fuck hussle culture, the toad to success is to sleep well, eat well and have fun
i meant road. road to success
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fuck hussle culture, the toad to success is to sleep well, eat well and have fun
i meant road. road to success
Reblog the Toad of Success to sleep well, eat well, and have fun
easy to forget but book jon snow is great actually. he gets so drunk he cries in his first chapter. he's 16 years old and laser focused on loan negotiation. he keeps getting promoted against his will. he's the chosen fantasy protagonist with the worst genre awareness ever. he implements pro immigration social reforms. he has a giant albino pet wolf. he cuts a guy's head off. he thinks he invented cunnilingus. he's been dead for 15 years.
Character Analysis: Thomas Barrow (Downton Abbey)
Who is Thomas?
Thomas Barrow begins Downton Abbey as one of the sharpest sources of friction downstairs. He's ambitious, status-conscious, resentful, and quick to look for advantage, and the early seasons let him occupy a fairly antagonistic role beside O'Brien. He wants promotion, security, and some form of control in a world that offers him very little genuine safety. The series never builds him as a simple schemer, though; even at his worst, there's always something defensive and hungry underneath the nastiness, as if nearly every act of aggression is also an attempt to stay one step ahead of humiliation.
As the series goes on, he becomes one of its clearest studies in loneliness. Thomas is a gay servant in a world where that leaves him vulnerable to blackmail, disgrace, social isolation, and the constant need to monitor himself. The show uses that reality in ways that are sometimes blunt and sometimes surprisingly sensitive, but it's central to the whole arc. His manipulativeness, watchfulness, careerism, and the almost constant edge in him all make more sense when you keep in view how little room he has to be openly known without risk.
While I was surprised that Becka would kill her father so brutally, it does make sense in the grander scheme if things because they are in the Republic of Brutal Punishment. The first episode begins with the girls having fun while several people have been hanged around them, the episode ends with the girls watching a man lose his arm to a chainsaw, they are encouraged to cheer as it happens. They have been living like this for over a decade. That would fuck anyone up, especially when they keep telling you that violence is deserved and it is God's will and everyone should be implementing God's will and you cannot have friends, you cannot love people because at the end of the day you are merely God's eyes and hands on Earth even if those hands have to turn on you and your own. In the grander context of that world, I don't think we can find the issue with Becka. In her own way she's doing exactly what they taught her to do.
Can you imagine how different the Jet in Ba Sing Se plot would be if Jet, when realising Iroh is a firebender traveling with Zuko, who’s an obviously traumatised teenager with a giant burn mark, assumed Iroh was the one to burn him ??
Like think about it, it would give even more reason why Jet was so obsessed, even when he’s trying to get a fresh start (Ik canon Jet has his reasons too but I think Smellerbee and Longshot would be more willing to help Jet if they think Iroh is actually hurting someone)
one theory I have based on the substance of our conversation is just that skip is a more appealing closet narrative… it’s two fundamentally healthy reasonably well-adjusted adults who communicate well and whose only barrier to happiness is External Homophobia, which causes them momentary distress but in the end turns out to actually be super easy to overcome and everyone is sooo happy for you why didn’t you come out sooner? we could’ve thrown you a parade 🌈 but I think the shane/ilya storyline appeals to me much more because, while it’s still very much romance novel fare, it’s a bit more about like… the emotional damage that compulsory heterosexuality + the closet + punishing standards for masculinity can do to you/your ability to form healthy relationships. I feel like, as presented in the show, skip would have zero conflict after they get together, whereas I think shane and ilya might continue to have lots of narratively interesting issues rooted in their respective damage. the former is (maybe?) more palatable to people because it’s nicer and cleaner. the latter is more intriguing to me personally because it’s messy and feels more real.
having now rewatched all of Downton Abbey, can i just say that the biggest missed opportunity of all the missed opportunities was Isobel's storyline after Matthew's death?
like. it's Isobel. she's a crusader. she's a campaigner. she's an sjw. her whole thing is busy-bodying efforts to improve the world. and her only reaction to her only son dying in a car crash is being sad for a while?
SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN RADICALISED AGAINST CARS!!!!
Fuck's sake! It's so obvious! It's so SIMPLE! Cars were a new, dangerous, revolutionary invention and a LOT of people did not like or trust them yet!!! Have Isobel process her grief by campaigning for banning automobiles! We know it's a lost cause, we know it won't work, so it adds an extra layer of tragedy to the story and, more importantly, GIVES HER SOMETHING TO DO! other than waffle over whether or not she's gonna marry some lord guy i don't care about
and! then! in the final season! when Mary falls in love again! with a guy! WHO LOVES CARS! AND IS A RACE CAR DRIVER! holy shit. can you imagine Isobel's apocalyptic rage. her dead son's wife, marrying a man who champions the very accursed machines that killed him? and she and mary have a huge fight and ultimately it's Violet who has to step in, be the sensible one, save the day and tell Isobel 'look i love you very much and i'm sorry your kid's dead but it is time to chill, babe, you are hurting this family and you are hurting yourself'
and then idk maybe something happens to wee George, his life is in peril and the only way to save him involves a car somehow, and Isobel has to grapple with the fact that the thing that killed her son has saved her grandson, and it's bittersweet and dramatic and all the things Downton Abbey CAN be when it's bringing it's A game!!
Pls can u reblog that post about the decade long time loop I didn’t save it and want to read that thang 👁️👁️ also the post where people were reccing time loops 🙏
decade long loop
time loop recs
Help! I saw the rec for a fic, but I can't remember where!
I just remember clearly in the summary it was mentioned Ilya going to the Admirals? And maybe Shane and Ilya get married in Vegas in 2014.
thank you in advance!
is it this one?
I Wanna Be Somebody to Someone (Someone to You)
by stabthroughme
Vegas, MLH Awards, 2014: Ilya Rozanov wins MVP and decides to make Shane Hollander experience Vegas. Boston, November, 2016: Ilya calls Shane his husband while making him a tuna melt. Weeks later he's traded to New York. New York, March, 2017: Scott Hunter is forced to realize he is incredibly fond of Ilya Rozanov, and knowing what he does, Shane Hollander is on really fucking thin ice. or: the fic where Ilya and Shane get married in 2014 and Ilya is forced to care about Scott when he's traded to New York in 2016. So he noticed things. And he's there, on the ice, when Scott kisses Kip for the whole world to see.
best m/f dynamic is a flamboyant bisexual show-off desperately in love with an extremely practical girl who’s difficult to impress 🤩
i believe that shane probably has a lot of internalized homophobia but as you know i also believe that if ilya had firmly taken the emotional reins after first time anal and been like 'we like each other now and it's not a big deal,' shane would've been like ok! yay :) instead ilya said AAAA AAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAA and threw the reins away like they were live snakes thus spooking the horses who started bucking and rearing and then ran straight off the edge of a cliff taking the whole carriage down with them
this tiktok screenshot ruined my life i need to see the serbian pigeon movie so so badly but it doesn't exist it's so foul to make this bad of a point with something so cool and then take it away from me.
Tiktok marvel fans really will be out here like "movie fan SHOCKED because i'd rather watch superhero movie #54 in blue and not a sensual 1987 french horror film about a man discovering his wife may not exist set in what is gradually revealed to be a space station" as if you're supposed to agree that superhero movie #54 is the clear winner in this comparison
Love the idea of a story about a complex issue that's told from the perspective of something that cannot comprehend or care about the issue. The way the story would be sliced up and moments that a human would consider pointless would be focused on because the pigeon happened to be there would be hype as fuck
Ok FINE I made the movie poster of it
Mališa, otherwise known as Little One, is a pet pigeon owned by a conservative butler of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy. She is loved, and she is pampered— until her owner is murdered in cold blood, and she is left to fend for herself in Sarajevo.
In the wilds of the city, she feeds from the poor, working nationalist radicals, and the vieux riches alike.
To Mališa, there are no ethical concerns. No politics. No burgeoning nationalism.
There are only hands that feed her, and hands that do not.
This is compelling. Consider me fucking compelled.
Final shot is the bird hearing, but not seeing, the sound of a .32 ACP pistol, and flying away in shock
"From the studio that brought you Goncharov...."
yeah okay ill reblog that
”there are only the hands that feed her, and those that do not” yeah-
heated rivalry fanfic favorites masterlist
no one is asking for this but i have to make my one million hours on ao3 mean something
the texture of memory: to write a silly blurb would do it a disservice i think, but just read it i am so serious, completed
your presence has gone through me (like needle through a thread): ilya gets a family and i cry one million tears of joy, wip
the anatomy of a bird heart in slow decay: an impossible love story and meditation on grief, mothers and sons, and survival. featuring ghosts in the literal sense. completed
fall in love again and again: the classic tuna-melt groundhog day, with a house of leaves flavour, completed
Jessica: teenaged shane as seen through his relationship with his high school girlfriend, i love them both so unbearably much, completed
home economics: nhl lockout leads to hollanov living together in the situationship era-there's no way this could go wrong! completed
Route 96 Kanata: shane suffers a career ending injury before meeting ilya but where there's a will there's a tortured hollanov situationship nonetheless. full of fantastic ottawan idiosyncrasies. wip
World on Your Shoulders: what if shane had a queer rookie while deep in the midst of his internalized homophobia "i'm not gay" era? fascinating and wonderfully pessimistic characterization, this whole series is a dark comedy that i want to swallow whole, completed
wunderkind: breathtaking look into yuna hollander's inner world but everyone really shines through wonderfully here (ilya my heart i love you so much), completed
I have only two emotions (careful fear and dead devotion): shane disappears from hockey post prospect cup and hollanov meets again much farther down the road, gorgeous tender slow burn, wip
we'll make a home on the cracks: journalist shane fights his way out of an ethics torment nexus and finds true love <3 cute hollanov & fun shane characterization, wip
car wash redhead, tube top R.E.M. concert, juror #6: hollanov character study, power and love, i adore those freaks so much <3, completed
frequently, secretly fond of each other: boston! shane, you know it you love it, wip
some pacific wind: the pains of being asian in a nearly all-white sport and having to communicate to the world exclusively in your second language: a hollanov conversation, completed
side note: all of satorussuguru's heated rivalry fics are fantastic and are on here in spirit if not in actual text
It had to be you, Wonderful you: transmasc ilya you are soooo dear to me, completed
Offside: coach/player forbidden hollanov but it's sweeter than you would expect. wip
Honey, you're familiar like my mirror years ago: climbing inside your soulmates body is a thing that is both normal to want and possible to have (ft. painful but warming version of shane's life post. career ending injury), wip
dark out and still thirty degrees: one of the only a/b/o fics i've ever enjoyed (sorry), dives into the misogyny in the bones of the genre in a way that's very cathartic for me. ft. a fascinating trans shane journey. completed
head and body to you: tortured self-destructive shane character study, toxic? situationship hollanov, canon-typical emotion development through the lens of sex, completed
the soviet montage: obviously already popular but i had to, cold-war era hollanov post. ilya's defection from the soviet union, completed
i've been waiting my whole life to know i wanted you: deep dive into shane's militant self denial that also fleshes out a much more culturally-connected japanese-canadian experience for him. #lifegetsbetter(eventually), completed
pronoms possessifs: shane writes a love letter, just wonderful completed
Home Ice Advantage: another boston! shane but diving more deeply into how being traded would impact the hockey of it all, very perfectionism torment nexus, completed (with wip sequel)
Blizost: what if you could climb inside your lover and share one body between two souls?, wip
Mama's Boy, Mama's Boy: shane hollander's journey if the whole time he was also haunted by his situationship's dead mom, fantastic irina characterization, completed
cracked plexiglass: canon rewrite that fleshes out a version of shane's pre-NHL hockey career that's more realistic to the actual environment of high level Canadian juniors, very very good, wip
i know where to draw the line: older captain shane and younger teammate ilya, super cute, completed
Overlay: very well written, read the authors note in the beginning before starting, completed
one of your eyes is always half-shut (something happened when you were a kid): it's GivingAlexeiDimensionality2026 !! such a gut punch to read as an older sibling, completed
Plexiglass Box: what if hollanov met as teens in Moscow? (ilya x coach's son but it was shane the whole time), Excellent tension, completed (sequel incoming hopefully)
but what if I need you in my darkest hour? : our favorite hockey players plane crash Bad on the way to 2017 All Stars, painful in all the ways, completed
always, sun: canon,,,,,,,divergence?? magical realism, gorgeous and vaguely terrifying, completed
I. ONE LITTLE GOD FALLING OVER ANOTHER: the last year in boston, has hardly begun but the mixed media format is so good and the tension is so thick,,,,,pit in my stomach as i eagerly await the rest, wip
nothing makes me feel as good: shane character study through jj's eyes, god im so obsessed with this crazy crazy man, completed
Hello From Moscow, Goodbye from Montreal: canon divergence circa 2012 where ilya calls shane drunk one night, and keeps calling after that, equally funny and devastating, wip
there are like millions more that i will add once i remember them
updated: 4/10/2026
something sooo deliciously sterile about early hollanov.... the beginning of something so all-encompassing happening in white-lit locker rooms, impersonal arenas and budget luxury hotel rooms. stripped down to the bare bones of human connection. we are only ourselves when we are clothes-less in front of each other, uniforms and shoes we are paid to wear strewn or neatly put away. the only uniqueness that separates this hotel from any other we'd stay in this thing that we cannot name between us. we could be anywhere at all, the variations in the monotonous planes, buses, gyms and ice rinks brought about only by our contact with each other. if we're lucky we get a fire escape, a back-of-the-building stairwell stripped of luxury so that it tricks us into thinking we're somewhere different, letting our guard down -- even our houses are decorated impersonally, we are not in the practice of crafting an identity and neither are we rewarded in any way for it, so why would we even start. the things we do in those rooms are more important. the things we do together lend the impersonality comfort as we picture each other in our interior-designed holding pens. the focus always on the action and never on the atmosphere. the singularity all the visible because of the contrast. OH MY GOD!!!!!
https://x.com/josiesaltzmqns/status/2042960820842226052?t=lTZJEg2VLpLPQrrOrwJRlg&s=19
thoughts?
yummm love it. also a rare instance where RR lets the dialogue do the work for her instead of telling us everything they’re thinking and feeling! I think the part where ilya is kissing him and guiding him up the stairs in the ep 4 sex montage is probably meant to do this work for the viewer… like we see the transition from vegas dom drop sub drop to ilya fucking him facedown on the sofa all the way to cozy hoodie boyfriend ilya kissing him and smiling so I think that’s probably the “ilya is getting more invested” arc. but god just imagine what we could’ve had if they hadn’t sacrificed ALL of ep 3 to fucking skip….