why did he have to be a raven…it could be tic tac crow…

appreciate what we have for once in your life you ungrateful cunt

appreciate what

we have for once in your life

you ungrateful cunt

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Heated Rivalry season 1: favorite added scenes

As an older queer, allow me to say: the walls of the closet are load-bearing. It is our job as a community to stand in front of that door and tell everyone who wants to peek inside to fuck off.

There are so many reasons a person may choose not to come out and there is no reason a person would owe the public or a stranger that information. Certainly it's not owed simply because someone is famous.

We have fought for decades to make it safer for people to be open and authentic about themselves, but we are not yet there. And even if we were, the closet would still be something we need to maintain for those who are not ready to reveal that part of themselves.

weird take about fiction: sometimes, actions that would be abusive in real life, hit different in a story. and sometimes i see people react very very strongly to those actions, and i totally get it, because like, that can be extremely triggering and ymmv on whether its handled well or not, but it always makes me a bit. hm.

like, i think the most obvious one is slapping/hitting. in real life, there is basically no situation where that is acceptable, unless you're actively defending yourself/someone else. but fiction is inherently larger than life, its about how it feels, subjectively, over what actually happens, literally. sometimes a character who has never before been violent will hit someone, and it's intended as like, an indicator of how fucked up everything is. that shit is going down. or, a character will trash a room, throwing things and destroying everything in their path. and then its never mentioned again, everything just continues as if they HADNT destroyed their own and other people's property in a frankly terrifying display, because it was just a cathartic moment to represent the storm of emotions the person was feeling. and when i see people like 'this character is an abuser, the story needs to address this,' i think maybe its actually okay for fictional characters to do shitty things and not have it framed as shitty, by the story itself or even on any sort of meta level, with the intended audience reaction. sometimes the point is just to resonate with your emotions, not to dissect the literal sequence of events.

like obviously ive been on the 'you can portray whatever you want in fiction, its all a pretend game' train forever. but i think the important thing to me here is that, you can also defend bad things in fiction. not just 'they did everything wrong and i love that,' but even 'they were 100% justified when they did [thing that would be extremely bad irl].' cause its like, ok, they did do that, but like it was the only way to tell the story well. dont worry about it.

all this is true and to it i would add in certain genres, elements of that genre are exaggerated in the way that musicals use non-diagetic singing; when the emotion crests, a character sings in a musical, is the famous way to explain why characters tend to burst into song there. except in, say, a martial arts movie for example, instead the characters fight, because that is the thing which is the narrative focus and emotional core of the genre.

in real life, when you get really mad at someone, it is universally unacceptable to settle that heated argument via roundhouse kicking them in the head, of course. but we understand that the universe of a martial arts movie is heightened specifically in relation to its use of one-on-one fighting and to not treat it as directly analogous to what it means to physically fight someone in real life, much as we understand 'how do they all know the words?' is not a good way to think about a musical. you understand the rules of the fictional universe treat these actions differently to both real life and also to stories in other genres much of the time, right? you know that fights in martial arts movies follow different rules because they are not just literal fights, but emotional storytelling devices that represent something else as well. it not only hits different compared to real life, but also to, say, a rom-com!

this is such a Domestic Hollanov pic to me..... dressed kinda slouchy got their slides on ilya holding his cigarettes in one hand and shane's boob in the other

ok let’s review what we learned today:

- do not trust reddit for or with any given information at any given time. ever

- always factcheck for yourself before spreading potential misinformation

- there is no hope. the abyss is infinite. all i see is void. we will never know the light

- in emergency situations our squads can mobilize within an hour. drill scenarios are important to test the strength and effectiveness of our collective response

- if given a decent reason we will spontaneously create a holiday out of anything

- it’s fun to be on tumblr when a couple hundred people are freaking out over something that doesn’t actually impact the real world in a serious way

- we are prepared to handle an ongoing alectopause and our current resources and equipment ensure our survival for at least the next 23 years

- if we manifest it hard enough anything could be true

- stay strong for alecto release 2027

imagine you’re so fucking stressed out, you’ve been losing to him which your dad told you not to do and now you have to go to your nightmare home in days, you’re just trying to avoid everyone but he tracks you down, drunk, screams at you, still can’t seem to leave your side, DOES THIS WITH YOU SEE ABOVE, screams at you again, literally comes one centimeter from kissing you again, and storms off. like ok

little did ilya know that he would soon be sitting on that same rock with the love of his life

shane hollander + clarifying questions