maybe it is okay to still be a kid once in a while

WE HAVE GOT TO START LOVING THE PROCESS MORE THAN THE PRODUCT AGAIN

happy pride to every professional athlete in love with their teammate

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it really really sucks that having two characters not fuck one another is often the most narratively compelling option for a story because it really is just so awesome when two characters fuck one another and it feels so good. but of course as liam gallagher once said it's the wanting that's the hit the hit is actually shit x

The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it's written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity

The problem is the insane bisexuals are not interested in commercializing. They write for free and publish their works on AO3.

i love the phrase "which could mean nothing" i think its my favorite thing to come out of the internet ever i love saying it. it could mean nothing but we all know better. we know the truth.

ilya’s body language is so fun to watch he’s always slinking and sidling about like a big cat. very sinuous and sly. if pressed to choose a favourite move i would say i’m partial to the way he saunters (“mr. real estate” <- imo one of his best saunters) and of course his self-assured swagger when he yells “ROLL OUT!” although having said that surly sullen ilya is very good also. i like it when he sulks and slouches. this has been my ilya s-word manifesto. thank you everyone for coming

belated shoutout to skulking, shrugging, stalking, strutting, slumping, striding, smirking, sashaying, sneaking around, shying away, stealing glances, and, of course, slutting it up

ilya rozanov? shane hollander, i just wanted to introduce myself and burn the image of my freckles onto your retinas and shake hands twice so your hand doesn’t forget the feeling of holding mine and joke with you so you feel a bit of camaraderie with someone in this foreign place and wave goodbye penguin style so you spend the next decade trying to never let a goodbye between us be the last one :) anyway i should go they’re waiting for me!

me, caring very much: idc it's just a sport

dude it's just politics, it doesn't matter. all it does is shape every single aspect of the society you live in from the second you are born until forever

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation with the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

sports journalists will be like "this is the third time youve quialified p3 since 2021 AND it's a full moon tonight how do you think it affects the flow of the fuel and does this make tyre management easier?"

sports commentators will be like "if you really line up these result numbers of these two competing athletes they will show you an ireelevant pattern that doesn't make sense if you think about it but it makes sense because i think it's fascinating"