PARADISE on Hulu (2025—) 1x04 “Agent Billy Pace”

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PARADISE on Hulu (2025—) 1x04 “Agent Billy Pace”

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Im rewatching renegade Nell so I can get pissed off again that it was canceled. We should be on season 4. Nell and Sofia should have hate-kissed. Charles/isambard should be flirting with everything that moves. George should have discovered her power which is probably seeing the future. Fuck.
Also I just want to say, while the attention is here, that North of North is as important (if not more important) of a show than Heated Rivalry. And if you are just waking up to Canadian shows now, from wherever in the world you are, please consider watching it. It's on Netflix. It's stunningly beautiful, fiercely and unapologetically Inuit, and such important storytelling for Turtle Island (the land we colonially call Canada).
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Lesbian heated rivalry this, lesbian heated rivalry that. We had it FOUR years ago & nobody watched it so it got cancelled after 1 season. A League of Their Own is immediately & explicitly queer. There is a huge range of representation and it is Loud. The racism is overt and overtly addressed. It's about the baseball. It's not about baseball at all. The women are Messy af. Is the dialogue a bit too modern for the time period? Absolutely, but it's a damn good show.

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I'd try one now, if it comes in pink.
Shane sends this screenshot to Ilya: Hunter lol
Ilya sends this screenshot to Scott: Do you think this would help you? Shane and I can pay for it, we want you to be comfortable for as long as you can 😭😭
Scott texts Shane: Your husband is bullying me with robotic tails
Shane texts Scott: I can liquidate asap, we just want you to be safe, Scott.
Scott to Kip (trial separation era): Just shoot me between the eyes please.
*Kip calling Scott*
Six flags commercial from 2004 you most likely forgot about.
Nobody who has seen this has ever forgotten about it.
The way my whole person was just overcome with rage & I didn't even have to hear the song
watching rivals like
me: oh, i see. oh, wow. you're trying to make me like this skeezy-ass guy just because he's pining for our far too young pure of heart heroine and there's a major case of 'i can fix him'-itis floating around in the air. what-everrrrrr! i've been to this rodeo before! you will never make me like him!!!!!!
skeezy-ass guy: (takes a bubble bath with his dog)
me: god damn it.
The dogs got me. So did his conversation with Maud. Like wdym you thought this lady who has been shamelessly hitting on you and got you alone in a room was referring to your interest in her daughter? I'm on the floor, dead, that is a whole dumbass. There is something deeply wrong with him (and me because I'm endeared by it).
The horse weirded me out though. It felt too intimate... like he was talking about Taggie 😒
there's an old anne rice interview circulating on twitter rn that i remember reading ages ago where she makes a pretty salient point about how submissive men who have bdsm fantasies etc will go to a sex worker and basically order the ala carte version of their fantasy to be performed in real life but women don't really have that same option and certainly not at the same point of availability so they read her horny books instead. and honestly that argument has been in the back of my mind every time people get on their high horses about the popularity of booktok romantasy novels or heated rivalry or whatever the "women are horny and we're upset about that" cultural property du jour is ever since. women, especially straight women, have so few outlets for their sexual desires, especially if they have a partner who doesn't share them, and i will never understand why "someone ELSE'S private sexual fantasy makes me uncomfortable and therefore they should not be allowed to engage with it, even if i am in no way being affected by it or even aware of it at all" is such a popular party line among allegedly progressive young people.
The only issue I genuinely ever take with the romantasy tropes is that often they seem to be utterly nonconsensual on the part of the woman, as she is simply accepting (often with a lot of internal monologue about how she’s scared/concerned/upset about) the man treating her in whatever way his fantasy runs, which usually seems to be very dominance-based.
In this world where women are already subjected to the sexual whims of their male partners and their own desires are often ignored or belittled, I very decidedly don’t wish to read about that exact same thing happening to the FMC. Now, if the FMC is living her best life whilst being subjected to these tropes and shadow-daddy MMCs, then good for her!
I just really wish that the FMC’s pleasure and desires would be centered, rather than just assumed to be submissive and then executed as such without first asking.
So yeah, am I asking to see the kink negotiation scene? Hell yeah, I am.
Nope. Because in a book like that, the BOOK ITSELF IS HAPPENING WITHIN THE KINK SCENE. The kink is non-diagetic! It's like saying "I don't like when movies have music that comes from nowhere, I wish they would show us where the musicians are, how do you have an orchestra pit when the heroine is running around the moors in the fog and the rain??" The kink negotiation scene isn't happening between the characters, it's happening implicitly between the reader and the author, and your power to withdraw consent is perpetual and ongoing -- all you have to do is close the book and walk away. You're allowed to do that, and I encourage you to do it.
But for things happening between the characters, if the FMC is scared-AND-horny or whatever, that's what the fantasy is supposed to be and you as the reader are expected to do some basic suspension of disbelief in order to engage with the idea that (just like in a kink scene!) this is not real, this is just for pretend, everyone is safe and no one is actually getting hurt. On account if it is fiction.
Now, if you're not into that, that's perfectly fine, I am not saying you have to be into reading things that you don't like. If you want to see some kink negotiation, that's cool. Sometimes, there are books that are about diagetic kink, and they do include those negotiation scenes. But for non-diagetic kink (aka the thing you're "taking issue" with), I don't think that it's fair to say that it's wrong for those books to be written that way. A woman's desires ARE being centered -- either the author's own desires or what the author is envisioning the reader will desire. If you're not into it--again, that's perfectly fine, it's just not the right book for you or the right genre for you. Read something else.
You missed the point of the first post, @atinymekanie, so let's read it together again:
women, especially straight women, have so few outlets for their sexual desires, especially if they have a partner who doesn't share them, and i will never understand why "someone ELSE'S private sexual fantasy makes me uncomfortable and therefore they should not be allowed to engage with it, even if i am in no way being affected by it or even aware of it at all" is such a popular party line among allegedly progressive young people.
"yes but the only issue i take with romantasy tropes [...]" literally is just "someone else's private sexual fantasy makes me uncomfortable" in different clothing. Do you see what I'm saying? You're doing the same thing. "Yes but when it comes to the thing *I* don't like, people shouldn't do it that way." Not everyone is doing it that way! Read different books!
Like I know I’d feels awkward to write but when I’m reading a fic I don’t notice if an author is using the characters names too many times too close together. That’s their name! on the other hand if I ever have to read “the blond” I’m closing the tab. The only time it’s ever acceptable to use epithets like that is when the characters don’t know each others names yet
I see this and I raise you: the taller, the elder.
Because are you joking? Especially if they are PEERS and especially if they are Not Vertical. What do you meeeeaaan

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I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.
And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.
So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.
The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.
Thank God someone bothered to check.
>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.
Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.
Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A
https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138
Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll
Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)
Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un
Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though
That should be enough
This is deeply funny. And also 1000% the reason the scientific method is in place and works. AND we should still be reducing plastic use when we can.
But I am laughing though 😂
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An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, Revised and Updated Edition
Disrupting Colonial Pedagogies: Theories and Transgressions
J. A. Rogers: Selected Writings
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Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa
Lagos Never Spoils: Nollywood and Nigerian City Life
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Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History
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Graceful Resistance: How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement
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And this is also why I won't let my family read anything I write ever. I wanted my sister to read a draft of a novel, but she stopped after two chapters because she kept picturing the character as me.
TBC: She pictured the classy, socially adept biracial woman in a fantasy world married to a wealthy businessman being shunned by her old society friends as me. A white single bisexual woman with too many pets & no money or social manners.
Okay.
"That's Our Baby"
Heated Rivalry Fic
Gen, M/M, Ilya Rozanov/Shane Hollander, Cliff Marleau & Ilya Rozanov.
Tags: Cliff POV, fluff, That's Shane's Baby, but he was Cliff's baby first, brotherly platonic love, shovel talk, Post TLG, book spoilers, Good Friend Cliff Marleau, Married Hollanov, explicit language, no smut
Word count: 1842
Summary:
Cliff was excited for Ilya because Ilya sounded excited and happy, and generally just enthusiastic in a way Cliff hadn't seen him be in a really long time. So if Shane Hollander was the reason for that, great. Cliff was on board.
He was just…confused.
Or: Shane gets his first shovel talk.
Part of the His Baby series
i do love and respect the idea of the world at large being stunned at finding out how long ilya and shane have been together, but i truly think that under NO circumstances would shane ever choose to offer ANY personal details about himself or their relationship willingly.
which combined with ilya loving just making things up and saying them (as seen in the "yes, the rumors are true-" scene) offers the very funny idea that ilya actively tries to offer as much privacy as possible by just throwing out stories about them at random so there IS no central story for people to hound shane about.
assorted backstories a la "ilya just started talking and found out with everyone else where he was going with this":
they got snowed in at all stars one year (b-but wasn't that year in florida?) and decided there was nothing better to do
it started as a bit and neither is willing to give up first
they paired off to combine forces like nato
they paired off to limit how many kids they could have in the future to make sure hockey stayed fair
ilya lost a bet six years ago
shane lost a bet three years ago
ilya got tired of remembering phone numbers for his hookups and shane's is easy
ilya got tired of having to look things up in english and french when talking to other people and decide to marry someone who speaks two languages to save time
shane is gifted enough (wink wink wink) that other people are cowards and only ilya was brave enough to rise to the challenge (this one gets him in trouble on the phone later but it also gets him laid that night at home and also confuses the online speculation about who tops and bottoms, so net positive tbh)
yuna hollander is the best manager in the business and a political marriage was the best way to secure her services longterm
with the end result that all shane has to do is shrug and "my husband has already told our story a thousand times by this point. no point in repeating it and boring people." in interviews to get out of people trying to dig into things he doesn't want to tell them.
And that's what kills me about David catching them together at the cottage. I really don't think Shane would have willingly told his parents their timeline if he'd had a plan with Ilya to come out to them. No terms and conditions, no labels nailed down, no story agreed upon. gah it hurts me.

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I'm doing it, folks. I'm defying statistics. I reshaping the ecosystem. I am above the numbers. 😂😂😂😂
I'm doing it, folks. I'm defying statistics. I reshaping the ecosystem. I am above the numbers. 😂😂😂😂