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Pooh Bear

I see many Winnie the Poohs at the hospital (aka Winnie aka Pooh aka Pooh Bear), as you may guess. Many look like this, a bit flat and with small wounds, designed to have a removable shirt:

They come for spas:

New hearts and stuffing:

And plumping up so they have a proper belly again:

Sometimes they look like this:

A bit more loved… or as his person said, in more “desperate condition”.

He also had a spa (not everyone does):

As you may’ve noticed, he needed a new nose and there were several options:

His heart had a pooh on it as well as some magic from a heffalump:

And after a bit of arm and smile surgery, soon he was healthy and ready to fly home:

His person wrote “He looks wonderful!”

The final Pooh I’m going to show you today just flew home yesterday. He is always called Pooh Bear. He is 14 years old and showed every year of hugs.

Here are the photos his person’s mom sent for diagnosis:

As you can see, Pooh Bear was a bit flat and a bit gray. He came in for a spa:

Got new stuffing and a magical Heffalump heart to preserve a bit of his original stuffing:

And finally was clean and plump and fluffy and ready to fly home:

He could even sit on his own! His people said his chubbiness was perfect and as I said, he flew home yesterday!

theawesomeadventurer

this blog is singlehandedly curing my depression

onetreehil

A thousand live bats fluttered from the walls and ceiling while a thousand more swooped over the tables in low black clouds, making the candles in the pumpkins stutter.

Happy Halloween!

twoflipstwotwists

How did Larry Nassar, an Olympic gymnastics doctor, get away with abusing hundreds of women and girls for two decades? Believed is an inside look at how a team of women won a conviction in one of the largest serial sexual abuse cases in U.S. history. It's a story of survivors finding their power in a cultural moment when people are coming to understand how important that is. It's also an unnerving exploration of how even well-meaning adults can fail to believe.

The first two episodes of the podcast about the survivors of Larry Nassar are out now!

twoflipstwotwists

thanks for the new reaction image Grace

doggosource

if u steal car keys human will never leave you alone

panthergoddessbast

He’s like yeet bitch you ain’t going nowhere

olympichampion

anyway here’s 16 pages of gymnastics meets from 1976 to now

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Order of the Phoenix in 4 gifs

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TEAL LEO CHALLENGE In honor of the brave survivors, the challenge was to create teal leos. Teal is the color used to represent Sexual Abuse Awareness.

In 6th place with 9.8% of the final vote: @noitsnacktime

In 5th place with 10.3% of the final vote: @littlelilybye

In 4th place with 11.8% of the final vote: @triplememmel

In 3rd place with 15.7% of the final vote: @knitkait

In 2nd place with 16.2% of the final vote: @greatbritaingymnastics

The winner with 36.3% of the final vote

@abigfuss

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sararaasch

This movie is life.

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That last one though…

vintage-katie

My forever mood is Judge Aquilina tossing aside Larry Nassar’s letter like the actual trash that it is

blackboyjoy

You know she’s making direct eye contact too. She was so good to the victims in this case

hushhatake

I’d just like to say how absolutely insane this scandal. Those victims are national treasures, like real life olympians, american heros, whatever. How did no one on tumblr talk about this case until the judge proved herself to be good at her job.

melniikova

The gymnastics community (myself included) DID talk about this, but people didn’t pick up on this story until the biggest names started coming forward and talking about it

fuck-usag

We’ve been talking since 2016 and no one else picked it up. We did our job, how about y’all?

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Non-gymnastics community is finally listening. And I’m here for it!

literallyygarbagee

“How did no one talk about this on tumblr” lmao as if we didn’t first see Larry’s Facebook retirement post in 2015 and immediately start questioning how weird it was that he was retiring a year before Rio after spending 20+ years with the team, as if we didn’t burst into rage when Jamie Dantzscher came forward a year later and NO ONE BELIEVED HER, as if we didn’t have to listen to victim shaming and people calling Jamie a slut and a liar until other people slowly started trickling in leading now to over 200 survivors (ALL heroes whether Olympians or not because MOST AREN’T OLYMPIANS, most were lower level club gymnasts in the Lansing community he was able to take advantage of by befriending their coaches and parents), and STILL people believed Nassar and we had to see him post photos of his autistic daughter on Facebook for sympathy, which he got as his thousands of supporters fundraised for him, which we watched and discussed AS IT WAS HAPPENING, which we screamed about into a VOID, which NO ONE CARED ABOUT until yesterday, as if we weren’t THRILLED when the FBI found child pornography on his computer which is not something most people would be thrilled about but in this case it was incredible because it actually led to his ridiculous obsessive “he’s such a good guy” fuckfaces realizing like, oh shit, yeah, Larry is kind of a predator, huh?? As if we didn’t want to burn down the ranch when we found out that a national team member and her coach, which turned out to be Maggie Nichols and Sarah Jantzi, came forward two months before Larry “retired” in 2015 and that USAG knew but didn’t do a goddamn thing and he got to keep practicing as a medical professional at MSU and in private practice abusing DOZENS of women and girls for A YEAR after USAG knew what he was doing. As if we didn’t watch all FORTY HOURS of victim impact statements this week and as if we didn’t start talking about Judge Aquilina’s amazing commitment to the victims when she first spoke to Kyle Stephens following her testimony. As if we didn’t follow every single step of the federal process, the Ingham County criminal proceedings, the Eaton County proceedings, the USA Gymnastics and USOC and MSU proceedings, and every little fact and detail SINCE THIS ALL STARTED. To echo @fuck-usag, we’ve BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT. FOR OVER TWO YEARS. Where have YOU been, @emogrinch? Sorry but like…don’t blame an entire community of people for not paying attention JUST BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T SEE IT.

I saw Lexy Ramler’s 9.95 balance beam in person, and she is perfection 😍

gelyamelnikova

hey, I feel like u made nationals in fantasy gym last year... is that you or am I misremembering?? if so, do u have any tips? it's my first year and Im kind of overwhelmed, lmao

Yesss I did and I have lots of opinions and I got you!

Rebecca / gelyamelnikova’s Hot Fantasy Gymnastics Tips 2k16

1) DON’T FOLLOW THE CROWD. So the draft system works in rank order. That means that everybody’s #1 pick is assigned first, then everybody’s #2, then everybody’s #3… If your #1 is taken, you don’t get a pick at all until the second round. By which time your #2 pick might also be taken. And then by the third round… you get the idea.

This means that to make a great draft, you have to kind of anticipate what your conference-mates will pick. Luckily, this is SUPER DUPER EASY.

Everyone wants the hot big-name AAers and sometimes a former elite freshman or two. There are usually 4-5 that people go crazy over. This year the group is something like Kennedy Baker, Ebee Price, Chayse Capps, Maggie Nichols, Madison Kocian.

If you pick those 5 as your top 5, I almost guarantee you’ll get one, max. More likely none. Everyone is doing the same thing… so you’ll get to the end of round 5 with no gymnasts when you could have had 5.

So draft one of those girls, MAX. Then fill up the rest of your top 5 with girls that are very-good-but-not-quite-so-trendy. Last year my top 3 was Alex McMurtry, AJ Jackson, and Kaytianna McMillan. That worked out super fucking well for me. Do something like that and you’ll be much happier.

2) DON’T LEAN ON UCLA. I get it, you love them to death. I do too. We all do. They’re fabulous and adorable and we want to be them.

But Miss Val is incredibly unsympathetic to fantasy players. (She makes up for it by being perfect in every other way, though.) UCLA lineups change EVERY FUCKING WEEK. Regardless of who you draft you’ll be counting zeroes pretty frequently. Feel free to get one or two of your faves, but don’t get five. You don’t need that kind of risk in your life.

The flipside of this is teams like Florida and Michigan, who like to lean very heavily on their AAers. Their lineups are stable and predictable and beautiful. Exactly what we want. Get at least one or two.

3) DON’T RELY ON BIG NAME FRESHIES. They’re fun and exciting but God only knows if they’ll pan out. Everyone has to spend some time in 9.75 Hell ™ before NCAA starts working for them. Even beautiful angels like Ohashi last year can cause some lineup anxiety.

Exception to this rule is probably Skinner. Because Utah. They’ll give a 9.95 to anything blonde in that godforsaken hellhole. So whatever, just draft her, I don’t care, I’ll just be over here vomiting.

4) MINE THE HELL OUT OF MID-LEVEL TEAMS. Our Nebraskas, our Denvers, and our Oregon States save us week after week. There are seas of reliable 9.8s out there, and if you get lucky you’ll snag the ones that will randomly turn into 9.95s in postseason. Do your homework here and it’ll pay off.

Also, jump on every bandwagon, they can only help you. Last year it was George Washington and New Hampshire. This year - you heard it here first - it’s ***Washington and Eastern Michigan***. Get in there and get yours before everyone else snags them. Totally worth it.

5) FIND A COUPLE OF TOP LEVEL 3-EVENTERS Remember how I said earlier that I drafted McMurtry, Jackson, and McMillan last year? Yup. NCAA three-eventers are not stable. They like to pick up fourth events in their last year, and judges are usually sympathetic because SHE DO AA OMG HEART EYES.

(Other notable examples: Brittany Rogers, Georgia Dabritz, a bunch of others I’m blanking on.)

Most people won’t draft 3-eventers in their top 5 because AAers are more fun to draft. If you snag these guys, not only will you have 3 great scores every week, you’ll very possibly end the season with a top AAer without having to fight the draft to get her.

6) DON’T BE AFRAID TO ABUSE HOME OVERSCORING. You know who I’m talking about. Florida likes to manipulate lineups, and 9.9s are a result of competing AA not a cause of competing AA. We all know McMurtry should probably be getting 9.7s on bars. If you have her on your fantasy team, do you care? NOPE. She is your child now and she can do no wrong.

LSU is the land of that-was-basically-tucked-but-we’ll-give-it-a-10-because-whatever-we’re-just-thinking-about-Finney-right-now. Has Gnat ever deserved a 10 on anything? Definitely not. If she’s on your fantasy team, do you care? NOPE, own that shit.

Utah doesn’t even care if it’s stuck. They’ll close their eyes really hard while you bounce in place, and give you a 10 anyway. And then when they go to schools with actual judging, they bitch endlessly about how unfair it is that they get deductions for their mistakes. If you have Utah gymnasts on your squad, do you feel second hand embarrassment about this hypocrisy? NOPE. They give you your 9.9s, you turn a blind eye to their ridiculousness.

It doesn’t matter HOW your get your scores in fantasy, it matters THAT you get them. It’s a zero-sum game - if you don’t get those scores, your teammates do. Get what you need and feel no shame.

7) ABUSE THE SWAP SYSTEM MERCILESSLY. If your draw sucks, don’t sweat it. The swap system will come online in week 2 or 3. If you’re conscientious with this, you can build a great team from almost nothing. And if you have an okay team, putting the time into swaps can be what gets you to postseason.

No one really knows year from year who’s going to be good. 39.5 AAers can turn into 38.8 ones in an off season, and 9.95s can appear from schools no one’s even heard of. Spend some quality time looking at rankings on Road to Nationals and searching all the names in the swap list. Grab everyone who looks competent and see what falls out.

And last but definitely not least… 8) FOR GOD’S SAKE IF YOU SUBMIT A DRAFT PLEASE ACTUALLY PLAY THE GAME I’M BEGGING YOU. Every year a couple people per conference submit a great draft, get some great gymnasts, and then just… peace out and never submit a lineup. If you realize you don’t have time in your life I get it I guess, but… Come on, guys. Come on.

Hopefully that helps - have fun! It’s always a highlight of my year <3