Watch to the end...

The joy when he did it!

Warding off the oncoming depressive episode by reading about very old tortoises

Pleased to report that the 190 year old tortoise is a gay icon

Jonathan is the oldest known land animal btw. I need everyone to know that the oldest animal alive is a gay tortoise

it feels good to be nervous opening tumblr in public again now that my dash is just gifset after gifset of the heated rivalry boys going at it. i pulled up tumblr.com in the coffee shop without thinking and the old german man at the table next to me had a front row seat to the riding scene in stunning technicolour before i shut my laptop lid. it's like how they're digging holes in the deserts of tanzania to restore degraded land and heal the ecosystem, except the only hole in this case is shane hollander's

i was so sad, i drew a little bat so i wouldn’t be sad. and now i am no longer sad.

here is a little bat to banish your sadness

This nice little bat reminds me of this other nice little bat who was drawn in the 1200s:

This is the only website where I routinely see people say things like “oh this reminds me of something I recently saw from the 1200s”

Ilya btw

i think a lot of heated rivalry criticism boils down to the fact that people don’t understand that romance can in fact be a genre on its own with its own conventions rather than a sideplot to a bigger storyline. “heated rivalry had no plot” the romance IS the plot. it is a romance storyline. like this cannot be that difficult to understand. what do you want them to do? go on a mystical quest?

Jack Zimmermann watching Heated Rivalry: “When are they going to play hockey?”

Hockey commentators on Heated Rivalry are hilarious because what do you mean you just witnessed the greatest goal in the history of hockey followed by a smooch between Ice Molotov and Canada's Next Top Role Model and you still consider them rivals???

Imagine seeing this live and not thinking they are at the very least hate-fucking

Ever since I was a little girl I’ve loved information

yes good.

white americans when you tell them that the idea of climate change as an impending disaster is a reductive first world perspective because it’s a tangible reality for many in the global south already:

maybe if you see south and southeast asians dying in the heat and latin americans dying in floods and all you think of is imagining a reality where YOU are affected, then you should rethink how you see people of color. if you cannot see climate change as a real disaster until it is other americans dying in the heat and the floods and not just black and brown people, then don’t talk about climate change until you can acknowledge the grim reality of climate change for everyone.

I really really love that there is NO finesse to the way Glinda just fuckin…throws out the whole government. Just fuckin chucks it. Her Elphie is dead, she has nothing to lose, and yes she’s gonna honor Elphaba’s legacy in every way possible once she’s had a second to breathe, but first she’s getting petty revenge and she’s so goddamn ruthless about it. Emotionally eviscerate the Wizard first, THEN banish him to the ends of the earth. Humiliate and taunt Morrible like a cat with a mouse, THEN have her dragged away and locked in a cage previously used for Animals. This motherfucker did not cleverly or intricately work the system to bring down the government, she staged a one-woman coup in her sparkly dress and Elphie’s big clompy boots and she was an ice cold bitch about it. She knowingly lets herself get ugly for a minute and revels in it because that’s all she has left. Heartbroken vengeful Glinda you are so dear to me.

big fan of how hudson williams hit hollywood like a canonball. he runs around like a little chaos gremlin pushing all the made up rules off the windowsill with his paw then stands by connor storrie like that makes him untouchable and it does.

The fact that there are multiple times in canon (and obv countless times in fic) where people find out about hollanov and are like "could this affect how they play against each other? Have they ever let each other win???"

And the true and normal answer is, "no, of course not, they are both professionals who take their craft very seriously."

But the even MORE true answer is, "well, it DOES affect their game, in that they are even more competive with each other, because winning at hockey is a Sex Thing for them."

But they can't tell people that :/

Sex scenes actually being used for story telling & treated like any other character interaction instead of as heterosexuality intermissions (to show that a male character is in fact into women) my beloveddd

I just KNOW Shane bought him those fuckass water shoes and Ilya made a big deal about how dorky and boring it is to wear water shoes (with big heart eyes the whole time that Shane’s autistic ass didn’t pick up on so he was genuinely pissed) but then Ilya made another big show of putting them on and then he did that handstand like “look here are the water shoes baby I put them on just for you”