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i'm too late for the untamed hype but that won't stop me

[calciumcryptid]

Actually, fuck Kinn, if I knew Vegas in any capacity and all of the sudden he shows up with a lover who not only he listens to but he matches freak for freak blood for blood gun for gun, I am packing up my enterprise (criminal or otherwise) and getting the hell out Thailand.

[ilyrozanov]

i think that was the closest our lines blurred between who we were in that moment and where they are in that moment. it was really beautiful, actually. i think we said a lot of things like, "i can't believe we've done this." i remember a lot of "i love you"s and "wow-i can't believe we've done it. i can't believe this happened."

[shane-ilya]

hudson williams the first person on buzzfeed thirst tweets to out-freak the tweets (x)

BONUS:

[formulaonedirection]

Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie BTS for GQ

[prffrrffr]

i'm afraid that i'll never be able to watch another show if the actors in it aren't as into it as connor and hudson are into heated rivalry. the love and respect they have for the genre they're acting in just translates so well into their acting and puts the show on a different level. now that i've had this i won't be accepting anything less thank you.

[sheisraging]

big fan of everything that's happening here.

[bugbugly]

that was so cool how they made it so clear shane and ilya were thinking about each other in the last scene without like. inserting a shot of a fantasy. just directly staring at the camera (and each other) (and also the audience which felt weird) while getting off. insane

[bugbugly]

Heated Rivalry (2025) Season 1 Episode 4 42:40 moodboard

[prffrrffr]

had to take a screenshot of their faces right after phil told dan that he was conceived on 9/11 phil's face just cracked me up so bad.

(it's even funnier that this came right after dan said that god gave phil childbearing hips because he knew about the omegaverse lmao and then instead of answering to all that phil just dropped this)

also phil's face during that was great

[intergalacticmca]

The way non-book readers are engaging with Heated Rivalry proves how big of a crisis media literacy is in.

I’ve seen people say they don’t understand why Ilya was treating Shane the way he was in Russia and it’s not clear in the show why he’s being an asshole to him.

Is everyone watching the show with their eyes closed?

It’s made clear by Ilya’s mood in the rooftop at the end of episode 1 that he doesn’t enjoy being in Russia. We do not see him crack a smile even once the entire time he’s there in episode 2. His playful demeanor is completely gone. He dissociates in several scenes. He barely speaks. When he’s with his father, not only is his father berating him for Russia losing, he’s also displaying signs of rapidly declining cognition as he forgets that Ilya’s mother is not alive.

We feel the suffocating weight Ilya’s home country places on him, and how miserable he is when he’s there, but he still feels like he can’t leave it behind, because despite everything he still cares for his father and he feels too much like a foreigner in the US. The show hasn’t gone into much depth about his mother yet, but his ties to her surely keep him there as well.

In the scene with Sasha and Svetlana, we see him so disengaged from two people he’s previously been intimate with. With Svetlana, she’s savvy and gives him a great pep talk regarding why he should shift his focus to winning the cup, but he doesn’t seek emotional comfort from her, and she doesn’t offer it. Sasha, on the other hand, completely ignores Ilya’s obvious signs of disinterest and dissociation to try and get a fuck out of him, and insults Ilya for not being fun anymore when he gets rejected. Everyone in Russia is trying to get something out of him and reject him when he doesn’t do exactly what they want him to. He’s clearly not doing well mentally and the only person who even asks if he’s okay is Shane.

Shane, who Ilya has already fallen for but knows he can’t have, especially not in Russia where his bisexuality could pose a threat to his citizenship and livelihood, is showing concern for him outside of the parameters of their established sexual relationship, and Ilya is simply in no position to deal with the implications of that right now. Ilya can barely look at him in the scene and when he finally does, it’s to fire the final blow that gets Shane to give up and walk away, but when Shane does, Ilya can’t help but watch him go. Ilya doesn’t know how to deal with everything that’s happening inside of him and everything he’s feeling, so he pushes Shane away. He’s in pain because he wants to touch Shane and go to him, but he can’t because of where they are. There’s frustration there because in Shane’s mind he’s just a friend offering comfort to Ilya, but to Ilya it’s way more than that, because what if someone saw the way Ilya looks at Shane and immediately figured out everything?

The show trusts its audience to read into the characters through the actors’ performances and all of this is clear as crystal through Connor’s excellent performance. This show is a goldmine of characterization and romance if you pay attention.

[texasbama]

This is such a bad idea.

[macaraoqueijo]

Wei Wuxian will teach Lan Wangji everything ❤️

Recreation of a scene from Chainsaw Man

Inspo by bikoyaki and Djnuey9

[toxicgaysource]

KINNPORSCHE THE SERIES (2022) | Episode 14

[loveisonlyforthebrave8]

[prffrrffr]

there are some ships that have affected me so strongly that i may forget about them for a while but then i just have to think about it once and suddenly i'm back on my bullshit

[sleepy-salami]

my (35M) introverts (35M, 33M) have unionized (over my unconscious body)

[thefearofcod]

man if I gotta make bad art, it should at least be easy! But it’s not! It is also hard to make this bad art

[prffrrffr]

people should've warned me about the untamed. i have been backstabbed. nobody cared to tell me that it's impossible to stop thinking about it once you get into it. it's been two years and i don't think there's a single day i go without thinking about it at least once. somebody free me.