Moonchild

Short Information about me:

I'm Finn(they/them)! Born 92 - virgo and apparently very much a virgo. Don't ask me about my moon and rising signs. Not because I don't find it interesting, but if you do I need to scroll through my 5k screenshots to find the answer lol cat parent of an anxious tuxido wearer named Millie, artist every other year when I remember that I have oilpaints lying around, writer as long as my brain lets me, 11.5 out of 12 months depressed, and certified AI hater ͙͘͡★

I'm pretty friendly⁴; so you're always welcome to slide into my dms, spark a conversation, say hello, send anons, share headcanons, snippets, send me your own work so I can read and praise you (if that is what you want (¬⩊¬ ) )

Things you can expect to find on this blog:

fandom posts¹

art

crack posts

nature and space

left-winged political content and information⁴

books²

history

music³

18+ Content/Explicit Content‼️

¹ Heated Rivalry (fav ship probably Hayleau, but I'm not picky, I love them all), Arcane, Steddie of Stranger Things, Shameless, The Hobbit/lotr, GOT/HOTD, anything Heath Ledger related, Dragon Age, Sky-Children of the Light, Planet Zoo, Project Hail Mary, Critical Role, former Potterhead (may she, who shall not be named BURN!) and maaaany more. Sometimes I rec fanfiction as well. ² favourites at the moment: anything written by Becky Chambers (sci-fi in general, as well as fantasy) but especially To Be Taught, If Fortunate, R.F. Kuang The Poppy Wars, Tamsy Muir Gideon the Ninth, Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles, Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson (ask me anything about this book, and I will talk your beautiful lil ear off), anything written by Octavia E. Butler. ³Hozier!!! I'm a huge indie-folk fan, but basically listen to everything! And when I say everything, I mean evereything! also, please send me your favourite songs. I love exploring new genres, find new amazing voices, broaden my horizon and just sit there in awe listening to someone who can do amazing stuff with their mouth and tongue (yes, kinda pun intended hehe) ⁴I'm a leftist! My biggest role model is Angela Y. Davis. That means very much: Pro LGBTQ+ Rights, Feminist (and yes, this includes letting women wear what they want regardless if its no clothes at all or religious covering, become mothers if they want or not - aka pro abortion rights, anti tradwife propaganda. and to be very clear: this very much includes Trans Women as well! Protect the Dolls!), Black Live Matters, Brown Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate, Fuck ICE, From the River to the Sea, Falasteen will be free, Down with Capitalism, Tax the Fucking Rich, ANTI AI IN ANY CAPACITY but especially in art spaces (like what the fuck are you guys doing?), Protect our Earth, Pro Guerilla Gardening, Pro Community work/gardens, Only a dead Nazi is a good Nazi, go and fucking vote because your voice matters now more than ever! > I am a very kind and nice person, but I am not nice about politics anymore because these are issues that we have to take very seriously.

Tumblr and Ao3 are the only sites I'm active on, so if you ever encounter one my stories in the wild, please tell me and report to the staff of the site you've found it on because I certainly did not allow my work to be shared anywhere else.

I do have TikTok and a Reddit account, but they're there mostly for lurking and spying hehe.

Now lets get to the fun thing of this post:

Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic

the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal

this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately

somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large

following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor

today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea

This article by professor Kehinde Andrews clarifies more about the story of racist harassment Arday has been suffering since he fucking got a teaching job at Cambridge in the first place, in 2023, as the FIRST Black professor in that fucking stupid institution, who sure is taking it's sweet time defending their worker, despite already fucking checking his work for plagiarism and saying he didn't do it:

https://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2026/08/07/ardays-resignation/

1. He wasn’t the first Black Professor at Cambridge, but he WAS the youngest X

2. He was ALSO autistic, and nonverbal for the first 11 years of his life X

Like imagine, you are two talented MLH players. You are in love. You have decided, together, bravely, to make A Statement. Not just a press release, but A Moment. For the culture. For every queer kid watching hockey. For history.

Vincent has been planning this for weeks. He’s going to score a hat trick (he’s a rookie of the year nominee, he’s good enough to just decide to do that shit) and then he’s going to rip off his jersey and show that he’s wearing a Koroygi jersey underneath. The crowd’s going to go wild. Sports media’s going to implode, everyone’s going to cry.

EXCEPT

It’s the same fucking day Shane Hollander gets into his first ever on-ice fight. With Scott Hunter. AFTER a game. Just hockey’s two Golden Boys throwing hands for reasons no one can fully explain. Of course ESPN loses its mind. And of course it’s like an hour before the Nomads are set to play.

So it’s back to the fucking drawing board.

And fine. Vincent’s a professional. He wants to give something important to queer fans who feel like they don’t belong. He and First Name can regroup. They’ll do it in the playoffs.

Now’s it’s 2017. Minnesota and Houston are both contenders for The Cup and it’s the perfect stage. The plan: when Vincent and First Name (obviously both centers) meet for the final face off, they’ll rip off their helmets and kiss right as the puck drops. It would be iconic! The SportsCenter thumbnail alone would win a GLAAD award!

EXCEPT

Just before the second intermission of the Nomads v Drillers game, everyone’s phones explode with alerts that Cliff Marlow fucking leveled Shane Hollander. Now the entire news cycle is “is Hollander okay” and “is Montreal’s cup run over” and “why wouldn’t Rozanov leave Hollander’s side on the ice” and “what does Rozanov’s face mean” and there are a million blurry screenshots of Rozanov looking devastated circulating on every platform.

And Vincent is standing at the bench in his helmet, mouth guard in, wanting to make history, and First Name is looking at him from the opposite bench and they both just know that The Moment is gone, absorbed into the black hole of Hollander and Rozanov content.

And what sucks so much is that Lemaire and Koroygi are good players! They have a genuine, beautiful, historic thing they’re trying to do. But their entire class of hockey exists in the shadow of these twice-in-a-generation talents who can’t stop generating headlines by accident that Vincent and First Name can’t generate on purpose.

It’s like trying to drop your debut album on the same day Beyonce surprise drops hers. It doesn’t matter how good your album is, you’re not getting any streams.

And then Scott Hunter comes out.

And Vincent like, okay, you know what? Good for him. Genuinely. At least it’s not Hollander and Rozanov stealing our thunder for once. The narrative has shifted. The door is open. Maybe now people will actually pay attention when—

And then Shane and Ilya get married.

x

tell me you love it. tell me it made you slam your laptop shut. tell me you brought it up at your college lecture about kink. key smash in all caps. quote the passage that made you think. i promise, we’ll love it.