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evie ‣ 20s ‣ header: @bowlbird♡ ‣ hockey stuff, dumb stuff, dumb hockey stuff

[goaliekisses]

“what did i do to people? i’m just here livin” “this has got to go in the team group chat”… flower must be so proud

also same vibes as this:

[straprights]

charlie coyle is shaped like. your friend’s older brother that will sometimes come to the living room while you’re playing crash bandicoot in the ps1 and ask your friend when mom’s coming home and you’re trying really hard not to stare because he’s shirtless 

[majorjuniorhockey]

the trade deadline has me doing unspeakable things like scrolling through elliotte friedman’s twiter

[frasermittens]

unemployed people be like damn i got the trade deadline this friday

[gaynfl-moved]

[yabagofmilfs]

i can’t take much more of this. (never stop giving me anecdotes about what a weird and lovely person sid is.)

[helenish]

I guess my question about this 4 Nations thing - and really any sort of short-term team competition - is: is it weird to get naked in the locker room with a whole bunch of random work colleagues from different branches that you just see a couple times a year for work-related reasons? Is it not weird because you've known them for 10-20 years and/or since childhood? Or, conversely, does that make it more weird? Are you just inured to nudity in front of all comers by now as long as it's in the context of a hockey game?

Hypothetical: I'm sure no one would ever do this because it directly conflicts with what bros are supposed to do, BUT what if your buddy from your team (a REAL friend) loathed a guy on your temporary team and you happened to notice that he had a weird mole or a ball or something: it would be the right thing to store up that information to your buddy in a low moment, right?

[18minutemajor]

i got into reading an academic paper about the most statistically beneficial time to pull the goalie in a hockey game because idk bored but it was a fun read and and the conclusion seems to be that coaches, at least of the time the paper was written, were actually too conservative and the best thing to do if a team is down by 2 is to pull the goalie with 6 minutes left. the headache i got just thinking about that. can you imagine. thank god none of these coaches can read bc everyone's collective sanity would NOT survive that

[kawareo]

My only new year's resolution is to leave more comments on AO3

[helpful-writing-tips]

if you're trying to get into the head of your story's antagonist, try writing an "Am I the Asshole" reddit post from their perspective, explaining their problems and their plans for solving them. Let the voice and logic come through.

[likeahauntingmelody]

before sunrise (1995)

[antrea]

[24.12.05] vs. florida panthers

holding hands

[shuenscorner]

because doing our best is all that matters! [Shop]

[annieqattheperipheral]

PULL ME MY STEED!! FORAGE AHEAD -captain papi battlecry

[lettucemakar]

NAZEM KADRI EXCUSE ME

[the-seelie-court-official]

my aunt used to be a beauty pageant kid. had long, beautiful red hair with a curl pattern that made hairdressers jealous. her mother would pay people lots of money to spend hours styling my aunt's hair

predictably, as a young adult, my aunt cut all of her hair off. buzzed down to the scalp. she still keeps it pretty short- long enough for curls to develop, but only on the top of her head. she says she can't stand the feeling of her hair touching her ears or neck.

recently she's started collecting and styling wigs. she'll even wear them, occasionally, to a fancy event or if she just doesn't want to be bothered by distant family when she goes shopping. and she spends hours styling these wigs, even though she doesn't use them all that often.

i asked her about it. she said that sometimes, growth looks a lot like regression with a twist. that she's reclaiming something she enjoyed as a kid, and could have enjoyed more. she said she's practicing having agency, and that it's a skill that doesn't come very naturally for her. having agency, i mean. she's really good at styling wigs.

[rimouskis]

okay thought about it too much for a bit and I actually think biz's "THIS IS BIGGER THAN HIM!" rageout actually really perfectly exemplifies how The Canadian Hockey Machine has used, still uses, and needs to use Sid as an avatar for Canadian Hockey At Large.

McDavid hasn't won yet and until (...if?) he does, Sid is still the head of Canadian Hockey in the national imagination, especially for men/players of biz's age, and flying off his handle on the internet about Sid frittering away the final years of his career (...on the team he loves, captains, and has dedicated most of his life to) instead of going off somewhere else [cough, Canada] to chase another victory represents a real ending, a metaphorical death, to the cultural institution of hockey!

like biz is literally right in that The Country's Construction Of Itself As A Nation Of Sport, yeah, Sid's career is bigger than him. There is a real national mythology that has always used sid, since he was 16, to tell Canada's stories about who they are and what it means to be a Canadian through sport. Literally an enormous portion of the Sid/Ovi rivalry revolves around this, and as Ovi, a Russian, closes in on a record held by the Canadian God-King of the sport, there is a real desire to tighten that grip on Sid, to elevate him as continued proof of Canada's solvency as a nation of hockey. McDavid fell to an American in the Cup finals. Gretzky is about to lose his record to a Russian. There's smoke in the air.

Sid has committed himself to a struggling team. He's not succeeding at a rate anymore to continue his role in propping up that national mythology. "It's bigger than him," and yet Sid has opted out! Hark, the twilight of the era is upon us! And a media personality flipping out on Twitter about it is funny but also a very real finger pointed at something fading into the past in front of his, and our, eyes!!! I love myths!!!