💙 Blue/AJ 💙

You can call me Blue or AJ, I don't really care. I draw stuff sometimes. Asks are open! They/he, please! @baloohealer on Bluesky

[taketestosterone]

if someone says its pronouns are it/its, remember that means its pronouns are it/its!! respect your local it/its user today and get its pronouns right!!

[taketestosterone]

and remember!!!!

[unoqlo]

Sophie Jaques on the expansion of WCHC (Women of Colour Hockey Collective) (-)

[fladurblegon]

“What if poor people abuse the system?”

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

Hope this helps.

[breninarthur]

"What if poor people abuse the system?"

Rich people abuse the system far more and out of pure greed, not necessity or desperation so idrc about that

[orphetoon]

to the other side of the lake

[baguantte]

whos up deltaing their runes

[madhushaala]

A very common misconception within the south asian community. So glad she addressed that. (x)

[edwinas]

Her name is Gazal Dhaliwal and she’s a screenwriter. She talk about her life here and here.

She’s the writer for Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, an upcoming Indian coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama with a lesbian couple.  She was also the dialogue writer for Lipstick Under My Burkha, which depicts the secret world, including the sex lives, of four small-town Indian women. She contributed to the screenplay for Wazir and Qarib Qarib Single. 

[jaynejezebelle]

8/8 teams complete!

I humbly request no more future teams be allowed to use the color blue (you’re on thin ice San Jose).

[aquilotti]

a very merry “nhl players making their debuts have to wear neck guards” szn to all who celebrate

[spiicemilf]

it’s my jaronouns!

[avus-circuit]

here's to 28 years of women's hockey at the olympics

[its6ixam]

women’s sports will never be treated fully on their own terms if every achievement is immediately translated into a men’s sports comparison.

i promise it's actually possible to compliment a female athlete without immediately comparing her to a man.

[ekrixart]

i like them

[pistachiosoda]

inside my little chamber made of glass

[juniette13]

Undertale fanart

yo my ipad fucking died so i cannot make digital art for a good bit

peep my Undertale doodles

i am back in the ninth layer of hell

[degrommunism]

One thing I do want to stress with the WPBL is there is going to be some aspects that seem unpolished or rough compared to other recent women league start ups, or even compared to early days nwsl / wnba. And that’s because there has been very very limited opportunities for women to pursue baseball on any level, and even less to play baseball with other women. The most traditionally organized women’s baseball that I know of exists in Japan with the Venus league, which is a large amateur baseball league that has tiers involving high school, university, and club teams (Japan also used to have a pro league that folded in the pandemic.) there are national team programs, but the women’s baseball World Cup only started as recently as 2002 and has not been held 9 times. Most of the women’s playing experience comes with playing for indie ball and vasity teams or programs where they’d frequently be the only women (and many of them faced being pushed out / giving less opportunities + focus from coaches because of that) and their national team opportunities.

And while national team opportunities have improved in recent years, here is an excerpt on what it was like for former Team USA veteran player Malaika Underwood to train with the team (source)

“After the national team trials in June, Underwood invited teammates who also lived in the Southeast to spend weekends at her house in Jacksonville so that they could practice together. They also met up in Atlanta. All the training and travel happened on their own dimes. When they could, players sent videos of their pitches and swings to their coaches, who would try to make adjustments remotely.

“It’s all on us,” Underwood says. “In terms of time and personal investment, we’ve all given up a lot to be here. Guys make sacrifices to play baseball, too, but there’s just a much clearer path for them.”

Basically I say this because I know there’s a lot of people coming over from being recent wnba/pwhl/nwsl fans, and particularly if you watched the latter two leagues, understand that the WPBL is coming at it with significantly less infrastructure in place in America. There’s no ncaa programs, no high school programs, the only previously attempted league after the AAGPBL was the amateur league, North American Women's Baseball League, which existed for five years. The nwsl and PWHL all had several attempted leagues before if, several overseas leagues, college programs, and stronger national team programs that appeared in major tournaments like the Olympics they were building off of. I also don’t want to entirely compare to wnba, because I think the time period and how it came about puts it in a different cultural context, but even they had a few attempts at pro leagues and several decades of organized college play.

There is going to be growing pains with this and it’s an ambitious project, and it’s crucial to understand that context and how different the sport infrastructure is when supporting these athletes and respect for what they’re trying to build here

[nepenthean-sleep]

messed around with thejerseygenerator.com and photoshop to make some shitty (but hey, at least it's not AI) jersey mockups for the expansion teams because i'm losing control of my life

[persbaderse]

before my egg cracked, i had noticed that trans people were often pro-accessibility and up-to-date on the needs of disabled people, but i hadn’t seen any inherent connection between the two (other than the obvious minority-looking-out-for-other-minority thing). but now that i’m trans and medically transitioning, and i have to constantly repeat myself while talking to doctors and nurses, and explain things about my own anatomy to medical staff who should already know this, and having every single problem i might have blamed on my “condition” so nothing i say is taken seriously, all of the sudden i have a little sneak peak into the life of someone who has to deal with this all the time. like shit bro, being disabled probably sucks ass, someone should do something about this

[persbaderse]

happy disability pride month, we all deserve autonomy and respect and access to medication