there is no theme here

a blog about whatever comes to mind. so far i have posted about star wars, atla/tlok, and real-life college. oh and hadestown and star trek. but i reserve the right to randomly post about something else if i want. she/her

[twilightbuckley]

Some of my favourite homophobic 2010s sidgeno tweets that sound exactly like rpfing tweets from the 2020s for pride month

[nest-of-shiny-things]

has anyone figured out how to acquire a laura stacey jersey in the US. like driving distance from canada but with no canadian shipping address. asking for a friend. the friend is me. i love her i’ve been trying to get one for so long. please. i’m begging

[andygbt]

happy pride month

[twominutesforembellishment]

A Tale of Kindy the Penguin

[medievalthymes]

they’re walter cup champions now btw

[banrionceallach]

You know, that Mythbusters post legitimately changed my life. Before seeing it, I had exponentially more guilt and stress about not being able to sleep, which of course, further exacerbated my inability to sleep.

Now, every time I wake up about three am, knowing I have to get up at 6.45, instead of stressing and panicking about how my day is going to be sleep deprived and miserable, I just tell myself 'Time to activate Mythbusters Protocol' and lie there with my eyes closed safe in the knowledge that I am measurably reducing later feelings of exhaustion.

And when this happens, about 70% of the time the reduction of guilt and stress means I actually do fall back asleep, so all in all instead of getting only three or four hours sleep, I get five to six and a half.

Which y'know, major improvement in health and energy.

[catgirlthecrazy]

On a related note, that post also opened up the world of naps for me. I used to think that napping was mostly pointless for me, because I'm pretty much incapable of falling fully asleep in the middle of the day. But when I redefined naps to include "lying down with my eyes shut for an hour," even if I just spent the whole time brainstorming fanfiction, that was often enough to get me from "exhausted and running on 4 hours of sleep" to energized and refreshed

[dookiedrops]

The post (?) as found on Reddit with bonus explanatory Reddit comment.

[twominutesforembellishment]

Rusty

2016 -> 2026

[oedipalrivalry]

being a team sports fan really is like oh what if you stanned the ship of theseus

[jerrytheduck]

Important context to put this into perspective: she was doing this live insta checking while we were actively on vacation in nyc so imagine this but like. On the highline with some gelato.

[nest-of-shiny-things]

imagine me scaring innocent passersby on the high line death grip on my emotional support gelato screaming crying throwing up as yet another one of my beloved sirens is taken from me. and also my friends are there trying to have a pleasant vacation.

[jerrytheduck]

it was a pleasant vacation! We had vegetarian gluten free dim sum!

[oedipalrivalry]

being a team sports fan really is like oh what if you stanned the ship of theseus

[jerrytheduck]

Important context to put this into perspective: she was doing this live insta checking while we were actively on vacation in nyc so imagine this but like. On the highline with some gelato.

[nest-of-shiny-things]

every day people are out here weaving elaborate fictional narratives for nhl players meanwhile pwhl players will just straight up say shit like “we were skinny dipping with team canada while training for the olympics and a shooting star passed overhead and no one else saw it but us and we locked eyes and thus began a secret teammate romance that almost fell apart after we lost the gold medal but the next time our teams played against each other she chased down my team bus after the game to win me back and seven years later we were married and I said in my wedding vows that she was the wish I had always dreamed of and I didn’t realize it until now.” anyway true story and it happened to my girl laura stacey.

[nest-of-shiny-things]

this post is about to hit 20k (wtf) and playoffs are about to start so i'm just here to say:

DO IT!!!!! GET INTO THE PWHL!!!!!

every game streams FREE on Youtube for everywhere except canada/czechia/slovakia, and this page can help you find other places to watch! i love lore as much as the next person, but the sport itself is also exciting and thrilling and compelling and FUN. so GET IN HERE!! you don't need to know anything about hockey to start watching, watching is how you learn things about hockey. if you’re interested in watching past games to learn more about teams or players or rivalries, there's an archive going all the way back to season 1, but that is NOT necessary to enjoy the games being played now. just start watching! pick a random team and have fun!

it is ALWAYS a good time to start watching women's hockey!

but also playoffs start tonight. btw. once again. free on youtube. <3

[yabagofmilfs]

[twominutesforembellishment]

Arty waiting for taps.

27.04.2026 [Round 1 Game 5]

[nest-of-shiny-things]

that one picture of connor mcdavid

[antspaul]

the thing about elite athletes is that you generally need to be an elite youth athlete to get there. and the thing about being an elite youth athlete is that there are a million of them and very few actually see returns on the insane investment of time and resources it takes to support an elite youth athlete. no one is owed a career in elite sports. frankly elite youth sports fries the minds of most children who come into contact with them, why wouldn’t a parent watching out for their child’s mental wellbeing seriously question if moving their child to boarding school half a world away for the remote chance of a lucrative career in a very expensive dangerous sport is the right move. (and why wouldn’t a mother still feel rage if that decision was taken away from her completely)(this post is about oscar piastri)

we hear stories of the sacrifices that athletes and their families made during their youth career and think oh, well it was all worth it. but we don’t think about the families who made the same sacrifices and it wasn’t worth it. the families drowning in debt for a child who was never going to make it and feels the entire weight of that burden. we don’t think about the people these athletes could have been were they normal people without the career, the money, the recognition. we don’t value the fulfillment of normal, average lives as highly as that of high-profile lives. when in fact the satisfaction i get sharing saltines and peanut butter with my roommate on a saturday afternoon as we watch bad reality TV is a satisfaction more psychologically healthy than what an athlete feels upon winning the championship he’s dreamed of his whole life

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

My friend is a paediatrician and she once worked in an area where there was a big gymnastics scene and she saw so so many teen girls come in with gymnastics injuries. They were always like "I'm going to be a professional gymnast, that will be my career, I don't need to be wasting all this time with school." And she'd ask about their backup plans if they were feeling chatty and she needed to make conversation (not as a matter of course, she's their doctor not their guidance counsellor, but it would often be the natural flow of conversation with these young athletes suffering athletic injuries where a critical part of the treatment is 'do less gymnastics') then they'd say that if they got too injured to do it, or when they aged out, they'd become gymnastics coaches instead. And she'd be like "okay, mathematically, there are at least five times too many young gymnasts in your position to ALL be professional gymnasts or coaches, and everyone says that; what's your backup plan if you can't do either of those things?" and they'd always be like "no I'm dedicated enough to make it; I can do the sport for as long as my body can handle it and teach the sport when it can't."

And of course they think that, they're fourteen. But a good third of them are completely neglecting their education, most of them are sorely lacking friendships or activities that are outside their sport, and all of them are absolutely destroying their bodies.

[icedbatik]

[ticklefightgeno]

SIX DAYS OF ENFORCED PTO. it’ll be a miracle if this cruel and unusual treatment doesn’t cause lasting psychological damage

[deniedbydesbiens]

new york back doing what they do best (staring the game in the 3rd period)