spirited teakettle 🍁
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🦋 seek joy! 🦋
Domestic History in 🇨🇦 is my jam/
occasional playwright
fan of : fic, vintage, figure skating, old houses, atheism, human rights 🇵🇸🇺🇦
Domestic History in 🇨🇦 is my jam/
occasional playwright
fan of : fic, vintage, figure skating, old houses, atheism, human rights 🇵🇸🇺🇦
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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
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.
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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
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.
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
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 :)
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.
Heated rivalry 🤝 vocation, a good end to 2025.
December 30, 2025 at 2:09 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.
Heated rivalry 🤝 vocation, a good end to 2025.
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
Dundurn Castle rep! 🙌
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Absolutely love this in response to Heated Rivalry hate
December 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Absolutely love this in response to Heated Rivalry hate
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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...
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December 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Carney, Zelensky meet in Halifax to boost Ukraine defence by enlisting Barrett’s Privateers
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 :)
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
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 :)
And I keep questions about new friends/romantic interests gender neutral, so no pressure :)
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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...
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December 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“This is totally the World Juniors” says woman trying to trick her boyfriend into watching Heated Rivalry
MY HEART 😭🥰
#heatedrivalry
ps. so SO proud of canadian artists/creatives rn. you did it babes, dream big, be weird, make ART
#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
MY HEART 😭🥰
#heatedrivalry
ps. so SO proud of canadian artists/creatives rn. you did it babes, dream big, be weird, make ART
#heatedrivalry
ps. so SO proud of canadian artists/creatives rn. you did it babes, dream big, be weird, make ART
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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)
(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
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)
(Was Sept 24, 2025 if you are insane about citation like me)
Ok, last thing tonight about Heated Rivalry.
Modern western media starves for joy, especially satisfying romantic joy
The end of Ep5 of HR gave us all one giant serving of JOY (queer joy!!!) and HOPE! And we all lost our collective minds-
The yearning of ep3 & the payoff of ep5 in joy 😭
💜Seek joy💜
Modern western media starves for joy, especially satisfying romantic joy
The end of Ep5 of HR gave us all one giant serving of JOY (queer joy!!!) and HOPE! And we all lost our collective minds-
The yearning of ep3 & the payoff of ep5 in joy 😭
💜Seek joy💜
December 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Ok, last thing tonight about Heated Rivalry.
Modern western media starves for joy, especially satisfying romantic joy
The end of Ep5 of HR gave us all one giant serving of JOY (queer joy!!!) and HOPE! And we all lost our collective minds-
The yearning of ep3 & the payoff of ep5 in joy 😭
💜Seek joy💜
Modern western media starves for joy, especially satisfying romantic joy
The end of Ep5 of HR gave us all one giant serving of JOY (queer joy!!!) and HOPE! And we all lost our collective minds-
The yearning of ep3 & the payoff of ep5 in joy 😭
💜Seek joy💜
Thinking about how deeply satisfying great art is. It doesn't make you feel stupid for caring- we connect with its layers of meaning.
Great art has the power to change how we see the world- and we are starved for it in media today.
Great art has the power to change how we see the world- and we are starved for it in media today.
It’s amazing how people, some for the first time, are understanding the power of art through Heated Rivalry. Art should make you feel and good art will make you reflect, but great art will lend you new perspective. There is so little that does that anymore because of über capitalism.
December 23, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Thinking about how deeply satisfying great art is. It doesn't make you feel stupid for caring- we connect with its layers of meaning.
Great art has the power to change how we see the world- and we are starved for it in media today.
Great art has the power to change how we see the world- and we are starved for it in media today.
Treated myself to the first 3 episodes of Heated Rivalry. This is canadian cinematic tv at its finest. It has so many layers, the script is so tight, the cinematography, ughhh so good. I would just stop it, and go 'look at that shot, the composition, the colour- aughhh beautiful'. 1/3
December 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Treated myself to the first 3 episodes of Heated Rivalry. This is canadian cinematic tv at its finest. It has so many layers, the script is so tight, the cinematography, ughhh so good. I would just stop it, and go 'look at that shot, the composition, the colour- aughhh beautiful'. 1/3
Upstairs neighbour woke Canada exporting queer hockey romance and bootleg banned torture prison news to US is a crazy way to end 2025 🫠
December 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Upstairs neighbour woke Canada exporting queer hockey romance and bootleg banned torture prison news to US is a crazy way to end 2025 🫠
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AI companies = colonizing empires stealing everyone’s resources and then writing the rules for how you can interact with them
September 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
AI companies = colonizing empires stealing everyone’s resources and then writing the rules for how you can interact with them
Oh the plagarism slop machine practicing digital colonialism- yeah weird how proper historians are not fans 🤷♀️
The joy of being a historian, for me, is finding the little threads, the odd coincidences, the details that would be glossed over, and then having a THINK about. jfc.
The joy of being a historian, for me, is finding the little threads, the odd coincidences, the details that would be glossed over, and then having a THINK about. jfc.
You absolutely will not convince a bunch of historians and sociologists and whoever else is in this thread that you know more than we do about this and we should use it. I wish you AI enthusiasts would stop wading into our conversations. You have nothing helpful to contribute and are snarky.
December 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Oh the plagarism slop machine practicing digital colonialism- yeah weird how proper historians are not fans 🤷♀️
The joy of being a historian, for me, is finding the little threads, the odd coincidences, the details that would be glossed over, and then having a THINK about. jfc.
The joy of being a historian, for me, is finding the little threads, the odd coincidences, the details that would be glossed over, and then having a THINK about. jfc.
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A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle
It also robs students of learning *how* to research.
December 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle
francis no
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
francis no
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BREAKING: Skate Canada is boycotting Alberta over the province's ban on Trans women competing in women's sports.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Skate Canada to stop holding national, international events in Alberta | CBC News
Skate Canada says it will no longer host major events in Alberta following a review of the province's legislation on the participation of transgender athletes in women's sport.
www.cbc.ca
December 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
BREAKING: Skate Canada is boycotting Alberta over the province's ban on Trans women competing in women's sports.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Saw this quote from Jacob Tierney and I thought about the episodes of Degrassi that were never allowed to air in the US. The show would not have been the same! #HeatedRivalry
December 16, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Saw this quote from Jacob Tierney and I thought about the episodes of Degrassi that were never allowed to air in the US. The show would not have been the same! #HeatedRivalry
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
Need to finish (write 10pgs 😭) of my dreaded historiography essay today bc its due tonight. I will be so happy to be rid of this class, its been the biggest disappointment of going back to school for my MA. it could have been a great class, but alas!
December 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Need to finish (write 10pgs 😭) of my dreaded historiography essay today bc its due tonight. I will be so happy to be rid of this class, its been the biggest disappointment of going back to school for my MA. it could have been a great class, but alas!
All of this!!
And.. we're getting a season 2? Like what?! Are good things happening fr? I'm still having yuri on ice flashbacks about S2, but i can't help but believe HR is in extremely good hands that 'get it' and won't let us down.
(Also when TLH comes out next year- its just so much winning)
And.. we're getting a season 2? Like what?! Are good things happening fr? I'm still having yuri on ice flashbacks about S2, but i can't help but believe HR is in extremely good hands that 'get it' and won't let us down.
(Also when TLH comes out next year- its just so much winning)
i am still a reylo for life but i'll be damned if i'm not gonna enjoy a ship that is actually fun, extremely horny, instantly rewarding, full of bts/offscreen content, and pure joy!!! bless you hollanov for distracting me from this years long abusive relationship lol
December 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
All of this!!
And.. we're getting a season 2? Like what?! Are good things happening fr? I'm still having yuri on ice flashbacks about S2, but i can't help but believe HR is in extremely good hands that 'get it' and won't let us down.
(Also when TLH comes out next year- its just so much winning)
And.. we're getting a season 2? Like what?! Are good things happening fr? I'm still having yuri on ice flashbacks about S2, but i can't help but believe HR is in extremely good hands that 'get it' and won't let us down.
(Also when TLH comes out next year- its just so much winning)
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Some of the lessons I have been reminded of from the success of Heated Rivalry as a creative person include:
-care deeply about your craft
-no detail is too small
-work hard but also have fun
-find people who understand your vision
-it's important to make work filled with joy
-swing for the fences
-care deeply about your craft
-no detail is too small
-work hard but also have fun
-find people who understand your vision
-it's important to make work filled with joy
-swing for the fences
December 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Some of the lessons I have been reminded of from the success of Heated Rivalry as a creative person include:
-care deeply about your craft
-no detail is too small
-work hard but also have fun
-find people who understand your vision
-it's important to make work filled with joy
-swing for the fences
-care deeply about your craft
-no detail is too small
-work hard but also have fun
-find people who understand your vision
-it's important to make work filled with joy
-swing for the fences