Not A Bot

[gecko-with-a-greatsword]

*guy who doesn't know anything about sports and has never cared about sports in his life* hey did you know womens professional baseball is returning after 70 years and the games are going to be streamed for free on youtube and the season starts august 1st

[gecko-with-a-greatsword]

youtube link

Women's Pro Baseball League

Our time is now. The inaugural season of the WPBL begins August 1st, 2026.

website

[assortedpuzzlepieces]

Heated Rivalry is already a romance AND a workplace drama. Expecting it to also be a commentary on toxic sports culture is like asking Grey’s Anatomy to be a commentary on the flaws of the healthcare system in the US.

Like yeah, it can make the occasional remark, but that’s not what it’s about.

[assortedpuzzlepieces]

To be clear I’m not saying we don’t need commentary on toxic sports culture.

But I am saying that I don’t think the romance we got with Shane & Ilya could possibly exist within a book that was actually designed to be commentary about toxic sports culture, because then they would have to be subject to the realities of of that world, and that just isn’t compatible with the genre.

Could Rachel have done more to address the problems in sports? Yes.

Could she have written a realistic story that accurately reflected the environment that is the modern NHL & still given us lovable characters & a happy ending? No.

[assortedpuzzlepieces]

Gonna take some inspiration from @raincitygirl76 and reblog my favorite tags on these posts as I get them.

Here’s a great point from @shanehollandertwentyfour

And another form @sweetladyjustice

And from @hollanova

Just… yes. Exactly. To all the above.

Look, I think it’s perfectly valid to point out what you feel is “missing” or different from the real world, and even seek out other works or create your own works that address the things you feel these stories lack.

But before we jump to all the things the stories did “wrong” I think it’s important to understand what the standards are for stories like these in the first place.

[starcatboy]

Free my girl. She didn’t do any of that. Yeah they made it up so their male blorbo would look better by comparison.

[notthatkindofgrrl]

:’)

[transharrisdrover]

Fave Role Model Headcanons

Transgender Harris

POC Troy

Inuit/Inuk Troy

Bear Harris

Dogboy Troy / Bearboy Harris

Dom Harris / sub Troy

Common-law relationship TroyxHarris

Hallmark Christmas movie AU

Supressed Omega Troy / Alpha Harris

Foster dads TroyxHarris

[anoddstranger]

How I saw the different rooms of the most recent Gamechanger

[necromancelena]

If you went to a bar and the bartender was a mousegirl you could ask for a drink and she would balance it on her head and say "for you, it's on the mouse"

[megapope-deactivated20220531]

the crazy thing about this is that it took one single word to turn it horny. coulda been a normal cute post. coulda taken the high road & conjured a delightful image of a mouse scampering down the bar with a beer ten times its size balanced on its head. but you had to say "mousegirl" and not "mouse." don't pretend this isn't what's going on either i know the score i know what's up. i'm familiar with this sort of semantic trick. you want to fuck down on an anime girl with certain characteristics of a rodent and everyone's gotta know.

[basileater]

>10 hours ago

>deactivated

[agave]

[crossnecklace]

ilya going to the cottage with a ring already in his pocket. just in case. send tweet

[crossnecklace]

crucially he does NOT propose to shane that first summer bc he is too nervous/feels too soon and he’s scared he’ll scare him off. even though when the topic of marriage comes up he is visibly sweating. bc of this shane thinks ilya doesn’t want to marry him. months/years later when shane finally does propose, ilya sheepishly pulls the ring out of his sock drawer and admits to shane how long he’s had it. shane promptly knocks him upside the head (metaphorically) for making him wait so long

[we-rule-the-kingdom-inside]

powerful young defender joce larocque never stop posting about trans rights and palestine and indigenous rights ofc literallyyyyyy nobody else in the pwhl is doing it like her

[noctuathene]

is this a safe space to project a bit onto the wet cat boy? yes? neat! here goes:

- he has a checklist in his mind for things he has to do when he starts a task. it must be done in order, exactly as (mentally) written, and uninterrupted. if interrupted, his brain has to do a Reset to figure out what he was doing and pick it back up.

- gonna randomly eat the exact same food every single day for two weeks and then wont even touch it for 3 months

- he has a visceral reaction to the sight of red velvet cake and also maraschino cherries and sometimes even red sauces. its an UNNATURAL red and it makes him deeply uncomfortable. its like the food version of those brightly colored poisonous frogs. his entire body just goes "BAD! WRONG! WRONG!"

- has lights he can change the color/brightness on. anything above the lowest brightness setting is horrifically bright. also has a mental chart of different colors for different moods.

- specific hair length must be maintained. he can feel the weight difference if it gets too long and it will drive him crazy until it is fixed

- labels. everything is sorted and needs labels. they aren't always serious- one time he had a cheap shitty microwave and he put a label on it that said "easy bake oven"

- his brain does not tune any one thing out and he cannot focus on one sound out of a group of sounds. the instrumental of a song is too loud? hes got no idea what the lyrics are. two people spoke at the same time? congrats he doesn't know what either of you just said. its either all of the senses all the time or complete dissociation thats it thats his options

[bloominflowers]

thinking about Shane's first pride night with the Centaurs ;u;

[redstonedust]

tragic when a thing gets hate for being 'woke trash' and you look into it and its not even that woke. like cmon man i was promised monacle popping gay commie propaganda. this is just a video game with a woman in it.

[thatshadowgastwhore]

My sister asking me things like “oh what are the new team names” and “when is the game you’re going to take me to next season” like hahahaha haha good question no one knows. Not a soul out there knows a name or a schedule or what’s going on and when and if there’s gonna be conferences or if it’s still a 4 team playoffs or who’s playing what. We’re flying by the seat of our pants here in pdub land

[cens-socmed-intern]

This is the Ilya + Troy podcast to me, every time they open their mouth Scott Hunter tries to explode them with his mind all the way from NYC

[paranormal-taters]

hang on i need to review my entire post history from all time and make sure i haven't said anything embarrassing

[paranormal-taters]

awful news guys

[tall]

[saltslimes]

re-reading the opening of role model where the only described feature of troy's "sweet condo" is a view of the CN tower and then pushing my chair away from my desk to peer out the window at the CN tower and then pondering that a bit.