don't talk to blorbo on the plagiarism machine, you fools. bully your friends into pretending to be your blorbos online with you

Current Duolingo category is “discuss sports” and the next one is “talk to a psychologist”. Makes sense, yeah.

i treat all my ships like i am cupid with a bow and arrow. unless i'm craving whump. in that case i am cupid with a gun

I wrote a chapter 2 to this: archiveofourown.org/works/753882... Shane pov of the aftermath

yeah I'm involved in unethical non monogamy. no no, nobody's cheating on anyone else; me and my polycucle just operate a whaling ship.

Heated Rivalry is about the extremely sexy fantasy that professional hockey players are witty and charming.

Every state in the United States has a disgusting soda that only they know about and that’s kind of beautiful

Oh we can save skeets now!

Guys! GUYS! If you are an iPhone user you are NOT crazy. You're not just getting old. You're not suddenly all thumbs. Our iPhones are broken - that's why you keep misspelling shit so often in texts. I shared this with Jess and we both went 🤯

oh my god HOW did I fail to notice the logos

I wrote about the narrative importance of the sex scenes in Heated Rivalry, how this reflects the magic of romance novel storytelling, and how the plot is fuelled by a genuinely bleak view of homophobia in hockey culture. (Spoilers for ep 4!)

hell yeah

The moment on Heated Rivalry last night when the soundtrack switched from t.A.T.u.'s "All The Things She Said" to a dark British cover of t.A.T.u.'s "All The Things She Said." Screaming.

With Hockey RPF the fanfic was for the romance and the sex, the things canon didn't provide. But in Heated Rivalry canon does provide. So logic dictates that the fanfic is there to make them actually play hockey.

#uspoli #trump #fifa

Me: I need you. I can’t go on without you. Why do you want to hurt me? My lower back: Because you turned very slightly to the left.

Lots of snarking on this but our societal reliance on more and more caffeine actually isn’t great

#HeatedRivalry This is the interview I was thinking of! So good bsky.app/profile/jamt...

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

I begged Jenny to write this and am so grateful she did. Sex scene are craft. They are characterization. They are worldbuilding. They are storytelling. The fact that we're culturally too uncomfortable with sex to recognize that is not the fault of well written sex scenes!

[Watching the lead swallow the other lead's cum in the 12th minute of the premiere episode]: why is there no sex in this

there is no way to put gay men doing gay men stuff on screen that will not draw out people claiming it's sanitized fluff for straight women. literally no way

Josh O'Connor and Andrew Scott do ASMR for Wake Up Dead Man promo, this is SO ridiculous and I love it so much www.tumblr.com/princeoconno...

I feel like I'm going to need a British Britpicker for this Yuletide story, in addition to my regular beta. Are there salvage yards in England, where you can get wood and metal items from homes that have been destroyed?

People keep asking if the gay hockey show is good or bad but it is simply too horny for either of those words to apply

This is something I and my fellow hyper literate types have a really hard time grasping. It’s frustrating to think you’re being really clear in writing, but still get wildly misunderstood because you’ve overestimated people’s literacy level. This is…a real problem online.

Hubs is away doing hockey things and I’d forgotten how nice it is to store things on the other side of the bed

Reposting for the evening crew

Who has made this 🤣

Gay hockey show fic: archiveofourown.org/works/75388206 ill-advised Scott/Shane/Ilya threesome 🫣

it’s true, that’s a guy who has a favorite Strongbad bit, you just never hear him do it during the movie due to the circumstances

a new jersey-based christmas tree delivery service called Spruce Bringsteen

online friendship is crazy. like yeah we go way back. we talk about weird shit exclusively and we've seen each other in person between zero and four times

lol people.com/heated-rival...

I have decided that even though it is a different universe with MLH not NHL, Gritty still exists in the world of Heated Rivalry. Ilya adores him while Shane finds him deeply disconcerting.

I will extend one tiny bit of grace to the publisher on one point: the show didn’t have distribution outside Canada until mid-November, and it was originally going to air in February. Not sure why it got moved up. That said, Harlequin has fumbled the bag in an epic way. Tie-in covers, minimum!

It’s nice that they based this on the well-known thing in soccer where everybody puts their hands on the ball at the same time.

♥️

I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

people getting their spotify wrapped today: it's a great time to switch to another service. spotify is doubling and tripling down on taking ICE's business and running ads. switching to tidal took me all of a few minutes and they made their own annual most-played thing anyway.

Years ago, when I still wrote for SPIN, the great @danielkohn.bsky.social let me write about "A Long December", so of course I wrote a little about death and sadness and choosing to believe things can get better. www.spin.com/2021/12/a-lo...

We can't even get our healthcare sorted in America and Canada is over there distributing government-funded hockey yaoi.

heard your mom has a big game today

Double yellow for dissent with your opposing team also trying to get you to walk away is earnestly very funny

Watched so much media today. Detective movie, two Pitts and one gay hockeys

Church is canceled due to weather so I guess I get to watch both halves of my boys managing to lose somehow