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[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

[andthepeople]

i'm here to tell you that you never. never never never never never. make something plural with an apostrophe

[whitealbum]

does anyone else feel like we need to raise the standard for writing quality across all mediums like right now

[tedyexe]

ppl always dog on hr fans for needing to learn puck but those that dont seem to be having way more fun than me

[22nd]

I just Liked a glass of water and Reblogged it to my stomach

[tedyexe]

trying to tell my sister about the anti-revolutionary politics of Skylanders: Trap Team but she just doesnt get it. she doesnt understand the gutting implications of the Creep Sheep

[tedyexe]

this guy (🐑 ←) is an enslaved political prisoner

[tedyexe]

trying to tell my sister about the anti-revolutionary politics of Skylanders: Trap Team but she just doesnt get it. she doesnt understand the gutting implications of the Creep Sheep