Under a Clear Sky, In a World Untarnished,

bunch of ice

5. out

4. guilty

3. wanting

2. lacking

But I didn’t know that they really are That Dense, All The Time. The same way sharks will bite anything that might be a seal, just in case, these birdbrains will apparently test just about anything for beak size. 

Behold a short list of bad ideas:

Human foot is not food, bird.

That is clearly bigger than your entire body.

...You do know what a bear cub is, right? Right??

That is a BICYCLE SEAT.

You may need to learn how to set up your paints and such… but this is what people did, live, while the show aired. That’s what the show was for. I had family members create lovely works of art they enjoyed, which I still have on my walls, because William Alexander and Bob Ross both said:

SCREW METICULOUS CLASSICAL ART PRACTICES — JUST GRAB A PALETTE KNIFE AND BIG OLD BRUSH AND PAINT!

They freed a whole generation of people who were taught to paint detail and realism and exact representation of reality — people who largely gave up this kind of thing because it got tedious.

I watched the joy of family members as they rediscovered art as a messy fun spontaneous half hour activity.

been getting people asking me to draw stuff so i am opening my ko-fi for sketch requests! send me $10 and a character, ship, or meme redraw (no scenario requests please, but thesis statements are welcome)

i mostly do top gun/hbowar/sas rogue heroes but i WILL take requests for other things if i enjoy them! please ask or search my blog first if you are unsure, tysm! i like to draw things i like!

someone texted the shop phone lmao, assumably to chat up one of our lady artists, and u know, i spend a lot of time around cishet men and yet it's always so utterly fascinating to directly interact with THIS type of cishet man

my favorite parts:

- the initial attempt to save face by acting like "Whatchya cookin'" was not a simple answer and i somehow was unnecessarily rude in my response, hence warranting hostility

- perfect???

- the pointless recontexualization of the peace symbol emoji??? because the way he originally meant it was apparently flirtatious so he had to make sure that it now meant something different and NOT gay ! !!!!

- the absolute brain blast of simple vs single, hell of a save my guy

- bold of you to assume I have a girlfriend

- "i don't take getting fucked with easy " is some shit you'd hear from the antagonist of the first episode of a shounen anime, the big guy that they set the mc against before getting thrashed to show how strong the mc is

- this reads like a 15 yr old looking up how to sound intimidating but i really hope this is like, a 30yr old guy who went, "how do i show this guy i'm very tough and heterosexual, what do tough heterosexual guys have, uhhhhh GUNS and uhhh OH CARS! nice

It doesn't even cross Kip's mind that hate crimes exist when he asks Scott what's the worse that could happen, because that's not a consequence possible in regency romance. A demand to choose a partner over hockey polite society happens all the time in regency romances. The privileged partner not understanding the dark side of hockey classism, check. A partner caving to the societal expectation of his station and staying the closet is framed as an act of selfish cowardice that he needs to overcome to be worthy of love.

And usually in regency romances, like Pride & Prejudice, the solution to this barrier is for the couple to just choose each other and declare their love and it all works out (due to the man's extreme privilege shielding his wife, which doesn't map to homophobia) or for the couple to happily leave the nasty gossip-mill of polite society (Montreal) to more comfortable country social circles (uber-supportive Ottawa). This could be why the Russian issue is waved away, because regency stories usually end with the couple either winning over dynastic acceptance or with them in a more powerful position than their disapproving relatives. Neither of which can be applied to this situation, so there is no roadmap for Reid to continue the issue.

This could explain why Reid feels that coming out publicly is imperative to a happy ending. If homophobia is positioned by the writer as the modern take on romance novel classism, then remaining in the closet--in any capacity--functions as an adherence to social hierarchy, which the regency genre demands their love interest grapple with and reject.