Feminist. Nerd. Online-Dater.

[shdwsilk]

Once you get this it would be cool if you posted ten facts about yourself and then passed this along to ten of your favorite followers 💕

tagged by @sophia-helix

1. I live on the south side of Chicago, and I really love it. I always take a deep relieved breath coming home after I’ve been traveling outside the city.

2. I’ve been in fandom for 17 years. My best friend in college introduced me to Xena fandom (and then the next year, other friends got me into Buffy & Harry Potter slash), and I’ve gone through about 15 other fandoms since then.

3. That said, I’ve been fannish even longer than that - I started reading SF in middle school, and I remember typing up Darkover fanfiction (not that I knew to call it that) in the computer lab in eight grade. I printed it out on dot-matrix paper. Sadly, that story is long gone, along with most of my middle-school memorabilia.

4. I started knitting in graduate school because I needed something to do with my hands during boring lectures and irritating classroom discussions. Now I have more scarves than I know what to do with, because irritating classroom discussions have mutated into irritating meetings post-grad school.

5. I grew up on the East Coast, but I have no plans to leave the midwest.

6. I really don’t like being in leadership positions.

7. Somehow, despite #6, and despite being closer to agnostic than anything else, I’m a council member at my church.

8. I decided to start jogging about two months ago using a Couch to 5K plan, without any intention of actually ever doing a 5K. I both really enjoy it and really hate it at the same time. I don’t know, endorphins are weird. 

9. I am a hockey fan, even though I feel pretty ambivalent about hockey at the moment for political reasons.

10. I’m often unsure whether I’m doing what I’m supposed to with my life. 

I’ll tag @plaidadder, @pinetreelady, @annekewrites, @iunia-kallistrate, @moscarific, @mamajuicebox, @singeliskates, @telanu, @smoulderandbraids, @suddenlyintohockey 

[mamajuicebox]

Ok, I would do this except these ten facts about @shdwsilk are actually already about me. Though I live on the far north side of Chicago. And all I learned to do in grad school was swing wildly between hubris and self-doubt.

[mamajuicebox]

I have not been on tumblr in forever but I would like to share a hockey story: in November I went to LA to do some research and I stayed at an Airbnb. When I got in I told the couple that I was going to the kings/pens game that night and dude was like oh come to the pool house so I can show you all my hockey stuff do you like Sidney Crosby here is a signed jersey (the jersey was baby-sized and Sid had written 'to my best buddy' on it yes I died). So I left this amazing hockey house and went to the game, where I caught a puck and screamed so outrageously that people identified me on the street after the game as 'oh hey there's that chick who caught the puck and freaked out' and I am so glad I will never see what I looked like on the Jumbotron. Oh, and also, and this is important: I fought off another lady for it and she turned out to be the actress who played Victoria Argent on Teen Wolf. She was very nice and funny. In summary: I serendipitously stayed at the home of a hockey sportscaster and fought a werewolf-hunter for a game puck, the end.

[joethornton]

01.14.17 hornqvist pregame

[mamajuicebox]

I can't even deal with his shirt...situation. He's about to hit the stage for some avant-garde modern ballet premiere and I'm here for it.

[joethornton]

12.12.16 two headed monster pregame

[mamajuicebox]

Sid the Kid origin story has been a bit too drawn out, glad we're finally getting to see his transformation into a penguin for real.

[ehghtysevenarchive]

pure sunshine :)

[mamajuicebox]

The man looks like he was created by Pixar.

[mamajuicebox]

Hey did you guys know that there is a ~*hockey lifestyle magazine*~ that features things like David Boreanaz on the cover and lavish spreads of Tom Wilson showing off expensive lawn equipment?? I stayed at an Airbnb recently and the bathroom was stocked with these. I left my hosts a glowing review, obviously.

[yolowoho]

To the Staff and Readers of The Ice Garden, - Hey, it’s Brownie – number 24 on the Buffalo Beauts. Congratulations on the launch of this new site. We really appreciate the coverage of our game. I’m sure you hockey fans love it, too. - You may have heard by now that I have some news of my own. Beginning today – the start of the 2016-17 National Women’s Hockey League season – I’m making official what has been part of my life for a few years now. I’m Harrison. I’m a “he.” As in “Harrison Browne made a good pass for the primary assist on that goal by the Beauts.” Or “He really lost his check on that one,” haha. - A few weeks ago, I made an official request to the league. Below is a part of the original email I sent to the NWHL Commissioner, Dani Rylan. I’m sharing it with you so my plan and wishes are clear. - “I am interested in coming out in the league as transgender. I will not be legally changing my name or beginning a physical transition until after I conclude my career in the NWHL. I will be playing in the exact condition that I did last season, just under a new name while using male pronouns. I would feel most comfortable being addressed via the media, roster, during games, and any PR as Harrison Browne versus Hailey Browne along with using all male pronouns versus female pronouns.” - The Commissioner immediately responded that all would be taken care of, and made it clear that the league office had my unconditional support. That was so nice to hear. Thank you, Dani, and everyone in the league office. - I’d also like to thank Chris Mosier from the You Can Play Project for his guidance throughout. My teammates and coaches with the Beauts have been amazing. Most of them have known me as Harrison for a while now. The only thing that’s changed is that it’s more public now. (Okay, maybe a lot more public.) If I can be a role model for anyone like me, that’s a role I will embrace. But when all is said and done, I’m still Brownie: hockey player, teammate, friend, fan of the game. - So it’s Game On tonight in Buffalo against the defending champion Boston Pride. I hope you’ll follow the Beauts all season long and support all of the players in this incredible league. - Harrison Browne

A personal message from Harrison Browne (via the-connecticut-whale)

[royaielfroot]

NWHL player Harrison Browne comes out as a transgender man

“I identify as a man,” Browne said in an interview in New York City, before catching a flight to make practice in western New York. “My family is starting to come to grips with it, now it’s my time to be known as who I am, to be authentic and to hear my name said right when I get a point, or see my name on a website.“ 

[arrghigiveup]

I CANNOT DEAL WITH THIS MAN

[mamajuicebox]

Wow I’ve never shipped anything harder than this picture.

[mamajuicebox]

SERIOUSLY I was kinda joking at first but then I thought 'what if they took their shirts off and played beach volleyball' and now I'm all in.

[arrghigiveup]

I CANNOT DEAL WITH THIS MAN

[mamajuicebox]

Wow I've never shipped anything harder than this picture.

[ladymissginger]

[mamajuicebox]

His album about to drop.

[blackhistoryalbum]

Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington DC

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Opens Fall 2016  [official website]

Photos Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution

[mamajuicebox]

The way this building leans toward the Washington Monument like 'yeah asshole we're looking at you'.

[mamajuicebox]

Like, Shitty was never actually a favorite character for me, because I’ve known too many Shittys, but now I’m like wait was this guy seriously making secret bets about when Jack was going to come out while also loudly declaring Jack’s heterosexuality, unprompted, at every opportunity? Like was that really happening? I’m actually asking because I don’t have the heart to go back and double check, but he stated or implied that Jack was straight twice in recent comics, right?

I’m a little bummed, because everything else about this update was super lovely and then that last panel, just…ugh. My hearted started pounding in a sick way when I read it. And I don’t even identify as queer! I’m just private about some stuff and the thought of friends doing that makes me feel so anxious. Do people seriously make bets like this and think that’s a good way to be a friend??

[leescoresbies]

if i told my straight friends about my sexuality or that i was dating someone of the same gender & found out they were betting on it they would possibly no longer be my friends its a trope that shouldve died with marauders fic in 2005 im really serious abt this @ straight people watch yourselves right now. dont defend it bc its pretty fucked up.

[bluegrasshole]

honestly when did shitty go from “thank you for trusting me with this moment” to “okay so holster owes us 30”

[mamajuicebox]

First check please panel I have ever actively disliked. 100% disappointing to think of straight friends (and people presented as allies) making bets about private queer relationships. But also weird and intrusive to think about any friends group doing this? Like, it's such a trope but would anybody be ok to learn their friends were placing bets on their sex/love life? I've always felt like this is the sort of meddling that maybe looks cute for a minute until you think about yourself as the subject.

[cardamoms-deactivated20161127]

parse’s brown gentle eyes in the update…. look @ this visual rhetoric utilizing soft lines and warm colours to portray kent as more sympathetic…  and then the green lighting at the end… symbolizing idk [looks @ notecards] jealousy??  hoooo boy.  hoooooo boy this plotlines gonna be a doozy.  gee willikers…  actually im more excited for death than i am for the emotional turmoil this plot is gonna bring me.  see ya in my gay hockey grave

[nicepasses]

what if it’s to like…draw some sort of connection to bitty and highlighting how he’s projecting his insecurities regarding his relationship with jack onto how jack treated parse…my mac is dying sorry i can’t explain more

[mamajuicebox]

Yes this is my thought, too! Bitty will wonder what their expiration date is, whether it was just 'physical. Hockey'.

[mamajuicebox]

I'm thinking Jack is a pretty unreliable narrator when it comes to his relationship with Kent, tbh.

[hockeycaptain-deactivated201703]

I’m honestly coming for jack rn. Like first of all, Kent wouldn’t cling to him like that and tell him he missed him constantly and show up uninvited over ‘something just physical’ Jack made the dirtiest fucking face at Kent before freaking out at him Jack really really hurt Kent and the worst part he doesn’t seem to care at all. He’s moved on and dusted his hands of all of this and Kent is still fucking hurt and he won’t even give Kent closure.

[mamajuicebox]

How am I *nodding along* to pro-parse discourse right now?? 2016 is a wild ride.