Sideblog Shrug

I was talking about this with a friend but a really interesting cultural shift over the last ohhhhhh ten years maybe is that many people in fandoms view themselves as stakeholders and not audience members. Because of that, they think that the fandom should be running things or at least have an acknowledged say in how something is run. And every reminder that they are not in control, no matter how small, bothers them.

Crazy how Ilya was like "I'm gonna casually check with him about his sexuality and real subtle like make sure he knows I've got options but I'm not seeing anyone except him" and instead what he said (and what Shane heard) was "I'm getting so much PUSSY I have casual long term flings all the time you're just one of them" and then the disconnect made them both insane

"hollander" (this doesn't have to change, we can go back, we can just be hollander and rozanov and ignore the strings, we can pretend it's nothing more and never talk about it and I'll never say shane again, I'll never ask for more if this is all i can get) "hollander" (there's nothing I can say to keep this from crumbling but i'm begging you)

the way you can see ilya thinking “oh shit, feelings” in this scene and then he panics and ghosts shane for months