#Carl Eller

[govikingsblog]

The "Purple People Eaters" or The "Purple Gang" Marshall, Larson, Ellen and Page.

[thornescratch]

I love how the behind the scenes video for the photoshoot of the Caps W Magazine was basically just:

Players admitting they have zero input on what they wear and their wives dress them

Charlie Lindgren talking about his mustache

Erik Gustafsson talking about his tattoos

Players being instructed on how/when to cross their legs and when to manspread like a ho.

[washingtoncapricorns]

More Caps boys at Backy’s wedding!!

[incorrect-caps-etc]

TJ Oshie: If I run on the field naked during the super bowl, I’m gonna get millions of impressions. But is it gonna help me sell crypto?

Nicklas Backstrom:

John Carlson:

Tom Wilson:

Lars Eller:

Carl Hagelin:

Everyone:

TJ Oshie: I hope so!!

[greaseonmymouth]

Ingefærte (4255 words) by nerakrose Fandom: Afdeling Q | Department Q (Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Assad/Carl Mørck Additional Tags: Journal 64, Break up sex, Blow Jobs, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, More Blow Jobs, Established Relationship, Relationship Problems, Getting Back Together, (teknisk set slog de ikke op men de fandt sammen igen alligevel hvis det giver mening), Serious Injuries, (hvis du har set filmen you know), Sobbing, Declarations Of Love, Happy Ending, foregår under og efter filmen Series: Part 4 of afdeling q men det handler om mad i stedet for mord Summary:

Sidst på dagen er kantinen altid næsten tom, så der er ro, ingen kat og ingen Rose, og bordene er så smalle at deres knæ rører hinanden.

[skeppsbrott]

Lite pinsamt att folk fortfarande tycker kungen är kul och meme-ig!

Kungen på transflagga är bara kul om man kan förtränga att han fortfarande är bitter över att Victoria är före Carl Philip i tronföljden, att han står utanför lagar och demokratiska fri- och rättigheter, att Lundsbergsskolan gång på gång utpekas som korrupt och med helt vansinnig elevkultur.

"Nej, nej jag kan faktiskt inte dra mig till minne att jag någonsin skulle ha varit på en sådan klubb".

Tror ni att ett kungabarn som visade sig vara homo- eller bisexuell skulle få leva sin sanning öppet? Ett kungabarn som råkade vara trans? Ditt enda jobb som arvinge är att se till att föröka dig. Ja, det måste vara ditt kött och blod, nej, det spelar ingen roll att släkten Bernadotte inte har någonting med Vasa eller kung Erik att göra.

Låt dig inte luras av Young Royals; för den som faktiskt är nära kungamakten nog att ständigt behöva förhålla sig till den, är en världsbild där vissa människor har mer medfödd dignitet och rätt till makt än andra, ett ofrånkomligt faktum.

Familjen Bernadotte lär vara bra reklam för Sverige men de som står i kassor och går rundvisningar på Slottet har sämre lön och arbetstrygghet än vad jag hade på samtliga mina resturang- och barkneg. Slottet har 1400+ rum och i enorma salar står små koppar som hört till Marie Antoinette undangömda bland tusentals andra ovärderliga och unikt magnifika föremål.

Om kungen var allierad på riktigt skulle han låta mig och alla mina vänner suga transkuk på silvertronen.

[coffee-at-annies]

6+43 you pick the pairing.

6+43: Bookshop AU+Dance of Romance

This is very hard for me because I fully believe most hockey players cannot read. There is reason the Sidney Crosby School for Hockey Players Who Can’t Read Good is a thing that I believe with my whole heart that exists. You said dealers choice on the pairing so I hope you’re ready for an entire au and many, many pairings. Remember, you asked for this.

Anyway small independent bookshop owners Sid and Geno. They’re gay and married and semi-successful and it’s cute.

Kris is the bitchy barista who barged into their store one day and bullied them into adding a cafe and then took over running it.

He’s got some sort of situationship going with his longtime regular, Tristan, who has never picked up a book in all the time he’s been coming there. He is there every day for his caffeine fix and to do suduko or something else juuuuust close enough to be book adjacent but isn’t reading. I’m not sure there’s enough thoughts in Mouse Boy’s head to read a whole book. At least that’s what he wants us to think and I’m gonna give it to him.

Jake and Bryan (Rusty) are two kids Sid hired from the local college that basically never left after graduating and are still here.

Flower runs the bakery down the street and makes sure Sid has pastries for Kris to sell. He has tried and failed to lure Kris away to do coffee for the bakery. (Flower also used to work at the bookstore but left to go pursue his dream of the bakery and they love and support him but Kris isn’t leaving).

Marcus and Ricky are two Swedish dads that come in for kids storytime and let their kids play around.

They’ve started bringing new Swede-in-town Erik and his daughter with them.

Chad doesn’t work for the bookstore but will occasionally stop by kid in tow for Sid’s storytime.

Ryan Graves just got hired to run the late night shift so they can be open later. (Yes this is a graveyard shift pun)

Magnus is the delivery man who drops off and helps unload book shipments.

(This is a very crowded small bookstore)

Ned is there regularly for book club with EK, Reilly (who is new in town) and Jason (Zucker) (an old regular), along with old not quite married couple Carl and Patric (Hags&Horny).

(All people I believe can read, unlike Jarry)

Jared and Brandon are around somewhere. Probably. (Look I love them).

Zach and Conor and Teddy used to work in the store while in college but unlike Jake and Bryan they left after graduation. Some of them are still around town but some of them have moved away.

The only people I’m missing are 4th line and I’m sorry idc where cookie and neets are tbh and BJC is around. Probably. Maybe he’s a regular, maybe he works the register, idk idc.

That leaves, basically everyone you just said “hey you forgot X” aka Lars Eller and the kids/wbs. If you were wondering why I didn’t mention them, that’s because this fic is about them. Well actually it’s about DOC and POJ because my brain decided that’s the pairing. Don’t ask me why. Big Z is right there with the rest of his harem but no we’re doing PO and Drew (probably because of that silly tortilla video). Anyway all the boys are college students at the local college. Drew is in a study group with Radim, Valterri, Jansen, Vinnie, Sam (Poulin), and Ty (Smith). They’re all taking Professor Eller’s class and they meet up once or twice a week in the bookstore to drink coffee and go over the homework.

Where is PO you ask? Well he’s behind the counter working under Kris as the backup barista. Don’t worry, this romance isn’t going to be customer/barista. No, no. The reason they started meeting here is because Drew works at the bookstore. He’s been there for about a semester (and the summer) but hasn’t really spent much time in the cafe part. It’s not until Big Z talks Drew into running study sessions in the cafe that they start noticing each other.

See PO took Professor Eller’s class last year, so one day, after watching the boys struggle for with the homework for way too long, he pops out from behind the counter and sits down and helps them out. He’s welcome at the study sessions and sometimes when he’s not on shift he’ll bring his school work and while they’re majoring in different things it’s nice to bounce ideas off them.

If you want to know what they’re majoring in, actual real life DOC majored in sociology while playing for Dartmouth. PO has not been to college but he did tell Taylor that if he wasn’t gonna be an athlete he wanted to be a vet or a psychologist so I’m going with he wants to be a Vet Tech and is majoring in whatever is the veterinary sciences equivalent of premed is.

Anyway they hang out at work more and more. This goes on for like a month and then Geno comes up with a big idea for a fall event. They’re doing a Halloween party. Jake and Bryan and Drew and PO have to help decorate the store and on the day of it’s filled with college students, kids, and regulars. Drew is trying desperately to avoid getting his cheek pinched by the old ladies from the knitting circle again. PO is safe because he’s behind the cafe counter serving drinks. PO has fake vampire fangs as his costume. Drew showed up in a not-couples costume with Big Z. If you wanna know what everyone else wore, please see this photo. Except I’m pretty sure Kris is either a prey mantis or the letits are out whichever option makes you, dear reader, feel more insane.

Eventually Sid and Geno shooo all their employees to go mingle and have fun. Drew and PO end up in the makeshift dance floor, music blaring, and after a couple jokes and a some negging from their friends, PO gives Drew a half twirl or something and they laugh it off before the song is even over.

It’s not until later when they’re cleaning up, all alone, music still going in the background, that they start joking about it and one thing leads to another and they actually dance. PO gives drew the full twirl. They bust a move. They slow dance a bit. They’ve never been this close. They’ve only casually touched and now they’re pressed up against each other. They’ve been hanging out at the bookstore outside of study group and Ohohoho what’s this? A feelings realization. Except wait. They’re both idiot college students. So they both awkwardly disengage to go do their job and part ways.

In the following days things are so completely awkward between them at work that Kris throws PO out of the cafe and won’t let him back until he can look Drew in the eye. Drew meanwhile cancels study session because he doesn’t know how to be normal around PO. Don’t worry they can’t continue like that for long. You see there’s a big test coming up and Z ropes PO into helping Drew out cause it’s like 40% of their final grade and Drew has been failing the at-home practice tests something terrible.

They end up staying way later than the rest of the study group going over this exam. Its way late at night, only Ryan is there to lock up behind them, and PO has just spent 4 hours explaining the test back to front - forgetting his awkwardness in the face of his determination to make sure Drew doesn’t fail. Drew definitely stares at PO explaining for a little too long, decides fuck it and goes in for a kiss. These are idiot college boys so instead they bump noses or headbutt each other or something. Poor boys. Can’t even do a surprise kiss correctly. Drew apologizes and then they do have the confession conversation and then the actual kiss. And more kisses. After that, more studying.

The end.

[andrebearakovsky]

(cont. ask) first of all NOOO don't apologize i was looking for a long post, this is why i came here! i've been lurking way back! i remembered your blog name! 2. wow??? this is such a comprehensive answer!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍🤗😳 thank you so much! 3. any content you want to post i am here for! 4. i can't believe there are so many new guys, like yes of course, but i can't believe it! 5. Oh yeah the details of the Holtby thing are coming back to me, i seem to have repressed it.🙈

Aw that's so sweet of you! A longtime viewer! (Viewer? What am I, a YouTuber? Calm down.) It's sweet of you to remember me and I'm delighted that I am apparently famous and evidently famous for making long/extensive posts lol. Which I'm about to do again.

I talked about Strome, Milano, Sandin, and alllll those young guys on my last post, as well as Darcy and TvR. [And Dowd but you already knew him.] The rest of the guys currently on the team I haven't really touched on yet that joined post-Holtby era are Nicolas Aube-Kubel, Anthony Mantha, and Charlie Lindgren. I'll get into them in a bit, but I gotta get into some other things first.

You said you haven't really watched since the Holtby era, so I'm going to assume you know everything that happened/all the people we had up til that final season, and that you know little/nothing of what has happened since then. So I'm gonna give a quick recap of some of the big things that have happened in that time:

You missed the ENTIRETY of the Sammy and Vitek goaltending era, which was kinda turbulent. Sammy was gonna be the starter with Henrik Lundqvist as the backup, but then it turned out Lundqvist had a heart condition and had to retire and never played a game for the Caps. This forced Vitek into action, and we had 2 years of the Sammy and Vitek goaltending duo. I, personally, loved it. Some people did not. I still hold that they were BOTH GOOD!! They split time, neither one ever TRULY grasped the starting reigns. There was also when Vitek got taken by the Kraken in the expansion draft and then immediately traded him back to us. Also they were besties, which started when they were a duo down in Hershey. It's also why my blog is titled "goalie best friend tandem," though it also currently applies to Darcy and Chuck who are besties. You can search the "goalie best friends" tag on my blog for cute Sammy and Vitek content. Neither of them are here anymore, but they're still friends - I remember seeing a quote Vitek gave to some Devils people talking about him and about still being friends and such.

Players you knew back from the Holtby era who are no longer with us: Lars Eller, Richard Panik (useless), Jonas Siegenthaler, Travis Boyd, Christian Djoos, Michal Kempny, Radko Gudas, Garnet Hathaway, Dmitry Orlov [don't talk to me about these last two I'm sad]

Players that played with us for multiple seasons after the Holtby era who are no longer with us this year: Justin Schultz, Conor Sheary, Daniel Sprong, Matt Irwin

COVID robbed us of our time with Brenden Dillon and I'm sad about it

We had Zdeno Chara for 1 year, and he straightup fixed Nick Jensen. Jensen was abysmal before that, then Chara was his defense partner for the whole year, and Jensen is good now. I no longer dread every time he touches the puck, I trust him. Also he has a personality now! Idk what kind of dark magic Chara used, but I will be forever thankful to him for it. 1 year of Chara absolutely 1000% worth it just for fixing Nick Jensen

We got Marcus Johansson back! :) And then we traded him again

We traded Jakub Vrana for Anthony Mantha, who is useless and unfortunately still here. He never fit in with the team vibe of "sexy idiots," he's not loud enough or slutty enough.

In March 2022 Carl Hagelin suffered a really bad eye injury during practice. I think the butt end of someone's stick got into his eye? (We were never told whose stick it was, I'm sure they have to feel absolutely terrible about it.) He's lucky he didn't lose his eye. He tried to come back, but he never played a game again after that. He was technically on the roster all of last season, but he never got into any games, and he just announced his retirement this summer. A really sad end, tbh. And RIP to the 4th line of dreams.

We were GONNA have Connor Brown for the 2022-23 season, and he was gonna play with Dylan Strome whom he's friends with and played in juniors with. But he played for like 2 games and then got hurt and was out for the season and never played for us again. I think he's in Edmonton now.

You know about goal songs, right?? I think the last year of Holtby was the first year of goal songs. I have a Spotify playlist of goal songs if you wanna check it out

There have been SO many injuries the last 3 years. 2021-22 was what I like to call the year of babies. I don't even remember who exactly was injured but there were so many injuries it necessitated the callup of SO many rookies. TWELVE rookies played that season: Martin Fehervary, Connor McMichael, Beck Malenstyn, Garrett Pilon, Hendrix Lapierre, Brett Leason, Aliaksei Protas, Axel Jonsson-Fjallby, Zach Fucale, Joe Snively, Alex Alexeyev, and Lucas Johansen. All of whom made their NHL debuts that season except for Fehervary, McMichael, Malenstyn, and Pilon. Of those rookies, Fehervary and McMichael were the only ones who were really supposed to make the team that season; they stuck around the whole season, while Leason and Protas played 30+ games, AJF played 20+, Snively and Malenstyn played more than 10 each, and the rest had 6 or less. It was truly the year of babies. Some of those guys aren't in the organization anymore, but I think this is the year the rest of them finally make the leap and are true full-timers. [Except for Fehervary, who already is]

More injury news: Nicky and Tom were injured for like the first half of last season. And in December, John Carlson broke his fucking face. He got hit in the face with a puck and it broke his entire face, like it was really bad, and he hardly played again. I think he came back for like the last few weeks, but tbh his injury was when the season went downhill. [I say "broke his face" but the official reports are he had a fractured skull and severed temporal artery. Yikes! He's fine now though]

Ovi just keeps breaking goal records. He got 800 goals and then passed Gordie Howe last season!!! He is now number 2 all-time in goals!! He currently has 822. Watch out, Gretzky, he's comin' for ya

Oh yeah the Hershey Bears won the Calder Cup this year!! It was absolutely epic. They played the Coachella Valley Firebirds (Kraken AHL team) in the finals, and it was an awesome finals. It went to Game 7 overtime. GAME SEVEN OVERTIME!!!!! Do you know how rare that is? It's only the 2nd time the Calder Cup Finals has gone to overtime in Game 7, with the first time being in 1953. In the NHL, it has only ever happened in the Stanley Cup Finals TWICE. EVER! By the Wings in 1950 and 1954. So the Bears won the Calder Cup in Game 7 overtime and it was exciting as FUCK. And a lot of guys who might make the Caps roster this year were on that Cup-winning team: Snively, Protas, McMichael, Malenstyn, Johansen, as well as top prospects Lapierre and Iorio. They're the oldest franchise in the AHL, and that was their 12th Calder Cup, which is the most in AHL history.

And you said to feel free to post some content so I am going to POST some CONTENT. Starting with:

✨Darcy Kuemper✨

I fucking love Darcy, so much. I've already said that I've liked him for a long time, and I'm absolutely elated to have him on the team. He won the Cup with the Avs in 2022. He is also very tall, he's 6'5", one time he hugged TJ and it made TJ look like a child. He's so sweet, and he's so dumb. He's like a giant labrador. Some of my favorite assorted Darcy things and moments include:

In one of his first interviews after signing he said he was gonna visit every museum in DC, and I'm like no you're not, Darcy, that's not possible. Our first sign that he was a big dummy

One time suplexed Matthew Tkachuk into the ice

Got a shot on goal during a game last year

The time he tried to "interview" Nick Jensen at the outdoor game practice while giggling incessantly

Here's him at NHL media day last year, featuring him kicking a soccer ball like you see in my profile pic :)

Says one of his life goals is to bring back the dinosaurs. Please see this post for the full story on that one

Is absolute BESTIES with Charlie Lindgren, the backup goalie. Like, so much so that they and their wives constantly take their dogs on walks together, the dogs are reportedly besties as well, and the Kuempers dog-sat Chuck's dog over Christmas. They also kind of have matching dogs, I'll include a picture below. Chuck also called himself and Darcy two of the "more normal goalies in the league" which is an absolute lie after the dinosaurs thing, so clearly Chuck doesn't have that many brain cells rolling around up there either. They also did THIS at media day this year. Their friendship is just so pure. You can read more about it in this article. And like, they didn't know each other before signing here. According to the article, evidently after they signed, they texted each other and then literally the scene from stepbrothers happened

And then TvR 🥰 Mine own love TvR. I adore Trevor van Riemsdyk so much. He's just got incredibly good vibes. I also have a bit more of a personal attachment to him, because he and I have the same birthday (July 24). He's a bit soft-spoken, especially compared to some of the other freaks on this team. Possibly one of the only ones with any semblance of a brain cell. He's not flashy; he's a steady-eddy defenseman, almost always on the third pair barring injuries. He's not gonna score a bunch of points, but he plays hard defensively every game (one of the reasons goalies love him), he's reliable, and he blocks SO many shots. He's also one of THE guys on the penalty kill. The penalty kill is TvR, Jensen, Fehervary, and Dowd, those are the main guys. We also officially claimed him as our own. As of this year, he will have played more years with the Caps than with anyone else, he currently has more goals, assists, and points with us than with anyone else, and after about 40 more games he will have played more games with us than with anyone else.

Also the ENTIRE team is absolutely fucking OBSESSED with him. There aren't like that many big specific things I can point to, it's just how I've noticed them treating him over the years, and how they talk about/to him and the general energy. They all love to shout "REEEEEEEEEEEEMERRRRRRRR" at any and every opportunity. And like you can just tell that every single one of them is deeply in love with him. They are all constantly tripping over themselves to give him the player of the game award in the locker room, even when other guys have a bunch of points in the game and it feels like they're the obvious choice but no they all want to give a love letter to their collective crush. The goalies especially love him. (Here's Chuck giving him the POTG, Nicky giving him the POTG, and a recounting of Sammy's love affair with him two seasons ago). The coaches also love him, sometimes too much for their own good - there have been times in the last few years when they've put TvR on the power play and in the shootout (??) when he had no business being there lol. And like I don't blame them lmao. He's grown to become a leader on the team (and occasionally gets As on his chest during preseason games and when a bunch of dudes are injured - another thing that confirms to me they're all in love with him, he got real high up on the chain of command real quick), he's super consistent (there was one game last year when there were so many injuries on D that the defense was quite literally just TvR plus a bunch of rookies - I said that day that the defense was "TvR and a dream"), and he will absolutely never put his mouthguard in his mouth. So as the year goes on, and as you watch games and social media content, just keep your eyes peeled, watch TvR, and you'll see that the entire team is so fucking horny for TvR specifically. I made this meme awhile back, which is exactly how the Caps feel about TvR:

Other miscellaneous fun facts about the team and players that I think you should know:

Our backup goalie is Charlie Lindgren, but we all call him Chuck. It suits him better, especially with his mustache. He also catches right-handed, which is different than practically every other goalie in the league. So like if you look, he and Darcy wear their catching gloves on different hands.

There are a LOT of NHL brothers on this team. Dylan Strome's older brother Ryan plays for the Ducks, and his younger brother Matt actually plays for the Hershey Bears. Trevor van Riemsdyk is also the middle child of three hockey-playing brothers: his older brother James plays for the Bruins, and younger brother Brendan doesn't play in the NHL but played college hockey. And Charlie Lindgren is the oldest of 3 hockey brothers: Andrew played college hockey but never made the NHL, and youngest brother Ryan plays for the Rangers.

Kuzy has been doing some wacky shit in the shootout the last few years, just go look it up on YouTube

Here's a video of the mentors trip this year so you can see Sonny Milano's father who is simply exactly who I envisioned him to be in my head

Nicolas Aube-Kubel (NAK), a French-Canadian fourth line winger that the Caps picked up on waivers in November last year, is Sergei Ovechkin's (Ovi's son) favorite player. We learn this in a video feature with Ovi's wife and kids (I'm including the link to this gifset from the lovely @thornescratch which is where I first saw this). The producer asks who Sergei's favorite player is, and Sergei immediately answers "Aube-Kubel." Not only is Aube-Kubel his "guy" according to Nastya, but then we also see that a selfie of Sergei and Aube-Kubel is the lock screen of Sergei's iPad. And Sergei calls Aube-Kubel his "best friend." Learning this information is such a curveball, because it's like the last person you'd expect Sergei's favorite to be. It's not somebody Russian or even European, it's not somebody old or someone who's been on the team a long time, it's not one of his dad's closer friends, and it's not even one of the stars of the team, it's a young Canadian dude who plays fourth line if he's in. Aube-Kubel must be REALLY friendly, otherwise why else would he be Sergei's favorite? You know it has to be absolutely devastating to Tom Wilson to not be Sergei's favorite lol. [I'm also convinced this is why they re-signed NAK so quick in the offseason, you HAVE to bring back Sergei's favorite player!!]

Speaking of NAK: remember how I said Beck Malenstyn was Nic Dowd's chosen winger? NAK is his OTHER chosen winger. Those two are twin shitstarters and Dowd loves them and I know he absolutely wants both of them on his line this season. They're gonna be a great 4th line. I could talk all day about Dowd and his 4th line duties, and you can ask me to do that if you want but I'm not gonna do it here

I also know everyone's zodiac sign because I'm a freak. I can also get more into that in a separate post if you want

There's probably more stuff, but this is all I can think of for now. Please feel free to ask me more stuff, I love diving into things. Stuff about the team, players, my favorites, whatever. I hope this is both informative and entertaining!

[sophiebernadotte]

H.M. The King's speech at the state banquet in connection with the state visit from the Republic of Finland

Herr Republikens president, Fru Innes-Stubb, Herr talman, Herr statsminister, Statsråd, Excellenser, Mina damer och herrar,

Det är med stor glädje som Drottningen och jag välkomnar Er, Herr president och Fru Innes-Stubb, till Sverige. Traditionen bjuder att den finländska presidenten avlägger sitt första statsbesök i vårt land. Den tycker jag att vi fortsätter värna om – liksom våra nära och goda relationer!

Herr president,

Ni är det sjätte finländska statsöverhuvudet som jag nu har nöjet att möta. Mitt första statsbesök till Finland ägde rum redan år 1974. Som ung Kung hade jag då äran att tas emot av den finländska presidenten, Urho Kekkonen.

Ärade gäster,

I dag står våra länder närmare varandra än någonsin tidigare i modern tid. Vi är geografiskt, historiskt och kulturellt sammanflätade. 600 år av gemensam historia har satt sina spår.

De starka och täta kontakterna mellan Finland och Sverige tar sig uttryck på många olika sätt. Natoprocessen är ett utmärkt exempel på när våra länder samarbetat mycket nära och förtroligt för att slutligen bli fullvärdiga medlemmar i alliansen.

Nu inleds en ny säkerhetspolitisk era efter många år av alliansfrihet. Våra länders relationer fördjupas härmed ytterligare. Det nordiska försvarssamarbetet förstärks också av att hela Norden ingår i Nato. Man får nog gå tillbaka till Kalmarunionen för att hitta så starka band mellan de nordiska länderna.

Vi står också enade i vårt stöd till Ukraina. Rysslands anfallskrig är en stor tragedi och ett hot mot vår frihet och säkerhet. Det fortsatta stödet till Ukraina är avgörande för en fredlig utveckling även i vår region.

Ärade gäster,

Högteknologiska innovationer och vidsträckta skogar – båda viktiga faktorer för en hållbar framtid – förenar Finland och Sverige. Liksom vår vilja att samarbeta kring Arktis och att rädda Östersjöns havsmiljö. Allt detta bottnar i vår kärlek till naturen – till skogen, sjöarna och havet. Tove Jansson sätter ord på denna gemensamma känsla, som även delas av Mumintrollet, i boken ”Kometen kommer.”

”Han tänkte på hur förfärligt mycket han älskade allting, skogen och havet, regnet och vinden, solskenet och gräset och mossan och hur omöjligt det vore att leva utan alltsammans.”

Herr president,

Det finländska folket har mycket att vara stolta över. Och då har jag inte nämnt alla era framgångsrika kompositörer, konstnärer, formgivare, arkitekter och idrottare. Eller att ni är världens lyckligaste folk – för sjunde året i rad! Faktum är att alla nordiska länder befinner sig på topp 10. Det säger väl ändå något om Norden!

Jag skulle även vilja lyfta fram den nyligen genomförda finska presidentvalskampanjen som kännetecknades av god anda och respektfull ton. Här är Ert land en förebild för många andra länder.

Herr president,

Finland har alltid en plats i svenska folkets hjärtan. Vi är grannar, vänner och familj, med så mycket som förenar oss. Låt oss hålla hoppet levande och möta omvärldens utmaningar – tillsammans!

För Er, herr Republikens president, för Republiken Finland, för banden mellan våra länder och folk – då som nu och in i framtiden – föreslår jag en skål.

Speech held by H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf at the Royal Palace in Stockholm on April 23, 2024.

[nordic-language-love]

Six Words a Day - 2/30

Jeg fikk ikke tid til å gjøre denne challengen de siste dagene, men jeg har tid nå! Her kommer seks nye ord. Disse ordene kommer fra boka Meg, meg, meg av Linnéa Myhre.

En liten “trigger warning”: første eksempelsetning handler om spiseforstyrrelser.

1. evinnelig (a) - evinnelige

som aldri tar slutt [engelsk: eternal]

Jeg spiser ikke når jeg er sulten. Jeg spiser ikke det jeg helst vil spise. Og skulle kroppen en sjelden gang gi meg et lite hint om hva jeg innerst inne har lyst på, fiskegrateng i stedet for de evinnelige brødskivene, for eksempel, spiser jeg brødskiver likevel.

2. påklistret/påklistra (a) - påklistrede

som er klistra på [engelsk: stuck-on]

De har samme ideene, det samme kroppsspråket, det samme håpefulle blikket. De samme drømmene, den samme muskuløse kroppen og det samme påklistrede smilet.

3. å avvente (v1) - avventer, avventet/avventa, har avventet/avventa

å vente på [engelsk: to await]

Jeg legger en finger på skjermen foran meg og avventer identifikasjon, får bekreftet at jeg er den jeg utgir meg for å være, hvem nå enn det er, før han vinker meg vekk med håndflaten.

4. dus (a) - dust, duse

mild, avdempa [engelsk: dim]

Han har gitaren på ryggen og luen dratt godt ned i pannen, og det litt trette ansiktet smiler lettet under det duse skinnet fra en ensom lyktestolpe.

5. stedfortreder (m) - stedfortrederen, stedfortredere, stedfortrederne

person som trer i stedet for en annen, vikar [engelsk: deputy]

Hun er tydelig stresset, og muligens stedfortreder for sin mann, som jeg går ut ifra er selveste Carl.

6. først som sist (uttrykk)

uten å utsette til senere [engelsk: without delay, at the first opportunity]

Bildet gikk verden rundt og skapte rabalder, og det oppsto en debatt om hvorvidt hun egnet seg til å være mamma. Om hun overhodet var glad i barnet sitt eller om det burde bli tatt fra henne først som sist.

[whitewaterpaper]

En mindre aktiv månad – dock fortfarande tvåsiffrig. Jag har stiftat bekantskap med så väl Ingmar Bergman som Carl Jonas Love Almqvist.

Ansiktet (1958) [👎🆓] Synopsiset verkade bra, och på tredje försöket tryckte jag “play”. För att citera Kjell Bergkvist: “pretentiös smörja”. Bra sammanfattning (av Kjelle IB i stort, för mig denna film).

Atlantis: En Försvunnen Värld / Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) [👍🔁] Kände för att se om den här, och hoppas få inspiration att se uppföljaren (som jag tror jag aldrig sett).

Brutus vs César (2020) [👎] Mer franskt. Påstår att den är en komedi. Den är varken rolig eller underhållande.

Charleys Tant (2015) [👍 🔁 🎭 ] Med sina 2½ timmar borde den vara för lång, Claes Malmberg och Marianne Mörck gör dock den här farsen till en njutning även andra vändan.

En Afton På Jaktslottet (1983) [👎 🎭 📺] Skitnödig svensk tv-teater, svag ramberättelse ämnad att hänga upp Carl Jonas Love Almqvist på. Stampar vatten ända tills det äntligen är över.

Ghost Ship (1952) [__] Egentligen trodde Vodeville att det handlade om den här filmen från 2003, men jag gillar ju gammal film. Och den här var riktigt bra. Hoppas dock fortfarande på att få se den andra också.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) [__] Hur skulle Ghostbusters sett ut om Spielberg regisserat den? Nu vet vi, för Jason Reitman går inte i pappas fotspår. Bättre än väntat.

Lost City, the (2022) [👍] SF-film ropade: “kom tillbaka, allt är förlåtet” och jag löste in min gratisfilm på den här. Lös remake på “Den vilda jakten på stenen”. Sandra Bullock går all in och levererar en underhållande actionkomedi som tåls att ses om.

Prey (2022) [👍] Insåg efteråt att jag såg den här på premiärdagen på Disney+. Prequel till den första Predator-filmen. Jag gillade den, avgjort bättre än många av de andra uppföljarna jag såg.

Sugar: I Hetaste Laget (2016) [👍🎭] Eva Rydberg har uppdaterat sin YT-kanal med Klassisk Broadway på Fredriksdal. Rekommenderas.

Vast of Night, the (2022) [👍] Månadens guldkorn. Lågmäld, charmig liten science fiction-film som tar avstamp från genrens guldålder.

Inget snack om saken. Skall man plocka en film denna månad skall man plocka “the Vast of Night”, och man gör bäst i att undvika både “Ansiktet” och “Brutus vs César“.

[govikingsblog]

Minnesota Vikings waiting to go back in.   #70 Jim Marshall, #88 Alan Page, #81 Carl Eller and #20 Bobby Bryant  

[thornescratch]

What are the odds Mojo shoved Burky out of the wedding picture and yelled, “CURRENT TEAMMATES ONLY”?

[washingtoncapricorns]

The Caps at Nicke’s wedding! Via Lauren Oshie.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 1.25

1/25

Beer Birthdays

Robert Burns; Scottish poet (1759)

Dale Katechis (1969)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Etta James; singer (1938)

Dean Jones; actor (1931)

Mia Kirshner; actor (1975)

W. Somerset Maugham; writer (1874)

Virginia Woolf; writer (1882)

Famous Birthdays

Zoe Britton; porn actor (1979)

Wally Bunker; Baltimore Orioles P (1945)

William Colgate; toothpaste-maker (1783)

Andy Cox; musician (1956)

Mark "Super" Duper; Miami Dolphins WR (1959)

Carl Eller; Minnesota Vikings DE (1942)

Eusebio; Portugese footballer (1942)

Lou Groza; Cleveland Browns K, T (1924)

Tobe Hooper; film director (1943)

Antonio Carlos Jobim; Brazilian composer (1927)

Alicia Keys; pop singer (1981)

Joseph Louis Lagrange; mathematician, astronomer (1736)

John Leslie; porn actor (1945)

Dinah Manoff; actor (1958)

Don Maynard; New York Jets WR (1935)

Gloria Naylor; writer (1950)

Edwin Newman; journalist (1919)

George Pickett; Confederate general (1825)

Steve Prefontaine; runner (1951)

Morgan Russell; artist (1886)

Leigh Taylor-Young; actor (1945)

Patrick Willis; San Francisco 49ers LB (1985)

[greaseonmymouth]

til solen står op (2361 words) by nerakrose Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Afdeling Q | Department Q (Movies) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Assad/Carl Mørck, Assad & Carl Mørck Characters: Carl Mørck, Assad (Afdeling Q), Marcus Jacobsen Additional Tags: Aftermath of Violence, Police Brutality, All Cops Are Bastards, Whump, Forced Outing, Eventual Happy Ending, Assad Whump, WIP Tags Summary:

"Der er to tusind klagesager mod politiet hvert år. Vi vinder dem allesammen. Er det fordi vi aldrig begår fejl eller fordi vi beskytter hinanden?" - Carl Mørck, Journal 64