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basically can everybody i want to talk to and be friends with just come over. Can you just come over

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

I love my bisexual menace. 😈😂

reblog this and tag with a food you no longer have access to (closed restaurant, state you moved away from, ex’s mom’s cooking, etc) that will haunt you until your dying day, mine are the spicy chicken sandwich on the employee menu at the fine dining restaurant I was a prep cook at, and the onion bagel from the kosher place down the street from my house when I lived in the city

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen

the thing is that the hockey is the foreplay. the thing is that they know in advance when they’re going to see each other. they get more and more excited for it the closer it gets. they flirt (badly) via text message in the days/hours prior. the thing is that when you don’t see someone for weeks at a time, and you want them so badly, even knowing they’re in the same building as you can make you crazy. the thing is that one of them is going to win the game. the thing is that they’re going to tussle and they’re going to one-up each other and they’re going to sweat. ilya is gonna get rough and he’s gonna talk shit. shane is gonna get riled up and he’s gonna work hard. and one of them is going to win. either way, shane is getting fucked. but the context of it changes. if shane loses then he’s probably annoyed/mad, which ilya loves, and shane gets the catharsis of sex. if shane wins then that means ilya gets to take his power back at the end of the night by fucking the shit out of shane. i promise you that by the time they get to the locker room pre-game they are absolutely already worked up. they’re nothing short of ravenous when they finally get in a room alone together. they did the foreplay already. shane’s drooling for it already. sports is sex. flirting is sex. anticipation is sex. being annoyed/annoying is sex. i swear the hockey is part of the sex. and then sex is also sex, which honestly feels too on the nose in the grander context of their relationship. it’s all sex. all of it? the whole time.

i like when they first get to the cottage and shane just starts yapping about how he has his own well

So I saw I really cute thing in an interview about this! Jacob Tierney said that for Shane, he wants Ilya to feel comfortable and at home in his cottage. He wants the space to be for both of them. And for Shane, knowing little things like the water is clean and safe straight from the tap is something that would make him feel more relaxed in a space so it seems like a detail he needs to include: look, you're home, nothing here can hurt you or cause discomfort.

'The Magpie'. Claude Monet. 1868-1869.

The honestly surprising thing here imo is that even for *very* rich people apparently unbridled capitalism that makes them as rich as possible apparently doesn't buy them the same satisfaction as it can in places with less inequality.

You'd think (and every second temporarily embarrassed millionaire will argue) that if you can command a private limo, public transport doesn't matter. But apparently the systems that result in good public transport also result in amazing holidays for people so rich they wouldn't even consider using it.

If everyone can afford a nice coffee in the morning, there's a cute little cafe every 100 feet to serve it to them; if there's only 100 people in town that can afford that habit they're all going to have to hop into their swanky limos and haul their groggy asses to wherever the exclusive Coffee Club is located to get their fix.

If there's no public transit or bike infrastructure, your swanky limo is stuck in traffic behind 120 beat up Honda Civics.

If there's workers rights and public healthcare the barista there wants to have a nice little chat with every customer, because that's the human default way of greeting people in the morning. If there's not they straight up don't have the spoons and you get the dead-eyed Gen-X Millenial Gen-Z stare while you order.

No amount of individual expenditure will buy you what living in a healthy society gives.

can i hear it for odd and unusual women

kitty car 🐱

'Be Quiet and Drive'. Mark Thompson. 2023.