i think having little to no actual hockey in heated rivalry is a disservice to what it could have been because any hockey fan will tell you that playing hockey is gay sex and the gay sex the players have is just foreplay for hockey

like there are sooooo many interesting little neuroses the players have and the team dynamics and the player dynamics and the power dynamics and the assists and d pairs and the rivalry and the pressure oh god the pressure and the cellys and the locker room interactions but of course not to mention the RITUALS.

i think there is something to be said about this wave of white women made media that is so surface level with an underlying racist and/or insensitive bias and that refuses to engage with criticism. i'm talking taylor swift's the life of a showgirl, emerald fennell's wuthering heights, colleen hoover, the acotar series and booktok in general, etc. whenever you dare to raise concerns about the superficiality or the questionable writing or the treatment of poc in those pieces you get shut down with a "it's not that deep" or "let women have fun". this weaponisation of misogyny to justify slop made for mass consumption, especially considering how wide spread it is becoming, scares me quite a bit. to quote princess weekes, "the girlypopification of anti-intellectualism" is truly concerning, and i do believe it is linked to the rise of far right movements worldwide. if you refuse to engage with what you are being presented with, and exclusively consume brain smoothing content "for fun" then yeah you do become more susceptible to propaganda. it is that deep.

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mutual just posted "ok i'm normal now". objective: survive their reverse-chronological dashboard breakdown (wave 1 of 30)

i hate when tumblr is like heyyyyyy 🥹🥹🥹do u wanna use tagsssss 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 like no fuck off what do u even want me to tag #baseball bat #sawed off shotgun #senseless violence