:')

a v prestigious sideblog.

[heeyjuuuude]

i really love that everyone has agreed that almost all of taylor swift’s songs are written for kent parson and kent parson only

[doubleminor]

In the Room: Pierre-Luc Dubois 12/6/18

[gabelandeskog]

[doubleminor]

via @annica’s ig story; sep. 18, 2020

[kuraleaping]

Same

[kuraleaping]

Same

[gabelandeskog]

edmontonoilers: Tyson & Ralph Barrie: #OilCountry’s new dynamic duo. 🐶 #LetsGoOilers

[qualitystart]

that toxic bruins culture at it again /s

[degrommunism]

I love them 🥺

[pierelucduboiss-deactivated2022]

[whiplash1-10]

The fact that “Cat” is Kev and Nolan’s mutual nickname is KILLING ME

[hometowncanes]

Quinton Byfield offering to play different positions is my favorite thing today

[nilzhoglander-deactivated202303]

So I’m the one who brought this tweet to Jashvina and Hemal’s attention because they were talking about so many others. Jashvina, being her badass self, went to the source and the conversation that developed was...a lot.

Props to her. This shit is exhausting to read let alone engage in. BIPOC folks are tired of this emotional labour but if it’s not us then it continues as is. If I or someone else didn’t see it, it would’ve just existed there.

Also Brendan Batchelor is a known Canucks hockey media member so a lot of privileged local South Asian men came to his defence and were extremely hostile to Jashvina, exhibiting their own internalized xenophobia (and denying it). A lot of members of the South Asian community in Vancouver/neighbouring cities, especially men, go by shortened names or entirely unrelated nicknames since childhood because of these very issues that they seem to think don’t apply to their white hockey media favs. It got real ugly and the sexism came out too because hockey culture ya know.

[saucerfulofsins]

You know what's especially interesting here? The man defends himself against xenophobia by saying he's had the same complaint about "Dutch, Greek and Russian" names, but apparently not English names, when xenophobia is defined as the "dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries." He literally proves his own xenophobic tendencies. I realize that a lot of these surnames are common in America and Canada because of their immigrant past, and not everyone may see them as "foreign" especially if they have been anglicised to a degree, but the fact that he distinguishes them by etymological background without having an issue with English names is a big fucking yikes. I don't wanna detract from the fact that BIPOC suffer from issues surrounding their names so much more, but xenophobia isn't tied to race and the he definitely takes a broadly xenophobic stance here which even shows in his defense.

[anzekopistar]

Blake Bolden, the first black player in the NWHL and scout for the LA Kings, watching Quinton Byfield become the highest drafted black player in NHL history when the Kings took him 2nd overall

via Blake’s IG story | 10/06/20

[marc-andrefleury]

SJS scouting director signs Ozzy Wiesblatt’s name and his family signs back “I love you”

Ozzy Wiesblatt drafted 31st overall to the San Jose Sharks | oct 9, 2020 | (x)

[anzekopistar]

Drafted 2nd overall by the LA Kings, Quinton Byfield becomes the highest drafted black player in NHL history

[gabelandeskog]

keybank | avs icing competition 

[puckmeupfam]

mikko and his dog: a story in four part