Don't Smoke Crayolas

it's well made, well shot, well directed, the music is interesting, the costumes are both thoughtful and subtly period accurate, the sex scenes are intentional and, again, accurate to what hooking up when you're like 18 actually feels like...the actors are of course attractive but they look like real people. the characters are varied and well fleshed out, the acting is really, really strong

so many shows and films shoot and then slot in whatever music kind of fits or could be licenced in the budget after time, but you can tell that the scenes in hr were shot with that specific music in mind. and the same intentional approach runs through the whole thing

Consider: baby Shane who pronounces ‘puck’ as ‘fuck’. Like. Teeny (fat) baby. He’s about 14-15 months and in Yuna’s arms watching a hockey game on TV.

“MAMA FUCK!”

“Yes, sweetie. PUCK.” *glances at her in-laws awkwardly.”

He’s almost two and running around with a baby hockey stick, and a cousin takes it.

“My fuck my fuck my fuck!”

hello anon! happy to explain!

so the original post comes from the ever hilarious @cuppydogshane who made the astute observation that when shane goes to ilya's tampa hotel room, well, he's kinda giving pleakley. however (!), keen observers of the calendar will notice that 11th march is not a thursday. @lesbianlandry reblogged the post on thursday 19th march, coining the phrase "pleaked up on a thursday" in the process, and tumblr did what tumblr does best and ran with it, yes and-ing all the way.

so, on thursdays you'll often find various riffs on "pleak", "pleakley", "pleaked up" etc from the fandom as a result and why not, who doesn't love a shitpost!

i've included some of my favourites below because i love fandom joy and just to give an example of what i mean. screenshots from @smokingrozanov, @ilyasmole, @themoonandmyman @keasusreevsus and @kaijuerotica (post links 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) there's also the #pleaked up thursday tag that most folks seem to be using to share the pleaked up fun if you want to have a browse.

this is also why you might find @fuckrozanov's thursday shoracle or the thursday @assignedilyaoftheday in his hawaiian shirt as a nod to the joke.

and speaking of ilya, there's debate on whether he was pleaked up or serving jamba in episode 5, but i'll leave that up for individual interpretation because i go between the two. screenshots form @oknotgood and @liliesrozes (post links 1 & 2)

TLDR; shane wore a hawaiian shirt reminiscent of pleakley from lilo and stitch in episode 5 and now there's weekly shit posting about it.