The Blank Notebook

Some photos I collected from GQ Hype Photoshoot, Hi Tops, Montreal Premiere, and VF Oscars After Party

In conclusion…

Alright y'all, after seeing some comments on here and Twitter the powers that be are moving weird and it feels like it's personal, as in there are some lurkers 👀who care a little too much about what we think. I'm just going to comment on some things that others have brought up.

Anastasia and Aika: Both Hudson's stylist who also dressed K for VF, and his groomer did their "part" to promote H/K at the VF party. Posting stories and pictures of them and using that stupid hashtag 🙄. But people pointed out recently that it appears Aika is the only one still playing this game, and Anastasia has pulled back. I find that interesting. We know that K hung out with Aika when they were in Europe together. If she's truly cool with K like that then fine, but the whole thing just gives me the ick.

Editing Connor: The publications and media outlets editing out Hudson's mentions of Connor yesterday in print and video reposts is Wack as hell. Especially because everything he said was completely innocent nice things about his costar, co-lead, and best friend. They're just making it too obvious and weird for no damn reason. Especially because the only people super happy about those Hudcon mentions were us in the Fandom. Which brings me to the fact that Hudson's team, or PR managers, and all the rest are lurking on social media seeing our reaction to things. What's weird about that is the media has gone to great lengths to paint all Hudcons as "crazy fangirls 🤪" so why be so pressed about what we think about the nature of Hudcon's relationshp?

Hollywood Already Knows: Remember when the media had this to say about Hudson and Connor at the CAA Pre-Oscar party.

"While CAA’s pre-Oscars party is typically a private kickoff to awards weekend, it has long been viewed as a key networking event where industry relationships are reinforced, and future collaborations quietly take shape. Williams and Storrie spending much of the evening together did not go unnoticed among agents, publicists and studio insiders attending the event."

Remember Connor's "date" for the VA party was a Director, Nia DaCosta. Everybody wants to talk to Hudcon at these events. If anyone suspects that Hudson and Connor are both Queer, and more than friends, the cat's out the bag. The industry has seen them together. Now we have to see if this affects their careers at all, but I still think it's too early to say. Is it a strong possibility that this H/K push has to do with marketing him to a Straight audience, sure, but everybody knows he was on the "Gay Hockey Show" and he's off to film another season of said show this summer. Bottom line is if his PR team didn't want rumors of Hudson being Queer to affect his career, they're doing a shit job of managing it. Because he could've tastefully posted K or brought her up every now and again, if they wanted that reminder. The big role out of a private citizen as the gf of an actor who has been famous for 5 minutes is beyond ridiculous. It's overkill and and it's annoying, and I doubt anybody in Hollywood gives two shits about K 🤷🏽‍♀️. Mabye if Hudson was dating another actress I could see Hollywood caring, but a regular girl from Vancouver that he has to be forced to mention? I don't think so. But what do I know.

This feels personal: I know Queer actors having beards and being put in PR relationships is a tale as old as time. But it seems like that has more to do with rumors around an actor's sexuality and not necessarily a same sex relationship they're in. Which is why all of this H/K mess is so weird. There are no Gay or Queer rumors about Hudson outside the Fandom. We're the only ones who think he's Queer. The mainstream media, and GP is happy to call him Straight every chance they get. They're eating this shit up and they all hate "shippers." It makes no sense to try and distance himself from the Queer project that made him famous, especially when he was already doing Queer art before Heated Rivalry. Which brings this back to Connor. Initially I thought that K being in the picture was a cover so that people wouldn't look to closely at Hudcon, and honestly, I really only came around to that idea after VF. To me Hudcon saying they're best friends who are really affectionate was enough of a cover to me. But now this seems to be a campaign directed at any thought or hint that Hudcon is together to the point where any reference even as Hudson's costar and friend is diminished or erased, and there is a weird animosity towards Connor himself, that makes it hard to believe this has anything to do with protecting Hudcon. If this is a plan from his PR team, then they need to be fired because they suck at it and it shows. If you want to drop information on a straight relationship it should look like this 👇🏽

The couple is by themselves (as much as you can be with paparazzi around 🙃) with a shot of them hugging intimately, and her riding on his bike. In the picture of them walking down the street they're not touching, but she's not walking 10 ft. behind, and the other pictures off set it. Awkward group photos where Hudson is never touching K and solo photos that look staged are to no one's benefit, especially because who are they for? Like I said Hollywood has seen Hudcon up close and personal, and we'll wait to see how that plays out, although Hudcon being an open secret just seems the most plausible to me right now. The GP and Media are buying it. So why be so pressed that a few of us on the Internet aren't convinced?

This si much it does make sense it's what I've been saying like hollywood inside KNOWS what we already know so what's the fking point.

I've never expected to see H facing censorship and C's name being censored in the great year of 2026, but here we are.

I never saw this before and now I can't be normal...

Hii

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You ppl need to start giving me hints of what l'm about to open so l don't get heart attacks

Also Omg I didn't know that others weren't aware of this post...

This is why ppl have been side eyeing them for this long. It's because other ppl have been clocking them too. Mara was close with Hudson before I believe, not sure how close they still are but she ran an update account (heard there was some drama...Yikes)

Anyway... are we surprised that prefame Hudson and Connor were eye fucking on FaceTime and making it everyone's problem? I can't even imagine what those convos look like or sound like to outsiders

You ever been third-wheeled from another country?

Mara has... this was in October btw..

As most of you know, Hudson attended the Bell Media 2026 event in Toronto. I discussed previously both how much more himself he seemed at this event (compared to the CSAs), and how he hinted that he did actually see Connor this past weekend. In this installment, I want to discuss Hudson’s on-stage interview at the event. I can only add one video to the post sadly, so I picked the best one, but I will link all others. This is the first time we’ve seen Hudson actually give us a little insight into their relationship and what their lives look like now, at least that’s how I interpret it. Amazing what a little buffer-free boyfriend time can do for a man. Alright, let’s get started!

When did you know?

The interviewer’s question was “what was it like to develop that [chemistry with Connor] and when did you know he was going to be your bestie?”

This is Hudson’s response:

… Y’ALL?! I need to break this down because I can’t handle it.

“It was really great. Connor and I kind of clicked right away” This echoes what Connor (and Hudson) have said about their chemistry before. Connor, most notably, said “nothing really had to click, it was there” about their chemistry. So it’s nice to get another reminder about it, the 5 second speechless Zoom stare anyone? Nonetheless, this reminder served as the perfect primer for the next part of his statement.

“I think we quickly knew what our relationship would bloom into and it’s been really lovely.” Said with the most genuine and fond tone. This is the first we’ve got them talking about their relationship and sharing anything about it, like the way he said it’s been really lovely so far. It literally sounded like Hudson answered a question about how his and Connor’s relationship is going, except she never asked that - it seems like Hudson wanted to answer that though! I’m so excited to get more little tidbits where they can talk as candidly as they can about how things are going with each other. But that’s not all, becuase Hudson said “relationship”, he didn’t say “friendship” or “bestie” like the interviewer. Remember, Hudson doesn’t lie, he loves plausible deniability - hence why we got “emotional support person in life” out of the GGs interviewer asking if Connor was his emotional support co-star. Hudson is the one driving this!

Hudson often escalates the language while also making it more vague so nothing is clearly romantic but neither is it clearly platonic. If he was trying to talk about his bestie Connor, there was no reason for him to describe it this way. “Bloomed” is much more serious, it’s slower and and much more permanent (typically used for romantic relationships), versus say “blossomed” which is often used for friendships or developing skills. So, the fact that he said they both knew what they relationship would bloom into, says so much. Hudson and Connor knew from day 1 this was something special and that their relationship was always headed for something more. I cannot stress enough how amazing that is! No wonder we heard what we’ve heard about them during filming. Is it not so precious to imagine them meeting and slowly falling in love over the course of shooting and beyond? Ugh they’re killing me guys.

In Bloom

Speaking of getting tidbits about their relationship, there’s one other moment I wanted to talk about from this interview. In my opinion, this quick little moment gives us an example of what their life looks like now that their relationship is in bloom (no matter when you think that happened). When Hudson was talking about not being used to the level of fan Heated Rivalry has attained around the globe he says this as an example: “you think it’s going to be a nice little vacation and then you hear Hudson Hudson Connor Connor.”

In my opinion, this can mean two things. It could mean that Hudson and Connor have taken private vacations together in Europe and been surprised that the fans recognized them, but since we haven’t heard about that, I’m more inclined to say it’s the second option. The only time Hudson and Connor have been in Europe together publicly was for work, not vacation… and yet we have that picture of a fan from walking around Venice the day they did the Olympic Torch Relay. This shows us Hudson and Connor consider time with each other to be relaxing and not work (unlike how we see Hudson view buffering with K). In January, they were literally on vacation experiencing everything new with their partner by their side the whole time. If that’s not love in full bloom, what is?

Initiation -> Formation -> Full Bloom

The fact that some people rather believe that Hudson is an absolute jerk who treats his " girlfriend " like shit and therefore get angry at him than to be willing to change their minds about K and what role she plays in his life, tells me everything I need to know about the state of this fandom.

And before people come at me: I am not saying he is perfect or put him on a pedestal. And, since I know people like to say this or play the misogyny card, without even knowing what misogyny actually means 🙃,its also not criticizing K .

But the fact that so many people can see all the tension, his cold behaviour, her annoyance ,the way they both look uncomfortable all the time, but the only conclusion for these people is : Hudson is a jerk, he needs to make a decision, his behaviour gives them the ick, K deserves better.. and yes these are all the things I had to read in the last days.

I think I explained my POV a few times: I think that H and C are a couple and that K is helping them out as a cover up, buffer, beard or whatever you want to call it at this point.

But she only does it, because thanks to shitty DM and that sus tiktok account, they were both put into that situation, because that girlfriend thing blew up immediatly and they were stuck.

But I think both of their behaviour shows that they are absolutely tired of that situation and pretending and thats exactly why they act the way they act .

And also, the way Hudsons treats women in general, how respectful and supportive he always is. I refuse to believe that he would treat his girlfriend like this. There is simply no way.

So maybe, just maybe, Hudsons behaviour and also of course Ks behaviour is based on the fact that they are both stuck in a situation they both do not want to be in and not because Hudson is a shitty person who is just too much of a coward to make a decision ( yep thats exactly what someone said about him) .

And maybe just maybe it is time to change your POV and trust me, from my own experience and from what some mutuals have told me, a lot of things will begin to make a lot more sense, if you let go of the girlfriend perspective.

Because it gets to a point where its just very obvious what is going on.

A close friend of mine used to be a celebrity publicist. Now she manages several stand-up comedians. I once asked her why, given how rapidly modern society is developing, Hollywood PR tactics remain the same old playbook “simple and crude”.She gave me a simple analysis:

The reason Hollywood PR feels so stubbornly formulaic isn't because the industry is stagnant ，it's precisely because it uses a highly stable underlying philosophy to cope with an extremely volatile environment. Those seemingly unchanged tactics have actually been quietly reshaped at their core.

The underlying logic remains the same: it's all about "story" and "relationships." The foundation of Hollywood PR is narrative control. The core has always been "covering a bad story with a good one."

Conservatism forced by the macro environment: higher risks, smaller budgets. If the logic hasn't changed, why does the approach feel so rigid? Because the environment has become so harsh that "making no mistakes" now matters more than "standing out."

Tactics are "evolving": hiding the ugliness deeper. Precisely because the macro environment has worsened, the specific methods have actually been "upgrading" ，only in ways that are more hidden and more sinister.

The "formulaic feel" of Hollywood PR is, in essence, a defensive uniformity. The industry is going through turbulence — talent drain, frequent lawsuits, budget cuts. Instead of taking risks with new tricks that could backfire, it's safer to retreat into the most secure mode.

We revisited the topic of Hollywood's "homophobia" ： why does Hollywood always present a contradictory state of "progressive illusion" coexisting with a "conservative core"?

Surface-level "progress":

Rainbow flags flying high

On a public level, Hollywood’s LGBTQ+ visibility is indeed very high: · A surge in content: A large number of films and TV shows featuring significant LGBTQ+ characters have emerged, some even winning the Oscar for Best Picture (e.g., Moonlight). · Stars coming out: Popular actors like Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey are open about their sexual orientation — something unimaginable decades ago. · Proactive messaging: Major studios and awards seasons actively promote diversity, which has become a business of "political correctness."

The real "dilemma":

Why are stars afraid to come out?

Yet, in the corners beyond the spotlight, "homophobia" operates in more subtle ways:

The "glass ceiling" of a career Coming out is seen as "career suicide." Actor Ben Whishaw once said that to succeed, one must "conform to the so-called mainstream heterosexual aesthetic" or "present sexuality in a heterosexual way." Lee Pace (The Hobbit) remained silent about his private life until he was effectively outed in 2018. Actor Jack Coleman also admitted after playing a bisexual role that actors who play gay characters often feel the need to "prove themselves" by posing with cigars and family photos.

The "closet" culture still thrives

Comedian Caleb Hearon once pointed out: "People think it's glamorous to be gay in Hollywood, but the truth is they don't want us." He bluntly said that many "straight male idols" people adore are actually gay but afraid to come out. The harsh reality of casting is that openly gay actors are often typecast and confined to playing gay roles.

Why is such an ostensibly open industry so conservative? At its core, it’s driven by money. If an actor comes out as gay, they may lose the chance to play "straight heroes" ， and with that, access to global markets in more conservative regions. Hollywood fears the commercial risk behind the "gay" label. That’s why it can proudly award Moonlight while, behind closed doors, being deeply uncomfortable with an actor’s sexual orientation during auditions.

So it’s always the same formulaic PR tactics to mask deep-rooted homophobia. Nothing new under the sun. It’s been this way for decades. Maybe I’m just used to it by now.