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Keni
Show & Tell
Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Acquired Stardust
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Stranger Things
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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taylor price
trying on a metaphor
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shark vs the universe
hello vonnie
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@squidorama
I guess I should make some form of intro post
About Me: she/her, asexual, canadian, in my 20s
I lurk in a lot of fandoms but at the moment I am very into the nhl. the habs are my team but I get around
I am literally always open to chat as long as you're not being deliberately rude to me
my art tag here
my ao3 here
whatever was going on between these two was crazy that’s for sure
get hugged…
Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old
One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism
reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century
That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.
Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years
I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.
Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.
An alarming amount of people seem to think capitalism = all trade, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.
i hope the sharks gc is roasting tf out of mack for this airbnb sponcon because every new thing that comes out is another level of heinous
https://rg.org/news/hockey/malkin-ready-to-play-until-45-if-crosby-signs-eight-year-contract
New geno interview where he talks abt sid 😌(and also retirement)
hey g, what if i cried forever.
arber and lane for intact assurance (x)
this June we're getting hot and letting no one hit
A Few of My Favorite Russian Proverbs (with their literal translations)
Большой секрет — знает весь свет. Big secret—the whole world knows.
Борода не делает философом. A beard doesn’t make a philosopher.
В темноте все кошки серы. All cats are gray in the dark.
В Ту́лу со свои́м самова́ром не е́здят. No one brings a samovar to Tula. (Tula is famous as the city where samovars were manufactured. This is the equivalent of “Don’t bring coal to Newcastle.”)
Волко́в боя́ться — в лес не ходи́ть. If you’re afraid of wolves, don’t go to the woods.
Говорить правду — потерять дружбу. Tell the truth—lose friends.
Доверя́й, но проверя́й. Trust, but verify.
Долг платежо́м кра́сен. Debt is beautiful once it’s repaid.
Доно́счику — пе́рвый кнут. The informer is whipped first.
Друг познаётся в беде́. You get to know your friend in trouble. (A friend in need is a friend indeed.)
Дру́жба дру́жбой, а де́нежкам счёт. Friendship is friendship, but count money.
Знать всё — значит не знать ничего. To know everything is to know nothing.
И у стен бывают уши. And even walls have ears.
Когда́ де́ньги говоря́т, тогда́ пра́вда молчи́т. When money talks, truth shuts up.
На чужо́м го́ре сча́стья не постро́ишь. One can’t build happiness upon another’s grief.
Назва́лся гру́здем — полеза́й в ку́зов. If you called yourself a mushroom—get in the basket. (Sort of like, “don’t just talk the talk—walk the walk.”)
Не ошиба́ется тот, кто ничего́ не де́лает. He that does nothing makes no mistakes.
NB: any translation mistakes are mine
USEFUL!!!
Very Important Addition, my favorite
Любовь не картошка, не выбросишь в окошко. LOVE IS NOT A POTATO YOU CANNOT THROW IT OUT A WINDOW (that is, love is not a small thing that is easy to get rid of)
thinking & pondering
Macklin "looking like a wet dog begging to be put down while losing at worlds" Celebrini vs Will "tanned skin short shorts winning at a sport he doesn't even play professionally" Smith
oh…
like. the overwrought mawkish celebrini crosby narratives at worlds are annoying and would seem cheap if they weren't literally being canonized by the hockey canada brass and sid himself. which is fun to think about on account of him not really abdicating his seat for cmd or nate the same way he's decided to really groom mack for this role, whether because sid is old enough for the waves of next gen to finally, actually humble him in a way they've never done before, or because macklin is a convenient, ego stroking protege who flatters his legacy in playing style and dedication to the craft, or maybe its that mack has a kind of boyish charm and willingness to be in front of the camera that means he can feed the beast of timbits mastercard ccm airbnb capitalism that has been left wanting between various canadian scions idk. and then on the other hand you're watching the anointing oils daubed on macklins face as the broadcast and journalists lay it on so cloyingly thick and then you remember oh right lol your little rebrand post trial, your little slush fund, your little declining sport enrollment, your tarnished reputation. like sure the public coronation can be all the former but more importantly it is very much the latter with the timing being just a happy coincidence. paper tiger boy king decked in red maple leafs to save your sorry asses in more ways than one lmao
🥹🥹🥹
sidney greybeard crosby watching everyone try to write him off and light finger the hockey canada mantel off him as they parade mcdavid and mackinnon in front of him until he gives up the ghost of his prime and names a new heir to take his place: yeah fucking right not a chance
macklin pulling and grunting at all the shorts to get the soccer ball in keep-away spiritually metaphorically and physically so that it offputs everyone around him: and i WILL pull the sword fro.m that huge rock. are you watching. watch me
sid dressed as a modest knight with one foot on the button that releases the sword after macklin has tried pulling four times with childish gusto: okay. fine. i choose this one
macklin yanks really hard and the sword thats bigger than him pops free and he tumbles ass backwards to a funny flute noise: aarhhhghhhhhhreuuuuwwww!
peace and love i say this as someone who played and watches and worked in and spends money on women's sports but i feel like using "women's sports have REAL gay relationships happening" as some kind of fandom selling point to try and convince male sports rpf yaoi fans to make the switch is a bit misguided. idk im not really in the biz of shipping male athletes because i think they're together for real or as some diet gay substitute because im not aware of where to find irl gay couple content otherwise.... im usually shipping male athletes bc I find the intricate rituals of male homosociality and repressed desire pretty interesting. and because it's hot lmao. and f/f ships are fascinating + compelling and hot too because i love women's stories and im interested in women's issues and im bi as hell lol
but idk a ship being ~real~ or rpfing about a real publicly out queer couple is a different proposition than making fakey fake scenarios for (almost always str8) dudes. i feel it perhaps misses something about the rpfer's mindset to say 'you don't need to make this stuff up when you can just get into the real gay relationships that are already out there'
anyway my two cents is that people should watch women's sports because they're competitive and fun and exciting + have their own interesting narratives going on. not just as a yaoi substitute
mikey misa has the bombproof demeanor of a lifeguard working at a crowded water park in the height of summer teeming with screaming running children. he has a whistle around his neck and a little red visor on his head. he is fishing bandaids out of the water he is saving your child he is handing your inner tube back to you. bet it feels good af to get the nod from michael that it’s your turn to go down the waterslide
michael misa splashes wsmith and his country club buddies as he sends them down the vortex slide because he does that for everyone and will takes personal offense to this. he returns on a different day with zeev and they make fun of his tan lines and lifeguard fanny pack. he gives their tube a good ol spin and they go down screaming the whole way
tags from my first post for posterity
