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beyond my own personal biases like. truly how are you gonna say the stars shouldnt have “caved” to what the players wanted re:pdb. how are you gonna say you would have just gotten rid of otter and anyone on his side. yeah so i fear thats the whole team because theyre a TEAM and they play and look out for each other. jamie said it years ago when they were once again being shit on by management. they dont play for the guys in suits - and that includes their coach - theyre playing for the guys in that room and the fans and themselves. if an environment has been created in which those people are being fucked over and embarrassed by those guys in suits its not only their right to talk about it from their perspective to their gm who genuinely wants to hear from them and respects his players opinions, but their responsibility to do so as well.
and nobody is really arguing jake shouldnt have been pulled at all. he didnt have the best series, sure. but the guy who dragged the corpse of your team through multiple rounds over the years does NOT deserve to be humiliated and disrespected repeatedly the way he was. i dont know when we’ll all get the fucking memo that yeah, sometimes toughness and a firmer hand needs to be used in coaching, but reverting to a culture where the coaches are fucking assholes to their players is not beneficial to morale or play. theres been so many studies on this When Will We Learn. also relevant re: playing for other guys and themselves, of course.
but above all. truly do YOU think those guys went into a meeting with jim and said “hey, i want peter deboer fired because he was mean to jake”? no. they voiced they didnt like that choice. and that opens up a conversation about other things they have issues with as a coach. not as a person but in how he operates. im sure they didnt rock up demanding the end of his career in dallas, they used the meeting theyre being asked to speak freely in to speak freely. plain and simple.
I'm literally so happy rn
Hamilton and Laurens' relationship is one of my favorite topics ever and it's just so sad that Massey spends next to no time on one of the defining relationships of a decent chunk of his life
doing my shitass homework and reading and there's a researcher in here (Ruth Fulton Benedict) who they reference with they/them and I was like oh? NB/GN researcher?? but then I googled the name and shes deadass a woman and whoever wrote this just arbitrarily decided to they/them her, but not the male researchers that have been referenced so far . love that
nooooo es bebe
youtube series 2kawaii4comfort is reaaaally good and i love the way they make each of the characters who are like "bad" into someone you can feel sympathetic for. however it IS an EXTREMELY lonely feeling series. especially when your weekly anime watching thing with your friends is cancelled. and all your friends are like playing and having fun together. and youre in a period of pulling away from like all of them . and its NOT EVEN MIDNIGHT and youre feeling this terrible and you cant go to bed about it. ugh. urgh. 2kawaii4comfort. just a crushing sort of feeling after that one. eta (everyones the asshole) or whatever they say on reddit
"midori doesn't belong in greenblings!" literally what do you think his name translates to. blue?