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cal | 21

[shotani]

i like face offs because they’re just the sports version of hungry hungry hippos

[dlsice]

big year for evil hockey.

[jxnuuary]

Misaaaaaa

[kirainapushupbra]

the feeling is mutual

[goth-queen]

[catchymemes]

[muppetshow2026]

you may think misogyny is good because it is made up of miso, which is delicious, and gyny, which is woman. and girl miso sounds great. but 👆 it is not girl miso

[leafwick]

from the bottom of my heart i really intended to keep watching hockey regularly. Unfortunately i did start taking my meds though so its a casual hobby now

[luminarywaves]

mike was that kid that when someone called him a bitch he'd say "well a bitch is a female dog and dogs bark and bark is on trees and trees are a part of nature and nature is beautiful so thanks for the compliment" and will was like wow he's so clever and funny he really showed them

[redshift-13]

Alysa Liu, Winter Olympics 2026

[jockpoetry]

hockey history & culture reading rec list

We Breed Lions - Rick Westhead

Call Me Indian - Fred Saskamoose

Game Misconduct - Evan F. Moore & Jashvina Shah

Game Change - Ken Dryden

Burke’s Law - Bryan Burke

Men at Play - Michael A. Robidoux

Skating on Thin Ice - Martin D. Schwartz, Stu Cowan, & Walter S. DeKeseredy

Black Aces - Julian McKenzie*

Boy on Ice - John Branch

The Russian Five - Keith Gave

Black Ice - Valmore James

Black Ice - George & Darril Fosty

Why I Didn't Say Anything - Sheldon Kennedy, James Grainger

Crossing the Line - Laura Robinson

Breaking the Ice - Cecil Harris

Coast to Coast - Various, John Chi-Kit Wong (editor)

Willie - Willie O'Ree, Michael McKinley

Dreamer - Nazem Kadri

Breakaway - Tal Pinchevsky

Too Many Men On The Ice - Joanna Avery & Julie Stevens

Let Us Play - Harrison Browne & Rachel Browne

A Fly in a Pail of Milk - Herb Carnegie

Out of Play - Michael A. Messner

The Arena of Masculinity: Sports, Homosexuality, and the Meaning of Sex - Brian Pronger

Sport and Postmodern Times (Sport Culture Social Relations) - Various, Geneviève Rail (editor)

Post-Sport: Transgressing Boundaries in Physical Culture - Brian Pronger**

In Search of the Sports Bar - Lawrence A. Wenner**

Conflicted Scars - Justin Davis

Dreamer - Akim Aliu (author) Karen De la Vega (illustrator)

notes: * - published feb 2026 ** - relevant essays found within Sport and Postmodern Times

[etheltempest]

[dogpuppy]

[iwantahockeyhimbo]

bringing back the one sided twitter beef for this

[reddwoods]

they went off with this

[sergeifyodorov]

The Next Generation

The jack, traditionally the lowest face card, has often been promoted to a higher or the highest position in the traditional ranking of cards, where the ace or king generally occupied the first rank.

[scuderlia]

i could write a very very long dissertation on how sports fans (WOMEN INCLUDED) genuinely do not see wags as people and target them with the most bizarre misogyny and abuse while simultaneously dismissing and excusing the problematic actions of their fav guys but let me hold my tongue

[gg-ladybug]

The average tumblr tag experience when searching for miraculous ladybug content:

To the baseball posts I see every time I’m scrolling on the ‘for you’ page, I think about you every day. (Sorry for taking over your acronym.) Anyways, keep that side quest stuff coming. The guy building sandcastles with his water cup in the dugout has occupied my brain.