups: shane coded ilya fuckers, and ilya coded shane fuckers. to be clear that's you identify with shane, and want to fuck ilya. or you identify with ilya, and want to fuck shane.

but then like..... to complicate things....

there's also shane coded shane fuckers.... rare and peculiar. ilya coded ilya fuckers.......?????!!! someone call security.........

[ellisonwongparty]

vote on your phones.

which one are you. you have to pick one.

ilya coded shane fucker

shane coded ilya fucker

ilya coded ilya fucker

shane coded shane fucker

Voting ended onJun 18

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round One, Bracket 1

Regina Mills / The Evil Queen (Once Upon a Time) vs. Hayley Marshall (The Originals)

Regina Mills / The Evil Queen

Hayley Marshall

Voting ended onJun 20

Propaganda below the cut:

Hayley Marshall:

People in the fandom literally talk about her as though she were just a vessel to give Klaus a baby. There’s legitimate things to criticize her for but in my experience it boils down to how dare she have the audacity to question Klaus the King of New Orleans.

I’m not even into this fandom anymore but the levels of misogyny fans direct at her is disgusting. She did a pretty good job of balancing being a good mom to Hope and holding the Mikaelson’s to some standards of decency. Not a perfect person but I usually don’t see complaints that aren’t misogynistic in nature.

Regina Mills:

The literal embodiment of evil is a man and is forgiven as soon as he says “I’m good now” even though he could see the future and manipulated her mom to be able to manipulate her enough to cast a curse, but she’s an awful person/mother when she’s basically sacrificed her life for her kid and he let his fall into a portal. I could go on.

See above - the embodiment of evil had to manipulate two generations to hurt her enough to cast the curse. She has a massive heart and has been abused her entire life. She needs a hug, cocoa, and some good therapy.

Fans hate on Regina, a Latina woman of color, for things they give the white and male characters a pass for. Fans threw tantrums whenever the 'hero' characters forgave or befriended her and insisted she should apologize to them more (when she already did and saved their lives many times over) and be deferential to the (white) characters instead of being such a 'bitch' who dares to be angry and upset about the bad things that happen to her. Fans refuse to engage with her backstory as a victim of forced marriage and insist to this day that her killing her abusive husband was wrong and a murder "in cold blood." Fans downplay her role as the co-protagonist of the show and whine when she gets focus. Fans call her an abusive mother even though she was actually a very good mother who just made a few mistakes and downplay her connection to her adopted son as less 'real' than his biological family's connection to him. But fundamentally what fandom most hates about her is that she got the redemption arc and narrative focus reserved for the Spikes and Zukos and Anakins of the world while being a woman of color.

Regina starts off as the villain of the story and ends up as the hero. In almost any other show she would have been killed off but for all its flaws OUAT knew it struck gold with her and allowed her to shine. She is also incredibly funny.

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round One, Bracket 2

Tamala (Palia) vs. Max (Black Sails)

Tamala

Max

Voting ended onJun 22

Propaganda below the cut:

Tamala:

Tamala is the ex of a popular male character. She states that she broke the relationship off because he wanted something serious and she was just looking for a fling. They both say mean things about each other (nothing crazy. Just regular ex stuff). She is accused of grooming the male character even though he initiated the relationship. She’s called a pedophile even though he was an adult when they met. She’s called toxic and “trailer trash Tammy”. She is called gross and dirty because she flirts with the player character (even though another male character who flirts with the character is considered a fandom favorite).

Tamala is the victim of a government sanctioned cult she was drafted into as a child and she escaped and actively works against them. She’s a powerful magic user in a world where that’s illegal and regularly uses those talents to help other characters (especially an orphaned child). She’s clever and knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to go after it. She’s deep and doesn’t seek validation from anyone because she knows her worth. Plus she’s hot as hell.

Max:

Ignored in favour of male protagonists despite having one of the most interesting arc. Being stripped of nuances in analysis. Being reduced to a girlboss who "climbed the social ladder" which isn't inaccurate, but her characters and her motivation are way more complex. She is not that much hated on Tumblr anymore (she was back then when it aired), in fact I think she is now one if not the most loved female character in this fandom, but she is often mischaracterized or ignored in favour of others characters, because her story doesn't interwine at all with the one of Flint (main character and a gay man) especially on Reddit. Which is a pity because she is probably the most rich and complete character after Flint himself. Ah! Both her love interests through the show are white women who are bisexual or went through comphet before meeting her, and before had been in relationship with two of the men who are fandom favourite. So Max, an openly gay black woman, got accused in the early days of fandom of manipulating these women, especially the second one, Anne Bonny, with whom she had a very depht and loving ans touching relationship, and "stealing" them from "theirs men" who were beloved by the fandom. Icks. Today, the fact that (in a show like Black Sails that is a lot about queerness) Max is the only character who is openly gay and proud and doesn't hides this fact from others (nor when she is a poor prostitute, nor when she is the de facto queen of the island) is not discussed enough in analysis of the queer themes of the show. The fact that she was being born into slavery by an enslaved mother who was raped and from what we know she had probably a very difficult and traumatic childhood is also not taken into consideration when analyzing Max's motivations and (sometimes, to our eyes, surprising) survival strategies. It is almost taboo even now in fandom to admit that another beloved character, who also had a past and trauma of enslavement in childhood but is a white (?) man with more structural power than Max, was if not completely at least partially responsable of enabling her punitive beating and gang rape in season one.

She is a complex character who start the show as mostly victimized by both the structure of colonialism and racism (due to being a black woman and poor) and the "anarchists" pirates who are fighting or will fight against this power structures (due to being a prostitute who dared to try to find something better for herself instead of being happy with her life, and a victim of gang rape.) She got her heart broken by the previous local girlboss, a rich girl with too much ambitions and daddy issues to prioritize Max and their relationship over power; and from that moment Max starts doing everything in her agency to gain the same amount of power her ex had in order to both protect herself and use it better. She eventually ends up being one of the most powerful and richest woman of the Island, and obviously this is a journey that bring her to do some shady choices to mantain this power (like siding with the Governon sent by the British Empire, and with her ex who is now sleeping with him and helping him gain power on the island) but she always tries to do something positive for the people she protects with the power and the influence that she now has. She is deep down motivated by a genuine and desperate need to not be powerless again, and she seeks money and influence because she has learned that as a black gay woman born in slavery they are the only things that will shield her from harm. But in the end, when her dead ex's rich grandmother will offer her a propose in which Max could mantain her power and even gain more by marrying a rich white man she doesn't even know, she refuses for the sake of mending thing with her lover (obviously a woman) and to not give a husband control over her self, her life and her fortune. In this way Max renounce to her only chance of being accepted and recoignized by the ruling class (something she has deep down always wanted, since she discovered that she was the illegittimate daughter of a white slave-owner and she was denied the comfort and privileges given to her white half-sister because of her mother's status and enslavement) to mantain her own coherence and integrity. She has done so many thing that others will label as sketchy or social climbing, but trapping herself in a marriage for the sake of appareance and power and say goodbye to her chance of love is something she won't do. This is why I think she is a really admirable sapphic character.

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round One, Bracket 2

Veronica Lodge (Riverdale) vs. Mary Margaret Blanchard / Snow White (Once Upon a Time)

Veronica Lodge

Mary Margaret Blanchard / Snow White

Voting ended onJun 22

Propaganda below the cut:

Mary Margaret Blanchard / Snow White:

Some fans make Snow out to be a totally oblivious prude or homophobe with Christian soccer mom undertones. Snow is none of those things in canon.

Snow is a really interesting character who deserves to have her psychology studied like a bug, not dismissed as a Silly Woman.

Veronica Lodge:

fandom victim blames her for being an abuse victim of her father, ignores her importance to her canon familial & romantic relationships in favor of shipping/focusing on her dad & boyfriend, gives her canon dynamic with her dad to her boyfriend instead, by and large ignores her despite the fact that she's one of the main 4/5 characters (also racism given she's latina & the guys she's ignored for are white) and there's the standard "teenage girl therefore she's annoying, stuck up, etc etc" logic

she's AWESOME. she used to be mean but she devotes all her time to becoming a better person, she's loyal and willing to sacrifice herself for the people she loves, she's a self proclaimed girlboss who runs multiple successful businesses as a high schooler. she's the most bisexual poly-forward person on the bisexual polycule show. she's a theatre kid who will take literally any opportunity to sing show tunes, she's ultra dramatic, she loves the world and singing and her best friend (in a not especially platonic way admittedly) and she's so kind and tries so hard to do good things even though she's an abused teenager who everyone blames for her manipulative & abusive dad's actions. she's my baby and i love her and she deserves to be treated better!

[urie]

did you receive abstinence only education in school? (and please say where your school is located in the tags)

yes

no

Voting ended onJun 20

[ilyasmole]

dream blunt rotation

shane, troy, harris, david

ilya, hayden, svetlana, marly

scott, kip, ilya, svetlana

shane, marly, yuna, rose

svetlana, rose, ilya, marly

ilya, yuna, svetlana, troy

shane, rose, svetlana, scott

rose, svetlana, elena, shane

Voting ended onJun 17

yes i acknowledge that none of these rotations have hollanov together but that's bc i think it's the option everyone would pick. so i gotta mix it up yk....

[teawrecks]

For realism in your fanfiction, an important cultural element to know about hockey twitter circa 2010-2020 is only fringe weirdos were fighting about if their ship was REAL or DELUSIONAL.... true hostile engagements were granular analysis of whose guy is the most unforgivably #problematic. Here are some helpful ideas to get you started on in-universe cancelations:

Ilya liking bisexual pegging porn on main (real event)

Ilya getting caught saying a slur on mic leading to additional discourse about how it's actually xenophobic to assume he knew what it meant in the first place

Ilya shaking putin's hand at the olympics

Scott hunter being noncommittal about You Can Play on multiple occasions

Scott hunter being a registered republican in 2012

Pervasive 10 year old rumor about Scott hunter having a threesome with his linemate during his rookie year (this person is the real winner)

Hayden pike going to a megachurch

Hayden pike thanking Jesus before his wife in post-game press when he scored a hat trick more than once

Shane promoting eating disorders by talking about his weird diet

Shane being controlling and a bad captain for forcing his weird diet on his team (this is reddit discourse though)

Shane tweeting #stopasianhate but not #blacklivesmatter

Shane catching amulet and antivaxxer strays due to his wacko nutrition/lifestyle coach

[garysinises]

I know this doesn’t pertain to any specific character but I do want to add:

Someone slapping a cop’s ass on Canada Day (discourse about if this is sexual harassment or anti cop praxis)

[urie]

rumors about ilya trying to exchange a gucci purse for anal

[pollsforadults]

Spin the wheel. Now, imagine you're on a first date with someone who says they`re a [result]. How does this affect the odds of a second date?

100% guarantee I'll want a second date

It's significantly more likely

The odds don't change

It's significantly less likely

There wont be a second date. Absolutely not

Voting ended onJun 13

Picker Wheel - Spin the Wheel to Decide a Random Choice

Picker Wheel is a wheel spinner for a random picker. Various functions & customization. Enter choices or names, spin the wheel to decide a r

(anon submission)

[lavenderprose]

hello, would you mind expanding on your shane thrives in grroups of large men tag bc i would like to hear more if you're willing.

Okay so I'm gonna try to put this into words but I also need you to bear with me because it's gonna sound a bit wild at first.

Shane Hollander is a pick me.

STOP THROWING TOMATOES HEAR ME OUT. Yes I know pick me is a loaded term. I've known a couple of pick mes and they were actually really lovely girls who had been so conditioned to behave only in the most male-attention-oriented ways that it literally broke them. Yes I know this is not the universal experience but honestly I think it's more common than anybody realizes. We live in a society etc. etc.

So enter Shane Hollander who grew up in locker rooms. He has spent most of his life courting and thriving on male attention purely by necessity. If you want to do well at sport you need to perform at a level that catches the attention of your (male) coaches and your (male) teammates and your (male) rivals on the opposing team. As a gay man, this almost definitely crossed some wires for him. He wants every man in that room to want to be him. He wants every man in that room to want him, sickly and carnally. And some of this is latent and internalized to hell while some of it he is painfully aware of, most notably when he is jerking off and allows himself to think about kneeling in a room full of men who are all fighting over who gets to fuck him first--

I mean, you get the POINT.

So yeah Shane thrives in groups of men. He's their guy, he's their good hockey boy. The inherent assumed heterosexuality of the spaces he orbits in allow him to flirt kind of WILDLY with some of these guys and nobody is any the wiser because these highly masculine spaces are also, paradoxically, highly homoerotic to the point where male bonding is valued highest above almost any other relationship one can have. And Shane, who is Actually Gay and genuinely does WANT that attention, even latently, is very good at male bonding (read: flirting.) You'll look great in silver, Vaughny. See You In October [wink].

Crucially, Shane doesn't really realize that he's doing any of this.

It's probably part of how Ilya clocks his shit. The way Shane behaved around him at the CCM shoot is probably not all that different from how Shane approached other men in his social sphere who he wanted to impress or to be impressed by him. But Ilya, who is enlightened to those tactics by being actually queer, sees it for what it is.

The other major key factor in Shane's ability to thrive in rooms full of men is that he very early on becomes an object of envy for these guys. He's hockey Jesus. He's a generational talent. Honestly, some of these guys probably WOULD like to fuck Shane Hollander if they had it in writing that it didn't make them gay, no way, doesn't count if it's Shane Hollander, that's basically the same as putting your dick in hockey itself,

And yeah maybe that's also something that Shane has fantasies about.

Then again, the pick me analogy isn't perfect because Shane actually IS in a position to be coveted by the people whose attention he craves, just not in any way that is actually accessible to him. And not in any way that he would actually admit to himself he wants.

Again, this is part of the reason why his relationship with Ilya goes down the way it does. Part of Shane KNOWS that he is Ilya Rozanov's perfect little slut and that Ilya Does Not Know How To Quit Him. At some point years down the line Shane will actually be able to admit this to himself and it WILL make him a slightly worse version of himself, but only in ways that make Ilya that much more insane about him.

[mean-vampyre]

Happy pride month to UNCLE FRANK who had to carry the weight of being a character in THE CW (homophobic and gay). He never EVEN served, nobody gave a FUCK about him, he HATECRIMED archie, he fucked a COP, and was the flugiest bitch in that town but he DIED in such a slay way (SLAYED by the gay serial killer married couple, Chicles). Rot in hell uncle frank, your legacy will prevail.