#the sports department

[saessenach]

"He knew those wild, black curls and the obsidian star on a velvet ribbon. What he didn't know and had never seen before was the face. It was a face of rage and fury, the face of a goddess of vengeance, destruction and death."

Yennefer of Vengerberg, in black and white

#the witcher #the witcher netflix #yennefer of vengerberg #artists on tumblr #digital art #fanart #procreate #my art #in all ways except physical i am hunting the witcher costume department for sport #there are options for shirts and loose trousers which ARENT FUCKING BORING #but hey that's just me #rereading a time of contempt and marveling at how much they botched this 'adaption' #anyhowwwww she's MY goddess of vengeance and i adore her

[ghostsmp3]

mrjoshcharles swift swagging away!

#stunning development over here in the swifte josh charles community #josh charles #taylor swift #ttpd #the tortured poets department #sports night #dead poets society #the good wife #instagram

[allylikethecat]

Ok not to be really mean but I’ve taken cold medicine so my filter is gone.

But

How is Taylor Swift supposed to be releasing an album with such a beautiful, poetic, title literally, calling the album The Tortured Poets Department while dating a man that can’t read?!

#allylikethecat #unrelated to matty #i just really hate travis kelce #always have and always will #and i am fully convinced he cant read #and no one will convince me otherwise #but like TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT?! #then gonna lick some dude bros face on tv?! #the vibes are not vibing #like she can date who she wants and im happy shes happy #he’s just SO GROSS #and i hate seeing his dumb ugly face everywhere #ally’s thoughts #ally’s opinion that no one asked for #sorry for being controversal in main please dont hate me #im a sports girlie first and so my hatred of him runs deep #and is also football related #he’s a glorified oversized wide reciever!!

[herewegobebe]

MINKEY ♡ I Live Alone Preview ✧ Ep. 449 on MBC 220610

#key #minho #minkey #shinee #i live alone #cannot wait for more minkey shenanigans 💕 #for once kibum can outdo minho in the sports department 😂 #showing his trained skills as a waterskier #👏👏 #look at him go #my.gifs

[juliasimongf]

I'm convinced that all the swifties losing their minds over her new album have never read real poetry or have read any 'tortured poets', because if they did they would know that she absolutely isn't one. I'm not by any means knowledgeable about poetry. However, I did spend my whole morning yesterday reading Anna Akhmatova's Rekviem and crying, and I don't know how anyone who has read poetry like that can go around calling Taylor a 'tortured poet'.

#not sports #Obviously you don't have to experience what Anna did to be a good poet #And I don't like the idea that experiencing trauma inherently makes you a better artist #But if you want to talk about expressing trauma through poetry I feel like Rekviem is an example of a masterpiece #the tortured poets department #anti taylor swift

[the-burgundy-on-my-shirt]

Honestly, who am I to fight the alchemy?

#nfl #detroit lions #aidan hutchinson #football #sports #offseason #new uniforms look hot #ts ttpd #the tortured poets department

[mudwerks]

Winter sports festival, Jr. Chamber of Commerce, Recreation Department, sponsors (LOC)

Iowa Art Project, WPA, 1940.

#Winter sports festival #Jr. Chamber of Commerce #Recreation Department #LOC #vintage #art #Iowa Art Project #WPA #1940

[existennialmemes]

Couple quick questions for the folks who are suddenly experts in women's sports and the biology of hormones:

If Testosterone, as you claim, is such an irreversible force of muscle enhancement, why are adult men ever treated for lowered T levels?

Shouldn't the testosterone they were "exposed to" in adolescence have buffed them for life?

And follow up question: if testosterone "exposure" at any time in your life gives you unmitigated physical advantages, why is loss of muscle mass a prominent symptom of low testosterone in men?

#trans rights #biology #trans rights are human rights #transgender rights #tw transmysoginy #testosterone #trans sports #you don't know shit about biology please stop trying to hide behind it #these are rhetorical questions #but if any terfs wanna volunteer for my block list #by all means sound off #I'll be happy to add you 💖 #the Discourse has been happening on Facebook #and i try not let myself get baited into bag faith discussions #but sometimes i just have to make my own post about it because i need to respond #to satisfy the ND department in my brain

[make-a-little-mischief]

So. Many. Jerrys.

I'm gonna need a bigger, nicer version of this one please and thank you. Something about that repeating "dark shirt/light pants that almost look like khaki slacks half dad/half hip young high school english teacher everyone crushes on sexy casual 'I used to model but I don't like to brag about it'" look is doin' it for me.

I love this man so much x's 7.

#jerry lewis #the family jewels #i'm assuming under that table uncle eddie is also sporting the light colored trousers #if not he's really SLACKing in the pants department #i'm in a weird mood

[ghostsmp3]

Dan Rydell and Casey McCall, Sports Night (1998-2000) // The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift

#because thier typewriter is thier laptop #get it. do you get it now #do you see why i have been chewing glass for two days #what josh charles swiftie era does to a person #can not believe they are the tortured poets who can't operate without each in question #something something you showed me colors you know i can't see with anyone else #sports night #dan rydell #casey mccall #caseydan #dancasey #taylor swift #ttpd #the tortured poets department #josh charles #peter krause

[dark-raven-feathers]

A villain whose entire motive is stealing money to fund their school’s entire art department

#dark raven feathers #me btw #there’s a band festival in a few weeks and only the gr tens are going #because we don’t have enough funding to bring all the grades #this is the second year in a row we’ve been denied this #because the sports department somehow matters more #marching band #concert band

[darcyolsson]

one thing about getting a completely different hair texture is that people from your past literally do not recognise you anymore

#i ran into like 6 of my high school teachers (the entire PE department) and not one recognised me 😭 #ITS BEEN NOT EVEN 3 YEARS PLS and you know i was always staying after school bc i failed the very concept of sports #personal

[eyesofkyber]

i'm not a romantic, but then 'Where's the trophy? He just comes runnin' over to me'.

excuse me wHAT?

#who would've guessed sports talk would get to me #like??? #the tortured poets department #taylor swift #the alchemy

[chokopoppo]

Man when I was initially plotting out FEVER and planning on releasing a chapter every two weeks, I did not anticipate that I would be running headlong into the Move Out Season, which for some reason is six weeks of the highest stress of the academic year

#there’s no reason it should be six weeks OR this stressful! #unfortunately I want to hunt 90% of my department like wild animals. for sport.

[coochiequeens]

The dude is 35 and wants to compete with women.

USA Powerlifting must allow trans athletes to compete in the women’s division after transgender lifter JayCee Cooper won her discrimination case against the organization.

The federation was mandated to “cease and desist from all unfair discriminatory practices” related to sexual orientation and gender identity and reverse its former policy of barring transgender athletes within two weeks, according to the ruling, obtained by Fox News.

Cooper filed a complaint with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights in 2019 claiming the organization had violated that state’s Human Rights Act after she was barred from competing in the women’s division.

In 2021, she filed a lawsuit against USA Powerlifting in state court.

“I was fed up with the way that I was being treated, I was fed up with the way that my community was being treated and enough was enough,” Cooper told KARE after winning the case.

“After years of experiencing discrimination from USA Powerlifting, and the backlash that has occurred due to that, of course I have complex feelings about the sport,” Cooper said. “But I think that this win – [it] is a representation of where we can move forward.”

According to the 46-page ruling, “The harm is in making a person pretend to be something different, the implicit message being that who they are is less than. That is the very essence of separation and segregation, and it is what the MHRA prohibits.”

USA Powerlifting officials said they are considering appealing the decision.

“Our position has been aimed at balancing the needs of cis- and transgender women, whose capacities differ significantly in purely strength sports,” said organization president Lawrence J. Maile in a statement to KARE. 

“We have received a summary judgment decision from the Court finding us liable for discrimination. We respectfully disagree with the Court’s conclusions. We are considering all of our options, including appeal,” Maile said.

#Title IX #women’s sports are for women #women’s sports is not for older male athletes #USA Powerlifting #Minnesota Department of Human Rights

[kdsburneraccount]

So the NFLPA released report cards for each team's working conditions that graded them based on polls from players, which I found pretty interesting but also a little depressing. You can read it here: NFL Player Team Report Cards | NFLPA

More thoughts under the cut since I was initially going to put my thoughts in the tags but I thought reading it was quite eye-opening.

The Bengals being graded an F- for nutrition... I'm not that surprised considering what former players have said about the cafeteria, but it's still pretty embarrassing. And those comments were from the 2000s. Not providing dinner, vitamins, or supplements to players is a little questionable, especially if players are going to be spending long days at practice. And the fact that they’ve had breastfeeding mothers sit on the floor of public restrooms to take care of their kids is… concerning. (This is a Mike Brown moment. Unfortunately. The “no indoor practice facility” jokes looking more and more true by the moment. Like I get he’s pretty poor for an NFL owner but your team made the Super Bowl two seasons ago invest in the facilities more have an actual food service on hand cmon man why are you proving Carson Palmer right)

I wasn't surprised looking at the Falcons' grading of their strength coach (by and large, strength coaches were graded exceedingly positively by the players, except for the Falcons and the Ravens. In the case of the Ravens it appeared that they had a strength and conditioning coach who was pretty disliked by the players, and that coach did get fired, so at least the team's aware of it), mostly bc the Falcons aren't very good at tackling 😭 hopefully they make a change in that regard because man. At least they think Arthur Blank is ok.

Haven't watched mid-season Hard Knocks so didn't really have an idea of how the Cardinals' facilities were, but... wow. Overall second to last behind the Commanders (who are, y'know, dysfunctional), which kinda surprised me but at the same time the Cardinals are kind of low-key dysfunctional now I think about that. Making players pay for dinner out of their payroll... don't like that! Oh yeah and their training facilities are apparently a health and safety risk (fun).

It is interesting to note that the rankings of the facilities didn't necessarily correlate with team success: the top-ranked teams in this survey were the Vikings, Dolphins, Raiders, Texans, and Cowboys while the bottom-5 teams were the Commanders, Cardinals, Chargers, Chiefs, and Jaguars (Bengals dodging this phew). This is probably because a lot of stuff that's surveyed here can impact team performance, but only if it's egregiously bad (ie Cardinals or Commanders). Was surprised by how the Chiefs graded out on their training staff considering they just won a Super Bowl but I would wager that's to do with Andy Reid and his whole system; works but isn't the nicest about it.

I thought that the way some categories were weighted were a little questionable, ie travel and treatment of families being abt the same level. Personally having younger players room with each other is whatever, not having a proper space for families is a bigger issue. But maybe that's me being unsympathetic (and there is the whole difference between a star player and practice squad guy to consider because their treatment would be different).

Overall, pretty good survey, I do hope it's able to enact some awareness bc the NLFPA isn't that strong, but they do seem to be doing their best as a union (working in the interest of players).

#the rare mildly serious post i make #im ngl when i saw the locker room grades i thought they meant like vibes and not the actual locker room they spend time in #and panicked abt that #will insert the caveat that it's kinda hard to extrapolate anything quantitative #bc there are categories that i feel shouldn't weigh that much but they are in the calculation of rankings #the dolphins had the concussion protocol situation yet were rated really high overall so hm #the saints doing generally well in the survey and then having an f- in the food department. you are in louisiana. ??? #the grading did seem kinda arbitrary bc there was only the explanation of 'no dinner' whereas w the bengals #there was a litany of complaints abt the food service there #and yet they got the same grade #kinda spitballing here so feel free to add on and stuff #sports #nfl #nflpa #unions #working conditions