#tagees remember that you are under no pressure to do this

[leebrontide]

Thanks to @dogmomwrites for tagging me in the word find game!

I am not going to tag anyone because it's been a minute and I can't keep track of whose doing tag games right now and who isn't. Please, if you like being taged in #writeblr ask games, can you let me know? I want to tag you in things!

My words were empty, shrug, hesitate, escape, and moment. I did it for my WIP Names in Their Blood.

Empty:

It wasn’t till they got to the basement that xe noticed that the security camera and the electrical panel were both open. But just as xe started to worry about what that meant Libby grabbed xyr hand, and started off down the hall on silent bare feet. Yael focused on being quiet. There was another series of windowless, empty hallways, which felt no less surreal for their featurelessness. There were voices behind some the doors, muffled, businesslike and tired. Libby wove them both though odd patterns that Yael eventually realized was dodging cameras. It seemed natural to sneak around this place. There was nobody here whose attention xe wanted.

Shrug:

Issac’s expression sobered. “Did she seem shorter? Wait, none of you are gonna be useful. Mom- was Jenna shorter?”

Mom came out, dislodging Issac from the doorway. “She’s actually back to her original height. The Bion limbs were taller than her original ones.”

“Why?” Jamie demanded. Bad enough Jenna had been pressured into giving up her superpowered limbs in favor of industry standard ones. Worse when Jamie remembered that it was mom who had pressured her.

Mom shrugged. “She designed them that way, not me. I have no interest in policing her height. She didn’t like the timing but she’d always planned to have retirement limbs, just like Neil.”

“Why would she want to be shorter?”

“It’s got some advantages.” Yael offered, trying to sit in a little plush chair next to a polished table and book shelf.

It…did not work.

Hesitate:

She reached, but hesitated, not touching Yael’s hand. She only had the flimsiest looking clear gloves between herself and everything broken and violent in Yael.

She took Yael’s hands in hers, and they were still warm and gentle and strong. They felt realer than anything except xyr pounding heart. Yael wanted to cling to them, but tried to keep xyr hands pliant for whatever Rue could think to do.

Yael’s eyes widened further as Rue wiped away some of the exoskeleton, more of xyr so easily taken away.

Escape:

“Ms Tillman-Voss-“ he continued, in weighty tones. “I have been meaning to speak with you.”

Jamie wanted to step backwards again, but towards what- Jenna? The team wasn’t standing behind her this time.

And the street was empty as far as she could see.

One step wouldn’t make a difference, so she decided not to look like a coward.

But it was probably better not to volunteer too much. “Ok.”

For some reason this seemed to amuse him, which annoyed her. “It has not escaped my notice that every time something of note is happening, you manage to be right in the thick of it.”

Ah, she was just going to get told off for sticking her nose in.

She should demure, talk about how it was all accidental, wrong place wrong time, etc. Make it clear she wasn’t trying to be anything she could never be, avoid the derision and condescension that would come with anyone thinking she had impossible dreams.

She couldn’t bring herself to do it.

Moment:

Sitting put xyr face on a level with the mirror. Xe’d smeared blood on xyr face and through xyr scraggly tangled hair- xe hadn’t showered last night after getting home. The person in the reflection looked feral and untrustworthy. Someone you’d protect the frail and injured from.

No, this was fine. It was only a bit of xyr own blood.

Xe tore xyr eyes away, forced xyr breathing to even out, and scrubbed xyr face with a clean edge and xyr shirt. After a moment’s hesitation xe wadded the shirt up as small as it’d go and kicked it under the bed for now.

#find the word tag game #find the word game #Names in Their Blood #writeblr #WIP #Blood

[missmouse25]

I thank @mushroomlance for the tag. You receive so many smorches that you are covered in them. Face the consequences of your actions

I’m gonna do my tags up here... @eefiplier @thecleardevil @scentedfirecloud @kai-exe-1909  and of course... @foxyee

1. name/nickname: Megan/Mouse

2. gender: Female

3. star sign: Scorpio bitch

4. height: last time I was measured… 159cm

5. time: 11:51

6. birthday: 25 October.

7.favorite band/group: um… right now I’m partial to Patent Pending

8. favorite solo artist: again right now… Grandson

9. song stuck in your head: Wobble by Patent Pending… its fricken catchy

10. last movie: The Prom

11. last show: still Teen Wolf. Working my way through season 5

12. when did i create this blog: I think it was 2018… or maybe 2017. I can’t remember

13. what do i post: whatever we feel like.

14. last thing i googled: info on Yuki Tsunoda. He’s a Taurus in case anyone’s wondering

15. other blogs: nope. It all goes on one blog like a crucible

16. do i get asks: nope. No one loves me (I’m being sarcastic I know lots of you secretly love me)

17. why i chose my url: tis my nickname. And tis my number

18. following: 77 blogs…

19. followers: 91. WHY ARE YOU FOLLOWING ME!?

20. average hours of sleep: 8-ish

21. lucky number: 25/10

22. instrument: piano first, then guitar.

23. what am i wearing: TMNT t-shirt and demin pants

24. dream job: something where I can change lives

25. dream trip: Italy!

26. favorite food: just one? I’ll go with ice-cream

 27. nationality: South African. Lekker

28. favorite song: um… I cant pick one song…

29. last book read: last one I finished was Necropolis by Anthony Horowitz

30. top three fictional worlds: Narnia. Percy Jackson’s reality. The world from Carve the Mark (book by Veronica Roth)

#tagees remember that you are under no pressure to do this #i love you all lots and lots #Tagged! #Smorches #ThatKindaVibe

[andrewuttaro]

New Look Sabres: GM 49 - CBJ - Blizzard Puns

It seems like it was a whole different world back when the Buffalo Sabres took on the Columbus Blue Jackets in Game 11 this season. That was a narrow 5-4 loss for the Blue and Gold to an Artemi Panarin OT game-winner. That was before the win streak when we were all content to just look for signs of improvement. Oh times have changed! In past years these teams would meet for Wednesday Night rivalry on nights NBC should’ve been airing a couple Canadian teams god forbid and we would joke about the intense history between the clubs, our breaths full of sarcasm. Then each team would go on their merry way; Columbus to a first round exit (narrower and narrower every year) and Buffalo onto miss the playoffs. To each his own it was. Now the Sabres need some W’s in these eleven post bye-week games against beatable opponents as Chad DeDominicis at Die By the Blade recently noted. Now I look at Columbus with actual aggression. Not only that but if the Sabres do pick it up again down the stretch for these next two months leading into the playoffs there is a chance these teams play in the first round. Oh yes, let’s do some playoff trash talk: Columbus, you’ve rallied behind this team and every season they’ve looked like a deep playoff contender while the next calamity was waiting around the corner. Sabres fans don’t need to remind you that you’ve never won a playoff series because we know that’s why the trash talk in this series is a one way street. Your club can probably go win the Eastern Conference if your two best players didn’t demand out of town. Buffalo cannot imagine being afraid of the Jackets in a playoff series and the facts of the matter is there’s no compelling reason to be: Sabres in 6! That felt a little mean but it’s been tough times lately for the Sabres so deal with it. Game on!

I had the good vibes coursing through my veins to start this game! I sincerely missed this team and they didn’t make me regret those feelings. The second line of Sheary-Mittelstadt-Rodrigues came streaming into the Blue Jackets zone and went right to the net. Casey Mittelstadt’s shot didn’t get through but Evan Rodrigues was right there behind him to clean up the rebound and get Buffalo up 1-0. That goal was a little over two minutes into the first. Hardly a minute later Columbus has their go in the Sabres zone when Ryan Murray took a shot from the blue line that Pierre-Luc Dubois redirected in. 1-1 game.  It was at this point my early concerns about the Sabres possession game began to disappear like the green grass under the blizzard. The Sabres took over O-zone possession and began to push their luck on the O-zone chances a bit more. Rasmus Ristolainen got a puck from the wall over to Sam Reinhart parked right in the slot all alone and 23 sunk it past Sergei Bobrovsky. 2-1 Sabres and it’s worth mentioning this period was looking like a return to form for Carter Hutton as Columbus returned the chances with some consistency. Tage Thompson got the puck from a marauding Rasmus Dahlin and looked like a tower smacking home the 3-1 goal for the visitors. On another night of questioning why Lawrence Pilut is benched once again it’s nice to be refreshed by another questionable Housley deployment from earlier this season. Don’t worry; we’ll get back to that later.

Speaking of Tage Thompson, he got penalized late in the first for goaltender interference. The play actually looked like what you want from Thompson, crashing the net and all, but it gave the Jackets a powerplay bridge into the middle frame where Nick Foligno cashed in. I didn’t see it because my stream crashed but the replay looks like he got a sausy tap in. Don’t take time to complain because before the cannon blast dissipated the Sabres responded on a Jeff Skinner race to the back of the net. It’s 4-2 now only a minute into the second and I feel great if this is the Sabres team we’ll see down the stretch here. Then the game turned into a shooting gallery: the nightmare of any goalie’s save percentage. At this point the shots from both teams totaled less than 35. Halfway through this game that changed, perhaps more from a Columbus angle. Brandon Dubinsky put a puck on Hutton up close and somehow it trickled in. The floodgates seemed to open then for the home team and Hutton is suddenly under siege as the defense in front of him got sloppy. Cam Atkinson got a charitable deflection off Reinhart and stood all alone face to face with Hutton. Atkinson won the stare down and this game is 4-4 through forty minutes. Yikes. In past years the Sabres are scared now in this situation. Personally I two just wanted them to hold the line and be conservative. This team needs wins now! The beautiful thing about the final period is that it showed this Sabres team doesn’t get scared. The pressure poured out from the Blue and Gold like the heavens had an ocean of snow to drop. Yes, I’m doing a lot of blizzard metaphors today. Just like how scoring opened, it closed with a Sabres second line we’ve criticized a lot for being nonexistent when it was needed. Evan Rodrigues goes in on Bob and it bounces off the pads. This time it was Conor Sheary there to pick up the rebound: 5-4 Sabres. The rest of the period was stressful; I made the mistake of blasting workout music and nearly soaking my shirt through with sweat. Columbus pushed hard, especially in the last two minutes with an empty net behind them but Hutton stood tall. The Jackets made their losing streak three games though and it ended 5-4 Sabres.

As we talked about briefly at the start of tonight’s blog the Sabres need to get on a roll and win some games out of the bye week to get back into the thick of the playoff race. There is a unique little window we find ourselves in right now where most of the teams ahead of us in that race are on their bye-week while Buffalo is playing games. This win tonight helps close a gap between the now 56 point Sabres and the final wildcard spot at 58 points. Most notably Montreal is not playing games right now and that is probably the team you need to peel out of there. Purely on a head-to-head basis the Sabres have been a better team than our surprising friends up in French Canada but games in hand and clutch wins in tough games make the difference in a race as tight as this. For such a tight race one might wonder why Lawrence Pilut, a rookie to North American ice whom has better advanced stats than a certain Kings defenseman who just got traded into the division, was scratched. I am not going to defend Housley’s decision to not play our favorite Press Box Pilut but I’m willing to be patient in the light of the memory of how the Thompson experiment panned out. You may be yelling saying the Thompson experiment was playing him not benching him but of all the shit Housley has to fix right now I am not going to waste energy bemoaning a game-to-game deployment choice over say… the consistently bad powerplay. I’m picking my battles; this stretch ahead of us is going to take a lot of my emotional energy and trust me, I love you Pilut, but your time will come.

The Sabres played an aggressive, pressurized game tonight and that’s encouraging going into Dallas tomorrow night and a super busy February to follow. We’re not used to a genuine playoff race here in Buffalo so let’s save our energy for the slugfest that lay ahead. Drop a like on this blog for my mental energy and a share/retweet too if you really need me to keep it up going into this stretch. Comment too if you got some chirping to do. I let some snarls rip on our boys tonight too; it wasn’t a perfect game by any means. That maybe something we’re apt to remember going forward here: it doesn’t need to be perfect, it just needs to work. Points! Points! Points! Make them rain down like this endless column of snow!

Thanks for reading.

P.S. I don’t regret not writing on the NHL All-Star Weekend. It’s been three days and I still can’t come up with takeaways. I guess that’s the point… that it’s all pointless.

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