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Oh, she is RAGING!

It's been interesting to see the reaction to the Canadian Screen Awards and people getting all salty that Connor wasn't there/nominated.

People keep pushing for Emmy/US award recognition as if that is some kind of critical milestone the show needs to pass in order to be considered legit. But that's just not true, and it being up for those awards makes no sense.

I know that the wish for it to win Emmys, SAGs and Golden Globe Awards comes from a good place. But those are American awards meant to reward the Hollywood system. It makes no sense at all for Heated Rivalry to win those awards because it was produced entirely outside that ecosystem. It is not the kind of project those awards were designed to recognize. It's not their mandate, it's not their jurisdiction.

Those awards are not world awards, they're Hollywood ones. Hollywood does not include all English-speaking media.

And as for Connor not being nominated for a Canadian Screen Award...well. That comes from a place of protecting the system that made HR possible. The Canadian industry is constantly under threat from the Hollywood system next door. What allows us to nurture great talent and breakout hits is by prioritizing our own and recognizing Canadians. The awards used to allow more Americans to win, but what happened was a ceremony where the American actors didn't show up to receive their award, and it took the spotlight away from homegrown talent.

Canada is allowed to celebrate our own. Which is why Heated Rivalry dominated the Canadian Screen Awards and isn't nominated for any American awards.

Is it a bummer that Connor doesn't get awards trophies? Yeah. But if you believe he is a phenomenal talent, then you know his time will come. I'm sure he's nothing but happy for the cast and crew for their wins.

I implore American fans to realize you are consuming another country's cultural product. We may sound like you, but we're not you. Our art and our artists deserve to shine without being overshadowed by the billion-dollar juggernaut next door.

i love his nose scrunch so much

so you will love the world differently for having loved someone else. you will love a certain cereal or pokemon because of your brother. you will hear your favorite band's song playing in a random store and the love of it will make the whole world a little more golden. you will read a poem so many times the words become their own creatures. you will find you cannot listen to certain music without thinking of your favorite show.

Acetaminophen/paracetamol has a hard stop upper dose limit, above which it becomes extremely toxic.

That limit is 4g (8 “extra strength” (500mg) tablets) in 24 hours (about 2 tablets every 6 hours).

A single dose of 22 extra strength tablets can kill you.

Taking 12 or more tablets per day for more than a week can also kill you (this is about 3 tablets every 6 hours).

Symptoms of overdose take up to 24 hours to manifest, and are fairly difficult to distinguish from other problems. They include abdominal pain (especially right upper quadrant), nausea, malaise, and confusion.

The antidote (n-acetylcystine) must be given within 8hours of ingestion in order to be useful.

After 10 hours the only thing that will work is a liver transplant.

You might think “why would I ever accidentally take so much?”

Well, acetaminophen is in almost everything in the cold/flu/pain aisle. Migraine combos like Excedrin, cold and flu combos like NyQuil, basically anything that says “non-aspirin pain relief”, and anything that’s branded as a fever reducer. It’s all probably acetaminophen/paracetamol.

alice is dragged from place to place without warning, forced to play stupid games with no good prizes, grilled over her schooling and manners and recitation and dress, scolded, judged, insulted to her face, sent away, given gifts she didn’t ask for and doesn’t like, corrected incorrectly, been subject to shifting and arbitrary rules, and then when she gets snappish with all this bullshit everyone acts like a little girl’s temper is the end of the fucking world.

after i dropped out of high school i found a torrent of like 5GB of OCRd romance novels and i read like 3 romance novels a day for a while

read enough romance novels and you will realize that they live or die entirely on technical skill. if you are new to romance novels then even bad ones can dazzle you with novelty but by the time you are on your 30th historical fake engagement between a bluestocking and a rakish duke you can grade them and you know when they've failed. when two books have what should be the same main characters hitting the same plot beats, but one of those books is delightful and the other fucking sucks, you learn some things. some books are bad and still delightful. other books are good but they just don't hit. you start to see the seams in the bad ones. 'oh, this is a weird out of character moment because she wanted to have the kabedon moment and didn't know how to get there'. 'she didn't want the ust to end but couldn't think of a better reason than this deus ex cockblock.' that kind of thing.

you could probably do this with other genres but i like romance because the plot is two people fall in love. that's it. everything else is set dressing. if you can figure out how to make that work you can carry it over into whatever other genre you feel like. mysteries would give you a different skillset around plotting that i don't have.

and the other thing is that you can't really sub in fanfic for this. plenty of fanfic takes characters from other genres and plops them into romance, but it's not the same. a good romance novel says, "here are two characters. you may know their archetypes, but you don't know them. you are going to get to know them, and you are going to love them, and you are going to want them to love each other, and when they love each other you are going to be happy for them". i love a rakish duke. when a man who's never had to do his own laundry is slutty as fuck that's my shit. but you still have to make me like him. you can take that archetype and make a guy who fucking sucks. most fanfic will not impart to you any knowledge about how to make a reader like a guy from scratch. you already know that guy. that's the whole point. fanfic with as much character building as an original work is the exception, not the rule.

the whole reason i get catty about fics that just make a different guy is that... you've made a different guy. i don't know who this guy is and i don't like him, and you haven't bothered trying to make me like him, because you slapped another guy's nametag on him like a cheat code. it's cool if you did make me like this new guy, but why is he wearing that other guy's nametag if no other aspect of him is present?