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LRT oh the hockey romance gods are SMILING upon us atm

BREAKING. Enormous news in the hockey romance world... I am thrilled to announce that CHECK, PLEASE!: YEAR FIVE, a brand new volume of Check, Please! will be serialized in 2026. #omgcp 🏒🥧💕

amazing how barely six hours of television can create such a powerful cultural moment at the end of such a shit year. so so grateful to have such an unapologetically joyful and horny queer show for 2025 to go out on

#heatedrivalry #hollanov

SO worth getting up at 6am for, holy shit #heatedrivalry

For all the new artists joining Bluesky: 🎨 You don't have to censor words such as commission, Patreon or Ko-Fi. 🎨 You can share links and your post will not be de-boosted. 🎨 You can take time away from Bluesky and come back whenever you feel like, there's no algorithm to punish you!

Vigil #gposers | #haurchefant | #Lvl1Farewell

Thank u for your sacrifice, lv1 . 🍖🎄 Based on what @purrfectionyast.bsky.social and @futuristisk.bsky.social said in the FC chat when we found out about maintenance… 😭

I preface this repost with the disclaimer that I have not read the thesis in question, which is linked in the second comment in this thread, but I thought some of you might like to read it if you haven't already. I don't keep up with RPF acafan spaces so maybe this has already been widely discussed.

I really do miss when fan fic was something you discussed among trusted, likeminded friends and mainstream media was not aware of it.

*stares in online harassment researcher* well that did some stuff to my heart rate

Hey if you want to tell Out Magazine that this is likely going to cause AO3 authors to get doxxed and harassed and that they should pull this article down, write to their tip and editorial correction line, which is [email protected] which is their parent company's domain name.

This is one of my favorite traditions of social media, hands down. Do browse the hashtag, it brings so much joy.

fuck you, 0ut magazine, fuck you fuck you FUCK YOU

okay because this is SO pervasive: English native speakers, particularly if you're monolingual -- does the name "Alexei" really sound like "Alexi" to you???

Japan's Furusato Tax allows you to contribute to rural areas in return for tax credit and some kind of product. Many of Hokkaido's regions are offering Ainu crafts. In some towns like Biratori you can opt to contribute your tax directly to the promotion, preservation and development of Ainu culture.

The original cache of DataSet 8 (with the incorrectly redacted files) has been added to @ddosecrets.com

It is. You can actually search visible text on the redacted documents and the completely UNredacted document appears in the results 😭

What people don't understand about Scott kissing Kip: Scott is old, and he's just reached the pinnacle of his sport. He can retire and remove himself from the league and face no repercussions to his career. Yes it's brave but the timing; the separation of Hockey Player and Gay Person is still there.

It boils down to the number one rule of fandom: you can have as many dreams as your heart wants to make, as long as you are not forcing those dreams onto others. You can hope for a better future but you have to hold hands with the people doing the ACTUAL work.

when a queer creator, especially a furry creator, has a kink account or NSFW account separate from their main, it's your duty as a bystander to shut the fuck up and keep going instead of Moral panicking abt it and sexually harassing that person by "exposing" their fetishes and porn to random people

Hint: If a hockey player on the ice says “Suck my dick” to a rival during a game, they are not secret lovers in a Heated Rivalry situation. It is because he perceives sucking dick to be something humiliating and bad and embarrassing and saying that is a way to assert dominance over his opponent.

It’s a demonstration of profound ignorance about what male sports cultures are like and how homophobia manifests in them. straight men joking about gay sex as a way to assert dominance over other men or humiliate other men by suggesting they engage in it is not the same thing as gay sex or desire

This is such a good thread. SUCH a good thread. If you like Heated Rivalry or hockey or both, it's worth a read.

do not listen to that voice telling you to go into town for some light shopping in the week leading up to Christmas. that's the evil voice. (uniqlo was so crowded they had bouncers who did crowd control. unhinged behaviour.)

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if I have to read one more article about "why do straight women like the gay hockey show"!!! do queer audiences exist? does anyone know?? fuckin hell.

I have taken to my bed and I will not arise again until outlets agree to stop publishing the most romance-illiterate takes about the gay hockey show. the gay hockey show is not perfect but oh my God why are every major outlet's negative takes on it so ignorant of what the show is doinggggggg

tangentially related but this is the actual reason that when you raise your commission prices, you often get treated better. You end up with more clients willing to pay a premium for a You Original and the people who just want to rent the cheapest possible photocopier fall off.

I love seeing people talk about their obsessions, be it a book, a character, a game, whatever. Go off. Ramble. Theorize. I fucking love seeing that pure passion be unleashed in the form of a post in all caps lock, or gives off the "heavy breathing obsessed” vibe. Big passion. Much cool. Do you.

every day this becomes more true

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

Important Heated Rivalry thoughts: We all already knew that Rose is awesome, but she’s also wearing St. Viateur Bagel swag, which means that she has picked the correct side in the age-old St. Viateur vs. Fairmount Montréal bagel rivalry.

Overheard in Barnes & Noble today, employee looking at computer: "No, looks like Book 6 of Heated Rivalry is out of stock across the system." (ISTR hearing that the publisher somehow failed to have the books reprinted for when the TV show came out. Hope that author gets compensated for that. 😒)

Old Calendar Machine contlnues to work after 3000+yr. Contains no AI. 😀 www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...

all the things she said are, as it were, still running thru my head

this seems like a very reasonable concern to have about using LLMs

my love is a thorned rose [ utena ]

merry glitchmas everybody i thought some old friends should also come and join the festivities with lv1 . 🎄❄️🎉

some 30-min event commissions i did this weekend

Bay Area pals, stock up on power outage supplies.

“It’s normal to feel conflict. You were part of something for a long time. You hate it, and it was a terrible thing. But it created you, and you were part of it.”

THIS. *They stole your fellow writers' FUCKING HEARTS' BLOOD to power their fancy-ass text-based writer-imitation machine.* You wanna get all NUANCED about that? Your easygoing take on that issue will sooner or later (most likely sooner) be used to steal *your* stuff. Let's see how *you* like it. 🫤

Keita Machida reshared the bottom left photo with the caption "Thank you for everything, both on and off the job. The fact that we were able to make the impossible possible is undoubtedly thanks to him." 🥰 #10Dance

Fixed it.

Spell check existed long before genAI and in its most basic function is not genAI. Spell check is code. It's a function. It checks against a database of available words. Spell check in certain programs, however, may have been made worse by running it through genAI.

If you'd told me a year ago that in 2025 I'll watch more hockey games than BL series in full, I would've laughed in your face … but here we are

Hockey Players Blast ‘Heated Rivalry’ For Unrealistic Depiction Of Anal Sex https://theonion.com/hockey-players-blast-heated-rivalry-for-unrealistic-depiction-of-anal-sex/