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in my little pony universe youd go to a job interview and theyd be like so how does your cutiemark reflect your dedication to this position. And every time youd have to spew some bullshit about how your cutiemark of two tennis rackets actually means youre a team player and good at multitasking and view the market like a playing field. or whatever. and you wouldnt even get the job

maybe orpheus always looks back because his very effort to reverse death means that he can't look forward. if he could look forward, he could accept eurydice's death, grieve, and keep moving in life. his refusal to accept her death is looking back. his going down to the underworld, asking hades and persephone for her life, trying to lead her out... it's all 'looking back'. he does nothing for the entire story except look back. orpheus! looks! back! it's his entire thing! the story ends the same way it begins: orpheus looked back.

we all understand that by asking about shane’s relationships with women that ilya wasn’t “telling him to go get a girlfriend” right. like we all understand that he grew up in a country where what they’re doing is illegal and his dad and brother are cops. right. we all understand that that entire conversation was not ilya trying to “make shane jealous” but was a very strategic and careful way of saying “i’m bisexual. are you, too? because i really like you/what we’re doing” without having to say the word because that’s dangerous. and that his jealousy around rose is not because she’s a woman but more so because ilya understands shane, and therefore knows he doesn’t do casual relationships, and he is sick from the nauseating idea that because shane is in a very public relationship that must mean he is in love with someone else. who is not ilya. ilya, who just basically spilled his feelings all over the place by planning a date, and exposing vulnerabilities, and sighing “fuck, shane” only for shane to immediately panic and end things and leave. that would certainly lend itself to some hurt and confusion. like we all get that… right?