#seriously Blizzard?

[ghost-in-the-rain]

Golly gee willikers! ANOTHER dwarf race? How... exciting... 😒

[rainymoodlet]

Kiss Me in Komorebi+ 🌸

[ Settling In… ]

Part 6.b of 6 🌹

@foxsimthings @anarchosimdicalist

[j4ckme]

[bisexuallsokka]

what do you think about divorced zukka where izumi lives with sokka in the south pole but she visits zuko every winter in the fire nation where he is busy being the fire lord. but one day like 10 years after their divorce when izumi is in her teens, zuko comes to visit the south pole for diplomatic reasons and of course it falls on sokka and katara’s family to host him. so hakoda plans a casual sightseeing trip for all of them where zuko can try ice fishing and all that but then during their trip there’s a huge blizzard and they’re all cooped up in this remote village all stuck in the same building and while hakoda and katara are stressed about the blizzard and izumi is extremely weirded out by her dads being in the same place, zuko and sokka are flipping between bickering about the smallest things because they forgot how to talk to each other (and they want to, so they’re doing it the only way they know how) and staring longingly at each other from across the room…

um so what do you think about that

what do i think about that.....WHAT do i THINK about THAT.......

i think that sokka and zuko being forced together in stressful circumstances is absolutely perfect. i think they have been avoiding each other, both intentionally and unintentionally, for YEARS and that suddenly having no escape is just what they need. they need to be able to look at each other, not just in passing, and process how much time has passed and how much they both have changed. they need to see each other interact with their daughter and long for things to be different. they need to try to make small talk about the most mundane things (a la pretty clouds) and to make each other laugh and smile again and surprise one another with their honesty and try to be vulnerable again.

then they need the smallest thing to set them off, to make them start to put up their walls again, or they fall back to bickering because that is way less scary and way easier than whatever the fuck they are feeling at the moment. and then they need to notice izumi again and realize she doesn't deserve this and they should try for her if not anything else. they should try to be friendly, try to act like this is normal, try to """""act""""" like they really care about each other. and then izumi says loudly that zuko's hair is a mess, and sokka trips over himself to offer to braid it. and after he's done his hands are still shaking and zuko offers to warm them up even though they both know it's not from the cold.

so yeah that's what i think about that

[lilborealis]

Me rn because a few months ago it was svtfoe and now unfortunately it’s overwatch 😔

[nazmazh]

Okay, so hear me out, here.

Ideas for the new/relocated Utah hockey team that was the Coyotes:

They're reborn from the ashes of a failed/dead, franchise? What else is famously reborn from its own ashes?

Hence: the Utah Phoenixes

Eh? Eh?

Okay, fine, that probably won't do.

*****

Okay, so how about looking to the state reptile for inspiration? The noble Gila Monster.

Probably shorten to just the Utah Monsters for better cadence

[This joke being that one of the Coyote's former arenas was "Gila River" arena. That one was probably a little less obvious than "Phoenixes"]

*****

Okay, so, I see the problem is that we keep stumbling into invoking the specters of the past [Specters/Spirits/Phantoms - Not the worst ideas I've heard, btw].

Let's maybe focus on the iconic desert landscapes, invoking the common heritage there.

The Utah Buttes / Utah Beauts

Look, I know that I'm doing a lot of joking around here, but I'm honestly legitimately proud of that play on words.

And "Beaut!"/"Beauty!" feels like such a classic hockey term, y'know?

Sadly, probably would be too much hesitation for big, manly NHLers to be officially a "Beaut".

That being said, if a professional Womens'-League team ever expands to SLC - There you go, that's a solid name for your team right there.

I kind of like the cadence of it all, still - How about Utah Brutes? Does that feel more workable?

How about Utah Beasts - Especially if ever partnered with aforementioned "Beauts" female team - ("Beauts" and "Beasts", eh? Eh?!)

*****

Okay, last one that actually just came to me in the shower, and I'm actually a little bit more serious about this:

Looking for iconic, usually animals, of the region the team is in, that aren't already taken by other team names.

"Home on the Range" could help here: Pronghorns/Antelopes are an iconic species of the prairies/desert - Lethbridge's university teams use that name, though. But that's less an obstacle to say Buffalo/Bison (which do have a presence there) - Because the Sabres use them in their iconography.

"Deer" might be a bit too generic [not to mention the Bucks have that brand, basically] - Elk is the State mammal, but Edmonton's CFL team already has that claim.

So… other iconic desert animals, not already used in team names/logos?

How about hares/jackrabbits?

Probably not the type of animal iconography you wish to necessarily evoke, though.

Positives include speed, supposed cleverness. "Madness" might be a thing to jokingly play up?

But they fundamentally are still a relatively small prey animal.

But (And I swear, I am going somewhere with this),

With the Seattle Kraken, we've leaned into cryptids being a valid name [ETA: . Heck one of the potential names the ownership group seems to be actively considering is "Yeti".

So, what if we combined the pronghorn and hare ideas, yeah?

But (And I swear, I am going somewhere with this),

With the Seattle Kraken, we've leaned into cryptids being a valid name. [See Also: The Jersey Devil - Which is what New Jersey's name is inspired by. Not, y'know, the ruler of hell, despite their branding all leaning into the "cartoon red devil"-style.]

Heck one of the potential names the ownership group seems to be actively considering is "Yeti".

So, what if we combined the pronghorn and hare ideas, yeah?

You see where I'm going with this, right?

The Utah Jackalopes

Or possibly Utah Jacks for better cadence and all their branding is jackalope-related.

I'm actually not-entirely joking on this one. I think you could actually lean into something really fun with this one.

[imjussaiyan]

They really were lazy when it came to Junkrat and Roadhog’s cinematic. The production was even low quality unlike everything else.

[rapidreptile]

does dairy queen not have the cotton candy blizzard anymore???? D:

[fortheloveofpiggy]

My last game as og hog ended in a potg.. how poetic

Farewell og hog. Thanks for getting my into this game and in turn making me friends, giving me inspiration, giving me community, and more. I know it sounds silly but as a autism mentally ill person who can’t socialize much having a character to have a common interest in with other people has really helped

I also identify through him as a fictive and that identity is so important to me. So thank you og hog!

And this is my farewell

[pastafossa]

I have to head to bed BUT I should have the first batch of short Christmas oneshots tomorrow to help heal all of your souls! I’m also going to be taking this next TRT update off for the holiday, so I’ll have the time to finish up these little Christmas bits that are mostly just about fun, without focusing on Greater Meanings And Plot Threads. It’ll be like a fic vacation!  I’M GOING TO ROLL AROUND ON MY CHRISTMAS VACATION AND JUST DO FUN SHIT AND WRITE FUN FLUFF AND EAT COOKIES I MAKE FROM GRANDMA’S RECIPES except the ones grandma made with walnuts because i have developed a random allergy to them why grandma AND PUT ANTLERS ON THE DOG THEN OPEN PRESENTS DURING A BLIZZARDY WHITE CHRISTMAS AND I HOPE I GET A DAREDEVIL SWEATER I CAN WEAR WHILE FICING.

I also like how after the angsty chapter drop, my askbox is currently 50/50:

“Pasta what have you done, how COULD YOU, fuck YOU (affectionate)”

“Pasta I don’t know what you’ve done but I’m scared, hold me”

This is a fun way to end my night, you all make me happy, thank you for letting me torture you with TRT and sticking around through the Saga of the Pasta Impasta, ily all, merry whichever-your-holiday-is, I will sleep peacefully tonight.

[crestofshame]

Y’all know the blizzard diversity chart

[termagax]

im kind of bummed venture doesnt have a voiceline with any of the junkers. i know its funny comic relief mad max world or whatever but can we get one (1) acknowledgement of that as a real and Bad thing that happened. like to the world. like. massive ecological disaster. death displacement and dehumanization of hundreds of people. anything that would at least acknowledge it as a cultural curiosity ? like a spawn line on the maps or anything ? please ?

[j4ckme]

[criminalgays]

i’m going to preface this with the fact that i am going to willfully and shamelessly display a gross misunderstanding of how the us military works and how naval aviators and the air force interacts with each other. that being said here we go

top gun au where the daggers are sent to an air force base in the winter in the fucking midwest. Bob grew up near the base they’re visiting, so the harsh winter isn’t a big deal for him. in fact, he’s the only one that can actually fucking drive in the weather with any degree of confidence. the rest of them are from varying southern states (except for omaha, who’s from nebraska. but nebraska winters are nothing compared to northern midwest winters) and they didn’t pack appropriately. so Bob takes them on a field trip to the nearest cabela’s/scheels and convinces them that wearing just thermals is the HEIGHT of fashion in midwest winters.

there’s a blizzard while they’re there, and base gets shut down. instead of forcing them to stay on base, bob takes them into town and checks them into a hotel to weather the storm. it’s rooster’s first time seeing snow, and everyone’s (sans bob) first time experiencing a completely no travel advised state. the base is shut down for the next 2 days, and the travel restrictions don’t let up for the next 3. which is how bob ends up driving back and forth between their base housing and the hotel four times in 1 day.

when they’re finally done with their assignment at the air base, they swear to never go back there unless they absolutely fucking have to, nevermind the fact that hangman and rooster have to go back at some point for floyd family christmas

[crystal-ball-of-ow-canon]

Vigilante shit is so Reaper coded

[daylightcommand3]

Still boggles my mind Iggy got mentioned in a Tracer voiceline before Emily.