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got requested on my ko-fi to draw daisuga!!

#haikyuu!! #hq #sawamura daichi #sugawara koushi #daisuga

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THE GOOD PLACE 4.09 • The Answer

#the good place #chidi anagonye #michael realman

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THE GOOD PLACE (2016 - 2020) I 2.12 - Somewhere Else

#the good place #chidi anagonye

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REWATCHING SITCOMS TO REGAIN MY SANITY → 7/∞

#the good place #tahani al jamil

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REWATCHING SITCOMS TO REGAIN MY SANITY → 6/∞

#the good place #janet #michael realman

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You already know that Daichi sleeps like a corpse, but did you also know that he wears his sweatpants by his belly button? Yes, you knew that, admit it.

Furudate nappiest soldiers find a way to cuddle no matter what.

#haikyuu!! #hq #sugawara koushi #sawamura daichi #daisuga

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a long awaited battle 🐦🐈🏐

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This piece is now available as a print! https://jasminebythebay.etsy.com/listing/1721771789

#haikyuu!! #kozume kenma #hinata shoyou #sawamura daichi #kuroo tetsurou #tsukishima kei #azumane asahi #sugawara koushi #nishinoya yu #kinoshita hisashi #narita kazuhito #ennoshita chikara #tanaka ryuunosuke #kageyama tobio #yamaguchi tadashi #lev haiba #kai nobuyuki #inuoka sou #fukunaga shouhei #teshiro tamahiko #yaku morisuke #yamamoto taketora #shibayama yuuki #hq

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Harry & Draco by the incomparable @ivmaruva 🖤

I commissioned this piece with not a single note of direction beyond "Drarry" and this is what she created!!! 😍 The clutching and grasping between them in this piece absolutely sends me into orbit.

Tell me....what's the story behind it?

#harry potter #harry james potter #draco malfoy #drarry

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Severus Snape.

Always.

#harry potter #severus snape

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4:09AM

#pascal campion #digital art

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1 ♡ 2

#haikyuu!! #hq #sugawara koushi #sawamura daichi #daisuga

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That's right. Kneel.

#haikyuu!! #hq #sugawara koushi #sawamura daichi #daisuga

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daichi just beat suga in mario kart for the very first time after a long history of being bad at video games. everyone got emotional

#haikyuu!! #hq #sugawara koushi #daichi sawamura #daisuga

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Daichi, Koushi and Kintaro camping time!

#haikyuu!! #hq #daichi sawamura #sugawara koushi #daisuga

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Well, everything has been said.

It just feels like they're sabotaging themselves. Obviously, it wasn't a good season overall on the French men's side. They're not utterly lost, but we expect more from them. We also know that they need time though. And we can't expect any miracle 'cause it's just no how it works.

But the French staff seem to have the perfect solution apparently. Or perhaps they just want to act, to do something, even if it's a very risky call which could increase the gap they wanted to fill in the first place.

Again, Antonin has to go down. I mean, we're used to it now, right? Who knows, at this rate, maybe he'll have to retire from the B team. It's not even like the French team was at its best level. We currently don't have other young French athletes like Eric, so no one is pushing behind. That's probably why Antonin chose to continue. There is no risk to steal a well-deserved spot like it happens with the Norwegian.

So they're "focusing on the best", even if they had no good reason to include Oscar among them. Oscar would have made sense only if they had included Antonin and filled at least six spots.

By the way, even if they seem to have no faith in Antonin anymore, he stays an important member of the team. Training without him could be a bit destabilizing for the team. They are used to train together. He will probably be missed by his teammates, so I'm not sure that it was the right call, even from their perspective.

In the meantime, French women have a big A training group. Apparently, for them, no need to "focus on the best". They took as many athletes as they could since they're all quite impressive. And it's fair, from my perspective.

Here, I don't know where they expect Antonin or even Emilien to find any motivation. I guess it's double or nothing, after these words. But I'm not convinced that demeaning someone is the right way to help them to build confidence. They want them to "prove" that they are worth something. But in the meantime, they don't give them all they would need to progress.

“It seemed to us that their results weren't good enough to get them into Group A,” Stéphan Bouthiaux, Director of the French teams, tells Nordic Magazine.

To explain the Vosgien's relegation, the French biathlon boss points to a "sporting trajectory that stagnated at an insufficient level". "Emilien [Claude] is already twenty-five years old, and he's been in A for two years now [during the summer], then had almost similar seasons, with a good month of November, a decent start to the season, then disappeared for the rest of the winter," laments the Pontissalien native.

As for Antonin Guigonnat, the oldest French biathlete at thirty-three, Simon Fourcade reveals that the decision "was more complicated to accept, given his extensive World Cup experience and the training group he occupied". “His age played a big part in the decision," admits Stéphane Bouthiaux. He's on a downward trajectory in terms of results. For the first time [in a long time], he didn't go to the Worlds [last winter], and the few bright spots in his season simply don't merit selection in an A group at his age."

“This could be an opportunity for him to take a fresh look at himself, try to raise his level and get back into the group," confirms Simon Fourcade. The doors aren't closed, as they were for Emilien Claude, because there will be two places available at the start of the season, which will allow many athletes to aspire to the World Cup."

Excuse me, biathlon fandom, I need to vent and to rant for a bit. I know this is a bit biased because I obviously hold a lot of affection for Antonin, but I have to talk in front of such bullshit.

So recently French selection took Antonin and Emilien out of the A group. And this article then appeared as the explanations. Now, as to why I’m wildly unhappy with it;

The French team reduced their group from 7 to 5. We could argue that taking Emilien out could be justified as he had time where he didn’t race, but I feel like if you take that in account it’s even worse. He had to take a break in his season, he even thanked the trusts of his coaches, and then he’s evaluated as “he’s been stagnant for two season, he needs to be out”. When he couldn’t even compete.

Now onto the biggest case that makes me annoyed the most, Antonin. Antonin has experience, and maybe his performances aren’t stellar but he’s mostly capable and he’s a good relay (a thing France has clearly been lacking during last season - they had literally four people to do every relay).

For me Bouthiaux’s words are those of an hypocrite. Antonin did amazing results in the European championships, and yet he wasn’t selected. It’s not his fault he wasn’t at the worlds, yet it’s displayed as if it was. The French team didn’t even take six people to the worlds and Oscar didn’t do a single race.

They expect him to rival the Norwegians in the IBU cup, but let me tell you one thing. I’ve spent my year watching the IBU Cup and those Norwegians are freaking talented. Some of them have World Cup level, and what I mean by that is top ranks on the World Cup. Johan-Olav Botn is one example. And yet, Antonin still manages to get a win, podium and good positions.

When I look at Antonin and Oscar’s seasons, I find them pretty similar. But it’s not to say one is better than the others, but that both of them should be on the World Cup.

What I really mean is that the French team is playing dangerous game now. They’re not realistic. They want to pretend they can do the same thing as Norway, they want to prioritize only five people as they’re the “best”, but not everyone is Eric. They should use the people they already have in the team, instead of doing this. We saw the results of using only four people for a relay the entire season.

They keep using the arguments that “this will help them to get motivated again and bring results again”, but even when there are results, they are not rewarded.

At this rate if they want to push Antonin to retire, they wouldn’t need to do anything else.

They pushed people out of the A group, to replace them … with nobody. Honestly at some point the French team could encounter a bigger crisis and I wouldn’t even be surprised, I would say I know what caused it :/

I can’t bring myself to like those decisions and I feel like they deserve better.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

*mic drop*

#biathlon #antonin guigonnat #emilien claude #oscar lombardot #another terrible decision made by the french staff #congrats... i guess #yeah i know i'm biased too #but their explanation makes no sense #and so it's even harder now to accept their decision

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world cold and hard, tiddy warm and soft

#haikyuu!! #hq #sawamura daichi #sugawara koushi #daisuga

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Happy holidays! I ate so much I’m sick ;___;

#haikyuu!! #hq #sawamura daichi #sugawara koushi #daisuga