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how fitting yet so unfair that Benji Ovich dies in an ice rink. How he left Beartown to find himself, to figure out who he was without hockey as his only identifier. How he comes back and still feels so painfully at home on the ice. How he’s somehow closer but also further away from knowing who and what he wants to be in this world. How the universe decides it for him with a bang. Benji Ovich dies in an ice rink protecting a little girl who will one day wear his name and number on her back, who will go on to live the life so many wanted for him … the life he deserved. Benji Ovich dies in an ice rink that was once his safe haven, in a locker room that used to be his, and surrounded by a team he was supposed to lead. A life of what-ifs that he was finally making peace with. He could be something more than just a hockey player. Alicia was proof of that. Benji Ovich dies in an ice rink … and maybe in death, he can finally be able to just play.

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that william and benji scene…

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the way Fredrik Backman uses the word bang as a motif throughout the Beartown series and how it becomes a signifier of life and death. bang-bang-bang the sound of pucks hitting a wall as a reminder of life. BANG BANG the sound of a gun firing, ending a life. How a single word can encapsulate the entire series with its versatility. Humans are capable of so much evil but also so much good. Just like hockey can be riddled with violence but also be a safe haven. How the culture of the club can build some kids up and destroy others. Or how a town in the forest can simultaneously be so suffocating yet so freeing

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Us Against You, Fredrik Backman

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once you read Beartown you can never go back to a state of never having read it

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“A boy with sad eyes and a wild heart” shut up shut up shut up Benji deserved so much more 😭😭😭 the ending was so perfect but so sad

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Us Against You | by Fredrick Backman ch.49

*screams in agony*

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already said this in the discord but I'm just not over it KEVIN ERDAHL HOW COULD U I WAS ROOTING FOR U WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR U

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I will go to war for Benji Ovich

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i finished the winners last night so naturally i want to start a class action lawsuit against backman

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:(

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It's weird isn't it?

We cry for things totally out of our control

Like watching our favorite team lose

Just because we thought that maybe, just maybe they would provide you with some blissful moments that your otherwise mundane life fails to provide. For once, something good would happen to your otherwise sinking boat.

Some moments

But as Fredrik Backman says, "But what the hell is life, Peter, apart from moments?"

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“The boy with the most handsome face, the saddest eyes, and the wildest heart they’ve ever seen.”

— Fredrik Backman, Beartown

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usually don't post about non-fandom stuff on here but just wanted to take a quick moment to say that what's going on in palestine is not war, it's genocide.

what the israeli government is and has been doing to the palestinian people is disgusting, and if you support israel, i don't know what to say to you.

they've been taking more and more of their land since israel was established (originally 56% of palestine's land, now they have over 80%)

bombings (israel bombed that hospital, they keep changing their narrative but they did)

over 4000 palestinians have died so far in this conflict. these are civillians

palestine does not have a military. israel, on the other hand, has a military with about 20 billion usd in funding every year, plus billions in aid from other countries

israel cut off energy and water for gaza. why do they have power over another country's electricity and water supply? and why this collective punishment of all palestinians for something a terrorist group did?

bombing hospitals, places of worship, and collective punishment are all war crimes and technically illegal, but most countries and journalists are turning a blind eye to that

banned chemical weapons are being used in gaza on civilians

if you are human, please try to spread awareness. many foreign journalists aren't even allowed into gaza as israel is controlling access to palestine. thousands of palestinians have died, and many governments and media sources are supporting this genocide.

the more we keep spreading the message, the more people will know, and hopefully we can help in some way.

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In fairness to King Kong, if I had a tiny adorable primate in my hand I would also be very resistant to someone taking it away from me.

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❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”

— #Fredrik Backman (Anxious People)