:-(

i spent my whole commute thinking about the way that as soon as eddie recovers from his initial surprise that buck came running into the hospital, buck wants to see the damage, and eddie switches directly into his Nobly Suffering schtick. evading eye contact. his little mm yeah as he acknowledges, yes. it’s going to be quite the shiner, that’s correct buck. he covers his black eye back up and is suddenly subtly playing up how injured he is now that buck here in a way he was NOT doing at all with athena and alex before he arrived??? eyes closed, faint grimace, he’s so tortured for a solid 2 second beat. eddie 100% wanted buck to fuss over him you can’t convince me otherwise. which makes it even funnier that, instead of any of that, buck’s like. good news. this is totally marketable. sex sells eddie! :) and eddie who literally wanted to play a lead role in your local hurt/comfort tag on ao3 is like. wait no. betrayed. :(

Someone in the Heated Rivalry universe saw the news about Ilya leaving Boston and wrote a post: "Ilya Rozanov signed with Ottawa as in Shane Hollander's hometown which could mean nothing." And everyone was like lol until they got outed and op silently reblogged the post.

i’m not aromantic but i believe in their beliefs

for me being bi has contributed a huge amount to noticing all the ways in which romance and friendship run together and i think in general people would benefit from recognizing that romance and friendship are socially constructed categories used to describe a vast, nebulous, and often overlapping range of feelings