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[tedyexe]

seeing young sidney crosby photos and realising yeah rr thought she could swing that kid as asian

[houndmother]

deriding things as performative is anti third space

[loveridden1999]

i cannot keep doing 6-8 episodes shows anymore guys. she's gone as soon i get to know her

[tedyexe]

my very earnest but like. maybe slightly too mean tlg take is that (book) shane and ilya are not strong enough characters to survive a separation from the premise. theyre kinda just a bunch of tropes tied together into a vaguely characterish silhouette (a bottom subby glasses wearing strict awkward gay little hairless asian and a charming but secretly tortured dom top slutty bisexual smoking russian big bad boy — bonus points his russian story ties all deal with Corruption). the sell of heated rivalry is the premise: two rival hockey players are secretly fucking. its such a strong set up for an erotic novel that i question why rr ever bothered w yaoi that wasnt between 2 players. theres a lot of naturally good story moments that come with that premise that are easy to follow and are capitalised on. but once its resolved... like... then what? their characterisation kinda falls apart bc they were never really characters in the first place. deliberate choices need to be made to decide who they are, divorced of simply 'how they would react to the premise'. they suddenly need to be more than what can fit in a porn title

[tedyexe]

reading your old writing is sort of like having a dead wife

[hungry-hobbits]

"get ready for video games to become unaffordable" video games haven't been affordable for the last 10 years

[pingo1387]

having a headache while hydrated is so unfair. you were supposed to protect me.

[theghostofashton]

that thing she says about people not liking or not understanding ilya is truly so damning and i don't know how she didn't see that tbh

it upsets you when people misinterpret his actions because you love him so much you know why he's doing these things even though people may get it wrong? shane, on the other hand.... he's selfish. he's just stupid. he doesn't understand the dark side of hockey. he's oblivious. agrees with the popular hc that he's autistic and then walks it back bc that resulted in people having empathy for shane (and also makes clear that it is ilya's responsibility to communicate more effectively to accommodate his partner, which we just can't have. ilya can't change his behavior to accommodate shane. it always has to be the other way around).

and then she wonders why people think she doesn't like shane like...... i have to laugh

[wordsonapage2]

One scene that always struck me as a little weird for a romance book was the first Vegas rooftop.

"Not everything is about you, Hollander." He didn't look at Shane at all when he said it. His voice hadn't been angry. He just sounded...tired. And sad. Shane studied his profile. His own anger left him, and he found himself caring about Ilya Rozanov, which was an odd sensation.

Characters misreading each other is a very common romance trope, like in Pride and Prejudice. Usually that's something that is eventually resolved as the characters come to know each other better, but Reid cannot stand for Ilya to be thought badly of by the audience even for a scene--even when the characters barely know each other at all. Instead, Shane has to have a perfect perception of Ilya's mental state (even though that directly contradicts her description of Shane's qualities) and immediately puts his own feelings aside to center Ilya's. See, Ilya isn't being a jerk, reader, Shane is concerned about him so you should be too!

It happens in the Sochi scene as well.

Rozanov was being an asshole, which was nothing new, but he didn’t seem to mean it. In fact, Shane would bet that Rozanov would actually really like him to stay. He looked like he could use a hug.

Shane and Ilya literally never spend any time together outside of a quick hookup a few times a year, but here he's able to perfectly read Ilya through his attempts at masking to read a complicated hidden desire. And this is a particularly annoying thing to me when she made that stupid list and said that Shane isn't observant or perceptive. Because it means that Shane's not reading Ilya because Shane is good at reading people, but because Reid cares more about how the reader perceives Ilya than she does about Shane's characterization. In these novels, Shane can never be mad at Ilya when Ilya is actively trying to hurt Shane's feelings, because Reid has Shane constantly able to perfectly understand the source of Ilya's behavior and his true desires. And then she has Shane prioritize that over his own feelings, because the most important thing to her is for the reader to feel like Ilya's hurtful behavior is minimized and not actually harmful. Shane is given no space or grace for his own feelings, because the narrative doesn't consider them important.

[veliseraptor]

love writing a post and then discarding it immediately. microdosing on having an opinion

[tedyexe]

do shane feminisation kink fics get ppl questioning if hes trans the way my ilya 1 did... im so curious

[tedyexe]

the fact that ellipsus doesnt have an app is unconscionable. how could they ever prioritise working on anything else first. im genuinely upset. why are u making pride themes u have nothing to be proud of u dont have an app. devs. devs are u hearing me. devs ur subscription model is cool but u dont have an app

[kaijuerotica]

rose finally dates a straight man and he has to kindly sit her down and explain that she's definitely a lesbian

[rudeamity]

i love sports. i love bonding over sports. i love getting excited. i love the social aspect and getting to spend time with people and celebrate wins. i love the excitement and the nerves. i love sports

[fagcrisis]

i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic

[tedyexe]

my deepest secret is that i wrote dark out and still thirty degrees with malice in my heart and i feel terrible whenever someone tells me its one of their fave omegaverse fics

[bobdylanyaoi]

we need more popular music w the harmonica and the organ and the accordion and the steel pan guitar and the mandolin

[nonlynear]

my high horse is actually awesome and fast like the wind