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A committed rpf girlie will always know more about a sport than the man who has watched it for years
anyway, in more wholesome news, a dutch shorttracker (who won three gold one bronze) who grew up in canada did an interview saying he threw everything on the ground and sprinted out the door when his manager said sidney crosby was outside just to get a picture w him
pit vs tor - 11/3/25
mama comforting her team
OK so I listened to about 3 hours of in-depth interviews with dan muse (2 podcasts over 2 dog walks, that sounds more intense than I am!) and with the caveat that he might absolutely be a psychopath or something, these parts made me excited about the hire:
says something that shaped him deeply as a person was having an immense passion for something (hockey) but being not very good at it relatively speaking. since he's been a kid he's realized how much he has to work if he wanted to get anywhere (will be fun to see who can out do each other out of our three insane workaholics of kyle sid and now dan)
my favorite type of manager is someone who knows how to do my job even if they delegate the work: he's seems like this type. he's done a lot of different jobs up and down organizations, such as the "not-so-sexy" (podcaster's words) video coaching job and organizing meals for players after games (that level of player operations); he's talked about raising his hand for multiple different positions--saying you don't need to pay me much at all--just so he could be a part of the teams and learn more and more
the most impactful job for his development as a coach was a year teaching high school history, where he realized he had thirty kids all with different needs and learning types and abilities. He's like it's my job to make sure all of them no matter what understand the information I'm trying to give them--and he's carried that with him coaching hockey even twenty years later
he is soooo development development development and wants to teach players to think the game: he says even in simple drills he tries to add a moment in there where they have to make an active choice so they're not just running on autopilot
raved about marc johnstone and how so many people told him he couldn't play in the USHL but then he was captain of the chicago team and now he's in WBS
his wife has a masters in teaching and i think that's neat
not to stereotype anything but the stock photos might be uh giving people a different impression of both his talking voice and what his personality seems like (just adding this because I've been seeing a lot of like jabs at him because of them)
AWWW someone just reblogged this! Good times with muser 🤣
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The only thing that’s ever stopping me is me
Geno saying best sign ever when he’s signing the kiddos jersey 😭😭
EXTEND GENO
but at least our captain is beautiful. we’ll always have captain is beautiful.
and a dirty, rotten criminal.
there’s no time clock for the penalties?????
She kinda ate w that....seeing many genre enjoyers on here who make an incredible exception for romance
We sat down with Rachel Reid to talk about writing Heated Rivalry, the vulnerability of being loved this fiercely, and the strange, humbling
(it's a yes now☺️)
big full bodied hugs from geno with a flame on the ice, love it actually
That Carrie post reminded me of my biggest and oldest pet peeve: adaptations taking a character who's supposed to be ugly, or at least not beautiful, and casting someone perfect-looking. A lot of the time this is simple misogyny, but the inability to allow ugly people to exist also extends to men and boys, and I remember how pissed I was when I started understanding this at around the age of eight.
Bastian of the Neverending Story is fat and weird-looking, in the movie he's a perfectly photogenic all-American kid.
Hermione is buck-toothed and unpretty, in the movies she's a perfect little girl who grows into a very attractive woman.
Carrie is fat and unpretty, in the movies she's a supermodel in slightly unflattering clothes.
Don't even talk to me about Ugly Betty.
The latest Frankenstein adaptation continues a long trend of trying to convey the message of "this monster is not inherently evil" by making the monster look good. Because obviously if the monster did look bad, it would be evil and people would be justified in shunning it.
Even supposedly more serious media does it. Imre Kertész's Holocaust novel Fateless has a minor character, a wimpy weird-looking member of the group of boys who got deported together. The other boys don't really like him, and disdainfully agree when he's deemed not fit for work - of course they don't yet know that it's a death sentence. In the atrocious movie he's not weaker just younger, a photogenic little boy, and him being sent to his death is played as a sentimental tearjerker for the audience instead of forcing us to grapple with the complexity of the original, where mundane teen boy cruelty continues to exist in boys who are currently victims of a genocide.
A written text says: this person is ugly, this affects how people treat them, this affects how they feel about themselves, how they behave, how they live in the world. This might just be an incidental part of their story, or it might be its entire point of the whole fucking book. And then the movie sweeps in and says: oh, but they aren't ugly! They have always been beautiful! They are being bullied and shunned for no reason! So unfair!
And the unintentional but very obvious implication arises that if they *were* ugly, of course they would deserve the bullying, the audience would agree that they deserve the bullying, the audience would want to join in, kick spit point laugh. The idea of empathizing with an actually ugly person doesn't compute. (Maybe it's clear by now that this has done low-grade but long-lasting damage to me as a person: weird ugly people are simply not allowed to exist, not even in stories about being weird and ugly.)
Btw this is why "everyone is beautiful" type body-positivity does nothing for me, and why I'm hyper-sensitive to how people discuss ugliness in reality and in fiction. For example, I love the Just King Things and the Shelved by Genre podcasts, but I think they struggle to see the value of written descriptions of ugliness. They interpret Steven King's descriptions of Carrie as cruel, they interpret Tiptree's description of P. Burke in The Girl who was Plugged In as cruel and fatphobic. Sure, I don't want to give King kudos for all his depictions of women, but he did get it right that time, and Tiptree absolutely did. Describing a character, especially a woman as ugly, genuinely ugly, no not secretly beautiful, actually ugly, and then telling her story, a story about existing in the world as an ugly woman, is really really fucking important. And people keep shying away from it, oh, it's cruel to call anyone ugly, let's pretend that ugly people don't exist instead.
that rookie-vet relationship is NOT father and son they are FUCKING like rabid DOGS