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One month from today!

"...but Stelly, the men of Rivals don't have beards," you say.

And you would be correct.

However, several of the actors have worn beards, and they look damn good in facial hair. So I will be sharing pictures of them, in addition to many, many pics of Aidan. Most of the photos will be my personal favorites of the Turner beard. Not necessarily his beardiest; just the ones I like most.

It's an inhumane question, I know. This list could easily have been ten times as long so if I missed your favourite moment, please share it in the comments/reblogs.

Part Three

That's a dangler.

Just poking out a wee bit at the pool table. 2015-16-ish?

This was in the Irish Times, May 2026. Promoting either Liaisons or Rivals, maybe both? I don't know because it was paywalled. It's that tricky woven belt again, and also the photo I used for the title card.

I'm wondering now if they didn't intentionally style him this way for the Gauntlet. If you watch that scene again, you can see where the belt is hanging to his knees just like it is here. But then again, how BIG a belt would it have to be to have allll that extra length on it? And it doesn't even look buckled; it looks like they just tied it in a knot around his waist. ?? LOL.

One more in the wild. I think this is from Odessa, but I'm not sure.

BONUS: This one's not about the belt, but it IS an opportunity for me to riff on high fashone. From Man About Town, Spring 2026.

So this is what the kids are wearing, huh? Except, "the kids" probably don't spend six grand on a single outfit. It's all Yves St. Laurent. I shopped the look--shirt, $2400; pants $2800; tie, $300; glasses, $595.

It's really the pants that get me. These are called paper-bag pants, for real. It looks like someone gave him a wedgie, and his stretched-out underwear is hanging over the waistband. But nope, it's just fashion. Apparently, someone gave the Laurent model a wedgie, too, although I bet he'd be easier to wrestle to the ground than Aidan would be:

Listen, for $2800, those fucking pants better clean my house, take me to dinner, change the oil in my car, and then perform sexual favors for me for the rest of the night.

And the pants don't even look like they fit.

Becky and Hilda here didn't pay six hundred bucks for their oversized sun glasses. They only paid about $15. Think of all the arthritis cream and lottery tickets that remaining $585 would buy for Hilda.