Serenhawk

2016 was such a good year for them...and us

It's also gorgeous. The Russian bathroom scene with the infinity mirror shots!? And Sasha in red in the middle? Stunning.
And I was stoked Cass mentioned the sound design for the locker room text exchange because it's a fave...the way the last note of the score screeches up with the final text is 👏

I've heard it said! Mainly about the pacing/structure. But I feel at least some of it is the discomfort/misread of the conflict and perceived power imbalance.
Each episode has its own unique arc and this is possibly the least accessible. But I probably yap about ep2 the most.

It's gorgeous. The snowdrops really got me in the heart.

This one hurts a lil' bit and I like it.

A heated rivalry painting. Shane is surrounded by darkness and Ilya is pulling him from behind into the light. Snowdrops are growing between them.

Close up and Shane’s and Ilya’s faces

before the snow melts 🤍 #heatedrivalry #hollanov

this is a subtle but IMO wildly underappreciated problem

"Two-year-old Nazgul was quickly collared by race officials and returned unharmed to his home at a nearby bed-and-breakfast... Race organizers did not make Nazgul available for questions after his capture."
www.npr.org/2026/02/18/n...

Anyone out there labeling Olympians the weakest episode wanna fight? Because I will.

pov you're daniel molloy circa 1976

Two years for 7-8 episodes is NOT A LIFE #tvl #iwtv

The Blood-Drinker's Draw: An IWTV Fan Tarot Deck An "Interview With the Vampire" tarot deck comprised of art and writing—created for fans, by fans, inspired by Anne Rice.

YA'LL THE IWTV TAROT DECK GOT FUNDED SO FAST AND WE STILL HAVE A MONTH TO GO I'M IN TEARS

GO GRAB ONE, PLEDGE, DO IT FOR LESTAT AND FOR ME

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iwt...

In a world where AMC could afford him

Hospital: you've just had joint replacement surgery, no tattoos, dental work, and be vigilant with scrapes and cuts for at least 6 months

Me: goes home, proceeds to aquire multiple minor bleeding offenses, bitten by every bitey insect in a 1 kilometer radius, loses a filing, has 37 tattoo ideas

There's not enough of me to contain all these feelings

AMC shares a statement from the Vampire Lestat about Long Face. Not Sam Reid. Lestat. And new plot details about Lestat being “haunted by ‘muses’” on tour. More in-character press PLEASE #iwtv #tvl #thevampirelestat

More here: www.tvinsider.com/1245558/inte...

Listen... it's science, okei

what if: dreamstat edition

#loustat #iwtv

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

Hey can we bring back all those internet safety campaigns we had when I was a millennial teen? It is NOT my job to parent someone else's kids and have to submit my ID to places to sanitize the internet for some puritanical outrage about kids. Parents should be doing this themselves.

if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this

Oh, Anne 😫 She was ahead of her time in many ways.

(I have read that book and remember liking it, but that's the only thing I remember about it, which might say something)

YouTube video by ME B The Cultural Power of Heated Rivalry

Probably the best video essay I've seen on HR and its place within queer media

youtu.be/U53MBXgdItI?...

This is interesting, and maybe I've been too hard on her for her female characters so often being detached and cool. It's frustrating.

Anne Rice in her book about reverting to Christianity, just straight up saying why she doesn't write as many female characters, for exactly the reasons I always assumed she didn't:

YouTube video by Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway Heated Rivalry Producers: How We Made a Hit

Jacob Tierney & Brendan Brady discuss the creative and financial risks they took to make the show and break down the process that allowed them to work on a shoestring budget, without compromising the artistic vision.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyyv...

I fell headfirst down the Heated Rivalry rabbit-hole over the holidays, but I had too many other projects to focus on to do as much online yelling as I would've liked. Well... I still have far too many projects, but @assortedpuzzlepcs.bsky.social and I went and did a thing anyway. Enjoy ✨

In my experience, talent is a *detriment* to learning.

I didn't have to practice early on so I *didn't know how*. I didn't start to learn how to practice until my 30s! (When much of my life was taken up with parenting, so I didn't have time!)

I didn't start to improve as a musician until my 40s!

I just saw Alan Cumming speaking eloquently about Heated Rivalry and the need for many more types of queer stories and now I’m imagining a world where he does a masterpiece mystery style intro to some gay show from around the world on PBS. This is the world we could live in