living as queerly as possible

30s // @heatedrivalryeverything // Heated Rivalry - Queerness - in general, just goodness i guess // also I hate AI with the firey rage of one thousand suns // message me :3

[duillean]

Foca(i)l an Lae

breicneach, bricíní gréine, póigíní gréine - "freckles" ☀️

breicne(ach) - freckle(s)

bricín(í) gréine - little sun speckle(s)

póigín(í) gréine - little sun kiss(es)

"Seo iad cúpla bealach chun "freckles" a rá as Gaeilge. Deirim póigíní gréine toisc go bhfuil sí an téarma a fhoghlaim mé ar scoil (agus tá sí is gleoite dar liom)."

(These are a couple [of] ways to say "freckles" in Irish. I say sun kisses because it's the term I learned on [in] school (and it's the cutest in my opinion).)

[wow-cool-stuff]

"Tá póigíní gréine aige." nó "Tá póigíní gréine air." ?

[pregnanthudsonwilliams]

what did hudson do with the spit

[ottawacentaurshq]

#hudconweek2026 ↳  Favorite non-Heated Rivalry Work

[gaygoatshane]

favorite hudson poses

[mrhollanov]

This is Connor Storrie’s inspo, I just can’t prove it yet

[sexcondo]

[bandsanitizer]

why would I go to the club and risk interrupting two dudes that were having a multiyear situationship try to glare each other into a love confession or spontaneous combustion across the dance floor when I could be at home with a comfy blanket?

[wow-cool-stuff]

Tá mé ag foghlaim Gaeilge, agus tá rang agam anocht! Táim ar bís! Is breá liom rang Gaeilge :)

[russianblush]

stop it right now

[blatherin-blatherskite]

If you want a poorly written fanfic don’t ask ai ask me I’ll do it

[shanehollandered]

[darlingofdots]

I really need people to realise that Ilya is functionally fluent in English even that first time in Regina. "You will not be so nice when we beat you" is a complex sentence construction! It's got a future tense and a conditional clause in it! He keeps making a couple of common-for-Russians grammar mistakes (mostly dropping words to reflect Russian sentence structure) and he has gaps in his vocabulary and listening comprehension is famously difficult, but his English is so fucking good. And you can just copy the way he talks in the show or the books! It's very consistent! Russian is way more complex than English and he definitely got some formal instruction before he went to Boston! I don't understand why he ends up talking like he's never heard of auxiliary verbs or pronoun declension before in fic when canon is so clear about his language skills

[wow-cool-stuff]

I know you're talking about matching canon, but as far as what could be possible and even realistic for Ilya, as a language learner myself and a friend and relative of many slavic language first language speakers specifically, I think it'd be realistic either way. There are many circumstances in which your language ability and what you actually end up saying are vastly different. Sometimes I'm:

very proficient in one area of a language, but completely useless in another area, in ways that wouldn't make sense to someone of a different pedagogy

stubborn (I want to say it _ way because it sounds better to me and makes more sense to me, so f off)

tired

not focused enough

distracted

forgetful

careless and generally dgaf

(And if Ilya isn't most of these on a regular basis, I mean...)

There are some canon moments where his abilities don't match his output. But regardless, I'd argue that fic is doing what it's meant to do in these moments by transforming the original work towards the author's vision. I often think it's more realistic that Ilya wouldn't be as skilled in the english language and/or wouldn't care enough to be particularly adept at it. I imagine Ilya would passive aggressively fight any formal instruction his father forced upon him. And I have never met a first language Russian, Ukrainian, or Croatian speaker who has picked up the english language as quickly as Ilya canonically has, nor has ever cared to speak english as well as Ilya does. All of them - and I do mean ALL of them - actively fight it. So, for me at least, the only way I can justify Ilya's fluency is via his love of Shane and their competitive love language.

[wow-cool-stuff]

That, possibly, maybe, very likely, Hudson is passionately anti-toxic masculinity BECAUSE of that shit he went through.

[ilyushkalyublyu]

Omg help.

[drizzledrawings]

Im so used to my queer echochamber that when a woman doesnt have armpit hair its like a jumpscare

[ponyboyfaceshopping]

I have bad news. There’s Heated Rivalry themed delivery robots in West Hollywood for pride

[ponyboyfaceshopping]

Imagine you forgot lube for your Weho Pride airbnb and it comes in the fuckin Shanebot

[wow-cool-stuff]

What I would give to see Hudson or Connor's face when this arrives at the door. Not a prank or anything. Total coincidence. They don't even have anyone around to talk to about it and if they tell anyone no one will believe them. Just like.

Okay. Rozanov/Hollander robots just out here ig 🤪

[freckleddoeeyedboy]

HR scenes as a pride flag