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crying over a picture of a dog watching the northern lights

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Siberian cows, 2019 - by Marina Fomina, Russian

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i forgot to post this when i took this picture but i got a little emotional in toronto when i passed this leafs forever art done outside the arena that had been stripped away because of the handwritten letters filling in what was missing showcasing the indomitable spirit of sports fans. do you understand me

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Creep, 2014, dir. Patrick Brice

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Springsteen On Broadway (2018)

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i text my love at old mill station by andrea josic

the humber river watershed is the / largest in our intentional city, formed / through an erosion of millennia’s dusk / did you know, even salmon home / journey backwards to a safer place / when the night begins to carve out the day / sometimes, they call a river stream an arm, / meaning, i would hold this earth’s hand to / trail these thousand patterns for you / so let me briefly meet you where / birds revoice in the year’s thaw as i / thunder in from an end much quieter / across seconds of dune and sky and bridge / and i’ll let you know / i will be home again soon

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The love was there.

(NOT BASED OFF ANY CURRENT EXPERIENCES)

Jeanette Winterson / Ashe Vernon / Clementine von Radics, "In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive" / P.D, "there is no absolution for the fallen, only dying" / Sky Ferreia, "Sad Dreams" / ? / Lidia Yuknavitch, "The Chronology of Water: a Memoir" / ?

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- A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers // kagonekoshiro

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Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

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i need to talk to god

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in another universe, me and my high school friends are still having lunch together.

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You don’t have to have anything in common with people you’ve known since you were five. With old friends, you’ve got your whole life in common. / Lyle Lovett

andy grammer, back home / stephen king, it / it (2017) / jonathan tropper, the book of joe / taylor swift, seven / now and then (1995) / ben rector, old friends / the sandlot (1993) / ally condie, matched / kodaline, way back when / stand by me (1986)

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jordan hall | Philadelphia Flyers’ N.P. scores in 1st game since April 2019 | happy to be making progress he thinks | “hallucinogenics” by matt maeson | espn | run towards the danger: confrontations with a body of memory by sarah polley | the flyers have patrick’s back | “old man” by neil young

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hockey rpf recognizable patterns of behavior

this has existed in my drafts/discord messages/meanders of my deranged psyche in one form or another for ages now, but recent discussion #onhere re:bleak boyband bingo encouraged me to clean up the list for human consumption and present it in bingo format, which immediately made it 150 times more user-friendly and thus postable. while obviously visually inspired by bbb, thematically i think it is only adjacent at best because the focus here is fundamentally about relationships, even when it comes to squares like The Weight Of Legacy or Signing With Your Hometown Team (inspired by dylan larkin and john tavares respectively, whose narratives are soooo tied to The Ghost Of Other People it's almost laughable). ideally this board could be incorporated into a larger bbb-style board that would also include broader, less shippy archetypes; but i personally am Not Good at that so what you get today is 81 squares of love&horny.

color-coded version hopefully conveys the fact that while i do believe the 3x3 cards can stand alone, there is a continuity both vertically and horizontally AND diagonally. after all, one of the characteristics of sportsrpf is the fluidity of the dynamics— linemates today, facing off tomorrow, etc.

some of these squares are so very clearly about one specific pairing to me, but depending on your hockeyfandom entry point i think it might vary drastically and i'm very curious about what people's first associations to specific Narratives(tm) are. might reblog later with examples but for now in the name of science i want this to hit the market neutrally and let it percolate

3x3 boards under the cut for easier readability

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you helped me meet a version of myself I didn’t know existed

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