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Matthew tkachuk being made the nhl26 cover right after it was revealed he joined trump's stupid keep trans women out of sports council along with bettman and gretzky. this league is a nightmare

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tired: trading gauthier for drysdale sets back the flyers' rebuild because they need elite scoring talent

wired: trading gauthier for drysdale makes no inherent difference to the rebuild timeline because the flyers needed a good rightshot defenceman too

inspired: trading gauthier for drysdale speeds up the rebuild timeline because when trevor zegras forces his way to philly in two years it will not only bring elite scoring talent to the team but also finally stitch up the cosmic wound ripped in reality by the 2011 richards-carter trade, allowing the flyers to at last win another stanley cup

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flirting: omggg haha that amulet is so neat! Do you mind if I hold it?

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claude giroux is a national treasure. please protect him at all costs.

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an exasperated jamie watching trevor explain the 'we pee together' quote (x)

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fuck those 5 men and fuck hockey canada

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"WNBA doesn't make enough money" "make a profit before you get paid"

NBA players take about 50% of the money brought in by the nba, wnba players only get 9%, they aren't asking for 62.7 million rookie contracts, they're asking to get paid a fair, livable amount, so they don't have to go overseas or in other leagues, the W makes enough money to pay their players the money they deserve

Leagues like the nba and wnba rely off players, with out them they wouldn't exist so pay them what they're worth Cathy

To put it in to prospective, I work a minimum wage job at a record store, $21 an hour, my average income will be $43,680, I am only making 20k less a year then a 2nd round wnba pick on average. Their nba counterpart will make millions, even if they are picked in the 2nd round

I fully support the players striking if they can't agree on a CBA contract

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the caps’ jellycat schedule reveal inspired me. I’m going to go on their website and see if any of the jellycats remind me of specific hockey players

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they were so insane for this

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Hiding the Getty Watermark

Plenty of people have talked about this one before but I can't find anything rn. Have had a few people dm/ask about this since I mentioned it offhand in a post. Took a bit of time but have written a tutorial. Includes gifs of what I'm doing.

No generative AI, just old-fashioned image editing.

This trick is not intended for stealing from Getty or the photographer who owns the rights to the image. This is meant for non-profit, transformative fan content such as sports web weaving.

The "hiding" part isn't magic and isn't going to give you a perfect, full resolution image. Someone looking closely, who knows what to look for, will be able to see were the work was done.

Good news!! Most people aren't looking that close, they're reading the poetry you pasted to the image and weeping about your web weave.

You will need

Two copies of the image you want from Getty -> (1) the high resolution version with the watermark, and (2) the low resolution preview without the watermark.

Any image editing software that allows for the use of layers and a simple rectangle select tool. If you don't have one, Photopea is a free, browser-based editor. I will be using this one :)

For this tutorial we will be enlisting the services of the beautiful Adrian Kempe:

Method

Open your copy with the watermark:

2. File -> Open & Place... the copy without the watermark. It will appear much smaller on a new layer on top of your original image:

3. Transform (Scale) this to lay exactly on top of the original image. Very important that it is the exact same. Photopea and other image editors will have snapping, this feature is your friend:

4. Hide the low res layer for now. With the watermarked layer visible, use the rectangle select tool and select the two watermarks. The little one is in the bottom left. In this case, an exact selection is not required.

5. While on the low res layer, go to Layer -> Raster Mask -> Reveal Selection. Un-hide the low res layer. You have now gotten rid of the watermark:

6. Final product looks like this:

Add your lyrics or poetry or do whatever edits you like as normal. For fun I chose Queen by Magic City Hippies:

Final Notes

If you look closely you will be able to see the "seams" where the mask was applied and the low res image was spliced in. I prommmyyy nobody is looking that closely on tumblr dot com.

Live examples where I used this method in my AGAIN web weave - photos of the players are all sourced from Getty, some light cropping was applied for the desired aspect ratio and the colours were edited.

If you hate drop-down menus you can create a macro i guess ? Also the same effect is achieved if you click the little layer mask icon at the bottom of the layer panel instead of menus. I just wanted to be thorough.

If you can’t find those exact menu options in your image editing software you can use the “Search” tool which is usually found in the “Help” section.

You can also invert the selection and use the Erase tool on the low res layer if your editing software somehow doesn’t have a masking tool??

Have fun making your web weaves <3

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Hello, minor league baseball team! You'a have just played the Mario Coin sound effect on you'a broadcast system! This is a violation of'a my intellectual property! I'a would normally pitch a baseball directly through'a the skull of the person responsible, but you'a actually lost you'a game pretty badly, AND it was dime a dog night, so I'a forgive you all this once. Hope you'a learn from this!

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me logging in to call old men gay online

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i miss hockey

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the perpetual primal urge to draw these voltron-lookin rectangle guys

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Wouldn't it be funny if I held the cursed Amulet for a bit? Like as a joke?