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[sooffsides]

I do so much drawing in the offseason while I wait for hockey to come back.

[ethlkane]

[skippysy]

Lazing on a sunday afternoon

[glittter-vamp]

Laila Edwards Via The Gist on IG

[elleldoe]

a comment a day keeps the insanity at bay

[giftedwithdumbness]

my sister told me to go to bed earlier to get more sleep so i moved up my bedtime an hour JUST TO WAKE UP AN HOUR EARLIER and then she told me to go to bed even earlier? like, that doesn't work, obviously???

[vincent-van-gtg]

[fitnessdesire]

Can’t risk it

[laderdesders1]

The duck of creativity. I waited so long for it.

[luckyferrero-deactivated2020081]

i’m desperate huhu

[fandomchick80]

Please give me some inspiration oh great duck of creativity

[reducedhorizon]

fraser minten + getting physical in juniors

[giftedwithdumbness]

apparently i do have catholic guilt if i just dig hard enough (think about it for more than 2 minutes)

[giftedwithdumbness]

worst thing when you've got the perfect adjective in your head but it's in another language and doesn't have a translation

[cloudypost]

one of my coworkers who's vaguely into hockey asked what my "deal with gavin mckenna" was today and it pissed me off so bad, but i was trying to be civil so i came here to rant. please listen up.

like a lot of stuff that's heralded as canadian culture, the making of hockey comes from indigenous traditions. mi'kmaq people carved the first hockey sticks from ironwood. the lakota souix played shinny like 200 years before it was called hockey. thousands of years before skating was a sport or an artform, the iroquois attached blades to their shoes, made from elk and cariboo tibias, to aid them in moving across the ice.

during the playoffs, rogers (canadian telecom giant) came out with an ad campaign about how hockey is "our game" and it made my blood boil a little, how overwhelmingly white hockey is even though as an indigenous person, it feels kinda like my game in particular.

i've seen indigenous players like chris simon (nika-kakwê-wânaskân) and jordin tootoo be on relied as agitators and enforcers, heard about young players facing abuse from coaching staff, have racist comments made about them online and have their name mocked on espn.

i've never seen an indigenous player be raised up for his skill with such excitement by the hockey community until gavin mckenna, and i was so glad to see him go 1st oa. i was on facetime with my cousin on draft day. we watched gavin get called up, saw his beadwork, saw his clearly indigenous family on the screen. we cried about it a little together, finally feeling like maybe this is our game, a little bit more than it was before.

edit: i've gotten a few anons wondering where i'm from but we're a only a few guys so i'll just say i'm cree and leave it at that. if you wanna come off anon and chat, i'd be more comfortable sharing.

[giftedwithdumbness]

quick little Nick Suzuki appreciation edit:

Nick Suzuki (Susanne (from Bibi&Tina - Mädchen gegen Jungs))

[giftedwithdumbness]

i kinda feel like making an insane crack edit again

[giftedwithdumbness]

homosexuality is unnatural so why did i just have to stop a mare (currently in heat) from pursuing another mare (also in heat, and not really into it) and trying to breed her?

[foxxmew]

i miss the hockey season