welcome to my fandom hodgepodge

I know everyone hates Hayden except for me, but Hayden referring to Shane as the twins' "older brother" instead of uncle is so fucking funny.

Everything we know about S2 (and S3) of Heated Rivalry so far:

Production is going from August 10th to December 2nd

Jacob Tierney said he's likely gonna keep doing 6 episodes per season

They're supposedly filming 12 episodes in 2026

The Long Game might be split into 2 seasons

Jacob Tierney wants to do "My dinner with Hayden"

Role Model/Troy/Harris will be worked into season 2 but Shane/Ilya will remain the centre of the season

Season 2 will air in Spring 2027, possibly in April

We're getting Shane coming out to the Metros

Rachel said the Trophy Room will happen in season 2 during the Waterstones event in London on March 8th, 2026

François Arnaud and Robbie G.K. will return in season 2 as Scott and Kip

Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova will return in season 2 as Svetlana

The budget for season 2 hasn't increased

Scenes that Jacob expressed his excitement for: the Ilya/Hayden dynamic, Shane/Ilya getting married by Hayden's kids, Shane/Ilya fighting (his favourite scene in TLG)

Connor and Hudson are signed for three seasons in total (including S1)

So far only season 2 has been greenlit

In season 2 there will be new producers/writers: Jayme Alter Wilson will join Jacob Tierney and Brendan Brady as an executive producer. Lori Fischburg and Liane Cunje will join as producers. Mike Goldbach joins as co-writer alongside Tierney

Casting:

Little Savannah.

Paws Crossed chapter 2: Starved and the Starving

I'll go ahead and summarize the arguments she made as to why she thinks homework sucks:

It doesn't actually promote self-sufficiency. Kids who don't struggle with organization and discipline at school will also not struggle with their homework, but kids who do struggle at school and need more help will also struggle while trying to get anything done at home.

It's inherently unfair/unequal. Children's home situations are so very different, some kids have their own desk and computer in a quiet room and at least one parent around who has the time & knowledge to help them plus the financial means to hire a tutor, while some children don't even have their own room and their parents might not be around or lack the education and means to be of any help at all.

AI exists and can be used to do almost all homework and most kids use it.

Assigning and checking homework and enforcing consequences when students don't do it is a waste of class time and creates an unpleasant atmosphere.

And also a very important point that many people in the comments made based on their experiences as both students & parents of students:

We call ourselves a community and we are, that's important, but it is not like being a group that routinely meets irl or it's not even like being in a group chat where you routinely talk to the same people and can learn from each other. We are so many, we are so far away, there are so many barriers between us, and especially for people who cant risk coming out, I believe we do need to recognise that the online queer community isn't comparable to other types of communities.

In a community, the community's history and knowledge from elders would be taught to the younger members. We dont have a reliable connection like that, partially because of the danger transphobia poses and partially Because we're so spread out (i mean around the world). I think it's unfair to expect young people who are trying to put words to their experiences and find their own labels to have a degree in queer history. Im not saying it's unimportant to learn that history, of course it is important, but I think some folks apply expectations to the queer community that it simply cant meet.

i feel really silly talking about this but a weird thing that happened for me when the Dungeon Meshi anime took off and the fandom really exploded was seeing how weirdly cutesified a lot of fan depictions of the characters was. the "canon versus fanon" of it all, if you will. a week or so ago there was a bonus comic drawn by Ryoko Kui that got spread around Twitter about a What If situation in which Laios got eaten instead of Falin, and people were shocked about the idea of the party basically immediately giving up on the idea of saving Laios, including at least one "why does the writer think she knows so much" joke (i'm hoping it was a joke), which really baffled me because it just made sense to me that the party initially wasn't all that close to Laios (besides Falin, obviously). the relationship of the main cast is something that grows over the series. please read that carefully: the main cast does care for one another, they care for Laios, it's just that it's something that is developed over the course of the manga... and even that idea was too much for some fans

i'm probably going to sound really snobby, but i think there's a lot of people who are more fans of the fanart than the actual series...

i was mainly being silly when i was like "yeah let Marcille be weird about gender" but i was also kind of serious because it kind of is a prominent part of her character. it speaks to the world she lives in, what she values and finds important, and if you think about it, it actually speaks a lot to the subtext around her and Falin: Marcille hates "gross things," Marcille hates being uncomfortable, Marcille thinks women should be girly, and men should be masculine, and yet she willingly journeys down into a gross dungeon and eats weird monsters in order to save Falin, a woman who likes bugs, fucking around in the dirt, and pants. what do you think that implies about Marcille?