By Sarah LaingSpecial to the Star

When Rachel Reid published “Heated Rivalry” in 2019, it sold about five thousand copies in its first year. That’s perfectly respectable, especially for your second book. It just pales in comparison to the numbers she’s racked up since.

By Meaghan Darwish

Exert: When it comes to working opposite Diemer, Jafargholi says he’s “super, super fond of Daniel,” adding, “he’s an extraordinary actor and a really, really kind and generous person both on screen and off.”

As filming for the season continues in Canada, Jafargholi shares, “There’s just nothing bad I can say about the whole experience. It’s been incredible.”

There was also; Meanwhile, we couldn’t resist asking about the audition process after Jacob Tierney recently revealed at a talk for the release of his book, I’ll Believe in Anything: The Making of Heated Rivalry, that one of Season 2’s new couples had so much chemistry over Zoom that there was a bevy of blushing going on. But even indicating whether Jafargholi is within the auditioning pair Tierney was referring to or not was too much to hint at. “No, I can’t say,” he admits sheepishly.

Yes folks, that is NHL player Connor Bedard not paying attention and getting clipped.

Now, while Bedard is a young NHL player, he's experienced enough to know better, and as a star player, he knows he's a target.

Sometimes even the most talented players simply make mistakes or get distracted.

And she’s gorgeous!

I just started a re-heat and in my opinion the texting at the beginning of EP 2 is so accurate for a new relationship. They are fairly comfortable (less so for Shane) sexting, but anything beyond that becomes complicated. I really enjoyed watching Connor and Hudson's acting as they were receiving and sending texts. They absolutely nailed the anticipation, excitement, and the arousing novelty of talking to someone they are genuinely excited about. Totally nailed the new relationship energy. I know it can be an overlooked scene, but damn it felt so true to life.

Fabian's Song Saturday!

As you know, Fabian loves a good tune, and we want to know what you’re listening to!

Share a song, playlist, or artist(s) that caught your ear this week and reminds you of the show, books, or character (s).

[1] Find the official playlist here.
[2] Visit previous Song Saturday posts and recos here, or search using the Song Saturday flair.

Credit: Fabian artwork based on the Editora Alt Tough Guy book cover.

as stated in the title i want to know exactly the bonus content is?

is it just the blog post additions or is this literally completely never before seen material that was never ever ever published on her website?

is it enough to justify buying the books again please someone must know lol please help 🙏🙏

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Sad news :(

I've seen some posts about recognizing the severity and depth of discrimination within hockey, sports, and society in general. If you're interested in learning more, especially if you're going to be writing fanfiction, you owe it to yourself and others to become aware of the racism problem in hockey and its affects on others. The history of hockey is full of erased players of color.

Black Ice is a documentary based on the book Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925 by Darril and George Fosty. It's free on Tubi in the US right now. And it's enlightening, heartbreaking, and hopeful all at the same time.

Although he's not in the documentary, if you're also a fan of Shoresy, you should be aware that Jonathan-Ismael Diaby, who plays Dolo also experienced such vicious hate directed at him and his family that he walked off the ice during a game in Quebec in 2019. And Boston treated him like shit, too (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47394381).

One thing Tierney, Williams, and Chang improved upon was the ongoing microagressions against Shane's Asian-ness. As fans of the books, the series, and possibly hockey, I think it's important that we hear from real live people about how much more serious the issue is.

I came across a beautiful photo of Hudson Williams from a BVLGARI shoot and wanted to bring a little of the charm of his lips into my own version of Shane.

The following three images show my drawing process.

Out on blueray!!! I got mines!!

The only time we advocate for porch pirates is if they bring home the gold in Jacob's honor 🏒

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Franco Lo Presti is in a new Hallmark Christmas movie- Winter Wonderlanes. It premieres tomorrow, October 23rd. I’ll be watching. Hope you all show up to support him too!

Mine is that Shane slowly starts almost liking the smell of cigarettes through his relationship with Ilya, the same way he's probably also used to, if not somewhat enjoys, the smell of locker rooms and ice rinks, because they all remind him of something that makes him happy. And when Ilya finally quits, Shane's going to miss the smell from time to time. This hc doesn't matter at all because gun to his head, he will never admit this out loud, especially not to Ilya.

Editing to add: Wow, didn't expect such a conversation to ensue, but I'm glad it's a place to discuss this. I myself am not queer, don't have many gay friends and the sports world is as far away from me as possible, I also don't live in the states and know practically nothing about sports or hockey, so forgive my ignorance with everything to do with that. I've read most of the comments and better understand how devastatingly difficult it would be to come out as gay in the sports world. We're in this mostly fluffy world of HR but I didn't consider or realize the extent to which real life homophobia and cruelty affect people, so I do apologize if my post came across as ignorant. I truly love HR and have such compassion for Shane and Ilya's struggles, even if it's only in fiction form, but this should also be applied to real people who struggle with this reality constantly.

I've been immersed in fan fiction since the show ended, and one thing that I've seen repeatedly is the notion that they can't be hockey players and openly gay. I understand from being in the HR Fandom that the hockey and sports community is very toxic, homophobic and cruel. But...would it be really IMPOSSIBLE or just really really hard and awful and scary? This might be a naive question but it's really been bugging me lately.

Intrestingly I've seen several works of media dealing with being gay and the community recently, and among them HR was the most positive story, though in the show we haven't really gotten the community's reaction like we do in The Long Game. But dammit we're in the 21st century, why is humanity still so stupid and ignorant and cruel to people who just want to love who they love and be themselves? What good does it do us as a society to make other people's lives painful and scary and hard? I always thing of how Shane was so terrified to even tell his parents who love him, and this is all because of how society teaches us that queerness is wrong.

I'd love to better understand the world we live in.

From Nov. 6-30, fans can experience all six episodes of Season 1 on a screen befitting of Shane (Hudson Williams) and Ilya’s (Connor Storrie) cinematic love story with a limited theatrical release at more than 275 Regal Cinema locations nationwide, in partnership with Sphere Abacus and Crave.

By Glenn Garner

Would you go rewatch Heated Rivalry in theatres? Well, you'll get the chance to next month, when the series's first season returns to select Cineplex locations across Canada. Aisling Murphy, our theatre critic and sometimes Heated Rivalry correspondent, has the details.

Here's a gift link to read the story free and without a paywall. - Moira, Globe audience team

I see in fanfics and etc that people think that Shane and Ilya are cleaning their houses or cooking their own meals or etc:

https://ottawacitizen.com/ottawa-senators/i-have-a-chef-at-home-senators-tim-stutzle-skips-brady-tkachuk-dinner-night-before-big-return
One of the Ottawa Senators' forwards (the team Brady Tkachuk left), Tim said "I have a chef at home" as a funny way of saying that no way in hell would he meet up with Brady (who, in short, is a MAGA asshole who treated the team like shit). Then Tim Stützle's private chef posted:

Also, if any of you are hockey fans, the whole Sens game last night was incredible. The Tkachuk signs and chants were so funny.

Maybe a line that seems off-kilter, slightly bizarre.

One of mine is “I have no problem with sweaty blurs.”

Want to watch HR on the biggest screen possible? You're in luck!

Cineplex is showing a Heated Rivalry marathon on November 8 in theatres across Canada.

It's being reported that episodes 1-6 will be shown separately on November 6, but outside of dates Cineplex doesn't have any further info. Currently, Cineplex has the Coming Soon poster listed on their website, but there is no link to purchase, and I tried setting a variety of theatres in my area and nothing is listed on either date yet. Unless you want to see Cat in the Hat too 😂

Keep your eye on the link to get tickets when they are released ✌️

*It seems the image didn't transfer well from desktop to mobile, it's a bit blurry, sorry!

Picked the most random Netflix series (Unforgettable ) to watch with my meal and bam Dylan Walsh is on my screen.

GC AU where Mr. Hollander plays a New York cop..

Even the universe is like, why are you even trying to watch anything other than Heated Rivalry, lmao.