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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 5h

I’m very excited to announce that @evernightpub.bsky.social is planning to publish my gay Jewish WWI romance novel!

Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I had never heard of these two gentlemen before but it’s remarkable how much the artwork looks like Hollanov fanart (or maybe it’s just that everything looks like Hollanov to me)

A screenshot of a Facebook post about Saint Serge and Saint Bacchus, martyred Roman soldiers whom the post describes as the patron saints of gay marriage

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I went to check out ours and I cannot deny my interest in controlling insects… also I feel subtly judged by the note on “gradually expanded LEGO collection”

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Looking for places to submit erotic short stories and all the calls for submission are like “please submit exactly 800 words on the theme of legumes, poetry and prose welcome, UK-based writers only, pay is £5 and a chance to have your work performed live on our podcast”

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My kid has watched “Jumanji” about twelve times and begged for the board game Jumanji as a birthday present, which we got for her, even though I feel like the whole point of the movie is that you should not play this board game

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My six-year-old, complaining about something that doesn’t make sense: “It’s like it’s AI-generated”

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Ariel @ari-el222.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember seeing a joke about Heated Rivalry where they said the hockey scenes were fade to black, not the sex scenes. the audience wants sexy men who yearn for each other due to circumstances that make it challenging for them to be together

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026

This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows

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🎐 alinea_arts 🎐 @alinea-arts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i have been DYING to make this piece since the start of summer, finally got around to it and am obsessed with how it turned out 🥹😭✨ finally felt it was time to bring this piece into existence 😩⚔️ #shanehollander #ilyarozanov #hollanov #heatedrivalry #medieval

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This current stack of books next to my bed feels like a pretty good summary of what it’s like to be inside my brain

Picture of a stack of books that include “Heated Rivalry,” “Charity & Sylvia” (the graphic novel), “No Ordinary Men: The Battle of Kohima Reassessed,” “Defeat into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945,” and “The OSS in Burma”

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is there a single show on here that’s not from the U.S. or UK? Kind of wild that they don’t even caveat it as the “best English-language TV shows” - like, the rest of the world makes TV shows too, some of them outstanding

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I support this only if they make it yaoi

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

like many antisemitic conspiracy theories, this actually makes us sound pretty awesome

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My husband is watching a YouTube video about the most shockingly taboo movies ever made but it’s YouTube so they can’t actually show anything shockingly taboo

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I finally finished watching The Vampire Lestat and kind of… did not love it? Lestat and Louis and Armand are all amazing and perfectly cast but I wish there had been like 90% less incest and a lot more Louis and Armand

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I just saw the phrase “vintage 2000s” used to describe an outfit and immediately crumbled into dust

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I just spent 20 minutes taking this test and found out that, as a person born and raised in New York, I talk like a person from New York

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I finally started reading Billy Budd and am pleased to find that it is in fact extremely gay from literally the opening paragraph onwards

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I appreciate that the New Yorker keeps publishing thoughtful, admiring pieces about Heated Rivalry even though Ilya said they were boring

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Power Play: Behind the Music of “Heated Rivalry”

The show’s creator, Jacob Tierney, on his sonic past and future.

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Samwise Gamgee would be so excited

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I thought this was a Heated Rivalry meme at first

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“A fox in his portcullis” sounds like a euphemism for something

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Shane Hollander’s pride flag

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I am not worried about whether my emojis make me look old because I am on Bluesky and like everyone else here I am 41 years old

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A couple of months ago I started trying to work out every day and it’s amazing how many different parts of my body have just been like “nope”

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Rat King @bettiebloodshed.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Never not mad as hell lol

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I regret to inform you that the “A Noun of Nouns and Nouns” titling trend has breached containment and reached the WWII popular history books

Cover of a “Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II” by Simon Parkin, which is actually a fascinating book even though I am gently making fun of its title

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Also HBO Max is DETERMINED to have me watch Pillion after Heated Rivalry - every time I re-watch Heated Rivalry it jumps straight from Shane and Ilya driving down the road into wherever I most recently noped out of Pillion

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Episode 5 of Heated Rivalry is the best single episode of television ever made and I will die on this hill

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I took the quiz thing and discovered that I am boring and attracted to conventionally attractive people

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I finally got to see the Odyssey and I guess my hot take is… I liked it? Clearly it’s very much of our time, not an exact translation from the ancient poem to the screen, but I didn’t see that as necessarily a problem

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Sounds like my response of “huh, I think I’ll stay home and watch Heated Rivalry for the sixth time” was correct

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

One of the things I really appreciate about Southeast Asian cities is that I almost never get catcalled on the street by humans but I do get meowed at a lot by actual cats

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Super excited to find that the English translation of “Pioneer Winter” is now available! Now if only Jacob Tierney would turn it into a TV series… I can’t be the only Heated Rivalry fan who was way more into the queer Russian angst than the hockey.

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I’m still mad about what happened with Steve and Bucky in Endgame but whenever I watch Episode 3 of Heated Rivalry and remember that we got a Canadian government-funded SteveBucky barista AU show I feel like maybe we won after all

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

reminder: dont serve sake to an octopus today

page of art from the Met Museum. a small ivory carving of a buddha like figure shaking its finger at a mermaid serving sake to an octopus. Netsuke of Daruma
Admonishing a Mermaid Serving Sake to an Octopus

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

9. By far my favorite thing in the film is Robert Pattinson's hilarious and sexy Antinous. If anyone ever wants to make a spin off TV series with Antinous risen from the dead to mess with other mythical households, I would be so there for it.

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is amazing and also now I feel like I need to write a gay historical romance about a werewolf rabbi

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Nobody is making a movie about Achilles and Patroclus, even after both Heated Rivalry and the Odyssey were massive hits, but somehow this got funded

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Putri Prihatini @putriprihatini.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I was born and raised in East Borneo, so the familiar sound of sape instrument is a sleep aid. This Dayak Kenyah sape composition, Lan E Tuyang (tuyang: friends) depicts an invitation to share a joyful moment under the moonlight outside the longhouse. #WyrdWednesday www.youtube.com/watch?v=MscE...

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Lan E Tuyang - Uyau Moris (Dayak Kenyah Song)

YouTube video by Uyau Moris

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Some parts of Moby Dick really are the “Charlie Brown had hoes” of classic literature

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Did Miss Trunchbull come up with this

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Well now I have another Greek mythology movie adaptation I would like to see

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Unexpected dinner guest trying to pretend like he’s not looking at my fish

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I just had a massage where they rubbed my feet with limes and my legs with sugar and the rest of me with coconut oil… I feel like a Southeast Asian dessert

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Masha Hayim @mashahayim.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I’m looking forward to watching the Odyssey movie but I also just want to put it out there that we’ve never had the tragic gay romance movie version of the Iliad that we deserve and I think someone should do something about that

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