Casually drowning in books that need to be read (3 ebook loans, 3 audiobook loans, 2 ARCs including *Devour Me* omg). Instead of making progress on any of that, I spent most of today's free time writing a new Heated Rivalry one-shot (despite several WIPs). 🫣 Why am I like this

Overrated: surprise pregnancy (a lot of people hate it and it's *still* overrated), second chance Underrated: sibling's best friend, leaving a small town and being happy about it #booksky

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

My front lawn is a weird shape on one side and I'm so bad at going in a straight (diagonal) line along the property line and my neighbors probably hate me for it 🫣 grass is the worst for so many reasons

Painted some paver stepping stone things to put in my front yard instead of plants! Just showing some love to three totally normal hockey teams. 😜 (I really hope the show logo for the Centaurs/whatever Ottawa ends up being is easier to paint than the Centaurs logo from old merch...)

I’ve watched this four times and will not be stopping anytime soon

I barely ever use Snapchat anymore but I feel like every time I do, the ads it shows me are about fertility and increasing chances of pregnancy. Guess Snapchat hasn't figured out I'm finally having a (voluntary) hysterectomy this year. 🫠

the US could have elected one of those children’s toys that makes farm animal noises when you pull a string and there’d be normal gas prices and airport wait times right now

Me: "Oh wow, someone shared a whole spreadsheet of 700 Heated Rivalry fics they recommend!" My angel husband: "Are any of yours in it?" 🥹 Answer: no 😆 but there are almost 25k HR fics and my most popular one "only" has 7.5k hits (which is still a lot!) so I wasn't expecting to find myself in there

You think you can hurt me? You can, I’m a sensitive ass bitch.

I'm so curious how the Off-Campus show will be received. Surely the execs are rubbing their hands together greedily after Heated Rivalry blew up, but... these seem like *very* different shows. They're both adaptations of hockey romance and that's kinda where the similarities end imo. #booksky

A.I. art will never happen

TIL some people who saw Heated Rivalry think Scott was being unreasonable about not wanting to be outed?? My dude, the NHL and many of its fans are *still* super homophobic. He was absolutely justified in being scared! Rachel wrote the books in part to highlight how toxic hockey culture is.

Is there a term for cuteness aggression except instead of wanting to bite or squish the cutie in question, I want to wrap them in a blanket burrito and bake cookies for them? Like... maternal instinct except I'm only a couple years older? (This post is about Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie.)

Looking out the kitchen window: "Heeey, the segment of fence that got blown over yesterday got blown back upright, haha" Checking on the other side of the backyard: "Oh, there are six chunks of fence fully flat on the ground over there. Nuts."

@mika.rip This is excellent and obviously it made me think of you for... reasons youtu.be/Lha6oIVjxsc?...

I love that video of the gal and her parents in a Barnes & Noble racing to see who can find a smut scene first and then read from it but also if I suggested that as a family activity, I would have to change my name and move to rural Scotland 🫠 #booksky #romancereader

The Buffalo Sabres, who haven't been to the playoffs since 2011, are currently at the top of their division because they suddenly started playing well immediately following Shane and Ilya saying they're terrible. Please roast Seattle or Columbus in Heated Rivalry season two. 🤞

checking the news again

SJM confirmed (again) that Bryce and Hunt are endgame and there are really people out here saying that she was just messing with us because she didn't want to spoil her master plan of having Bryce and Az end up together.... be so for real right now 🙄 #booksky #romancereader

Watched an episode of SNL for the first time in my life and I'm so proud of Connor Storrie that I might cry. He and Hudson deserve the whole world. 🥹

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

Are prediction markets a scam?

I don't want to read a book written by AI. I don't want to read a book half written by AI. I don't want to read a book narrated by AI. I don't want to read a book with an AI cover. I don't want to read a book written by somebody who supports AI.

Do you ever get grossed out by the veins in your hand to the point that you need to hide your hand or risk being queasy and maybe even throwing up? ....no? Cool, cool. 🙃 Weakest stomach of all time, I swear.

The US men's hockey team laughing it up with Kash and the clown in chief is a pretty good way to explain to new fans why the NHL and its commissioner are essentially the villain of the Game Changers books. When Dallas Kent shows up in Heated Rivalry season two, nobody will be surprised at all.

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

My IG algorithm is almost entirely Heated Rivalry, books, and nail art (as it should be) but it randomly showed me someone playing Sandstorm on bagpipes and y'know what? Hell yeah. That can stay.

"government ends work-from-home for civil servants" is just a short way of saying "government decides to make your already-unbearable commute at least forty-seven times more excruciating to make sure their donors never miss out on a single dime in commercial real estate profits"

Trying a new cheesecake recipe and it seems pretty normal other than calling for THREE TABLESPOONS of vanilla. What the hell do you meeean that is so much vanilla for one cheesecake! 😵‍💫 It's a no-bake version so I'm starting with a *teaspoon* and tasting it before adding any more.

I have been coughing for a MONTH. 🫠 It was slowly getting better until the past few days and now I'm back to a stuffy nose, sore throat, and v icky coughs. I would say "a plague on the house of whoever got my BIL sick" but clearly they already *had* a damn plague and thanks to them, so do I.

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

Embarrassing to see adults talk to robots in a public forum. That'd be like if your friend asked a mailbox for directions once. You'd roast him for decades for that shit. Every time the concept of navigating space came up you'd hit him with "Why don't you ask the mailbox?"

I'm not sure what statistics officially make a book a "TikTok viral sensation everyone is talking about" but I feel like 117 Goodreads reviews and 41 on Storygraph is... not quite crossing that threshold? 😐 #booksky #romancereader

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

if the groundhog pops its head out and doesn't get tear-gassed, the United States gets six more weeks of democracy

The good news is all the brazen, cartoonish corruption makes it easier to run on an anti-oligarchy, good government platform. The bad news is you still need candidates who want to do that

I keep seeing articles about #HeatedRivalry incorrectly saying that our bi icon Ilya Rozanov is gay so I made this silly edit of Land Leopard #romancereader #booksky

"Never Again" means "never again will we allow fellow human beings to be degraded, dehumanized, displaced and brutalized", not "as long as we don't do a shot-for-shot remake of the Holocaust we're good, we'll just change it up a bit next time"

for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence hope that helps

FYI the New York Public Library has no-waitlist downloads of all 6 of the #heatedrivalry books and audiobooks until Feb 14 🏒

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times, up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street

🥺 Will you come to my cottage this summer? Continuing to use my nail art account for Heated Rivalry proselytizing and I'm not even a little sorry. 😈 #booksky #romancereader