Especially The Lies

Fandom things, with a healthy dose of science and real-life inanity thrown in for variety. At the moment I'm all about the hockey (go Sharks, go Penns, go Habs) but also all things TTRPG (Critical Role, D20, WBN) and Star Trek (DS9 my beloved), but I'll happily chat about a whole litany of things including Lord of the Rings, Rogue One, Teen Wolf, Merlin, Stargate, the Queen's Thief series and many more. 35+, a research chemist in real life, Irish, call me Ro.

[vietnamgp]

stl@sj — 30.03.2026

[jaesawalth]

wenny’s show off trick i love him

nbcsauthentic ig 26.6.5

[firechilde]

TT: @sixeyedshark

RBF 👑

[f1vegas]

ivar unable to control himself: AND MACKLIN—

[keelpay]

superserieshockey: [...] Yesterday we reported Joe Thornton behind the bench and today San Jose Sharks player, Macklin Celebrini joined the team on the bench.

[mcjesuswept]

SCREAMING—Thank you @kyumo-02 for bringing this scene from Fool Me Twice to life for me!

[yavemiel]

On the road this weekend and the Cliffs of Moher are breezy but beautiful!

[willmackism]

@/PWHL_SanJose: History starts in net 🧡

Goaltender Corinne Schroeder becomes the first-ever player in PWHL San Jose history, signing a two-year Standard Player Agreement.

[mack-will]

CHI @ SJS: 15.04.2026

[yavemiel]

Back at the site of my favourite mural, ‘my first and last and favourite’ just touches something in me

[emilyaxford]

Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72

The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.

:((((((((((

[thirty34four]

seth jarvis’s friends making wag jackets is literally the best thing i’ve ever seen

[brini71]

Nothing better than goalie hugs 🫂 

[foxielocks]

images that go hard

[willmackism]

“When NHL linemates have different native tongues, they speak the language of hockey” by Peter Baugh, The Athletic

[canesbian]

oh they’re just actively identifying as jarvy’s WAGs now

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.