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#When I tell you I freaked out when I saw the cheek tap the first time #Also this is really one of those moments where Connor totally disappears #You can see how he holds his expression differently when he’s in character and looks like a different person completely #ACTING?!!!!

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CONNOR STORRIE as ILYA ROZANOV

#OHHHHH OBSESSED!!

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#Love love love a gifset where Brian is the one being affectionate #No matter how much time goes by #I can STILL recite the entire proposal scene by heart #Queer As Folk

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i tried making a contrapuntal poem for hollanov, which can be read 3 ways: shane’s side alone, ilya’s side alone, or both sides together. inspired by the long game.

#Absolutely STUNNING #Beautiful beautiful work OP #And it fits both of their characters so beyond perfectly #I'm floored

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please. go.

#Oh my GOD this coloring?!!!#Absolutely stunning #Almost made me forget to be sad over this scene :'')#It always hits so hard and so painfully how distant Ilya is here #Even though it makes total sense that he'd put walls up completely while they're at Sochi #Heated Rivalry

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CONNOR STORRIE For Cultured Magazine (2025)

#Absolute ART in human form

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#when the fic says "his eyes roll back in pleasure"

#Absolutely unreal #Boils my brain in the best way #Always #No matter how many times I see it #Heated Rivalry

bleedthebeat

english major macklemore: i read your granddad’s prose

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therapist macklemore: i hear your granddad’s woes

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coffee enthusiast macklemore: i drink your granddad’s joes

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body mod shop owner macklemore: i pierce your granddad’s nose

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pizza chef macklemore: i knead your granddad’s doughs

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television network executive macklemore: i make your granddad’s shows

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wildlife rehabilitator macklemore: i feed your granddad’s crows

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blanket maker macklemore: i knit your granddad’s throws

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sir mackle the more, knight of the great kingdom of seattle: i slay your granddad’s foes

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rapper macklemore: i spit your granddad’s flows

shaneswetbrowneyes

i actually think that what's being missed in the 'why does everyone love heated rivalry' conversation is just that it's good

it's well made, well shot, well directed, the music is interesting, the costumes are both thoughtful and subtly period accurate, the sex scenes are intentional and, again, accurate to what hooking up when you're like 18 actually feels like...the actors are of course attractive but they look like real people. the characters are varied and well fleshed out, the acting is really, really strong

so many shows and films shoot and then slot in whatever music kind of fits or could be licenced in the budget after time, but you can tell that the scenes in hr were shot with that specific music in mind. and the same intentional approach runs through the whole thing

it feels...so nice to watch a show that cares about itself

raincitygirl76

Nobody knew in advance that this show would become a massive international phenomenon. It was a mid-budget Canadian show (which means low budget by US standards) adapted from a Harlequin romance novel. The deal with HBO for US distribution rights was only signed a few weeks before it began to air.

But everybody involved treated it as if it was serious art anyway. Not just some little Canadian streaming show that might well disappear after airing. Based on a book from a genre that is usually ridiculed by people who consider themselves serious film people. The cast, the crew, the writer/director, the music supervisor, everybody. They all did their best work for love of the game.

#THIS ALL OF THIS #You can just sense when something was created out of love #The reason the love depicted on screen is so moving and feels so real is that IT IS #Not in an RPF way but in the 'everyone involved on and off-screen genuinely loved this project and respected the material #and took so much care in every decision they made' kind of way

rozanovs

heated rivalry gif meme: ↳ [5/7] kisses

#THEY ARE SO!!!!!!#IN!!!#LOVE!!!!#My god if I lived in the Game Changers verse and saw this happen with my own eyes I'd be FIRST CLASS on that RPF train alskdfjs #The way Shane can't stop staring adoringly even after he tries to put on the Bro Face

whyamihereat4am

Look I don't think Supergirl (2026) is secretly a perfect masterpiece or anything (I personally thought it was like. a 6/10 fun time) but I do think it's wild that Tumblr isn't going crazy for it because this Kara is one coattailed suit away from being a Tumblr sexyman. she is the flawed messy female character people have supposedly been clamouring for. she's the popular archetype of a gruff self-destructive alcoholic middle-aged man begrudgingly having to look after a kid and growing fond of them but genderswapped and also 23. she's allowed to be visibly messy and kind of gross and her hair is constantly all over the place and she literally cries, screams, throws up, and pisses onscreen. she's caustic and mean and puts up an act of carelessness but has a heart of gold. she's heavily traumatised and coping with it terribly. if anything happens to her dog she will kill everyone in this room and then herself. she spends most of the movie in a trench coat and baggy band T-shirt. she gets into bar brawls and breaks a guy's hand. she is Going Through It 24/7 and looks the part. she stabs a guy in the throat. how is everyone else not obsessed with her.

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Kelly Link, 21st April 2026

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GIF COLORING CHALLENGE - show gif with and without coloring thank u for tagging me @firstprinced & @sunnypeachyy - love y'all, uh! (the sound is included in the message) 🫶

#The split lighting in the gif of them in bed in Vegas #looks like they're in separate worlds as they sit side by side #Hurts my heart every single time even knowing everything turns out perfect and beautiful for them #Heated Rivalry