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Nervous Nancy
@nervousnancy.bsky.social
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cringe millennial, friend of Dorothea, long time Gaylor lurker on twitter, finally here to sh*t post!

(can we make soup a thing again? Are smoothies soup?)
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"Queer syntax is reciprocal"

Sometimes you just read about something you're very familiar with in a new way and it hits you all over again. I highly recommend this essay for a bit of queer joy for the Gaylor's and HR fans!

From @/ openbookopen on instagram.
a screenshot from the essay that reads: For most of us, queerness is not a language we learn to speak at home. It’s not our first language. Sometimes it is not even our second. It’s a language of possibility, ignited in the dark, passed from person to hawk to oak to person to conch shell to rain to person, on forest trails and tucked inside books with unassuming covers. Its syntax is infinite. Mary used it when she wrote “you do not have to be good,” which means something specific, something bodily and untranslatable if, for instance, you speak a particular queer dialect, if you are a queer woman, or a queer someone connected uneasily but inextricably to womanhood, if you are a dyke, or ever were, even if you’ve found another home now, if you are any beautiful, inimitable embodiment of transness or genderfuckery or femme witchery, and if you have seen the photo, the one in which Mary is not good, the one where she’s braced against a wooden railing by the harbor, the wind in her hair, her face severe and shadowed, the one with the hands, the one with the arms, which, having seen, you will never forget. a picture of Scott and Kip from Heated Rivalry kissing on the ice after Scott wins the cup in front of thousands of fans. The caption of the photo from the essay reads: This is not a Coming Out Moment. A screenshot from the essay that reads: I’m working toward a non-definition of queer syntax, and here’s the first part of it: queer syntax is reciprocal. It only activates when there is someone to receive it. A navigational system requires an operator. A star chart, a sextant, a GPS—these things alone can’t get you to where you’re going. You have to actually move your body. Interpret the instructions. Make the turns. Queer syntax exists out in the open, in plain sight, but it only comes alive—it is only possible—when queer people notice it. Carl Phillips’s public sentences with their private queer grammars. Mary Oliver’s queer invitation in ‘Wild Geese’. And this scene, The Six Minutes, which is built with queer syntax. The Six Minutes is a queer navigational system.
January 15, 2026 at 5:45 PM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
I am exceedingly excited for this!

And so sorry, all I see is a square peg and a round hole. I am ruined by heated rivalry.
popbase.tv Pop Base @popbase.tv · 11d
🚨 Harry Styles announces new album ‘Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally.’

Out March 6th.
January 15, 2026 at 5:26 PM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
I just got a wave of parasocial sadness for Taylor. I imagine that she gets to see Connor and Hudson enjoying this rise to fame and being embraced by the queer community without ever having to say anything.
January 11, 2026 at 4:25 PM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
We can't fix whatever is going on right now, but we can give a little bit of support!
lzrdthevampireslyr.bsky.social lizard @lzrdthevampireslyr.bsky.social · 19d
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lzrdthevampireslyr.bsky.social lizard @lzrdthevampireslyr.bsky.social · Dec 17
At the urging of a few of you, I’ve set up a GFM. I need $600 to pay the rest of my bills for the month of December. Losing my job the week before Christmas is far from ideal, and I could really use some help. Thank you!!! gofund.me/32ca8429e
January 8, 2026 at 2:39 AM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
92% of the way there! Just need a little bit more to finish, less than $200!!!
January 6, 2026 at 4:10 PM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
Do I trauma dump on the tl about my own heated rivalry when I was 25 and had no idea I was a chaotic bisexual? Unfortunately, it doesn't have a happy ending. But I kinda want to write a fic about it.
December 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
Why was I wide awake for about 5 hours last night? Was there a planet in retrograde or something?
December 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
Help! What is happening?!? Harry, what was that!?
December 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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roguesequins.bsky.social
alison watching all of her songs being set to edits about fictional closeted men
a woman is laughing in front of a screen that says ' a ' on it
ALT: a woman is laughing in front of a screen that says ' a ' on it
media.tenor.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
One of the reasons why this show guts me, it hits so close to home. Anyone else recognize the logo?
A photo of Hudson Williams, François Arnaud, and Connor Storrie in hockey gear sitting on a bench in a Canlan arena.
December 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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evaholland.bsky.social
Good morning! For @defector.com, I wrote about what @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social's "Game Changers" books, and the resulting TV show, have meant to me as a lifelong hockey fan with an increasingly... complicated... relationship to the men's pro game.
‘Heated Rivalry’ Is Bringing Me Back To Hockey | Defector
I wasn’t sure, at first, that I wanted to read Heated Rivalry, or the rest of the novels in Rachel Reid’s best-selling “Game Changers” series. I had thoroughly enjoyed the first of Reid’s two standalo...
defector.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
For my oomfs that don't know about hockey or the NHL, but love the show. Co-sign everything here:
thefrankiedlc.news Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · Dec 26
Haven't done one of these in a while! I've got a post-holiday haterade rant about the NHL's support for Heated Rivalry, which I hate. www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/sorry-but-...
sorry but I don't give a fuck that the NHL has embraced 'heated rivalry'
a post-holiday haterade rant
www.thefrankiedlc.news
December 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
It is so important to me that eps 2 and 4 start with montages, because Shane and Ilya live their lives waiting for the small in-between moments, and then at the cottage starts with one long take 😭

Ok, I need to go to sleep now.

But all the call backs to other episodes!!!
nervousnancy.bsky.social Nervous Nancy @nervousnancy.bsky.social · Dec 26
I stayed up to watch and so glad I did! That was the most tenderest bit of TV I've ever seen. I liked the subtle changes Jacob added! Shane needed that moment with his mom.
December 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
I stayed up to watch and so glad I did! That was the most tenderest bit of TV I've ever seen. I liked the subtle changes Jacob added! Shane needed that moment with his mom.
December 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
I haven't been on tiktok in awhile, and I swear that every video of someone's opinion was just incredibly annoying. And in that moment I felt very connected to Taylor's Eldest Daughter.

Just feeling very over the internet and hot takes right now.
December 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
Tried to watch the eras doc and, I think I was bored. I turned it off. 😬

I think my Taylor hyperfixation is actually all the online Gaylor/PAlor peeps. So thank you all for your service 🫡

I will be enjoying the eras doc through your eyes!
December 23, 2025 at 4:35 AM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
Well, whatever it takes I suppose!
A screenshot from Twitter that reads obsessed with all the people using one direction songs for heated rivalry edits and being like 'why does it fit so perfectly' ph babe you're so close. And the quote tweet reads: "due to this and also how well reputation songs fit them i have decided to believe in both kaylor and Larry now."
December 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
Feeling not interested in Taylor's documentary because it isn't for the Dear Readers. We already know what she's trying to say, because said it in different ways a million little times. But I should probably watch anyway to take my mind off of will you ☝️cometomtcottagethissummer 😊😃
December 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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spellingisfunlor13.bsky.social
Suddenly, being very loud about your queerness is not something an actual queer person would do. It’s like which is it. It can’t be both.
December 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
I love HR so much but couldn't help cracking up at how uncomfortable on the ice Connor looked.
December 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
seeing gaylor oomfs getting into heated rivalry is making so happy as a hockey obsessed partially closeted canadian. watching this show after growing up playing girls' hockey as a kid in the late 90's and early 2000's is quite heady.
December 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
If the absolute legend that made this doesn't make themselves known to the community, I am going to put on my clown nose and say Taylor's team made it.
A picture of a still from the Eras tour doc of a fan holding a sign that says "We can see you" the words are surrounded by a picture of: One blue eye with eyelashes, a hairpin, a rainbow, and the daisy from the dashboard. a sign that says "We can see you" in all caps of white letters, surrounded by a purple outline on a black background. the words are surrounded by a picture of: One blue eye with eyelashes, a hairpin, a rainbow, and the daisy from the dashboard. There are a lot of small white stars on the black background as well.
December 13, 2025 at 3:44 AM
nervousnancy.bsky.social
Have all her recent appearances and papwalks been in mostly black?
Taylor with all her business men (ugh) at Travis's restaurant. She's wearing faded black jeans and a cream top. Taylor and Selena at the recent cheifs game. Taylor seems to he wearing white and black small print, maybe houndstooth? Selena is wearing black. Recent pap walk going out to dinner with Este. Taylor is wearing all black, boots, tights, and coat. Taylor in a still of GMA promo. She is wearing a black sweater. Later, we do see her wearing this sweater with a dark green plaid skirt and dark red tights.
December 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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booksofm.com
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
CBC once again called the Ksi Lisims LNG project “Indigenous-led” on the National last night, despite the fact that it’s 100% American-owned by a Texas shell company, Western LNG.

Yikes!!!!!

Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM