don’t you dare settle for fine

real life is stressful and complicated. so here i am. brit, 30s, istj, math nerd, ex-teacher. i put the bi in bitter.

[cjhousman]

It's here! Daughter of the Bride is now available on Amazon in ebook form. Paperback is also coming in the next few days, if you prefer a paperback experience.

[cjhousman]

Hey tumblr, I wrote a book! It's about mothers, daughters, reality television, life in the public eye, and, of course, fake dating a douchebag Instagram influencer to avoid pushing anyone into a pool on camera. Excited to share some more previews in the next few days! You can also follow me on instagram at cjhousman if you want basically the same posts, but on instagram.

[ponyregrets]

I made a tumblr for my original fiction writing! Feel free to give it a follow, or follow cjhousman on instagram if you'd rather. Or follow both! And of course follow your heart. That's the most important thing.

[knottahooker]

I’d like to live through a week that’s not a whole new verse of “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”

[socialistfremenist]

[plum-soup]

What IS it with tumblr users and “biting” I bet you people have never even bitten someone irl

[imhereformysciencefriends]

[shanehollanderss]

Heated Rivalry | 1.01 ➜ 1.06

[twobabkas]

How did we let this happen? We were both very stupid and irresponsible. This is real though, right? Yeah.

[becherdireinen]

as 2025 comes to an end, and everyone is posting their achievements, or their personal news like engagements, pregnancies, first house bought. i need you to know, sometimes just surviving the year is the achievement. sometimes just pushing through the heavy dark days is enough.

[heatedrivalrysource]

via Colton Brown-Underwood

The quiet negotiations. The restraint. The cost of belonging. I wrote about why that kind of recognition matters…and what it can shift in culture when stories get the interior right. Full piece is live on Substack.

[evanzbuck]

I am always wishing that these women were him. It's a terrible problem, huh?

[killherfreakout]

Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov HEATED RIVALRY — 1.06 The Cottage

[daiiku]

𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔 | 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓

↪₁ .₀₅

[rootingformephistopheles]

I feel it would be good to have a word that's like not ragebait but shamebait, where you can read a post and just go 'ah, this person just wants me to feel ashamed of myself and is not engaging with the issue in a constructive or useful way. I do not have to participate in this actually' and like. move on with your day

[hollanovhumping]

heated rivalry ☆ season one first & last touch + bonus credits:

[doctorprofessorsong]

As an older queer, allow me to say: the walls of the closet are load-bearing. It is our job as a community to stand in front of that door and tell everyone who wants to peek inside to fuck off.

There are so many reasons a person may choose not to come out and there is no reason a person would owe the public or a stranger that information. Certainly it's not owed simply because someone is famous.

We have fought for decades to make it safer for people to be open and authentic about themselves, but we are not yet there. And even if we were, the closet would still be something we need to maintain for those who are not ready to reveal that part of themselves.

[kosmogrl]

firm believe that not everything happens for a reason, sometimes things are just cruel. and they shouldn’t have happened and it’s not supposed to be a lesson because we never deserved such thing.

[kosmogrl]

hm some people in my inbox got really mad at this specifically. nothing you can say will convince me that some of the pain and suffering we go through is our “fate” no, it isn’t

[timejoshi]

i refuse to listen to your haterisms if you cannot cite your sources... a REAL hater doesn't have to make shit up to be a hater about. a real hater sees the truth and hates accurately. a hater who makes shit up and is wrong is just annoying. get on the level