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the real fantasy isn't the swords and the dragons, it's having a main quest to dedicate yourself to and friends to undertake it with

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if anyone needs me today I'll be browsing rental listings in Seattle and contemplating my life choices

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as I was saying-

Assuming Seattle isn't getting a PWHL team bc it wasn't introduced during the PWHL Vancouver press event, held in Vancouver, highlighting Vancouver hockey history, is hilarious

Just give it a minute y'all omg

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Having a friend who is learning derby while I'm learning hockey is fun bc for the most part we're frustrated and confused and excited about the same things but once in a while one of us will say something and the other will go "you guys did WHAT" and it is peak comedy

For example, if I say we had to do supermans I mean that we had to throw ourselves onto the ice and slide on our tummies, but I cannot stress enough that we are basically doing this while wearing fully body armor

Today I found out that derby also does these, but when my bestie says they had to do supermans she means she had to drop to one knee while moving at full speed and then dive onto her tummy on the rink IN A CROP TOP.

WHAT.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME.

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Having a friend who is learning derby while I'm learning hockey is fun bc for the most part we're frustrated and confused and excited about the same things but once in a while one of us will say something and the other will go "you guys did WHAT" and it is peak comedy

For example, if I say we had to do supermans I mean that we had to throw ourselves onto the ice and slide on our tummies, but I cannot stress enough that we are basically doing this while wearing fully body armor

Today I found out that derby also does these, but when my bestie says they had to do supermans she means she had to drop to one knee while moving at full speed and then dive onto her tummy on the rink IN A CROP TOP.

WHAT.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME.

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you garden?! The way I’ve been staring at my little sprout babies for a month now. It’s almost time to transplant 😊🌱

I garden! Its mostly a container garden in a driveway but I grow most of our produce myself! P l e a s e tell me all about your sprout babies anon I would truly love to know what you're growing and how they're doing!

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hold one one sec okay let's clear something up:

you can await something or you can wait for something you cannot await for something I am awaiting her call. I am waiting for her call.

that is all thank you

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The annual garden roundup is a little wonky this year, but planting season is well underway so here is what we've got so far: - Tomatoes x 16 (healthy mix of cherries and slicers + 2 heirloom beefsteak) - Peppers x 10 (mix of spicy and sweet) + whatever has survived the winter from last year (maybe two?) - Snap Peas x 20 - Scarlet runners x 12 (survived the winter and decided to bloom again so we left them alone) - Corn x ???? (I do not know what's happening in the back of that box but it looks intense) - Bush Beans x 36 - Chickpeas x 24 - Cucumbers x 3 (two pickle and one slicer) - Cucuamelons x 6 (if they survive) - Potatoes x ???? (my partner is in charge of these and has no idea how many they planted but it's two 20 gallon tubs) - Yacon Root x 2 (weird but tasty) - Summer Squash x 3 (will this be the year I finally produce more than one edible zucchini) - Winter Squash x 5 (kabocha and butternut) - Pumpkin x 3 (baby bear) - Strawberries x 60 (mostly mara de bois) - Pidgin Peas x 12

Not listed: greens, various herbs, volunteer in-ground plants, the wheat we decided to attempt on a whim, and a couple more peppers + tomatoes that may or may not survive the seed starting stage It's gonna be a gorgeous summer in the backyard

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Farewell online privacy

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oh? we’re about to fucking die? help?

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okay I could have picked a better time to say this

Peslarova is wildly, wildly good. My jaw is on the floor.

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Peslarova is wildly, wildly good. My jaw is on the floor.

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hockey is simultaneously the most & least serious thing in the world. none of this is real & also I hope your team explodes & my team wins forever

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Kudos to Saulnier for that hands up avoidance of ARD like I AM NOT TOUCHING YOUR GOALIE YOU CANNOT FIGHT ME

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Fleet fans say "thank you Sirens, thank you Schroeder" we can collectively stress a little bit less about tomorrow's game

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I know that People In General are Not Doing Great bc of a general decline in basic ability to order a cup of coffee, but lately it's gotten worse in ways that would be funny if I weren't concerned about the implications re: the avg person's baseline intelligence. Today's winners were: - attempting to order a large latte by saying "Latte but more?" (that was the entire opening sentence, by the way - no greeting whatsoever) - attempting to order a large latte but could not remember the word "large" and resorted to increasingly frustrated gesturing - could not remember the word "large" and asked for an "extended latte" which turned out to mean large and also extra foam are y'all okay

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no but when i said that having a canadian broadcast network do all our television coverage of the uswnt i was told it wasn’t a problem and there wasn’t any bias

then when i said that having 5 canadian general managers and 4 canadian coaches that the inaugural draft would lean in canadian favor i was told i was overreacting and there wouldn’t be any bias towards nationality in draft picks

then when i said that having two canadians hosting the only league sponsored media is going to favor canadian teams i was told they don’t have any biases & they don’t have favorites as league employees

hilary knight is the all time iihf point leader - she broke hayley wickenheiser’s record three years ago

hilary knight is the all time iihf goal leader - she broke cammi granato’s record four years ago

we’re celebrating her this year because she finally broke wick’s assist record this tournament

so now she holds the records for most points, most goals and most assists

i know the political landscape between our two countries has shifted dramatically in the last 90 days but the seattle takeover tour where pou was announced as “the greatest to ever play the game” and hil was just “captain america” was january 5th

before trump ever took office

this sentiment and this bias has existed for years

we don’t have any full time dedicated american women’s hockey media covering our team

when nbc laid off alex azzi we lost all journalistic coverage of the team’s labor disputes with usa hockey

alex azzi was the only one covering the pay gap between the canadian and us teams and how much less the americans make per game despite the majority of our players competing in the ncaa and receiving no salary at all so our payroll is much, much smaller

she was the only one covering the players’ fight for protections for mothers after how emily pfalzer and alex cavallini were pushed out of the program after giving birth to their children

hailey salvian (who admitted on twitter during the 2022 worlds gold game that she’s not a women’s hockey fan) has exclusively covered the canadian national team because the athletic doesn’t feel the need to have two journalists covering women’s hockey

we don’t have our own national broadcast team, we don’t any national pwhl broadcasting deals, we don’t have any american journalists covering the team full time and the ones we do have are volunteers who run on donation

but there’s no bias, and i’m overreacting

i could show you the articles and the data

particularly of how heavily favored canadians were in the inaugural draft and how what pwhl team you play for strongly determines whether or not you get called up to your national team

or how hilary is beating pou in points in the pwhl as well because she assists so much more than pou does

after decades of everyone declaring that gretzky is the best because his assist record is just as impressive as his goal record and being told my entire life that is the metric for what “the greatest of all time” means

but i know people are just going to tell me that the bias doesn’t exist, that people hate gretzky now and don’t consider him canadian anymore

meaning the reason they loved him in the first place is because he was considered canadian then

every time i turn on a tv all i hear about is ovi breaking gretzky’s goal record (we don’t talk about ovi’s assists) like he’s not just as much of a putin pawn as trump is

canadians built the metrics of what makes a goat and then turn around and say “actually we only like them if they’re canadians”

while literally controlling the vast majority of the media coverage and teams

but i’m wrong

there’s no bias

it’s all just a coincidence

the americans don’t need anything of their own

we don’t need representation

despite the fact that more americans voted for kamala than there are people in canada, we all suck and don’t deserve anything good ever because we’re american