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Heated Rivalry 1.01 // 1.06

[scream-queen-xoxo]

Why Emotional Intelligence Is the Real Tech

The impressive part of SweetDream isn't that it generates text, it's that the text understands you. My companion reads my mood, adjusts her tone, and responds like she actually gets it.

Emotional intelligence like that is the quality that matters most in a companion. It's the difference between being processed and being understood. On sweetdream.ai, an AI girlfriend feels like the latter.

[my-2nd-account]

The difference is that jealous Ilya looks homicidal while jealous Shane looks suicidal

[no-lovelorn-hazard]

@raccoonboywrites coming correct as always

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

ill spend my twenties investigating the healing properties of salt i dont know about you guys

[protectspock]

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

excuse me

[protectspock]

Sorry op. That's my friend the Salt Vampire from the Star Trek episode "The Man Trap" which first aired in 1966. Blessings be upon you.

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

its just i dont feel blessed by its presence is all. sending love your way

[anotherpapercut]

apparently my boss who is a professor at my school doesn’t have a cell phone and his coworkers were upset by this so they bought him a childs toy phone and labeled it “David’s jitterbug” (for those of you that don’t know jitterbugs are phones made for old people that have like massive buttons and shit) so the other day I walked into his office to ask him a question and he pressed a button on it which made it start loudly playing the ABCs and he said “excuse me I have to take this” and then started singing along to the ABCs while shooing me out of his office

[anotherpapercut]

this is the phone. he apparently was in the middle of a meeting with the department the other day and got annoyed so he pressed a button, said “I have to take this” and left

[beka-tiddalik]

David’s co-workers probably: “This is a valid tactic to embarrass him into buying a mobile phone, right?”

David: “Bold of you to assume that I get embarrassed.”

[k-pepp]

Shane’s comfort is his home and his family. When he wants to open up to Ilya, he asks him about his parents and about Russia. Which only causes Ilya to shut down. Ilya has always understood his sexuality and is comfortable with that part of himself. In episode 4, Ilya kept trying to talk to Shane about sex and sexuality. Shane’s sexuality is still something he’s suppressing and doesn’t want to reckon with right now.

The reason Shane and Ilya have such a hard time communicating is that their safe space is the other person’s trigger.

[jesterlesbian]

1x02 "Olympians" // 1x04 "Rose"

[hollandershane]

HEATED RIVALRY ⏤ 1.02, “Olympians”

[icecreamsandwichofficial]

Rose Landry highest self esteem of all time. she has mediocre sex a couple times with a guy who seems not all that into it and goes "hm. Well, I'M definitely not the problem. the only possible answer is that he is Gay."

impeccable reasoning, no notes.

[myladyofmercy]

and she was RIGHT

[ninyard]

a man being shoved into plexiglass by another player and then smash cutting to him getting fucked by the same guy. this show is fulfilling fantasies for me that i didn’t even know existed

[annieqattheperipheral]

railed in every sense of the word

[symphoniccowboy]

‘shane fell first!’ ‘ilya fell first!’ BZZT . INCORRECT . they tripped at the same time & bonked their heads together so hard that they mistook love at first sight for having a concussion .

[hillerska-official]

Very hard to scroll tumblr on the bus in the current fandom climate (the hockey players are sucking each others dicks every other post)

[stele3]

Nature is healing.

[origami-dragons]

I go to youtube. Cute animal videos are AI now. I go to instagram. There are AI influencers. I go to spotify. It's flooded with AI bands and music. I go to ebay. Every product is AI. I open netflix. Every movie has AI. I watch TV. All commercials are AI. I cancel all my suscriptions. The customer support is AI. I buy a book. It is written by AI. I talk to my friends. They tell me that AI is their new therapist. I take the subway. Some dude is talking to his AI girlfriend next to me. I go to the beach. The sunset is real. I take a pic and upload it. The photo is enhanced with AI. You can't opt out.

[digitalisnarcissus]

[formulaonedirection]

ginger ale unprompted means i love you

[buckleyy]

and one more thing!! so we’ve basically confirmed scott has clocked shane and ilya. and as a person struggling with being a closeted queer hockey player you’d think hey maybe he would try to talk to them and bond since they’re all going through similar things. NOPE. he brought a gun to the ice and said get out and take that weird bisexual man with you

[lesbvan]

Thank you for the tuna melt.

[ticklefighthockey]

kinda love this dynamic where ilya's like i get to have sex with anyone i want anytime i want and i also get to tell you about it while you visibly try to repress your feelings. but the second i think you might be having sex with someone else i am going to absolutely fucking spiral. epic crash out. because when I have sex it is empty and meaningless and utterly devoid of real emotional intimacy but you are a rule-following little dweeb who would still be a virgin if i hadn't deflowered you when we were like 18 so i fucking KNOW it means something to you!!!!!! the hypocrisy is delicious

[whichcouldmeanothing]

He realized, suddenly, as if waking from a dream, that he was standing alone in the middle of a dance floor…not dancing. Just…staring. At Ilya. — Heated Rivalry, Chapter 14