Media Circus

Frog Prince Etsy: https://frogprincearts.etsy.com This is the tumblr blog for The Media Circus podcast coming out in fall of 2026. Admin cam 27 +she/they, flavor of the month; sports (hockey and f1 mostly), rpf, heated rivalry, and queer media at large. || Admin kord 25 +she/her, interests: fantasy, historical fiction, art history, comic books, queer theory, and big, big into Network Procedurals. Just two siblings trying to start a podcast on any and all forms of media

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Oh GAWWWWD the stripper doesn’t love you comments coming out of the wood works to haunt me AGAAAAIN.

the stripper doesn’t need to love me!!!! I don’t care what the stripper does in their free time!!!!! But if I have to hear stupid nonsense garbo doodoo from their mouth in a public interview, then I have every right to point, laugh, call out, and make fun of the illiterate hockey douche drooling on the mic.

I get that people are saying it so that they don’t get hurt and are protecting themselves and their peace so they can experience joy in their hobbies. Especially in situations where holding people to higher expectations have led to disappointment for them in the past. You are allowed to protect your peace in the ways that work for you.

The problem I have is when this thought is seen as THE thought that would work for everyone. That if you hold white rich men accountable for their actions, you are naive and ignorant. And even if it means NOTHING, and I waste time typing, or waste my breath speaking, I do feel the need to speak out and TRY to make them uncomfortable for their actions. “The stripper doesn’t love you” can protect your peace but it does not protect mine and that is OKAY!!!!!!!! It doesn’t make me ignorant, it just means I protect my peace differently.

I don’t know how to not speak out and feel angry when someone is openly disrespectful. I’m in a very privileged position where speaking and advocating is something I can choose to do, rather then something I have no choice but to live.

I understand that people make mistakes. Some mistakes are more egregious than others ofc. And if it is born from ignorance, then I find it important to see how a person rectifies the situation. What they do to learn and how they act afterwards will inform my opinion on them. If they refuse to be held accountable, refuse to learn, and double down on their ignorance, then they are selfish ignorant people who do not deserve my energy support or time. The stripper does not love me, okay! But if it was a random guy saying this shit I wouldn’t sit back and lower my expectations. If this was my dad, or sibling, or cousin, or friend, or boyfriend I wouldn’t just sit back and lower my expectations. These random athletes are not better then those I hold close to me, so I will not give them a pass on accountability when I wouldn’t give that pass to the people who are MUCH more important in my life.

At the end of the day, the way that I find peace is to speak. I will always choose to speak. That isn’t to say I’m better than anyone. It’s to say that this is my choice and it’s not any better or worse than yours. It doesn’t make either of us naive. It just makes us different and that’s okay.

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tired: I want the best players in the league on my team

wired: I want the players on my team to be the best in the league

inspired: numbers be damned, the players on my team are already the best in the league, it’s everyone else who hasn’t noticed

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tired: I want the best players in the league on my team

wired: I want the players on my team to be the best in the league

inspired: numbers be damned, the players on my team are already the best in the league, it’s everyone else who hasn’t noticed

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Owen Tippett’s 100th NHL goal was his 200th NHL point. Sometimes real life tells a story so poetic no one would have thought to write it. This is a post about hockey.

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Denver Barkeys Plus Minus is gonna go crazy once he gets to play a full season instead of starting right before the craziest slump of the season. I say this based on a gut feeling 🚬

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“What made you comfortable making this commitment to Trevor” and it’s a reporter talking to Danny B in a YouTube interview. Please use different words. I’m begging the Reporting community, you must use different words.

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Watching the Danny Briere interview; tell me why I’m so endeared by how when a reporter on the call says “Hey Danny” before their question, he says “Hey [reporter name]” before their question. It’s giving polite Canadian boy, but he’s old and gay. I fear I am endeared.

Side note: mentioning Porter AND BARKEY and Bump about improving the pp, OK Danny B. You and I are so alike.

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If yall like to trade sports cards come find us on TikTok. Admin Kord is @miniflyers and I’m @ 4shketchup

Here are some of our big fish. 🎣

Mcdavid is out of 199, faber is out of 199 and hall is out of 15.

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Another one to add to the Trevor Zegras “not so humble” brags folder.

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The Jamie Drysdale Trevor Zegras relationship makes so much sense to me because every bad bitch needs a boring mid dude they’re obsessed with.

Trevor Zegras gives, “this is my loser boyfriend, I’m so insane about him” on a daily basis, and I think it’s so entertaining.

It’s like watching the funniest girl at the party step away from the group she’s telling a story to, only to sit next to a guy who’s been sitting quietly on a couch for 20 minutes holding her drink. She takes the drink and tells him she loves him and SHE DOES. It’s the perfect relationship probably.

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If the Philadelphia Flyers don’t make a Jamie Drysdale post about him resigning with the caption “Jamie’s Better” then they’re INSANE the missed opportunity would be devastating.

(“Jamie’s better” was the flyers fans chant the first time he faced the ducks as flyer)

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fic idea: its a love island au except the contestants are the philadelphia flyers ensemble and the bombshells are random 1C players that are RFA's this post season.

Bombshell Carlsson vs the villas sweetheart jamie drysdale (carlsson was booted off the island).

Konecny and Sanheim are in a stable couple until a secret third bombshell of all bombshells nolan patrick walks into the villa.

Denver barkey is in a closed couple with three people and they all are best friends and worships the ground he walks on.

Michkov is confused and stressed because he thought this was training camp and NO ONE is playing hockey.

Danny briere is the host and fucks shit up on purpose and then asks them how they feel during recoupling ceremonies as if he didnt just become the number 1 ragebaiter in their lives.

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BRO THE PHILADELPHIA FLYERS POSTED ABOUT THE ZEGRAS EXTENSION ON YOURUBE!!! NOT A VIDEO. A POST ON YOUTUBE.

I didn’t even know you could do that. They are running through the streets like Paul Revere. They are shouting from the rooftops.

“ZEGRAS IS OURS FOR FOUR MORE YEARS” and it’s Gritty on the Mic.

[wolfythewitch]

furthest we've ever been

[rylandgraceofficial]

i highly recommend listening to The Anthropocene Reviewed (or the book of the same name) by John Green, specifically Lascaux Paintings and the Taco Bell Breakfast Menu. John talks about the fact that the oldest art made by humans (the hand stencils found at Lascaux) are the same as some of the first drawings kids do and how poetic it is that we still make the same things despite how different our worlds are

the idea of Grace leaving the same marks, light years away on an alien planet? it’s so beautiful

and i’ll leave you with this bit of angst from the tiktok comments and a quote from the podcast that really hits in this context

This is not the thing itself, but a shadow of it. This is a handprint, but not a hand. This is a memory that you cannot return to

i give Grace’s handprint on Erid five stars

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Watched a documentary about abuse and advice one guy said to give children was, "Tell them that if someone is hurting them, to tell someone - and don't just tell one person. Tell as many people as possible, and keep telling as many people as possible until the abuse stops." and i really liked that

Bc so many ppl focus on the idea of telling A Trusted Adult, but even a well-meaning individual can fuck up and let abuse fall through the cracks or not know what to do

Whereas if a child tells LOADS of adults AND other kids, there's far less opportunity for an abuser to do damage control

Consistently telling their story and spreading it around disempowers the abuser to control and coerce the flow of information, or to utilise gaps and weaknesses in systems of reporting or welfare to isolate the child

Just really good advice. Not suprised I don't hear it more often.

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Chapter 2 of this fic has been up for a week, and I’m writing chapter 3!! Sneak peak of new chapter at the bottom of the post!

Not one to brag but uhhhh, I’m cooking here. Sneak peek!

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Matvei Michkov Denver Barkey and Rick Tocchet in a room going over game tape.

Michkov and Tocchet glaring at one another. Denver Barkey pointing out plays and how they can improve on them, while both praising Matvei and holding them both accountable for missed opportunities.

Michkov and Tocchet nodding to one another in a truce. They realize this other kid has to be there for every meeting they ever have from now on so they don’t scream at one another. This conclusion would have taken 3 hours and Matvei getting scratched to reach if it was just the two of them.