carpe_history and The Fleet

She/her. married. bi. Around 30. join me as I lb the games and abuse the queue as often as I can. there will be martime puns. suffer

[the-armada-is-sailing]

HI this is @carpe-history. pens blog @carpehistoryandthepens!

I wanted a Woho blog. so i made one. :D

I'm a Fleet fan. I will be a normal loud fan in lbs - I hope that's your cup of tea! Oh there will be puns. LOTS OF PUNS. mostly of the maritime variety.

Everything from my pinned post on my main blog matter still. Transwomen are women. Transmen are men. angry and anxious and autistic.

"I am the vice president of panic and the president is missing."

This is a side blog that I will use to go on and on about hockey. Because this is my life now. Mostly reblogs. i abuse the queue often.

I will misspell things during the live blogs and in the tags. my spell checker isn't that great on this site, and I have trouble without it. sorry. but also not sorry.

Come for the lbs and stay for the goal videos and photos that come out of the queue three to four days later. oh im also a pens fan and if you randomly see the pens men then know i fucked up and queued the wrong blog. the pens blog also gets women sometimes too.

[spoonikkelson]

My motivation was to show people that you don’t have to give up on your dreams to be who you are…I’ve been given a special opportunity to be visible for those who can’t be. Being a professional athlete, I’ve been given a platform to speak about my history and the things that I’ve been through. So hopefully the other people that have been going through what I’ve been through can kind of find a voice in me.

Making History: Jessica Platt, Toronto Furies

[tysbarrie]

Hockey Pride: Browne and Platt on being a transgender athlete

[corroded-coffin]

opened procreate for the first time in 1000 years to draw professor puck dying in a glue trap for my best friends

[professorpuck]

“The Heart asks Pleasure — first” by Emily Dickinson

[thedailymeg]

Girlie got ROASTED at the end 🤣

[sin-bin-gremlin]

What will we get first?

Season schedule

Expansion team names

Something that nobody was asking for that will confuse the masses

Remaining time: 4 days 9 hours

[sin-bin-gremlin]

Lesbian yearning but instead of for a girlfriend, it’s for the PWHL schedule

[triquortri]

most organized professional sports league.

[pwhl-mybeloved]

[chirpingfromthebox]

from the Fleet's Instagram stories

[pjharvey]

part of rpf-ing if you want to be realistic i think involves recognizing that your fave might be gay/trans but not in a way that is cool or woke or anything like that... does this make sense

[no1staceyfan]

hi i want to talk about the blatant inequality that the new gender rules of hockey USA may cause. and how this may affect the future of womens hockey.

released on april 1st of this year, usa hockey has released a policy stating that all leagues and teams under it's governance must restrict players to their assigned sex based team (excluding coed leagues and teams). this is not only incredibly disruptive to just trans athletes, but moreso female athletes

as you probably know, hockey is a predominantly male sport, so most local and smaller teams are more likely to be all-male teams. in the past, girls have been able to get around this by joining male teams as a female, playing the same game.

this is no longer possible, and female athletes, even beer league or low level leagues, are restricted to teams, leagues and games that are either female only, or coed. both of which are hard to find and usually are only low level--meaning it restricts a lot of girls and women from playing at a higher level.

most olympic level or professional hockey players in the PWHL were able to reach their level via playing in boys leagues and teams, because girls teams weren't available. with this new policy, it could be harder than ever before for girls to play and access hockey.

despite girls hockey growing exponentially in the past couple of years, this may prove to be a bigger challenge for girls than any actual trans athletes. this ban not arguably harms more athletes

the policy's an act of hostility towards women's sports and gender equality in sports. it may not explicitly state that it will put such barring limitations on women, but it does and will.

[halfwayto-h3ll]

guys i miss my wife (the pwhl) so much i'm rewatching old videos (cbc sports mic'd up best moments compilations) just to hear her voice

[talahui]

HELLO IS EVERYONE SEEING THIS. the cast is unbelievable (including my favorites Jana Schmeiding and Paulina Alexis)

Smudge the Blades is a coming-of-age hockey film that follows the TREATY 6 BLADES, a U18 team from a small reserve outside of Edmonton, forced to salvage their final year of hockey in the rough-and-tumble Country League of northern Alberta. From director Cody Lightning and the team behind 2024’s Hey Viktor!

[i-aint-even-bovvered]

feel like pure shit i just want her back

[thedailymeg]

It got better. I’m definitely NOT crying

[mullersturtleneck]

Actually yknow what’s going to pull me through the winter mentally is Boston fleet hockey, thank goodness for women on skates or I’d have to be all done I think

[werewolfbneimitzvah]

since I've seen people posting about missing women's hockey, i want to remind everyone of the good news that the SDHL season starts in only 1 month, on September 9th! and if you can't watch it live (as many of us with jobs/school/etc who live in the north america time zones can't), some of us do delayed liveblogs that start at specific times so that people can watch and liveblog together if they want.

the SDHL is a top league with a lot of players who have played and will play in the PWHL, so you can see some old PWHL faves, see some future PWHL faves (did you like watching Swiss goalie Andrea Brändli in the olympics? did you miss Akane Shiga when she was gone? did you not know initially why the Sirens picked Elisa Holopainen that high in the draft? are you wondering about the new hot masc Viivi Vainikka and the 2026 championship she won? they were all in the SDHL last season!), and find some women to fall in love with who might never even want to go to the p-dub!

don't despair! the women will play hockey sooner than you think!