listen i love ao3 as much as the next guy but ive seen people quit fic writing over the past few years because people comment and engage with authors way less, and then everyone still freaks out when ao3 goes down- if a fic is irreplaceable to u, let the author know!
Writing a fix-it AU for a fandom who's just experienced The Horrors is like how I imagine it was being a medieval innkeeper during a blizzard or something
Yes good people come and sit by my fire nothing can hurt you here
imagine if you were a vampire that lived for 100s of years but you just had a regular guy's memory. Like a normal person. "What was Venice like in the 14th century" Ahhh, I don't...I don't fucking remember. There was a guy, Vincenzo? Maybe that was the 15th century. Wait, did I live in Venice?
fanfic so good you start punching the air and pacing around the house
Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
the older i get the faster time goes by and the more it makes sense to me when vampires in fiction are like "yeah didn't really do anything for 30 years just kinda took it easy"
production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
schmoop, whump, squick—the old fandom world was filled with such beautiful, autological words. let's bring them back, i want to see them prosper.
Today's aesthetic: fic that spends several thousand words establishing Kink World, the world structured entirely around the author's excruciatingly specific kink, does one sex scene in like chapter two, then spends the next thirty chapters interrogating the sociopolitical implications of Kink World.
I’m a slut for #HeatedRivalry.
photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.
this photo. minneapolis. 💜
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
I propose March 1, 2003
a wide shot of Capital One arena during period one of the Caps-Panthers hockey game, on a media break so the screens all have rainbow backgrounds and say things like “Pride night” and “love wins”
a closer shot of the Jumbotron at Capital One arena during the first intermission of the Caps-Panthers hockey game. the screen has a rainbow background and is showing pictures of the Caps float at the 2025 DC Pride Parade
hello from Pride Night where the Caps scored, promptly got the goal revoked because they were offsides, and then immediately got scored ON. love truly wins. (also I am having a GREAT time)
The last line of the interview though!?!??
"Heated Rivalry, as a show, will always be focused around Shane and Ilya. That will be its core, that will be its heartbeat, and we're not in danger of running out of story in the near future."
They lured us in with the butts! Turns out, #HeatedRivalry is a tearjerker.
agreed!!! I love the contrast too of Troy on his journey of, essentially, deprogramming himself from toxic masculinity hell and Ilya/Shane’s mental health narratives throughout TLG (Ilya’s turbo depression, Shane’s struggle for control, etc.)… watching that play out on screen would be amazing!
hi y’all, the HEATED RIVALRY season finale just affected me so much that I had to come tell my friend the internet about it. I’m talking ugly crying. more than episode 5! and part of it is, there’s still that kid from high school watching fucking Glee who can’t believe we get to have this show. WHEW
I’m also hoping for Common Goal s2 because JUSTICE FOR KYLE! Your DILF is coming! soon your place of employment will be a GAY BAR THAT YOU CO-OWN!!! (I’d also love a Role Model inclusion…. but I am still so overjoyed at the existence of s2 at all that I’ll happily watch whatever the team makes!)
Welp, I just spent the last hour alternately squeeing and crying. What a beautiful moment of queer joy. Ilya and Shane, Scott and Kip, my boys.
imagining an all night diner in a redwall world. little rat smoking while cooking on a flaptop. burned coffee in an acorn mug. the whole thing is inside a pumpkin
With Hockey RPF the fanfic was for the romance and the sex, the things canon didn't provide. But in Heated Rivalry canon does provide. So logic dictates that the fanfic is there to make them actually play hockey.
Heated Rivalry feels like (and i do NOT mean this as a criticism) a propaganda film for the concept of twunks.
Leia calling Chewbacca a "walking carpet" seems pretty racist but I guess we're not ready to have that conversation
very little brings me as much joy as explaining the plots of romance novels to my husband. no one is more earnestly appalled. "he made a BET to marry her? but that will hurt her feelings when she finds out!" yes beloved
Brad Lander just going pure sicko mode after he cross endorsed Mamdani is the funniest sub-plot of this entire campaign
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
California passes proposition 50, which will mean multiple anti-LGBTQ+ Republican congress people will likely lose their seat.
A continual bloodbath for anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans tonight.
Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.
TRANS RIGHTS WINS ELECTIONS
everybody transgender
TRANS MENTION DURING ZOHRAN'S SPEECH TO NOTHING BUT APPLAUSE YALL AINT EVER GETTIN RID OF US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
