eliza :o

resident book nerd thinks about hockey too much

[rkkuna]

everyday struggle i fear

[pwhl-mybeloved]

nike got my girl dressed up as a pilot for a world cup ad lmaooo

[commodore64]

[29drats]

phase 2 has me on the floor weeping and we still have 4 more to go???

[elbiotipo]

More than "here in the Southern Hemisphere we have inverted seasons :)" thing, which is TECHNICALLY true, I would go a step further and encourage to think about that "much of the world does not exactly has a spring-summer-fall-winter season sequence as they show in cartoons"

[paperdragonsong]

I will scream about this to anyone who listens forever. AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE "ENGLISH SEASONS BUT BACKWARDS" and the insistence that it does creates a massive layer of alienation from the natural world.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

Most Indigenous nations around Australia had six or more seasons, revolving around wet and dry times as much as hot and cold, and marked by the appearances of certain native animals and flowers. Schools need to start teaching the real seasons, and explaining that climate cycles are too complex to generalise globally, or else we will keep raising generations who view the natural world as hostile and unpredictable and climate predictions as generally irrelevent and frequently wrong - and I'm sure I don't need to spell out why that's a problem in the era of climate crisis.

[tiredtransgal]

i want to add that 40% of the world's population lives in the tropics, and the 4 season model just doesn't make much sense for a lot of places in there. usually it's just the wet season/monsoon season and the dry season. it's often hot year round.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

in general the way humans define seasons is largely subjective and varies across cultures. the one you were taught is not at all universal!

[starlitsecrets]

Remember when joining fandom as a younger person meant lurking for a bit and figuring out the vibe and etiquette instead of coming in on day one and calling people weirdos for liking weirdo shit in the weirdo factory.

[pwhl-mybeloved]

[only-cat-memes]

[paramoregf]

i love horror movie bts photos of women just covered in blood

[paramoregf]

awesome every time

[paramoregf]

YAYYYYYYYY

[litafordvsferrari]

peace and love i say this as someone who played and watches and worked in and spends money on women's sports but i feel like using "women's sports have REAL gay relationships happening" as some kind of fandom selling point to try and convince male sports rpf yaoi fans to make the switch is a bit misguided. idk im not really in the biz of shipping male athletes because i think they're together for real or as some diet gay substitute because im not aware of where to find irl gay couple content otherwise.... im usually shipping male athletes bc I find the intricate rituals of male homosociality and repressed desire pretty interesting. and because it's hot lmao. and f/f ships are fascinating + compelling and hot too because i love women's stories and im interested in women's issues and im bi as hell lol

but idk a ship being ~real~ or rpfing about a real publicly out queer couple is a different proposition than making fakey fake scenarios for (almost always str8) dudes. i feel it perhaps misses something about the rpfer's mindset to say 'you don't need to make this stuff up when you can just get into the real gay relationships that are already out there'

anyway my two cents is that people should watch women's sports because they're competitive and fun and exciting + have their own interesting narratives going on. not just as a yaoi substitute

[eerilyquietglacier]

the draft has me feeling some type of way as a Charge fan

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[clytemnestraaa]

i feel. like on a fundamental level. i do not understand x reader fic. i am not exactly opposed to it because let a thousand blossoms bloom etc. but like. i genuinely don’t get it. it seems like the exact opposite of how i engage with fiction. like the whole point is that i’m not in there. i don’t wanna be in there. if i’m in there it’s going to be very stressful.

[chirpingfromthebox]

You know Ian Kennedy really went too far with his sensationalism when other big pwhl reporters have to be like, well that's just ridiculous

[chirpingfromthebox]

[moveslikekeithrichards]

doing my damnedest to free myself of the “just gotta get through this week” “only x more days til the weekend” mindset & learn to appreciate each day for whatever it is lest i be driven to madness

[moveslikekeithrichards]

so what if tomorrows monday i have leftovers & maybe this week i will make soup. maybe ill see a cat. maybe each day will show me something worthwhile even if im tired & maybe i can enjoy it

[moveslikekeithrichards]

if u are negative on this post im blocking u ! some of us are trying to get better

[talahui]

my god. if y'all are gonna bring up carter hart every time you talk about pwhl vegas I better hear y'all ask why the detroit red wings were so comfortable having patrick kane on their team and how that will impact pwhl detroit. do you care about rape culture or are you using sexual assault as a gotcha for a team you don't like

[sin-bin-gremlin]

Reminder 1:

You can both love the PWHL and criticize it as well. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. The same goes for teams. Just because it’s your team doesn’t mean you blindly support them. It’s important to call out things about the league or your team. That’s the only way for growth and change to happen.

Reminder 2:

Just because a team has a player with bigoted beliefs does not mean that other players or fans share those beliefs. Don’t villainize and ostracize an entire fanbase just because of a decision that they had no control over. Don’t erase the LGBTQ+ fans of Detroit by labeling any fan as a bigot.

Curl is a symptom of bigger issues within hockey culture. Change needs to happen higher up in the league. There’s a reason that she feels comfortable being loud about her beliefs and partnering with a TERF organization. This does not excuse her actions or make her any less of a bigot. It is just important to also recognize the bigger issue.

(Hopefully this ramble made any sort of sense, I just finished a closing shift at work and am exhausted but wanted to share my thoughts while they were in my brain)