Fill your life with laughter and bees

Tired/Writer/@thefringespod and @forgedbondspod creator/Musical enthusiast/Podcast lover/Seattle Kraken fan/Probably not an archer (Pine, they/them, 26)

[probsnothawkeye]

Tonight's mood

[ceruleanheaven]

i just wanna do nothinggggg 😭😭😭😭😭 which is like what im already doing but i wanna do it in a way that doesnt actively ruin my life 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

the best fanfic is the one the author had fun writing actually.

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

the second best is the one the author used to work through some issues.

[mikkeneko]

the third best is the one the author wrote out of spite due to some really dogshit discourse going on in their fandom

[bladesingerlily]

Big fan of 3!

[tibbycaps]

when i used to be a barista i remember this one time where we had a whiteboard in the back room, and my manager wrote out like goals for getting our customer service score up. and i found the marker and i wrote a new goal underneath her list that just said "The Rapture" and 4 some reason she didnt even erase it i just remember her very tiredly saying "oh. and if we get our customer connection score up to 60 we can have the rapture." why did she let me do that

[ragehangover]

disclaimer that i am not russian or japanese — but it does annoy me when people like. try to assign canonical purpose for why shane and ilya’s relationships to their cultural heritage are so shallow. writing an assimilationist narrative for shane hollander is very interesting and could prescribe a lot of meaning to shane’s emotional distance to others. it could provide a lot of meaningful commentary on homogenous hockey culture, both from shane’s relative isolation as a person of colour and how hockey as an institution actively punishes and ostracises athletes who do not actively conform to established standards. see zayne parekh for just one example. how would shane and yuna’s relationship to canada the nation be shaped by the aftermath of the war measures act? shane’s suppression of his sexuality, of his personal wants and needs, of his racial identity, of his neurodivergence, of everything that might make him less broadly marketable to a (white) audience, could be a very apt depiction of how the lived experiences of people of colour is flattened and simplified in order to be considered consumable. shane’s fears are born from the precarious position he inhabits in all aspects of his life.

by the same token, ilya’s perspective on russia is shaped by disconnection — he has an abusive father, a deceased mother, and a fraught relationship with his brother. in the books, the only other figure we know from his childhood is the unnamed son of his coach. without svetlana, russia should be a cornerstone comparison between ilya’s past and ilya’s future. the nhl does not employ translators for their athletes, so even fluency in english would have left ilya in a vulnerable position as a teenager arriving in a foreign country. the sole person he speaks fluent russian to regularly in tlg is galina the therapist. what would his relationship to other, older russian players be like? was he billeted with another russian like sergei gonchar and evgeni malkin? was this a kindness? would ilya’s relative, established isolation from others be driven by the fear of receiving the same abuse in the same language, regardless of how far he ran from home? has russia the nation been so thoroughly poisoned for him that he cannot imagine ever going back, even though a part of him will always live there in the dirt with his mother?

however. this is all conjecture. shane doesn’t mention his japanese heritage a scant one (1) time in the long game because of a purposeful assimilationist narrative — it’s because reid is not interested in exploring this aspect of his identity. shane is comparatively raceless in the book itself, although the actual nature of his story is still transparently impacted by how reid herself perceives race. ilya only mentions russia during arguments with shane, but otherwise does not seem to feel any particularly complex feelings about having no significant relationships with other russian players. while reid has been lauded for incorporating russian culture into ilya’s character, the storytelling remains relatively shallow. despite ilya’s desperation to leave russia permanently, ilya’s passport is not mentioned a single time in the long game. the absence of how shane and ilya’s identities might reasonably drive their relationship issues, miscommunications, and personal challenges is stark. why include race and immigration and cultural identity as elements of these characters if you refuse to consider how these elements would impact their actions? or at the very least, why try to prescribe intentionality and complexity for decisions that seem to exist solely as window dressing?

[starrynet]

catchers are ninja turtles and hockey goalies are big hero six robot blorbos

[shalpilot]

i’m so thirsty… won’t you use /water to water me?

[belzrgr]

/water

[shalpilot]

oh…. why thank you!!

[plexyyyyy]

Actually it would be very funny to me if Matty actually yeeted the fish. Out of habit.

[martindykewood]

theres some stuff im rather abnormal about

[probsnothawkeye]

Went to the Banana Ball game at Wrigley Field today maybe sports weren't a mistake after all <3

Also for my musical theatre friends: Derek Klena (Dmitry in the original Broadway cast of Anastasia, Aaron Tveit's replacement as Christian in Moulin Rouge, Tony award nominee for his role as Nick Healy in Jagged Little Pill) is now on the Savannah Bananas both as a performer/entertainer and as a pitcher. So i got to hear him sing AND see him pitch tonight. Ily Derek Klena

[richyjerimovich]

Who Even Am I? with the cast of The Odyssey

[shadowboxr]

abolish the willmack surveillance state

[cupcakesandhags]

okay but for sure baby shane on his first hockey team got to play on the ice during an intermission at a centaurs game in the 90s. he scored a goal and did a cute little celebration jump (and immediately lost his balance and fell on his butt). harris pulls the clip from somewhere deep in the centaurs archive. he makes an insta post after shane's first game with the cens and includes the video with a caption about tonight being shane hollander's second ever centaurs goal.

ilya just barely manages to keep himself from sobbing in delight at the video.

[the-unflappablewolf]

[mizumanta]

[bimstown]

jimothy my cryptid son

[hihereami]

You are decended from escaped Nazi's though let's get that point straight.

This is exceedingly funny because I, Aimee, descend from a jewish Holocaust survivor. My great grandpa Berco, paternal grandfather to my mom. He's the only surviving member of his family after they were invaded and murdered by nazis on 1930s Romania.

I know more people descending from jewish, muslim or indigenous people than people with german ancestry. The only people with german ancestry I've met are jewish.

[hihereami]

The claim "Argentina is a nazi country" affects first and foremost jewish argentinians, not the fascists.

"Argentina is a white country" affects the brown, black and indigenous argentinians, not the racists.

"Argentina is an evil country aligned to the US and Israel" completely misses the point we're a third world country in Latin America under imperialist attack.

Milei's goverment is trying to pass laws that allow foreign goverments and corporations to buy our land. He's gifted them our water, lithium and scientific resources.

WE are the first victims of what's happening.

It's indigenous people whose land is about to be sold in this foreign takeover.

The victims of Argentinian racism are my brown friends who get stopped by the police.

The victims of the fascist state is my own fucking family, my 90 year old uncle with AIDS got his medication cut because they want him dead.

"Argentina chose its president, they must think like him" but Milei has support from foreign entities and rose to power thanks to the media painting him as "an economist" who would solve our terrible inflation problem. People were made to feel they had no other choice. We are a third world country with no global power whatsoever. We are the USA ans Israel's victim, not its ally.

So yeah, very funny, we descend from nazis. We have wiped all people who aren't white. We're zionists colonizers who threaten the UK. Yes, sure.