Alice Soper

Maiakawanakaulani

This is my kinda content!

Am I already considering painting another tie for my Black Ferns? Of course.

Tottering around on each other’s shoulders in the rankest trench coat.

Now I have added pool A, I can tell you I have new nemesis logo, USA.

But that's likely because I haven't yet attempted Brazil.

I reckon my mum being one of the last art advisors for primary schools at the ministry of ed can explain a lot about how I’ve ended up the way I am.

I reckon I’m getting close to 20 research projects I’ve provided interviews for.

Love that there’s this many young women fired up about equity in sport.

Hobson Pledge should put their own faces on their campaigns.

If you believe it, front up to it.

Coming up on my three year anniversary of writing my weekly column for the Herald on Sunday.

Oh, I guess it’s actually 4 if you count my sleeveless shirt. Which is otherwise plain except my arms make it fun?

I now have 3.

All secondhand. All unique and fun in their own way.

I don’t need more than 3, I don’t need more than 3, I don’t need more than 3.

I have a bad habit of becoming slightly fixated on certain items of clothing. A colourful plaid blazer has had me in a grip for an age. More recently, bold 90s print ties.

I have just clocked myself adopting a new one. A fun denim shirt.

Shoutout to Samoa who recently simplified their logo. Meanwhile Brazil wanted to make theirs more complicated 🥲

A navy tie with a fine white stripe. Which has now had the Rugby World Cup 2025 logo painted on it, along with the logos of the teams in pool c: NZ, Japan, Ireland and a much less legible Spain and pool b: Fiji, Wales, Scotland and Canada.

Day 2 of painting myself a Rugby World Cup 2025 tie.

Honestly, traditional exams are memory tests.

I was alright cause I have good recall. So I would binge the material the week before then regurgitate in the exam.

Open book exam? No longer had that advantage and no idea how to refine what reference material to bring in. And did worse, go figure.

32 players, 32 stories. 7/32 meet Tanya Kalounivale
#Blackferns #RWC2025

I didn’t think I would see what I have seen in the first two episodes but here I am, turning up for more wild.

It is giving classic soap. Like, the type of series where someone would have an evil twin or hit their head and get amnesia.

Oh I’m gonna hate watch the shit out of this. It’s my new And Just Like That…

This also made no sense. Just like me seeing this thong, her boobs and a smokey eye I thought we had left behind in 2007.

It’s is the most heterosexually coded queer shit I have ever seen.

Yes it’s technically a woman coming on to another woman but it also was somehow so aggressively straight.

A straight man lesbian fantasy.

THANK YOU YES. This woman would be the type who creates tiktoks of herself filling her fridge with every different ice you could conceive. But doesn’t have a pad?

I repeat. Seductively slips the pad into her thong.

Which is not how pad application works but also, are we making menstruation sexy? Which like, cool, I guess???

I would be happy with just no weird rather than making it weird in a whole new way.

I need to talk to someone about how bizarre that opening of Hunting Wives is when the woman asks the other woman for a pad and then strips down to a lacy thong in front of her and then seductively slips the pad into that thong.

Which like WHAT?!!

When I was a kid, I remember I had a dressing up outfit to go to fancy places like Valentines for dinner. I loved it and it was centred around one key piece that is just as lesbian as you’re imagining.

A photo from behind Ken at the launch today. He’s making a speech at the podium to a full house at Wainuiomata Marae.

From a queer arm wrestling event to a mayoral launch.

A total vibe for uncle Ken this afternoon in Wainuiomata.

If you’re lucky enough to live in Lower Hutt, vote Ken Laban for mayor!

My friend yesterday said “they must be reading your stuff”

No friend, I’m reading theirs by identifying the patterns in their language and selections.

Lol team, remember when I used my hyper-fixation and pattern recognition to pick the Black Ferns Rugby World Cup squad 32 a week out.

And actually the 33 because I also said Krystal Murray would be injury cover.

What a wild time.

32 players, 32 stories. 6/32 meet Georgia Ponsonby.
#blackferns

I am gutted for the NRLW that the magic round is having to content with this atrocious weather.

Thank you 🥰