#don't even get me started on 2018 omfg

[sydnikov]

Berube won the cup in 2019 then lost in the first round two years in a row, lost in the second round a year later, missed the playoffs the next year, and then was fired this season.

In that same time span, RBA got the canes to the conference finals in 2019, lost in the first round once in 2020, then lost in the second round two years in a row, before making it to the conference final again last year.

Yes, Rod has yet to coach this team to a cup win, however he progressively got them closer while Berube's team got worse in recent seasons.

This is a long post

2018-2019 is the same season but, again, the difference here is that he actually did it. Obviously you need everything to work on a team (players, coaching, management, leadership, etc) to go that far

I don't really care that RBA got us to the playoffs. I mean, I do, but that's all he's proven he can do. Lots of coaches get their teams to the playoffs. It's not like he built our core, either—that was Ron Francis. You can bring up the argument that we didn't make the playoffs with him as GM too (don't even get me started on our coach at the time omfg) but my argument is that we were in the middle of a rebuild with shitty players in the meanwhile. It takes a while to get a team back to form and he was fired just in time for Waddell and RBA to come in and reap the benefits of our growing core. (Cough cough Aho)

The Blues quickly deteriorated after their win because they didn't have the players to continue being competitors, that's just a fact. The coach can only do so much with the players he has, and if you still want to blame Berube then I'll point to the Lightning and their head coach where they've also lost quite a few key players. Despite the fact that they're still here consistently making the playoffs, they don't go far

Finally, RBA is not getting us closer. We've made the conference final twice under his tenor, got swept both times, and if we didn't make the ecf we've made the second round where we also essentially got swept (20/21 we lost in 5, but, c'mon lol it was basically a sweep), and then of course lost in the first back in the bubble. We have to yet to see on Saturday if we're getting swept but based on what he's doing, looks like we can kiss being cup favorites goodbye

I can go all into detail about why I think we're losing this bad despite the players we have and how it all falls back on Brind'Amour being horrendously our-coached but this isn't a post about that. All I can say is that I think fresh eyes would do us wonders, whether it be Berube or someone else

[milenadaniels]

Hi! I saw your tag on your informal buddie lap makeout poll (Which, exceptional scientific inquiry. Cannot wait to see the results. Especially if it leads you to write something...)

Anyway, what is your thinking on lonestar and a potential buck +e ddie sex scene? (FWIW, I don't watch LS. I tried, but just could not. Not yucking anyone's yum, just didn't work for me.)

Curious what you think?

Thank you! The study is going well, I look forward to analyzing the results in depth!

(Please note: after three hours of writing out this response, I realize I may have misunderstood your question 😂 If you meant "what do you think a buddie sex scene would look like given tarlos", please let me know and it would be my genuine pleasure to describe that in great detail. What follows is not that.....)

I have been thinking about the potential of a buddie sex scene more than I ought to, I'm sure. You could say I've been a smidge preoccupied since realizing all the legit sex scenes in the show happened in season 1/early season 2. In seasons 3/4, the closest I think we've gotten to textual sex is Madney having sex to induce labour and that consisted of Maddie throwing her shirt at Chimney from off-screen.

Someone on that post (can't find it now of course) said that 911 Lone Star took over the original 911 later time slot and thus took over the ability to have sexier content.

As someone who hasn't watched a television show live in like 5 years, your ask has prompted me to do actual research to confirm this 🤓 According to pogdesign, 911 currently plays Mondays at 8pm and 911LS plays at 9pm which supports the theory.

That said, it kind of strikes me as weird that 8pm is considered too early for sexy content? But maybe I'm just out of touch with cable television??

So I did more research! So much research omfg this took 3 hours of my life. 😅

First we define the issue at hand

I'm defining a "sex scene" as a scene that involves two or more people mackin' on each other with any of the following:

the beginning of clothing removal onscreen

the movement towards a bedroom or bed

getting into someone's lap as a sign of escalation

post-coital pillow talk or cuddling

actual shots of naked skin and writhing (softcore porn essentially)

So 911 got moved to 8pm. Do any other 8pm shows have sex scenes?

CW - The 100 🔥 (I know there was a minimum of 2 wlw sex scenes, though they may have been post-coital)

CW - Riverdale 🔥🔥 is another teen show that I don't watch so I youtubed "Riverdale sex scenes" and I'm led to believe at least one couple is banging semi-onscreen well into season 4 (it has 4 seasons???)

NBC - Chicago Med 🔥, a procedural show not about teenagers and seems to have a least 1 couple with sexy scenes (the other Chicagos air at 9pm and 10pm) and I saw lap sitting for a hardcore makeout for the other couple!!!!! TIM TAKE NOTES!

NBC - Superstore 🔥, a half-hour comedy that played at 8pm on NBC, did have at least this one cut-away sex scene

So 2 teen shows, 1 procedural and 1 comedy all had something in the way of "sex scenes" while airing at 8pm.

But what if Fox the network is the sex-scene-killers??

Apparently Fox literally has only 5 scripted dramas of which the 911 is one and the others are:

The Resident 🔥🔥, a medical drama that plays at 8pm as of season 2 (9pm for season 1) and the main couple seem to have several sex scenes, but interestingly from what I can glean from YT, they may have stopped after s2 (though the couple stays together until at least s4 from what I can tell)

LA's Finest 🚫, a rebroadcast through Fox, it airs at 9pm and YT didn't show me any sexy scenes

Fantasy Island 🔥🔥 which plays at 9pm and looks to have sexier content based on the trailer

911: Lone Star 🔥🔥🔥 which plays at 9pm. Tarlos have had like 2 heavy makeouts/implied sex scenes plus a pretty hardcore-for-tv sex scene in the s2 finale

So it seems like even for Fox, the 8pm timeslot isn't necessarily what's vetoing the sex scenes in 911. But just to hammer that home, I did even more researching into the watershed hours, which is apparently the designated time broadcasters can show sexiness, but in the US that's 10pm to 6am so if the restrictions were such that they couldn't show any sex scenes before 10pm, Tarlos wouldn't have gotten that finale action (thank you, IRL bff who watched 911LS so I didn't have to!)

TL;DR - a summation of our findings

The 8pm timeslot is not the sex-scene-killer I once thought it was (see: all them filthy shows)

911 being a cop show is not a sex-scene-killer (see: dramas, procedurals and comedies all had sex scenes)

Fox is not anti-sex in their 8pm scripted dramas in general (see: The Resident)

Fox is not anti-sex homophobically (see: Tarlos, Hen/Eva)

However!! There seems to be a somewhat weird, somewhat isolated trend of Fox shows either cutting off or tapering off sex scenes (see: 911, The Resident) after 2 seasons or specifically after 2019.

So what are the theories (from least to most favourite)?

Theory #1 (Buddie loses 🚫): "Something" happened at Fox in 2019. The Resident is the only true analogue to 911 as it's also on Fox, also premiered in January 2018, also started at 9pm but was moved to 8pm (in season 2, not season 3 like 911). If my very brief googling can be trusted, The Resident saw a lot of sex scenes in season 2 (at 8pm) but after 2019 there isn't much to write home about. That lines up with what we've seen in 911. If something happened internally at Fox that changed broadcasting guidelines for 8pm, then canon Buddie will not get sex scenes unless the timeslot changes back.

Pros: It would be a hell of a coincidence wouldn't it?? Both shows airing around the same time, both stop showing sex scenes around the same time???

Cons: It's pretty weak, I can't find anything that supports "something" happening in 2019 that would affect an 8pm timeslot but not the 9pm one.

Theory #2 (Buddie loses 🚫): Sex as a short-term sales tactic. Fox uses sex in the first two seasons of shows to boost ratings and get people hooked because sex sells. But then, for whatever reason, they taper it off. If so, Buddie being canonized would not produce any sex scenes as we're far removed from season 2.

Pros: The Resident and 911 both stopped showing sex scenes after season 2 from what I can gather

Cons: If sex sells, why wouldn't it keep selling all the way to the bank?? There's no reason to stop something that's working.

Theory #3 (Buddie wins 🔥): Actors are the roadblock. Fox is fine with sex scenes at 8pm but the actors aren't comfortable! If so, Buddie sex scenes could be in the cards as both actors have had on-screen sex scenes previously.

Pros: Angela Bassett, Peter Krause and JLH are bigger names and they presumably get to not get naked on screen or simulate sex scenes if they don't want to. Aisha Hinds as a (criminally) smaller name wouldn't have had that kind of leverage in season 1, nor would Ryan Guzman in season 2? And Oliver Stark knew what he was signing up to to play a self-diagnosed "sex addict" so.

Cons: This is absolute, complete conjecture. I have zero idea what each of their comfort levels with sex scenes are or how that might relate to the writing/direction of their characters.

Theory #4 (Buddie wins 🔥): Stable canon relationships kill sex. Fox dramas use sex only pre-maritally to build relationships and the network or the showrunners/writers decide it's not as important once characters are in stable relationships/married. If so, we will get Buddie sex scenes as their canon relationship develops.

Pros: The Resident couple did get married post-season 2 I think? Athena stopped having onscreen sex after she married Bobby. Hen had sex but out of her marriage.

Cons: That's dumb, let married people bone. And we technically do have a Madney sex scene, tame as it was (but maybe they straddle of the line of stable but pre-marital???). Also if sex = building relationship, EddieAna have been excluded from that formula oops 😌

Theory #5 (Buddie wins 🔥): We're overthinking all of this. There hasn't been sex scenes past season 2 because the stories haven't called for it but when it does, such as the start of a new relationship, then we'll get some!

Pros: We haven't had any "new" relationships other than EddieAna since season 2 and their lack of intimacy is a glaring reminder they aren't well suited - they're not boning for plot reasons. While not strictly meeting the aforementioned definition of a "sex scene", we could use Albert coming out of Veronica's shower as a use of sex-as-relationship-building.

Cons: That's dumb, let married people bone, the sequel. Especially since HenRen is criminally neglected in terms of development and could use a fun playful sex scene.

So what have we learned?

Should Buddie go canon, 3 theories indicate we'd get some sex scenes for them, and only 2 say we wouldn't. The odds are in our favour. 🤡

I will do literally anything to procrastinate writing this damn fic that's been tormenting me for weeks. Please someone, anybody...send help...

[stay-midnight]

shoot... uniforms... 😔 seungmin is so precious aaaa 🥺🦋 uH toji has a 15 yr old son (in 2018) and I'm just three yrs younger than his son so 🤡 literally sleep 😤 aRe yOu sUrE yOuRe a dOm 🤨⁉️lol use the hinata picture when you're thirsting over pictures of vocalracha 😗😳 ALSO I NEED TO SAY SOMETHING‼️so during the past school year, my school split the students into two cohorts cuz of covid but combined the cohorts for finals week, so I got to see a lot of ppl I've never met before. and there was this one kid and when he walked into the classroom I immediately got kenma vibes (but I thought he was a girl) so I was like, potential hot girl crush 🤨⁉️but then I heard his voice and I was like "dang it's not a girl but his voice is nice" (the bi energy is huge here lol). and my math class had already finished our final so we went downstairs and played volleyball and then he started playing much after we started and he was pretty good and his hair. hiS HAIR. drop the shampoo pls kind sir I want those silky locks too 😔😭 it's just so nice 😭✋ neways me and my friends decided to go to petsmart after school to go look at frogs and I saw him outside with his group of friends and his mask was down and since my eyesight is fucking terrible and the sun is annoying bright, I couldn't really get the full details of his face but I could at least tell that he was attractive 😌 bUt hE wOuLdNt sToP sTaRiNg aT mE liKe when me and my friends were getting into the car he just kept staring at me and I was like ayO?? but I didn't think too much ab it. BUT U WANT SECOND HAND EMBARRASSMENT??? HERE U GO. so I saw him again on Thursday of finals week which is also yearbook day and I rly am fucking blind cuz I didn't even notice that he was in my English class until two days after we had it 🤡 and the class I was in before gave us popsicles and u know what that means 💀 literally looking suggestive af for no reason 😀 so I was sucking on my oRaNgE popsicle and my mask was down obviously 🙄 AND HE TURNS TO LOOK AT ME RIGHT WHEN I WAS ALMOST DEEPTHROATING THAT SHIT AND WE MAKE EYE CONTACT AND I JUST WANTED TO PASS AWAY 😭😭😭😭 and I literally haven't seen him since that day but I can't get him out of my head cuz like, usually I would forget and be like, "it was nothing" buT soMe wEiRd phenomenon is going on here 😩 and I saw a tiktok the other day and it was like, "have u every just stared at someone and it felt comfortable? u don't look away because it just feels so natural to u?" and I was like yes how tf did u know cuz that's literally what happened when I was getting ready to go to petsmart and the tiktok said it was something like a past life soulmate idk but I was like, sUs but neways that's the tea –🐱

i hate uniforms, why can't i wear a crop top to school 🙄🖐️ /j Yes, Seungmin the definition of duality

I- bestie 👁️👄👁️ i mean go simp for what you simp ig but like the age diff- 👁️ sleep is for the weak 😭😩✊ YAs im a dom for bang chan atleast 😤. So like this huh- I’d use it like this-🤭

Thats a whole ass romance story- First of all yes- the ✨bi energy✨ and the kenma vibes too, he seems hot- but neways your simp side is also coming out- the FROGS- i- 👁️👄👁️ The stare thoo 😏 hehehehe thats sus. BESTIE NOT THE POPSICLE AHAHAHAH BYEE THIS IS WHY POPSICLES SHOULDN'T BE EATEN IN PUBLIC- also omfg if that was me I wouldve taken a bite out of that popsicle harshly, signalling that i am not afraid to bite off a di- anyways BESTIE GO GET HIM, FORGET THE TSUKKI LOOKING GUY- AND SHOOT FOR HIM- 😩😩😩😩✨✨

[spideyy-girl]

Enoch & Horace - The Ultimate Bromance - Would Include...

Request: (was requested on my old account, but I lost the ask. So if you did request this please tell me and I could tag you or put the original request on, thank you!)

Summary: just a lovely lil headcanon about our two beans being besties haha here you go.

Warnings: pre cute

Word Count: 367 (1.2 pages)

Date: November 26th, 2018

A/N: was requested on my old account, I still have a couple of other imagines and such from there. Anyways, feel free to leave any requests for any fandoms listed in my bio and I’ll write them as soon as I can, cause your ideas are better than mine haha. Also sorry if it’s short and really bad. PLEASE SEND REQUESTS!

Everyone knows that Horace is the sweetest lil cinnamon roll to ever exist

Enoch... well not so much (don't get me wrong I still love him)

So obviously these two are like conjoined at the hip

Enoch always complimenting Horace’s super sharp suits

And Horace getting Enoch a custom one for him on his birthday and Enoch actually screeches

Them walking around the house in their matching tuxes and looking fabulous af

Them being The Gossips™ 

“Dude, Olive totally has the hots for you”

“The Bird is going insane again”

“I mean, wtf is up with that Jake kid?” “*muttering*Not again” 

Horace is Enoch’s rant buddy

Enoch will let out every pent-up emotion, thought, and comment to him every single day

Especially after Jake comes and takes his throne and crown

‘Cause we all know Enoch’s a little princess 

(In the best way tho)

Horace being like Enoch’s personal therapist

Enoch liked to watch Horace’s dreams

Like he’d look forward to the evenings so that he could just go to happy land while watching them

Which is why he gets so pissed off when people start talking

*cough* especially Jake *cough*

Horace constantly teasing Enoch for his ‘hate’ for Jacob Portman

“I don’t hate him, I just particularly and strongly dislike him”

“That’s basically ‘hate’ in fancy wording,”

Horace at first being quite disgusted by the unusual creatures Enoch creates

“They’re so ugly!”

“They can hear you! And they’re quite sensitive so watch your mouth!”

He decided that they needed something a little more classy to boost up their ego

Because apparently, they have those

So Horace goes and gets tiny little suits for the ones that didn’t have eight legs or two heads.

Enoch just loves them and always uses them

Horace making sure that Enoch doesn’t get slimy pig heart juice all over their little suits

I just love this pure friendship so much omfg

We need more Enoch and Horace bromance

***BONUS***

When Enoch and Olive get together, all Horace does is gossip about them and say how cute they are

Because we all know that Horace is Enoch’s wingman

“OMG LOOK HOW ADORABLE MY OTP IS!!!”

Sorry I just had to