Because *I* need joy today. #JoyScrolling #HeatedRivalryCrave "I hope it infiltrates all the spaces"--Jacob Tierney (it has)

another banger accurate thread

insightful, accurate 🧵

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SO MUCH THIS 😍🤩😍🤩

I’ve read some eye-rolling Heated Rivalry takes, but this one demonstrates such a bad faith interpretation, a misunderstanding of Romance as a genre, and a failure in media literacy and critical thinking skills that I don’t know what to do. 1/ slate.com/life/2025/12...

Palate cleanser

Laugh about it, shout about it: new #HitParadePod on @slate.com is about the chart history of soundtracks—from Bing&Judy to Barbie&Huntr/x. How did The Graduate reboot movie music in the ’60s, Flashdance in the ’80s? Will KPop Demon Hunters spark a soundtrack comeback? Come to this place for magic.

And what if I just flung myself out a window 😭😭😭

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For those of you watching 🏒The Gay Hockey Show™️—aka Heated Rivalry—allow me to go on a neurodivergent rant about how Connor Storrie’s Russian language work is so stunningly perfect that it makes me feel like I have wasted a decade of my life. We begin with this chart and the worst/best vowel ever! 🧵

Have you read Candy's essay, "Heated Rivalry: The Unbearable Lightness of Having a Dump-Truck Ass" yet? https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2025/12/heated-rivalry-the-unbearable-lightness-of-having-a-dump-truck-ass/

You can tell that everyone in Romancelandia has hit the breaking point with bad Heated Rivalry takes today! But what makes me *sad* is the way TV and film have trained people to expect that we do not get to see queer intimacy unless it is headed for toxic drama and/or death. I want to cry a little.

good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete sex scenes are craft! goddammit!

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They all liked his outfit 🎃🐢

We laugh about Carpenter being in his weed and video games era (and good for him) but there are very good reasons he might have gotten sick of the industry. It screwed him over repeatedly and even though he eventually got his genre flowers, he is still obscenely underrated as a serious filmmaker.

my favorite babygirl Steve Rogers

accurate

a piece for katie_delaney’s fic, “vanity fair” 🏖️ archiveofourown.org/works/574322... #stucky

IT'S PUMPKIN SEASON, BETCHES

Man alive, I just saw that Robert Irwin dancing with the stars clip. Today is a rollercoaster. The tragic sadness of losing Jane Goodall. The whoaaaa MAMA of Robert Irwin's dance performance. We're gonna be ok, wildlife people. We're gonna be ok. Idk how. But we will be ok.

if you stop seeing me here, this is why. absolute bullshit.

A lot of people outside Canada want to watch Heated Rivalry, which is awesome, but the producers can’t just, like, put it in other countries. Media outlets in other countries need to pick up the show, so the thing to do is tell your favourite streamer to get the show!❤️

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Don't forget to download! I just pulled more fics than I could read in probably 20 days, let alone 20 hours. 😂 Better safe than sorry, though!

this whole piece is deeply worth reading and sharing, especially with the centrist dems and liberals in your life, but this penultimate graf really sums it up. you just can't play these kinds of games with people's lives.

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Esther and Delaney turned in a masterpiece here. The entire history of the meat packing industry is a vivid example but much of the story is analogous to ICE raids and labor shortages today in many industries

Gird your loins folks

BIG SAME

Excited to see my pre-order shipping notice!

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And *this* is linked to a terror and rage at the possibility that their children, which are their property, do not conform to their expectations. A sick cultural dominance game driving every aspect of the Western conservative movement..

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Happy #Caturday, and happy 9th birthday to Aces, world champion sleep goblin.

jokes about the confederacy are always funny, but you gotta think about it in terms of "Supernatural lasted 5x longer than the Confederacy", which is absolutely hysterical

"We have elected to not listen to any of your feedback. Thank you for wasting your time though. (: "

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Camp Mirkwood pages 45-47 are up! #steddie www.patreon.com/posts/camp-m...

A heads up: in this book, Verbena falls for a character named both Flora and William. Flora-William consistently refers to herself as both "he" and "she." Some readers might think this character should be referred to with they/them pronouns. This is incorrect. Here's why 🧵

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.

more than a decade ago, one Fraction-Aja Hawkeye panel captured the vibe of this entire era we're living in now

All the new otter comics all together. I wanted to give you all a huge THANK YOU—through your engagement and print sales we raised 10k for The Marine Mammal Center. 💙🌊

Seeing so many people saying "the media venues have become fascist so please read my Substack" is sending me To wit: badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/nazi-updat...