I'm Cim, a cis female lesbian expat USan SFF & media/fanfic fan in Finland (she/her preferred). Intersectional feminist. Supernatural-free worldview. Socialist. Green eyes. 169.5 cm/5'6.75". Neutral good. Here for the semantic arguments.
extremely funny to me that harley quinns real name is apparently harleen quinzel, a name that sounds less real that harley quinn. they should do that with more comic characters. batman real name batthew manning. daredevil real name darius devilson. doctor strange real name. well okay that one doesnt count.
I have some very good news for you about Black Bolt’s real name
For anyone keeping up with the Stranger Things “secret good finale” conspiracy (yes, it is just the Sherlock “secret good episode” thing with a new show.) the current theory is that tomorrow, in place of SNL, the actual finale of Stranger Things will air. They are presenting this as something plausible, and not something that Lorne Michaels would have beaten the Duffer Brothers to death over if they even suggested it.
The stranger things finale is going to drop on Martin Luther King Jr Day because Stranger Things embodies the values of MLK
Close enough. Welcome back Johnlock truthers!
The subreddit also has a 60 page masterdoc of all their evidence, if anyone wants to archive that for the inevitable youtube video that’s going to be made.
The Lee Tower complex housed a cinema, restaurant and grand ballroom in a u-shaped building, with the tower itself reaching 120 feet (37 metres) into the air and offering stunning views of the Solent from the viewing platform at the top. The tower was bedecked in camouflage colours in the Second World War, in an effort to make it harder for enemy pilots to use the tower as a useful navigation marker as they attacked Portsmouth or Southampton. It sadly lost its battle for survival and was demolished during the 1970s.
One of the things I haven’t seen discussed about heated rivalry is how Montreal, 3ven in the early 2010s, is well known as one of the safest and gay friendliest cities on the planet.
Thriving gay club scene and gay village and queer community who absolutely would have had a place for a kid who couldnt come 1out artwork but was looking for somewhere to be semi anonymously queer with friends.
Except. If that 18 year old was the number 2 draft pick, rookie of the year, shining star centre of the Montreal hockey team, which would have absolutely ensured he was recognized the instant he set foot in any gay bar of the city.
Shane Hollander has spent his 20s living on the doorstep of one of the gay Meccas of the world and he cant even press his nose against the glass in the front windows.
Same with Scott in NYC.
While NYC is absolutely one of the gay friendly cities in the world, (I dont think its an accident that Scott plays for new York and one of the only other named teams in the league is San Fransisco, part of all of this is the boys lookimg out at the life they could have but absolutely dont) part of what i was driving at is that Montreal is a Hockey City in a way that New York just is not.
New York has two hockey teams, two baseball teams, two football teams, a basketball team, and thats just men’s pro sports. If you are a sports fan in New York, you might not even follow hockey.
Montreal doesnt even have a baseball team anymore. They are a Hockey Town. And their hockey team, as shane puts it, is the most legendary franchise in all of sports. Better than the fucking Yankees.
Montreals hockey team means something to the city in a way that New York’s just doesnt.
Scott Hunter has a better chance of being anonymous in public in New York than Shane does in Montreal.
I need Heated Rivalry fans to understand just how much hockey players are really only celebrities in Canada. A HUGE part of what players talk about when discussing franchises is how there is the extra pressure on a player for a Canadian team because they are known in a way that they simply aren’t in the states. Like Jack Hughes (center for the New Jersey Devils) is a huge face for the NHL, he’s one of the faces of his franchise, he (and his brothers) are major success stories of the US national development program, first overall draft pick, represented the US internationally multiple times, you get the idea. He was photographed by paparazzi having dinner with Tate McRae semi recently and the caption of the photo was Man in hand cast seen having dinner with Tate McRae!
There’s the pressure of being a player from an Original Six team (Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Montréal, New York, and Toronto) and then there’s being a Canadian original six, and above that there’s being the Canadian O6 that only has hockey (and CFL but that’s a different conversation)
Adding to this that there are big sections of the country that don’t have a local team and so are either Habs or Maple Leafs fans, like to me Nova Scotia has always been very Habs-leaning. Hell, given the number of Franco-Americans there, I wouldn’t be surprised if Maine and Vermont have more Habs fans than Bruins fans. Yeah, it’s insane how much influence hockey has (says the girl who went with her mum when she was seven to meet Guy Lafleur and got his autograph).
My new favorite genre of picture is a very special thing that most animals (and humans!) do: face nuzzling as an act of greeting/comfort/intimacy. thank God that this is happening all over the world right now
