Kitty Assassin

doctor: tch... i guess theres no choice...!!

*doctor pulls in nurse for a tender embrace and a beat passes before they kiss passionately*

*pulse starts again*

nurse: i cant believe it...! doctor youve saved yet another patient through your unorthodox methods!

doctor, looking out the window to avoid the nurse's adoring gaze: suppose i have...

doctor, thinking: sigh... will i ever get to approach her not out of obligation but out of ...love...;!

nurse, thinking: i hope she doesnt realize ive been manufacturing the yuri shortage to engineer these kinds of scenarios

AAAAAAA I FINALLY GOT THE SLEEPING UMBREON PLUSH!!!!

I heard about the sleeping Espeon plush about a month or so ago and I REALLY want to get that one too, but the Walmart here hasn't had any of the Eveelution plushies aside from one or two Eevees I've seen. And they finally had them yesterday! There were several Espeons and just this one Umbreon, and as much as I want both, these aren't exactly cheap plushies, so I decided to just get Umbreon for now and hopefully they'll have Espeon still in stock at a later time when I'm able to get one.

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

this fandom is primarily white. that has shaped everything about it—the discourse, the dynamics, the way certain characters get treated, the way certain actors get treated. and if you've been in this space for any length of time and you're being honest with yourself, you already know this.

here is the structure of what happens: in all white spaces, asian identity gets flattened into stereotype. in queer white spaces (& this will be a tough pill to swallow for many of you) it actually gets worse—because whiteness becomes the default lens for queerness itself. so it's not just "he doesn't act like what white people expect," it's that his existence reads as a disruption to how queerness is supposed to look. one axis of marginalization is not authority over all of them. a lot of people in this space have not learned that.

what that produces is the most self-assured and punitive discourse imaginable. entitlement that becomes weaponization—of identity, of language, of "correctness." it is exactly why queer people of color do not feel safe in spaces like this, or in identifying with queerness at all when it has been this thoroughly and historically shaped by whiteness.

this is not abstract. not even a two days ago someone was in my notes talking about european superiority on an HR post. when i named it—because this is a japanese canadian character, and no matter how you dice it you are implying something very strange—anons flooded in with defenses about nationality, canadianness, anything except the point. that is the pattern.

and it extends into how this whole thing gets managed. it is strange that Hudson's PR team spends more time fielding questions about his sexuality than addressing what keeps getting dredged up about him—which, by the way, is happening precisely because he is the main person of color on this cast. it is strange that the people directly associated w this show, and i am deliberately not naming names, mostly speak up about speculation on sexuality and relationships, but i have heard them address the reality of having an asian canadian lead maybe once or twice, in very mild terms, considering how much of the hostility toward him is directly tied to that. this is the same dynamic i'm describing above. it is about what people are comfortable naming. queerness fits the framework they already have. combined with race, apparently, does not.

Masculanized an Asian character

Became a heartthrob as a POC

Gave an award-winning performance for a neurodivergent character

Is dating a woman after playing a gay man

Gets just as much praise as his white costar

Doesn't censor himself to fit in

- "Hey, how was your summer? Good, good."

- "Mic'd up. I'm mic'd up. Don't."

- "Have you ever been to Greece? Told Ilya I would ask you."

- "What? No, man, he didn't say that. He said he was gonna get your ass. Yeah, man, he only fucks one ass. Yeah, I mean, I would say fuck you too but--"

- "Heeeey, davai, davai. Great assist. Hah, no, don't come closer, I'm mic'd and you know I don't trust you."

- "The Royal Tiger Towel Paper Towel Power Play. The Royal Tiger Towel Paper Towel Power Play. The Royal--"

- "HEY MATHESON. You ever been to Vegas? I said, you ever been to VEGAS? I hear they let the good hockey players go there in the summer but I feel like you wouldn't know that."

- "FUCK. Hey, ref, what the fuck was that? Oh, you didn't see that? Fuck you. No, you stay there, my husband's gonna talk to you--fuck you, put me in the bin then, this is bullshit--"

- "You have the smelling salts? Yeah. FUCK--"

- "I am mic'd. Remember I am mic'd. Nope, not even in Russian."

- "Oh, yeah, the pickle video was funny. Harris said it got a lot of views, so. Yeah, no, he actually really does love pickles that much."

- "Sinclair, you got something to say? Yeah, I'm better at hide the pickle than you are at hockey. You want to ask another stupid question?"

- "You know, I run a charity too. Oh, I just assumed that you were doing some kind of Make-A-Wish thing out here with your wingers, since it looks like this is your first day on the ice."

- "Oh, hey, look. Jackie and the kids are waving at us. Okay. Okay, Rozanov, that's enough."

- "Mic'd. Mic'd. Mic'd."

- "Hello Hockey Night, welcome to my husband's shoulder pads--" "Fuck OFF, Rozanov."