#imo!

[identitty-dickruption]

rapid onset gender dysphoria isn't real, but seeing someone being so happily and loudly transsexual that it makes you feel brave enough to tap into your own gender situation very much is. if you're loudly transsexual for long enough, you'll end up helping others the way you were helped once and that's beautiful. "rapid onset gender dysphoria" is a cruel name for one of the most lifesaving and glorious processes in the world

[kaletastrophes]

Last thing…no one has to forgive Langdon…santos doesn’t have to forgive, Robby doesn’t have to forgive, forgiveness is overrated. I just also think they shouldn’t be trying to smack him down in front of patients and other doctors and students.

Anyway that’s all!

[realtapiocafan]

#TheyUsedToFuck

[ticklefighthockey]

i’m sorry if you’ve answered this already (in which case please ignore) but i’m absolutely loving your heated rivalry takes so how would you adapt the long game for the show? i’m in the boat where i thought the first book was okay but the way the long game handled homophobia and coming out was so cartoonish that i just could not take it seriously, and i feel (hope) that the show is going to maybe take a different direction

i agree i enjoyed the first book and found the second book sooo cartoonish (surprise, everyone on the ottawa centaurs including the coaching and front office staff is queer and dating each other!). i do trust jacob tierney with my life now though so i am sure he will make things subtler/more believable. i'm also wondering if season 2 will expand to explore other characters from the series and not focus just on shane/ilya. i couldn't think of any other reason why they'd mention ryan price in episode 4 unless they were seeding some characters they'd pick up later? but who knows.

[whoreiorcats]

Ouurhehhh ok so yes the focus on the romantic pairings in s2 is understandably kind of annoying if you were really drawn into the platonic bonds in s1 but I do fear that is the point. More arguments for this below the cut cause I got way out of control:

Like Lumon understands that the devotion and trust between the refiners is how they were able to coordinate the OTC and they are specifically undermining those platonic bonds from the beginning to the end of the season and NOT discouraging the romantic ones (actually ENCOURAGING them) because they are able leveraged in ways the non-romantic bonds aren’t.

They’re able to be used as an incentive they can dole out to Dylan and of course Helena is ostensibly using Helly’s romance with Mark to get more information out of him (she has her own double ulterior motives, we know, but that is why the board sends her down there, because Mark won’t work without her).

It’s also Mark’s grief for Gemma and the promise of not feeling alone anymore (through his innie’s relationship) that Milchick uses as the trump card to get him to return to Lumon.

It’s only Irving’s platonic/pseudo-paternal bond with Helly that reveals Helena’s deception, it’s his in-law relationship with Felicia (by extension her platonic relationship with Burt) that gets him the directions to the testing floor, and it’s Dylan ultimately choosing to not kill himself over Gretchen leaving him that allows the second Macrodat Uprising to succeed when he comes back to help Helly.

Also, Helly’s speech which rouses C&M makes no reference to Mark or love or whatever it’s all about Irving and his death.

Also also, it’s Devon’s platonic bond with Gemma that pushes them to investigate Lumon further (remember mark was not willing at first). Plus her “friendship” with Cobelvig that allows them to keep on pushing when Reghabi’s plan seems untenable.

You can even argue it’s only the platonic connection between Mark and Cobelvig that allows him to get a response (meaningful look + insane screaming + near vehicular manslaughter) that actually makes him question what’s going on and seek answers (that’s a real assbackwards perspective on it tho, I’ll admit)

You could call the platonic shit this season negative space, its absence is meant to be noticeable and meaningful, it’s not just a shift towards romance cause sex sells, you know?

[hotteokzz]

rumors/leaks(??) that chicago is getting the next pdub team and i am so baffled by this. it’s linked to the new chicago steel arena which has a capacity of like 2k (????????) and we also got fucking stomped on takeover tour attendance, the turnout in december was poor and the upcoming game on wednesday is extremely not sold out. i am desperate for woho in my city but what is happeninnnnnnggggg. surely some journo just hallucinated all of this

[yekoc]

okay but oscar/mark.... will mark very traditionally top? or will oscar. will mark even Let oscar top? and what other tropes are you thinking about for those two, tell me everything i'm so intrigued!

imo mark tops and feels guilty about it and feels like they should at least switch because he would feel less like a creepy old man if oscar was fucking him sometimes but he doesn't actually physically want oscar to fuck him which makes him feel doubly guilty creepy and old and the fact that oscar just wants to be fucked and has no interest in fucking mark and is happy the way things are (aside from the fact that mark can only actually come inside him like once a day which is his mild annoyance but a price he's willing to pay) doesn't occur to mark inside his cave of guilt shame and feeling creepy and old

[softestevie]

I found my verse king in Deadpool, because with Wolverine he bottoms, but with Spidey he tops 💕🩷