She/her/hers Ginger. Traveler. Observer. Occasional goof. Zombies have recently stopped plaguing my dreams, which is probably for the best. We were starting to become friends.
A 19 year old passenger with her baby, who only spoke spanish, missed her connecting flight due to weather and would have been stuck sleeping in the airport but my co flight attendant (who spoke spanish) booked her commuter hotel for her and gave her a free room for the night
Another passenger missed her connecting flight home but since she lived just under an hour from me I gave her a ride from dc to virginia beach
My pilot was contacted by the wife of a pilot he'd flown with (who later killed himself) because she'd found a photo of their crew at dinner, so now he takes group photos of every crew he hangs out with, just in case
Another passenger missed her connecting flight and was crying because her mom was in hospice so 2 other passengers who did not know her offered to rent a car and carpool down to jacksonville together
An actor who I will not name but who I'm a huge fan of was in line at the airport pizza place in front of me and my co flight attendant (also a fan) and we were trying so hard to be cool about it and he could tell and he paid for our food because "You all take such good care of us in the air, we should take care of you on the ground."
The van driver for our new orleans overnight heard me say I was vegetarian but wished I could try authentic gumbo and called his friend who is a chef and then drove us to the restaurant where I was given a creole style vegetarian gumbo he'd improvised
After a terrible night which saw me and my co flight attendant trying for 4 hours to get hotel rooms from our airline, the night clerk at a hotel finally took over the phone call and reprimanded them on our behalf, dictating the exact paperwork she needed sent over and then expedited the process so she could give us rooms
When I was little I showed a flight attendant a picture of a ladybug life cycle I drew myself, and he sat down in the empty seat on the other side of the aisle and drew a flipping plane and holy cow that was the first experience I had of someone drawing and drawing amazingly well. I wonder how he's doing...
I still have the drawings! And the notebook!
The notebook in question:
The terribly childish drawings in question:
LOOK AT THIS
I DIDN'T EVEN REALISE HE'D WRITTEN MY NAME
Flipping heck 🤣🤣🤣
Oh yeah, this was a Virgin Australia domestic Brisbane to Sydney flight which I'd done with my family multiple times at this point.
Btw I was 8.
Gerome Gardiner, I have cherished this drawing all throughout my childhood, and if you ever see this, thank you for taking the time on a pretty empty flight to draw me something with such beauty that I have carried it throughout my life.
But I feel I should apologise because I have not kept up my drawing skills and neither have I had much time or energy to do so 😅
I LOVE the fact that Shane is boring and stays home to read his books while Ilya parties like your typical fuckboi and then by the end of that montage Ilya is dying of boredom in the middle of the club and blowing off a hot woman to scroll on his phone (checking on Shane).
I LOVE the fact that Ilya genuinely loses interest in his wild lifestyle because he falls in love with Shane's boring self and he loooooves it. He WILL spend his nights at home doing the dishes probably and touching toes with Shane on the couch like the world's most boring old couple instead of knocking back shots at the club with gorgeous women wrapped around him. And he's SO happy about that.
Maria Skłodowska-Curie's notebooks are crazy once you think about it. They're so radioactive they have to be sealed in a lead box. Imagine a world where atomic theory is forgotten and a dude just goes "yea there's a book that details the secrets of the universe, the machinations of the creation of existence down to its barest essentials, but if you get close to it you fucking die. The more you read it the more your body slowly disassembles into mush." like wat excuse me
Yuna and David had a valid concern when asking about Ilya's past promiscuity, because they need to know that their son's partner is taking it seriously
The "I have only been in love with one person" line from Ilya is beautiful and poignant and said without doubt or hesitation, to relieve all of the Hollanders concerns.
But what I think is important is that Shane's response of "Same here. Only one." Though this may seem unnecessary to his parents ("we know you pretty well, Shane"), it's NOT unnecessary to Ilya.
Ilya crashed the fuck out over Rose Landry. Ilya expected Shane to bring Rose to All Star Weekend, in the books Ilya even expects Shane's "can I tell you something?" To be an engagement announcement. Rose could be open and affectionate with Shane in front of the whole world. The whole world thought that Rose and Shane were in love.
Ilya isn't used to being loved. Ilya doesn't believe he can be loved.
Ilya needed to know that not only does Shane love him, but at no point, regardless of how much Shane denied himself or how hard he tried with others, at NO POINT did he ever give his heart to anyone else.
When trans women are mocked and made into jokes in the media, I get very upset, and I am often told “Kay, you can’t go through life getting offended every time someone makes a joke.” And I sputter and object but they don’t hear me. So I want to be clear for once, about why the jokes make me angry.
I learned to hate myself for being transgender before I knew I was transgender. I laughed at the jokes in stand up comedy routines, and prime time sitcoms, and animated comedy shows, and in the movies, and in books, and in games, laughing at trans women for existing, about “men in dresses”, about people who “got their dicks chopped off”, and I learned to think that was worthy of ridicule.
And then a day came when I felt a pang of envy at what my female classmates were wearing and I repressed it, and felt guilty, and a day where I felt incomplete because I had no breasts and I repressed it and I felt disgusting
And a day when I realized the only images of romance that made me feel anything showed two women together and I repressed it and I felt like a monster
And a day when I realized I felt sick when I looked at myself in the mirror after every shower before work and couldn’t bear to look at my own face, and I hated myself.
And then there came a day when I hated myself so much, and I thought I could never understand why, and so I just wanted it all to end. And it was just a miracle that I swerved my car back into my lane in time.
And all of it started with a joke that I heard on TV, and then kept hearing from all the voices from the ether, over and over and over, worming an idea into my mind before I was old enough to realize I was absorbing it, the idea that a man in a dress is funny, and that changing your body parts makes you a freak, and that women who have penises instead of vaginas are liars and hurt men. And they’re still making these jokes. And somewhere out there right now, just like all those years ago, there is a little girl in a t-shirt and cargo shorts with buzzed off hair watching the TV, hearing that joke and absorbing it without knowing it, who will someday have to pry herself apart to tear it out of her head, just like I did.
I know this is a really heavy post but if you read it and you appreciated it, I’d appreciate it in return if you reblogged it. This is really important to me and I want people to read it and understand it. Thank you.
Matt Kenny played competitive hockey as a child in Quebec. But as a closeted gay kid, he felt unsafe and ultimately, walked away from the sp
The first time Matt Kenny watched hit TV show Heated Rivalry, he had a panic attack that lasted five days.
Kenny played competitive hockey as a child in Quebec. But as a closeted gay kid, he felt unsafe and ultimately, walked away from the sport. Those feelings popped up again as he watched the TV romance about two gay hockey players.
"It was this heavy feeling that hung over everything, which was, you know, the fear, the joy, the secrecy of love that was never supposed to exist in daylight and, you know, internal homophobia and shame — shame that players like me wore like a second skin," he told The Current's Matt Galloway.
Heated Rivalry is a Canadian television series that tells the love story of two pro hockey players on opposing teams. The adaptation of a novel by Canadian Rachel Reid has become a runaway hit for Crave, which says the show's debut is the most successful of its original series to date.
The show's steamy love scenes and unabashed romantic joy have people like Kenny talking about what it is actually like to be a gay man who plays competitive hockey — and expressing hope that the fear and pain they suffered will become a thing of the past.
As a child, Kenny played four to six days a week, taking long bus rides to other provinces for games, but in his late teens, he quit.
"It just kind of felt like I was giving everything to this sport, and deep down inside, I just knew that this sport I loved probably wasn't able to love me back," he said.
He first watched Heated Rivalry on Christmas Eve and posted about the show and his own secret teenage relationship with a fellow hockey player on Instagram four days later.
"When I shared what I shared on Instagram, like, I woke up three times that night, you know, panicking — take it down, delete it, delete it. You've put something out in the world that isn't safe."
But he's been "blown away" by the positive response.
He's received hundreds of messages, not just from athletes but also from parents, telling him stories about kids being closeted and afraid.
"So many younger people are living in shadows and living in fear of coming out," he said.
Oh my Gd Ilya is perfectly written. So often in relationships where one character is autistic their partner loves them in spite of their autistic traits, not Ilya. Ilya loves Shane because of them, Ilya comforts Shane with no frustration, he accommodates Shane willingly without being asked. It’s wonderful as an autistic person to see a character be fully loved when so often autism is written as a burden.
I will never get over Heated Rivalry because this Canadian funded hockey yaoi with a tic tac budget became the biggest show this year brought people together saved and changed lives and did it all while being unapologetically queer.
I think its funny that as a teen ppl were like "ew ur like 20 why are u on tumblr" and then in my 20s everyone was like "ew you're 30 why are u on tumblr" and then now in my 30s seeing posts like "ew you're 40 why are you on tumblr" stop being scared of aging now its the only thing on earth u have absolutely no control over at all. U will grow because u are here sorry
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