We’ll See What Happens

I shift into a hockey blog with the phases of the moon. A werehockey blog if you would, apologies in advance. But mostly I’m just out here vibing.

[aliveburs-deactivated20230829]

“starry night” this, “café terrace at night” that, when are we going to talk about “two rats” by vincent van gogh?

[ashleyloveshunter]

[aaliyahsparrow]

"Love is Love", Shane Hollander, Ilya Rozanov, Scott Hunter [Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie, & Francois Arnaud from Heated Rivalry], digital art

Mar 2026

A redraw of a redraw of a redraw, with an edit and an overhaul, plus an added "C" for the other two captains and not just Ilya. Please don't look too closely at their feet, I really messed up the skates in this version (then tried to steal those parts from the original, and then messed them up even more so went back to the less messy mess). There was almost a plan to "paint" the inside of each locker in the colour of the applicable pride flag, but it would have been way too busy.

[wingkink]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

[digitalmyyth]

Hanging out with people will make you remember you're the crazy woke friend for like. not wanting to shop at shien

[whitepeopletwitter]

[kalesrebellion]

So funny story actually. One of my friends was hooking up with this girl, they were friends with benefits. She needed a date for some work party so he agreed to go with her. Turns out her dad owns like 3 dental practices and she worked as the business manager for one of them.

Anyway my friend had some not so nice teeth and during dinner the father of his fwb was like “you work where you work, you sleep with him and his teeth look like that? Get him an appointment.”and then bounced. So his fwb made him an appointment at the practice she managed and my friend ended up needing like 3k worth of dental work and his friend with benefits just gave it to him for free.

So that is the story of how my friend not only got sex, but dental out of the friends with benefits deal.

[helloitsbees]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3 Orgams and free dental work?

WHAT A LIFE GOAL <3

[madrasaur]

yes hockey IS that serious

[artemissa97]

I've seen several people talk about how the other Game Changers books would be better if they also were about two players falling in love, and that sounds fun!

But they always use Tough Guy as an example of why the other books are bad (they're not.) and I'm kind of going crazy. You guys know that the book is NOT about how fighting is bad, right? You are just joking, right?

Because you can dislike the book, and you can dislike Fabian (he has some wtf moments for sure), but we all understand that this book is about the unfair demands and lack of support the NHL has toward hockey players... right?

Ryan is pigeonholed into being an enforcer because he's big and good at it even if he doesn't like it, and he's not valued as an actual player. He gets traded every season because the teams don't use him to play the game, they use him to have fight clips for their socials. His body is failing because hockey is a dangerous and demanding game but also because of the constant fighting. His back is fucked. When it flares and he's in agonizing pain, the doctors pump him full of drugs for the games and don't actually give him the time and grace to heal right because that's not what you do in hockey. If you can lace the skates, you get out and play.

I'm just saying, we meet one other enforcer (he has a drug problem instead of Ryan's crippling anxiety), and he ends up dead of an overdose with no one in his funeral because he has given so many pieces of himself to the game that he's ruined his life. Ryan literally thinks all of this, it's written in the book, it's not implied it's STATED.

That's what the book is about. That's what Rachel Reid is trying to say about hockey and the NHL in this one. She brings Ilya Rozanov over to that funeral so you PAY ATTENTION to it, I don't know how people have missed it????

Yes, Fabian was an asshole when he asked Ryan to give up hockey. He admitted it. But Ryan ends up agreeing that he's right not because hockey is bad! But because he's in PAIN. He's struggling mentally! He doesn't enjoy playing anymore and is still doing it only because he feels guilty that he's living so many people's dream... and hating it.

Ryan goes to coach for the Irina Foundation because he still loves hockey, the sport (that's what playing with the kids in the community center was about guys that's what those scenes were telling us), but the enviroment on the NHL was toxic enough to ruin it for him.

TLDR; Tough Guy is about how the NHL is a meat grinder that uses the lesser known players until they break and then sweeps the pieces under the rug, not about how fighting is bad.

[lordsmaf]

I will forever respect Animorphs for tricking kids who are just really into animals to read a book series by going “Hey you, you daydream about what it’s like to be a dolphin or a bird or a wolf? Have I got a book for you!” and then slowly radicalizing them with 50+ books of “There are no winners in war. Whatever ‘victory’ you perceive comes at the cost of sacrificing your own morals and killing the part of you that is human. In the end you will resort to murder, torture and war crimes and the knowledge of what you have done will haunt you for as long as you live.”

[banannafan]

So the amazing thing is that after the release of the last book, the author K. A. Applegate was interviewed and asked about why she wrote such a super dark ending for the series. She responded (I’m paraphrasing here, I read this when I was like 11) “This is what happens when kids are forced into war. There are no fairytale endings for them. And if that upsets you, then go to the polls and vote to prevent this from happening to real children.”

I got to ask her about that rebuttal years later at a book signing event for her newer One and Only series. She laughed and said that her publisher had no idea she would say that, and if they knew they probably would not have let her do so. But she genuinely meant what she said and was proud it left an impression that lasted 20+ years.

Support authors with real morals, guys. It’s not hard.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

“Why did you write such a dark ending to this series?”

“Oh you’re right I’m sorry maybe I should have had everyone happily generically married off and revealed that one of them named their kid Visser Three instead”

[eraserheadadult]

one time in college i was in a creative writing class and this guy was holding up the critique with what i can only describe as like cinemasins dinging another student's writing. and at some point the professor said "the plot is the fork and the prose is the meal. you are critiquing the taste of the fork"

[pointnclick]

mel blanc fuckign yelling

[blueboy1299]

[negamewtwo]

Apparently the original “sound booth” was in, like. A shed. And that’s why there’s the echoes

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[jimmysownworld]

cliff marleau and ilya rozanov are best friends not because they’re teammates or marleau was assigned to look after roz when he first got to the raiders, but because, even though it takes so much alcohol to get him drunk, when ilya gets drunk he can only be described as white girl wasted and marly is the EXACT same way. they are in the mens bathroom in front of the mirror like “is my shirt unbuttoned enough for people to look at my tits?” “yeah man your boobs look GREAT! can you tell me if these jeans look good on my ass i think i saw a girl eying me” “marly your ass looks phenomenal and you can trust me on this as i am a well known ass man” “aw man rozzy you’re making me blush”

[marshgnome]

they share clothes all of the time, not even really on purpose, they just spend so much time hungover together that things get muddled. this isn't a problem until marley sees shane hollander, wearing his shirt??? obviously he immediately accuses ilya of cheating on him (partying without inviting him to join). shane is visibly devastated, ilya is frantically explaining, and thats how marley is the first person in the nhl to learn about hollanov

[ceruleanheaven]

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

[newlyy]

Not that I think all marriages are doomed but when deciding who to marry you should ask yourself “is this someone I’d want to divorce?” As in, is this someone I believe would be mature and fair, even when they’re upset and don’t particularly like me at the moment. Is this someone I could continue to trust while going through an adversarial process? And if the answer is no, don’t marry them.

[000l]

[shrewreadings]

like to charge, reblog to cast.