The "Only Ni Howdy" is a perfect joke.

Its a con.

Doctor here.
PSA:
A reminder that BY FAR, the worst & deadliest cartel in history was..
The Sackler Cartel.
Billionaires.
Fines, no jail time.
Actual narcoterrorists.
American citizens.

Oh nooooooo

Yes YEEEEEESSSSSS. And Ilya saying "I love you! I love you! I love you!" to all his teammates. I have my critiques of the show, and one of them is that they don't show enough hockey and that they don't show enough of Ilya being a great captain to his team and a massive dick to everyone else.

Yes. So am I. I'm stacking each episode up as they come out, so now I'm up to three hours of Heated Rivalry TV.

Oh my god. I feel like such a fat flabby slob, and I have severe tendonitis in my elbow so can't go back to my weights until that resolves.

I cannot get enough of this, although the deviations from the book are kind of nagging at me. There are structural problems with how Tierney adapted it, imho.

For me its that same poem but these lines:

You have to understand
That no one puts their children in a boat
Unless the water is safer than the land

That's Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley from KISS on the left.

Good luck, kid. 💪

I would, I think they're the strongest and I'm a #Hollanov fangirl so...

The others are all related, and there are overlaps in timelines, so the same events will be in multiple books from different POVs. Role Model has a big overlap with TLG, its about a teammate of Ilya's.

Boneless Stairwell Shane is my favorite Shane, I think.

Oh it was so good. She's so thoughtful and frank and honest about things, and I liked that she brings basic physiology into it: we are bodies made of nerves and tissue and sometimes physiological reactions happen and we have a way to deal with.

And yea, I can't believe this is the Letterkenny guy!

The constant checking in by Ilya "Do you still want this? Are you OK? Is this OK? Is this still OK?" and making it S-E-X-Y is wild. Its also interesting that its surfaced this entire genre of M/M romance whose primary audience is women, and why that is. I'm amazed Tierney is so dialed into that.

Yeah being written to screen and directed by Tierney is crucial, the things he's added raise the stakes I think. I've been really impressed with him in interviews, he's very thoughtful about the misogyny around attitudes towards the romance genre, and his scripting & choreography of the sex scenes.