We’re All Going Down, So Enjoy The Ride Now…

We’re all thinking it.

We’re all having The Thoughts.

But none of us are saying the words out loud.

“What if Ryan le—“ SSSHHHHHHH! Naim found him just in time.

“What if Naim di—“ SSSHHHHHHH! He survived.

“What if Ryan was de—“ SSSHHHHHHH! He’s alive.

“What if one of them stops lo—“ SSSHHHHHHH! They will love each other forever and ever.

We watched that movie and all agreed:

Remember being a teenager and feelings your emotions so viscerally that they made your heart race and forced tears out of your eyes and made you scream?

Remember being a teenager and making the dumbest mistakes because you didn’t have common sense?

Remember being a teenager and making assumptions about the adults in your lives because you thought they knew you and cared about you?

Remember being a teenager and making one wrong choice that still haunts you to this day?

Jacob Tierney if you can read me.

All I ask of you for season two is that you have Ilya terrorizing Scott Hunter at The Kingfisher.

All I want is more Ilya being a bisexual gremlin to Scott Hunter, rebellious Captain America.

Please Jacob Tierney.

The angel is saying, “Protect your heart and your mind. Do not put yourself through unnecessary emotional torture.”

The demon is saying, “You should go to the theaters and see Leviticus.”

“You mean Baldwin and Lundin,” Shane said, naming Vancouver and Los Angeles players who had come out shortly after Scott Hunter had. “Baldwin was never offered another contract, and Lundin ended up moving back to Sweden.”

- The Long Game, page 302-303

When it comes to season two and Jacob Tierney’s directorial choices, I assume there is going to be a lot of intention in how the Metros actors display their discomfort and uneasiness towards Shane’s sexuality.

But imagine a moment during season two where Shane is with his team—maybe in the locker room or maybe at a Cup celebration—and someone brings up Baldwin or Lyndon’s public coming out and its aftermath.

And we see how Shane’s team reacts. And we see how Shane reacts to his team reacting.

And we, the audience, are subtly shown why Shane is scared of coming out; and why he is scared of him and Ilya coming out as a couple.

I hope Hudson has a caring and loving support system surrounding him.

I hope Hudson is taking care of himself and allowing himself to be taken care of by his loved ones.

I hope Hudson’s team has his back and is going to make sure he will still have the career he wants to have.

And I hope that regardless of what is or isn’t said publicly, Hudson is given consideration and love from the cast and crew of Heated Rivalry.

We don’t know what Hudson is dealing with offline. We don’t know who he is with, who he is talking to, nor what he is doing with his time away from social media and the cameras.

We can only make assumptions. And we can only hope that our assumptions are either correct or proven wrong depending on where our thoughts lie.

The Great Divide: The Last of the Bugs

Songs and their comparable characters and/or couples from the Game Changers universe.

Doors: Ryan and Fabian, Troy and Harris

Lighthouse: Ilya and Irina

Staying Still: Scott and Kip, Ryan and Fabian

The Great Divide: Svetlana and Ilya

Haircut: Troy and his father (submitted by @j0esp00ky )

Willing and Able: Ilya and his father

Dashboard: Ilya and his family

23: Ilya and his brother

Porch Light: sort of Troy and Curtis

Deny Deny Deny: Ilya and his family

We Go Way Back: Ryan and Fabian

A Few of Your Own: Ilya and Shane (submitted by @ohfuckmybones )

Orbiter: Scott and Kip, Ryan and Fabian, Troy and Harris

Why does he do this?

Because he loves the one real chance he has at messing with his captain/brother/best friend, Ilya Rozanov.

“Roz, I swear to you, I was in Harris’s room with Ursula—“

“You have seen the cat!?!”

“…yeah. She likes me.”

“She does not like me!”

“Yeah, cause I’m not annoying. Anyway. I was in Harris’s room and all of a sudden…”

“Yes?”

“The door swung open and I swear, I swear I saw an outline of Uncle Elroy in the doorway.”

“…you lie.”

“I swear it, Ilya.”

And anyone who loves Eric and Jack would love Troy Barrett and Harris Drover from Role Model.

That is THE Hollanov song, in my opinion.

I wish I had the talent and ability to make a Heated Rivalry Hollanov edit because I would absolutely set it to that song.

Has it been done yet?

Happy Anniversary to when I saw Battle of the Bowl life at the Hollywood Bowl.