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thank you for answering I love you

You said send you pens on the world penguin day post. So tell me the core+our goalies. Have at it :)

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Crosby- Royal ( highly social, attacks from behind using lunges and neck grabs rarely leading to injuries, lots of hissing)

Geno- Northern Rockhopper (already explained)

Tanger- Yellow-Eyed Penguin ( more vibes than anything else)

Rusty- Adélie ( smallest of the antarctic variety penguins)

Jarry- Fairy/Little Blue

Nedeljkovic- Humboldt

Honorable mention: Guentz- Chinstrap (a pest, Aggressive and doesn't shut up 😂)

Send me a Pens player and I'll assign them a penguin species

#chit chat #ask games #the core

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can't believe on a panel full of analysts it's wayne gretzky with the one most radical and insanely valid take and it's literally just "i don't think we should allow players to kill each other" what is this

#this was radical in 2022 #and what do you know this is still fucking radical now #and what do you know same team has us up in arms about head hits #it’s almost like some teams (some sports) have a culture problem #off season more like nap season

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i think actually the key to successfully doing tumblr (and especially doing fandom on tumblr) is realising that your blog is your little house and you can post about whatever you like there. once you realise you are just living in and decorating your very own silly little online house you start focusing on what makes you happy rather than constantly performing for & compromising your tastes for & placing all your self worth on little scraps of clout, and you will be a lot happier for it

#bringing this back as a reminder to myself #it’s my house and I get to decorate it #and if people don’t find joy that’s okay too cause I find joy

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the thing about that kid is like okay sure i’ll play along with you and i’ll pretend every hit he’s ever laid is totally clean and any injuries were just freak incidents of bad luck because he’s so tall and he would never want to hurt anyone and his team is definitely not encouraging him to hurt anyone. okay? everything i’m about to say is taking all of that in consideration in good faith. if these are the results of good, clean hits, and they’re legal, then the nhl needs to change its rules about hits. i don’t care if someone is 6’7. if they can’t finish a hit without direct head contact they shouldn’t be laying them at all. “aw, that sucks, why does he have to play differently than anyone else” because everyone else seems capable of not knocking out multiple players in a season where they had the second lowest ice time in the league. sorry! players not getting traumatic head injuries is more important to me than making sure everyone can hit anyone they want however they want in the name of fairness, and it should be for the league too.

i don’t understand why this is controversial. last season when i said if an elbow to the head in the middle of the ice is a legal hit they need to change what a legal hit is i got so many people angry with me and it’s like, for what? for what? i am not talking about these types of players on a personal level, i am not insulting teams out of rivalries, i am not implying all fans of these players or teams are bad people. when a style of play has proven to be dangerous time and time and time and time and time again, then that style of play needs to be removed from the game. if next season sidney crosby decided his new move was laying out opponents by elbowing them in the head i would feel the exact same way. if you absolutely cannot play hockey without posing serious and long-term risk to the health of your opponents on the ice, you should not be playing hockey. the end. legal hits clean hits head down height difference i don’t care it doesn’t matter. even believing that it’s an accident every time. you should not be on that ice if you are incapable of playing safely.

#hockey #I remember saying in probs 22 that we should just ban all head hits and ppl reacted like I was trying to kill their dog #I don’t care if it’s accidental if any stick above a certain height is a high stick minor than any hit to the head should be a penalty #I’m also reminded of the time a couple seasons ago geno high sticked someone in the face and got suspended for it #and all the non-pens blogs were saying shit like favoritism and the league is soft and pens fans are whiny #and every pens fan on my dash was like good Geno deserves to sit for 4 games and think about what he did that shit isn’t okay #the dichotomy of its only good when my team does it or the other teams fans are just whiny sissies who can’t handle a hit #I dunno I think people deserve to not get concussed at work #people deserve to not get lifelong brain trauma and if their workplace can’t protect them maybe it should remove the thing causing it #and if that means certain players can’t play or need to change their style - why are you against safety on the ice? #we’ve seen what happens without neck guards #why is cte or chronic pain more acceptable? #off season more like nap season #hockey injuries

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tell me

#ask me stuff

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I truly think some of the best character work you can do if you’re bored or unsure about characterization is listen to music and hold the characters up to the song and see what fits. If you can articulate why the song fits - a line, a beat, vibes - you are furthering your understanding of the character and you get to practice talking about the why of them. Sometimes it’s a “yes but” situation and bam new au to explain how they fit in the vibes of the song. For example: [character but mob au] or [ship but college au]. If you’re gonna write you need to know who these characters are in a variety of situations and that includes ones that are so far out of canon as to be unrecognizable and yet still them.

#chit chat #writing

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do you guys think athletes get touch starved after they retire

#do you think athletes are touch starved now? #touched constantly but it’s all ritualized and intricate #you construct intricate rituals to touch the skin of other men #is the line for a reason #do you think they’re surrounded by a feast of touch but not the right kind so they’re starving at the buffet drowning on dry land etc etc #the transition from sport to not has gotta be devastating #but are their touch needs being fulfilled even now? #off season more like nap season

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i keep seeing that post about how frustrating the buff guy -> petite girl type genderbending is, and i wanted to add my two cents regarding the addition of ‘just swap pronouns and don’t change the design’ approach because i think these are two sides of the same coin, as they both fail to really delve into what i think is the most interesting aspect of this design exercise.

the reason i find genderbending to be such a fun and interesting challenge is because, if you actually want to be good at it and put thought into it, you have to really consider the character’s canon gender expression and think about what it means to them and how it reflects in their outward appearance and presentation.

is this male character buff because he likes to work out / be strong, or does he aspire to achieve conventional heteronormative male beauty?

is this female character a tomboy because she likes to express herself in a more masculine way, or is she doing it to fight gender norms?

the answers to those questions should produce very different designs!

this website loves to say that gender is a spectrum, but sometimes i genuinely wonder if people actually understand what that means. 

gender expression, much like gender, is also a spectrum, which is why keeping the character exactly the same won’t always work, in the same way that just making the character conventionally attractive won’t always work. but sometimes, a buff dude would actually just be a hot girl. lady bane, however, would 100% look exactly the same.

#alphabet soup #cisswap #rule 63 #thoughts to think about for the gendering Sidney Crosby essay #off season more like nap season

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#flower #I love him #love thy goalie #off season more like nap season

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The brain wants an ask game but also doesn’t want to think so instead I’m just letting spotify shuffle go and commenting on what player/ships fit the vibe of whatever song shuffle spits out of this playlist

#chit chat #if ppl want to know or want to send songs I could do that too I guess

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I just love him ok

#travis dermott #arizona coyotes #rens yotes #pride tape #alphabet soup #there is hockey that loves you back #off season more like nap season

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for old times' sake ...

#yuri on ice

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DOC 🥹

#drew o'connor #doc #off season more like nap season #I love my tol lorge boy #he looks so large in this photo but I know it’s because he is actually that big #somehow most of the photos don’t do him justice but this looks wide and large

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do u think they're on the phone with each other ...

#flower/tanger #flower #tanger #off season more like nap season

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u mentioned a few days ago a “goalie story” posted by the athletic a few years ago, do you happen to have a link to that on hand?

The story I meant in that post was this one from 2020, where the writer talks to retired goalies who are in their 40s-70s now about their pain: ‘What hurts now?’ For retired NHL goalies, the answer is often: everything

In 2019, Scott Burnside also did an article about the gear improvements for goalies that's slightly connected called With injuries to goalies on the rise, what is being done to protect them? It's not quite as relevant to the longevity aspect, but because I have a friend who is disabled due to multiple concussions, I think that part of the conversation is important as well.

Highly recommend that first article though. It has stayed with me.

#articles #to read #I’m on negative spoons rn unfortunately and I still have 4 hrs of work #goalies #off season more like nap season

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Raise the Jolly Roger 🏴‍☠️⚾️

#anne watches baseball #pirates lb #two game win streak

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Let’s Go Joe Joe!

#pinch hit rbi single #anne watches baseball #pirates lb