back in the day this post made the rounds in hockey RPF and in Check Please and I am pleased to see once again a hockey-based fandom full of people who know nothing about hockey circulating this crucial info XD for the record I am always happy to splain hockey at pretty much anyone who asks!

oh that just means they’re a goalie. there is no explaining goalies. one time I asked my goalie why he didn’t use a gear bag with wheels (goalie bags almost always have wheels bc they have more/heavier equipment) and he—bent almost double under the weight of his gigantic bag—looked me straight in the eye and said “it makes me appreciate the game more.” I once knew a goalie who communicated solely via gifs of porn bloopers. there’s one NHL goalie whose pregame ritual is to go sit in the empty arena and stare at the empty ice surface for literal hours. each goalie is a full subculture that no one understands but themselves

putting on my goalie hat here and contributing some of my own common calls:

SCREEN = Please let me have line of sight to the puck, I promise I can save a shot from this distance on my own

SCREEN SCREEN SCREEN = Alright well literally all I can do here is lie down on the ice to maximize my chances of blocking the shot completely blind so you better block this yourself and if you don’t I’m dressing you up in the goalie suit next game

PASS BACK = Dude you’ve got three of them on you stop trying to be a superhero by forcing your way through them, drop it back to our D instead so we can regroup, I know you can’t hear me from that far away but I guess I’m the only one who can see the whole play so I gotta be an optimist and try

EXTRA MAN = There’s a delayed penalty in our favor so I’m booking it to the bench, please someone jump on the ice to replace me, if we were pros we’d have a coach to tell you this but it’s just beer league and once again I’m the only one who can see the whole play so I gotta be an optimist and try

SLOT / CREASE / BACKDOOR = They’ve got a guy wide open in this location, defense please cover them

SLOT SLOT SLOT / CREASE CREASE CREASE / BACKDOOR BACKDOOR BACKDOOR = They’ve got a guy wide open in this location, defense for the love of the gods please stop puck chasing and just stay in position and cover them

(Dead silence) = They’ve got a guy wide open in this location but defense is so far out of position that if I say anything it will just let the opposing team know where to pass it so I better keep my damn mouth shut and hope they don’t realize the pass opportunity and just try to shoot it directly at me which is my best chance at saving this one

i need to correct this: wow classic doesn’t have any npcs that can only talk to one player at a time. these lines actually formed for a quest npc that players had to kill to complete the objective. knowing that i think this image is even funnier.

Originally posted by astralbondpro

Literally this

My favourite is the guy saying, “This is like being at the dmv”

This guy knows what he’s talking about. He’s one of the lead writers for Leverage and if you ever watch the series on DVD, do yourself a favor and listen to him talk about how the scripts got written. Some of the advice he has is stuff I use all the time:
1. Don’t introduce an important plot person or thing after the first half of the story.
2. Always tie up loose ends.
3. Introduce important things in the middle of unimportant things.
4. If you have to infodump, find an emotion to tie it to and it will seem less like infodump and more like a motive rant.

Seriously this guy knows how to write.

I saw a production and it was fascinating: that only describes the first and second acts, and then the third is set like a hundred years later when a bunch of half-remembered memes and plot summaries have coalesced into an allegorical oral tradition retelling the nuclear disaster that ended the world, with hints of dangerous schisms forming between fans of different interpretations of the story. It’s a story about how we find comfort in mundanity and ritual in times of catastrophe but then those rituals can overtake genuine coping mechanisms, which is a good message in these times but goddamn I cannot see Disney allowing any of this to be filmed intact

waow..

#tapping the reblog button with utmost care because i’m handling a historical artifact (via @malarkiness)

holy shit OP is not only still active but is still making absolutely banger posts in this exact style 11 years later

A 2025 update

I do feel the need to add that later he excitedly tell the group that as a straight guy, he never thought that skill would be useful outside hotdog eating contests.

"Man its too bad that im straight since I've got like no gag reflex and all."

"Honey, I must tell you, i am in fact trans and I have not had bottom surgery."

"My god... everything's coming up Jason."

Pure of heart dumb of ass hetero of sexual

so god is suddenly real when you need to get off is that it

are there any quotes about how admonishing comrades for their fetishes is okay if it’s for the purposes of sexual humiliation

context according to instagram:

original image from the magazine:

Found a scan of this issue on the Internet Archive (it's the back cover). This scan is 4000x6000 for all your high resolution needs!

The caption reads: "Defeated by roses. Near Turin's Lingotto station, along a lonely path, Miss Guida Concetta Rinino, 28 years old, who was bringing a nice bunch of roses to a relative, was accosted by an unknown young man. The young woman, rather than losing heart, defended herself with extraordinary energy, using the bunch of flowers as a weapon. So it was that the scoundrel, his face all scratched up, had to flee. (Drawing by Walter Molino.)"

Incredible. At a distance I understand how the woman might appear to be the abuser and the man the sympathetic victim, but the second you zoom into the man’s face the pink-cheeked rage- not remorse, or rejection, or embarrassment- not heartbreak or despair- but RAGE- the deeper story speaks itself into your suspicions.

And the bit where they’re HER roses? Almost a relief, but also sadder, as she will arrive at whatever event without them, or with them destroyed.

Do you think when the righteous anger and anxiety and annoyance fade, when she arrives at her destination- will her loved ones applaud her? Will she be proud? Will her hands shake? Will she walk home with company from then out, and for how long?

In this moment, she is provoked into anger. Anger is good- it appears strong. But look at his face. Would you put it past him to linger there after dark, in case she returns alone?

What story will HE tell, of ‘I was perfectly polite, but she didn’t even give me a chance- women like that, they’d swoon for a jerk in a heartbeat, but kind and flattering men like me?…”

I love this piece. It paints both stories while illustrating the power dynamics and struggles at play. This should be shown in art classes