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[areyoudoingthis]

babe wake up ao3 came up with the only funny april fools joke in the history of the world

[justplainsalty]

The blog post is pretty great too.

[maimonideznuts]

Good news everyone... We finally know why Cassowaries have the Casque (horn like protrusion on the head)

It fluresces in a UV spectrum that they can see, and every Cassowary has a unique pattern like a fingerprint. Shiny dinosaurs!

Ultraviolet light illuminates species-specific biofluorescent casque patterns in cassowaries (Casuarius) - Scientific Reports

Cassowaries possess prominent keratinous and bony cranial ornaments, called casques, which have been suggested to function in visual signali

[that-dinopunk-guy]

I feel like taking a UV light to the Mesozoic would be very educational.

[maimonideznuts]

I feel like Dilophosaurus would just be a big carnivorous Cassowary

[canadianwheatpirates]

My favourite commentary on this so far was "can museum curators go and throw a blacklight rave in the bird collection to see how many of the others do this?" 🤣

[grison-in-space]

Worth noting that the authors have confirmed that the fluorescence is within the range of cassowary visibility, which is a bit of the puzzle that often gets missed in viral stories like this. Really neat work!

[lesbianlandry]

hold on we need to come together and make a list of fundamental phrases in the hr tumblr lexicon. i'll start.

in his rick owens

out of his beautiful mind

bisexual terminator

shane shame thesis

jazz improv dom

[yearningendlessly]

walk him like a dog

huffing it

#myshane #ourshane

[urie]

offscreen the film Die My Love is happening to jackie pike

[urie]

wait also

jacob tierney has the mandate of heaven

with my husband, he's also named jakob

[cephalopodie]

hanya yanagihara's the long game

shanebortion

shame hollander and iloveya rozanov

shanes my eyes at you

[graceebooks]

playing mermaids in his lake

[urie]

I'm So Glad You Noticed My Animal Work

[djarin]

Wow. So, when? Since our, uh, rookie season. Since your rookie season? No, it's not true. Since before that. Not helpful.

(insp.)

[fansplaining]

The RPF Question — Fansplaining

Amid blurry boundaries between fic, celebrity fandom, and conspiracy theories, how real person fiction evolved from forbidden to mainstream

Our April piece is live! 💫 Sacha Judd dives into the history of RPF, its thorny intersections with things like celebrity fandom and conspiracy theory shipping, and the erosion of the fannish fourth wall over the past few decades:

In the internet era—and especially with the rise of social media—we’ve witnessed an unprecedented increase in our access to public figures, the objects of our fandom. That’s led to collisions between celebrity culture, transformative fandom, parasociality, and conspiracy thinking. As a consequence, we’ve seen a full life-cycle in the acceptance of RPF, from something that was once seen as a completely taboo behavior to widespread tolerance and back again. And now, when our life online has consolidated into a handful of crowded platforms and fan communities have grown exponentially in size, we face a reckoning with the ethics of RPF in a world where few fandom boundaries remain.

Read or listen to a full audio version via the link above!

[icedbatik]

[rimouskis]

#it’s the three monkeys #sid is speak no evil #as in he will never tell us anything truly personal in case it comes back to haunt him somehow #geno is see no evil #as in if he pretends he can’t see the reporters perhaps he will not be made to speak to them #and tanger is hear no evil #as in you can try telling him what to do but he will continue to do whatever he wants bc he is beautiful and french (via @ehghtyseven)

[lekitty]

marc andré fleury interview with dan potash postgame (09.27.25)

[robindrake13]

🐧🐧

[puckthisyear]

#he picked up 😭 geno 😭 from the hospital 😭#‘not my wife not my family’#well yes your wife yes your family was the point sid was trying to make evgeni

[puckthisyear]

Has Sidney Crosby ever been more Mike than pouring coffee in the break room in that new NHL Golden Era commercial??

[puckthisyear]

Look at this man who has never had a normal job. "I'm Mike, let me show you where the coffee filters live."

[yabagofmilfs]

Yeah from what I've seen, the show is def getting a lot of mainstream attention. Also sid/ovi is mentioned in the first couple sentences in this hollywood reporter review so I think some media people are aware of the connection

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/heated-rivalry-review-hbo-max-gay-hockey-drama-1236435495/

lmao. oh. okay then yeah he’s for sure been briefed on it lol.

please i need to know exactly how this conversation with him went. how red were his ears. did he look up the trailer and have pants feelings. is he wondering what it would be like to be married to a russian hockey player. does he know he’s already married to a russian hockey player.

omg what if his italicized oh moment of realization is the direct result of fanfiction.

[ticklefighthockey]

hi! love your heated rivalry posts, you look at the show from a very interesting angle. but i actually have a question about hockey. from what i understand, you've read the books, so you know that eventually shane ends up on the same team as ilya. how does it work though, tactics/strategy-wise, when there are two star centers in one team? i don't know much about hockey so forgive me if i sound ignorant but i'm very curious. wouldn't it be kind of a downgrade for either of them to switch to playing on the second line? like, wouldn't that hurt the ego of whoever ends up moving there? and if i understand correctly one doesn't really switch between lines? i know ilya played winger with shane as the center in the 2017 all star game and they liked it but i assume he wouldn't switch to that completely. like all power to the centaurs it'd be funny to win the cup through the sheer force of gay love but how does that actually work

oh my god i just spiritually ascended while reading this ask because it means i get to tell you that THIS HAS LITERALLY HAPPENED IN REAL LIFE and it's called EVGENI MALKIN + SIDNEY CROSBY of the pittsburgh penguins and the result was THREE STANLEY CUPS INCLUDING A BACK-TO-BACK. no but actually. two superstar generational talents drafted a year apart by the same team, one of them widely considered to be one of the five greatest players of all time. SURELY the second superstar would get tired of playing in the bigger superstar's shadow and move on to a team where he could be the unquestioned 1C! HOW could it possibly work? and the answer is that the bigger superstar literally just was like i am going to make this man my best friend. my absolute ride-or-die. i'm going to tell him and everyone that i've never met a better player or a better guy. i'm going to go to the mat for him when people make noise about moving him somewhere else. and we are going to renew our vows regularly by releasing some kind of INSANE public statement or interview quote about how much we love and admire and respect each other virtually ever year. AND IT WORKED.

[puckthisyear]

psa for heated rivalry fic writers

I love you all, but these hockey boys do not fly commercial. They don't check luggage, look for parking at the airport, wait in first class lounges, or swap tickets so they can sit next to each other. Their Delta app does not send them cancelled flight notifications. They don't sigh about an airline meal. But the reality that they fly charter is awesome, you get so much better fic possibilities this way. They cross the tarmac and board the plane looking fly.

If they're good on the plane they might get a cookie.

On the plane itself, everyone has their own routines, playing videogames, watching tv, and some tables are arranged for long, ongoing card games.

You can watch Connor Clifton bravely try to interview everyone about their habits here (go on girls, give us nothing).

Here is a video about how the Pens travel as an organisation. Bonus fun fact: in Pittsburgh the Pens park their cars at the charter hangar alongside the planes, leading to an incredible story of Evgeni Malkin deciding to open up his new Porsche at 120mph on the runway one day.

Never change, Geno.

Inspired by this @ticklefighthockey post about fic resources.

[chekhovsbird]

The Pitt - Mash-style title sequence

Anyway, welcome to today’s use of free will people in the middle of this Venn diagram

[gabrieldjungelskog]

Do you ever just think about how Nate is constantly trying to get his boys to come play with him in Colorado??

(Jack Eichel on the Empty Netters Podcast talking about the circumstances behind Colorado being in the mix of teams he’d considered moving to)

[hoenursey]

HOLY SHIT

GUYS IM UP IM HERE WE'RE SO FUCKING BACK

[homunculus-argument]

Imagine visiting a neighbour's apartment for the first time and everything they own seems to have a label sticker on it, labeling what it is. Like everything. You're sitting down at their table for coffee when you finally gather up the courage to ask why, exactly, does their toaster have a label on it that says "toaster".

And they just shrug and nonchalantly explain that oh yeah, my roommate is an immigrant, new to the country and still learning the language, so I figured that it'd be useful to have little everyday vocabulary scattered all over in places where they'll see them every day.

So you're relieved that there's a sensible explanation but kind of incredulous because these things are fucking everywhere. You noticed a doorknob that has a sticker saying "doorknob" on it, and the table you two are sitting at has separate labels for "table", "tabletop" and "table leg" on it. Is the labelling some kind of a long-time hobby they keep doing or did they do all of this all at once?

And they laugh like ohh of course not, no way I could've done all of this myself. I let the other neighbour's kids do it. I borrowed two different label makers from a friend, handed one to each kid and told them that the one who can label more things around the apartment wins.

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]