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A few Heated Rivalry fic recs on the theme of parasocialism and media overinvestment ruining lives.

  • Halt and Catch Fire by mashawisotsky In March 2019, gambling syndicates dump data from 7,500 hacked athletes online—the biggest breach in sports history. Shane and Ilya's years of private texts are buried somewhere in three million leaked files. A story about privacy, professional hockey, and what happens when the internet finds what you thought was hidden.
  • Initial Response by mashawisotsky Nothing good happened on a Friday. Someone tried to rob Ilya Rozanov’s house. Shane Hollander didn’t know the man in the kitchen, but he knew how to keep moving. How to take a blow. By the time he hit the ice, the story was already out. Hockey, fear, loyalty, and the things you didn’t say all collided at full speed.
  • Gold Rush Fever by This_Witch_Writes After settling his relationship with Shane and meeting his parents, Ilya faces a his last season with Boston while the fall out from the Sochi doping scandals and Russian exclusion from the Winter Olympics is tangled with the NHL banning players from participating. Facing moving to a new country for the second time, Ilya struggles with his own identity as a queer Russian athlete while accidentally stumbling across gay hockey players dealing with their own crises.

And some meta on the more-than-only-personal consequences to being openly queer (in Russia in the 2010s).

#heated rivalry#fic recs#hollanov#heated rivalry fic recs#hollanov fic recs#ilya rozanov#shane hollander#heated rivalry fic has booming socmed reaction and “being outed” subgenres#however most do exist in magical Nohomophobialand#which is understandable#it can be a bit difficult to stomach writing a lot of homophobia even if it's for The Art#but parasocialism doesn't always manifest as Misery#and neutral commentary/reporting actions can result in a lot of social harm#which sometimes is swept under the rug for the sake of more tangible returns such as “reporting the truth” or “informing the public”#or “only speculating based on publicly-available information”#is all i'm saying
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i think my primary critique of heated rivalry, which don't get me wrong i have very much enjoyed watching, is that they try to have it both ways with the homophobia. we see almost none and almost no characters are, but also it's a primary motivator for the plot and a major factor in the characters' behavior and internal struggles. i think it does a disservice to the characters and quite frankly, the discussion of homophobia in hockey culture and society it is inherently a part of, to not portray homophobia as it is.

i get the reasoning behind it, but i think the end result isn't something idealistic or positive but rather just ignores the elephant in the room and quite painfully makes it so that the characters' fears seem disconnected from or irrational in proportion to reality. the gay characters are still unhappy because of it (like media with gay characters is often criticized for) but for a reason that within the show's narrative seems to exist only in their minds. people will say that means its existence is implied, but clearly it's not implied strongly enough because i'm seeing heated rivalry fans absolutely shocked to learn about the actual degree of homophobia in hockey irl.

it's all disappointing from a character building/narrative perspective but frankly insulting as fuck to the very real people who are literally experiencing the situation of being closeted in professional sports right now. to not honestly portray the way homophobia pervades every aspect of life, and sports to a more extreme and much more complicated degree, leaves the implication that the thing stopping athletes from coming out is their own fear rather than the very tangible consequence of people seeing and treating them differently.

#i agree that a lot of heated rivalry is based on internal struggle as shane is largely the perspective character#and most characters are not explicitly homophobic#yes the focus is on internalised homophobia and homophobia on the individual level rather than institutional or societal#but wider homophobia isn't the focus of the story being told at its current point#and i don't think that makes the queer characters' worries seem disproportional#as regards the main couple there are very few non-queer characters who actually know they're queer#by episode 6 regarding shane/ilya#4 definitely know and 1 is implied to know and 1 may have known but is dead#scott/kip is a side pair#kip is not closeted and his friends are queer or queer-coded and his dad is supportive#but scott has no close personal relationships outside of kip because he's used largely as a plot device#and there are depictions of heteronormativity and microaggressions with shane's teammates#and hints at the toxicity of stan culture#i do agree that it would have been nice to have ilya expand a little more on “because it's russia” as a reason for remaining closeted#in his discussions with shane#and for there to be some public reactions to scott's coming-out#but from what i've seen the confrontations with wider homophobia are likely to appear in season 2/3#when we get more scott/kip and the consequences of ilya and shane actually trying to have a relationship#as well as specifically the homophobia of hockey culture#but that may include spoilers that i'm unsure about you wanting
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Like. We can ignore that when Jason came back from the dead he was literally just batsh*t crazy and a huge d!ck and blame it on. Like. Pit madness... I guess...

Or we can accept that tentatodd was something he did. For some reason. And that he dressed up as Nightwing and tried to kill multiple children and in general was insanely. Unstable...

And I'd still f*ck him anyways. Pit madness waters down the appeal, actually.

He blew up a school and beat a young teenage boy up? Bark bark, I'll make him a Daddy anyways. Bet.

Became a horrible monster and ate people? At least I know he knew how to use his mouth.

Also. Like. Most of that stuff he did to his family is just. Like. Casual sibling stuff. His Cain instincts bled through and all that.

Anyways.

#tentatodd is the real proof that jason todd is cass's twin brother
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has anyone else ever gotten very gently and genuinely interrogated about their emotions regarding their platonic kink partner by a deeply(?) gay German bartender during a full-body massage? it was distressing.

#but you still love them right#there were questions like#even though you don't see them often#and i have to wonder is this a cultural thing#do all germans have emotions or is it only the very gay ones#and why bring it up when i'm naked in the back of a gay bar at 1400 in the afternoon#was i supposed to wingman?#i don't think i did that correctly#fuck#i did realise that at the point i became naked in the back of a gay bar at 1400 in the afternoon#but by then it was too late#i mean i let them have first dibs on the massage#and what was i going to do. not also get a massage?#weak#like they got his number but i don't think i helped#but they had been psychologically torturing me with terry pratchett for 2 days so i think i deserved the massage#but did the very gay german bartender have to bring this up whilst his hands were on my tits#he was like: where is your heart#and i was like: about an inch across and between those two ribs i don't know what you want from me
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thoughts on heated rivalry not really showing why the mtl vs bos of it all matters so much

i fear something that i am disappointed by with season one is that i think jacob tierney and co have not necessarily done a great job with is putting how much worse things are for them vs even other two hockey players who are fucking into context.

it's hard, i know, because this is a romance show before it is a hockey show but i think especially for american audiences, it would have been useful to show the depth of the habs vs bruins metros vs raiders of it all.

ilya and shane aren't two hockey players fucking who would cause a scandal because they're two hockey players fucking. they would cause a scandal because they're two hockey players, one from montreal and the other from boston who are fucking.

the rivalry is fucking insane. now i'm a montreal fan (the montreal canadiens aka the habs irl) so i've obviously got a mtl leaning approach on it, but even i can admit its been nasty going both ways. and it's been nasty since the actual literal inception of the league. montreal is the oldest team in the league and boston isn't far behind. they're the team who's played each other the most times in the history of the entire league.

every single fucking game they play is electric if not absolutely insanely chaotic. i gaurentee you that every time ilya and shane play each other there is at least 1 (one) fight and/or borderline problematic hit that will cause fans to debate if the player should be fined or suspended.

it is fucking nasty.

yes shane and ilya were made rivals because they are the top 2 players in the league and were drafted at the same time etc. etc. but the reason it remained so fucking big, so fucking vicious through everything, even more than a decade after they both came into the league is because the rivalry between montreal/boston will never die, therefore the rivalry between their best players never will.

that's why its so fucking insane and scary for shane that they'd be seen in public together. that's why despite ottawa being the same division as montreal, it was a safer bet for ilya to play there rather than montreal as they publicly tried to get friendlier

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saw a post last night that was like “it’s ironic that shane is a neurotic little dork who just HAPPENS to play a violent masculine sport” and my head almost popped like a balloon. HES A JOCK!!! HES A FUCKING JOCK!!!!!!!!!! please i’m begging you shane hollander is a jock

#jaucktism
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thoughts on heated rivalry not really showing why the mtl vs bos of it all matters so much

i fear something that i am disappointed by with season one is that i think jacob tierney and co have not necessarily done a great job with is putting how much worse things are for them vs even other two hockey players who are fucking into context.

it's hard, i know, because this is a romance show before it is a hockey show but i think especially for american audiences, it would have been useful to show the depth of the habs vs bruins metros vs raiders of it all.

ilya and shane aren't two hockey players fucking who would cause a scandal because they're two hockey players fucking. they would cause a scandal because they're two hockey players, one from montreal and the other from boston who are fucking.

the rivalry is fucking insane. now i'm a montreal fan (the montreal canadiens aka the habs irl) so i've obviously got a mtl leaning approach on it, but even i can admit its been nasty going both ways. and it's been nasty since the actual literal inception of the league. montreal is the oldest team in the league and boston isn't far behind. they're the team who's played each other the most times in the history of the entire league.

every single fucking game they play is electric if not absolutely insanely chaotic. i gaurentee you that every time ilya and shane play each other there is at least 1 (one) fight and/or borderline problematic hit that will cause fans to debate if the player should be fined or suspended.

it is fucking nasty.

yes shane and ilya were made rivals because they are the top 2 players in the league and were drafted at the same time etc. etc. but the reason it remained so fucking big, so fucking vicious through everything, even more than a decade after they both came into the league is because the rivalry between montreal/boston will never die, therefore the rivalry between their best players never will.

that's why its so fucking insane and scary for shane that they'd be seen in public together. that's why despite ottawa being the same division as montreal, it was a safer bet for ilya to play there rather than montreal as they publicly tried to get friendlier

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ilya rozanov asks shane to be his boyfriend, attempt 1: bro I fucking love having sex with girls

ilya rozanov asks shane to be his boyfriend, attempt 2: might fuck around later and marry a woman lol. yeah i have one in mind. she's really hot :) her dad was a goalie :)

ilya rozanov asks shane to be his boyfriend, attempt 3: [to shane's parents] WE! ARE! LOVERS!

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Coda:

ilya rosanov finally just tells shane that he is his boyfriend: i am your boyfriend. I think. probably. seems like it at this point, doesn't it.

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PSA: tumblr user littlefuckinmonster is stealing human bones from cemeteries in Louisiana. Please don’t let them get away with this and spread the word/signal boost!

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this post is officially a decade old now

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CHARACTER ADDED!

BONUS!!! BIOSPHERE PERMANENTLY ALTERED!

  • Bone-Stealing Witch
  • No, like, actual graverobbing. From a historical cemetery in New Orleans. Got arrested and everything.
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Now that this is re emerging l, once again ask, does anyone have the audio / song that goes.

“Someone fucking bones again on tumblr…”

“I think they stole a whole skeleton…”

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#Youtube
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Nightwing and Mirage receipts, part 2

This is a continuation from part 1.

Arc Length and Collections

The second part of the Nightwing/Mirage plotline happens in The New Titans (1984-1996) #100-122 and Team Titans (1992-1994) #6-18. These issues are not collected.

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD.

#i want you to know that Deathwing shows more cleavage than Discowing#you can see both of his male-presenting nipples#one of which is pierced#also in team titans issue 15 Killowat reveals that he is racist#nightwing#mirage#dick grayson#deathwing#the new titans#team titans#cw rape#cw sa
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What the Fuck Naruto Characters

Some Naruto characters are just crazy. It does not make sense. It can not make sense. Kishimoto did not try. There's something unexplainable wrong with them that clearly could not and can not be fixed:

  • Namikaze "i would rather die than be a single mum" Minato
  • Hatake "excuse me it's my UNemotional support rock" Kakashi
  • Uchiha "BLUE PILL BLUE PILL BLUE PILL BLUE PI" Obito
  • Nohara "have his eye doki doki have my heart doki do-" Rin
  • Uzumaki "treason is just how tsunderes play hard-to-get" Naruto
  • Haruno "the voice in my head told me to do it" Sakura
  • Sarutobi "leadership is fatherhood, so i must be a deadbeat dad to all my citizens" Hiruzen
  • Senju "nuclear proliferation will calm everything down" Hashirama
  • Senju "actually it's DR. Frankenstein, show some respect" Tobirama
  • Uchiha "brainwashing fixed me so it can fix you too" Itachi
  • Uchiha "it's not gay, i just want his face in my tits" Madara
  • Shimura "if i kill everyone then i can't lose the popular vote" Danzo
  • Uzumaki "if it's not my idea then it's a great idea" Nagato

Take note of who is not so What the Fuck. These are just normal, explainable crazy:

  • Uchiha Sasuke, who is as normal as a traumatised iconoclast gets in magic ninja land
  • The rest of the Rookie Nine
  • Jiraiya, who is a bad person with some competence and an amount of logical reasoning
  • Orochimaru, who is just a sociopathic enby who wants to live forever
  • Senju Tsunade, who is a fairly normal sledgehammer disguised as a human
  • Gaara, who grew up possessed but managed to emerge as buddha
  • Konan, who is somehow pretty emotionally healthy
  • Yamato/Tenzo, who went from child slave to the straightest man
  • Sai, who went from child slave to troll who fucks
  • Maito Gai, who had a dream to be a personal trainer and did the dream and there were no problems
  • The rest of Team Gai
  • Black Zetsu, who is just an alien plant with mummy issues
  • Uchiha Izuna, who is just a rage monster
  • All of the Bijuu
  • Yakushi Kabuto, who just has an identity disorder
#naruto#rin really was extremely okay with body parts as an expression of affection huh#i know fics like to emphasise the medical aspect in rin lives aus#but let's be real she'd be orochimini
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I know it's a joke that Geto Suguru is anime Hitler, but the difference between the two is that Geto had a point. Even if it was a stupid point because he was in the middle of a psychotic break when he did all those murders, and then he had to double down because he is a person deeply obsessed with what is proper and moral. He actually reminds me of Light Yagami, which is a little funny since it's Gojo with the god complex. Together, Gojo and Geto make one whole Light Yagami, and what is that if not love?

#geto suguru#suguru geto#gojo satoru#satoru gojo#stsg#jjk#jujutsu kaisen#light yagami#death note

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