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it’s so nice being fond of people on here :-) like yeah maybe we only know each other in a very limited way but i care abt you guys & hearing abt your lives makes me happy & i like listening to the things u have to say & i really truly wish the best for you all!!! sending my love from a couple states, countries, oceans away

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I KNEW NOTHING BUT SHADOWS, book cover for @writingjourney

After some consideration, I decided to completely redraw my IKNBS art work (again.. oops). And now after having this in my gallery for about.. two months.. and consistently going back to it and re-reading this incredible story several times over to get the feel of the artist.. I’m finally happy. As I’ve said before, this is such a beautiful story and one of my favorites - a true comfort read. It needed a book cover.

CLOSE UP & DETAILS (the eyes are my favorite)

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A double commissions this time from a client

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(c) Chris Graffeo

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It hasn’t been easy for many who have come before them. Twenty-six years ago in Nagano when women’s hockey debuted as an official Olympic sport, some media coverage focused more on the sexual orientation of the players than the competition.

But relationships among athletes are slowly gaining a normality in women’s pro sports. In 2021, married couple Allie Quigley and Courtney Vandersloot won a WNBA championship with the Chicago Sky, and they are just one of many couples in the league. 

Women’s sports is undergoing a transformative expansion — new leagues, more money and investment, increased media coverage — and the story of teammates as couples is only going to become more common.

“I've always been the hockey player. But I have a wife and I can be myself. People are coming to the rink and saying thank you for allowing me to be myself,” Poulin says. 

If Poulin has helped make Stacey a better hockey player, Stacey has assisted Poulin in living her most authentic life. 

And in a lot of ways, they have become bigger than the game.

Their late-September wedding at Le Peaches and Cream in Low, Que., is described by many of the 192 family members and friends who were in attendance as the perfect day. Poulin and Stacey both call it “the best day of their lives” — an epic celebration of life and love, the culmination of a relationship that began in 2017 when they locked eyes while swimming at a Team Canada event at Blue Mountain in southern Ontario.

Stacey had just competed in her first world championship, Poulin a decorated champion many times over. They were teammates, but they didn’t really know a lot about one another. 

“A few of us decided to go skinny dipping in the pool at 2 a.m.” Stacey says. “The two of us looked up into the sky at the same time and we saw a shooting star. Our eyes met and we asked each other if we just saw that. Nobody else in the pool saw it or knew what was going on but we saw it. For the rest of that night it was a weird feeling. I had a feeling.

“We always go back to that moment. Even in my wedding vows, that was the thing —that she was the wish I had always dreamed of and I didn’t realize it until now.”

and they were linemates... everybody stop drop and read this article on laura stacey and marie philip-poulin

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Ghost @ The Riviera Theater, 10/3/15

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Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz sent underaged women thousands of dollars on Venmo for the reasons of “Reimbursement,” “being my friend,” “🤗,” “xtra 4 u,” and “Just because”

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to anyone missing my writing please know i am also missing my writing

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I'm posting this because the end of summer was like, three days ago and I completely forgot. MY BAD !

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From Jelena Woehr on bluesky

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KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989), dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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if someone says they dont want to be touched

dont touch them

dont fucking touch them

actually dont touch them

dont continue to fucking touch them after they make it clear they are uncomfortable

THIS ISNT FUCKING HARD DONT FUCKING TOUCH THEM

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a very late birthday present for @ramblingoak i'm sorry i took forever but i hope rainbow dancing copia will make up for it 💜💜💜💜

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The Metropolis of Tomorrow - art by Hugh Ferriss (1929)

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3 transphobic arguments to be aware of (so you don't go down the alt right pipeline)

source

Easily one of the most important videos I've seen since the election.