spirited teakettle 🍁
spiritedteakettle.bsky.social
spirited teakettle 🍁
@spiritedteakettle.bsky.social
🦋 seek joy! 🦋
Domestic History in 🇨🇦 is my jam/
occasional playwright

fan of : fic, vintage, figure skating, old houses, atheism, human rights 🇵🇸🇺🇦
Community exists & thrives bc the unpaid, invisible carework/domestic labour of women..
(and everything is genderrr)
part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
January 26, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Sat in a mtg w/ seniors last week discussing printing merch for fundraising- to a one they were all 100% adamant we were not using a US company. The Canadian grannies are still enraged, still boycotting 👊
'Federal agents kills a man in broad daylight on camera while Trump threatens to escalate a trade war after he feels personally slighted.'

This is America, lather, rinse, repeat.
January 25, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Tried to explain to boomer parents why AI is a scraping slop machine, & no, their friend who's vanity publishing a kid's book should absolutely not use it, & find an actual artist instead. But it's great, they say! You just type in what you want & WOW it coughs up terrible things..MAGIC *jazz hands*
January 25, 2026 at 5:26 PM
ok but the 'gimme kiss' one?? arghhh i don't *need* another tattoo rn.. 👀
Heated Rivalry tattoos one tattoo shop in LA did in a single day:
January 20, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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Céline Dion x Heated Rivalry 😭
January 14, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Heated Rivalry (1935)
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 AM
😭😭😭
“Heated Rivalry doesn’t just tell a love story it shows you what love can look like when gender stops interrupting.”

I’m sobbing.
January 13, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Loved watching Wok with Yan when I was a little kid- he made cooking seem fun & approachable! And goofy! I lived for his apron puns, lol.
This show & The Urban Peasant were my favs, just get into the kitchen, cooking food doesn't have to be hard or fancy :)
we never filled the cultural hole left by Wok with Yan. now THIS was a guy with irrepressible enthusiasm for the wok. stirring different ingredients in em, flippin stuff up in the air. that's basically it i guess. doesn't sound like enough for a show till Yan does it. whole time he's kinda yellin'
January 11, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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Still not confused about why women choose the bear.
Never escaping the adage "men are afraid that women are laughing at them; women are afraid that men will kill them"
He never dropped his phone.

Even while “fearing for his life” and shooting her with the other hand.
January 9, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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A gentle request: let them work… for now or they can talk for hours 😉
January 8, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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i feel like we are now firmly divided into two categories: people who have had their lives taken over by heated rivalry, and people who have not seen it
January 5, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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Young girls will watch a movie with girls or boys as leads, while boys only want to watch boys. We're taught to empathize with men, men don't seem to learn to empathize with women. That's why they can't understand how a woman might love a gay story. Sure it helps they're hot, but it's a love story.
January 2, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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Straight hockey podcast guys showing young men they can be vulnerable while watching Heated Rivalry, is my favourite new thing.
January 1, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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happy 2026 ⭐️
January 1, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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I think everyone’s obsession with Heated Rivalry is giving us the much needed hope in our bones to know fascism won’t win. Culturally, we don’t want it. What we want is diverse complicated, and nuanced, love & joy. That’s the antidote.
December 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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There is a reason almost every Canadian I have spoken to about Heated Rivalry mentions the demonstration of ongoing consent which has been a national conversation concerning hockey for years. Jacob Tierney and Rachel Reid were purposeful and it was important what they showed a country in their work.
December 30, 2025 at 5:14 AM
starting to percolate on the Jane Austen-inspired Regency script I need to write in Jan. This year I'm going to lean hard into the romance & the JOY... I want the audience giggling & kicking their feet by the end :)
December 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
off to the archives today to do research for building a community mini-exhibit about a historic hockey arena. I swear i did not plan this-
Heated rivalry 🤝 vocation, a good end to 2025.
December 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Dundurn Castle rep! 🙌
A tour of Hamilton Ontario (yup, Hamilton) Heated Rivalry locations for the gay tourism factor:
December 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Absolutely love this in response to Heated Rivalry hate
December 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Carney, Zelensky meet in Halifax to boost Ukraine defence by enlisting Barrett’s Privateers
Carney, Zelensky meet in Halifax to boost Ukraine defence by enlisting Barrett’s Privateers
HALIFAX - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet today with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Nova Scotian city of Halifax, where the two will set about turning the of Russia's inv...
www.thebeaverton.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This!! So blessed bc I was a 90s highsch. theatre kid. I've tried to make this all so normal for my own kids growing up, so its not even a thing they have to think/worry about 💜
And I keep questions about new friends/romantic interests gender neutral, so no pressure :)
I know some people grew up in really religious and conservative environments but my Aunt took me to my fist Pride when I was 11, one of my bffs in high school was gay, half my college friends were queer, my first Toronto roommate was a lesbian, it’s just normal life to me.
December 27, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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“This is totally the World Juniors” says woman trying to trick her boyfriend into watching Heated Rivalry
“This is totally the World Juniors” says woman trying to trick her boyfriend into watching Heated Rivalry
SUDBURY, ON - Local girlfriend Ashlynn Timbers is currently monitoring her boyfriend as he watches the program she told him was the World Juniors Hockey Tournament, but is in fact the steamy gay roman...
www.thebeaverton.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
MY HEART 😭🥰
#heatedrivalry

ps. so SO proud of canadian artists/creatives rn. you did it babes, dream big, be weird, make ART
December 26, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Probably in regard to the people protesting that #HeatedRivalry is just a story, I repost this, which is a good blanket statement about art generally.

(Was Sept 24, 2025 if you are insane about citation like me)
Story is not what you have instead of reality. It is how you explain the reality you care about to people who don’t.
December 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM