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I don’t know if liking this message is giving the right energy, so: sorry for my morning crimes, V.

(But ALSO did you know the word compassion etymologically means “to suffer alongside”????)

GOOD MORNING to you and yours; Ilya Rozanov is dying on the bench, checking his phone at the intermissions, scrutinizing Hayden Pike’s face after the Metros coach leans down to tell him something and covers his mouth with a piece of paper.

We wish you a good day!!!

Argh those weeks are the worst. You've got this, friend. Maybe not the way you planned or all of it at once, but you DO. The world is exhausting!!

So do I N and my thoughts are mostly, “You were acting stupid enough for someone who was down bad for his ice boyfriend in the middle of the third period, after a lot of emotional and puck-related edging. Now you’re telling me you did this shit THIRTY SECONDS IN????”

The joy has been collective, ma’am, and so must the horror be. ☺️

ME TOO PLEASE HELP

…yep.

I’m going to stop any time now, my friend.

Any. Time. Now.

Ilya Rozanov looking down at Shane Hollander, who is injured on the ice (scene from Heated Rivalry)

Well, I hope to never forget that today I learned that in the show the hit happens 25 seconds into the game, so Ilya has to get through 59 mins and 35 seconds of playing time and two intermissions while out of his fucking mind.

Glad to have learned this!

I laughed SO HARD, for way longer than it warranted, B.

A moment of Crazy Car in a totally normal car, even!

My spouse, with a big grin as the Foo Fighters' 'My Hero' comes on in the car:

"Just waiting for the best line, 'Kudos my hero.' I wonder what Kurt Cobain would have thought of that. I don't know, maybe that's a thing they did, just kudos-ed each other in the band."

Anyway that's why I'm married.

Fandom: we do love us some people collapsing like their strings have been cut…

deaaaaaaaath

I was never a Hawks fan and STILL miss that experience

YES!!

Really nothing funnier than a hockey goalie sitting on the ice, legs splayed after letting in a goal, looking like a kid who ran too fast and let his scoop of ice-cream fall off the cone

This is a great idea & I’ve been eyeing it from the sidelines like a kid who wants to be asked to join a pickup game. Hello friend! I am maría, always syllic (except for regrettable earlier pseuds from my teens), everywhere except tumblr (singingkingoftheroad). Merlin, Inception, dozens of madnesses

CHERRYBINA I’m being transported through time and space and sensation

It’s not my imagination that… that is visibly and palpably not a “king-sized bed,” right ?

The great molasses flood and the “stupid lady who sued McDonald’s because her coffee was too hot, can you imagine?” are the same story

Normally don’t do this, but the Twin Cities are occupied and there are a lot of folks I know who are helping people with very acute needs. I know a lot of good folks out there have offered to help or want to know how they can help, so I may occasionally boost fundraisers for folk or causes I trust.

It’s a real wasted opportunity that there are four tennis grand slams but only three playing surfaces. Time to make it a proper challenge:

French Open - clay;
Wimbledon - grass;
US Open - hardcourt;
Australian Open - hot coals.

Ah, man, sometimes one only catches oneself accidentally assholing in retrospect. The tone of that first reply was DEFINITELY not meant to be “well actually” 💀

Ah, Ovi. Having almost given up any pretense of doing anything other than waiting by his spot, like a faithful old dog. Ol’ Bones.

We have not seen each other in such a long long long time but HUG. This was us and our dog earlier this year.

My parents always texting me from Mexico, horrified: we read the reports of dangerous weather!!

Me: I’m taking this seriously but also every time I’ve taken this seriously before we got 2 inches of rain and then it froze.

I LOVE AN OWL, goddamn

You look SO BEAUTIFUL!! Have an amazing time with your friend.

I was saying to someone that the first goalie fight I ever saw live was an unwilling one (I think… Ray Emery whaling on Braden Holtby while Holtby squirmed like an eel) and when I saw Bobrovsky coming down the ice I was like nooooooooo

They did get 5-min majors for fighting and 2-min minors for leaving the crease! Served by Toffoli and Vilmanis (my FAVORITE thing in hockey is proxy-box-of-shame when goalies get penalties). But I am SO TROUBLED TO KNOW they did something to fuck up the EBUG magic--I didn't know this!!

We're probably so old that Four Loko would climb out of the bathtub and throw us in instead if we tried