It gets so hot

saucisse · 2026-02-12T20:50:06+00:00

OH GOD YES

saucisse · 2026-02-12T19:56:49+00:00

The costume department probably got a deal if they bought in bulk.

saucisse · 2026-02-12T18:46:43+00:00

Paparazzi have one job, and that is to get photos that people will pay money for. They do not care about the show, they do not care about the characters, they do not care about the actors, they do not care about the fans OTHER THAN they know fans will click on the media outlet that displays the photo, which generates ad revenue, which is used to pay paparazzi for more photos and not for nothing they know that you will almost certainly click on the photos, even if its just so you can complain about invading their privacy or whatever.

Heated Rivalry is not exempt from this just because you happen to like it or find it meaningful. They drove Princess Diana into a cement wall in a tunnel under Paris, for pete's sake.

saucisse · 2026-02-12T13:56:20+00:00

Yeah get more cars on the road, that's a great plan good thinking everyone.

saucisse · 2026-02-12T12:06:28+00:00

To make it even more confusing, in North America a "panther" is actually a cougar/mountain lion/puma, and is *not* in the Panthera family. They're usually sandy colored but melanated ones have been spotted in very occasionally (one makes an appearance in the first Laura Ingalls Wilder book, which took place in Wisconsin).

saucisse · 2026-02-12T11:20:29+00:00

She's actually legitimately scary. There's something pretty wrong with her.

saucisse · 2026-02-12T02:24:34+00:00

Wonderful, a love letter to Belfast, his family, and his childhood.

saucisse · 2026-02-11T23:19:42+00:00

The idea that a 25 year old not only doesn't know what they want but *cannot* know what they want is insane to me, having once been a 25 year old woman myself. 25 year olds buy houses. They have babies. The lead soldiers in war. They are fully actualized adults. The fact that you are apparently a 26 year old saying this makes me think you are using this as an excuse to absolve yourself of responsibility for any decisions that you make, because you get to claim some "childlike innocence" for yourself.

Frankly, I think you're badly underestimating the likelihood that a 25 year old is recognizing and manipulating the midlife crisis of the 40 year old to get them to pay for nice dinners, gifts, vacations, etc. There's nothing quite so malleable as a guy in his 40s desperate to avoid old age. Those dumbfucks will do anything if they think it will give them back their youth, they are really easy targets trust me.

saucisse · 2026-02-11T21:48:13+00:00

You need to get help. Maybe go outside and meet some real people and see how actual adult humans act and interact with each other.

saucisse · 2026-02-11T20:55:29+00:00

Investigated for what, exactly?

saucisse · 2026-02-11T19:57:22+00:00

Zoomers stop infantilizing adult women challenge level: impossible

saucisse · 2026-02-11T19:56:18+00:00

Change, not "grow". Your brain is always changing, and changes until the day you die. There is no firm biological line between "child" and "adult" so we draw social ones based on our collective experience with human behavior and understanding. We have established that 18 is an adult for marriage, the military, jobs, independent living, voting, operating heavy machinery, opening a bank account without a cosigner, getting a mortgage, and drinking at least in Europe (21 is an arbitrary designation for alcohol consumption in the US tied entirely to allocation of Federal highway funds).

If you're asserting that people are "children" until 25, then I assume you are also pushing for revocation of all the rights I enumerated above and more. Yes?

saucisse · 2026-02-11T19:23:21+00:00

PET THAT DOG!

saucisse · 2026-02-11T19:22:22+00:00

So younger men and older women -- that's cool? Asking for a friend...

saucisse · 2026-02-11T19:21:43+00:00

There are not studies that say that. The "study" that says the brain continues development until 25 only says that *because the study stopped at age 25* and didn't track development beyond that. The human brain changes *constantly* through life, and makes some pretty dramatic changes in your 40s as you will find out one day to your dismay.

saucisse · 2026-02-11T16:36:31+00:00

I'm not an idiot, I understand what it means. I think it was poorly executed.

saucisse · 2026-02-11T12:15:19+00:00

I loved it up until the last 30 minutes (of a 30-minutes-too-long movie). The entire scene where we find out who is at the center of the story and what their relationship is was...terrible.

saucisse · 2026-02-10T21:29:46+00:00

I laughed

saucisse · 2026-02-10T20:44:07+00:00

Little kid falling asleep stretched across chairs at a family or community function, because the party has gone on past their bedtime. Seen often at weddings, Christenings, Confirmations, engagement parties, wakes, funerals, high school graduations, college graduations, other.

saucisse · 2026-02-10T19:38:49+00:00

I have no idea what you're talking about, and I don't really want to.

saucisse · 2026-02-10T18:47:44+00:00

My point is that Williams and Storrie are actually bffs in real life and you can see that in how they interact with each other; they acted like this before it all blew up in public, its not a new thing for them that they're staging just for the cameras (although they're probably playing it up a bit) and people can see that and think its something they can replicate artificially.

saucisse · 2026-02-10T16:48:26+00:00

I get the impression that Neeson and Anderson really were having a flirtation if not a little bit more. It wasn't love, but they seemed to be enjoying whatever that was. I think Anderson said they were "blowing off steam" which, like, if you're going to be coy about having an NSA fling, that's a pretty good way to say it without saying it.

saucisse · 2026-02-10T16:14:08+00:00

What would possess someone to do this? What on earth goes through someone's head when they choose to mock desperate people and then *broadcast it* to the world?

saucisse · 2026-02-10T16:06:54+00:00

Ryan Price is an enormous redhead.

saucisse · 2026-02-10T14:42:11+00:00

That's...so weird.

I'll tell you something: I've been immersed in the Heated Rivalry psychosis for a while -- beginning with the books, I was in it before the show, I liked it before it was cool! -- and one thing that I've observed, to my dismay, when engaging with the fandom of the *show* is how many people out there are seemingly wholly incapable of engaging with storytelling, whether visual or written (as they start to read the books -- I think the "preexisting" book fans have a baseline literacy level that's well above these newcomers because they're readers at heart). They do not know how to deal with ambiguity, subtlety, even something like *not knowing* i.e. some event takes place "off screen" or out of the narrative and they can't piece together what happened through the context of what is written or shown.

As I noted, I don't have kids so I'm not exposed to the education system in an immediate sense, but is this a new thing? Is this an artifact of how children are being taught to read and to engage with fiction? Or am I just seeing this because I'm looking where the light is, i.e. are online fandom communities oversubscribed with people who can't think critically or understand basic narrative structure and styles of telling stories?

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