“O Canada” playing faintly yet persistently in the distance

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.

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-K