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men lost their way when their cultural definition of masculinity made them aspire to become andrew tate huffing his own farts instead of whatever the dad from the sound of music had going on

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faramir. you agree. reblog.

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T-SHIRT TUESDAYS THAT GO HARD

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Me like, “I wish Nine would explain this to me like it was in one of her a/n of Unforced Error”

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1fagp8u/leaked_audio_of_what_an_ejection_looks_like_in_mlb/

Also Hi! Hope you are well ❤️

wow, i've never been so delighted to answer an ask in my life

someone does a solid job downthread in that post explaining, but what can i say: baseball ben is my favorite child and i will take any excuse to bring him up, even tangentially.

okay, so lots of hot mess involved, but the batter, chase utley, was suspended the previous season for committing what's called a "rolling block slide" aka a slide meant to break up the possibility of a double play. however, when he did this slide, utley slid right into the legs of the mets' shortstop and subsequently broke his left fibula.

this kind of slide was permitted at the time, but utley was suspended for it and accused of purposely injuring the shortstop. (utley has always denied this, but it is a lowkey dirty slide, imho, and i say that as a dodgers gal/utley liker) the mlb banned this kind of slide before the following season, but the suspension was overturned in appeal and utley did not face any other consequences.

this, understandably, pissed the mets off--especially because this happened during the playoffs.

now, that's all backstory.

the clip in that reddit post comes from the first game between the mets and the dodgers the following season, iirc, in 2016. and, as was pretty much expected, the mets intended to hit utley with a pitch in retribution. you can tell because syndergaard's pitch is way, way off--and not in a "whoops, i missed my target" way, but in a "i am going to bean you with a bad pitch because you hurt one of our teammates last year, you ass." his pitch also misses along utley's back rather than his legs or feet, which clearly telegraphs bad intent.

(beaning, by the way, is an expected baseball behavior, believe it or not, and you generally get a free bean and a free "hey don't do that" from the umps before steeper consequences are levied.)

but the pitcher, syndergaard, missed. and because it was clear what he was trying to do and because the mlb was trying to crack down on these kinds of shenanigans, he got ejected straight away.

at the time, syndergaard was one of the mets' best pitchers, so that's why the team manager comes out hollering and fuming. he's saying "you gotta give us our shot" aka you are supposed to warn us first, as losing syndergaard would have been a huge blow to their chances in the series.

but, if you listen to the ump, he basically says "i can't do that because my bosses would be on my ass," because the pressure was on the umps to calm the situation down. in fact, the ump says "you had your shot" aka syndergaard shouldn't have missed because now my hands are tied.

essentially, the pitch was, as one redditor described it, "so gratuitously malicious" that they couldn't give him a warning. (the league has continued to add rules in the past 10 years to discourage beaning.)

.... aren't you glad you asked

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The Acolyte as text posts

(posting these ones here too bc why not)

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Uneasy is the head that wears a crown.

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And the darkness keeps on falling for the light

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LISTEN. Listen. All I want for Christmas 2019 is needlessly-dramatic-goth-space-prince Ben Solo and 1,000,000-mega-watt-smile-literal-Rey-of-sunshine to get together, is that so much to ask

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good question Cassian (thanks @sydneyadmu for the idea 💜)

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✨"I've come to rescue you." ✨

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stickers on kay were too good i had to do a colored version

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Andor Season 2 Writing Credits!

Episodes 1-3 by Tony Gilroy

Episodes 4-6 by Beau Willimon

Episodes 7-9 by Dan Gilroy

Episodes 10-12 by Tom Bissell

Source: The WGA

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no matter how terrible my day is. i can always end my day in bed imagining fictional characters making out sloppy style and fucking raw. and that's beautiful. there's some good in this world mister frodo and it's worth fighting for

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get a load of this guy

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Chirrut’s only really good at drawing one thing…

Bonus: …or the force goes somewhere weird.

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I love you “unlikeable” female characters I love you rude girls I love you mean women I love you girl interpretations of the “Asshole with a Heart of Gold” trope I love you women who get labeled Cold and Unfeeling I love you girls who lash out I love you women who lie I love you female characters who make people mad just by existing

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Little shirt on big guy, big shirt on little lady.