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When you did the wolf Shane and rabbit Ryan thing.. that one where Shane was massaging Ryan's tail... Ahem, you wouldn't happen to have a nsfw channel would you??

I got nothing, man. You’ll have to make do with this.

Anon is talking about this post right here: https://rounove.tumblr.com/post/613258727055835136/it-was-an-accident-officer-i-never-want-to-take-it

#bfu #shyan #this is so good

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It’s fic rec time! The @skepticbeliever-bookclub loves love, and we’re out here in our feelings today, boys. Thanks to @sequencefairy for wrangling.

I have crossed so many sub-categories with this list, but my primary qualifier was the existence of a marriage, (fake, real, arranged), proposal, or a marriage-adjacent bond. 

The following fics are multi-read favourites for the hopeless romantics, and are presented in no particular order.

Keep reading

#rec

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Hey, spooky babies. I’m slinging recs today as part of the @skepticbeliever-bookclub​ ficrecpalooza!

One of the reasons I fell in love with this fandom is the wide variety of possibilities the canon source material offers for the family of tropes I think of as “magic made them do it”: sex pollen! Interfering ghosts! Time travel! Curses! If something supernatural is meddling to help our boys catch feelings (or acknowledge long-since caught ones), I’m interested. 

Herein you’ll find some Shyan recs in this vein, ranging from near-gen to the decidedly horny. Not an exhaustive list, just some of my faves, so feel free to drop some of your faves too.

Keep reading

#reblogging for ref bc i lost this post and felt like a maniac going through the shyan tag #rec

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NINETY BODIES ON THAT NIGHT NIGHT

#bfu

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Shane giving Ryan a piggyback ride so he can "see the ghouls better"

anon this is probably not what u had in mind but thank you for the food

#this is so cute #i love it so much

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Shane: We’re gonna be practicing this at home, together

Ryan: In the shower tonight 

#this lady gets it

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This is one of the things that I get from social anxiety but I hate eating in front of people but Shane and Ryan deadass stare into each other’s eyes when they’re eating see the mothman pizza and like every other time and I can’t believe they enjoy that cause they’re lovely humans and I love this about them but they eat like boys

I really think one thing about their relationship none of us really examine is the state of the overshare. I 100% believe they have almost zero shame around each other at this point given context clues and also the way they both seem extra charmed by how much the other can eat. 

I was just thinking about this the other day actually because of their live stream where Shane admits that it wasn’t until they spent weeks on the road together for BFU that they became real friends and looking back on it, it shows. Let’s just travel back in time a little bit to 2017 during the Bigfoot episode where it was like a revelation to Shane just how much Ryan can put away in one sitting.

Shane starts off saying he doesn’t even believe Ryan will be able to eat the whole Bigfoot sandwich and Ryan

Just goes at it until he’s half-unconscious and sick and Shane just smiles at him like

And I think that started a trend for them that guided them up until the moment you mention in the Mothman episode

 And now they just can’t quit. 

#i love their friendship so much

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Who’s Most Likely To… • Watcher Weekly #014

#shane has.....great hair #and i have......feelings about it

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buzzfeed unsolved acnh edition. the net is to trap ghosts

#op thank you so much for this #this is so so so adorable... #bfu

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guess i gotta make my own shyan playlist huh: if you’re bored during quarantine, here’s my silly shyan playlist! it doesn’t follow a theme necessarily, just songs that remind me of them for one reason or another.

tracks from youtube because i really want you all to know the brazilian songs in case they’re not available for your region on spotify:

calm me down mother mother

slow hands interpol

r u mine? arctic monkeys

trustful hands the dø

strawberry blond mitski

medo bobo (remix) zebu & jão

heart swells / pacific daylight time los campesinos!

i want to know your plans say anything

the devil wears a suit and tie colter wall

work song hozier

another time (world$tar money) simon eng & duendita

hold on, we’re going home (live) lykke li

devil’s backbone the civil wars

a música mais triste do ano luiz lins

wood rostam

love, love, love (love, love) as tall as lions

zero liniker e os caramelows

crush yuna & usher

1,000 breakfasts with you cookies

all i want stonefox

Q&A kishi bashi

i found amber run

to build a home the cinematic orchestra & patrick watson

#shyan #it's a playlist in progress so i might add more songs with time

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Fav moments from Steven’s old FB livestream (you know, the one where Ryan lost a bet so he makes him take his shirt off and tortures him) Here are some actual quotes from Steven:

Steven: You do look very muscular, kinda like lebron… mini lebron here

Steven: *teases Ryan about how he ‘likes to take his clothes off on camera in every Buzzfeed video’

Ryan: seems like you’re the one that likes me doing it

Steven:*shifty eyes* maybe..

Steven: Lebron uses powder, but for a baby, we use baby powder..

Steven: *threatens to pour water on Ryan’s hair  *sees Ryan flinching 

Ok, I’m not that mean. *splashes water on his nipples instead

Steven: I’ve never seen someone so gorgeous in my life- Wait I have, it’s my girlfriend…BUT number two after her is Ryan Bergara…

Ryan: Embraces his punishment with open arms 

#this is ILLEGAL in SO MANY ways

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in another universe, we are two souls that know so much of the other, we never meet. there’s the one i dream where you haunt me and i hunt you, and we die at the end. i like better the world you just made up. where we are girls and we share a bed, we keep secrets between our lips and promise we’ll forever be together and oh we do, we do. in another life, we marry. i take your name and we dance to my favorite song. you are a son to my parents, i’m a daughter to yours and we are always happy- and then there’s that one, the one where we are working men, where you type across me, where our eyes meet just a second and we look away with blushing faces and wonders of if you like me, would you look at me? if i fell in love with you, would you see me? can i look up for a second and see the way you look at me and all those other worlds come together to say yes. i see you

to find you. nc. shyan week 2020, day 3 - in an alternate reality (via wetookanoath)

#im going to cry #i just love this so much

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no offense but the way ryan bites his lips sometimes is just...illegal

#shyan

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shane madej

“im not trying to do the whole dismissive thing, but im dismissing it”

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I wonder where the break happened that such wide swaths of younger fans don’t grasp fandom things that used to be unspoken understandings. That fic readers are expected to know fiction from reality,  that views expressed in fic are not necessarily those of the author, that the labels, tags and warnings on various kinkfics are also the indication that they were created for titillation and not much more, please use responsibly as per all pornography. The ‘problem’ isn’t that so-called ‘problematic’ fic exists but that some of the audience is being stupid, irresponsible, at worst criminal, at best not old enough to be in the audience to begin with. And that’s on the consumer, not the author who told you via labels, tags, ratings, warnings and venues what their fic was about and what it was for.

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these are my predictions for how the right wing will evolve in 2014

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A New History of Fandom Purges

On November 24th, 2018, I posted a list of major deletions of sites or of content on sites that stripped fandom of its history. A bunch of pro-shipper blogs had just been deleted, and people were nervous. I suppose I was thinking “All this has happened before…”

On December 3rd, 2018, Tumblr’s Department of Irony announced the NSFW ban. Thanks for providing this salutary lesson to The Youth and a billion reblogs to me, I guess.

Today, we have AO3 for writing. Audio, images, and video are in as much danger as ever, yet fans attack AO3 every donation drive. For those of you who forget our past…

HERE IS WHAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US!

1992 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro forces a zine to be destroyed

1995 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites

1995 - Anne Rice gets IWTV fic deleted everywhere

1997 - Fox and Lucasfilm go after fansites

1998 - AOL goes after X-Files fansites

2000 - Warner Brothers goes after Harry Potter fansites

2000 - Anne Rice anne rices again

2001 - Tripod Massacre

2001 - Anne Rice goes after IWTV fic on FFN

2001 - The Bronze shut down as Buffy changes networks

2002 - FFN bans porn

2002 - FFN bans RPF

2003 - Gryffindor Tower implodes

2004 - FFN bans script format

2005 - FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic

2005 - Sheezyart bans adult content; y!gallery founded

2005 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites again

2006 - Sakura Lemon Archive suddenly closes

2007 - Strikethrough, Boldthrough on Livejournal

2007 - Youtube institutes Content ID, deleting many fanvids

2008 - Slash Cotillion closes, taking much historical m/m with it

2009 - GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites

2009 - Greatestjournal shuts down; RPGs deleted

2009 - Marvel gets scans_daily deleted

2009 - imeem, major vidding hub, closes suddenly

2010 - FFN forums purged for inactivity

2010 - DeviantArt purges adult fanfic

2010 - Literate Union goes after Twilight fandom on FFN

2011 - Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence

2011 - China arrests women for writing m/m; destroys danmei.org

2012 - major FFN crackdown on porn

2012 - Megaupload deleted for piracy; also destroys vids, podfic

2013 - Max-Dan-Wiz.com purged of fan-generated content

2014 - Quizilla shuts down

2014 - China purges m/m story websites; arrests female authors

2014 - Blip.tv deletes vids

2014 - Viddler deletes vids

2015 - Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank

2016 - y!Gallery deleted

2016 - Elfwood goes offline

2016 - Audiofic Archive corrupted; major blow to podfic

2017 - Chinese author jailed after being ratted out over fandom drama

2017 - Parents get queer Warrior Cats fic purged from Wattpad

2018 - Tumblr deletes pro-shipper blogs

2018 - Tumblr announces NSFW ban

2018 - Wattpad deletes accounts/fics without warning

2019 - China purges weibo of m/m; more women jailed

This is only a small taste of the many times that:

Fannish moderators got bored, ran out of money, or had a falling out, deleting a site/list/forum along the way.

Sites got bought out and closed for being unprofitable.

Fandom got hit as governments targeted piracy or political dissidents.

Fans grudge reported each other.

Official forums got deleted when the canon finished.

It’s not always malicious. It’s not always about us. But we lose every time.

Some of these purges hit everyone. Many of them hit m/m content specifically or female gaze-y material in general. This is why antis are dead wrong. This is why anti-fujoshi policies end up being anti-m/m policies. This is why we need clear labeling, not content restrictions.

This is why we need AO3.

And it’s why we need a solution for audio, visuals, and video too.