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kimikiui · 19 days

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i doodled all the splatoon idols quick for pins, more doodles coming soon- i need to have all the pins made by saturday lol.

#my art #birdfruit draws #splatoon #squid sisters #off the hook #deep cut #callie splatoon #marie splatoon #shiver splatoon #frye splatoon #big man splatoon #pearl splatoon #marina splatoon #BREATHE

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wuiwuikiui · 1 year

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Dilfkupo

#im you but an alcoholic #birdfruit draws

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beingulti · 2 years

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Sam Pickel

My name is Sam Pickel. I’m 30 years old and grew up in Seattle where I still live. Until beginning grad school in Speech Language Pathology this Autumn, I worked as an Instructional Assistant in various Special Education classrooms around the Seattle Public School district.

In 2019 I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail with my girlfriend. After returning to Seattle I began taking prerequisites for a post-bac program at the University of Washington in Speech and Hearing Sciences, which I began the following Summer amidst the pandemic, and finished this last Spring.

I did not play ultimate in High School, nor have I really ever had a head for sports at any time in my life. However, I was exposed to ultimate by a friend my first year at Western Washington University. I was very bad, but also wanted friends. I stuck with it through college and have played on and off since graduating in 2013. The fact that I am now a defending WUCC and USAU champion is absolutely absurd to me.

I have only ever played mixed club in Seattle- for Birdfruit from 2014-2017, BFG in 2018, and again for BFG in 2021. Did a few pro stints in there as well.

I have been to club nationals twice. Once in 2015 with Birdfruit where we got last place and again this past year with BFG where we got first place.

Outside of ultimate my main activity is music. I play drums in a death metal band and have been in and around the Seattle underground metal scene since 2007-2008. I’ve toured the states, parts of Mexico and Canada, have shared stages with personal heroes, and have released numerous albums with my current band and others.

I like drawing the comparison between ultimate as a sport and metal as a music subgenre- both are supportive spaces where it’s easy to feel understood and like you have a captured community. Both are very white (and male- especially in metal) and have a lot of the same problems as a result.

The hot-button ultimate topic I’ve been thinking about a lot recently is the concept of “legitimacy” in the sport. As an outsider when it comes to an appreciation of professional sports, I found the culture of ultimate incredibly unique and subversive of mainstream sports culture. There’s something really valuable there that I hope the community is able to hold onto in the face of whatever changes are before us. However, the push for ultimate to be more visible on a larger national scale and as a more “legitimate” (starting to hate that word- the more I use it the less I feel like I know what it means) sport means that there will be increased opportunities for people of color and those from disadvantaged communities to engage with and come to the forefront of our sport. I hope there is a path forward in which both of these aspects can be realized.

Topics I’m hoping to cover this coming week include- music, Seattle in general (ultimate, gentrification, etc), masculinity in sport, my experience on the PCT/hiking in general, the BFG/Mixtape rivalry (as I perceive it), and BFG’s 2021 season. Expect some obnoxious trophy pictures. Also I do not know how to use Twitter so please bear with me and offer advice as I struggle through this week.

Feel free to give me a follow on Instagram @deathtofalsedadrock if you like drumming videos and cat pictures

https://mobile.twitter.com/Le_Piq/likes

(November 15th - November 21st)

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kimikiui · 8 months

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