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unhealthy obsession with male bonding: Billy Tallent & Joe Dick

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Trying to secretly touch your crush's hand

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Omg @wandererseas coming through with the first impressions ❤️💚

I think ...you guys are a bit excited about it...

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I need to share this here even if it's only because Paul looks so hot and he makes good sounds

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“While many people think fanfiction is about inserting sex into texts (like Tolkien’s) where it doesn’t belong, Brancher sees it differently: “I was desperate to read about sex that included great friendship; I was repurposing Tolkien’s text in order to do that. It wasn’t that friendship needed to be sexualized, it was that erotica needed to be … friendship-ized.” Many fanfiction writers write about sex in conjunction with beloved texts and characters not because they think those texts are incomplete, but because they’re looking for stories where sex is profound and meaningful. This is part of what makes fan fiction different from pornography: unlike pornography, fanfic features characters we already care deeply about, and who tend to already have long-standing and complex relationships with each other. It’s a genre of sexual subjectification: the very opposite of objectification. It’s benefits with friendship.”

— Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via francescacoppa)

Someone put it into words. I gotta sit down

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Hot priest who can be tempted

Song: (just the tiniest clip of) the Master by Witchz

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I found Paint Cans on YouTube and Paul Gross is only in the movie for less than two minutes. But he's adorable/an artiste.

This is actually just Benton Fraser undercover as you can see here

How do you do, fellow kids?

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The tags!

invitation to romance is an incredibly well-written farce of an episode, and it is also causing me a level of vicarious stress I would previously not have imagined possible

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No no no! Please PLEASE I BEG YOU bring Norse Mythology into it!

And you're so right! We have dangerous fire that burns (or could burn) everything down. And the fire for warmth, safety, sharing stories and sustenance.

many thoughts about fraser's previous places of residence burning down as a symbol of a shift or upheaval in his psychological/intimate landscape — both in victoria’s secret and in burning down the house. longing literally renders him homeless, burns something in him to the ground that had been a source of comfort, even when it's sometimes a flawed or incomplete comfort. and the candles and how they fit into that!!!! I am going to keep my eyes SO fucking open for fire symbolism in this show haha

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Fraser in the North always makes me think of Superman in his Fortress of Solitude

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The Louuuuuu Skagnetti story, by the fire.

We're on to something here ❤️‍🔥

many thoughts about fraser's previous places of residence burning down as a symbol of a shift or upheaval in his psychological/intimate landscape — both in victoria’s secret and in burning down the house. longing literally renders him homeless, burns something in him to the ground that had been a source of comfort, even when it's sometimes a flawed or incomplete comfort. and the candles and how they fit into that!!!! I am going to keep my eyes SO fucking open for fire symbolism in this show haha

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One of the things about the Ice Crevasse scene is that you miss a very important revelation in Ray and Fraser's relationship. I mean, don't get me wrong, with the hypothermia and the odd topics of conversation and the groin-to-groin action, it's easy to miss

Right here. I wondered why Ray mentioning Franklin made Fraser smile so broadly. Like, he's grinning. Hypothermia? Perhaps. But I realized not only is Ray telling Fraser that he was, technically, the first to fall asleep and listen to the story, but it cements that Ray's been listening to him the whole time he's been on the show.

If you rewatch, Ray pays attention and even engages with Fraser's unconventional tales. Running in a graveyard with guns blazing, asking who Godel is when you're about to drown, even with the joke that Ray is losing interest in what Fraser says in Mojo is Rising

Fraser knows that he's pretty boring to a lot of people. Sure, he's captivating, but he's used to being ignored or not taken seriously. The general consensus is 'he's telling another Inuit story' (<- something I find extremely disrespectful for multiple reasons :/)

But Ray? Never said that. And right here, Fraser knows that Ray's been listening to him the entire time. Every argument. Every story. Everything that Fraser said, Ray heard. And Ray still wants to hear more in their epilogue

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Yes!!!! I was thinking about that too!

Let me add: the conversation about Ray asking Fraser if he ever feels lost and Ray asking Fraser if he's going to leave him to work with Ray Vecchio take place when they're sitting by a campfire.

Also: Victoria burning his father's cabin down.

Ray tells Fraser he wants to find the Hand of Franklin (with him, is implied) takes place when they're stuck in an ice crevasse.

Fraser falls in love with Victoria when they are snowed in.

Fraser longing is symbolized both by snow falling on him (when he's laying on his bed) and him lighting all those candles.

He burns or he freezes. No one has been able to melt him yet. Ooh! The card he gets from Ray Vecchio: "Cold out here, warm me up." Fire making hidden things visible.

There is Big Meta in this. Can't wait to see what your mind makes of all these pieces.

many thoughts about fraser's previous places of residence burning down as a symbol of a shift or upheaval in his psychological/intimate landscape — both in victoria’s secret and in burning down the house. longing literally renders him homeless, burns something in him to the ground that had been a source of comfort, even when it's sometimes a flawed or incomplete comfort. and the candles and how they fit into that!!!! I am going to keep my eyes SO fucking open for fire symbolism in this show haha

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I used a reference picture for this one because the pose was pretty difficult to draw from imagination. I am still looking for my own style. I really like the sort of comic book feel of this one. I think I'll stick with it for a bit.

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Re-watching Due South is such a trip. It's still a fun show to watch, particularly thanks to whatever wonderful person enhanced it to HD and made it available since it currently isn't in the US.

Yes, I own the boxset, but I am a lazy bitch when I can be.

But now, watching it as a full on adult that knows my history and recognizes queer coding with access to interviews where they're like, yes, yes it was intentional.

Christ I miss Due South.