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I’m So Used to Gay Tragedies That I Almost Missed Romance

wa ha ha ha everyone will be lured into the romance world, nobody can resist our charms

i wrote this story, and this comment came directly to my inbox when it was made. in unrelated news, i'm legally changing my name to "wizened husk morrison" and would really appreciate if someone could come collect my bones from where they've been gathering dust on the floor since that email arrived

Every time tumblr goes down it feels like staring at an elderly beloved pet sleeping in their bed across the room. Is it still breathing…? Is this the end????

tumblr is down and I'm feeling like i've been locked out of my own house

Heated Rivalry From Page to Screen with Director/Creator Jacob Tierney YouTube video by Ontario DGC

Because *I* need joy today.

#JoyScrolling #HeatedRivalryCrave

"I hope it infiltrates all the spaces"--Jacob Tierney (it has)

possibly my FAVE moment: dan trying to find a hopeful spin, chris SEETHING WITH RAGE & BETRAYAL, sean so overcome he LEAVES ENTIRELY (& loses his hat). immaculate.

also, HIGHLY recommend rewatching e6 concurrent with EN's live reaction video once you catch up - absolutely unmatched entertainment!

this was my journey as well - WC! were my first but after multiple suggestions, I did watch and LOVE EN as well. this post really summed up the differences bookgeekgrrl.tumblr.com/post/8032303...

another banger accurate thread

they way it has captivated the hockey bros on the podcast(s)! they are INVESTED! they love it!

insightful, accurate 🧵

a man in a leather jacket is playing a guitar on a stage and the words have a rockstar birthday are above him . ALT: a man in a leather jacket is playing a guitar on a stage and the words have a rockstar birthday are above him .

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SO MUCH THIS 😍🤩😍🤩

The Horniest Show on TV Actually Has a Weirdly Conservative Message. Don’t Fall for It. Why do we keep skating in circles?

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

For Nearly a Century, Hollywood Has Left Its Mark on the Pop Charts Movie soundtracks have sometimes eclipsed the films that inspired them in the first place.

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 😭😭😭

A man wears a shirt than says "Biology is Bigger than Binaries", in pink, with a bee, clownfish, and lily

Alright! We have just a few of these shirts left.

In Orange, we have M, 2x, and 4x
In Magenta, we have everything between small and 3x.

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Thank you @davis.social for being our model!

Get one before they're gone at SquidFacts.net!

An excerpt from Anton Belov’s guide to Russian Diction with a lowercase i with a horizontal slash through it circled in pink highlighter

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.

Anatomy of a Sex Scene: Heated Rivalry Edition - Reading the End Heated Rivalry, AKA the gay hockey show, has been getting a lot of buzz for its explicit(-ish) sex scenes, and a lot of that buzz has been coming from viewers and critics whose experience with the rom...

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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Highlights from the Bundled Up on Broad auction opening tmow 11/13!! (Buys warm clothes for the families at my synagogue Rodeph Shalom Philly's food pantry, or give directly to our wishlist: bit.ly/bundled25)

I HAVE to start with Olivia Waite's beaded octopus www.32auctions.com/organization...

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