#// im SO tired of looking at this jfc

[ratatatastic]

"I gotta have you talk about Barkov a little bit... 'cuz, you know, he's your Captain but like... What should we know that we don't know about this guy? He's so quiet, he keeps a low profile—I'm sure that's by design—but he's the quietest, incredible superstar that...When Chris Pronger was working there (VP of Hockey OPs/Senior Advisor from 2017-2020), I remember he used to say to me, 'Hey, this guy is a Top 5 player in the game.' Even when nobody was even putting him in the Top 10 at that time, you know? But what makes him so great? What do you know about him now that you thought you knew before you got there?" "You know, well, everything—because I'm with you! I knew he was in the league, I knew he was a great player but playing on the other side—I'd see him play twice a year and I wouldn't watch that much and I had no appreciation for how good he was. But the answer—I'm gonna give you an answer about Barkov and it's not gonna be good enough... 'cuz I can't answer that question about him yet, I still haven't gotten to figure it out. I don't know to do it justice but he's this extreme perfect blend of absolutely no ego and an incredible drive to be better at the same time. So usually the guys that are really driven have a bit of an ego. Ego's not bad always, right? Maybe I'm using the wrong word to describe it but he will put his teammates and his—everything—first, and it won't bother him one bit! That's exactly the way he wants it! He doesn't want to be the first guy out, he doesn't want to—it's not that he doesn't want to do interviews because of the media! Talk to this guy! You walk in our room—you don't know hockey and you don't know names—you can't tell if he's the 1st forward or the 13th forward by the way he treats people. That's absolutely the truth! And the reason he's not appreciated as much as a player is: I have never, ever once seen him even remotely cheat to the offensive side of the game to score a point. He just won't do it. That doesn't mean he's sitting back defensively! He doesn't give a rat's ass about his point totals, he just wants to win. So he's never gonna put the numbers up that he could. If Barky decided he was gonna generate points—if somebody'd convince him, 'Hey, Barky! If you just cheat the game and score—we'd got a better chance of winning!' I don't know, [he'd put up] 120, 130 points? Like he is brilliant but he will never, ever put the game—you know, what? He wouldn't put himself in front of the game. The game demands certain things and you can't get past that no matter how good you are. There are certain things you got to do in this game and usually those are hard things... he'd never once put himself in front of the game." "You can't score 120 or 130 without cheating a little bit, right? It's just a real—" "Yeah, except those guys don't call it cheating! They call it anticipating. Bad players cheat, good players anticipate." "They see things before they happen, Paul! That's what happens!" "Exactly, exactly!"

The Cam & Strick Podcast | 9.24.24 (x)

[tewwor]

𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙴 — 𝙹𝚄𝙹𝚄𝚃𝚂𝚄 𝙺𝙰𝙸𝚂𝙴𝙽 .

𝙽𝙾𝚆 𝙻𝙾𝙰𝙳𝙸𝙽𝙶 . . .

Canonically, all of the muses within The Marked have died. They were then randomly selected and presented a chance for a second life. Once accepted, they are brought back with a few perks that normal humans don't have, but the catch is that they must hunt curses. They are known as The Marked, and they keep their actual identities a secret from society. The phenomena of the deal dates back beyond a set time. So while most of the muses on this group are of the modern era, the traditions / practice has always been around.

This group was originally located in the states. Upon request by the higher echelon of JJT, they have more or less relocated overseas. All Marked members are to considered as sorcerers.

No one outside of the marked knows them as such. to others, they’re known as 0 ; the beginning to all ends, the end to all beginnings.

0 is an underground syndicate that deals in weapon supply, cage fights, and sorcerers for hire. They’re an odd bunch, certainly, but they always get the job done. Their influences has been spread far and wide to those that know where to look.

The core of 0 are all Marked members, but there are others permitted to join as well. Not a single word is ever said about who or what The Marked are. despite how cohesive and high functioning 0 is, The Marked will always stay loyal to themselves first.

Codenames aren’t used within 0. All Marked members go by their civilian names.

Additional resources / help is often outsourced — this opens a more accessible starting point for other sorcerers and the like. Curse infused / possessed users are welcomed! Just know they’re being watched. Any particularly bad fuck ups and The Marked will take notice and deal with it accordingly.

𝙿𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁𝚂 . . .

999 'Kubo Yua' — Security . Imperceptibility CT .

Ace 'Ari Yoonji Im' — Informant / thief . Summoning CT .

Chef 'Yoo Serim' — Cook / alchemist . Sensory deprivation CT .

Curor 'Amine Kovac' — Healer / trainer . Healing blood CT .

Crux 'Josiah McCarthy' — Overseer of both The Marked & 0 / underground fight organizer; black market dealer . Bone manipulation CT .

Evanescence 'Aarav Singh' — No position yet . Power seal CT .

Goshawk 'Iza Burne' — Cleaner . Acidity manipulation CT .

Iris 'Kang Ilseul' — Safe haven keeper & medicinal supplier / Greenhouse nursery worker . Entity bonding CT .

Jackrabbit 'Ines Ortiz' — Techie /  freelance hacker . Body temperature manipulation CT .

Kingfisher 'Shira Kantor' — Cleaner . Matter ingestion CT .

Litho 'Lionel Accardi' — Forger / bookstore owner . Ink manipulation CT .

REM 'Alon Galvez' — Handler / pawn shop owner . Hypnokinesis CT .

Ricochet 'Raayan Iyer' — Trainer / janitor . Absorption Infusion CT .

Shrike 'Choi Siwoo' — Cursed weapons maker . Physical restoration CT .

Tombstone 'Alonzo Cordero' — Tailor . Soul manipulation CT .

Vector 'Han Seojun' — Healer & seeker ( of new agents & retired trainer / Forensic artist . Holy fire CT .

Weaver 'Awan Umar' — Transport / wheelman . Rift Manipulation CT .

[jaxieshauna]

who up being neglected by everyone in their dumb fuck life again jfc

[francy-sketches]

I hateeee how asoiaf has just become the "incest books lol" to so many people. what a dumb and reductive way to look at a series that has so much more like. of all the things you could say are the central themes of asoiaf incest in not one of them lmao.(yes obviously it's present, but not nearly as much as people make it out to be) And this isn't about people who havent read it and are just judging from the outside bc who gives a shit about them. But I see this mostly from fans and its just??? what the fuck did you read/watch lmao. I mean even hotd which centers around thee incest family isnt about the incest and you'd have to have negative media literacy to think it is.

Also it's fucking insane how being uncomfortable with incest shipping gets you ridiculed in this fandom lmao. like I'm not here to be the morality police ship whatever the fuck you want idc. but dont be surprised when it makes people uncomfortable??? "ummm if you dont like incest why are you reading the incest books/watching the incest show??? weirdo" I dont fucking know man maybe all the other 348593 interesting things it's about. just a guess. And these are the same people who go on about "well just bc you write something fucked up doest mean you agree with it" which. yes! true!! then why do you uncritically endorse targ incest blood purity 😭 do you think maybe that's one of the things grrm wrote that he doesnt agree with? of course not, hotd is a cautionary tale about the dangers of not doing incest and what happens when you let your pure valyrian blood be contaminated by gross peasant genes from outside your family ^_^ obviously ^_^ and anyone who's not into your incest ships is a bigot <3 "but it's normal in their world!1!11!!!" no its not lol. and even if it was. marrying children is also normal in their world what's your point

[vampirecatprince]

*takes psychic damage some stank ass political opinions from multiple moots*

....... I don't have the spoons for this shit.

[cicidraws]

i was the only one at the fair today locally with a mask on

and as we were leaving and someone else was coming in, a dad with his probably 5 yr old daughter, he leaned over in front of my face and coughed hard on purpose

fucking jackass i hope he gets humbled so hard, and maybe hope he falls on his face on the hot pavement.

[bunnyb34r]

Yeah didn't get to do the new leggings OR the shit I threw in a box to deal with later (not like they sell on the table anyway)

But I did get my endcap reset and the new shit isn't a pain in the ass to recover and restock

The overnight girl was back so my area was recovered! Even the NikeShitë! Even though she did them... all wrong... like infuriatingly wrong...

But I didn't have time to deal with that shit anyway bc my endcap took all fucking day

And then I had to cram like 6 boxes under NewLady's table bc I have NO ROOM at all and I actually put shit behind shit unlike her who only puts one row of boxes so it LOOKS like shes full but shes not. Cram that shit bitch. Anyway she's gonna have to deal bc we have the same number of items just different VOLUMES of it like 30 items per section is normal, but say I get ~200 stock and she gets ~900 stock per item. She can put shit in the steel or under her FOUR GIANT TABLES I get one. Just one. So fuck you it's called working with other people and being a team. I didnt say shit all the times NetflixCoworker needed to put shit in my table space when I actually had room.

From what I've seen, the new leggings are kinda cute. The Sharter's stuff is like "cute strawberry and cherry outfit" (too cute), "pretty blue outfit", "UGLIEST FUCKING FLORAL YOUVE EVER SEEN outfit" like 😭 every goddamn time they throw one ugly floral like come on... no one wants these stop...

[buckys-arm-and-rios-dagger]

Look man I'm not a fan of Peggy in What If either but the ferocity some of y'all hate her with feels feels really excessive

and before anyone goes "tHen DoN't lOoK aT iT" it's not like I go fuckin looking for it the Bucky tag and the What If tag have been clogged with it recently in light of the show and i am. So tired.

[cavaliersecondary]

i think not having to hide as much just how ND and mentally ill i am i public would not necessarily solve all my problems but it sure as fuck make things a lot better

[greyywalll]

[badluckqueen]

when will i stop being my own worst enemy

[uwooyoungs]

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[chaelinsbitch]

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[bunnyb34r]

So I got new shoes and tried out these new insoles with em and man do my feet fucking hurt

But it made me think ab advice [relative coworker] (and other senior coworkers who have now left) that you can tell right off the bat if we're going to have a good visit or a bad visit from the corporate lady by just looking at her shoes. If she has heels, we will have a bad visit. If she has some form of comfy shoes like sneakers, it's more likely to be a good visit. And it made me think

Goddamn is this bitch a fucking moron and a jackass. Like you KNOW how you feel when you have uncomfortable shoes on. You KNOW that that can be prevented by just wearing sneakers. Fuck you're like a gazillionaire you can afford stylish COMFY SHOES! Why the fuck are you showing up to these visits, which you already know you do not enjoy, with heels?? What kinda fucking idiot are you??

And she still has not personally visited since I started btw it has been prophesied 8 fucking times in a year. Get some better shoes you cranky fucking jackass, maybe then you'll feel like showing up.

[snekdood]

stg europeans coming here saw cool native plants that looked similar to the ones in europe and decided they were shittier and less pretty for no fuckin reason. like why tf is lesser celandine everywhere when marsh marigold looks LITERALLY THE EXACT FUCKIN SAME.

[blasphamoustraitors]

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