literally what the fuck do you mean its still january. how is that remotely possible. its been six months minimum

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

gameshow voice: is it gay subtext or are the writers just so catastrophically bad at writing female characters that the only relationships in the entire story that feel human are the ones between the men.

doesn't it piss you off that you have to find something to eat every single day. every one of them. just every day. you gotta eat something

ao3 authors are something else…

shane: since our rookie season

ilya: i didn’t set up an ad campaign with the two of us together, call you pretty, tease you in the shower, and then almost get caught by your mom in the elevator for you to get our anniversary wrong. since summer before, shane

*voice of someone craving even the tiniest sliver of control* i could make a spreadsheet,

Hello I've just realised that I've never properly stated this so I'm just going to do it now:

Fuck JK Rowling. She is a transphobic, bigoted piece of shit who finds her joy in actively tearing down a community that I'm a part of. I don't stream (or watch at all) the harry potter films or buy any merchandise. My interaction with any of her IP is entirely limited to this small, queer corner of the internet.

I have zero respect for this woman and NONE of the fics I post are in any way, shape or form supportive of her. My interpretations of these characters will forever be queer and trans. I, as a trans person, will always embed my queerness into my writing.

There is so so so much power to be found in actively combatting bigoted people with creativity and open mindedness. Trans her characters, be open to other headcanons, avoid infighting like your life depends on it because we need to support each other to ensure that none of us are supportive of her.

Trans people are in danger right now. Don't let it shrink you down. Stand tall, protest, fight back and be loud. Write to your local MPs, sign petitions. If you have the money and the means, then donate to charities that offer support for trans people and work to protect rights for us. Don't spend your money on any official harry potter merch. Don't stream the films or buy the books. Do NOT watch the new series unless you are willing to acknowledge and accept that your money is feeding into harming the trans community.

Fuck JK Rowling. She doesn't deserve a single shred of anyone's respect.

Be proud. Be queer and trans and vocal.

I love all of you, back to your regularly scheduled programming <3

being in the heated rivalry fandom rn is like witnessing the olympics of gay fan fiction. authors who have been training for years in their respective fandoms all coming together to contribute some of the best work i’ve ever seen to this beautiful show. what a joy, what a privilege

The idea of “but everyone knows that” needs to stop.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.

By all means, let them know so they can make informed decisions, but being kind will go a lot further than attacking them for some info they might not know yet.

Ilya waking up at the cottage, looking at Shane and just saying, "I like you" is so fucking devastating because he spent an hour watching Shane sleep in his arms in his house in Boston thinking the same thing over and over again, believing he would never be able to say it out loud.

But now he can.

the ep2 emotional first time anal is really absolutely fucking insane. the way they’d both been thinking about this for months. the anticipation. the teasing. the full fucking hockey game that just occurred. ‘you meeeessed me’. the race up the stairs, always trying to one-up each other. shane letting ilya into his home and his asshole for the first time. extremely vulnerable but he’s so eager for it. the way ilya keeps checking in. the cum up to shane’s neck when they’re done. the way he lies back and smiles when no one’s looking. the way ilya melts at the praise when shane says that was so fucking hot. how softly shane kisses him. the way you can see in ilya’s eyes how he has to force himself to say i have to go. the way they linger on the stairs, his cab is definitely here, they don’t want to part. shane’s fluffy hair under his hoodie. the way ilya murmurs ‘good trick’. that kiss. they’re so lovestruck i-

God I love this and how the time passing makes it even hotter and more significant, and I keep coming back to this, from Jacob (around the 16" mark in his second What Chaos appearance, abridging slightly):

"That's part of what makes it believable, is allowing time to pass and allowing things to accumulate. Part of the reason I wanted this to be six hours of TV and not a movie is because if people think the first two episodes were rushed, imagine if that was 15 minutes of a movie. Because that's what it would've been. It would've been 15-20 minutes, something like that. So it would've all been cliche, it would've been all little dumb things that happen too fast.

But if you slow it down and you allow moments to become meaningful by time passing, it means more, because you've been thinking about it more. And you can feel it weighing on people more. You're watching someone go from 18 to 25. Like, those are big years. Those are big changes. You go from not knowing what matters to you, to understanding what does matter to you. I have always felt that the thing with Shane and Ilya -- with both of them -- is that the reason they figure out they're in love is because they just can't stop doing it. They can't stop seeing each other. They can't stop finding each other in a room. They just can't fucking stop. At a certain point, six years in, you're like, I'm texting this guy. I'm fucking still -- I can't stop doing this. That is when you go, like, I guess I have feelings. I guess! What else could possibly explain it? Other people have noticed I've been texting the same person, even if it's a fake name in my phone, for seven years. It becomes ludicrous to yourself to think that doesn't mean anything.

I think that's part of the evolution of Ilya. And then I think his father dying is the last straw, of really feeling like you have nobody, and then going, "Well, I do. I guess there's this guy I'm in love with. Ah, fuck. There's this guy I'm in love with. What else am I looking for here?""

i love yuna hollander and she really won mom of the year in that garden scene but when are we going to start digging into the hollander family dynamics. i love a genuinely happy, loving family where the parents have still managed to accidentally instill some really screwed-up internalized beliefs in their kid. obviously there's a much better chance of healing the damage done in the long run but still... soooo interesting to dig into the tangled emotional web of 'i should be happy, i know i'm so loved, i know we're such a happy family, and yet i also intuitively sense that it is my responsibility to never act or feel in ways that might trouble the calm placid surface of our family's happiness.' like we need to be making SO much more of mom, um. i need you to know that i did really try. i tried really hard.

Nancy Friedland (Canadian, 1971) - Okay Okay (2025)

Save me DYH Remus Thank you once again @mollymarymarie for this masterpiece!