#wren wrambles

[wren-kitchens]

happy disability pride month and once again, FUCK lazy subtitles. fuck the [speaks foreign language] instead of actually transcribing the words, fuck shortening sentences and changing whats been said for no reason, fuck censoring swearing in captions but not in audio and fuck anyone who says youre being 'too sensitive' for being upset about a lack of accessibility

[hottawacentaurs]

Can we be real for a minute? There can be no bigger advocate for Shane mpreg than Yuna Hollander. I know deep in my heart that she is incredibly frustrated by their inability to combine dna and birth the hockey messiah.

[anaphoraholic]

some food for the daforge shippers 🙏🙏

(Source: Carey, Diane. Ghost Ship (Star Trek The Next Generation Book 1), 1988)

[shenanigans-will-ensue]

Hear me out: Shane, before his first game with the Centaurs, gets tapped for media. They ask him how he feels about not being captain for the first time and he jumps of the opportunity to goad his husband by implying that he’ll earn the position by next season. Cue the rest of the season being spent with them chirping back and forth about it at every given opportunity.

Maybe it becomes a whole thing online where people are getting really invested in who should be captain so of course Harris leans into it. He calls a meeting to suggest his plan: an exhibition match in the pre- or post-season with Shane and Ilya each drafting half-teams of the Cens roster, winner gets to be captain for the next season. Obviously all the game proceed would go towards the Irina foundation so the team are in and the fans Love It. (Also Shane and Ilya are fine competing over the ‘C’ because it’s just a title, maybe it takes them a little while to figure out the dynamic at first but they both lead in different ways and whatever letters are or aren’t on their jerseys won’t stop them from doing everything they can to help their team.)

Also I accidentally wrote way too much of this when drafting this post so it’s included under the break:

He’d known it was coming (obviously) but that doesn’t make him dread it any less. They start him off with some lowballs: “How is it adjusting to a new team?” And, “Are you happy being back in your hometown?” But it doesn’t take long before they start asking bigger questions, really looking for quotable material.

“Shane, you’ve spent the past 8 seasons captaining your own team with the Metros. How does it feel going into this game - this season - without that ‘C’ on your chest?”

And for one second he’s just so blinded with gratitude to this journalist. It’s not some question about being an openly gay hockey player, or what it’s like to play beside his husband (not that he’s even actually played a game with Ilya yet, on the Centaurs at least). It’s the same question any other player in the league would receive if they were in his position (as in a former captain starting on a new team) but it also gives him the perfect opportunity to show everyone that what he has with Ilya - what he’s always had with Ilya - has always been real.

“Well, it definitely feels a bit strange to be going out on the ice and not be the guy calling the shots.” Shane huffs a laugh, briefly locking eyes with the camera before returning to the reporter. “I’m not too worried though, I’m still the new guy in the locker room and I’ll have to learn the team dynamics but I’m sure it’ll be Rozanov answering that question this time next year.”

It’s not that Shane has any particular desire to captain the Centaurs (Ilya is damn good at his job and the scars from his time with the Metro’s are still too fresh) but this is familiar territory. Chirping Ilya, challenging him, even on the same team, is proof that their rivalry wasn’t (entirely) fabricated.

The reported looks absolutely delighted by his response, clearly gearing up to continue along that vein before they’re interrupted by a commotion from the locker room behind them: near simultaneously, a group of voices (grown men, not middle schoolers) going “oooohh.”

Ilya, half-dressed, comes charging out of the locker room. (This is as far as I got lol)

[capybaraohara]

Sometimes you just need a man who gets hard when you yell at him.

[wren-aurelia]

Hmm. Do y'all fuck with crotch pics from robots with arguably unimpressive dicks.

[wander-wren]

i know i’m a huge endeavor hater/basher but i do just have to say. that scene where he chooses to hold touya so he at least doesn’t die alone and then cries over his ruined body and encourages him to be angry was actually the first moment i really believed in his redemption arc, to the point that i’m now unsure if i was supposed to believe in him before or not.

like, i have to respect it, on a certain level. that was intense. and don’t think i didn’t notice the symbolism of “if i try to fly and minimize the damage, my fire will overheat him and he’ll just explode.” do i even need to say anything about that it’s just right there being poignant.

i think his final conversation with touya also is really interesting because it’s not exactly conducive to like. recovery and healing? but touya, at this point, is not someone who is going to recover. he’s dying. this is palliative care. this is endeavor telling him exactly what he wants to hear in order to ease the pain, to mitigate the brutal injustice that is his death. it fucking sucks. but i also. i dunno. i like it, too.

all that to say, in my heart endeavor did have some measure of remorse prior to the final fight with touya. he did have regrets, but also a lot of it was performative, or shallow—just going through the motions without interrogating himself enough.

i said before i got to episode 9 that my ideal todoroki ending, within the narrative that was being built up, would be everyone staying together but endeavor being a visible, obvious outsider. like a dinner scene where the others are all talking animatedly and endeavor is quietly eating without engaging or being engaged. what we got isn’t exactly that, but it wasn’t bad, all things considered. i wish we got more interiority from rei. i wish we got more of touya interacting with his siblings. i just wish we got more, in general.

also, none of this is going to stop me from continuing my endeavor bashing, because it’s fun

[xoxoares]

JJBA if it was WOKE!!!!

Jonathan - blue hair and pronouns

Joseph - amputee

Jotaro - american immigrant

Josuke - raised by a single mom

Giorno - biracial

Jolyne - fuckin gayyyyyyyy

Johnny - wheelchair user

Gappy - has 2 dads

Jodio - he's literally neurodivergent and a minor