laz, laza, lazae

(A companion piece to this one. Soft pastel on construction paper.)

“What’s that for?” Shane says.

“To celebrate.”

“Celebrate what?”

“It’s our honeymoon.”

HUDSON WILLIAMS

ilya destroying that plate of spaghetti right before this sweet moment is so fucking funny to me. especially since the actor was actually eating the spaghetti

like give me a shane who responds to months of ghosting + vegas 2014 by going okay. i understand. no strings attached, it's just sex, i will not make any emotional bids because he doesn't actually like me. he doesn't want to be my friend and he doesn't want to hang out or chat or anything. it's just sex. he doesn't like me. but it's good sex.

(which is why he's so thrown off guard by everything about the tuna melt situation. he's got rules in his head based on what their past relationship has been like, based on what ilya himself made clear to him in 2014, and whatever ilya is doing now is completely breaking all of those rules!!!! what is happening!!!)

but specifically i really want to see them finally talk about it and shane's just like wait. you cared about me this whole time????? what the fuck??

and ilya's like. um. yes? (a little hurt, but pretending he's not) did you. not? care about me? at all??

and shane's like what? no of course i did, i cared about you the whole time but i just thought you didn't give a shit about me until recently. like i thought you just didn't like me and only liked my body, i guess.

and ilya's just like . . . . . . . . . . you thought i saw you as, what, a sex doll? you thought i didn't like you at all, and you. you still met with me every time? you thought i didn't fucking like you or care about you even a little bit and you still let me fuck you?

and shane's like. shrug. yes?

As usual, Stitch has written required reading for all of fandom:

Sexual racism is a thing.

We’re not just making it up as an excuse for why we’re still single.

In particular, it’s been documented that Black women and Asian men suffer the most from it in the United States, and we get the least responses from dating websites. We’re also two groups that get mocked for even wanting relationships, that have people getting mocked for being in relationships with us, and who don’t get to see ourselves in fully fleshed out relationships in Western media as often as other groups of people.

We’re viewed and treated as both disposable and unlovable.

Of course, that translates to fandom because fandom isn’t born in a vacuum.