i should make a proper pinned post but i won’t 🫶 i believe in the good ole days of following a person, spending approx three business days deciding if this is the content you want to see on your dash everyday, and then forgetting to unfollow for the longest time
all of this to say : welcome ❤️ i am primarily a hater, but below all that at my core i am a lover, but if you go further and crack me open like a russian doll then you shall see at my true core i am a hater, but then—
what you should expect : zero (0) organisation. no true tags im consistent about apart from my lb tags. i will reblog 10 different fandoms in the span of 30 mins and have five different ongoing crises at all times. this is a multifandom blog and i’m shameless about that so like dead dove warning or whatever
feel free to jump into my ask box whenever. this applies to anyone at all, regardless of if we’re mutuals, so don’t be shy. obvious disclaimer of don’t do it to be a dick but i’ll forgive you as long as you’re funny about it 🫡
(also friendly reminder the block button exists for a reason and if you feel the need to use it i shall not be offended. you’re responsible for curating your own internet experience so don’t come to the clown show crying about the clowns. i will have little sympathy)
Wyland has said any financial recovery from the suit would support public art, ocean conservation, and environmental education through his foundation.
"This should have been an opportunity to show the world that global sports, public art, and environmental stewardship can stand together," he said. "Instead, a landmark was painted over. We want to do our part to make sure that what happened here does not become the standard for how public art is treated in cities across America."
Tim getting questioned by his school for having bruises (canon) + Tim wearing makeup to cover his bruises (canon) + tim being very popular in the schools he went to (canon) = Tim accidentally starting a boys wearing makeup too trend at his school during peak 90’s/early 00’s (not canon but plausible and will piss off Chuck Dixon so it’s real to me 🙂↕️)
teacher: there’s only one reason a boy your age would be wearing makeup-
Tim: are you calling me queer?
teacher: that’s absolutely not what I was-
Tim: what’s wrong with being queer?
classmate: oh my god, they’re being homophobic to Tim Drake
classmate: which despite my previous thinking i now know is wrong because it’s specifically happening to our collective favourite guy Tim, let’s get em-
putting together a little archive of one of my favourite sports writers writing about one of my favourite sports rivalries before it all disappears into the ether
The Florida Panthers zigged while the league zagged, and won the Stanley Cup by Cathal Kelly (25 June 2024) In the midst of building themselves out the way everybody says to do it (small and fast), Florida went the other way (tough and impossible to get through). And here we are.
Even though Panthers won, McDavid’s greatness is what we’ll be talking about for the foreseeable future by Cathal Kelly (25 June 2024) Teary staffers lined the walls. One was slumped in a corner, weeping. The place was so still, you could clearly hear the lyrics to ‘We Are The Champions’ coming through two feet of concrete.
The Florida Panthers are choking, and everyone can feel the panic settling in by Cathal Kelly (23 June 2024) Even from the neutral perspective, it’s starting to feel fated. If it goes that way, it won’t just be the biggest choke in hockey history. It will be the biggest global moment hockey’s had since the Miracle on Ice.
McDavid puts on a clinic to lead Oilers back to Edmonton by Cathal Kelly (19 June 2024) McDavid remains the shyest great athlete at work anywhere. He remains visibly uncomfortable whenever speaking. You can still see him scanning for traps in every question.
The Panthers are leaning on the thing most NHL teams treat as an afterthought - the goalie by Cathal Kelly (11 June 2024) Great goalies have their house styles, but they all do one thing average goalies can’t – extend to full stretch and then keep on stretching. Sometimes when he’s bouncing around in a full splits, Bobrovsky looks like a man born without tendons.
The most interesting man in hockey has the Panthers one win from the Cup by Cathal Kelly (17 June 2024) You are no longer working; you are being. This is the point at which craft can sometimes become art. Maurice has reached that magical level in Florida. The franchise has no weight of history, so he’s free to fill a lot of empty space.
Welcome to Florida, the Stanley Cup capital of the 21st century by Cathal Kelly (7 June 2024) The main front-page art on Thursday’s Edmonton Journal was a guy who got the Stanley Cup tattooed on his back as part of a radio contest. In Fort Lauderdale’s Sun Sentinel, it was a 100-year-old D-Day veteran who’s getting married in Normandy. Same world, different realities.
After 18 years, we’re finally rooting for the Oilers again by Cathal Kelly (3 June 2024) We like our megastars humble and self-effacing... McDavid may be the humblest of them all. He’s so humble that unless you are in the midst of watching him being interviewed on TV, you could not say with any certainty whether or not he speaks.
Should the Leafs take a lesson from the Florida Panther’s Tkachuk trade playbook? by Cathal Kelly (29 May 2024) Tkachuk’s quality was obvious, but he’d become leprous by refusing the NHL’s sign-with-the-one-who-brung-you dance. It didn’t help when he made it clear that half the reason he’d gone to Florida was the weather.
This is Connor McDavid’s time to show he is one of hockey’s greats by Cathal Kelly (24 May 2024) The Oilers will never have this sort of season again – one in which they start out looking like a flaming paper bag left on your doorstep, and end up playing like they were all raised together in some sort of Soviet-era military program.
The Dallas Stars don’t follow the star-centred model. This makes them a favourite against the Oilers by Cathal Kelly (22 May 2024) Hockey loves a simple mantra for building a winner. How about this one – the more ice rinks there are in your city, the less likely you are to win a Stanley Cup.
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Oilers can’t keep up in Stanley Cup rat race by Cathal Kelly (17 June 2025) There have been better clubs in NHL history, but you’re beginning to wonder if there’s been a better back-to-front playoff team. Florida tries, relentlessly. No other team in the league tries as hard as they do.
Any team can win the Stanley Cup – but only the Panthers truly want to by Cathal Kelly (15 June 2025) Why did they add Marchand and Seth Jones to the team at the deadline? Depth, obviously. But also to inject a little more desperation into the mix.
Oilers and Panthers are producing a wild, sloppy, endlessly fun Stanley Cup final by Cathal Kelly (13 June 2025) Florida’s players have the knack of never seeming bothered by any turn of events. It’s the key to their mystique. But after Thursday, they looked wary for the first time in this post-season. Maybe it had occurred to them that even their luck can run out.
Don’t let the series score fool you; the Oilers are in must-win mode by Cathal Kelly (9 June 2025) Arvidsson was penalized. Carter Verhaeghe scored. The period ended. Kane went after Matthew Tkachuk, who fled him. DJ Khaled played the intermission. That is the Sunrise way.
Florida Panthers’ Brad Marchand continues to set the tone for the NHL by Cathal Kelly (8 June 2025) More than big goals or low blows, this is Marchand’s magic – he creates a scene. I mean that in the Andy Warhol sense. Wherever he is, everyone around him suddenly becomes interesting.
Leon Draisaitl, the ultimate sidekick, keeps the Oilers humming in the Stanley Cup final by Cathal Kelly (5 June 2025) While [Draisaitl] spoke, McDavid stared blankly into the middle distance, lost in some private thought. Both men vibrate at the same, detached frequency. Were they each like that to begin with, or has one changed to accommodate the other?
The secret to NHL playoff success is that the regular season doesn’t matter by Cathal Kelly (2 June 2025) At the start of this season, the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers meeting in a second straight final was statistically unlikely. After the Oilers fell backward into another campaign – they had a losing record after the first month – it seemed fantastical.
The Oilers thrive with star players who actually play like star players by Cathal Kelly (27 May 2025) But in Edmonton, the hierarchy is pristine. The biggest guys get the biggest results, bringing glory to everyone else, who in turn raise their game in an attempt to match them. The best teams are virtuous circles.
The Edmonton Oilers are well on their way to becoming Everybody’s Team by Cathal Kelly (16 May 2025) It might also have struck this imaginary stranger that a man from Toronto was so captured by a team that’s 3,000 kilometres away. The whole way into town, he was hitting me with Oilers stats and Oilers highlights. He had a particular soft spot for Leon Draisaitl.
Panthers worm their way back into NHL playoffs against new-look Maple Leafs by Cathal Kelly (11 May 2025) This crowd likes two things – goals and violence. Marchand is exactly their sort of player.
One game into the Leafs-Panthers series, hockey’s warrior ethos is thriving by Cathal Kelly (7 May 2025) Instead, Bennett sat there looking like a bearded shark, explaining that he doesn’t eat other fish because he likes it. He does it because that’s what he does.
Florida men bring violence to the NHL playoff forefront by Cathal Kelly (29 April 2025) The most effective promoters of NHL rough stuff during its golden age weren’t the players. The coaches made brutality poetic.
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It's so nice being on tumblr because you don't even have to make your own post but people would still follow you anyways if you're good at rebloging posts they like
i say this in all seriousness, a great way to resist the broad cultural shift of devaluing curiosity and critical thinking is to play my favorite game, Hey What Is That Thing
you play it while walking around with friends and if you see something and don't know what it is or wonder why its there, you stop and point and say Hey What Is That Thing. and everyone speculates about it. googling it is allowed but preferably after spending several minutes guessing or asking a passerby about it
weird structures, ambiguous signs, unfamiliar car modifications, anything that you can't immediately understand its function. eight times out of ten, someone in the group actually knows, and now you know!
a few examples from me and my friends the past few weeks: "why is there a piece of plywood sticking out of that pond in a way that looks intentional?" (its a ramp so squirrels that fall in to the pond can climb out) • "my boss keeps insisting i take a vacation of nine days or more, thats so specific" (you work at a bank, banks make employees take vacation in long chunks so if youre stealing or committing fraud, itll be more obvious) • "why does this brick wall have random wooden blocks in it" (theres actually several reasons why this could be but we asked and it was so you could nail stuff to the wall) • "most of these old factories we drive past have tinted windows, was that just for style?" (fun fact the factory owners realized that blue light keeps people awake, much like screen light does now, so they tinted the windows blue to keep workers alert and make them work longer hours)
been playing this game for a long time and ive learned (and taught) a fuckton about zoning laws, local history, utilities (did you know you can just go to your local water treatment plant and ask for a tour and if they have a spare intern theyll just give you a tour!!!) and a whole lot of fun trivia. and now suddenly you're paying more attention when youre walking around, thinking about the reasons behind every design choice in the place you live that used to just be background noise. and it fuckin rules.
love my hockey mutuals. occasionally poetry snippets or kafka quotes will cross my dash tagged "san jose sharks" and i have to think well i didn't watch it so who am i to judge. maybe franz kafka did write that about the san jose sharks
there’s something to the concept of inventing a genre of fanfiction entirely about what if gay men experienced severe reproductive coercion and hyper-restrictive misogynistic gender roles related to pregnancy (werewolves also there sometimes) (important) and it being written predominately by women and genderqueer people. but I don’t know what it is so I just have to rotate it around like a jewel to examine all the facets in the sunlight
idk i think if he didn't want to get scored on so much to become the worst goalie in stanley cup final history maybe he should've just closed his legs?
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