A Chrestomathy

Being a commonplace book of enthusiasm, which varies according to my whim. Heated Rivalry and Dorothy Dunnett make regular appearances.

[stormsies]

another angle of seth jarvis wiping out has hit the timeline

[apoiios]

tumblr turning into twitter and discord turning into spyware.... everyone give me your whatsapp rn .....

[apoiios]

just remembered whatsapp also is meta so actually fuck all of that and everyone give me your home addresses i will be there in two hours

[kurowrites]

We should probably go back to writing letters.

[allthefoolmine]

never stopped!

[softieghost]

You think you're reading a quite serious work of fiction an then Niccolò wins a business deal via yo-yo skills

[allthefoolmine]

[publicdomainreview]

Édouard Hocquart, Panorama de l'Histoire Universelle, 1830

One of several takes on Friedrich Strass’ Der Strom der Zeiten, a massive chart depicting human history from the year of “creation” to the “present day” through bodies of flowing water: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/stream-of-time

[extraliga-related]

With everything that's been going on lately, here's a short non-comprehensive accumulation of things that could be called progress regarding relations between men's hockey and being queer:

The 🇦🇺 AIHL's Melbourne Mustangs, advocating for trans rights in sports since 2017, and the same team in 2023, donning pride jerseys designed by former goalie (and twin sister of Ty) Tia Wishart who is part of the LGBTQ community.

Jase Polglase of the AIHL's Central Coast Rhinos who puts pride tape on his stick every single game.

Robert Dowd and Marc-Olivier Vallerand having a dance after a win with the Sheffield Steelers.

Starting off with individual efforts, the 🇬🇧 EIHL has since extended their pride event to the duration of a full weekend following a conjoint initiative by the teams' fanbases in 2019.

Zach Sullivan, one of the few out queer athletes in the sport, felt supported enough by his team to come out as bisexual ahead of the Manchester Storm's pride game in 2020.

Danish goalie Jon Lee-Olsen came out as gay a year prior and was reportedly supported by his teammates.

The 🇸🇪 SHL lead the way, awarding the cause a full week since 2019 with elaborate campaigns and getting refs as well as coaches involved. It's a colorful sight.

While Pride Games are at present not an official part of the schedule, several 🇩🇪 DEL teams are joining in. Augsburg and Köln do their part, Berlin has one of the dedicated queer fanclubs and visibly stands against homophobia since at least 2016.

As of 2022 the entire league, as well as a growing number of clubs in the tiers below, cooperate with Hockey is Diversity e.V.. So does the Para Ice Hockey National Team, including Jörg Wedde, who also keeps pride tape on his equipment.

🇫🇮 Liiga's TPS added these stunning jerseys to the mix.

While all the aforementioned teams already wear the jerseys for at least one full game, IF Kiruna of the Swedish 3rd league stepped it up several notches. In 2014 they've decided to wear rainbow jerseys for a full season in support of the LGBTQ community. Since then they've made the rainbow a permanent fixture in their logo and club identity.

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Plenty of clubs out there hosting events where queer people are given a platform and shown support in a multitude of ways that aren't merely empty words.

And even if it's not part of general discussions within a league, you've got voices who are willing to speak up.

[xhekajfiles]

Habs nicknames, 2025-26 edition

[kiddokori]

baru cormorant is awesome if you love watching women destroy the economy fuck nasty and then engage in self destruction so severe they start hallucinating ghosts. who is doing it like her

[this-account-doesnt-exist]

my tier list 🌈

[this-account-doesnt-exist]

happy pride month 🌈

[shutyourmoustache]

When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*

[party-gilmore]

HAPPY LOS JIBBITIES EVERYBODY!!!

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

The time for Los Jibbities has arrived!

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Seemannsgarn spinnen

literally: to spin sailor's yarn

to spin a yarn; to tell fantastic, fabricated, or untrue stories

Origin: On sailing ships, sailors used marline—produced from discarded rope—to wrap lines and hawsers (a process known as "smarting and serving"). "Twisting marline" or "spinning marline" was a menial, monotonous task typically performed during fair weather; naturally, while engaged in this work, the sailors would swap stories—sharing personal experiences, thoughts, and tales ranging from legends and anecdotes to tall tales and yarns. With the decline of the age of sail, the original meaning of "spinning marline" gradually shifted its focus away from the physical labor and toward the act of storytelling itself. Eventually, the phrase "spinning a sailor's yarn" supplanted the older idiom, coming to be understood generally as the telling of impressive—yet dubious—personal accounts that blurred the boundaries between truth and fantasy.

[beamorgan]

Congrats DLS, that's an objectively insane way to describe your protagonist on the opening page of book 1

[87oilandwater25-deactivated2015]

[elqiao]

“Let’s talk about nasty for a second. I think the Rangers strike the right balance between nasty and finesse; I think the Penguins do because inherently their best player is a bastard. Make no mistake, Sidney Crosby is a bastard - I love Sid, but he’s a bastard. He’s crafty, and he’s dirty - that’s why we like Sid.” - MvsW 1/23/13

[rimouskis]

happy pride to the nhl player who was preparing to come out and changed his mind. I hope he's happy and loved.

[waggot]

NHL 2026 wokeness grades

The Gay Month is upon us, so let's tally up how the teams have been handling the occasion. If your team scores an F, this unfortunately means you have to unstan. This is effective on 9:18 PM London, so if someone posts after that, sorry again.

Canes - F. Nothing. They've been busy hyping up the finals and forgot to address the homosexuals.

Blue Jackets - F. Nothing.

Devils - A. A post and a profile pic. Very respectable, Devils! The profile pic has a triangle flag design which does boost the wokeness stat even if its lowers the style stat.

Islanders - F. They are remembering NHL combine instead.

Rangers - F. They are also remembering combine. Jersey > York when it comes to being friendly to homosexuality.

Flyers - C. A post with old photos! A bit on a lazier side, and without Scotty Laughton not many are picking up the good fight. At least Garrett Hathaway is here.

Penguins - B. No profile pic is a bit disappointing, but you can go to Evolve Wellness Spa and say the Penguins have sent you. This counts for something, probably.

Caps - B. Its cute and you can click the link and watch the video of Dylan Strome putting rainbow tape on a stick.

Bruins - B. It's a thing!

Sabres - F. Nothing.

Red Wings - F. Nothing.

Panthers - B+. Adding plus for the merch promo.

Habs - F. Nothing. No wonder they ran Sean from Heated Rivalry out of town 😡

Sens - S. They even saluted the flag! Thats why Sean and Ivan from Heated Rivalry signed there!

Bolts - B. Does anyone else think its kinda weird that florida and great lakes are in the same division.

Leafs - F. Nothing. They are waiting for the draft pick.

Hawks - F. Nothing.

Avs - F. Nothing. They have other things to worry about.

Stars - F. Nothing.

Wild - A+. I really like the logo. Really stylish and well put together.

Preds - C+. It's an old photo, but it has the cappy, so it counts for something, right?

Blues - F. Nothing.

Utah - F. Nothing, understandably.

Jets - B. Kinda boring tbh.

Ducks - F. Nothing.

Flames - F. Nothing.

Oilers - B. It's cute, I guess.

Kings - B. Tasteful and white and not too gay.

Sharks - B. If you buy merch in their shop for over $50 you get a pride sticker. This is amazing.

Kraken - B. No graphic but a new profile pic is really challenging for the scoring system.

Canucks - B. No profile pic but they really went all out on the letters.

Knights - E. Some of us alphabet people are probably cancer survivors too, so I'm sure they are very honored.

[arustyspork]

absolutely adore your heated rivalry fanfiction and hope you won’t mind a hockey question from a random stranger…

how important is where a player is picked in the draft? And, um, is there a proper name for that number? (Like draft number or something.) It seems like a stat that follows players around their entire careers (and it’s one of the first things you read on a player’s Wikipedia page). At the same time, it seems like there’s a number of players outside of the top ten or the first round who go on to have very successful careers, so it’s hard for me to get a sense of how much it matters or how much it would matter to players themselves. (Context of this question is that I’m trying to work out how high Scott Hunter was drafted.)

no pressure to answer and thanks again for your wonderful writing!

ahhh love this question :)))

Okay, so I would say draft pick can be pretty important, particularly when you're first overall. This puts a lot of expectation on the player, you look at Crosby, Matthews, McDavid, Celebrini, they're basically hailed as the franchise saver, and if they don't perform, they'll receive a lot of criticism. When it comes to the players themselves, 1OA has the biggest impact, but anything below that doesn't nearly have the same level of expectation.

Most top players will have been picked in the first round of the draft, where that is depends on the draft year. Some years have been filthy with talent, other years, not so much.

You're right that there are players that are drafted late and end up being successful (I think of Brad Marchand, Mark Stone, Colton Parayko), just as there's also been first overall picks that've been busts (Alexandre Daigle, Nail Yakupov). In the NHL, it's pretty common that players will get sent down to the teams' AHL affiliates off the bat in order to gain some experience before playing in the NHL.

A lot of it comes down to chance. When a team drafts a player, it's usually based on their performance at the combine and in their junior leagues, which don't always reflect their performance in the NHL. Sometimes they perform better, sometimes worse.

Since you're looking at Scott Hunter, I think it's fair to say that he was drafted early in the first round, but not 1OA. I'd compare him to Jonathan Toews, who played two years at the University of North Dakota before being drafted third overall by Chicago in the 2006 draft, and would go on to become their captain.

And as for your question about how their draft order is referred to, usually they would just be known as Nth overall, or sometimes Nth round, Nth overall.

[allthefoolmine]

This is so helpful thank you so much!!!