@blosstarz: I feel it's unfair to act like it holds no value simply bc SOME people didn't take the time to really understand the message. Whether you liked it or not it helped REAL QUEER people find comfort in their queerness. #heatedrivalry #shanehollander #ilyarozanov #lgbtq #wedeservesunshine
mind you there was also the exact opposite discourse happening when heartstopper was popular about it being “too sanitized” and “cutesy”or whatever 🙄 like people are just going to come up with something to complain about whenever a queer show achieves mainstream popularity
2026-08-07 01:28:25
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Graham :
Heated Rivalry is a genuinely beautiful story, but it just proves how people only see sex as a lustful act and not the connection it is
2026-08-04 01:21:32
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Envelou :
literally like a queer show got super popular during one of the most conservative administrations and people are somehow blaming that queer show for everything bad in the world now😭😭😭
2026-08-04 00:57:17
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user3467890561 :
if heated rivalry featured a straight couple there’d be a lot less of this “it’s all just sex!!” rhetoric imo
2026-08-04 01:45:32
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Plserenity0507 (Dehnia "DD") :
Not to mention the amount of reaction videos I've seen lately of people watching HR for the first time saying, "I thought it was just smut and that's why I didn't watch it at first, but its so much more than smut." As if people weren't telling y'all that it was more than just smut from jump. 😒
2026-08-04 02:15:30
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eira :
hot take i think it’s homophobic to call heated rivalry “slop” and accusing it of having no story when the majority of straight shows with mounds of sex scenes aren’t held to this standard.
2026-08-04 18:53:13
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Uhbylerisreal :
THANK YOU. It’s so homophobic to claim HR is a 🌽 category. It’s a LOVE STORY. It is human to indulge in intimate acts. Why is everybody acting holy? ITS A STORY, OF LOVE. END OF STORY.
2026-08-04 05:57:35
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N✩ah :
Like no heated rivalry is not spiritually Israeli what are we talking about
2026-08-04 07:48:25
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𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙚𝙚. ⋆˚౨ৎ :
Just proves that nobody views sex as love anymore, just lust.
2026-08-04 09:42:53
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Yurijoy :
like why did it have to be leviticus vs. girls like girls, reducing it to men vs. women, just because a gay movie and a lesbian movie came out on the same day??
2026-08-04 05:44:00
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alexis💤 :
people act like sex scenes cant be used as a device to show the progession of a relationship… ITS SO ANNOYING 😭
2026-08-05 19:42:20
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Jolanda :
and all the shit they were saying how no one who is queer and actually consumes queer media regularly would think it’s good like 💀 i’m queer and im a film student, ive watched a very wide range of queer films, tv etc and i genuinely love it. like it’s not the greatest piece of queer media of all time but it doesn’t mean that it’s not still a good show
2026-08-05 09:48:43
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lesbian wizard :
Heated rivalry is such a beautiful and emotionally complex story and it’s been reduced down to p-rn even though there’s less than 12 minutes of sx scenes within a show with 6 episodes. Even the sx scenes were relevant and had plot importance 😭
2026-08-04 03:50:41
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✩₊˚KSJ ⋆☾⋆⁺ :
All fandoms are toxic and it has always been that way they are crying cause heated rivalry broke through and became mainstream 😭😭😭😭
2026-08-04 05:18:11
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allegra :
Heated Rivalry is one of the most beautiful love stories I’ve ever watched and I think to a degree straight women naturally gravitate to MLM media because it can portray the love interests as equal partners which straight romance always ALWAYS portrays women as the lower party in the couple, THAT SAID, there are middle aged married straight women with young children who are OBESSED with the show, I have seen a grown 50 year old woman make a video saying how she DIVORCED HER HUSBAND because he didn’t think her obsession with the show was normal
2026-08-04 23:20:44
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Jane: We didn't even kiss. :
Thai bl fans is real toxic about heated rivalry😭😭 idk wtf they on about(I'm a BL fan since 2019) I don't think like this on a series I don't like
2026-08-06 17:05:47
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say dont go #1 fan :
“heated rivalry negatively impacted how people view queer media” where??? if anything it opened up conversations about the lack of more stories that center queer joy AND queer stories that dont sanitize the sexual parts to be digestible to a wider audience lol
2026-08-05 13:06:56
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veryunwelcome :
it’s very much purity culture. ik a lot of them are probably pretty young and think sex is this scandalous thing but the sex scenes do serve a purpose to the narrative. it’s karma that the reviews for leviticus are focusing on the one sex scene and the fans are getting irritated that it’s being watered down to that, like yeah, doesn’t feel good does it?
2026-08-04 08:09:43
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jester ⊬ :
ill never understand the backlash and fetishization HR faces 🥴 I didnt watch it until recently (and I do enjoy leviticus more, but not anything due to HR) and I was shocked at the... lack of sex scenes. they go crazy the first 2 episodes but after that it really calms down. people dont have a problem with shameless, game of thrones, even the L word but as soon as its gay men its "just porn" and it becomes exotic
2026-08-04 02:26:37
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Null :
like god forbid a romance story has adult themes
2026-08-04 13:27:36
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magdalena ⋆. 𐙚˚ :
The narrative that straight women fetishize MLM media is just misogyny. Queer women have always made up a huge portion of fandom spaces & have always been BL/GL fans. People don't see women's queerness/sexuality as legitimate
2026-08-04 09:25:51
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🐁 :
People not recognizing most of the fan base is gay ppl.. the show is actually good you guys just won’t give it a chance
2026-08-04 03:40:27
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Michael :
Whenever people get mad about them using the sex scenes are promo material I get confused. Every single thing that has sex scenes heavily advertises that they’re there
2026-08-04 00:21:51
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Tichi :
The moment anyone says that it's porn I just know they didn't watch it and I immediately dismiss them. They wouldn't call straight media that.
2026-08-04 05:16:41
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Courgette* 🇹🇳🇲🇫 :
I remember seeing someone comment under a post abt heated rivalry being like "I think two men doing it is gross" with a lesbian flag and like... isn't that just homophobic ?? you don't have to like those types of scenes but calling them gross is weird...
2026-08-04 08:54:08
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