Shmaylor

Okay okay it seems to be stopped. Murder and tears both suspended for now

Oh or maybe I'll just burst into tears instead of doing murder. I can't handle this fucking sound

Power outage: fine

Alarm panel in our front hall has backup power and rings continuously to let us know that the power is out: I am going to kill everyone and everything with hammers

my fic has received over 100 kudos in less than 24 hours, and while I'm delighted that people are enjoying it, my podficcing ass is going to HURL. my delicate constitution is unused to this sort of treatment, and humans are not built for this many kudoses in one day I think!!

ahhh, okay I did the thing! archiveofourown.org/works/79890166

A 6k fic for the hockey show that dares to ask the question: "What if Ottawa's management were the stupidest people alive and didn't want Ilya on their team?"

I thought I had the hard parts out of the way by having a title and summary already planned, but no!!!! I still have to tag the damn thing. I've never seen an ao3 tag in my entire life I'm pretty sure

fuck it, I'm gonna post it now

ooooh great rec! I love a time loop

soooo, relatedly, does anyone want to beta read a 6.5k thing? I don't need a super in-depth read, mostly just want to know if I've made any egregious 'hockey does not work that way' mistakes. the fic is approximately 50% feelings, 10% sex, and 40% media strategy and contracts lmao

It's already 5k what the helllllllll

I haven't felt like this since peak bf worth it, or maybe that month where the nancy drew fandom collectively lost our shit trying to figure out if the game 34 announcement was real or fake. I am BUZZING

the hockey show has me in such a chokehold. I am losing my mind! I am writing fic! I never write fic! what is HAPPENING

Again, I know fuck all about skating and I'm talking out of my ass. I'm not saying that skating should have the same priorities as me, it's just what I prefer to watch as someone with a bit of a dance background

a man in a black shirt says it 's art in a cartoon Alt: Cartoon man clenching his fists and yelling It's Art!

It's about the intentionally of movement! It's the difference between 'my arm needs to be at point B, so I put it there' vs 'I engage my arm when to moving from point A to point B'. The travel itself has weight and intensity. Every gesture is a moment!

oh god that's awful

As a person who only watches figure skating during the olympics and knows fuck all, my hot take is that they should put the ice dancing last in the team event. Some of the women's and men's skaters look like a bag of limbs after watching the lovely fluid movement of the ice dancers

fuuuck. maybe I will take a pass at watching that event

oh god are all those types of injuries they talked about during the men's downhill happening during the women's?

liveblog away! It's nice to know that someone else heard all that and I didn't make it up in some kind of feverdream!

not weird at all to tear your ACL 3 times and keep doing the sport!

yes that's the broadcast I was watching too!!! madness!

obviously injuries are common in basically all sports, but throwing yourself down hard, icy surfaces sure does increase the injury rate!

winter olympics is insane, because every 3rd sentence of commentary is like "and here is a list of the horrific injuries this athlete has experienced in the past 2 years alone"

More cities should have hungry bridges that eat trucks

oh that's so true about Boston, and we do not appreciate the sport and whimsy of it all enough.
I was also thinking about it from a roads component. all these former fucking cow paths that are confusing as hell. does ottawa have that kind of thing going on?

worse??!? HOW

It's an Australian show, but it's available on US netflix, so hopefully it might be available in the UK too!

(Although I'm now remembering that since it's Australian, there's a decent amount of swearing, in case that changes if you want to watch with your parents)

The boyfriend and I are really enjoying Fisk! And it was originally recommended by my mom, so it's definitely a good watching with parents show imo

I have like 5 separate tumblr posts for it queued up for it throughout the day. I'm pretty sure this is the only holiday I've done that for lollll

dealing with soooo much bureaucracy fuckery this morning