getting lost in boston is fun because I turned around on a street corner three times and some guy yelled "hey stupid! the bus is that way!" very helpful interaction and accurate insult, 10/10 no notes
one time I walked around a building a couple times looking for a bathroom and this guy went "this bitch thinks she's on a merrygoround, where the fuck are you tryna go? bathroom? one floor down to the right behind the door that says bathroom."
My very first time in Boston. I was absolutely miserable, trying to drag my giant suitcase up a lengthy set of stairs in the pouring rain. This guy who had already reached the top looked back at me with the most pure expression of disgust Iâve ever seen in anyoneâs eyes, marched back down the stairs, grabbed my suitcase, carried it to the top, left it there for me, and walked away without ever saying a word. I think about him often.
For the people in the notes going "why is Boston like this": a) the insults are a way to show you have no ulterior motives when helping someone (and don't need to be thanked or repaid), and b) Boston was settled by the Irish
also the Italians. mixing Irish and Italian sociocultural attitudes had the effect of multiplying the Sass Levels by the power of infinity, in the sense that you get all of the clever dry wit of the Irish and all of the bitchy gossipy condensation of the Italians rolled into one very stereotypically overly-friendly American package.
also worth noting that who you are to them doesnât matter. theyâll talk to strangers like that and will also talk to their best friends like that. theyâre just Like That.
I love how in Daredevil, Frank Castle is like this intimidating guy who's a well matched threat to the hero but in Spiderman he's still the same character but Peter just... does not treat him with the same amount of gravity. He webs Frank's mouth shut for swearing and tells him to go home after breaking his van. He argues with the man who's whole deal is he has a lot of weapons and WILL use them like two New Yorkers who got into a fender bender. Peter Parker and Frank Castle see each other coming and they both go "This fucking guy again." I love it.
how was peter affording food and rent.... they never show him working outside of spider-maning ToT like maybe the landlord gave him that room for free because of the asbestos but he still has running water i assume so....
I think by now Hudson and Connor have repeated enough times that they do not want pictures to be taken that we are all aware, yet the stalking continues.
I don't think any of it is ok. The public street pictures help identify their neighbourhood - where they are staying, which gym they go to and lead to increasingly intrusive, dangerous and disturbing stalking like Connor being touched without consent and followed to his private residence or Hudson being photographed inside the private gym clearly without his knowledge or consent.
If you call yourself a fan of either or both of them, please don't spread these non-consensual photos and videos and call out the stalkers instead of encouraging their behaviour.
They will be working in Toronto for months, and the situation is already spiralling badly with stalkers reportedly flying in to harass them. They will be forced into lockdown, it will impact their mental health being hunted for pics, and it will burden the production to have to increase security.
There are no upsides. We should not engage with this kind of content, and wait until they share what they are comfortable sharing.
I do not want "queer characters." I want characters that ARE queer. I don't want characters whose entire personality is about their sexuality or gender identidy. Stories about the experiences of LGBTQ+ people are GOOD, and we NEED them, but we also need stories where the characters are just queer when the plot isn't ABOUT their queer experiences. I want action shows where the protagonist is gay and has a romance with someone of the same gender and the focus ISN'T their sexuality. I want mystery shows where the protagonist is TRANSGENDER because that is WHO THEY ARE and not what the PLOT is about. You know how fandom will headcanon characters as a specific sexuality, not because it's a queer story, but bcuz they WANT to see queer people in cool stories AND so they can ship them with their mortal enemies who the protagonist won't stop thinking about? I want THAT.
Another month, another batch of stories worth feasting on. This collection has a little bit of everything (cliff, alphas, and apocalypses, oh my).
Pencil in the Rest by lynadyndyn (shane x ilya, 87K, a/b/o)
Shane had absolutely no idea how to describe what Rozanov smelled like when the wind changed. Other than the cigarette, he couldn't begin to break it down into individual notes, but it was familiar in the way things were in dreams. The details of the scent mattered much less to him than his response to it: Shane felt sucker-punched, his knees going a little shaky, his mouth filling with saliva, his hands sweating. He froze in place, helplessly, as he watched Rozanov take a cautious sniff of the air before slowly turning his head to meet Shane's eyes.
....
He remembered the hours and hours of Rozanov's game tape he had watched on the family computer in the downstairs den - had he known? Had some part of him known? His biology had been betraying him for years; this shouldn't have surprised him, but the disappointment coated his throat. Shane had really been looking forward to playing against this guy. Just one more thing that got snarled up in his designation that should have just been about hockey.
Omegaverse stories were one of those things that I put in a box labeled Not For Me and never thought about again. Until this story came along and opened my eyes. No, thatâs not strong enough. Set my brain on fire? The omega element adds a fascinating (and enfuriating!) gender commentary, but it also dials up the forbidden longing of it all. There's A+ yearning, excellent world building filled with clever details, an ending that feels earned and satisfying without being easy, and it's sexy as hell. Even if this isn't your usual thing, please give it a try.
Your famous golden touch by anonymous (shane x ilya, 30k)
âWell, Rozanov canât afford the rehab he needs to get back to the league,â Shane said. âSo Iâll pay for it.â ...
As Shane spoke, Ilya largely kept his eyes on the money manager. Heâd never gotten to watch someone realize Shane was insane before.
Although, having given it more thought, it wasnât insane to Ilya. If Hollander had been taken out of the game heâd feel the same way. There had been times, over the years â when he was on a five game road trip against mediocre teams with lackluster crowds â where what drove him to put on a show was the knowledge that Shane had put on a show the night before. It was obviously the same for Shane. Ilya was surprised no hockey nerd had ever tracked how their successes clustered, how Shane having a big game was so often immediately followed by Ilya having a big game and vice versa. If Ilya had lost that, heâd have lost a lot of the magic of hockey. He understood how Shane felt, but he was the only person on earth who could.
Every time this anon (of the perfect for now series) posts something I know it will be my new favorite thing. So, here it is, my new favorite story. This week anyway. Ilya gets gravely injured and has to claw his way back into the NHL. Shane wants to help the only way he can: by becoming his sugar daddy. This author has such a magical way of capturing the mess between these two without losing sight of how much they fundamentally like each other.
Dawn in the Altered World by idiopathicsmile (shane x ilya, 52k)
That afternoon, Ilya and the others tie on their skates and cautiously take to the ice. Ilya divides them in two (half are âBoston,â half are âRaidersâ), they designate goals with mounds of snow, and then they are playing something close to actual hockey. It feels like freedom. It feels almost like before. Everyone is horribly rusty, but by the end, they are grinning like theyâve won the Cup again. Like fish who have been returned to water.
Ilya skates to the edge of the pond. The surface is uneven, imperfect, and yet still somehow it is the best ice he has ever played on. When he looks up, one of the old farmers is watching him.
âGood game,â says the farmer. âReally goddamn good game.â
Ilya nods.
âYou know who you looked like, out there?â the farmer continues.
âIlya Rozanov?â Ilya guesses.
A Station 11 AU. You could read and enjoy it without having read the book, but then you'd be missing out. (Is there fanfic for station 11? There must be.) The world ends but hockey doesnât. I really enjoyed this tale of two damaged people literally and figuratively finding their way back to each other from the wilderness.
a pox on all your houses by apocryphal (19k, shane x. Ilya)
"When is that from?" Ilya demands, the moment Svetlana answers her phone. "Is that from today?"
"Obviously the test is from today," Svetlana snaps. "The chlamydia is from six weeks ago when you couldn't shut the fuck up for five minutes during my movie, and I had to pause it and wear you out like some kind of fucking puppy with the zoomies."
"Well, you picked a terrible movie," Ilya reasons.
"I picked up chlamydia, you asshole."
Just the most adorable story about STDs that you can possibly imagine. Charming from beginning to end.
future tense by @radialarch (2k, shane x ilya)
No one would have called it incriminating. The Metros captain, having a wild night out with the boys. The hockeysphere had mostly reacted with amusement. So Hollzy does know how to have fun. But Ilya looked at the stranger's fingertips pressed to the small of Shane's back and thought: this man is going to fuck him. There was no mistaking the intent. Ilya knew it with the certainty of someone who had been fucking Shane Hollander for ten years.
The thing was: it had been Shane who'd said, "You can."
A tasty little slice of jealousy digging into some of the uncertainties of the Ottawa plan.
the intricate brocade of this happiness by waxing__crescent (10k, shane x ilya)
Yuna must know how it feels from the other side as well; to be a son leaving a home. The distance hurts from any direction.Â
Ilya thinks about his parents, how he used to sleep in their bedroom. Maybe, what she doesnât want to realize is that the reverse isn't a relief either. It feels worse to stay. Thereâs no way out unscathed.
âSometimes,â Ilya says, âit still feel like all I am is my motherâs son.â
He shouldnât be saying it. She couldnât possibly understand what he means: Ilya hasnât told anyone about any of it, any of his life, like the pain wonât leak out if no one knows the details.
A beautiful and clear eyed examination of the boys' first Christmas together, planting the seeds of Ilya's mental health struggles in Ottawa. I particularly enjoyed Ilya trying to negotiate his relationship with Yuna while grappling with his own family history.
lotophage by @citrusses (9k, shane x ilya)
Shane loses his memory after a bad hit, and from the outside looking in, it doesnât look like a life he wants back. Ilya flits around the edges of the story, heartbroken twice over, although it's actually Yuna's pain that I found the most poignant. Citrusses does a beautiful job of capturing a Shane that isnât our Shane but still feels like a version of him.
they always placed you for the leaving type by epigraphs (10k, shane x ilya)
When the English gets too hard, when he crosses the threshold to utter exasperation, Ilya puts his tongue to an entirely different use. He leans over and hooks a finger under Svetlanaâs jaw, tugging her close. Their mouths meet, a crash of lips and teeth and tongue, both of them high on the endorphins fizzing in between their bodies as they fuse themselves together.Â
A delicate look at Ilya and the English language through the years.
a body in your passenger seat by brawlite (5k, scott x ilya)
You want me to leave ugly car? I leave ugly car. Butââ Rozanov trails off, looking at Scott like he's studying him before raising his eyebrows and tilting his head just so, like Scottâs supposed to follow his invisible, and probably insane, train of thought.Â
âBut fucking what?â Scott asks.Â
Rozanov hums. He smirks, lips quirking up in a way that makes Scott kind of want to punch him. He wishes they were still on the ice, just so he could. Free reign.Â
âI donât think you want,â Ilya says, smug.Â
I have such a soft spot for well written stories with Hunter and Rozanov and I particularly enjoyed this prickly pwp. Kip and Shane don't make an appearance but they haunt the narrative anyway.
Your Dog by medric/@bluegrasshole (9k, Cliff-centric)
Where did Rozy learn to do all that, anyway? If he was anything like Cliff in high school, and he probably had to be given how fucking talented he was to go first overall for an Original Six team, then it was all hockey all the time, with barely any free moments for socializing or fucking. Not to say that Cliff was a virgin or anything when he got to Boston, God no. He was a big hockey-playing fish in a small Canadian pond and hasnât had his nose broken yet, so like, definitely in high demand by the local hotties. But Rozy knows so much about this stuff â women and how to dress for them and what to say to them. And they just love him, everywhere he goes. Cliff too loves him but for different reasons, probably.
Cliff plays a supporting role in so many stories, but this is the first one I've seen that really fleshes him out into a complete person. I enjoyed seeing Rozanov through his eyes: charismatic, a little bit impossible, little bit unknowable.
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so you're telling me the fifa world cup is all men? its all men's teams? and so is the superbowl? and all the sports teams that states are known for and make copious amounts of merch for are also men's teams? and only 5 women have ever entered formula one since its inception in 1950 and only two of them were able to compete? and this is normal? its acceptable?
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