Brandon's Buzz

(There is also a matching bracelet for only $975, yo!) 👀

The François’ Closet account on Xwitter posted that they’ll be slow in getting to these Cero pics, so I decided to investigate my own self. This banger of a necklace:

💥 is from Versace
💥 is 100% brass
💥 contains medallions featuring the likeness of Medusa (!)
💥 can be yours for a cool $1350!

Like … SERIOUSLY. 👀

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My horrified husband, calling me a couple hours later about our water heater but also about this:

“The whole world needed to see this?”

Me: “ 🤷🏻‍♂️ I thought it was … funny?”

Hubby: “You even showed some leg!”

Me: “ 🤷🏻‍♂️ I was … inspired by François?”

ALSO: sorry for the astounding TMI-ness here, but I forgot I was wearing my AND1 briefs this morning and didn’t clock until I was safely back in the car that they are much longer through the thigh than are my fave workout shorts, so everyone at Anytime Fitness with me earlier got the whole story! 🤦🏻‍♂️😭

Also, I litchrully YELPED — loud enough that the two people treadmilling in front of me both turned around in unison to look — at this bit in the Skip fanfic I was scrolling whilst doing aforementioned cardio. 😬🥴😭 #HeatedRivalry

Said f it and put the workout mix on shuffle this morning, whereupon a fun bit of throwback playlist flow just got me through a decent chunk of cardio:

AJR, ‘Livin’ on Love’ >
Joan Jones, ‘Everyday Down’ >
Simply Red, ‘Something Got Me Started’ >
Annie Lennox, ‘Little Bird’

👊🏼

(The Versace chain necklace he’s wearing in the last photo in that Cero layout has me DROOLING, I cannot tell a lie.) #HeatedRivalry

François Arnaud Is Heating Up | Cero Magazine On the heels of his breakthrough role as Scott Hunter in the zeitgeist-defining hit ‘Heated Rivalry,’ the French-Canadian actor continues to find joy in experimenting and exploring as he reaches new p...

François opens up to Cero Magazine (whatever tf that even is!) about fame, acting, and, uhh, *heat* 👇🏼

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Oh, ok: François Arnaud woke up this morning and announced — the category today is LEGS. 👀 #HeatedRivalry

I am SO shook by this 👇🏼 getting 30 likes since last night. I haven’t even seen 30 whole #HeatedRivalry -related skeets beyond mine since this all started! It has literally felt like I’ve been screaming into the VOID on this application. It’s so heartening to learn that Robçois have some fans here! ❤️

“If I lose you again, I want to be able to hold something and remember you.”

A fic which finds Kip and Scott doing spring cleaning, when Kip runs across a box of seemingly valueless souvenirs — from straws to receipts — that he learns actually each hold profound meaning for Scott. 😭

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Augusta brings CC into the janitor closet to show him the mirror, and they can see Lionel and Sophia talking in the suite. CC is stunned to learn about the mirror’s existence, but Sophia’s back is to him so far so he has yet to clock that it’s her. Here we go, boys and girls!! #SantaBarbaraNBC

Augusta sends Lionel a note to lure him to Sophia’s suite at the hotel, then phones up CC and tells him to meet her there. #SantaBarbaraNBC

CC tells the children that the paperwork glitch means the wedding has to be delayed AGAIN. But of course!! #SantaBarbaraNBC

(I sorta hate that they’re doing it this way. That mirror thing was a cheap plot device when Peter first put it in and has annoyed me this entire time!) #SantaBarbaraNBC

Warren shows Augusta the two-way mirror, and if you can’t see where this is all going, then proceed immediately back to remedial soap opera class at once! 🤦🏻‍♂️ #SantaBarbaraNBC

Mason finds Gina’s old boyfriend Hank lurking on the grounds and brings him in to join the fun. CC forces Gina to come clean about her past with him. #SantaBarbaraNBC

As Sophia hides in the study, Gina lies to CC out in the hallway that she was just interviewing a new potential maid for Rosa’s staff. 🤣🤣 #SantaBarbaraNBC

Gina tells Sophia there is no possible way CC could still love her and begs her not to destroy their happiness. #SantaBarbaraNBC

Brandon bolts downstairs and warns ‘Uncle’ CC that Gina is arguing with a strange lady upstairs. CC heads off to investigate. 👀 #SantaBarbaraNBC

The computerized opening — state of the ART then — wasn’t ready for months afterward. 😂 I think they premiered the song in March but the opening wasn’t ready until September.

(This ‘bitch, PLEASE’ look that Sophia shoots across the room to Gina is EVERYTHING. 😂 Judith McConnell is the reason the birds chirp in the morningtime, idc idc.) #SantaBarbaraNBC

Sophia is about to properly introduce herself to her grandson when Gina enters the room, breathing FIRE. 👀 #SantaBarbaraNBC

(Turned out it was Marlena’s sister Samantha who had died.)

Sin Stalker was late 86 into 87. I have VAGUE memories of my grandmothers being up in arms over the one (Salem Strangler, maybe?) that supposedly killed Marlena on DAYS in the early 80s, so that’s probably the first one I recall.

Eden: “You must have some latent death wish or something.”

Mason: “Oh, don’t be ridiculous, Eden. There’s not a latent bone in my body!”

Like, I can’t prove it, but that’s a Patrick Mulcahey line if I EVER heard one. 😂😂

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Warren tells Augusta about the secret two-way mirror that looks into the Capwell Hotel’s presidential suite from the adjoining janitor closet — the silly plot device that Peter Flint had gotten installed months prior —and she gets an light bulb moment. #SantaBarbaraNBC

> #SantaBarbaraNBC > ep 163 opens with a direct pickup from 162’s gagger of a cliffhanger! Sophia is headed down the stairs to interrupt the wedding when the judge pronounces that there is a problem with the paperwork to declare Sophia dead. Meanwhile, little Brandon encounters Sophia on the stairs.

(I’d say: next stop, Emmy — but, unless by some miracle the Television Academy decides to tweak its archaic bylaws in the next few weeks, #HeatedRivalry, as a fully Canadian production, will tragically not be eligible.) 😭