What The Fuck Are YOU Laughing at?!?!

Mat | mid-20s | queer | they/them | multifandom currently: ST, ITWV, HR a03: stranger_thanfiction

[raisin-in-a-bowl-of-choccy-chips]

queer kids deserve happy endings too

[strangers-fiction]

something something wiccan’s love for his brother and his family being so strong that not only did he find and bring back his brother but he brought him back in a body that looks just like their mom and dad

[noctuathene]

last thing i'll say on this tonight but the reason it bothers me is because like. troy's book starts with him being publicly retaliated against for calling out dallas kent for being a rapist. troy does the right thing in calling out this actual irredeemable bastard and he's the one punished for it while dallas is protected. and this kickstarts him actively working to stop hiding behind that homophobic douchebag mask and be a better person. he makes the choice to do it and keep at it whether people forgive him or accept it or not. and it's before he's got any reliable support system- he's not close to his new team or anyone else yet, but he still wants to be better. and he doesn't expect anything from anyone for it. aside from his relationship with harris, troy's entire book is about him working to be a better person. and so many people's first reaction to a character genuinely wanting to grow and change from his past mistakes is "no actually youre worse and irredeemable for reasons i just made up"? that just doesn't sit right with me.

[lioinsurreality]

Spider-Man: Brand New Day said it'll be hard and it'll be ugly and you'll essentially feel like it's so over but in the end love will save your soul and friendship and hope will prevail and we're so back and millions of teenagers worldwide said hell fucking yeah

[soemotional]

i have my qualms with the vampire lestat but the most ANNOYING criticism i have seen so far was either on twitter or threads like "there was NO physical romance! i will definitely be rewatching seasons 1-2 to get my fill" and this is..... textbook fetishization of gay men. loustat are fucked up and crazy but the emotionally intimacy between the two of them in the last two episodes was INSANE. i cannot imagine walking away from that being like "wish they fucked lol"

there is nothing wrong with being freaked out from time to time, but when that's ALL you're watching for like.....genuinely just go read smut....there is nothing wrong with that but like dont act like the fucked up gay vampire romance show is bad at fucked up gay vampire romance just because YOU are gooned out and want to see everyone sucking and fucking all the time hello.

[softshane]

charlie being cast in hr means more people will discover julie and the phantoms which means that maybe netflix will finally be forced to bring it back

[zukotheartist]

Sad that Harris (a fat character that is treated as more than just a silly gag to laugh at) will not be portrayed by a fat man BUT im already seeing the racist takes start and we're not gonna fucking do that, no using anti-fatphobia as a means to excuse racism. You can be frustrated that a fat role went to a non-fat actor (and i think we should talk about it because it happens constantly) but that's it, period, no "mmm but he's not ginger and pale" or whatever the fuck, no. Justice Smith get behing me

[triassictriserratops]

i put this as a comment in @shanehollandertwentyfour's excellent post, but i think it also deserves its own post because i'm seeing some people's reactions and i need us all to have a little bit of discernment and nuance here.

writers describing characters as "stocky", "thick", or "soft" has ALWAYS been code for "fat" in writing. a lot of writers (and people in general) are scared of the word "fat" and will avoid it as a descriptor at all costs.

(to be very clear, "fat" is a morally neutral word unless the person saying it intends for it not to be. I am a fat person - this is the simplest and easiest descriptor to explain my body and i will continue to use this word to explain my body in a morally neutral way.)

But, to return to the point, this is an existing issue in the literary world - just like there are many writers that use words like "tanned" or "olive toned" when they're scared to clarify the character isn't white. Both situations are problems in literary spaces that we've had for ages.

Soft language is used as a descriptor whenever a character isn't thin, fit, or white. So, no, we're not stupid for "imagining" Harris as chubby or fat

that being said, i am looking forward to Justice Smith's portrayal of Harris Drover. and NO, him being black is NOT an issue and if that is YOUR issue - we are not the fucking same. "Erasing a character's white identity" is in no fucking way the same as removing the precious little fat representation in romance media we already get.

Especially because media is not created in a vacuum and it IS worth mentioning that we're currently in a heightened state of fatphobia and body harming via fashion drugs like Ozempic - removing the fatness from a main romance lead IS a statement that we all get to feel something about.

I'll even go a step further and say that it will be an incredible addition to Harris' character to be a black man who has lived his life as openly gay while being loved and supported by his family. That in itself is so rare in media and I can't wait to see the Drover family absolutely adore their gay son. (and his new boyfriend!)

tl;dr - let people be upset about losing a character that made them feel "normal" in their bodies. and don't be fucking weird about Harris being a black man.

[russianblush]

he’s got the cutieful harris vibe down, trust

[strangers-fiction]

Justice Smith baby get behind me 😔🖐️

[strangers-fiction]

Charlie Gillespie get tf behind me

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

"dni if you engage with irredeemable media! dni to kill a mockingbird stans" ok well CLEARLY you have never read to kill a mockingbird if you think it's irredeemable media and also having a book that was published in 1960 on your dni stan list is kinda ridiculous actually

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

i literally do not think any of you have ever read a book published before the 2000s before in your entire life

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

#'Dni if you've read to kill a mockingbird' what's is this the Florida banned books list #Who r u Ron DeSantis

[snaxle-deactivated20260531]

#can somwone pleasw provide context to whatever the fuck op is referring to

[s-a-blotsky]

You really buried the lede by only mentioning To Kill a Mockingbird

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

it's really funny how the entire world basically just blew the fuck up six short years ago and nobody wants to admit that that may have had some lasting consequences lmao

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

like so much of Everything today is premised on the idea that the earth-shattering catastrophe which happened within living memory of everyone older than a third grader has had no meaningful material or psychological effects on the general public and i don't think that's good, lol.

"(some of) the top-line economic indicators (sorta) recovered (in most places) so everything is fine and we don't need to talk about it" is not a sustainable framework for interfacing with reality

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

"why is everyone so angry and paranoid now?" "why is politics so dysfunctional now?" "why is [x] [y] and [z] now? blah blah blah"

2020:

[enki2]

[elnotwoods]

shane cockwarming ilya this, shane cockwarming ilya that… this fandom tends to forget that ilya is a throat goat and freaking loves to suck a dick, he swallows cause he “does not mind” (i.e. moans harder when shane cums down his throat than shane himself.. you know - the person cumming)

add to it that ilya loves resting his head in peoples laps, getting his hair played with.. and has an oral fixation

so what i am saying is that ilya loves, loves, LOVES! cockwarming shane - sometimes they just chill on the couch, watching a renovation show or a movie ilya isn’t particularly interested in so while he rests his head in shane’s lap he simply turns around, tugs shane’s sweats down and puts shane’s cock in his mouth

they stay like that for a long time, ilya gets all floaty and sleepy bc shane’s hand is stroking through his hair, lightly scratching at his scalp and his cock is in his mouth

when ilya gets antsy again he starts sucking him off and gets him to come quickly, swallowing at the end of course and goes back to cockwarming him if shane wants to continue watching his show

[elnotwoods]

@kissingpractise you are right and should say it! a lot of how ilya’s attraction is described by a portion of the fandom is rooted in biphobia with heteronormative roles just glommed on top of it all

[cens105]

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.

[lavenderprose]

Part one of the in my mind canonical post-TLG Shane Crashout is having a genuine and warranted negative reaction to someone editing his and Ilya’s faces into one of those Chinese-Russian Soviet Communism propaganda posters and blowing it up giant and pressing it to the glass during a game. He and Ilya have an ‘argument’ about it in the bench (They are not arguing they are loudly and angrily agreeing about how weird it is) and the clip is circulated, completely divorced from the original context of the weird sign, and that is the first nail in the coffin as far as Shane’s ability to compartmentalize the trauma of being outed because not only is it a funny joke to the rest of the world, he has to pretend it’s a funny joke too or else the health of his fucking marriage is called into question. Super amazing and perfect actually.

[lilspoonh-hr]

#I think one of the great tragedies of the long game is that#Shane is right#Shane literally called it that his team and the world would not be cool#that something traumatic would happen#he is Cassandra and ‘villainized’ by fandom for trying to hide their relationship#where in his eyes he is trying to protect their relationship from harm#unfortunately his trauma (in coming out to the metros and being iced out) directly conflicts with ilya’s trauma (isolation and depression)#that wants to be out and proud#ilya feels like he’s already done the hard part in moving#whereas Shane thinks the easy part is loving ilya but the hard part is existing with the rest of the world#anyways#myShane deserves to have the crash out of the century and be so fucking mean and traumatized by the outing <3#myShane is kicking and screaming and doesn’t want to go to therapy by how deeply this invasion of privacy has hurt him#myIlya has soooo many complicated feelings about it#but importantly ☝🏼 the love is there#the love is there and sometimes it isn’t enough but this is MYthem and it is enough :)#woe years and years of therapy be upon ye 🫵🏼