Heated Rivalry: the last frame of the first season

a staggering number of people reacting to ep 5 keep saying ‘if I was Shane I’d use Google translate’ ok and if I was Ilya and I found out that you did that, I’d kill you with hammers and then I’d jump off a building

Im so tired of subby uwubified shane that man is a rabid animal and ilya is sticking his hands through the bars of his cage

really hilarious and unsexy when hetero romantasy authors refer to love interests as males and females. you sound like david attenborough narrating a special documentary on two turtles humping in the mud

i don't care if he's the king of the fae. if that man called me a desirable female i'd have him gelded

Oh please that's nothing. I'm sure there's hockey RPF that's 1 million times more interesting.

I've lived a million lives and died a million deaths since September of 2025.

When I was in high school we did an english unit on Octavia Butler and the teacher told us hey btw. You should call her "Butler" in your essays. Sometimes students call female writers by their first names unconsciously, but that's not acceptable. If you wouldnt call them William or Ernest you shouldn't call her Octavia.

And I was like cool whatever I was gonna call her Butler anyways. But that moment has stuck with me for my whole life because once you start seeing ppl calling women by their first names where men would be called by their last names you literally never stop seeing it.

"I needed help sleeping," Ilya says about Shane's episode of Beach Cottage Chronicles or whatever the fuck. Casually. Teasingly. Chirping at Shane about his Magnolia Network special as if it isn't the most insanely revealing thing he's ever said. As if he didn't just imply that he used Shane's voice as a goddamn lullaby. It's almost like he's comforted by the sound of Shane's voice. Like he wishes Shane were in the room with him while he goes to sleep. Ilya Rozanov grasping for that plausible deniability as if it didn't get up and walk straight out the room somewhere back in Tampa.

hudson williams anointed by princess diana confirmed

Hudson Williams on the Shut Up Evan podcast | ☺️

so far the only thing that has gripped me about heated rivalry is seeing a long post from a real life out hockey player detailing his mixed emotions about the show and what it made him feel, specifically about the lack of realism around machismo and homophobia within and about men’s professional sports, and the strangeness of hockey rpf in a world where the mildest forms of male companionship are telescoped as homoerotic while being homoerotic itself is a deeply socially and economically punishable act in men’s sports. and the first comment on said post being “well maybe read the books you’re not getting the whole story”. which is objectively a really funny and cruel thing to say but the added layer of the rpf meta element here is genuinely interesting, and the interplay of seemingly (to the viewer) invisible barriers to freedom that both the hockey player and the show identify and relay very differently, like hmm. the expanse of the general audience learning to love romantic fiction as borne from fanfic writing tropes, somewhat inevitably leading to slash fiction spilling out into the mainstream eye… an eye that is still very much homophobic and has shown itself to be uninterested in otherwise queer (ie non romance) stories is something to munch on. no i have not watcjed the show

genre romance really has little duty to be meaningfully realistic within the context of the story. but perhaps there is some owing to the reality in the spaces rife with homophobia and transphobia. or perhaps not! to what extent is a alternate universe a complete fantasy? do i need to go back and read more literary criticism like a douche?

heated rivalry connor vs hudson stuff is so funny because people are weird about hudson bc hes not white and they're weird about connor because he is so very obviously gay and everyone's convinced the other is getting off easy bc of the identity they dont occupy #ThisSaysALotAboutSociety

i mean that's all not to even mention that they must absolutely hate this false pitting them up against one another lmao

Every time someone implies that heated rivalry only starts getting good at episode three, I kill a hostage

I need to see ilya in his WAG era. like totally embracing the stay at home dads, husband to the captain lifestyle. he pick shane up from practice with sunglasses, sleeveless shirt and baby strapped to his chest. he insults nearly every team member in the playful way that he does, before showing off the thousand pictures he took of tiny baby sleeping that day. moms are cooing over him at the mommy and me classes that he goes to, and sometime drags a reluctant shane to. he’s the coolest dad at pre-school pick up. everyone is wanting to arrange a play date with him because he’s ilya fucking rozanov. he sits with the rest of the wives at home games and is the loudest and more annoying spectator. he is screaming to luca to take the shout, swears in russian when wyatt catches a the puck. he would be so endearing but so fucking insufferable, i need it so bad.

You can really tell that the users on this site aged with Tumblr because my dash went from ~2013 "i want to choke on *celeb x*'s dick / i want their baby / thirsting" to "oh god i hope the heated rivalry guys get enough sleep and rest and stop smoking and have friends they can trust"