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I always felt like the ending of Heated Rivalry, while excellent, always felt kinda....incomplete? Like, for every other book in the series, the story of the main couple is given a nice and neat closure. It's not like that for HR, though. Yes, they end up together and are committed, but the ending is *really* sad. They still have to stay closeted and be 2+ hours away from each other, with an indeterminate amount of time in the future before they can come out.

Meanwhile, they get (mostly) everything they want at the end of TLG. Married, playing on the same team, living together. It's not a perfect HEA, but it's a more happy HEA than HR.

Which is why when I reread, I always read the two together.

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Rachel has hinted that the obstacles and "villains" of the story will mostly be more....domestic (such as podcasts and the media).

I have a growing bad feeling about Russia though. Sure, Ilya doesn't live there and isn't planning to go back there ever, but they will surely not be pleased one of their star players being in a famously international queer marriage. As someone who is a noob about citizenship/visas, can they potentially do anything about it? He hasn't got his Canadian citizenship yet, and as a Russian citizen isn't he technically breaking some BS law of not promoting LGBTQ+ in the media?

(This is me mainly thinking about how Russia can factor into the story after not even being spared a thought in TLG).

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I have seen fics where he immigrated when he was as young as 5, and then when he grows up he still has a Russian accent. No, lol, at that point he will have a Canadian accent.

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If the title doesn’r make sense, this is basically for the actors who only got 2 nominations but also won both thoss times.

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• Montreal \*really\* regrets letting Shane go

• Ilya uses Solnyshko/Pomidor/Kotnik

As a bisexual 18 year old guy myself, I can probably count on one hand the number of bi men onscreen that are actually represented well. There’s Nick from Heartstopper, Ilya from Heated Rivalry, David from Schitt’s Creek (he’s pansexual but well I’ll count him), Jack Harness from Dr. Who…..and that’s kinda it.

It’s shockingly low compared to the number of shows that focus on gay men, lesbians, trans men and women, even bisexual women.

What is the reason for this?

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So say everything else stays the same (they still stay closeted to the entire world, Shane still stays in Montreal, Ilya moves to Ottawa) but let’s just say Shane got so scared when he heard “maybe I can marry Svetlana” that he decided to put a ring on Ilya’s finger and lock that shit down as quickly as possible. So basically throughout TLG, they are not boyfriends, they are husbands.

Realistically, what could change?

The previous winners confirmed to be a member of the community are:

• Marlon Brando for On the Waterfront and The Godfather (bisexual)

• Alec Guinness for The Bridge on the River Kwai (bisexual)

• Kevin Spacey for American Beauty (gay)

The nominees who did not win:

• Alan Bates for The Fixer (bisexual)

• Paul Winfield for Sounder (gay)

• Tom Hulce for Amadeus (gay)

• Nigel Hawthorne for The Madness of King George (gay)

• Ian McKellen for Gods and Monsters (gay)

• Colman Domingo for Rustin and Sing Sing (gay)

That’s not to mention the number of men who were heavily rumoured to be gay or bisexual including Spencer Tracy, Charles Laughton, Cary Grant, Montgomery Clift.