"things you said after it was over" oh look its perfect for them :)
Dylan, you couldn't have picked a better day to cry about your friends leaving you less than one minute into an eighteen minute press conference.
without further ado!
The buzzer rings. It’s a win, but not the win: the celebration is subdued. Dylan lines up for handshakes, his own team first, then Team Slovakia, who is visibly crushed by the fourth place finish.
He circles back around to the person that he can barely believe he’s leaving behind. Again.
“You good? Had me worried with the block in the third.”
“It’ll bruise, but it’s fine,” Zach says. He smooths a hand across where the puck struck his pants.
“That’s good. That’s good. Glad we got to do this, even if it wasn’t—”
Zach barely acknowledges that Dylan’s said anything and certainly doesn’t ask him to finish the sentence.
He might just be exhausted. The Olympics are a blitz, one game after another, and they’ve played the most games possible.
He might be disappointed. They won their final game but lost in the semis, and bronze doesn’t weigh the same as gold.
Or maybe Zach is thinking, like Dylan, how this is well and truly the end. The last time they’ll play together. Their last chance to repair things, and they didn’t manage it.
Dylan had thought, stupidly, that the Olympics could fix them. That a gold medal, earned together, would untangle the shredded remains of their relationship.
Now it doesn’t matter. Third place lacks that kind of magic.
“Right,” Dylan says when it becomes apparent Zach would like this to finish up so he can get the hell off the ice, “Was good to have you out there. Good game.”
It might be the last thing he says to Zach for a long, long time.
For those of you who are NOT obsessed with a ship that had its heyday five years ago, you might not be aware, but Zach and Dylan are hanging out again!
(Stolen from Twitter, source unknown, would love to add the source if you have it)
The first sign of life was from Zach’s dog’s Instagram account, where we see Dylan in the background:
Next, the two of them hopped across the pond to watch some football (soccer) and see Coldplay:
(Stolen from Twitter, source unknown, would love to add the source if you have it)
Dylan didn’t appear in the photos at Wembley, but his teammate Lucas Raymond was sitting next to Zach at the game. (The game actually happened before the concert, so for a while, we didn’t know if Dylan was in Europe, and we thought Zach might just have met up with some of Dylan’s teammates 👀).
(From Zach’s and Lucas’s Instagram stories, 2023-06-03)
Then their girlfriends flew out to meet them in Monaco where we were blessed with yet more pictures:
From Dylan’s Instagram story, 2023-06-07.
Hopefully there will be more. I’ll reblog with updates :)
okay, but not enough people know the details on this. people at pride were upset about gay rights in australia. so they decided to sail 200 miles into the coral sea just ‘cause and put a rainbow flag on a fucking empty island out of spite. and i’m talking empty. no inhabitants. zero. it was a flat piece of land with a bit of dry grass. now it has a camp site and a post office.
they have a declaration of independence that talks a bit about gay rights and then just flat out copies the “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness” part from the american declaration of independence. and here’s the best part: the founding group actually elected their emperor. he was originally going to be called the “administrator” of a republic. their website, however, says that “upon legal advice, his title was changed to that of Sovereign on the grounds that under Australian law a defacto prince trying to claim his crown cannot be charged with treason”. so they made it a kingdom and he now claims to be a descendent of edward ii.
everything about this is glorious and everyone should know about it.
Daniel Radcliffe’s wife is from Flint and so sometimes he’s in town and you just kinda… see fuckin Harry Potter out n about. Saw him leaving Texas Roadhouse today and he nodded at my round rim glasses lol
Didn’t ask for a picture but my waitress friend did and he took a pic with the whole crew
I’m not a hundred percent positive but I’m pretty sure this is the wild life center where I visited wolves.
And the safety briefing included the question “So if you’re pregnant, do you want to know or not?”
Turns out there had been a bit of an awkward situation once where the keepers had casually mentioned a woman’s pregnancy in a group, and she herself didn’t even know yet. Turns out the wolves are excellent at telling if you’re pregnant and the keepers can tell based on their body language. They get all odd and careful around pregnancy. (Even wolves knows that you have to take care of pregnant people.)
So they definitely knew she was pregnant.
And if I remember my BBC documentaries right, a wolf will leave the pack to give birth and introduce the cubs to the pack once she feels ready for it. And maternity leave is flexible but often around 6 months so they’re going “YOU WERE GONE FOREVER! WE WERE SO WORRIED! WHERE ARE THE CUBS?? WE HAVE TO GREET THE CUBS!!“
Also the two on her back are fighting over who gets to greet her first. Giving and receiving attention is a commodity that goes by hierarchy and if you don’t accept that there will be scuffles.. The wolf lying down next to her isn’t chill about her coming back, it’s just submissive to the other wolves and waiting for it’s turn to show excitement.
Students of a 12 day course at the Melbourne School of Design were not sorted into houses, but they were assigned Gringotts Bank, Grimmauld Place, the Shrieking Shack and other fan favorites in the Harry Potter universe. their Harry Potter architecture models were laser cut from cardboard (ten house points), hand-modeled (forty house points), constructed in very little time (fifty points), and remind us of the truest magic of all (teamwork).
Students at the Melbourne School of Design had very few spells to work with in order to cast these gorgeously film-accurate 3D models. Students were given 1.0 mm and 0.6 mm boxboard to create their models from. They used trace paper — for windows and diffused lights — and LED lights and motors connected to Arduinos.
