hope next time we play you decide to show up :)

english major brain: words can evolve and develop as a society goes on. the way a word is used is its definition. it's pointless to hold onto the idea of right vs wrong words human brain: THAT IS NOT WHAT LARP MEANS!!!!!

not all ships are For wanting them to be in a happy healthy relationship together. sometimes shipping two characters means you want them to be erotically obsessed with each other and become entwined in a mutually toxic love affair for a few months and then horrifically break each other's hearts and never speak again. sometimes you want them to be codependent best friends with enough repression to explode a submarine who only make out/have sex when they're at their worst. sometimes you want them to pine after each other for years, never say anything, and then die. sometimes you want them to kill each other. this, too, is shipping

no cause not every ship can kiss, but they CAN emotionally manipulate and attempt to kill each other (& that’s sometimes more romantic)

At some point, Ilya thinks, now that they're married and on the same team the nights they spend together will outnumber the nights they spent apart. He wonders of he'll feel like a different person when that happens, becoming someone who has spent most of his life at Shane's side. He wonders if that will be the thing that fixes him.

having unwashed hair will have you believing shit like i can’t be saved

as much as i poke fun at “tumblr prose,” i will acknowledge that sometimes when you’re writing and you’re really in the groove, you’re really feeling yourself, you’re on your capital-a Author shit, and you write a line that makes you go, “oh yeah, this is the Good Shit. this is so Subtle and Says So Much. this is Characterization. this is Themes and Motifs. you could write a whole essay about this one line. the master of the craft strikes again!” and then a month or whatever later when you’re editing you read over it again with post-write clarity and you realize you wrote some real “people die when they’re killed” bullshit

its man tit tuesday my dudes

shane knew ilya would make fun of him for the stylist thing. that was an olive branch. shane knew ilya wouldn't be able to resist such a perfect set up and he's right! this is coming off the back of ilya's very loaded "maybe it will give us a chance to get to know each other." and it just reads to me as shane going, "but we do! here is this dumb thing i've done and i'm giving you leave to make fun of me because i've missed you. i'm being boring! make fun of me, please"

i love ilya because he was texting shane shit like “can’t wait to be deep in your asshole💜” twirling his hair and blushing at his phone like he’s shakespeare

i wanna hear what y'all think a gnome would be a disease vector for. i personally think 4 hours after initial bite OP develops a fever and starts compulsively seeking shelter beneath conical structures