thoughts on things
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girlrockthe state of the internet with so many things is like, if you talk about it then you lose... but i love talking about things!
WHERE I'M AT
— heated rivalry is a perfectly serviceable show that is generally consumable and has its weak moments but was created on a small budget and it charmed me and i like it and enjoy hollanov as a dynamic and i continue to read their fanfiction. does it require the extensive amounts of discourse it has transpired... no but that's how pop culture works so we must live with it.
— connor is the best actor in the hr lead cast... and that's okay!
— connor is a gay man and is dating francois... and that's okay!
— jacob has an even larger age gap with his twink bf and the only other openly bi actor on the show is a porn star so i promise no one on that set caresss
— francois is the only member of the hr cast who is steadily and consistently on the nhl's neck about the toxicity and systemic failures of sports culture and is clearly the most openly leftist cast member (or at the least like, a well-meaning millennial bernie bro, which is basically where la maxes out)
— hudson is not the most oppressed man on earth for being a half-korean wasian man who lives in vancouver. you can find 102394 hudson williamses on a single street in richmond... And that's okay. it's okay to be a straight wasian dude with a cool alt white girlfriend. these people act like being a wasian man is the most excruciating and isolating experience in the entire world. i already have like 0.5 sympathy points for asian men on a good day and now you're throwing in a korean wasian on top of that and expecting me to care about identity politics? please
— people are all insane... that's the problem. what happened to objective truths and an ability to see things as they are and live with that knowledge and moving on with your life. why are you so defensive about being a fujo when you are exactly that... it all boggles me somewhat. i'm like why am i as a lesbian going It's Okay To Be Attracted To Men @ defensive fujos who don't want to examine their attachment to gay media... it's fineeee! you can hag out! #itsok2bestr8
i love hags. hags make the world go round. in fact hudson williams himself is an active and earnest hag. haggery is for the well-meaning and pure of heart. where was i?
ultimately i think everyone just needs to get more normal. don't they have jobs... but honestly i'm kind of obsessed with this need to equate any skill-based evaluation to baseline racism, like imagine if i was at work getting evaluated and was like You're only saying this because i'm chinese. can you imagine. what in the world. when was the last time anyone ever championed for a "poc's mistreatment" in the entertainment industry and then you looked inside the bag and it was a half-korean wasian. SORRY again A HALF-KOREAN WASIAN. LIKE CTFUUUUUUUUU
it's fine. nothing against korean men. why are k-pop fans so bad at adapting to any other fandom space...
anyway in semi-related news some of the extended discussion around eileen / alysa is like Can you all please kill yourselves right now... how on earth did these insane right winger dudebros latch onto my baby alysa of all people?! even as a casual "4-year fan" (and even then not really, i'm barely a 4-year watcher) i've been following along her career for a long time specifically because i remember her being an awkward baby bay area wasian and developed sisterly instincts and it's been wild to see her platform grow over the past few weeks. in a good and bad way... somewhat mostly bad way in terms of how the attention has spiraled but regardless i am very very happy for her success. and all the fanart is so cute <3
hm. sometimes it's like you simply don't have to entertain fruitless discussion... this is true of most things of course even if it's still important to maintain a baseline standard conscience. basically it's a hard balance because there is a line you will inevitably have to draw for yourself in terms of Is mastercard an ally? and in certain spaces you will pretty much always be "disappointed" and unfortunately i do find it unproductive to generate speculative optimism in the face of that... for example i don't pretend to have any real objective conclusion on the relationship these specific minnesota natives have to the current political events in their state and how it affects their relationship to their own politics and the american government. i think it is a large stretch to put this out there under a speculative guise and direct positive affirmations toward these players... we don't know anything. what do i know. the veneer of wokeness in the nhl is truly paper-thin. it could mean everything or something or absolutely nothing. seeing people seesaw violently over otter has been like ? well really i prefer not to speak. but many americans truly have no concept of patriotism being inherently political...
also dapitt fandom is always so mad about everything and they're so genuinely atrocious at watching tv and waiting for emotional payoffs and remembering details and they care too much about fandom perception and i'm like let's all just stop thinking about things so much. maybe. again it's a spectrum but i feel like everyone could be a lot less mad about 80% of things. in general.
trinity santos is my whole entire world though... i really think it is so special that she's written like a whumpy fandom blorbo because it is hand-tailored to my own personal interests i can't believe it. like okay i did actually want a prickly wasian lesbian with a history of self-harm and repressed childhood trauma on my screen, thank you, i will offer you my firstborn for this perfect self-insert...
anyway 2 more weeks until chinaaa and then nmixxxxx and then more concertsss and thingsss and eventsss and seeing friendssss. work has been keeping me busy but not in a burnout way, it's just my new everyday cadence i suppose... i am enjoying it and i like that i have coworkers i get along with and can see regularly. that is the update from me
WHERE I'M AT
— heated rivalry is a perfectly serviceable show that is generally consumable and has its weak moments but was created on a small budget and it charmed me and i like it and enjoy hollanov as a dynamic and i continue to read their fanfiction. does it require the extensive amounts of discourse it has transpired... no but that's how pop culture works so we must live with it.
— connor is the best actor in the hr lead cast... and that's okay!
— connor is a gay man and is dating francois... and that's okay!
— jacob has an even larger age gap with his twink bf and the only other openly bi actor on the show is a porn star so i promise no one on that set caresss
— francois is the only member of the hr cast who is steadily and consistently on the nhl's neck about the toxicity and systemic failures of sports culture and is clearly the most openly leftist cast member (or at the least like, a well-meaning millennial bernie bro, which is basically where la maxes out)
— hudson is not the most oppressed man on earth for being a half-korean wasian man who lives in vancouver. you can find 102394 hudson williamses on a single street in richmond... And that's okay. it's okay to be a straight wasian dude with a cool alt white girlfriend. these people act like being a wasian man is the most excruciating and isolating experience in the entire world. i already have like 0.5 sympathy points for asian men on a good day and now you're throwing in a korean wasian on top of that and expecting me to care about identity politics? please
— people are all insane... that's the problem. what happened to objective truths and an ability to see things as they are and live with that knowledge and moving on with your life. why are you so defensive about being a fujo when you are exactly that... it all boggles me somewhat. i'm like why am i as a lesbian going It's Okay To Be Attracted To Men @ defensive fujos who don't want to examine their attachment to gay media... it's fineeee! you can hag out! #itsok2bestr8
i love hags. hags make the world go round. in fact hudson williams himself is an active and earnest hag. haggery is for the well-meaning and pure of heart. where was i?
ultimately i think everyone just needs to get more normal. don't they have jobs... but honestly i'm kind of obsessed with this need to equate any skill-based evaluation to baseline racism, like imagine if i was at work getting evaluated and was like You're only saying this because i'm chinese. can you imagine. what in the world. when was the last time anyone ever championed for a "poc's mistreatment" in the entertainment industry and then you looked inside the bag and it was a half-korean wasian. SORRY again A HALF-KOREAN WASIAN. LIKE CTFUUUUUUUUU
it's fine. nothing against korean men. why are k-pop fans so bad at adapting to any other fandom space...
anyway in semi-related news some of the extended discussion around eileen / alysa is like Can you all please kill yourselves right now... how on earth did these insane right winger dudebros latch onto my baby alysa of all people?! even as a casual "4-year fan" (and even then not really, i'm barely a 4-year watcher) i've been following along her career for a long time specifically because i remember her being an awkward baby bay area wasian and developed sisterly instincts and it's been wild to see her platform grow over the past few weeks. in a good and bad way... somewhat mostly bad way in terms of how the attention has spiraled but regardless i am very very happy for her success. and all the fanart is so cute <3
hm. sometimes it's like you simply don't have to entertain fruitless discussion... this is true of most things of course even if it's still important to maintain a baseline standard conscience. basically it's a hard balance because there is a line you will inevitably have to draw for yourself in terms of Is mastercard an ally? and in certain spaces you will pretty much always be "disappointed" and unfortunately i do find it unproductive to generate speculative optimism in the face of that... for example i don't pretend to have any real objective conclusion on the relationship these specific minnesota natives have to the current political events in their state and how it affects their relationship to their own politics and the american government. i think it is a large stretch to put this out there under a speculative guise and direct positive affirmations toward these players... we don't know anything. what do i know. the veneer of wokeness in the nhl is truly paper-thin. it could mean everything or something or absolutely nothing. seeing people seesaw violently over otter has been like ? well really i prefer not to speak. but many americans truly have no concept of patriotism being inherently political...
also dapitt fandom is always so mad about everything and they're so genuinely atrocious at watching tv and waiting for emotional payoffs and remembering details and they care too much about fandom perception and i'm like let's all just stop thinking about things so much. maybe. again it's a spectrum but i feel like everyone could be a lot less mad about 80% of things. in general.
trinity santos is my whole entire world though... i really think it is so special that she's written like a whumpy fandom blorbo because it is hand-tailored to my own personal interests i can't believe it. like okay i did actually want a prickly wasian lesbian with a history of self-harm and repressed childhood trauma on my screen, thank you, i will offer you my firstborn for this perfect self-insert...
anyway 2 more weeks until chinaaa and then nmixxxxx and then more concertsss and thingsss and eventsss and seeing friendssss. work has been keeping me busy but not in a burnout way, it's just my new everyday cadence i suppose... i am enjoying it and i like that i have coworkers i get along with and can see regularly. that is the update from me
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Date: 2026-02-25 03:14 am (UTC)alysa is super inspiring and it's been lovely to see her bounce back from her adversity it's just that the overall conversation has mutated beyond repair... i remember her retiring and being so sad about it even without having total understanding of what was going on in the general fs world since again i was just a peripheral fan/supporter (i honestly figured she wasn't that good because of other floppy bay area skaters i supported as well LOL well i was wrong). but i hate that people can't let her exist without starting 15093249 discourse threads on what went right or wrong with her upbringing to get her to where she is and alternatively pitting her against other female athletes whom she gets along with very well and fully supports. ugh honestly don't even get me started on how weird and annoying men who interact with female athletes are, the whole isabeau thing just made me sick to my stomach... men will always find a way to punish a woman for having a personality even if the attention is meant to be complimentary. it is what it is :/
ALSO LOVE THE ALYSA ICONS <3
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Date: 2026-02-25 03:19 am (UTC)(thank you! i posted more of the gif icons here before i post them in a formal icon batch on DW lol)
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Date: 2026-02-25 03:23 am (UTC)i hate that alysa is being turned into a scapegoat/face of so many incongruent agendas!!! like leave her alone she is just a girl who put on a perfect charming clean free skate... and is also woke. like objectively. so what's all this
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