Yes It Is Too Orange. I'm Not Even A Flyers Fan.

I write....?

[notevenaflyersfan]

they are separate things (pretty pretty pretty things)

x.

If it wasn’t for the fact that the walls of the hockey world sometimes seem papered with his face and headlines, Leon would think about Matthew Tkachuk exactly four times a year when it was time to beat his ass on the ice fair and square. The gossip and his flowers and the grand hockey narrative with Tkachuk as its axis are none of Leon’s business and he wants no part in it.

Every time Leon thinks about Matthew Tkachuk over the course of one year, and the consequences.

Rating: Explicit, Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply, Category: M/M, Fandom: Men's Hockey RPF, Relationship: Leon Draisaitl/Matthew Tkachuk, Characters: Matthew Tkachuk, Leon Draisaitl, Connor McDavid, Brady Tkachuk, Zack Kassian, Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Soulmates, 2019-2020 NHL Season, (no covid mentions), rated explicit for the scene with the porn but this fic is mostly plot, kassian catches strays left and right in this. that was an accident he's just an easy target., Trope Subversion/Inversion, Miscommunication, it's central to the ~themes~, brady tkachuk's part time job as a matty translator, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Communication, Flower Language, Flowery Language, I think I'm funny Collections: @hockeyholidays2022

For @tobysziegler

[notevenaflyersfan]

I will still be calling them the ducklings by the way. they have simply migrated.

[abovearagingsea]

[abovearagingsea]

Bonus:

[grammyjamjam]

The cycle

[notevenaflyersfan]

anyway. presenting: Anti-Heroball

[notevenaflyersfan]

never forget a key component of swiftiehood: house always wins

[redstonedust]

always blows my mind as a european when people talk about states like “yeah theres nothing in ohio/montana/wyoming/etc” because i look at a map like but. but theyre so big. every state could qualify as its own country what do you mean theres nothing there. and then i ask people from those states and theyre like “yeah theres nothing here” what do you mean theres nothing there!!!

[yokelfelonking]

What’s in the steppes of Russia, or the northern forests of Scandinavia? What’s in the Sahara desert?

[redstonedust]

id like us to sit here and identify some key differences between the sahara desert and ohio for a moment

[yokelfelonking]

as a former Ohio resident I think that the key difference is that the sahara probably has more jobs unrelated to meth

[redstonedust]

untapped meth market in the depths of the sahara desert

[katelyn-danger]

[redeyye]

[ID: the cover of the book Dune by Frank Herbert. /end ID]

[svkhky]

juraj slafkovský, svk - ger

“motherfucker one, motherfucker two!”

(featuring a done™️ martin pospíšil)

[stuckinapril]

Holy shit. The Israeli whistleblower story CNN just broke is insane. I cannot believe what I’m reading

[stuckinapril]

Rare firsthand accounts by Israeli whistleblowers cast light on the horrific conditions in the Sde Teiman torture camp in Naqab Desert. Palestinians are stripped down, blindfolded, forced in diapers, and forbidden from speaking. They are subjected to beatings and mental degradation regularly. So much depravity that has gone unseen. Doctors performing procedures outside of their expertise, amputations due to zip-typing of abductees’ wrists, having large dogs unleashed on them at night. Being fed food through straws. I can’t believe it. I am truly in shock. And this is just one whistleblower accounting of this. Who knows what else is happening beyond our knowledge

[stuckinapril]

My heart is breaking into a million pieces

[fairuzfan]

Worth mentioning that multiple Palestinians have recounted these stories before, as direct victims detailing their experiences. What's unique about these accounts from CNN Israeli whistle-blower is that they're from an Israeli, therefore people are more likely to take this seriously.

[xanaxfarts]

Shearing half a sheep seemed a simple way to show a season's growth of wool, but photographer Cary Wolinsky was wrong. The half-shorn sheep tended to lose their balance and topple to wool-ward. It took many tries before merino sheep number 30 “became our hero," Wolinsky said.

[natethelittlehedgehog]

[el-shab-hussein]

Vetted fundraiser masterpost-masterpost.

This is a collection of links to various posts concerning fundraisers I've vetted and instructions on how to submit fundraisers to me. These are primarily ones for Ghazzan families although some fundraisers for Sudanese families are also listed (I'm more familiar with my own country's politics and dialect and am more capable of vetting fundraisers for Palestinians as a result). Each post will have a time stamp indicating the latest date of update. And fundraisers will have colour-coded disclaimers according to the particularities of their case.

I know that people do not like clicking on links or navigating between posts, but please actually look through these posts and choose a fundraiser to donate to. Please.

Instructions on how to submit a fundraiser. (for those not Ghazzan) تعليمات لتقديم طلب توثيق و نشر حملات التبرعات الخاصة بالغزاويين و عائلاتهم (للغزاويين فقط)

List of fundraisers for my direct contacts from Ghazzah & Sudan. - PRIORITY.

Vetted family evacuation fundraisers list 1. - Particularities Listed.

Vetted family evacuation fundraisers list 2. - Particularities Listed.

Unvetted but highly likely legitimate fundraisers.

Additional fundraisers for various purposes.

[wormy-business]

I saw this question posed on tiktok, but I think Tumblr would really enjoy it too.

If a fae creature offered to give one million dollars for a bone chosen at random, how many bones would you allow them to take?

Light clarifications; The fae is not the one choosing the bones. The bone is taken at random. Each bone, no matter the size or importance, is worth a full million dollars. You must also declare the exact number first, you can't go bone-by-bone. You either say 2 or you say 10, you can't work your way up to a higher number. The bones are removed instantaneously, and the money is given immediately as well. You will not get in government trouble for acquiring the money.

How many bones do you give?

NONE MY BONES ARE MINE!!!!

Only one.

2-5

6-10

11-30

31-60

61-99

100-125

126-150

151-175

176+

Just take 'em all

Voting ended onMay 5, 2024

Tell me in the tags/replies how many bones you'd let the fae take. And as always, reblog for bigger sample size.

[sluggnya]

if you want to test your luck, this site lets you choose a random human bone :) https://randomlistgenerator.com/human-bones

[purekhocaine]

WOULD YOU RATHER

Eat a single worm once a day for an entire year and get a million dollars

Live on a deserted island for 6 months and get half a million dollars

Live with your ex for 4 months and get unlimited supply of food for 5 years

Only eat canned food for 1 year and get $750,000

Have someone scream at you to wake you up for 4 months and get half a mil

Go to the club every single night for 6 months and get $300,000

Voting ended onMay 6, 2024

[jv]

I love you tumblr

[notevenaflyersfan]

hate when I need to block the url for an ao3 tag for a few days to let something leave the first page :/

[hugheses]

Preds' Schenn, Canucks' Hughes remain connected, even on opposing blue lines

Until the Nashville Predators began targeting Quinn Hughes like bulls target matadors, the only time the defenceman was on the floor in Music City was at Luke Schenn’s house last October.

With the Vancouver Canucks in town early for their game against the Predators, the ex-Canuck Schenn invited Hughes and Tyler Myers over for dinner. As the “kid” of the group, Hughes played mini-sticks hockey in the evening with Schenn’s young sons, Kingston and Weston.

“They both cried when they had to go to bed,” Hughes, 24, said Saturday, smiling at the recollection. “They wanted to keep playing. That's the cool thing for a young guy like me; I get to see what it's like having young kids growing up watching their father play.”

Hughes grew up watching Schenn.

[…]

In the fall of 2008, Schenn — now the Predators’ senior defenceman at age 34 — was an 18-year-old rookie with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Their player development coach was Jim Hughes, whose eldest sons, Quinn and Jack, were rink rats and got to know many of the Toronto players.

[…]

They speak regularly but not, Quinn emphasized, during this series. What began as a kind of mentorship has turned into something more.

“He's like a little brother almost,” Schenn said during an off-day in the series. “You always check in. Obviously, I've known Jimmy Hughes since I was in Toronto. Even when I play New Jersey, I'll text Jimmy and say, ‘Lukey and Jack looked good tonight’ or whatever.”

[edgebug]

USAmericans: have you seen a functioning, not-display-piece gun in person? (someone's private property--not at a museum, shooting range, etc)

yeah

no

not usamerican/i'm bald/other infinitely nuanced answer

Voting ended onApr 29, 2024

purpose of this poll: basically im wondering if my gran having a pistol was a typical american experience

[edgebug]

Ok I'm gonna fix this poll

Have you seen a functioning, non-display-piece gun in person? (A private citizen's private property--not a cop's gun, a display at a museum, at a shooting range, etc)

Yes (I'm USAmerican)

No (I'm USAmerican)

Yes (I'm not USAmerican)

No (I'm not USAmerican)

idk/i'm bald/other infinitely nuanced answer

Voting ended onMay 6, 2024

[funoftheday]

You don’t say.

[a-spoon-is-born]

[timemachineyeah]

For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now she’s an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because she’s understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better. 

She was trying to the best for her kids and just didn’t know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasn’t sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.

Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying “I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me.” and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ‘defection’ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn’t a popularity contest.  Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear.  I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.”

She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there. 

[hatey-mchaterson]

You know what, it does take a big person to admit they were wrong so publicly and work to undo the harm. I believe I made fun of her in the past, but timemachineyeah changed my mind.