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Strange Journey: The Story Of Rocky Horror is now available to stream for free (with ads) in the free Fandango app for mobile device, streaming device, and smart TV.

It's a really wonderful documentary and I learned stuff I never knew before, even though I used to go (and participate) repeatedly, decades ago. (I even bought the official audience participation album on vinyl that was recorded in New York.)

The documentary is funny and touching and poignant and very, very joyful.



The famous lips!!

"Don't dream it... Be it."

Midnight screenings of Rocky Horror that I went to repeatedly with friends and family decades ago were such incredible good times.

The awesome thing is, Rocky Horror is still being screened midnights on Saturday night - at the same theater where I saw it many times in the 80s and 90s.

And I think we need it now more than ever.

(The Fandango app itself is free, but you have to pay for movies/series you rent or buy - unless they're free with ads, like Strange Journey currently is in the US.)

In my opinion, this is the single slashiest thing Ray Vecchio ever did or said about, to, or for Fraser:


"Listen: you hurt him and I'll kill you."

Followed closely by:


"It's not you I do it for."

This is when I really saw the Fraser/Vecchio slash. And Fraser isn't even in these scenes.

Yet he is. Oh, is he ever.

Ray wasn't fucking around in these scenes with Victoria. He meant every word he said. The casualness with which he tells her he'll kill her - I thought, Oh, he's got her number.

And that steely look in Ray's eye as he says "It's not you I do it for" - that's what I thought about when I thought of Vecchio undercover as Armando.

I think the only thing that stopped him hunting Victoria down and killing her is Fraser probably asked him, at some point, not to.

ETA: If you can't see the GIFs above, your job or the WiFi you're on probably blocks LJ... my job does. But when I view this entry with my phone, not on WiFi, just on the cellular network - I see the GIFs.

Well, I ficced more Heated Rivalry Scott/Kip porn for BBTP, yay!

Title: Tethered

Author: verushka70

Fandom (Pairing): Heated Rivalry (Kip Grady/Scott Hunter)

Rating: Explicit

Word Count:  9,696 (AO3 says 9,700)

Summary: Trust Scott to purchase a quality toy that is even better for the purpose of which he was completely unaware, than it is for the purpose he bought it.

Disclaimer: Not beta-ed, all mistakes mine. Written for BBTP!

Third fic in a porny collared!Scott series. I think it can be read alone (as most PWP can be, heh), though it might make slightly more sense if you read one or both of the preceding two fics (accessible through the fic link).

Content/Warnings: Collars, Leashes, Dildos, Spitroasting, Praise Kink, PWP

Tethered - on AO3

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Now I just have to do my pinch hit for an exchange (to be named later), my dSc6dBB complementary, and come up with something for Ray Vecchio day... argh. On top of all that I have been sick for almost a week, on my vacation no less. Sigh.

Funny how in September the days seem to shorten faster and the sun to set earlier day by day.

\o/

It's almost time to Bring Back The Porn again! On September 1st, let's do it and BBTP!

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Once again, there are few rules - just BBTP, baby! You don't even have to create something - you can post recs!! And you don't post your work on the BBTP DW - you post/host it elsewhere, and just post links on the BBTP DW. Got a favorite porny, smutty fic (art, or vid)? Doesn't even have to be created by you - your favorite smutty bookmarked fanworks can be shared for BBTP!

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In conclusion: porn! Yay!

Ramona Milano is still acting, but has also worked as an acting coach for a while, and she posted this to her IG today:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcRgEGVSVL_/

Personally I find it sad that young actors are falling for trending socmed bullshit instead of being in love with improving their craft.

But that seems to be true of young people across all job sectors these days... so I guess it's not surprising/was inevitable that it would happen in the arts as well.

Sigh. Algorithms are making people crazy in more ways than one.

Everybody is not in your socmed feed. Literally millions if not billions of people's opinions about things like movies, TV, theater ARE NOT represented by socmed algorithms.

We've come to think of these online "trends" as "real". But algorithms can be AND ARE gamed. All the time. Mostly to get eyeballs, clicks, and ad revenue.

I'm glad Ramona Milano is telling young actors to stay true to their craft and not trendy buzzwords. I worry for young people, so heavily influenced by socmed. Everything is so manipulated - and manipulable. Especially now with genAI.

The Stratford Festival posted on their Facebook that the S&A cast will reunite for one night only - July 26 - for a reading of the comedy The Amateurs.

Paul Gross and Don McKellar are included in the reuniting cast.

Follow the link for more details!

ETA: You can buy tickets here.

Ficced a little dS snippet yesterday evening, yay.

Latitude and Longitude

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: M/M
Fandom: due South
Relationship: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Characters: Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski, Diefenbaker (due South)
Additional Tags: First Time
Words: 300

Summary:
Fraser's wordless glances and frequent – and too-slow – blinks were a language Ray knew and had tried to forget.

Latitude and Longitude on AO3

So this (non-paywalled) NYT article is from a few days ago, covering the Canadian Screen Awards.

It also discusses the impact of not only international breakouts like Heated Rivalry, but the current horrible US administration we're dealing with and their previous threats of tariffs on non-US film productions. The Canadian film industry was hit hard by COVID and then by the 2023 writers and actors strike, but began bouncing back in 2025.

Heated Rivalry won two awards, Sophie Nélisse (who played Shane's gf Rose on HR, and is also in every episode of Yellowjackets) got a Radius award for her international breakout status this year, Mike Myers was honored with a lifetime achievement award, Eugene Levy (SCTV!) eulogized Catherine O'Hara, and a funny/cute indigenous Netflix series I've watched (North of North) also won an award, among other awards.

( Some choice quotes from the NYT article: )

This was originally posted on my Tumblr. Reposting here with minor modifications.

So during some research for a Scott/Kip fic, I ran across this old UPI article from the Sochi Olympics in 2014 about the fact that Grindr use in Sochi more than doubled/nearly tripled during the 2014 Sochi Olympics:



I'll get to the relevance of what Carter Vaughn says to Scott and Shane in the Sochi ice cream shop in a minute.

But first let us revel in the fact that the Russian version of Grindr was called Hunters (tho it was subsequently shut down by the Russian government):



So if [SPOILERS!!] Kip broke up with Scott after the St. Thomas fundraiser at the end of S1E03 (which is one interpretation of TV canon*)...

...then the near tripling of Grindr users in Sochi during the 2014 Olympics would've given (a possibly spiraling, self-destructive) Scott plenty of opportunities to have forlorn, empty sex (while picturing and pining for Kip with every meaningless encounter) facilitated by Grindr, if not by the Russian gay/bi hookup app with his own name. (Here, plot bunny, have some carrots - go forth and multiply! You're welcome!)

The rest of the article, though, explains the sobering reality of what Carter points out to Scott and Shane.






72,000 Hunters (Russian Grindr) profiles were deleted. You could be arrested and jailed for "gay propaganda" by simply having a profile on Hunters.

So when Carter says -

Hell yeah, man. Show up for any dude who's that brave. Fucking brave for a dude to show up to this place and be like: "Hey, here's me." Russia is not safe for folks like that. Fucking balls of steel, man.

- he's being an ally. An imperfect ally, yes, but an ally all the same. Any other interpretation is just flat wrong, imo.

Fucking balls of steel indeed, Carter.

Also:


(*[SPOILERS!] I completely understand why people view HR S1E03 canon this way: on my first few bingewatches, that's what I thought, too. But on subsequent viewings, seeing Elena and George Grady/Kip's dad in the stands with Kip prior to the epic Scott/Kip kiss on the ice at the end of S1E05, I concluded that may not actually have been the intent. Of course, we can't really know until we get the behind-the-scenes/making of book with the annotated scripts Jacob Tierney will put out this fall 2026.

The Stratford Festival posted a link to the CBC Q interview with Paul Gross (on YouTube) on their Facebook. He discusses his role in Beckett's Waiting For Godot at Stratford this summer. He also had a little to say about Canadian television, specifically Heated Rivalry and Schitt's Creek.

Before that, mercury765 shared a YouTube video of the Paul Gross interview on CP24 Breakfast over on Tumblr.

Enjoy!

ETA: I messed up the ink to the second vid - fixed now...