#i-rate-saints

[where-the-water-flows]

something I keep coming back to, because other than 'ok but what about this canon divergence --' what I apparently really dig into is stupid world building details, is like.

how does the list of 10,000 actually uh. handle di feisheng coming back and being around again.

like he was the second ranked guy, right, Li xiangyi was top ranked, both of them "died", congratulations number 3 you're now top of the jianghu, everyone automatically moves up two ranks! ranking fights continue as normal, the three saints duel/kill their way up to the top eventually, all is gucci in the world.

except uh, a decade on, di feisheng is... actually not dead, was never dead, and also, he clearly beat Li xiangyi (because Li xiangyi is dead and di feisheng is uh, not), who was the last guy in the line of combat succession top ranked guys, making di feisheng presumably Top Ranked in terms of 'beat the guy who beat the guy [etc] who was top ranked'! no one has beaten di feisheng, therefore he is still, presumably, the top ranked guy because he hasn't uhhh actually lost a fight about that.

but it's been a decade? everyone else has spent ten years fighting the line of combat succession that forked from the guy who was number 3 a decade ago, and who does not fall into the line of direct combat succession for top rank at all, on account of the two idiots apparently taking each other out/mass rank promotion incident in the east sea.

basically: are there a lot of arguments in the jianghu about who's Actually top ranked, because like. on the one hand, fuck you, you can't walk away for a decade and waltz back in at number 1, snooze you lose, and on the other hand, fuck you, he's never actually lost! therefore he is undefeated in rank, therefore he's the top ranked guy!

(everyone gets another headache when it turns out Li Xiangyi is also still alive, because like, ok, now there are three people who have all been thought to be top ranked, who the fuck do you have to beat to be Actually For Real The Best)

[compacflt]

slimav?

would never happen bc slider canonically smells bad

[kvtnisseverdeen]

Kylian Mbappé reacts to his FIFA rating (x)

[khaotunq]

Did you say that just to make me feel better? ⇢ Off Jumpol as Sean and Gun Atthaphan as White (Not Me, 2021-2022) For @mushiemadarame

[katyahina]

[suffarustuffaru]

friendly reminder that reinhard is approximately the same age as his parents when they had him

[vulpinesaint]

thank god i have realized that i can Post On Tumblr (make insane little personal posts whenever i want) since the last time i picked up paradise lost. the girlies in the gc were not very receptive to my screaming over milton's descriptions of satan and of hell but i know in my heart that the tumblrinas will come through for me

[kdsburneraccount]

So the NFLPA released report cards for each team's working conditions that graded them based on polls from players, which I found pretty interesting but also a little depressing. You can read it here: NFL Player Team Report Cards | NFLPA

More thoughts under the cut since I was initially going to put my thoughts in the tags but I thought reading it was quite eye-opening.

The Bengals being graded an F- for nutrition... I'm not that surprised considering what former players have said about the cafeteria, but it's still pretty embarrassing. And those comments were from the 2000s. Not providing dinner, vitamins, or supplements to players is a little questionable, especially if players are going to be spending long days at practice. And the fact that they’ve had breastfeeding mothers sit on the floor of public restrooms to take care of their kids is… concerning. (This is a Mike Brown moment. Unfortunately. The “no indoor practice facility” jokes looking more and more true by the moment. Like I get he’s pretty poor for an NFL owner but your team made the Super Bowl two seasons ago invest in the facilities more have an actual food service on hand cmon man why are you proving Carson Palmer right)

I wasn't surprised looking at the Falcons' grading of their strength coach (by and large, strength coaches were graded exceedingly positively by the players, except for the Falcons and the Ravens. In the case of the Ravens it appeared that they had a strength and conditioning coach who was pretty disliked by the players, and that coach did get fired, so at least the team's aware of it), mostly bc the Falcons aren't very good at tackling 😭 hopefully they make a change in that regard because man. At least they think Arthur Blank is ok.

Haven't watched mid-season Hard Knocks so didn't really have an idea of how the Cardinals' facilities were, but... wow. Overall second to last behind the Commanders (who are, y'know, dysfunctional), which kinda surprised me but at the same time the Cardinals are kind of low-key dysfunctional now I think about that. Making players pay for dinner out of their payroll... don't like that! Oh yeah and their training facilities are apparently a health and safety risk (fun).

It is interesting to note that the rankings of the facilities didn't necessarily correlate with team success: the top-ranked teams in this survey were the Vikings, Dolphins, Raiders, Texans, and Cowboys while the bottom-5 teams were the Commanders, Cardinals, Chargers, Chiefs, and Jaguars (Bengals dodging this phew). This is probably because a lot of stuff that's surveyed here can impact team performance, but only if it's egregiously bad (ie Cardinals or Commanders). Was surprised by how the Chiefs graded out on their training staff considering they just won a Super Bowl but I would wager that's to do with Andy Reid and his whole system; works but isn't the nicest about it.

I thought that the way some categories were weighted were a little questionable, ie travel and treatment of families being abt the same level. Personally having younger players room with each other is whatever, not having a proper space for families is a bigger issue. But maybe that's me being unsympathetic (and there is the whole difference between a star player and practice squad guy to consider because their treatment would be different).

Overall, pretty good survey, I do hope it's able to enact some awareness bc the NLFPA isn't that strong, but they do seem to be doing their best as a union (working in the interest of players).

[dollypartonswig]

The top 3 books I read in October

1. - Madhouse At The End Of The Earth - Julian Sancton ~ a non fiction book about the ill fated Belgian Antarctic expedition of 1897 - 1899 and the crews subsequent years after

2. - Morbidly Yours - Ivy Fairbanks ~ a recently widowed American woman moves to Ireland and finds out she’s moved in next door to a mortuary. romance and hijinks ensue

3. - My Roommate Is A Vampire - Jenna Levine ~ Cassie moves in with Frederick, a strange man who sleeps all day, is gone all night and talks like he’s straight out of a regency era romance novel, then she finds a bag of blood in his fridge

[freerangeranger]

Moving away from the more controversial topics - and onto hats!!

Wicker Sunhat

Lets have a pallete cleanser from that last piece shall we? Shhhh we are safe here. The bad patterns can't hurt you anymore.

This hat is like walking into a ice cream shop and ordering vanilla. For the record I like vanilla but I feel like a pop of color would do it some good. A bow perhaps. A sprinkle of yellow. Some actual sprinkles. Its nice if bland and thats okay!

If I wore this I would be a waspy woman at the beach who was expecting it to be just like the pool and is angry because sand is rough and coarse and gets everywhere. I would walk into the riptide thinking it was like the jets in a hot tub. I am never seen again.

7/10

[scrawnytreedemon]

Besties. Zesties. Fellow Online Strangers.

I need to talk about the stupid helmet man. Please. Someone talk to me about the stupid helmet man.

[sokoal]

tagged by @lewisrises to list four albums i’ve been listening to recently, thank you hun~

i'm tagging @yuzuchupachups @lhpics7 @sedicii @nosepiercing and anyone who wants to join 😊

[ikayblythe]

researching structural decay so i can estimate the lifespan of the in game iterators and lets just say that water kills buildings pretty damn fast! uh oh!

[firep0wder]

Rest assured I am being utterly abnormal and insane about saint jim but not in a way that aligns with literally anyone else in this godforsaken fandom which is why I haven't posted abt it. Also this post is orange because I can't fucking see the text otherwise. Anyway stream

[masschase]

If I had a nickel for every time I got obsessed with a fictional gamer called Matt who didn't much care for the outside world...

...well, I'm sure you all know the "weird that it happened twice" meme.

[planet4546b]

june hating saint is her #1 funniest character trait. sees that old man on the other side of the hanger and starts growling and caliban is like. literally WHAT is your problem.