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The zoom call between Geno, Sergachov and Orlov. Tarasenko was supposed to be w/ them too, but he had an allergic reaction to something and isn’t feeling well right now (interviewer said that it’s nothing serious, just his skin is effected). At the beginning, the interviewer asked them the usual “where are you, how are you doing “ question and asked Geno to go 1st, bc he’s “the older guy” between the 3 of them. Geno went “wow, when have I become “the old one”?” and then proceeded to joke about+

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+ being old throughout the whole interview. About the training during quarantine: he can’t train too hard, bc there are no trainers w/ him and no one can give him professional massages when his muscles and old injuries hurt too much. He’s just trying to stay in shape. When do they think they’ll be allowed to come back to the rink? They’re waiting until May 1 and then they’ll be told if they’re coming back or the quarantine will be extended. How long do they think they’ll need to get back in + 

+ shape? Geno said, he hasn’t skated in 1,5 months. He’ll need 2-3 weeks of training camp. “But I’m the old guy here! These two will need 2-3 days tops!” *everyone laughs* He says they’ll still need some games before playoffs, to gain some skills back: “You can’t just not skate for 2 months and then go straight to playoffs. We’ll need to get in shape for tough games.” Interviewer doesn’t get Geno’s jokes and ignores them, when Geno is chirping. The other guys laugh, but are pretty quiet. Best+

+Russian player in NHL? “Between the 3 of us?” *laughs* Sergachov starts saying something, Geno interrupts him “You can’t say Kucherov! *laughs* No Kucherov, no Ovechkin!” The interviewer then says that they can’t pick teammates. Sergachov picks Panarin, Malkin *Geno smiles* and Orlov. Geno also says Panarin. “Let’s imagine, the 3 of you and Tarasenko are playing for Russian national hockey team. Who would you want to be the 5th player with you? But you can’t pick Ovechkin.” Geno says, they +

+need someone who plays with right hand (bc the 4 of them are lefties) and picks Kovalchuk. Sergachov picks Kucherov and Geno yells: “Oh, come on! Pick Stamkos! He’s right-handed too! I can’t with you!” *everyone laugs* (god, I love him! He’s so funny and easy-going) Who’s the funniest Russian in NHL? Kovalchuk and Gusev. Sergachov is asked next and Geno immediately interrupts him and goes: “Zadorov! That’s his bff!” (Geno’s mercilessly chirping poor Sergachov throughout the entire interview.+

+Probably, just to bring some comic relief, bc he seems quite shy and reserved.) Who would you want to be quarantined with? Pick your teammate. “2 months with any of them is waaaaaay too long! We already spend 9 months of the year with them.” ”So you don’t miss any of them?” “Oh, I’m not even answering their msgs in the group chat. No, of course we’re talking on video calls.” If you had a chance to sit in the locker room between 2 hockey players, dead or alive, to talk to them and ask them any+

+questions, who would you choose? “Peter Forsberg and Joe Sakic. I was their big fan when I was a kid. I had their jersey and caps.” The best thing you’ve experienced during the quarantine? “Finally got some sleep. I got some rest, got to spend time with my kid. We’re very close right now. I’m trying to put him on roller skates and later get him on ice.” What one crazy story about this quarantine you’re gonna be telling your kids and grandkids? “Not many exciting things happening to me right +

+now. But the situation itself is very scary and I hope it’ll never happen again.” Imagine this happening 30 years ago. What would you do w/ all your free time, w/o internet, phones and video calls, or social media. “Alcohol is our everything! No, I’d probably just go for many walks, read a lot, learn to cook better, etc.” All of you are playing in eastern conference. What part of each others game do you miss the least? Sergachov: “Malkin’s hockey IQ is over the top. He’s very intelligent.” +

+Geno goes “Oh, tell me more, tell me more! Don’t hold yourself back” “Oh, don’t worry, I’m not going to.” “Wait, I’ll take my earphones off *takes them off* Now you can go. You never tell me this when we’re playing in national team together! You would only say nice things to Kucherov!” Sergachov: “I didn’t want to stroke your ego too much. Now we’re all doing nothing, so you could use some confidence boost.” Geno says that both Sergachov and Orlov are very fast, very intelligent about their +

+ play, are offensive defensemen, but he still managed to put some goals past them couple of times. Sergachov: “I blocked couple of your pucks that one time!” “Oh, so what? You want me to tell you that you’re good at defending?” *Orlov cackles like crazy* How hard is current situation is for you psychologically? Can you compare it to any other experience in your life? “Only my knee injury. Psychologically, I’m fine. I’m with my family, with my son. I’m very happy. The hardest thing is not +

+for sure, when we’re coming back” Geno gave a big shout out to all the doctors and medical staff fighting the pandemic. Video games question. (Sergachov is playing Fortnite with Kucherov. Geno immediately went “Duh, obviously! What’s new here?”) Geno isn’t playing anything bc his computer and everything are in Pittsburgh. “Give us some message for fans.” “Let me go first, since I’m the old one here!” He wishes to stay healthy (the fans and their families). To stay at home, follow the +

+instructions the doctors give us. Everyone should take this pandemic very seriously and not just go out for picnics and stuff like that. That's all. There should be 12 parts of this ask. Let me know if something is missing :) - Gino anon

Seriously, thank you SO MUCH Gino anon! This is great! 

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💛🖤💛🖤💛

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NHL players as professors at a hippy New England college that has weirdly specific classes

Tuukka Rask: Solo Hunting With Spears 201

Morgan Rielly: Too Much Salt? What Rocks and Mineral You Can’t Eat.

Alexander Ovechkin: Talking Back to Authority With Charisma 101

Connor McDavid: Weight Lifting 818: Carrying 20+ Adult Men on Just Your Shoulders.

Brad Marchand: Acting 335: Mastering Dramedy

Carey Price: Best Times to Think About Cowboy Boots When You’re Supposed To Be Working

Steven Stamkos: Luck and What to do When The Universe is on a Mission to Keep You From the Olympics.

Evgeni Malkin: English 100: Just Enough so That You Know What’s Going on but People Don’t Ask You Dumb Question

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ALL NWHL GAMES TO BE STREAMED ON TWITCH THIS SEASON

FREE

Go to link www.twitch.tv/nwhl at game time for access to stream

Compatible on all devices

Chat interaction with other fans and possibly NWHL figures / former players / etc

Pretty certain NWHL will also tweet out the link and have it available on their “watch” tab on their official website as well at game time, and I will always post the link at game time

IF YOU WANNA KNOW HOW TO WATCH WOMENS HOCKEY THIS IS IT!!

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A Letter from “Crawly” to Azirapil

This remarkable letter of unknown provenance surfaced recently in the cuneiform collection of the University of West Wessex.  Addressed to Azirapil from a Mr. “Crawly,” it appears to be begging for the other’s return to Ur from a western journey with another individual, Abiraham.  The relationship between the two (brothers? business partners? friends?) is unknown, and all three names are quite unusual.  The letter also mentions a Mr. Ea-naṣir in Ur; if this is the same Ea-naṣir as the merchant mentioned in UET V 22, 29, 71, and 81, then the original letter would be dated to the Larsa period, around 1800 BCE.  However, this particular copy appears to be a scribal exercise; the writing is relatively unskilled, and the cuneiform is Neo-Assyrian in form.  It is unclear whether the text is based on a historical letter, or if its unusual names and content were invented for scribal practice.

Text:

Tell Azirapil [1]:

Thus says “Crawly” [2]:

When will your time in the West be finished?  Abiraham [3] seems very dirty, and I am weary [4] in Ur.  [There is] a talented mirsu-maker [5] on Wide Street!

Watch out, for I have acquired a new friend.  His name is Ea-Naṣir [6], and I may play wickedly with him if you do not return.  

Come quickly!

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My friend does something similar at work - there’s a “lunch club” where anyone is welcome to join (though for logistics, it’s easiest with around 5 people) and everyone rotates making lunch for everyone once a week. You get to try different food 4/5 days without needing to cook! Everyone saves money and eats healthier :)

Hey, @the-rain-on-your-dandelions, has anyone told you that you’re a genius? That’s an incredible system. I wish I had a friend group that could function for!

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in which BBC Business Editor Robert Peston explains revolutionary socialism to a six-year-old

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Bottom Geno Week Masterlist

Thank you to everyone who participated! We had a lot of fun with this.

Day One

Rites of Passage by saintroux. Sid/Geno, 7500 words.

Thighs Worth Appreciating by chibinecco. Sid/Geno, 1400 words.

Day 1: cock-warming by nhlsideblog. Sid/Geno, art.

Day 1: sex toys by zhenyabest. Geno/Anna, 600 words.

sunlight’s zenith by goodnightpuckbunny. Sid/Geno, 1800 words.

Day Two

Summer Firsts by chibinecco. Sid/Geno/Anna, 800 words.

Day 2: begging by nhlsideblog. Sid/Geno, art.

The Next Exit by saintroux. Sid/Geno, 1400 words.

Day Three

Popular Slut Club by SturgeonGuy29. Sid/Geno, 7300 words.

A Warm Place on a Cold Night by chibinecco. Sid/Geno, 500 words.

Five Times Things Didn’t Go as Planned and One Time They Did by al-the-remix. Sid/Geno, 9200 words.

Face Time by snoozingkitten. Sid/Geno, 2100 words.

Day 3: overstimulation/humiliation by nhlsideblog. Sid/Geno, art.

Day Four

Day 4: cream pie by zhenyabest. Sid/Geno, 4500 words.

Hip Mobility by pinetreelady. Sid/Geno, 7400 words.

Locker room smut by al-the-remix. Sid/Geno, 3500 words.

A Happy Mess by chibinecco. Sid/Geno, 1000 words.

Day Five

In the North by sevenfists. Sid/Geno, 7000 words.

A Full Course Meal by al-the-remix. Sid/Geno, art.

Day Six

A Full Course Meal: Mermaid/Xeno by al-the-remix. Sid/Geno, art.

2:37 a.m. by icedbatik. Sid/Geno, 700 words.

Day Seven

Flight by sevenfists. Sid/Geno, 5400 words.

Hal E. Fucks by saintroux. Sid/Geno, 3100 words.

A Full Course Meal: Schoolboy Uniform by al-the-remix. Sid/Geno, art.

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Flower's 2019/2020 mask is fucking gorgeous.

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one of my favourite things in the world is that kakka means your highness in japanese and poop in finnish

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i love this

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photos of a lavafall at iceland’s fimmvorduhals, east of glacier eyjafjallajokull, from an april 2010 eruption. (click pic or link for credit x, x, x, x, x, x) 

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favorite bits of the cast interviews in the LOTR special features:

Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Elijah Wood and Viggo Mortensen all taking the piss out of Orlando Bloom for going on about a cracked rib too much, while Orlando Bloom desperately tries to wriggle out of talking about it (special mention to Elijah Wood’s “oh it hurts, babes, and I can’t ride the horse, babes” and Viggo Mortensen’s “they can be very fragile, elves, especially the…Mirkwood strain…”)

Ian McKellen commenting that “they never did find any suitable underwear for Gandalf…”

Dominic Monaghan going on and on about how Viggo Mortensen apparently had a crush on one of the Rohirrim extras (who like a lot of the Rohirrim extras was a woman in a fake beard) while Vigoo Mortensen just mutters “one could perhaps say something about Mr. Monaghan’s…proclivities…”

Dominic Monaghan’s imitation of John Rhys-Davies ordering food at a restaurant for the whole cast. “You have partridge? BRING THE PARTRIDGE!”

John Rhys-Davies talking about an incident with the Lothlorian boats and saying “if an elf and a dwarf are in a boat…and…the boat goes under…let us say that the blame was not placed on the elf” while Orlando Bloom splutters “he’s a big guy, man!” 

Elijah Wood talking about how the hobbit actors shared a trailer with Ian McKellen and sometimes they would hear inarticulate bellows of protest from his side when they played loud music in the mornings

Viggo Mortensen talking about how, while filming with those same boats, Kirin Shaw (Elijah Wood’s scale double) started telling him “if the boat tips over…save yourself…I can’t swim.” 

Elijah Wood describing how Sean Astin would try to direct the helicopters to land while they were on location, while the other three hobbits were screwing around and throwing pinecones at each other

Christopher Lee recounting how he had so much trouble going up some steps in Orthanc with his long robe that he stopped in the middle of the scene and said, “I cannot get up these goddamn steps, Peter.” 

Viggo Mortensen mentioning that he left a weekend rehearsal and went walking down the street still swinging his sword around, and promptly got the cops called on him

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Hey all, remember when I said I’d never do another picture-fic because I don’t have photoshop and it’s straight up the devil’s work? Yeah, I lied. 

someone give me validation this took forever 

7/6/19 Update: Translated into Vietnamese by the amazing @annapotterkiku

Now archived as plain text on AO3 and in picture format on Wayback 

Discredit - Excerpts from A.Z. Fell and Co.’s Yelp Page 

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+5 prompt: geno is the storyteller like Scheherazade