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I have 2 side blogs:
1. Hangukndrama : for kdrama content primarily. Also some music & langblr content. I only tag my original posts. I sometimes post spoilers close to air dates (I start posting immediately after I watch)
2. Thingsivebeenblazed : I reblog every blazed post I see. I plan to do a research project or compile some stats about this eventually. But if you want to see what people have been blazing, give it a scroll.
📢 ILYA ROZANOV LOON TATTOO CONFIRMED FOR HEATED RIVALRY SEASON 2 📢
More ridiculously pedantic bird posting:
I get that loons appear biologically simialr to the mallard duck, but if you were to choose their closest living relative that is represented by an emoji, it would be the 🐧penguin, which is also in Phaethoquornithes. Ducks like mallards are in Galloanserae.
Loons are very cool birds with almost no living relatives!
Variety: Hudson Williams of #HeatedRivalry says “f*ck AI” at the #GoldenGlobes: “F*ck it to death.”
>be me
>be known at work to be a little weird about knitting
>daily changing Windows wallpaper on communal PC changes to Cute Sheep
>be summoned by colleagues to look at Cute Sheep
>me: Oh! A Valois Blacknose sheep, I think
>colleagues check picture attribution to verify
>it's a Valois Blacknose sheep
>I gain one point on the Estimation Counter of my autistic colleague
>I gain one point on the Weirdness Counter of my allistic colleagues
>I kind of hope they'll start showing me more Cute Sheep
This is EVIL EVIL I TELL YOU
how can I pick just one
the noise of distress I made when I saw the options on this poll
Ok so like, listen, woodcocks have all the silly names, and like look at them
However I’ve always had a soft spot for killdeer, the big show they do to try and lure you away from they nest is one of the most dramatic things I’ve ever seen, also I’ve seen the babies running around with their parents and they’re stupidly cute, and I love that i actually get to see them, I’ll find them nesting in parks and stuff
but also puffins, I love puffins, they’re so curious and they’re incredible flyers even if they don’t look like it and like let’s not forget that thing we’ve caught them doing where the try to copy the decoys
Anyway, I’m trying to keep my rambling short, but they are all winners to me
and I will be voting for killdeer as I suspect they will be getting the least love
stamps with inuit tools. greenland, issued 1987.
people are not talking enough about how university instructors are payed unlivable wages to teach some of the biggest classes on campus. no certainty their position will exist beyond the semester; no insurance. and those full time tenure positions, with that desired certainty, and financial security, are evaporating, eliminated soon after some forced boomer retirement. eventually, these “gig” positions will be the standard, completely normalized; a failed system nearing collapse. and this is all insane, really, when you consider the amount students pay per class. all that money, and yet none of it moves beyond the chancellor and the sports, and every year the university clamors in “short fall.” how? where? imbeciles at the helm of education, politics, using the playbook of a fucking venture capitalist to decide the best way to move forward, devaluing anything that doesn’t offer a monetary reward.
Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.
I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.
Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:
And what's the magic with them? My mother explained the magic with this machine the very, very first day. She said, "Now, Hans. We have loaded the laundry. The machine will make the work. And now we can go to the library." Because this is the magic: you load the laundry, and what do you get out of the machine? You get books out of the machines, children's books. And mother got time to read for me.
It's about 15 years since I first watched this TEDtalk, and I will never be over this quote. You get books out of the machines.
can non natives stop acting surprised and performatively jokey "uhh what lol!" about ice going after native americans. theyve been doing this for years and it ramped up last year and i had to hear all the stupid "uhhhh where will u deport them to 😜 silly republicans!" comments as if its not always been about detaining torturing murdering using as slave labor scattering communities through fear and intimidation etc. be an adult and act with maturity please. its not quirky or confusing its directly in line with americas racism and white supremacy to make sure native americans are eradicated
I think it's notable also particularly in the Minneapolis context that of the 6 or so (US) Native people I have heard of being detained in the past few days there, at least half were unhoused. This context is important esp given the recent history (I can't remember the year but starting sometime when I lived there from 2016-2020) of police violently dismantling encampments of Native unhoused people. the Native population in Minneapolis is like 5% but Native people make up almost half the unsheltered homeless population, iirc. the ICE harassment of tribal citizens is not of course limited to unhoused Natives but I think it's important to see the connections of how these developments are connected to previous and ongoing violence against unhoused people
i think the reason heated rivalry shies away from fully depicting casual homophobia in hockey culture (scott acknowledges it in his mvp speech but it's not like we see slurs being thrown around) is that a lot of romance novels have an aspect of wealth fantasy. like you're working your miserable customer service job (at a smoothie shop, for example) and then a hot famous rich person walks in and falls in love with you and you can afford to move out of your parents' house and pursue your dreams. we can't portray hockey culture as this deeply harmful thing if the characters being famous wealthy hockey players is part of the fantasy. the cottage, the fancy hotel rooms and suits and the fact that they're at the top of their field - that's part of the appeal. we don't want them to stop being hockey players and leave that life behind, so we can't portray hockey culture as something that would make them want to leave
Hockey culture's toxicity has been in the news soo much in Canada lately (Google "EM hockey Canada"). Last year I found it hard to think about anything positive about hockey, the connection to misogyny & violence was too strong.
But HR is closer to that typical romantic escapism. Romantic leads are always a prince, chaebol, CEO, mafia boss, rich, intellectual, and extremely strong - so of course they're a mafioso with a heart of gold, or a philanthropic CEO, or a prince who acts justly. It's fantasy.
In HR's fantasy hockey is a vehicle for power and masculinity but it is also the main source of conflict. Like a romance where the mafioso is on trial for murder (and he did it in cold blood), or the prince is starting a war with the heroine's family, or the CEO is revealed to own a slavery-powered Emerald mine.
The real fantasy of HR is that even with hockey culture in the main 'antagonist' role, the show transformed hockey culture into such a weak antagonist (homophobia, head injuries) by not including the many, many additional negative associations (misogyny, racism, violence, cultishness, gambling issues, etc.). Then the antagonizing elements are presented as addressable/somewhat solvable (homophobia) or minimized (head injury is used for whump and then hand-waved away).
I don't know where I'm going with this... I guess to conclude that escapism is good sometimes, but too much is probably bad? And that I liked thinking about hockey positively for the first time in a decade*. HR's fictional hockey feels more possible to reform than any fictional monarchy... but they are equally fictional fantasies... and you're right that their narrative role is ultimately escapism & wish fulfillment.
* the show reminded me of like, playing pond hockey with my cousins, cheering for my crush in high school, and noticing the old guys who play road hockey on the tennis court at the park every Sunday.
I have no idea how is this technique called in English but this is what I've been learning on my lessons recently and while it is an excercise in strategic thinking sometimes it has a potential to be super pretty once I get a little bit more of a practice
