If you’re a Letterkenny fan you may recognize the name Jacob Tierney; he’s a co-creator of the series and also plays the fantastically homosexual Pastor Glen. Tierney is now running a new show called Heated Rivalry, which is about two male hockey players having an affair with each other.
(The show about rival female hockey players having affairs with each other is called “the entirety of the PWHL.”)
The show is based on Rachel Reid’s Game Changers novels, which themselves appear to have been based on her Captain America Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes fanfiction. Reid claims she wrote the story as an original novel first, then changed it to a fanfic, then turned it back into an original novel. I’m, uh, not entirely sure that’s true. But then again, when it comes to professionally published fanfic, I’m living in a suspiciously fragile and transparent house.
Anyway, the most important thing to know about Heated Rivalry is that it’s a Canadian production, and almost all Canadian film and television is funded by government grants. Which means my tax dollars are being spent, at least in part, on gay hockey romance.
I’ve never been more proud to be Canadian.
Podcast Appearance: I Will Fight You
The latest episode of I Will Fight You is about the movie Beastly, a modern “Beauty and the Beast” retelling that tries to be about inner beauty, disregarding appearances, and body positivity, but which was unfortunately made by people from Los Angeles.
Complete: “The Illusive Consultant”
Once again, Jay Moriarty and Sebastian Moran find themselves entangled with cat burglar John Clay. A notorious drug lord has hired Clay to steal a DNA sample from genetic testing company BasePairing, and Clay needs Moriarty’s help to pull off the job. With such a dangerous client, failure isn’t an option — and if things couldn’t get any worse, the world’s greatest consulting detective has just picked up their trail …
The final chapter and epilogue of “The Illusive Consultant” have been published on the Casefile of Jay Moriarty website! You can read the entire story free online, or get it as an ebook.
This Week’s Links
AI “Companion Bots” Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims
“My faith taught me that love should be real, intimacy sacred, and that deception was destructive to both the liar and the deceived,” Asia wrote. “Yet here I was, professionally deceiving vulnerable people who were genuinely looking for connection — taking their money, their trust, their hope, and giving them nothing real in return.”
New Research Reveals How the Nazis Targeted Transgender People
… a reminder that attacks on trans people are nothing new—and that many of them are straight out of the Nazi playbook.
Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI
Documents showed that internally, Meta was hesitant to abruptly remove accounts, even those considered some of the “scammiest scammers,” out of concern that a drop in revenue could diminish resources needed for artificial intelligence growth.
Before anyone asks: I would have to meet certain thresholds of “Canadian content” before I’d be eligible for media grant funding and/or a Crave TV deal. So if I suddenly pivot to lumberjack romance or whatever, you’ll know why.
-K
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