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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

shymagnolia

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

flagellant

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

harpyhormones

netflixs model of continually introducing new shows and then cancelling them because their business model is based on growing new subscriptions rather than maintaining current ones is like a prime example of why media under capitalism sucks

aurumacadicus

Still thinking of a TikTok I saw a year ago where a girl with a shellfish allergy got a crab tattooed on her thigh with one of the claws exactly where her Epi Pen should be stabbed into her so she’d be able to wheeze out “stab the crab” if someone else needed to use her pen on her. Absolutely obsessed. The epitome of work smarter not harder.

memeclassheroes

mischiefmakermax

just-shower-thoughts

Most kids think that their parents will get along with their friends’ parents because they are adults, and most adults think that their kids will get along with their friends’ kids since they are children.

redbelles

listen, i know everyone has their faves and sometimes it’s just like that, but jesus fucking christ, i genuinely don’t understand how you can like a player who headhunts the way tom wilson does

(more relevant issue, perhaps, is why the fuck hasn’t nhl done more than just suspend him, but let’s keep it to hockey tumblr)

just from memory, tom wilson has laid at least five spectacularly shitty hits:

blindside hit on oskar sundqvist that momentarily knocked him out and resulted in a concussion and facial lacerations

hit to the head on zach aston-reese that resulted in a broken jaw and a concussion

blindside hit to the head on alexander wennberg that resulted in a concussion

hit to the head on lubomir visnovsky that resulted in a concussion and quite literally ended his career in the nhl

hit to the head—against the glass, no less—on brandon carlo that sent him to the hospital. no word yet on his condition

he’s been suspended multiple times and it’s done exactly jack shit nothing! he still throws awful hits! he still headhunts! do what you want, but maybe find a new player to support? one that doesn’t run around trying to fucking kill people? seriously. tom wilson is a piece of shit and you can do better

himbeaux-on-ice

I’m probably going to lose some Caps mutuals for this, but.

I think this kind of post is important to pass around for new-ish (and definitely new to the Caps) fans like me who may not have, upon entry into fandom, fully understood the entire context of Wilson’s history right away. I started to gain more of an understanding of it in recent weeks and have scaled back my posting about him as a consequence, but the last day of events has been especially eye-opening as all this history comes back up. Thank you for posting this.

For the people who were already fully aware and/or feel defensive about this because he’s Your Guy, I feel like you need to start asking yourselves which scenario is more likely:

a) that the refs, the league, and the DoPS, and also somehow all the players with broken faces and head injuries, have all spent the better part of a decade being like “you know what, fuck this one dude in particular, let’s ruin his reputation”; OR,

b) that this guy continually plays the game in a way that is not safe, and has apparently decided he cannot or does not want to absorb the message of previous sanctions and truly learn to play differently, but you have decided you’re okay with it because he is on your team instead of doing it TO your team.

Obviously the league bears so much responsibility for letting so many incidents occur again and again and again. But I think as fans we have to ask ourselves what we’re encouraging when we defend this pattern or try to pass it off as simply “league bias”. At a certain point you cannot keep ignoring the pattern. You cannot keep trying to separate what you imagine his intent might have been from the clear, repeated results of his actions. You have to ask what is being enabled by offering yet another second chance.

If a player was repeatedly taking actions that ended up with people in the hospital OFF ice, we’d be talking about “change hockey culture” and accountability. I know that many Caps fans on here are caring people who would want to have that difficult conversation if a player was committing serious off-ice harms and continued to be employed through it.

So, if you’re suddenly okay with that pattern of actions and results just because it takes place on the job instead of in his personal life, I really think you should re-examine that. You need to take a good hard look at it.

(By the way, as an update to the above for those worried, Carlo has now been released from hospital and is resting at home, according to Bruins PR this afternoon (March 6).)