#home rinks

[marzipanandminutiae]

you know, the stuff I went out and did while sick, when I was a Millennial child/teenager, always astounds me to look back on

and I'm not talking like "oh I'm mostly over this little bug so I'm going back to work with a mask on." no. I'm talking full-bore Invalid Hours, just trying to go about my normal life

I'm supposed to be helping facilitate a HISTORICAL BALL tonight. Something I ADORE doing and DESPERATELY WANT TO DO. and I'm probably going to call out because I have a minor cold

flashback to ten-year-old me who lied to my mother about feeling well enough to do paint-your-own-pottery with my friend Jenna when in fact I 100% had a fever, I didn't have the energy to paint most of my Fairy Sitting On The Moon statuette, and I threw up in the bathroom of the artsy shopping arcade halfway through

(she would not have let me do that if I hadn't lied, to be clear, and when I threw up there was an immediate "okay we're done; sorry Mrs. Jenna's Mom that my child probably gave your child malaria or whatever")

and while that level was not broadly encouraged there was very much a culture of like...give your kid Tylenol and send them to school anyway. especially in the south. my mom was considered overly cautious for keeping me out of school until I was fever-free. now, you could say this is a reflection of capitalism's requiring two incomes to support a child, and in many settings that's very true! however. this was among stay-at-home moms in a fairly wealthy county

the early 2000s were a wild time

[orangepeelknives]

selections from "The visible body and the invisible organization: Information asymmetry and college athletics data" by Daniel Greene, Nathan Beard, Tamara Clege, and Erianne Weight:

[yardsards]

i have reached that phase of seasonal affective disorder wherein i start genuinely Feeling jimmy buffett songs

[redfirefox-55]

Was gonna go roller skating for the first time in months, but due to things my dad decided he didn’t wanna go, so now I have no reason to go because he’s literally the only one who hangs out with me on the rink..

[theblob1958]

oh god i have to plan something to do with my friends this weekend for my birthday <-girl who never knows places to go and whose friends wont even go roller skating with her despite it being for her birthday

[doctorcurdlejr]

And if you're wondering I do just rollerskate in circles in my driveway

[dstrome]

My last message is to wear the jersey with pride. Our boys, we started this thing from kind of the ground up. This organization when we first got here was nothing to be proud of. But to wear that jersey now means something - and means something to me. (x)

(x)

(x)

[ilkkawhat]

anybody else get extremely pissed off at their own anxiety

[grunge-mermaid]

I love how every time the commentators mention that the Charge are on the road until mid-January, they very emphatically Do Not Mention Why

boys' hockey is irrelevant in the pwhl games

[eating-plastic]

Man self shipping is crazy.because sometimes one of your f/os is a normal guy and sometimes the other is a house creature that eats people. And they both love your goofy ass so much. And they’re always there for you when you need them. And they both make you so happy. And you love them both so much. Yeah

[aprhampshire]

UPDATE DAY!!!

SNOW IS BACK WOOO!!!

No Snow in Aviary Village, which is interesting. Maybe they want to leave it in a permanent summer/spring, but I think a seasonal change would be cool! Also more construction, woo!

And a dedicated “News” page, I like that! The pictures are so cute :D!

[puckinghischier]

nico giving his last “we’re losing, wtf are we doing y’all?? i’m TIRED” intermission speech of the season as we speak

[izayoichan]

As mentioned, practice makes perfect.

(poses by @simmireen)

[squoobest]

GOLD MEDAL IN CRAB RACE BABY WOOHOOOO #VALLEYSWEEP #CARCINISATIONNATION

[mikkolas]

saw a stars jersey in the wild state of Very Much Not Texas... hope is alive and well... ❤️

[distressednoise]

Three sentence fic suggest: Brassian (obviously), and for the AU take your pick of previously discussed hockey scenarios, Arctic exploration, or, hmmm, extreme nature documentary filming of some sort.

I'm going to point you at this article re: the nature documentary AU because yes, YES. But I cannot pass up the opportunity to write a bit more goalie!cassian and his intimacy speedrun. Sure this isn't "three" "sentences", but it's tender, and ain't that enough?

They don't even bother to give him the tests; he pukes in the tunnel then starts crying in the locker room and when he tries to get his pads off nothing is in the right order. He thinks he might have yelled at Xanwan about it, or done something, because now they've herded him into one of the side rooms the PTs use for rubdowns and they're talking about him outside the door, unintelligible but far too loud.

It's Brasso who comes to get him. Cassian would be worried that he's being managed - that people have noticed he can be managed, if it's Brasso - but Brasso immediately shuts off the lights and lets Cassian tilt forward until his forehead meets Brasso's crinkled tracksuit, chill like he's just come from outside, so all he can muster is a kind of pathetic gratitude.

He can feel his pulse in his skull and he thinks he might be crying again, but none of that matters to Brasso, who hands him one of the polos the staff wear and says, "We'll get you changed and I'll drive you out. We'll go in my car, OK? No-one's watching for my car."

Cassian wants to object because they're in Canada now and someone's always fucking watching him, but Brasso's so sure. He's so sure and he's being so careful as he unhooks Cassian's gear; he came in and made everything quiet and dark. It'd be easy, Cassian thinks, to sink into a world where everything Brasso says is right.