mean dyke

pens, mercury, & victoire de montréal | icon art by ostin-jpg

[talahui]

we're coming into wnba playoffs season and then men's and women's hockey seasons before starting the cycle again. I mute profusely & attempt to tag so that others can too.

first: everyone should make gifs of the things they love. here's a step-by-step of how I do it using only free tools.

wbb: main tags are phoenix mercury and wnba, which should catch most things. merc lb for liveblogging games, though I don't do that too frequently. unrivaled will be my tag for 3x3 league. I don't usually post about ncaa basketball but use wcbb when I do. my wnba edits are here.

woho: women's hockey is generally tagged pwhl and victoire de montréal. you may also find cwhl, nwhl, and phf for old stuff. pwhl edits are here.

meho: historically I've only tagged by team, but I'll start tagging nhl as well. main tags are pittsburgh penguins and pens lb for the liveblog. I particularly encourage you to mute the pens lb tag if that isn't your thing because it can occasionally get out of hand 😭

personal posts are tagged talahu'i.txt.

[talahui]

I'm a no team/player tattoo person, but if i were those skate and ard ones are gold

[habitant]

nicole..........

[pharmersonly]

gay people in my phone let’s enjoy looking at laila’s back and shoulders together

[habitant]

i swear she looks smaller in every picture 😭

[othellho]

From “Erasures” by Sharon Bryan

[talahui]

was talking to my mama's neighbor -- a young father -- earlier in the week about how he feels bad about asking his friends for help watching his kid and how he and his wife rely a lot on his dad now that he's retired, & i told him how much I love my friends asking me to do school pick up or to stay with their kid while they're on an overnight trip or when they invite me to recitals and games and birthday parties. for many people who don't want to raise kids (along with those who do), these invitations to be important in a kid's life are a gift

yesterday I took the morning off to help my godmother pack, get out the door, and onto a train up to Seattle because her daughter slipped into a coma. my godmother isn't a blood relative, but she's been my grandma's best friend for 40 years. She was the first one after my mom & gram to hold me after I was born. she and my godfather were the gifter of books, the ones who'd sit on the carpet and play hungry, hungry hippo for hours, the emergency call, the summers spent on the Oregon coast. since no one in my family had gone to college, they sat me down and talked me through what questions I needed to ask on college visits and what ducks I needed to get in a row the first time I moved overseas. I still use the sleeping bag she took me to pick out when I moved to Tanzania 15 years ago. they were at basketball games & school musicals, band concerts & graduations that felt more like sermons. they showed up in a thousand different big and little ways my whole life.

she doesn't like to ask for help, but she asked me. & it makes me think about what a gift it is to be inconvenienced by people you love and that love you. how we steal something every time we try to ask the least amount out of people as possible

[hazel3017]

29.10.16 || In which Geno is Geno and Potash is long-suffering

[based--ball]

In my mind I have thoughts that feel like insightful things to say about different aspects of enjoying watching sports except I think if I write it down it's going to be essentially "even if they lose sometimes it's fun to see your guy hit a home run oh yeah". Ah well

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

they killed him for this

[habitant]

ig story via eblais47

[book23worm]

Sid awards Geno the… well, something that’s not the Paint Bucket after he scored his 300th career goal.

[talahui]

[tetrisfag]

kind of obsessed with this bootleg recommended to me on eBay

[talahui]

[mxinfodump]

I FINISHED MY VICTOIRE CARDIGAN!!

First time doing something like this! I’m so excited

Im thinking of adding the Walter cup in the front 🤔

[talahui]

was not ready for this throwback from the mercury account

[talahui]

intellectually I know that ncaa coaches often make more than pwhl coaches, that coaching students vs. coaching pros lets you do different things, & that the longevity and travel expectations make a difference, but I love sports from the love and rage that lives in my gut

& I would not care every time the pdub announced another dude coach if there were any other realistic avenues for women to coach in the pros that didn't rely on a couple anecdotes highlighting the exception rather than the rule