Anatomy of a Sex Scene: Heated Rivalry Edition - Reading the End Heated Rivalry, AKA the gay hockey show, has been getting a lot of buzz for its explicit(-ish) sex scenes, and a lot of that buzz has been coming from viewers and critics whose experience with the rom...

good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete

sex scenes are craft! goddammit!

*sits and waits patiently*

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

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Help. 😂😂😂

This message is this message is this Pogo approved.

Exactly. Doing my best to embrace joy with both hands when it’s here.

One of my few regrets from earlier in COVID is not going to shows when they required masks and testing. I couldn’t have known but damn i wish i had. Would’ve been far safer and less stressy. Alas, I’ll save for the once in a lifetime ones now.

Spent all my spoons seeing Hugh Jackman at radio city tonight. First concert since October 2019 when I saw Sara Bareilles in Chicago. God damn i miss live music and theatre!

Also s/o to accessibility at RC. They made it so easy! Even parted the crowds so i could get to the elevator. 🫶🏻

So wonderfully!

this cover though?!

Reminders:

"Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific.

Most Nazi camps were *outside Germany*, away from the eyes of German citizens.

Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant.

Never again is now.

In light of their attacks on masking elsewhere I just...dafji;adsjf;

I have 5 medical appointments this week.

It's been years since my schedule has been so consumed by appts. This time, its on hard mode b/c I cannot always drive myself to them and I need copious amounts of recovery time before and after. Fuck COVID.

#ChronicIllnessSky #DisabledSky

The absolute IRONY of ICE being the ones masked in this instance. JFC.

I’d burn the world for you, but make it siblings #booksky #fantasybooksky #blackbooksky #bookrecs

Omg and it’s HTP which I’m auto approved for?! Happy birthday week to meeeeee

The cover for "The Sea Witch" by Eva Leigh, above the text "Available to request on NetGalley," with decorative sea-themed ornaments like sea serpents and octopods adorning the edges.

Thrilled to announce that my swashbuckling pirate romantasy, THE SEA WITCH, is now available to request on @netgalley.bsky.social!

Witch pirates vs. the British navy, with tons of adventure and heat!

www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

SQUEEEEE

Update: i picked up and put back a dozen books. Then read the first page of half of them. Then chose assistant to the villain since i figure it’ll have ridiculous humor that im craving RN.

Not Kimberly Lemming levels but…

I couldn’t get male yearning out of my head after hearing the Hadestown Wait for Me track over and over, so please enjoy my male yearning book recs. 📚💙

Also I’m in awe of your eye bc i couldn’t even find it 😂😂😂

Theres so many good ones and I just don’t want to read any of them. 😭 Mood reader woes lol

Photo of five teetering stacks of books on a wood floor

Just a girl, sitting in front of her book piles, begging one of these books to catch her interest. *aigh*

*screaming crying throwing up*

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Listrn if you’re also a Cardan’s tail is awesome truther, you NEED to read @kimberlylemming.bsky.social’s I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Romcom.

Because like…this is what i want from tails tyvm!!!! 🤭

#Booksky

💙📚 #booksky

I finished #Oathbound and I just... 👏👏👏

I *get* why Bree needed this book. I love how every single book impacts not only what comes next, but also what came before. I cannot wait to reread so many scenes in books 1 and 2 with this *new* knowledge.

TY @tracydeonn.bsky.social. TY

#Booksky #BreeHive

Idk that he’d even see it as an issue. But yeah. Onto a second opinion.

This is so cute!