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Currently (re)watching:
⚪️ #SantaBarbara - 1985
⚪️ #Neighbours - the Aaron Brennan era
( now: 2016 - h/t #AutumnOfAaron )
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Currently (re)watching:
⚪️ #SantaBarbara - 1985
⚪️ #Neighbours - the Aaron Brennan era
( now: 2016 - h/t #AutumnOfAaron )
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· Nov 22
Whilst I continue to contemplate moving my #OLTL thread over from the Other Place, let’s start up a #SantaBarbara -centric ‘before they were famous’ thread 🧵🧵
A profoundly socially-lubricated François dancing and using Robbie’s suit jacket as a makeshift turban, whilst Robbie eggs him on with the impish glee of a carefree 8-year-old … y’all have moved on, but I have pulled up a comfy chair and am very, VERY much still here. 🤷🏻♂️ 🤣😍 #HeatedRivalry
January 10, 2026 at 10:14 PM
A profoundly socially-lubricated François dancing and using Robbie’s suit jacket as a makeshift turban, whilst Robbie eggs him on with the impish glee of a carefree 8-year-old … y’all have moved on, but I have pulled up a comfy chair and am very, VERY much still here. 🤷🏻♂️ 🤣😍 #HeatedRivalry
> #HeatedRivalry creator Jacob Tierney breaks down some of the series’ iconic needle drops. (Kinda wish he had also discussed ‘Lips’ — the Baxter Dury tune which (spectacularly) closes episode 3 — here, but c’est la vie; it’s still an interesting read.) 👇
That Horny, Era-Appropriate Soundtrack Was Pivotal to 'Heated Rivalry,' Says Creator
The show’s soundtrack, a mix of early- to mid-aughts nostalgia, has found a foothold in the zeitgeist.
www.rollingstone.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:40 PM
> #HeatedRivalry creator Jacob Tierney breaks down some of the series’ iconic needle drops. (Kinda wish he had also discussed ‘Lips’ — the Baxter Dury tune which (spectacularly) closes episode 3 — here, but c’est la vie; it’s still an interesting read.) 👇
UPDATE 🚨🚨 my brilliant tech-genius husband had the idea of feeding this Brazilian content creator’s spiel about meeting Robbie G.K. into an AI search engine to see if it could translate it. LITERALLY fifteen seconds after firing up Google Gemini, my crazy ass had a COMPLETE English transcript! 💥👇
OK, this random Brazilian lady met Robbie G.K. at the red carpet premiere party for #ThePitt last night and I need someone who fluently understands Portuguese to translate this for me please and tell me exactly what she says here!! SOMEBODY HELP!! #HeatedRivalry
January 10, 2026 at 4:21 PM
UPDATE 🚨🚨 my brilliant tech-genius husband had the idea of feeding this Brazilian content creator’s spiel about meeting Robbie G.K. into an AI search engine to see if it could translate it. LITERALLY fifteen seconds after firing up Google Gemini, my crazy ass had a COMPLETE English transcript! 💥👇
Hey, why not spelunk through François Arnaud’s filmography! Tonight: his 2017 appearance on ‘Schitt’s Creek’ 👇
January 10, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Hey, why not spelunk through François Arnaud’s filmography! Tonight: his 2017 appearance on ‘Schitt’s Creek’ 👇
Robbie’s sister just posted a different angle of this clip on Insta and:
a) oh my goddddddd do he and François make a cute couple
b) mystery solved: the song they are getting their LIVES to is 🥁🥁🥁 Prince’s 1986 classic ‘Kiss’
#HeatedRivalry
a) oh my goddddddd do he and François make a cute couple
b) mystery solved: the song they are getting their LIVES to is 🥁🥁🥁 Prince’s 1986 classic ‘Kiss’
#HeatedRivalry
January 10, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Robbie’s sister just posted a different angle of this clip on Insta and:
a) oh my goddddddd do he and François make a cute couple
b) mystery solved: the song they are getting their LIVES to is 🥁🥁🥁 Prince’s 1986 classic ‘Kiss’
#HeatedRivalry
a) oh my goddddddd do he and François make a cute couple
b) mystery solved: the song they are getting their LIVES to is 🥁🥁🥁 Prince’s 1986 classic ‘Kiss’
#HeatedRivalry
> #SantaBarbaraNBC > ep 157 > WHAT in the name of soap JESUS do they have my Theodore Capwell dressed in today?? 😭 (Praise Allah that this genre of billowy men’s fashion didn’t make it out of the ‘80s.)
January 10, 2026 at 12:00 AM
> #SantaBarbaraNBC > ep 157 > WHAT in the name of soap JESUS do they have my Theodore Capwell dressed in today?? 😭 (Praise Allah that this genre of billowy men’s fashion didn’t make it out of the ‘80s.)
To wit: Robbie dancing in a tank top, his guns literally BLAZING, while François zags along wearing what I’m fairly sure is Robbie’s suit jacket on his head … like, my Skip-stanning heart cannot TAKE this neutron bomb-level of cuteness. These boys out here trying to KILL somebody. 🥰🥲 #HeatedRivalry
January 9, 2026 at 10:58 PM
To wit: Robbie dancing in a tank top, his guns literally BLAZING, while François zags along wearing what I’m fairly sure is Robbie’s suit jacket on his head … like, my Skip-stanning heart cannot TAKE this neutron bomb-level of cuteness. These boys out here trying to KILL somebody. 🥰🥲 #HeatedRivalry
The literal firehose of fresh Skip content — new pics, videos, interviews — because of this Golden Globe party that Robbie and François attended jointly last night has been dizzying today. #HeatedRivalry
January 9, 2026 at 9:59 PM
The literal firehose of fresh Skip content — new pics, videos, interviews — because of this Golden Globe party that Robbie and François attended jointly last night has been dizzying today. #HeatedRivalry
First two tracks from the forthcoming #HeatedRivalry original score album are up on Spotify today. If the stunning, hypnotically trippy ambient beat that underscores Kip’s ‘or. I pick or.’ scene in episode 3 doesn’t drop soon, I’m burning it all DOWNNNNN, hear me
January 9, 2026 at 4:15 PM
First two tracks from the forthcoming #HeatedRivalry original score album are up on Spotify today. If the stunning, hypnotically trippy ambient beat that underscores Kip’s ‘or. I pick or.’ scene in episode 3 doesn’t drop soon, I’m burning it all DOWNNNNN, hear me
I detest BOTH of these outfits, but 😍😍
my boys are back together!! #HeatedRivalry
my boys are back together!! #HeatedRivalry
January 9, 2026 at 6:11 AM
I detest BOTH of these outfits, but 😍😍
my boys are back together!! #HeatedRivalry
my boys are back together!! #HeatedRivalry
OK, this random Brazilian lady met Robbie G.K. at the red carpet premiere party for #ThePitt last night and I need someone who fluently understands Portuguese to translate this for me please and tell me exactly what she says here!! SOMEBODY HELP!! #HeatedRivalry
January 8, 2026 at 10:18 PM
OK, this random Brazilian lady met Robbie G.K. at the red carpet premiere party for #ThePitt last night and I need someone who fluently understands Portuguese to translate this for me please and tell me exactly what she says here!! SOMEBODY HELP!! #HeatedRivalry
No idea if this is a genuine audition tape or if this dude is just goofing, but here👇 — Canadian actor Sam Wexler’s laughably bad self-tape for the role of #HeatedRivalry’s Kip — is an object lesson in the pure alchemy of casting and the miracle of the right role finding the right actor to play it.
January 8, 2026 at 6:21 PM
No idea if this is a genuine audition tape or if this dude is just goofing, but here👇 — Canadian actor Sam Wexler’s laughably bad self-tape for the role of #HeatedRivalry’s Kip — is an object lesson in the pure alchemy of casting and the miracle of the right role finding the right actor to play it.
Some of the #HeatedRivalry fanfic is steaming hot garbage, but some of it is *astoundingly* good. File this👇 piece — an achingly simple 1500-word modern epistolary yarn, which imagines 13 different voicemails Scott left for Kip during their three-year hiatus as a couple — proudly among the latter. 🔥
January 8, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Some of the #HeatedRivalry fanfic is steaming hot garbage, but some of it is *astoundingly* good. File this👇 piece — an achingly simple 1500-word modern epistolary yarn, which imagines 13 different voicemails Scott left for Kip during their three-year hiatus as a couple — proudly among the latter. 🔥
Taking Robbie G.K.’s 2020 Hulu series UTOPIA FALLS for a test drive — the premise, essentially: AMERICAN IDOL meets THE HUNGER GAMES — and, while I suspect it’s gonna be a slog, you can’t help but snap to instant attention whenever this cute baby-faced charmer hits the screen! 👀
January 7, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Taking Robbie G.K.’s 2020 Hulu series UTOPIA FALLS for a test drive — the premise, essentially: AMERICAN IDOL meets THE HUNGER GAMES — and, while I suspect it’s gonna be a slog, you can’t help but snap to instant attention whenever this cute baby-faced charmer hits the screen! 👀
> #AutumnOfAaron > #Neighbours ep 7403 > Aaron and Sonya slowly but surely becoming besties just makes me squee, truly.
January 7, 2026 at 8:13 PM
> #AutumnOfAaron > #Neighbours ep 7403 > Aaron and Sonya slowly but surely becoming besties just makes me squee, truly.
“Playing [Kip] required a level of stillness … especially in moments where he chooses empathy over reaction. That was something I had to consciously lean into.” The riveting Robbie G.K. press tour rolls on, and this latest chat — with ELLE India, of all places! — is the best yet. 👀 #HeatedRivalry
January 5, 2026 at 10:40 PM
“Playing [Kip] required a level of stillness … especially in moments where he chooses empathy over reaction. That was something I had to consciously lean into.” The riveting Robbie G.K. press tour rolls on, and this latest chat — with ELLE India, of all places! — is the best yet. 👀 #HeatedRivalry
“I think Kip, for the second season, has to stop working out… He’s a smoothie boy! Why does he have the best body out of ALL of us?!” François Arnaud playfully roasting his #HeatedRivalry costar Robbie G.K. last night on the Critics Choice Awards red carpet has me SHRIEKING, I tell you. 🤣
January 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM
“I think Kip, for the second season, has to stop working out… He’s a smoothie boy! Why does he have the best body out of ALL of us?!” François Arnaud playfully roasting his #HeatedRivalry costar Robbie G.K. last night on the Critics Choice Awards red carpet has me SHRIEKING, I tell you. 🤣
> #AutumnOfAaron > hey, remember this?? 👋 took a break for the holidays but it’s time to get back in bidness! When last we saw Aaron, Nate had just departed; Matt Wilson effing BODIED those scenes, and his reward for that was getting trapped with the teenagers from HELL. 😭😭 #Neighbours
> #AutumnOfAaron > #Neighbours ep 7389 > well, we reach a milestone that is of note (probably!) to only me: it is June 16, 2016 👇 which means that Matt Wilson, as we see him here in his 123rd episode, had been wearing Aaron Brennan’s runners for exactly one year.
January 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM
> #AutumnOfAaron > hey, remember this?? 👋 took a break for the holidays but it’s time to get back in bidness! When last we saw Aaron, Nate had just departed; Matt Wilson effing BODIED those scenes, and his reward for that was getting trapped with the teenagers from HELL. 😭😭 #Neighbours
Ten minutes for Medium Pips — for which I typically need about ninety seconds, if even that — felt like a real stick-a-fork-in-me moment this morning!! 🤦🏻♂️ (Once I gave up on trying to cram the fives into spots they did not belong in, it all snapped together quickly!)
January 3, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Ten minutes for Medium Pips — for which I typically need about ninety seconds, if even that — felt like a real stick-a-fork-in-me moment this morning!! 🤦🏻♂️ (Once I gave up on trying to cram the fives into spots they did not belong in, it all snapped together quickly!)
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Uneducated voters will always be a greater danger to this country than immigrants.
January 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Uneducated voters will always be a greater danger to this country than immigrants.
Took me a hot second to place him, but hey, isn’t that actor David Chisum — prolly best remembered as Mitch Laurence’s brother Miles during Dena Higley’s horrendous final year writing #OLTL — popping up as Jill’s date on the ‘classic’ 1998 #YR episode that CBS aired yesterday? 👀
January 2, 2026 at 11:06 PM
> #SantaBarbaraNBC > ep 156 > CC announces to Kelly and a *fully* nonplussed Eden that he and Gina will be married tomorrow and that he expects them both to be there. (“Or what?” Eden snaps. “I’ll be excommunicated like Mason?!”) 👀
January 2, 2026 at 4:07 AM
> #SantaBarbaraNBC > ep 156 > CC announces to Kelly and a *fully* nonplussed Eden that he and Gina will be married tomorrow and that he expects them both to be there. (“Or what?” Eden snaps. “I’ll be excommunicated like Mason?!”) 👀
The insatiable extent to which I have the munchies today ought be studied at the FEDERAL level. 🤦🏻♂️
January 2, 2026 at 12:49 AM
The insatiable extent to which I have the munchies today ought be studied at the FEDERAL level. 🤦🏻♂️