I'm apparently in the minority on this, but the Shame that I saw was a beautifully constructed film about the ways that broken people deal with their brokenness, and that, in the end, it OK to remain broken because that is beautiful too. However, while Brandon's character arc got him to that point, Sissy's did not. Which is OK, because Shame was Brandon's story, not Sissy's. However, I sort of loved Sissy a LOT, so this mix is my attempt to figure out what would allow Sissy to reach a simila…

Syd dates Geno. Geno doesn't realize it.

Schofield and Blake lie down together.

Set in an AU where Ghirahim rises from the lowly Fool of the Demon King Releris to the ruler of all the Lower Realms. But as the demon lord tries to destroy the Seal and take the sunlit lands of the surface for the demons, he encounters resistance...

Jordy wants to date Sidney, but he also wants to bang Geno. It's a whole thing.

PWP. Taylor discovers Selena likes being choked.

Together, they fight crime!

"

Baseball is like joining an enormous family with ancestors and forebears and famous stories and histories and it’s a privilege. It means alot. And the people who tell me they hate baseball, or are out of baseball, they sound bitter about it. But I think they sense what they are missing. I think that they feel there is something they are not in on, that is a terrible loss. And I feel sorry for them."

— Roger Angell, Ken Burns "Baseball: Inning Four"

Jeff Carter blows Mike Richards, because what reaction would he have to Richie's Gordie Howe except "do me on it"?

Summer in Raleigh.