"wrecked, solitary, here."

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

During the tuna melt panic, while mumbling excuses shane says "stay, I can't" maybe its because I'm not a native english speaker but i found it so funny like you would usually say "I cant stay" but shane was verging on the realm of poetry and had he stayed any longer he would start talking in chaucerian english or sth. Or maybe it's just standard english in canada idk

no one talks about how truly difficult it is to stay away and stop speaking to someone your heart and soul are tied to.

all love and respect to The Plan like yes it gives them a good reason to be seen together often after they announce the charity… 1.5 years later. but also like. they could have just offhand mentioned somewhere that they kinda became friends at the 2017 all star game? the first time they played on the same team? where all the other guys on the team and their families saw them talking and getting along? the one where david noticed they had chemistry on the ice? some time after which shane got injured and ilya was clearly worried about him? and ilya visited him in the hospital? they had the setup right there. no one other than rpfers would think ilya’s move to ottawa was to be closer to his “new friend” shane. and them already being friends would give them a better excuse to start a charity together. yeah their teams are rivals but the personal rivalry thing could have died down when ilya was still with boston 😭 shane coulda told his team rozanov’s not actually a bad guy after all just a rough player 😭 ilya could have made jokes with his team that boring hollander is actually a pretty funny guy if you have a conversation with him for more than 10 seconds 😭 i’m sure the league could have actually cashed in on the narrative of these two on-ice rivals playing one ☝️ game together and just burying the hatchet immediately because they had too much fun. but i guess we’re gay and complicated and that’s too convenient haha

The other day I was reading a fic whose author's last update—belonging to two years ago—was sorry guys I'm in pain and my health is worsening I can't write... I assume they are dead now 😭

I think that when you're overstimulated you should appear kind of grayed out and no one should be able to interact with you like a locked character in a video game

heaving a big aro sigh about the way amatonormativity is so baked into the language we use to talk about relationships. "Significant Other." "Having feelings for someone." "Special Someone" (insert goofy eyebrow wiggle here). even the little kid playground chatter of "do you like them?" We talk circles around romance but it's assumed to always be there, at the center of everything. it needs no qualifier attached. all you have to do is hint at romance for it to be assumed. if you want to talk about love, about mutual care, about deep devotion, outside of romance, you have to go out of your way to clarify what you mean. i want words that convey significance without carrying the weight of other implications.

not buying the product isn't enough I need the company to know their advertising made me want to kill them with a golf club.