Got home from work and immediately yelled at my mom (toward my mom?!) about my aunt trying to tell me what to do FUCKING AGAIN - lady get your own house in order before you come for me please! - and now I feel bad but also I am probably hangry??? Bodies why.

I made a vid! Heated Rivalry, what a surprise. archiveofourown.org/works/77973076

Virtual live-watch of #HeatedRivalry with a pal who hasn't seen it yet, and it continues to make me cry (new parts every time!) and also can confirm that she fell in love with our boys and will rewatch this week. It's so good??? How is it real??? Also added two new fic ideas to the list.

The Friday chile relleno lunch special at the Mexican place across from my grad school building. $5, soda and fresh flour tortillas included. Fucking magical two hour lunches with my buds - we'd roll in 6-8 people deep and just indulge!

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Intrusive thoughts about Canadian fictional characters : at one point Wolverine and Anne of green gables were alive at the same time

watch this NOW

Bad Bunny Super Bowl promo is beautiful. Hate is so embarrassing. Imaging being against everyone together dancing to good music 🥹🥹🥹

Pre-order when??????

So who wants to make a #HeatedRivalry songvid of HOT TO GO? 90% sex scenes by volume!

Do you love BTS but fucking hate travel planning? BOY HOWDY DO I HAVE A REC FOR YOU!

I am two days into my new job, and it's good. I still (honest to god) have no idea what my day-to-day job actually is? My boss is chill, and assures me I will get there! But for now, I'm jamming information in my brain like I'm back at college. But without the all-nighters!

The credits of ep6 of #HeatedRivalry continue to be a revelation. The last time I cried at credits like this was for Call Me By Your Name, which was just WRENCHING. This is like the perfect mirror universe of that movie, where the boys get to be FUCKING HAPPY as the music plays. Ugh, Jacob, bravo.

Honest to fucking God, these make me so happy. Is he a Quaid, Seth??? #RighteousKill

New dating strategy just dropped

“Hey, Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, never change” via E! News on Instagram

Are they sitting with Emily and Kumail???????

Fandom friends in multiple states, Google chat, and many eps of #HeatedRivalry on simulwatch - spending my Friday like it's 2009!

Seeing a lot of false postings out there. Despite the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's recent closure, PBS and NPR are still VERY MUCH ALIVE and active. They're just more dependent than ever upon the generosity of Viewers Like You! Please support your local station! pbs.org/donate

Just read an entire Cat Sebastian book I'd had on my Kindle forever. This rules.

#HeatedRivalry is the gift that keeps on giving. I have now read five books in one week. I haven't done that since before 2020. Or possibly ever. My reading mojo is back! I am going to keep this streak alive!!

Update: I have to leave at 7:30 - start time is at 8. I am quite unprepared for this.

My new job is 100% in person, and starting next Monday I have to be up and out the door at 8am every day. I thought I should probably practice this week but it is 2am and I am just now going to bed?? Lord, this is going to be a steep reentry curve.

Look, I AM watching my LOTR blurays for rewatch weekend but since no one is here to watch with me I am ALSO watching HR insta. ¿POR QUE NO LOS DOS?

I literally always say I am going to read more, so who knows? But this year I really want to read more.

BREAKING Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.

I really thought I would be unemployed longer??? Anyway, who has two thumbs and a full-time gig (with a pension!) that starts in two weeks? This guy! Now I need to re-train myself to leave the house at 8am. In the winter. fuuuucck.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Rec rec rec rec!

My friends who supported me in quitting my job. It was scary, but they were great cheerleaders.

Ah, the joy of Christmas, where my dad begs my stepmom to put up the entire 24 buildings of our Dickens Village, then gets in her way as she tries to do so, then pouts when she says "don't touch that!" (Don't worry, it's a beloved holiday tradition around here.)

Hey Canadians and/or hockey fans - did Canada give international players permission to stay in Canada through all of covid? Or did they all have to go home? Asking for Reasons!!!

BTW if Heated Rivalry launches a new cascade of gay romance adaptations, I would pay ONE MILLION DOLLARS for the HR team to film the Slippery Creatures trilogy by @kjcharleswriter.com. Give us all these feelings and butts, but with murder and spies and period costumes!!!

Not to put all my feelings on main, but it has been literal years since I had the brain/heart space to care this deeply about a fandom and somehow I now have two? (Heated Rivalry and the old man yaoi of The Pitt!) I have no fewer than four fic ideas itching to burst out of me.

So much family stuff today, I have managed to watch only half of HR6 and I am dying inside. I just need a day with my feelings!!!!!!!!!

I have spent years fast forwarding through onscreen sex scenes. Not as a prude but because they were supposed to be sexy and nothing else and ended up worthless. #HeatedRivalry has fucking NAILED the fanfic expertise of "sex as exposition and character growth" and I am FLOORED.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

CBS didn't air the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but @propublica.org talked earlier this year to those who Trump had sent to the maximum-security prison in El Salvador: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8IN...

My morning involves a shitty (minor) medical procedure, so my afternoon plan is to finally watch Heated Rivalry. As I literally absolutely cannot watch it with my mother, we shall see how many eps I manage...

"if nothing else, snacks" But they were, all of them, deceived because there was a secret third thing between nothing and snacks: a live fish

Yuletide posted! Still going to edit the fuck out of this thing before Christmas but there is a whole story. Maybe next time I will not procrastinate so much?

The billionaires always win!

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

I love insomnia when I have zero time for it. I have both a networking coffee and a job interview tomorrow! I need some fucking sleep!!! Brains, whyyyy?

Somehow I live on Hoth now? And I have to go to an event tonight which means that eventually I have to put on real clothes and be a human not a hobbit?? BOOOOO. In other news Wake Up Dead Man was GREAT and I'm glad I saw it in the theater!

Today I did so many small town things! Queer Craft Fair, barbershop holiday show at the UMC, took my 87yo choir friend to the near new grocery store in town. Now I just chill while waiting for my houseguest to arrive. (I'm getting a Yeats!!)

THIS PERSON IS A TRUE HERO. the best Christmas special of all time!!!

YIKES the roads are bad out there. Just attempted an airport pickup, made it one exit on the highway, and turned back home. It's super cold so I thought the snow would have more traction but it's slippery like a banana peel out there. (Mom will get a hotel. This is what credit cards are made for!)

I bricked my phone with an actual physical brick (getbrick.app) and oh, man, it is Very Good. I didn't brick blue sky bc I already curate this so heavily. But since I did brick YouTube, this means I can see links to the Benoit Blanc muppets sketch but cannot click on it, sigh!