#lowkey discourse

[the-new-york-groove]

In Honor of Baseball Season and PWHL Season now overlapping until May, I would like to establish:

Here at The New York Groove, we

(meaning me alone, this is a one man operation)

are Mark Walter Haters.

This is partially my New Yorker blood absolutely boiling over the '24 World Series but it's also not!

Cause what the fuck do you mean you deferred 700 million dollars for one fucking guy to play baseball but PWHL reserves get *checks notes* 16 grand a year.

Pay all of these athletes a living wage?! Hello?

Maybe I wouldn't care half as much if the goddamn cup wasn't named after him, but it is! And it forces us to act like he was the savior of women's hockey but he's literally just a billionaire! This shit is childplay to him. He probably makes 16,000 dollars in ONE MINUTE. He owns stake in a whopping 11 different sports franchises outside of the PWHL--including FUCKING SQUASH, and as I said but feel the need to emphasize, paying one man 700 million dollars. And one fucking rich man doesn't represent the long history of women in hockey who paved the path for this league way before people with actual money gave two shits.

Let's not glaze the guy. Take his name off that cup.

And while we're at it, Fuck the Dodgers.

[sundownvalentine]

Trying to find mountain goats posts and seeing majority No Children or This Year😐 like are they GOOD SONGS? Yeah sure. But dear goodness its ANNOYING! Where is my appreciation and art and analysis of songs like Dance Music or Idylls Of The King or Peacocks?!?!?! Cmon now fellas

[stheresya]

i love the way sansa is so proud to be catelyn's daughter. in a world where women are expected to assimilate to their husbands' world once they get married, there's sansa adopting her mother's gods into her creed, taking pride in having her mother's looks, often choosing to wear the colors of her mother's house and, most importantly, drawing strength from her mother's memory. what's so great about this is that it's not an act of spite against her father. she's just proud of being both stark and tully. it's like arya said: the woman is important too.

[fireandiceland]

I didn’t even know this was a thing until like 10min ago (non tiktok user <3) but as your local old fandom stuff archivist I strongly agree with this comment

TikTok hetalia fans are so new to fandom cause what do you mean "mass usuk unfollowing" "we are not bringing usuk into 2025 🙏🙏🙏🥶🥶🥶" I don't even ship usuk at all but just because you see them as brothers or father and son does not mean others do mkaayyy this is why Tumblr is better just move here and block the damn tag ohbmy god 💀

[gaywineauntsstuff]

The absolute best thing about the fab 5 is literally any ship pairing is acceptable except for exactly one (1) and we all know which one it is

Like

Dick/Roy 100% in love with feed it to me, inject me with this (lowkey my favorite ship please put recs in the comments im dying for some good angst/comfort)

Dick/Wally adorkable my babies I love them (no need for fic recs I have plenty)

Dick/ Garth omglookitsocuteandperfect (recs recs recs recs)

Roy/Donna GAG ME WITH THIS SHIP OH MY GOD YES (RECS RECS RECS RECS RECs)

Roy/Wally oooohhhh there are so many interesting things you can do with this dynamic (please we argue and then go fuck in the closet vibes - not hate sex but we are competing for the same person and getting nowhere might as well)

Roy/Garth UGHHH ESPECIALLY AFTER ALL THE SHIT STIRRING IN THE EARLY 2000s??? AND THE WAY THAT ROY WAS A LIL SHIT TO BABY GARTH OMG IT COULD SO WORK

Wally/Donna omg adorable, cute, sweet, Donna would beat the sexism out of teen Wally sokka/suki style tell me I’m wrong.

Wally/Garth cutesy, demure, they could geek out together, my lil ones together, they’d do gardening for fun trust me.

Garth/Donna omg iconic, cute, they fit so well together, the responsibilities? The fish out of water bonding. PEAK FICTION

Donna/Dick: ….ew no

[ed3lsgard]

btw the ppl who diminish mark and helly’s relationship to an “office situationship” are literally doing the same thing as lumon. acting as if innies aren’t actual people and their feelings don’t matter. the office and work is their entire world and life, it’s all they know, so of course it’s an “office romance”. the show has shown us multiple times that innies are their own person, that their feelings and experiences matter, despite what some say. so it would be incredibly hypocritical if they set up markhelly just for them to not end up together in at least some form.

also, even if they were to get gemma out, it’s not as if mark and her can ever go back to the way things were. narratively it would make no sense for the show to have them reunited and have their relationship go back to normal. mark wont be rewarded for escaping from his grief. now i have no idea how things will go, but i genuinely doubt any of it will be an easy fix.

[tevanbuckley]

yeah no, I can’t think of any reason queer people would enjoy the *checks notes* sweet and well written canon queer relationship, one half of which is a character whose been bi-coded for 5+ years. yeah must be a fetish thing you’re absolutely right, there’s zero other plausible explanations.

[mikaikaika]

Oh the tragedy of Realm and it's cycle of violence.

Jonnaay refused to hand the shard over—not out of malice, but because it was his. He didn’t know it meant life or death for Pangi and Aimsey. To him, it was just another thing someone wanted to take. He didn’t get to know the full story.

And then they killed him. Contract or not, betrayal is betrayal. So he came back—angry, grieving, maybe even a little heartbroken—and he turned their home into ashes.

Was he wrong? Was he justified? Yet another red with a broken home because they chose to participate in the violence that came knocking at their door.

[aashiqeddiediaz]

I just feel like it's nasty for Hen Chim Eddie to be dancing when Buck looks so upset next to them. Yes, Gerrard being gone, but they should be more aware that their team member is actually not happy. They didn't try to stand up for him either, Buck was the only one pushing back.

i've been thinking about how to answer this for a few days now without being outright rude, and who knows if i managed but here it goes:

hen, chim and eddie don't owe anyone a single thing. it is not their job to stand up against everything, and it is not on them to defend buck at every given turn. they aren't in the wrong for wanting to keep their head down in front of their racist, misogynist boss. it is not the responsibility of people of color to keep standing up for themselves and others in face of such racist and backwards behavior. sometimes the safest thing they can do is just keep their head down.

they say it canonically in the show that hen is trying to keep her nose clean for the sake of getting her foster license back. that chim is in the same boat. hen and chim have dealt with gerrard for years before bobby, and theres always been this underlying current that gerrard will find ways to get them fired if they do anything he doesn't like, even more so now. and eddie has been in the army and knows what it's like to keep his head down - also his job is kind of the only thing he has left in his life anyway?? he can't really afford to risk that, or his parents will never let chris come back to him. if they want to celebrate not having to walk around eggshells at their place of work, then they damn well deserve to.

we saw maybe a thirty second clip about this whole thing anyway. we don't know if anyone talked to buck about it off-screen. we don't know if they even had time for the discussion given that los angeles was taken over by bees and there's a plane about to crash to earth with athena in it?? in that split second scene, we do see eddie telling buck that he saved gerrard's life and we see eddie sort of angle himself in front of buck all the while, too. that in itself speaks volumes.

also you mention buck pushing back - tell me right now that if hen, chim and/or eddie pushed back the same way buck did, they'd still get to keep their jobs. gerrard wouldn't waste a single minute writing them up, or putting formal warnings in their files, whereas buck has at least one type of privilege that they don't have, and it's often the one that people can't ignore: he's white. kitchen and bathroom duty is the worst consequence he has - that is not the same for hen and chim, or eddie. their consequences could involve losing their children, so forgive me if im not so eager to jump to buck's defense here.

yes, buck is conflicted, and he's valid for that cause he's never wanted to be the reason someone's hurt. but to expect hen, chim and eddie to coddle him is just not it.

this is such a pattern with racist people and i've seen it all my life, so getting an ask like this was upsetting, but also seeing this rhetoric in fandom was also upsetting? why is the onus on the poc characters to keep the white characters happy??

tl;dr: hen, chim, eddie don't owe anyone a single thing, and buck is a grown ass man who can handle himself and he can communicate like a big boy if he needs more reassurance :) also, they were so true for that dance party.

[ingravinoveritas]

Bonus clip of Michael on the WTAWTAW podcast talking about his experiences with gender expression as a teenager in Port Talbot and mentioning his crush on John Taylor again. Transcript of notable highlights below:

Michael: "So when I was 12, 13--early '80s, the time that Allie is talking about--and I saw girls with lip gloss and wearing rah-rah skirts and leg warmers and stuff, [whispers] and I was a little bit jealous. Course, never said that, never said that. In Port Talbot if I'd mentioned that, my life would've been hell. But I do remember being quite...attracted by the trappings. A lot of trappings for girls. We didn't have stuff like that for boys. There were rituals for girls, doing your makeup, doing your hair." Michael: "I mean, my first crush--I said this on a thing I did called The Assembly recently--my first crush was a man called--ah, John Taylor from Duran Duran. Ohh, he was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. The way I processed it was, like, I'm gonna try and look like John Taylor, try and make my hair like John Taylor." Michael: "And they always used to have a bit of lip gloss going on, didn't they? Those New Romantics. But like I say, I couldn't really try that out in Port Talbot."

This goes directly back to things I have written about on my blog previously, about Michael having these feelings and not being able to express them because of where he grew up and the hateful climate that Section 28 fostered. This is why it is so difficult for someone of Michael's generation to label themselves, because none of that is lightly shaken off.

Even hearing the way Michael talks about it in the podcast, you can tell that this is not a joke, but a longing for something that he still remembers so vividly, because it meant so much to him at the time, and still does. Also, Michael has now mentioned his crush on John Taylor twice in the span of two months after not saying anything about it for years, and if that doesn't tell you where his heart and mind are right now, I'm not sure what does. Neither he nor David need a formal announcement to make it clear who they are, because they've already been telling us...

[goatdon]

i think everyone is taking Langdon not having that much screen time and having his story being open ended/ambiguous a bit tooooo seriously.

how bout we let the ending marinate for more than two hours before we get on the “langdon’s character was ruined/the writers dk what their doing” train

n i think everyone would do well to remember that the writers have literally been saying that they want to explore his character more in s2 and toying with the idea of it being his first day back.

[bluequeerio]

TADC FANDOM FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CAN WE PLS STOP ARGUING ABT WHICH SHIP IS “BETTER” IM FUCKING TIREDDDDD

There r some ships that are not for me but I’m not a bitch abt it AND the characters r consenting adults. Gooseworx literally said we can ship whatever we want. I seriously don’t know what to say besides that I just want to enjoy Ragapom in peace without ppl being like “they have no chemistry 🤓👆” or “Ragatha has more chemistry with insert character that may or may not be Jax” ORRR MY FAVORITE “I see them more as insert friends or mother daughter”

And a while back I made a joke post abt someone on Pinterest commenting smth like the last one on a ragapom fanart that definitely looked more than friendly but maybe that’s just my bias lesbian ass talking. I’m bringing it up only cuz it got a lot of notes so yeah. Anyways now idk if I can even joke abt it anymore bc it’s gotten out of hand.

The block button isn’t enough I need a fucking lobotomy

[underwaterspiderbird]

you know it, i know it, your pet rock knows it, your kyber crystal knows it, we all know it.

[hottakes-of-twosided-logic]

Hot take of today

This goes out to both sides, but considering a certain side has more of a problem with this *antis*

Invalidating others for their trauma, shared views or not is never fucking ok

It’s especially not fucking ok under ANY circumstances to tell someone that they should

KYS or much less don’t fucking say someone deserves or deserved to be SA’d , it’s not fucking cool it ain’t fucking cute and it’s especially not “morally correct” you don’t get a pass just cause you believe to be of higher standing than them

It goes without saying that internet drama should never be reason enough to tell a survivor that their trauma was deserved proship or not

[galatoma]

I really do feel what tubbo said on stream about how it's all the little things that dream does that just add up. And it's always the same MO each time where we hear about something shitty he did behind the scenes, he makes a big deal about it in public, he makes some apology-excuse, posts some fluffy "i love you all ❤️" message and then pretends it never happens. And when it's just the same thing over and over to the point you can recognize a pattern from all the little things, it just kinda reinforces why people think he isn't a good person and why most of the people around him left. It's hard to believe a word he says with a track record like that.

[night-night-alderman]