#Accomplished Athlete

[reviewsduniya]

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oh okay this is just screaming Yassen Gregorovich

[goldkirk]

I opened Pinterest for the first time in months.

That made me realize a lot about how bad I was actually doing and how much of a Waffle House Index use of Pinterest is for adult me, apparently.

I hadn’t realized it had grown that foundational to me in a healthy-brain-exercise-and-hobby-joy way. Nice to know moving forward! It’s another sign I can keep track of and use to spot correlation/indicator patterns earlier my behavior.

I love this kind of thing, it makes me so excited!

[qweenofurheart]

my oc, luke

[seasurfacefullofclouds1]

I’ve been really happy with Zayn’s tour choices so far. The small setting is great for him to dip his feet back in, his band is awesome, he looks healthy and happy, and he’s even been honest about some strugggles - like singing Pillowtalk. I appreciate him not bringing back any 1D songs, as he’s been pretty clear they weren’t his style and I think that would have felt disingenuous. I hope this is a springboard to increased confidence and something larger that can attract more than just old school 1D fans, which still seem to be the overwhelming majority of attendees.

But what I am most impressed with is how he has handled Liam’s death and acknowledgement of it during his shows. There is immense pressure on him from the 1D fans, especially the Larry/Ziam crew, and I think he has threaded the needle really really well. The first shows just having the graphic at the end with Stardust playing, then a pretty simple heartfelt public acknowledgement in his hometown. He’s somehow managed to satisfy those who are desperate for Liam/1D mentions, while keeping the focus of his shows on his new music. I think he has made some good choices in that regard, and he was really in an impossible situation having his shows so close to all of this, but he’s handled it about as well as anyone could have hoped. Fingers crossed for more good things ahead for Zayn!

100% agree on this.

I think Zayn already expressed his heart with his Instagram post for Liam. Nothing more needs to be performed for fans. The fanbase as a whole lives on buzz and excitement, on action and reaction. It’s ready to demand and to condemn at every turn. The same judgmental fandom that pressured Liam in life now mourns his death and demands a public grieving. There’s no patience for reflection.

Even now, it’s really hard for me to come to grips with Liam’s death. It’s hard to imagine that he will never make another Snapchat, never write more music, never banter with Louis on Twitter again. It’s just very, very surreal.

In moments like the tribute to Liam at Zayn’s first concert, it hits me like a brick wall that Liam is truly gone. What must that feel like for his old friends and his family? He was in the prime of his life, so much yet to experience and live for.

A song like Stardust expresses so much maturity, love, acceptance, and friendship, that it says more for Zayn to dedicate it to Liam than any spoken words could.

I loved that the audience listened to last night’s It’s You in relative quiet. I loved Zayn’s words of love in Liam’s hometown— which Liam would probably have attended had he been alive.

I love that Zayn feels more comfortable and confident with every concert, the same way Louis started his concerts in 2022, in small venues and with a dedicated but mostly One Direction-centric fanbase.

I love that Zayn sticks to his own solo songs and isn’t afraid to perform songs demanding of vocal pyrotechnics. I love that Zayn continues to write these challenging, sometimes awkward, but heartfelt songs.

Zayn’s vocal technique is phenomenal and it just keeps getting better. I would like to hear him sing Blue and Sour Diesel someday, but that’s neither here nor there. Still Got Time is still one of my go-to window down driving songs. I’m giddy and proud of him. Hope to see him soon.

[katiesledeckys]

i feel like anyone that kinda like.....downplays the olympics needs to put it in the perspective of thinking about how cherished and coveted an olympics tattoo is.

[everyryuujisuguro]

[ivytwines]

btw the only reason the usa dominates in the olympics is because we’re a very wealthy empire. if u even care

[finishercar]

the level of derangement in the comments of every olympic post at the moment is absurd

[frasermints]

it amazes me that people will proactively refuse joy and wonder and fascination because their interests aren't flawless.

you are not flawless. you are a deeply flawed human being that has done things that are despicable in another person's eyes. you will be considered morally reprehensible by some for doing something you consider completely innocuous.

if you limit your associations to "only the hobbies and people i deem 110% worthy and perfectly clean and pure" you're not only going to live the most boring life imaginable, you're going to fail. nothing is pure. everything is exploitative in some way, shape, or form. when you try and pretend like your hands are clean by saying "well i never liked x in the first place" you're lying.

if you liked carter hart as a player and had a fan blog about him you don't get to retcon that part of your life by saying you never liked him. it's disingenuous.

if you had a harry potter blog and worshipped the ground jkr walked on and got the dark mark tattoed on your body you don't get to lie and say that it wasn't a significant part of your life. you can't take that away from your past and you can't take that away from the people that witnessed it.

if you liked something in the past that turned out to be problematic and now you don't let yourself experience joy at all whatsoever, you're missing the point of being a human person with character growth.

something we do in trauma-informed radical acceptance work is to focus on not going too far in our 180. we acknowledge our feelings of negativity, of anxiety, of anger, and we approach them with curiosity so that they get processed and felt to completion. this way, our bodies learn that strong emotions are safe instead of something to avoid.

this allows our bodies to recognize joy, wonder, amazement, love, and excitement as positive sensations, and not sensations to suppress or reject.

allow yourself to find joy in things, even if your past interests were found to be harmful. you will find safe things that bring you joy. they're out there, even if they aren't "flawless".

[hardtchill]

Did you see the the tennis player from Ukraine questioning why there were so many Russian tennis players at the Australian open? It was sad it's really disrespectful that Russian are allowed to play!

You know what is disrespectful? The hypocrisy of people who support banning athletes from Russia from competing.....

Either ban all atletes from every country currently involved in a war or stop doing it. The fact that American, Israeli, Dutch and English athletes are allowed to compete but Russians in many sports still aren't is hypocrisy at the highest level.

[jonathanplasencia]

Jonathan Plasencia has visited several countries thanks in part to his time in the military. Germany, among the numerous nations he has visited, continues to be a favorite due to Munich's wealth of intriguing sights and activities. Additionally, he suggests Seychelles since it provides visitors with the finest diving opportunities.

[glasscatowl]

If you're upset because a granny running the London Marathon to support kids getting access to mobility aids, because you think it knocked you down to 6161st place, I genuinely don't know what to do with you.

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[ishidee]

The Loretta Claiborne Story (2000) The Wonderful World of Disney

This is a fabulous movie about overcoming handicaps & fulfilling dreams. Do yourself a favor & watch it & pass it on.

[starrstruckcanuck]

I'm finally following through on the promise I made in the tags of this post a few weeks ago because I have time now:

So even if nobody asked for it and even if I barely know what I'm talking about when it comes to the technicalities of hockey and even though it's not really something that we need to worry about rn since Arty is back with the Abbotsford Canucks for the time being, I am making an Arty defense post (on the one platform I probably don't have to - this is more something Twitter trolls and Instagram comments lurkers need to hear but I digress) because hearing him be hard on himself made me upset.

Fair Warning: long post - 1,425 words

To start, I'll state the obvious: Arty is YOUNG. He is only 23, and it is well known that it takes longer for goalies than forwards or defensemen to hit their stride. This is actually one of the reasons his performance in the 23-24 post-season was so heavily praised. Not only did he step into that goalie position during an incredibly intense moment (the PLAYOFFS‼️in the NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE‼️), he did so in a way that handled the pressure quite well and kept the Canucks in the race. A lot of other players in his position might have folded under that pressure, but he didn't and we truly might not have made it as far as we did if not for him despite the fact that the rest of the team was good. No team can survive without a good goaltender, after all.

But one thing about the NHL is they love narratives. Heck, I love them, too! When everyone and their grandmother was talking about this incredible story of a young goalie who'd been the MVP of the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS and allowed the Latvian team to win bronze over TEAM USA (the first medal for Latvia in any IIHF World Championship + Latvia literally named it a national holiday!!) — about this young goalie who was now having to fill the shoes of a Vezina-nominated goalie during the NHL playoffs and performing beyond expectation, I fed into it, too. It was exciting! After the anxiety surrounding Demko's injury, it was reassuring to see that our EBUG was not only good, but GOOD‼️He'd played all of 9 regular season games in the NHL before having to be in what is regarded as one of the most intense hockey competitions in the world, and he was consistently better than anyone had expected. Even on nights when the rest of the team fell flat, he played the full 60 minutes, and when we lost Game 7 against the Oilers, the blame was not his. Everyone (and when I say everyone, I mean the fans AND the media) built this image of "Artūrs Šilovs: the guy who can handle pressure like no other."

What some people seemed to forget is that this is not the norm. It is not normal that he played a full hour more than any other goalie in the World Championships when he was not even supposed to be the starter. It is not normal that he set the franchise record for youngest goalie with a playoff shutout while tying second for the most saves made in the playoffs by a Canucks rookie. It is not normal that he was part of the reason there was an extra national holiday in his home country. All of this was him OUTperforming, exceeding expectations – an anomaly – but people seemed to instead create a new, impossibly high baseline for him to meet. The bottom of his baseline was now set where most other goalies' peaks start. To put it simply, people had changed the goal posts for him (sorry, pun intended) and put them in an unattainable spot.

When he started this year and struggled like any goalie his age with his experience might, the image of him that everyone had built broke and people began to dogpile on him like they always do when players perform like humans and not machines. They didn't care that he was young and that the other two goalies he was being compared to were each 29 years old with years of NHL experience. They didn't care that he was forced into this position prematurely. They didn't care that the team playing in front of him was not making his job any easier. The Canucks' season began worse than expected and somehow this was the fault of the second backup goalie with a grand total of 9 regular season and 10 playoff games under his belt. Cool. Makes sense.

This was not anything new for this Vancouver market. Just from having kept up with the Canucks consistently for the past 8 years, I've seen the treatment of our rookies firsthand (Brock and Petey come to mind) and how time after time, they are held to standards no real person could achieve and then crucified when they can't. Arty was Latvia's saviour, and then he was ours, but he is at the beginning of his career and anyone who understands hockey in the slightest should know that this is not sustainable. It would be ridiculous to expect him to be able to pull the Canucks out of a hole everytime we dig ourselves into one. That's not how hockey works. A team may be nothing without its goalie, but a goalie without a team playing consistently in front of him is not going to win either.

And the whole point of AHL affiliates is for NHL teams to be able to see where their young guys are at – to let them get their time and experience in before they're pushed into the intensity of the NHL. Unfortunately, Arty hasn't been able to be in Abbotsford because of Demko's injury and has only started 2 games with them this season so far. But guess what? They've won BOTH those games. In fact, he has been consistently good with the Abbotsford Canucks. Last season, his save percentage with them was .907 with 34 games played. In the 22-23 season, it was .909 in 44 games. Look at those stats and tell me he isn't an incredible player or that he has no potential.

I need all the people saying he's a dud or that the playoffs were a fluke to log off for me real quick and never give their opinion about hockey ever again, because it just shows that you have no idea what you are talking about. Training takes time, progress takes time, consistency is a learnt skill. Expecting a goalie to be amazing right off the bat is stupid and downright naive. Arty has already proven himself. He does not need to be supernaturally incredible 24/7 to earn some respect. Hockey fans need to learn that you cannot build someone up into an idol and then be disappointed when they don't meet your unrealistic standards. He didn't ask to be considered our "saviour." That was forced onto him, which created unnecessary pressure for a rookie, and then people acted like he'd promised them something and not followed through on it. That is immensely unfair.

This is not specific to only Canucks fans. There is a larger conversation to be had about the culture surrounding the NHL and its rookies, and I am sure there are people much more knowledgeable and articulate than I am to touch on that so I won't do that here. But I will say this: In situations like this where fans (and media ‼️) create unrealistic expectations for young atheletes, even in the anomalous best case scenario where the player ends up living up to them perfectly, you risk so much more than you gain. We talk about player's mental health, but these are the exact kinds of things that lead to burnout. I repeat: expecting consistency all the time from one player is NOT sustainable. There will always be low moments in a player's career. Their value is not defined by those moments, but instead how they get themselves out of them. I trust that Arty can do that and I hope that while he continues to find his stride, he is met with the empathy and understanding he deserves after all the effort he has put in for the Canucks. I am so excited to see where his career goes. In conclusion, that man deserves all his flowers and you better give them to him or I will trample your fucking garden. The End.

baby goalie :(