#carboloading

[leiflitter]

5.5k words so i am havin a lil pasta break

[jetlaggedjetslag]

I feel like I need to defend this. I adore Buldak it’s a comfort food for me. It’s just very spicy and I’m a wimp. He had THREE of them. That’s insane. Like even without the spice factor you are just shoveling noodles in your mouth and then you STILL have to play the rest of the game day.

the trailer is so fun, cannot wait to see Adam attempt to eat Buldak noodles blindfolded that shit melted my mouth. So many snack zones too, it would seem.

[victory-cookies]

hey sorry we put your players in a time loop. yeah they can only win by learning, and they can only learn by playing. yeah grant o’brien is carboloading next to their podiums. yeah they know that x equals 8 so y must equal 6. no they can’t use the ladder. yeah now they’re doing the wenis. sorry. 

[autobahnmp3]

im like stress eating rn bc im scared I'll actually run out of stamina halfway through the hike lmao

[urdeadbestfriend]

not into sports rpf but I believe in their beliefs (falling in love with someone you’ve always known) (repression) (stuck in a completely dark room letting life pass you by because of yet another migraine of dubious origin) (carboloading)

[youcouldmakealife]

SOTM: Gabe/Stephen; largesse (pt I)

For the prompt: Gabe and Stephen being sappy at SOME point

Feat. everybody's favourite: Soft Stephen Petersen (but don't you dare call him that to his face)

I'm going ahead and posting this a day before the poll even closes, because it was winning by a landslide and also, well, Passover. This thing decided to grow legs, as so many prompts do. The second half will be posted next week.

Stephen loves holidays.

It takes a long time for Gabe to figure that out — he's talking literal decades — because Stephen’s actually pretty good at hiding it. Or maybe it isn’t that he’s good at hiding it so much as it’s exactly what someone would expect from him. Stephen exudes ‘too cool for holidays’ energy.

But then, to be fair, Stephen exudes a lot of things that aren’t true. Like how he pretends to hate hugs, but that’s only true in limited circumstances: he dislikes hugs from strangers and distant acquaintances, that’s true, but he liked hockey hugs, and hugs from his family, even though he always scoffed before he got them, just so they wouldn’t get the right idea, and a good hug is often enough to get him out of a bad mood. The thing Stephen hates most about hugs is how much he doesn’t hate them.

He’s like that with a few things: he spent years pretending he couldn’t stand math, even as he was getting straight As in it, helping Gabe out with his homework, but never without muttering how pointless math was. He still pretends to hate his sisters, and groans when Dmitry and Oksana come over, even when he explicitly asked Gabe to invite them, and constantly pretends he isn’t absolutely delighted to find a kindred soul in Jared. Gabe can see right through all of that. Always has. But Stephen’s apparent holiday hatred managed to fool even him.

That is, until Stephen accidentally shows his hand when Passover arrives. Stephen’s been doing something or another for it for years, packing Gabe little lunch boxes so he has options on the road, even including uncharacteristically sweet little notes during one playoff run.

Gabe always figured it was because Stephen knew it was hard to be across the country from his family, especially when Passover fell at the same time as their birthdays, or the last stressful days of the season, or the even more stressful start of the postseason — it’s never been great timing. And as much as Stephen would like to deny it, he’s always been thoughtful about those kinds of things. Always been kind.

But this year it's different. Gabe’s Passover planning usually just extends to hitting up the kosher section at the grocery store to stock up on non-leavened alternatives, maybe head to the deli he likes to get some inferior version of something his mom would make if he’s feeling particularly homesick.

Stephen’s putting a little more effort in. For one, he's decided to cook. Relatedly, he's spending half his time on the phone with Gabe’s mom, it feels like — recipes can’t take that long to convey, no matter how chatty Gabe’s mom is — and shooing Gabe out of the kitchen with his traditional Passover lunch box, even though he isn’t on the road this year, and, thank fuck, it’s still the regular season this time. It’s rough, having to abstain from all of his favourite ways to carboload just in time for the postseason.

And then there's Seder. The fact they're having one, but also the fact they've got a guest list: a few of Stephen's university friends, a Jewish colleague of his who also lives across the country from his family, and Jared and Bryce, Dmitry and Oksana.

He spends Gabe doesn’t even know how much time and energy getting it together, brushing off most of Gabe’s offers to help. Gabe’s exhausted just doing his minor part and low-key worrying about Dmitry or Jared saying something to set Stephen off.

Everyone's shockingly well behaved, though, to the point where Gabe wonders what Stephen threatened them with. Something horrible, he’s sure. At the end of the night, everyone parts with leftovers, which Gabe is a little wistful about — he knows they kept a little of everything but it’s his favourite, and Stephen did good job with it, if not a Miriam job — and Gabe starts clearing the table, because Stephen looks like he’s hit his limit.

The kitchen is such a disaster Gabe doesn’t even know where to start — he didn’t think they had this many dishes. He doesn’t even recognise all of them. Gabe has never been more grateful to have a dishwasher. He only wishes they had two. Or three, even. Three would be good.

“I think that went okay,” Stephen says as Gabe starts rinsing the dirtiest of the dishes.

“It went great,” Gabe says. “What’s the occasion, anyway?”

“Passover,” Stephen says.

“Steve,” Gabe says.

“Oh, well,” Stephen says. “It’s important to you.”

But he’s flustered, and not just flustered in the way he gets whenever he has to admit he’s done something nice for someone.

That doesn’t typically apply to Gabe anyway. Stephen claims that it’s inherently selfish to do nice things for Gabe, because they’re a partnership, and helping his partner helps him. Gabe figures whatever helps Stephen sleep at night after doing embarrassing things like offering Gabe the last piece of pizza — obviously not during Passover — or telling him he likes his playoff beard when they both know it’s mid at best.

Though, Stephen actually seemed pretty into it, last year, to the point where Gabe was starting to think he might have a bit of a thing for the beard. So maybe that was selfish after all.

Gabe, equally selfishly, hopes they make it even further this year, just to test that theory.

"Well," Gabe says. "Thank you," and notices Stephen looks relieved that he's letting it go. Even grateful.

So of course that's when Gabe starts paying attention.

[catboybiologist]

Porters count as carboloading right

Within the next couple of days, I'll be setting up my first camp on the HST

Y'all I'm so fucking excited.

Little kid hours but I've been going to Sequoia NP, and the Sierras as a whole, for my entire life. I've been wanting to do "the long way to Whitney" for pretty much as long as I've had a conception of where Mt. Whitney was, and how close (relatively) it was to the giant forest area that I loved.

At the start of this summer, I was honestly a little terrified about what I was committing myself to. I'm still nervous (not unsafe, DW, its a highly trafficked trail and I have satellite communication) but I feel very ready. The routes I've done so far have honestly been more technical and strenuous, the primary key difference is that the HST is much longer. But honestly, that shouldn't be a problem.

I'm meandering my way towards the trailhead in the general area, and got a moment to enjoy the Sequoia front country before I head out.

But y'all.

I got the logistics figured out. I got the permits. I got the gear. I got the skills. I got the physical training. I'm in a brewery enjoying some nice ass beer. Sitting alone but vibrating with excitement. It's HAPPENING!!!

Time to earn my name 🍻

[casquecest]

One Pot Noodle in a bowl and another waiting in the wings with Lucozade: my pre-race carboloading is serving poor college student realness 😎💅✨

[xenosaurus]

question about sealskins: how do trans shapeshifters work? do their bodies know they're trans before they do and shift that way automatically? could they consciously shift their natural state when they realize their gender identity? or does it take gender affirming surgeries to 'reset' their natural state?

you got ahead of me-- Leo Harp is trans! the fun selkie-themed name isn't an alias, it's his chosen name.

there are two answers to this general line of thought!

in practice, most trans shapeshifters use conscious shapeshifting to transition, and do some mild "touchup" shifting once a week or so. it's roughly the same effort as remembering to take a T shot, without the need to involve a doctor.

it's remarkably easy shapeshifting and can usually be accomplished before a kid is old enough for a full copy-- most commonly gendered body parts like genitals are formed from early development tissue that is found in every viable fetus (shoutout to my old pal the mesonephric duct) that is then changed from being exposed to hormones, so you don't have to "borrow" anything from another person. you already have the genetic coding for the basis! physical sex is much less intrinsic and binary than society treats it so it's super easy for shapeshifters to mess with.

in THEORY, though, if you wanted to change your baseline form so that you didn't have to keep up the shapeshifting, you can change your "natural" state with surgery or medication. it's just a lot harder than having a bowl of spaghetti to carboload and making some changes.

[gensokyogains]

devouring-hive

Renko's goal before the incident was to finally get Merry to develop a roll, so that people would stop asking that and realize just how smitten she was with that fat lumpy ass, those carboloaded pancakes.

Now she can offer her a rolled belly, as well as a huge ass and breasts thrice the size of her head, for the best of all worlds.

[marxstradamus]

is it too aggressive to tell a stranger that they're stacked like pancakes and brother, I'm ready to carboload

[pkmnathlete]

When I was younger, I reeeeeally wanted a Snom!!! But apparently they eat more than I do carboloading for a track meet. Every day.

And I don’t have that kinda budget!!!!! So now I just watch them on MewTube instead!!!!

[hdsports]

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[greayworks]

I've been carboloading everyday

How come I'm not losing weight?

[butchifiedcatfish]

CARBOLOADING BABY

[jusxxi]

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