stay afraid, but do it anyway

I feel like it was pretty well advertised when it switched from captcha to recaptcha that the point was to do something useful with all the effort that's wasted on them. I guess eventually it just became a background thing and less tech savvy people didn't know. But it wasn't really a secret that this is what was being done.

i’m not aromantic but i believe in their beliefs

for me being bi has contributed a huge amount to noticing all the ways in which romance and friendship run together and i think in general people would benefit from recognizing that romance and friendship are socially constructed categories used to describe a vast, nebulous, and often overlapping range of feelings

I literally think about this all the time and I firmly believe he never shows his mother’s cross around Alexei or Grigori. His way of protecting her memory from them, even long after she’s gone.

Drunk ilya voice shaaaaaaane. I want to Chop lawn. And shane is like 🙄 you know you can’t use your Scythe when you have been drinking 😐

and while im on the bathroom scene ilya was trying to be cruel to protect himself from intimacy + ruin shanes ability to have expectations of him AND IT DOESNT WORK!!!!!!!!! FOR EITHER OF THEM!!!! shane is literally looking at him like he hung the stars like ilya just showed him that he still wants him + still likes him + shane is treating it like theyve shared something sacred and ilya realizes hes literally Right. He isnt crafting that kind of cruelty for anyone else . he isnt pushing anyone else like that . Having shane value that part of him turns it into DEEEEEEP intimacy for Both of them

and hes trying to punish shane by giving him mean mean instructions but hes also soaking up shanes relief and giving him explicit orders <- something hes done purposefully over and over To Calm Shane Down . Which he enjoys partially because HE gets to be the one calming shane down!!! like hes fooling himself!! hes trying to congratulate himself on holding back from letting shane see him but he is doing all his favorite stuff to shane and soaking in all of shanes beautiful reactions + shane is seeing him the whole time

my biggest wish for season 2 thats not gonna happen is that i want shane to read ilyas plane crash instagram goodbye messages and not have a chance to find out ilyas alright until he has had the biggest meltdown of his entireeee life like i want him to read the messages and scream like hes been shot and collapse to the ground i want him to freak the fuck out i want him doing the classic autisim meltdown behavior of using your fists to pound your head and pull your hair i want hayden to have to call yuna like 'i cant get him to calm down and he is definitely gonna pass out if he keeps scream crying like this' and he puts her on speaker so she can try to talk to him and she tries what she knows but shes literally never heard him sound like this. i want her to try to talk reason about how they dont know anything yet nothing is concrete and hes just crying that he cant do it without ilya hes not gonna do it without ilya ilya his baby his love his ilya. i want him convinced ilya died badly until he hears ilyas voice again im like so serious

Out of all the heated rivalry analysis I’ve seen I’ve never seen someone mention that after the all star game Shane no longer drafts and deletes texts. He says what he intends to say the first time and stops editing and second guessing himself and it’s one of my favorite details showing that their dynamic has changed and no one talks about it

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we're all on the buddy system. I'll start: bok choy

after a lifetime of hearing about aragorn but not reading the books or watching the movies, genuinely nothing could have prepared me for his actual introduction. the hobbits picked this man out of a dumpster. he is a textbook softspoken angst prince and he is covered in dirt and he probably smells so bad. he’s the coolest man alive and is so casual about it. his number one skill is Knowing Where They Are and his number two skill is Having A Horrible Destiny That Torments Him. tolkien got it in one i’m afraid aragorn son of arathorn you are the guy of all time

I’m starting to think some of y’all haven’t actually felt the rain on your skin… which is crazy because no one else can feel it for you