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scourge-sympathiser · 5 months
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SCOURGE SUNDAY 010/???
classic
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fullmetalmaple · 2 months
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Obsessed with this picture I recently found on the Penguins website.
Like. Jesus, Sidney. Leave some coolness points for the rest of the guys in the league, why don’tcha
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simmyfrobby · 7 months
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― “Catullus 85”, Yanyi from Dream of the Divided Field: Poems
Hockey Poetry Post 75/?
(Photo credit: Gerry Thomas, Brett Holmes, Brett Holmes, Brett Holmes, Gerry Thomas, Derek Leung, Brett Holmes, Gerry Thomas, Andy Devlin, Kevin Sousa, Brett Holmes, Gerry Thomas)
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piizunn · 2 months
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let's meet at the confluence (2024)
The New Gallery's Billboard 208
January 27th - June 28th, 2024
let’s meet at the confluence is a suggestion to all Calgarians to consider the site where the Elbow flows into the Bow river and question how settler-colonial history is privileged in public and site specific art. The piece references the different histories of gathering at the confluence of the waters, histories that long predate Calgary, Alberta. Despite histories of Indigenous uses of the land, queer cruising, sex work, trade, the arrival of the railway, and the North West Mounted Police, the site of the confluence is often overlooked and rarely used as the great meeting place that it once was. The simple map and text invites an audience of all backgrounds, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, to make their way from the The New Gallery along the Bow river to the confluence viewpoint and to consider their proximity to one another. The text is in English and the word confluence is repeated in multiple languages including Blackfoot, Cantonese, and Cree to honour the artist’s Michif roots and the specific location of the billboard on Treaty 7 and in Chinatown, pointing to the history of many different people living along the rivers.
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dwisp · 5 months
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Who made the decision to dress them as sexy cowboys?!
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larsnicklas · 2 months
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wake up babes, vancouver's newest pretty swede is in the building!!!
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ri0thouse · 6 months
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cujoforever · 5 months
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EVERYONG WAS SO FRKEHSKJG FUNNY IN THE LB AND THAT WAS THE MOST STRESSFUL GAME IN THE WORLD I HAVE TO MEMORIALIZE IT WE WERE COLLECTIVELY LOSING OUR MINDS BUT MORE THAN USUAL
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and my personal favourite
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donderwolkenblog · 2 months
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Oh your tk scholarship is so fun to read (we DO want that tk character study thesis pls and thank you), what an interesting interview and what an interesting assessment of his character! Like… he’s not a perfectionist, he’s not trying to be The Best Ever, but he’s also a bit of a control freak, isn’t he? About his environment, at any rate. It does make one think that his motivations are largely oriented towards achieving a certain kind of life - good enough to have the career of his choosing the wife/child/family Christmas photo that looks how it’s supposed to, sexual fulfillment (which he conveniently doesn’t describe in much detail), etc. He doesn’t need to be the best or most laudable at any of these things, he just needs to do enough to feel satisfied that he can tick that box, and anybody who gets in the way of ticking those boxes needs to be cut loose or carefully managed. His self-discipline lies largely in keeping his own desires in check, and the rest of it is directed outwards, into controlling his environment. (Which maybe makes me think that his weakness would be related to losing control over the most important things in his environment and/or finding something he wants/wants too much to make go away, that he can’t achieve without disrupting that balance? Maybe?)
Anyway these are just my rambles, your tk scholarship gives much to contemplate!
yes to all of this! tk seems to be able to fit himself into many different boxes and use that to his advantage. and with his piscean people skills, he's probably clocked what box you've put him into within seconds and plays that up or down, depending what he needs from you, lmao. i love when he does the charming as hell aw shucks i'm only a dumb hockey player what do i know i only every try my best hihihi bit for the press to get them off his back. allows him to get away with shit other people don't and it's good. little chameleon boy who's all over the map. airport dad but loses his shoes on the plane. five minutes early to everything but also the first to leave. self-proclaimed redneck but his go to coffee order is a matcha latte etc. i love it. i know he gets written as immature a lot, and i don't mind that take, but multiple people have said that tk's actually the one to have all his shit together, even when he was much younger and it made it a lot less sense for him to have his shit together. scheme-y and pushy to the point where he's deciding where his best friend of the moment lives. then immediately dips when the season's over like yes enjoy that house i told you to buy i will see you in four months! let's not forget sanny was supposed to move into the apartment above tk's before pat swooped in and stole it from him. and tk seemed to have no loyalty either way. just let it happen and was like yeah, i'm staying out of this... interesting to me! if we're webweaving, and i do mean freeing ourselves from the grip of reality and webweaving ao3 style... his weakness is probably something or someone that knocks all his shit off balance, yes. hurricane pat fucking up the perfectly organized beige kitchen cupboards in his haddonfield house, etc. one thing i do find v interesting is that in that asg interview he said the worst thing to be called is irrelevant. obviously i posted wpg fic before that but it felt so gratifying that he said that because it's exactly what i tried to work into the fic. this underlying anxiety that pat may change and forget about him... that pat'll move on... he needs everything to stay exactly the same there as well because even just a hint of change will knock his carefully constructed house of cards off balance.
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battle-of-alberta · 5 months
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based on a True Story of just yesterday. I say ok i won't be mean to ed and then suddenly he's sobbing on the pharmacy floor I can't help it!! he looks like a sop but he is a sop with a background in theatre, okay.
do you ever notice that Banff and Jasper kind of take up a Lot of Space in calendars, lol... this is an issue that Ed pretends he's not sensitive about but considering these things keep happening to him, i mean, actually more than once. (Who do they think we are??? Calgary??????). All this on top of his battle with google to change his profile pic too.
anyway have some nice photos of edmonton i took these past few months that are by no means professional but i like them
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edmonton :) yeah.
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aritany · 1 month
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NO FUCKIN WAY UR IN YYC???? IM NOT THE PERSON FROM BEFORE BUT THATS SO FUNNY I'm tempted to get my hands on a copy now purely bc it's set in Calgary........ hello fellow calgarians what do we all think of The Big Blue Circle (the actual name escapes you know the one...... the fuckin Circle......... I hate that thing so much) and/or The Wire Head Downtown (my beloved). Sorry I'm absolutely delighted, I don't see people from here online a lot, let alone on tumblr who I didn't know irl first
I'VE LIVED HERE FOR SIX YEARS! the SHIT!
blue ring my BELOATHED. come ON. (my conspiracy theory about the wire head is that it changes with time.) (it does not) (i still like looking at it tho)
in the book i dunk on forest lawn, spend an egregious amount of time in shawnessy/centennial high in sundance, and it also features fish creek, university of calgary, and studio bell.
my next book also takes place in calgary (sort of)! NW this time though because that's my neck of the woods these days. maybe i'll even reference the blue ring
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drartemysia · 2 years
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from the NHL's insta stories (Aug. 31, 2022)
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msmargaretmurry · 10 months
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idk if you’re still doing the fanfic title ask thing but if you are, mattdrai + neutral zone
i feel like this would be a sweet, funny little story where they have their bye weeks at the same time and coincidentally wind up on vacation at the same resort. big romcommy vibes. more of a @bropunzeling style joint than my own usual style, but i would do my best 😂
obviously leon's there with connor, third-wheeling with him and lauren, since they're coming straight from the all-star game. matthew, also coming straight from the asg, is flying in to meet up with some friends — maybe brady's bye week was before the asg, but robby thomas, or some florida pals, or whoever are there. mostly i just want him to be free of familial obligations so that he can let his freak flag fly.
anyway, the all-star weekend was good for everyone involved — let's say this is set this coming year, so no one was thrilled about going to cold toronto and losing out on three extra days of real vacation, not like florida, which was basically just extra vacation, but it was fun enough. neither the pacific or the atlantic won; none of our main cast here became the main character of the weekend, but there were some fun moments. matthew and leon didn't really talk during the asw, didn't really talk during last year's asw (although, to be fair, matthew was very busy playing host last year), because the thing is, they don't really have any reason to interact now that they're not in the same division.
leon didn't think he'd miss it, but he kind of misses it. the battle of alberta isn't nearly as exciting now. matthew pissed him off a lot when they were younger, yeah, but he has always been fun to play against. the 2020 asg was the first time they ever had a real conversation and it wasn't a big thing or anything, but it was kind of a turning point in the somewhat one-sided animosity, and by the time the 2022 playoffs rolled around, they had developed this kind of almost-friendly (slightly flirty?) respect. matthew still pissed him off on the ice, yeah, but they had some laughs, too, at faceoff circles, between whistles. leon started to believe the people that said, well, if he was on your team you'd love him.
and then matthew got himself traded to florida, built himself a happy new life there, became the main character of the nhl, etc. leon's not not happy for him, but maybe, when he thinks about it in certain moods, he does prickle a little at how easily matthew left the alberta of it all behind.
meanwhile matthew figures they were all just glad to be rid of him. he's been having a great time in florida. a great enough time that it's mostly healed the sting of how his last season in calgary ended and how frustrating his career there was sometimes. there was a time in his life when he would have really, really liked for leon draisaitl to like him, but he's totally past that now.
anyway, due to a series of somewhat comedic near-misses at the airport, they don't realize they're going to the same place until they get onto the plane and they're all in first class: matthew, leon, connor, lauren. everyone's like uhhhhh ?? but matthew makes a joke, retreats to his seat behind them, puts his headphones on, doesn't make conversation except to charm the flight attendants. when they land, connor asks him where he's headed, if he wants to share their cab. matthew politely declines. he's not trying to be anti-social, he's just not trying to intrude on someone else's vacation.
but, of course, the resort isn't huge. it takes, like, a day for matthew's group to run into leon again — at the tiki bar on the beach, where leon is loitering even though lauren and connor are down by the water, because he's feeling particularly third wheel-y today. matthew had the right idea, finding a whole group to glom onto after the asg. all this to say, he's kind of relieved to see other people he kind of knows, even if it all feels a little awkward. but hey, they're on vacation. everyone can be friends here.
cue a beachy vacation montage of drinking and laughing and playing volleyball on the beach and splashing into the water — leon (and often connor and lauren — i feel like there are other wags around with matthew's group of friends) gets kind of folded into the group, and here on vacation away from all the hockey stuff, past rivalries, etc, it turns out that they just kind of click. they're both super competitive, even about dumb things like beach volleyball — but that's fun when the stakes are low, when they're on the same team. matthew's always checking in to make sure leon's having a good time if he's hanging with them while connor and lauren are off doing coupley things — he's always making sure everyone's having a good time, really, and leon starts to really get why his teammates in florida talk about him the way they do. leon is surprisingly funny and surprisingly affectionate when he doesn't want to kill you, and matthew keeps getting that old familiar feeling that he'd really like for leon to like him.
it's only like two days in when they get tipsy and hook up, which is probably a good thing, because it's so mind-bogglingly hot that if they'd held out until the end of the week and just did it once at the end, they would have both gone a little crazy not getting to do it again right away. cue all sorts of sneaking off to have all sorts of gross, sweaty vacation sex, and maybe getting a little obsessed with each other in the process.
the last night of the trip, the whole combined group of them has a big dinner on the beach and everyone just hangs out until late, long after the sun goes down. matthew and leon keep not-so-subtly making eyes at each other, trying to gauge when they're gonna sneak off to go wreck each other, but matthew is also a little in his head about this being the last day of vacation, because he's 100% sure this is gonna be a "what happened in bye week stays in bye week" situation, which is how it should be, anything else would be too complicated and make no sense, but he knows that despite knowing all that logically, it's gonna do a number on him to fly home alone after this whirlwind — whatever it is, with leon, so at some point he disappears, and after a while leon finds him sitting down by the water a little ways away, looking out at the ocean.
leon goes to sit with him. kisses his shoulder, but doesn't try to make conversation. he kind of thinks he knows what matthew's thinking, but it takes him a while to figure out what to say about it in a way that won't be too embarrassing if he's wrong. eventually he settles on, "we should do this again sometime."
matthew looks over, surprised. "you'd want to?"
leon shrugs. "i mean. it's been fun, right?"
and then they make out on the beach, and then they go back to one of their rooms and have sex, and then shower sex, and then morning sex, all of it increasingly clingy in a way they will not discuss until, like, sexcation #4 at least, but leon does kiss matthew's cheek when they part ways at the airport later, and matthew's friends tease him mercilessly about it for the rest of the day.
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simmyfrobby · 10 months
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― Teju Cole, Blind Spot
Hockey Poetry Post 30/?
(Photo credit: link, Kevin Sousa, Brett Holmes, Claus Andersen, Eliot J. Schechter, Eliot J. Schechter, Andrew Lahodynskyj, link, link, link)
Inspired by this post by @f1vegas
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3rdmeasurement · 2 months
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i. what ?
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marchment · 11 months
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We can mark Nikita Zadorov down as being a lovely human being. Remember, he was also one of the only Russian hockey players who publically stood against the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine when it started on Feb 24, 2022 (in fact, as of this post, this is still his pinned Instagram post)
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This was the kind of public pressure I was talking about in this post regarding Russian players choosing or not choosing to wear Pride Jerseys this past season after their home country (i.e. the Putler regime) declared actions like that to be illegal.
While this Russian hockey account is only a moderately sized one, it still indicates a cultural shift and pressure. Those that choose to act independently of this and wear pride jerseys, like Zadorov and Bobrovsky (and if there are any others I'd love to know), are doing the right thing in a complicated situation.
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