MY HERO, MY HEART

Maybe I'll be 80 and this blog still will be an accurate diary of the media i cared about. * Main focus: Heated Rivalry 2025-2026 (trying hard not to have a NHL Hockey New Era) 9-1-1 2024 Leverage 2021 NHL Hockey 2014-2016 HBO War 2013-2016 SuperWhoLock 2011-2012 * My legacy: 9-1-1 : || Leverage : ||| NHL Hockey : |||||| HBO War : ||| Tired & Wired : |||| Spartacus : ||| Robin Hobb : ||

[mariana-oconnor]

[peachfromcmbyn]

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

[peachfromcmbyn]

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

[madlori]

go easy on yourself. nobody could have predicted...this.

[skittleswar]

The way I thought Heated Rivalry was gonna be a mid-quality hors d'oeuvre before Pillion comes out.

[muppetshow2026]

ok ill bite. whats hockey

[madlori]

as everyone knows, it's large men wearing knife shoes fighting over the last oreo.

[skittleswar]

"NHL Hockey is basically like if you put two litters of 6 kittens on over-waxed parquet flooring and threw a tiny ball the size of a laser point in the middle.

5 of the kittens are divided in what they call lines: a line of three forwards whose job it to put the Oreo in the proportionally tiny net by being skilful attack dogs, and a line of two defensemen whose job is to prevent this by being synchronized otters.

The net is guarded by a turtle-kitten that sometimes falls on its back and flails because it can’t get up: the goalie."

— the intro to the hockey primer i send friends who ask and then regret it

[livingasaghost]

genuinely i do think it's crazy how this show hit every single mark for no reason other than pure love of the game. like this wasn't a money grab and it didn't think it would be a big success, jacob just read a book he enjoyed and thought huh i think that would be a cool thing to make into a tv show. and then he brought on hudson and connor and they're fresh and passionate and not bogged down by the industry yet and they instantly became best friends and wanted to just have fun bringing these characters to life. and they didn't have a huge budget but they did the most with what they had and everybody took the show seriously and everybody took the book seriously. the cinematographer worked his magic. the music supervisor managed to snag a well-known queer hit and an up and coming new release and old school gems that have been around since the 2000s. it's canadian to the core, built from the ground up. it takes russians and the russian language seriously. it uses sex in such a specific, meaningful way that almost no other show has done thus far, and especially not in a queer context like this. they interlaced every episode with callbacks and parallelism and self-references. they didn't take themselves too seriously. they took everything so seriously. there is love and care baked into the core of this show and it's deeply queer and it doesn't shy away from the horrors of toxic masculinity and hockey culture but it is also, always, a story of joy and love and happiness. and on top of everything, it's almost word for word, the original source material from the book.

like damn it's no wonder this thing has made us all insufferable and become a huge fucking success! so few productions in hollywood are doing it like this!!!

[neoncat669]

havent watched it yet but this is the funniest frame out of the finale

[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."

[kiphunter]

Heated Rivalry: the last frame of the first season

[dadvans]

the way I could just watch the end credits on loop for the next 24 hours and be okay

[dadvans]

but also i just want to rewatch this episode for the rest of my life

[shanerozy]

hollanov + hugs

[hollanovhumping]

heated rivalry ☆ 1.06 the cottage

[hollandershane]

HEATED RIVALRY ⏤ 1x01 -> 1x06

[endlessly-ranting-antheia]

Ilya: I could marry Svetlana to get American citizenship

Shane: and I could commit a murder suicide right now. See how we’re both saying shit

[littlegirlinvisible]

# ILYA ROZANOV IS A COMEDIAN  

CONNOR STORRIE as ILYA ROZANOV HEATED RIVALRY (2025—)

[middyblue]

I can’t wait to see Ilya become the Hollanders’ other favorite son. Give me Ilya hanging out with them in Ottawa when Shane isn’t there. Give me Ilya and Yuna getting SUPER competitive about Yahtzee. Give me David making all of his favorite foods. Give me Ilya teasing Shane about how he’s the favorite and Shane on the other end of the phone call with THE sappiest look on his face

[hovllanov]

that man is actively evaporating

[xueyangapologist]

in absolute hysterics over ilya volunteering to come meet the hollanders for moral support and then making things weirder at every opportunity

[sobadbad]

HEATED RIVALRY 1.06