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[kyluxtrashpit]

I’m gonna call this a late submission for @kyloevents

[imperatorrrrr]

the New Jersey Devils Off-Season (according to me, T) - part one, the 24-25 team

disclaimer: these are my opinions, takes, thoughts, ideas. I am in no way an expert in hockey, I just think about it a lot and talk about it a lot. I will more likely than not say something you probably don't like or agree with about your blorbo, so just a warning.

first, free agency.

Restricted Free Agents: Cody Glass, Nolan Foote, Luke Hughes, Isaac Poulter

Thoughts:

the plan is to sign LHughes, obviously. pls, do not ask me for how much or for how long. ideally, we sign him for under nine million for like eight years or something, but truly who knows what the contract will end up looking like. just sign the Hughes boy, quickly. I don't want a bridge contract, want something long term.

end the Foote experiment, now.

I'm assuming we're signing Poulter. I mean why wouldn't we?

I would like us to keep Glass, but I genuinely do not know what's going to happen there.

Unrestricted Free Agents: Justin Dowling, Curtis Lazar, Daniel Sprong, Nathan Bastian, Brian Dumoulin, Jake Allen, Max Willman, Samuel Laberge, Dennis Cholowski, Tory Dello, Marc McLaughlin

Thoughts:

knowing now what Lazar's season was actually like behind the scenes, I think if he's willing to take a very team friendly contract, I wouldn't mind re-signing him. good fourth line depth, potential additional center depth.

Dowling, Sprong, Cholowski can go fuckity bye for all I care.

I genuinely don't know enough about Willman, Laberge, Dello, and McLaughlin to give any type of informed opinion, but I assume they will be Utica men, so do what you gotta do I guess.

I am of two minds about Bastian, if I'm being honest. on the one hand, I don't think he's actually as bad as all the haters think he is, on the other hand, given the pending investigation of a sexual assault case and it being a team he was on, maybe just cut him loose now. Bastian is a solid penalty killer, and we saw that when he's on a line with an actual identity (the MEAT line, for example) he does deliver, but I'd say if he does come back I wouldn't be the angriest person in the world, but if he doesn't come back I also wouldn't be the angriest person in the world.

Devils want to make something work with Dumoulin and I would not be mad about it. especially if it means he is playing instead of Dillon. the issue is we should not be overpaying to keep Dumoulin and there are absolutely other teams out there who will give him some big money. be fucking smart, Fitz.

it is Daws time, I'm sorry Allen.

second, trades.

Untouchable: Jack Hughes, Jesper Bratt, Nico Hischier, Timo Meier, Jacob Markstrom

Safe and Sound: Stefan Noesen, Paul Cotter, Brett Pesce, Johnathan Kovacevic, Jonas Siegenthaler, Nico Daws

Should Be Traded: Ondrej Palat, Brenden Dillon, Kurtis Macdermid

Could Be Traded: Dawson Mercer, Erik Haula, Dougie Hamilton, Simon Nemec, Seamus Casey

Thoughts:

don't think the first two categories of players are even going to be talked about or looked at, so I'm not even gonna pay that any mind

the major priority is getting the fuck rid of Palat, and good news! teams want him! not only do teams want him, but they want him without us having to retain! pls fucking take him. we need that cap space to either sign Luke or to go free agent shopping or to pay someone in a trade.

the Macdermid contract is bury-able, but I hate it and I hate what it stands for. make it go away.

Dillon isn't actually going to be traded this off season, future off seasons is a different story, but he's probably not going anywhere at all. however, he is our worst defenseman, and he should be playing third pair minutes next season and if we sign Dumoulin, Dumoulin should absolutely be getting more starts than him, but also we're paying him four million, and you're not gonna healthy scratch the dude you're paying four million for are you. I will say, I do really appreciate his fighty-fighty. but like the rest of it is...no thank you.

for Mercer and Haula, I think I'd be fine if they stayed and fine if they didn't. I'm not wholly on the trade them train, but I'm also not on the we have to keep them train. just chilling. will judge the trade as objectively as possible if it happens. and if there's no trade, I will be ready to feel an expansive set of emotions towards Haula (starting with hate) and forgive Mercer for almost everything.

Casey is...difficult. he needs another year in the AHL and I'd be upset if we traded him without giving him an actual chance to develop and have time to prove himself. I think at the end of the day it depends on the details of the trade if Casey is involved. honestly, someone should seriously tell Casey to take the transitioning to playing forward thing seriously. it would solve so many of our problems.

this team would be fucking dumb to trade Nemec. yes, I'm very biased, but I'm also very fucking right. you can fight me about this. there is like one trade and only one trade that would be acceptable and that isn't happening this summer anyway, so, Nemec stays.

Hamilton. genuinely, don't think he's going anywhere. I think if Kovacevic wasn't missing the beginning of the season and most likely missing at least a few months of the season, we would be having a different conversation. I do not believe Hamilton will finish his contract in New Jersey, but I don't think the trade happens this summer. Our blue line is too precarious at the moment given the injuries (Kovacevic, LHughes, Dillon) to be thinking of getting rid of Hamilton. plus, we need puck moving defensemen and that is one of Hamilton's stronger skillsets. but we are getting closer to end of the Hamilton era of the Devils. and we absolutely need a healthy season out of Hamilton next season.

[xxlordalexanderxx]

I need you to take a picture with your ass out And your back bent in with your dick barely peeking through from a low angle with face in it winking with your tongue out and your feet in it and your arches exposed and your toes clenched and your torso at 3/4 rotation with your side boob and your nipples just out of sight with a choker on an your painted around your waist with the middle pulled to the side and your hands through the sides of the man thong lifting them upward as your cheeks are out.

"What the f-..."

"I DON'T UNDERSTAND."

[mxtxfanatic]

So if Mu Qing ascended by cleaning up the resentful spirits in the old Xianle capital in the unedited version:

But, they seemed to have very good reasons. After all, everyone knew that Mu Qing ascended because he cleaned up all the remaining stubborn resentful spirits in the olden capital of Xian Le, so to understand it as “generous and kind” wasn’t unreasonable. In any case, everyone in the old capital of Xian Le were all very grateful for him.

—Chapt. 199: Man in Abyss Receives a Bamboo Hat in the Rain (Part Three), fan translation

—Chapt. 104, official

But Lang Qianqiu is given that ascension in the edited version:

Xie Lian insisted on finishing the bow before straightening up, “Thank you very much.” Lang Qianqiu became even more confused, “What are you thanking me for?” Xie Lian said, “Thank you for saving the souls of the old imperial city of Xianle.”

—Book 1, Chapter 11: One bet of life and death, five questions for the heart, clearnoodle translations

...then how tf does Mu Qing ascend in the edited version???

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

TODAY I got my blood stolen so they can test it, picked up my meds, went to the Craft store I'm going to consign with so I could ask a few more questions and such, AND went to city hall to inquire on the community garden so hopefully I can take it over. And it's only 2pm.

[fang-revives]

My hot Valentine's Day take about the niche ship I'm insane about is that neither Jay nor Okada would even consider acknowledging Valentine's to each other (they're not dating but they are something)

Bang Bang Gang on the other hand.... Jay gets Juice an expensive box of chocolates, Juice gets Jay a bouquet of roses and the Ass boys get everyone those little valentines that get handed out at school with a foil wrapped chocolate

[girltakovic]

me: i love chicago but im very interested in seeing what other options there are as far as places to go to law school. i love the place but i dont feel like i have to spend the rest of my career here yknow

my mom: but i thought you liked chicago ?

[pwnyta]

If you put blotches of sun block and tanning oil and left some blotches bare... could you give yourself like a camo/calico tan?

ex-

[clockworkfall]

people have got to start fucking saying who is talking when they quote brothers karamazov

[necile]

A question for those of you who do generational gameplay (legacies, lepacies, etc.) :

When you're starting a new generation, if you decide to move towns, do you pack up the current house and move it with you, or do you move into a new house that's already in the new town?

[robertsbarbie]

okay hindsight re: the phone call for the sketchy company, they reacted really strange when i said i would be unable to attend an interview tomorrow. like immediately saying there was no budging, and that all of the other slots were filling up really fast, and then asked me if “what are you going out of town?” which red flag you are not my employer (even if you were) it is none of your business and then rounded it off by saying “it’ll just be 20 minutes can’t you make that work?” and just something about a company already trying to step over boundaries and push the subject of no is just one big red flag and no matter what even if they are legit those kind of boundaries are not ones i am willing to compromise on

[xxlordalexanderxx]

HOW MUCH CAN YOU NUT?

"Ah. I just woke up from a lovely nap, and I think I'm still tired. Goodnight."

[queenerdloser]

what i'm learning about car shopping is to never express any casual interest in any car if i dont want to be descended on by car salespeople en masse

[fuckyeahjoonmyun]

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[arachnidiots-a]

@sangbleue sent 🌂 ( umbrella ) for a peter & verity romance moodboard

[spiderwarden]

[ from your murderous neighborhood succubus, @abyssmarked, bc you mentioned them discussing this over drinks ?? lol ] ‘ have you ever killed someone you loved ? ’

There is a single blink in a gaze of red as Minthara reflects on the question - and it did not take her long to do so. In a single movement she saw her face, Her Priestess, the smile on her lips as she once grazed her own index along them. Then the next breath, the final drag of her touch along her bottom lip as she drew her last breath. It was always a strange occurrence, Minthara thought - that a single sentence threw her back over a hundred years. To a time when she was much younger, to a time when loyalties were questioned and loyalties were proven.

Minthara's arms tense briefly and she manages to feign the action for a shift forward to grasp her own tankard - forward, to the point, militaristic. " Yes. My first." The answer comes without hesitation for Nepharia, driven forward by the memory of her dying in her arms as the poison did it's work. "She was a Priestess of House Vandree. Beautiful.. Elegant." She recalls the grace she held - even as she struck down her enemies. And with the recollection Minthara tone lowers with an adoring hiss, feeling her chest swell with the pride. "Ruthless."

"I adored her." Minthara's story continues, yet as she spoke she remembers. And remembers well the early mornings wrapped in her arms, the smiles shared as her Priestess plucked a piece of fruit into her mouth before sharing a kiss. - The Drow blinks slowly to she pull herself from the memory. "And had been sharing her bed for some time when the order came that she must die."

@abyssmarked / LETZ GO