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lgihtspeed · 5 months ago

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SONG OF THE SUMMER — THE DEBUT EP

SONG OF THE SUMMER is the debut EP of fictional pop group LIGHTSPEED. It was released physically and digitally on JUNE 20, 2024 by C ENTERTAINMENT. The group promoted title track LEFT RIGHT for four weeks: two weeks on Korean music shows and two weeks on American television. Their American promotions were followed by live shows in a few of the cities the members are from, including Los Angeles, New York City, and Calgary.

The album covers were designed by ASH. The physical release comes in three versions: SUN, MOON, and STAR.

They also released six member versions of CD-only jewel cases. Shortly after the album’s initial print, they released a limited-edition vinyl, all of which were signed by one or more members.

TRACKLIST

TRACK 001. LEFT RIGHT Written by Ash Jang, Constance Im, Ev Sharpe, LABYRYNTH Composed by LABYRYNTH Arranged by LABYRYNTH

TRACK 002. GOT IT LIKE THAT Written by Ash Jang, Seo Sejun, LABYRYNTH Composed by LABYRYNTH Arranged by LABYRYNTH

TRACK 003. HAMSTERBOY Written by Constance Im, RHYTHMAGIC Composed by RHYTHMAGIC Arranged by RHYTHMAGIC

TRACK 004. BUZZING MELODIES Written by Seo Sejun, Constance Im, Ash Jang Composed by RHYTHMAGIC Arranged by RHYTHMAGIC

With lyrics entirely in English, most of the songwriting is done by the group members rather than their Korean producers. CONSTANCE and ASH quickly emerged as the group's most prolific songwriters. Production was done by C Entertainment’s new in-house producer duo RHYTHMAGIC and by elusive producer LABYRYNTH, best known for his work with Lightspeed’s label mate, SEJUN. To fans’ surprise, Sejun also made a few appearances as a lyricist, keeping with his tendencies to write songs for everyone except himself.

STATS

13:01 — TOTAL RUNTIME

20M — MV VIEWS IN 24 HOURS

90 — BILLBOARD HOT 100 PEAK

8 — THEMED DANCE PRACTICES

LOOK BOOK

The era’s styling was entirely in shades of black and white and gray. The outfits were inspired by TECHWEAR—coincidentally one of the many themed dance practices—as well as the CYBERCORE and Y2K FUTURISM aesthetics.

HIGHLIGHTS

They were clowned to hell and back for the album title. They also made a disgusting number of “Did I just write the song of the summer?” TikToks, which did not help their case. The only one that went viral was the one of Ev deadpanning the script alongside his signature stiff peace sign ending fairy pose.

The music was well-received and that made the title slightly less egregious. Then Tyler and Mia went on the record and said they didn’t like it and everyone went back to clowning it.

The division between the people with more media training (Violet and Mia) and the people with less media training (everyone else) became obvious very early on.

There were three not-quite-but-almost-there PR disasters. The first happened not long after their debut: Tyler finally deactivated his controversial Twitter account. He probably should have stopped tweeting after he passed the first IGNITE! audition but he didn’t. The fan response was split between those who supported this decision, because idols shouldn’t be tweeting shit about their peers, and those who thought maybe it’s time an idol got to talk his shit. Three days after his account was deactivated, it was reactivated again, causing, in the nicest way possible, a shitstorm on Luminosity Twitter. C Entertainment finally did a bit of damage control by releasing a statement saying that multiple people had access to the account, which no one believed.

The second one occurred during a DIY karaoke livestream where Constance was taking song suggestions from the audience and someone asked for a boy group song. She singled out the commenter, and took a leaf out of Violet’s book by responding she “couldn’t care less about boy groups” and anyway, the people in her stream should just “listen to Lightspeed instead of men.” Never mind that there are men in Lightspeed.

The third and final close call happened in an off-handed comment Ash made. While they were discussing their favorite and least favorite moments from IGNITE!, he remarked about how poor of a representation their profile pictures were. Having recently re-edited and posted his pictures to Instagram, he had to keep going and mention that ever since he graduated from college, he doesn’t have access to legal Adobe products. Everyone else sat in silence after he revealed that until Violet forced the conversation to move along.

They filmed a dorm tour that went viral because their dorm is a house. With six bedrooms and two kitchens and a second floor. In Seoul.

Between the two centers, Mia was clearly the favored one. She was the center of every chorus and the center of every OT6 photo and styled slightly differently from the rest of the group.

Ev’s songwriting credit on “Left Right” came from a competition the group members minus Ash and Constance held to write the second verse of the song. To almost everyone’s surprise, Ev won. He was the only person unsurprised, revealing that his university major prior to IGNITE! was English Literature.

The “Left Right” line distribution was surprisingly bad. Constance, Mia, and Tyler sang most of the song, and the rest of them were left with crumbs. #LetEvSing trended on Twitter after their album release, especially because he wrote part of the song.

SHIP RANKINGS

ASH X TYLER (ASHLER) — One of the most popular ships from IGNITE! for their past friendship. Every single publicly available pre-IGNITE! interaction—all five of them—are also subject to intense scrutinization. Haters will say they can't possibly be dating because they dap each other up too much.

MIA X TYLER (MYLER) — The two centers! They were paired together for everything. Their shared dance break in a “Left Right” special performance had a ridiculous amount of chemistry, and then they covered Trouble Maker’s “Trouble Maker.” Absolutely no moving on from that.

CONSTANCE X MIA (CONIA) — According to their shippers, Constance doesn’t look at the Mia in the same way she looks at everyone else. The evidence is in clips of the two of them making eye contact slowed down to 0.5x speed. Also, they were roommates for the entire last half of IGNITE! (Oh my god, they were roommates.)

ASH X CONSTANCE (ASHSTANCE) — They wrote almost every song together, but more importantly, in vlogs showing off the time they spent in New York, the two of them sat next to each other in every restaurant they ate at. Their alternate ship name is Cash.

TYLER X VIOLET (TYLET) — Similar to the above pairing, Tyler acts in a noticeably different way with Violet than everyone else. He’s usually easygoing and quick to laugh with everyone else—especially Mia—but he froze up in all of the one solo conversation he had on camera with Violet. Which is clearly enough to make a ship.

#AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT — DISCOGRAPHY.#AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT — DEVELOPMENT.#fictional idol community #kpop addition #idol oc #kpop au #kpop oc

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youcouldmakealife · 11 months ago

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LBTE: Jared (158-160)

In which there are meetings.

If you'd like to follow along, the series page is here.

158. Under Advisement

Sit down, it’s actually a good thing I have a chance to talk to you guys without PR breathing down my neck.”

“Um,” Jared says. Private meetings with GMs are not historically his favourite thing, even if Foster’s always been cool before. “Should we — maybe we should wait for everyone?”

“No, no,” Foster says. “Sit.”

Brian Foster: PR’s worst nightmare.

“Ownership’s explicitly told me you’re not currently tradeable assets — I didn’t need to be told that, by the way, I just want you to know that the first thing they said to me. Well, actually not the first thing, the first thing was — never mind, I’m rambling, I do that. It’s an annoying habit.”

“It’s not annoying,” Jared says, which gets him a grateful look from Bryce as well as Foster. “I think PR would have been pretty cool with that speech, honestly.”

“Are you kidding?” Foster says. “It’d be all ‘you can’t identify who asked for advice, Brian!’ ‘you can’t tell them about a private conversation with the owner, Brian!’ Though probably that’s more HR. Who are also going to be at the meeting, by the way. It’s an all hands kind of meeting. We probably should have booked a conference room. Not that we need to book, it’s — never mind.”

PR’s worst nightmare. Also there are three people in this room and maybe one functioning brain to mouth filter between them.

“Of course they do,” Foster says, then frowns at him. “I told you to as well. Anyway don’t tell them I told you that stuff. I shouldn’t have. That’s — I know the rambling is annoying. I’m trying to get better about it.”

I am very fond of this man.

“I couldn’t figure out how to book the conference rooms,” Foster says. “The system kept locking me out.”

“You’re the GM, Brian,” Dwyer says. “You delegate that. Stay here, I’ll find us a conference room.”

Everyone suddenly arrives, then they scatter, off on the hunt for a room big enough to hold everyone, then on the hunt for someone who has keys to the room, then calling Summers and Greg to let them know things will be delayed. Foster was right — everyone calls him Brian, and there are a lot of exasperated ‘Brian’s being said, while Bryce and Jared sit in Foster’s office, forgotten for the moment.

Very, very fond of this disaster GM.

“Babe—“ Jared says, then Foster’s coming in, saying, “Sorry to barge in!”, like they aren’t sitting in his office, then, “They found a conference room. I’m not allowed to organise meetings anymore. Did you guys want coffee? Shelley’s assistant is going on a coffee run.”

Every bit I write of Brian makes me smile. A little treat for me.

“Okay,” Foster says, then, retreats, mumbling something to himself that Jared can hear — he’s reciting Bryce’s drink order under his breath, presumably so he doesn’t forget it.

“Oh,” Foster says, bursting right back in. “You guys should probably come to the conference room, eh?”

He, like Greg, is doing his best.

So — small mercies, he guesses. They have supportive friends and teammates. His parents are giving him some distance because he asked for it, but they’re standing by. Bryce’s mom came with food and hugs. Their GM is behind them, as is their room, and they couldn’t have depended on that in Calgary or Edmonton. This could have happened earlier in their relationship, when Bryce was less comfortable with his sexuality and Jared had less faith in them as a unit. It really could have been so much worse.

Listing all sorts of possibilities that could have, but did not, occur in this narrative.

Do we need Dmitry as an annoying chaperone going forward Jared texts Stephen after Elaine heads out. He wonders after if that’s a confusing question, but then decides that Stephen pretends to be omniscient often enough that he can figure it out or be confused.

Gabe is much less annoying if you require a chaperone Stephen replies, which is comforting, and also true.

Yes but Jared doesn’t scowl the moment Gabe enters a room, so that will do nothing to mitigate Jared’s soppy face.

Also: confirmed, Stephen is omniscient. Or just very on Jared’s wavelength.

“What’s twitter saying about us now?”

“How should I know?” Bryce asks, but his guilty face gives him away and he knows it.

Someone must stop him.

“It’s not as bad as I figured it’d be,” Bryce says. “Like. I don’t know if I made it bigger in my own head all along, or if it’s like — it was that bad, the first few times players came out, and then time passed and it kept happening and people got used to it. I don’t know. There’s shit but it like — honestly people said worse shit about me when I got traded to the Canucks. By like, a lot.”

That’s weirdly unsurprising, and both depressing and encouraging at the same time. Like, sure, you can marry a dude, but playing for a divisional rival? That’s a bridge too far.

The conversation has significantly changed since Marc and Dan were outed (2010). There’s some extremely alarming backsliding happening, but all told, it would be a very different reaction than what Bryce witnessed as a teen.

Also seriously imagine if Leon Draisaitl joined the Flames or something. CHAOS. OUTRAGE!!

“And everyone’s talking about how hot you are,” Bryce says. “Which, like, obviously I agree.”

Jared rolls his eyes. “They are not,” he says.

They are. Incessantly.

And it’s kind of comforting to know that while Jared would get caught obsessing over all the worst tweets, Bryce is focusing on the ones that call Jared hot. Not the ones complimenting him — and if there are tweets about Jared being hot, there are probably twice as many about Bryce — but Jared.

There are not twice as many about Bryce.

“What’s that for?” Bryce asks when Jared kisses his temple, the crest of his cheekbone, his mouth as it curves up. He was clearly expecting that argument about cognitive bias, and he looks confused but pleased that he’s getting kissed instead.

“Nothing,” Jared says, and takes that golden opportunity, Bryce smiling, guard down, to confiscate his phone, because clearly Bryce needs to be saved from himself.

Bryce so touched he forgot about machinations.

159. Rehearsal

Bryce makes a noncommittal sound, and Jared breaks his own ‘don’t touch the driver’ rule, reaching out and squeezing Bryce’s thigh in a way he hopes is comforting and not like, grope-y. Not the time for grope-y. Kind of because of the general situation, but mostly because of the whole driving thing.

No groping in motor vehicles. This is not a lesson Jared needs to learn twice, unlike the shower lesson.

Jared wonders if they opted for a younger employee to make them feel less defensive, more related to. If there’s one department he can assume is always trying to spin something, it’s PR.

Yes.

Grace also does a lot of the social media stuff though, and they knew this wasn’t something they could handle exclusively via traditional media. So ‘relates to the youth’ but also ‘is the youth’. She’s in her late 20s, which they consider close enough. There are youth-ier employees, but nobody’s putting an intern in charge of this, even with supervision.

“Before we start discussing how the press conference is going to go, I want to hear from you guys, in your words, the answers to some of the questions you’re probably going to get,” Grace says. “And we can build on everything from there, okay?”

In other words: how much do I have to edit the words that will be coming out of your mouths?

Jared tries not to wince. He thinks he fails. Bryce glances over at Jared, and then gives a very tame, very redacted version of camp. Jared only sounds moderately dickish in it, which is impressive, really, because now that he’s no longer seventeen, he accepts that he was extremely dickish the entire time, and also extremely lucky that Bryce likes that about him for some reason.

I think this is the first time Jared admits, without caveats, that he was an asshole to Bryce at the camp. No ‘but he was a douche’ quickly following or the like, no defensive ‘he started it’, just ‘I was extremely dickish to Bryce’. Good work, Jared. (He’s still never telling Bryce he was right about that stretch, even though they both know he was)

“That’s how we met!” Bryce says.

“It sounds sketchy,” Jared says.

“It sounds so sketchy,” Grace confirms.

It was supposed to BE sketchy. Fucking Bryce, man.

“Great,” Grace says. It does not sound like she thinks it’s great, honestly.

“Jared was really mature for—“ Bryce starts, then quiets when Jared kicks his ankle before he makes things sound even sketchier.

NO, BRYCE.

“I’m not going to ask you to lie about how you met,” Grace says. “But I am going to ask you to not tell the truth, unless you want people to start talking about power differentials and the age of consent.”

“Not in Canada,” Jared says. “Age of consent is sixteen.”

Of note! Because of course Jared looked it up (there are also ‘Romeo and Juliet’ near in age exceptions that would encompass their relationship, because nobody wants that law getting used to harass a sixteen year old dating a fifteen year old.)

“It wasn’t sketchy,” Bryce tells her very earnestly. “I know it sounds sketchy, but it was like—“

Jared silently wills Bryce not to say ‘true love’.

“—true love,” Bryce says.

BRYCE. NO.

“Like, we’re married,” Bryce says. “We’re spending the rest of our lives together. It was like—“

Jared hopes ‘fate’ or ‘destiny’ isn’t leaving Bryce’s mouth next.

“—meant to be, y’know?” Bryce says. “Stop looking at me like that, J.”

“I’m not even looking at you,” Jared says. He is looking at the table, because he can’t bear to accidentally meet Grace’s eye while Bryce is saying these things.

Bryce is starting to warm up to this media business as he realises he can say things like ‘true love’ and ‘meant to be’ and nobody starts booing and face washing him.

“This is exactly the kind of dynamic we want. People tend to push back against the gross in love stuff when it seems manufactured, but it’s pretty clear it’s genuine. We can definitely run with this.”

This is a very kind way of calling Bryce gross.

“That’s not really Jared’s thing,” Bryce says.

“We could try?” Jared says weakly.

“No,” Bryce says. “That’s — that’s not J. We’re not like — we’re not coming out just to pretend to be people we’re not.”

Oh Bryce.

“Just because you’re stupidly romantic like, naturally, does not mean I can’t be just as gross as you if I want to be,” Jared says.

He doesn’t believe it even as he’s saying it, and neither does Bryce, judging by his face. Which is — fair. It’s fair. Nobody could compete with Bryce’s level of mushy, but Jared isn’t even in the running. Dmitry is mushier with Bryce in public than Jared is. And frankly Jared’s fine with that, but he can be mushy if he has to. He guesses.

“Doing this in public is also totally acceptable,” Grace says.

“Doing what?” Jared asks.

As Jared is feebly arguing he can be romantic, Bryce continues to have visible hearts in his eyes for his lying husband. It��s a great dynamic. Grace is excited about it. (she hasn’t seen them in front of cameras yet.)

They exchange contact information, making sure to CC Summers. Also Greg, though that’s more so he doesn’t feel left out. This is Summers’ show, and Jared thinks Greg knows it, and honestly doesn’t think he minds. Jared certainly doesn’t.

I cannot begin to express how relieved Greg is that this is Dave’s show.

“Absolutely no internet,” Grace tells them. “None. I mean, other than the email I’m going to send you, obviously.”

“Not even funny dog videos?” Bryce asks.

Bryce has to make sure after Dave’s ‘nobody but me and Greg’ somehow allowed him to take calls from his mom.

“Okay, fine, you can have funny animal videos,” Grace says. “But stay off all social media. Also anything to do with hockey.”

“Can I check the box scores, though?” Bryce asks. “It’s important to keep up with the rest of the league.”

Grace sighs. “Okay. You can have box scores and animal videos. And that’s it.”

“But—“ Bryce says.

Jared doesn’t see Bryce much in the context of ‘authority figures’ (loosely, in Grace’s case, but she is calling the shots), so beyond Bryce and Dave having a combative relationship, Jared misses part of the issue with Bryce in these situations is that he sometimes (often) pushes back just to push back. He’s gotten a lot better about it as he’s matured, but sometimes he can’t help himself.

“Everyone likes you best,” Bryce mutters as they’re walking to their car, but only after someone from security made sure no one was lurking in the underground parking lot hoping to ambush them for a picture or a scoop. Which is obviously such a fun thing Jared hopes will continue indefinitely.

“You’ve never checked the weather in your entire life,” Jared says.

“I could,” Bryce says. “Maybe I’m getting old and boring.”

“Knowing what it’s like out is not boring,” Jared says. “It’s preparation. Are you mimicking me right now?”

“No,” Bryce mutters, abruptly ceasing.

Jared elbows Bryce in the side, and Bryce hip checks him right into a pillar. Gently, but still: rude.

They don’t bicker much — it’s more Jared snarking at Bryce, but it’s fun when Bryce bites back. For me and for Jared.

160. Whirlwind

So Jared guesses they got engaged like, practically as soon as they got together. Like, boom, date three or something: engaged. Bryce moves fast in the storyline. Also in real life, but not that fast. Jared thinks Bryce in this storyline moves a little too fast, frankly. And it isn’t realistic that Jared in this storyline said yes that early in their relationship.

Nitpicking Grace’s storyline for OOC behaviour is peak Jared.

“Please,” Grace says, pinching her nose. “It was a whirlwind romance. Based on a friendship that grew out of shared interests and mutual respect and nobody being anybody else’s coach at the time.”

Jared would like to again point out that Bryce was a terrible couch who didn’t do anything but sulk, so it basically doesn’t count.

“You come here, wringing your hands about best business practices,” Foster says. “When a decade ago both Riley and Lapointe went to the Habs as a package deal. Did you forget about that or are you just coming here with a bullshit line of reasoning so you can pretend you’re not being homophobic as you’re asking homophobic questions? You don’t get to have it both ways. You don’t get to say their sexuality has nothing to do with this and then turn right around and ask me if I knew about their sexuality when I signed them. That’s not how this works.”

Brian Foster’s entire press conference was some of the most fun I’ve ever had writing a scene. Pure Id.

Grace finds a tweet with a longer clip, in which Foster manages to insult three media organisations, mock homophobic fans, swear at least half a dozen times, and reiterate the organisation’s support for Bryce and Jared. He also takes a question about the power play.

Love me a man who can multitask.

“I think you should probably give in and start calling him Brian?” Bryce says, looking over at Jared. Bryce caved to his demands the third time Foster explicitly told him to, but Jared wasn’t planning on it: it felt too weird. But he may have to revise that decision.

“He does keep asking me to,” Jared says.

Jared figures angry monologue defending him and Bryce earns first name basis.

He’s sure there’s already going to be ‘wow, Marcus is slumming with a middle sixer’ shit.

“Literally nobody is going to be saying that,” Bryce tells him. “Like. At all.”

Babe you’re the arm candy.

“Bryce!” Jared says.

Bryce very busily looks at literally everything but Jared.

“Stop going online!” Jared says.

He can’t help it!

“I mean, not by Joe from Kamloops who’s decided he can’t support the Canucks anymore, no,” Jared says. “And definitely not Jim from Red Deer who doesn’t give a shit about the Canucks, but has come to say he’s pretty positive your shoulder injury is proof that being gay is morally wrong, actually.”

No offence to Joes and Jims. Full offence to Kamloops and Red Deer.

And Dmitry will probably beat them up, judging by the text he sent Jared assuring him that he will beat them up, along with approximately seventeen emojis Jared didn’t bother trying to parse.

Look: emojis transcend language. A fist is a fist is a fist.

“Okay, then quit reading the opinions of people who are so miserable that the idea of two people in love with each other makes them furious,” Jared says. “It’s pathetic. They’re pathetic.”

Jared was at a very tender, vulnerable age when he saw some of the blowback of the OG coming out controversy. It didn’t make things easier for him as he started to come to terms with his sexuality, and it did not make Jared like people any more than he was originally inclined to.

“They’re planning on like, rainbow flags,” Bryce says. “Canucks fans. They’re coordinating it online. They’re planning on bringing rainbow flags. And supportive signs and stuff. Some have taken pictures. They’re — they’re really nice.”

It isn't all bad though.

“There aren’t any bad ones,” Gabe says, nudging Jared’s shoulder. “If that’s why you’re keeping your head down.”

“I wasn’t doing it on purpose,” Jared says.

This warm up scene is dialogue and action heavy because Jared’s trying really hard not to feel anything right now, starting with keeping his eyes on the ice so he can't see the crowd.

“There’s one behind the net that says LJBTQ,” Gabe says. “The JB is in a heart. I thought it was kind of clever, but you just know someone on the internet is going to say it’s bi erasure. Which, as a bi dude, I completely agree there’s bi erasure in the community, but — oh, that one says PB&J and peanut butter and jelly are holding hands. It’s adorable. I have no idea what the P could be, though. Maybe Pacific? That’d work, I guess, but—

The P stands for ‘we can’t make a PB&J pun without the P’, for the record. Sometimes it’s not that deep.

“Gabe,” Jared says.

“Okay, okay,” Gabe says, putting his hands up, and skates over to where Dmitry’s doing the ridiculous motions he calls stretches.

Jared looks up, but the lights are bright and his eyes are blurry and all he can see is a wash of colour, so he blinks and blinks and goes to find another puck to try to get in the back of the net.

God Gabe can’t you see Jared is trying not to feel emotions?

“If anyone says shit to you,“ Dmitry says. “Tell me. I will fight them.”

“I know,” Jared says.

“Even if they say ‘hello’ or ‘good evening’,” Dmitry says. “I will fight them.”

“Kind of sounds like you just want an excuse to fight someone,” Jared says.

Well. Yes. But also — got your back.

But something breaks through during a TV timeout, has him looking up at the Jumbotron, because the applause and cheers are louder than a kiss cam or dance cam or celebrity lookalike. The camera’s on Bryce in the press box, looking a little stunned. After a moment Leo elbows him, grinning, and Bryce raises a hand to wave at the crowd in acknowledgement, the sound intensifying in response. The Canucks all bang their sticks against the boards, and Jared is late to join them, eyes caught on Bryce’s face.

And Jared knows this is a home game. He knows it isn’t going to be anything like this in other arenas, knows other teams’ fans won’t be this supportive, that opponents are going to use this against them, that there are always going to be people that think less of Bryce, of both of them, simply because they love each other. He knows that.

But Jared also knows Bryce is looking bashful but smiling, a mixture of happiness and bone deep relief on his face, and in this moment, that’s the only thing in the entire world that matters.

The moment that Bryce gets everything he never even dreamed of hoping for. That he gets everything he never thought he could have.

This is the original ending, before one last arc decided to jump onto the back. I also consider it the end of the climax — it’s all denouement from here.

#liveblogging the end

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bropunzeling · 1 year ago

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for the never have i ever meme: slow burn!!

god a real true slow burn is my white whale, concept wise; i want to write one SO BAD. obvi there are some pairings where that is easier than others (brady/anyone, ducklings could also make a great slow burn but probably more stupid than swooningly romantic lol) but i keep thinking about matthew/leon as like, a personal challenge. like, ofc i have written them fucking and falling in love [redacted] times but a version of them where they don't fuck and still fall in love??? now that's a CHALLENGE challenge

for more realism points, you could have some future fic wacky trade shenanigans, and perhaps someday i will write somethign with those so i will selfishly keep them to myself until i know more. but a thing that i am not going to write (but think about often) is my version of "both of them get drafted by the kraken in the expansion draft (and no one knows how edmonton or calgary could've let that happen)"

because the thing is, the kraken are gonna be shit. everyone knows this. seattle isn't vegas, they're not going to be going to the cup finals their first year out the gate. ron francis has time to build up the franchise. they won't be good. and that eats at leon, because like, when in his life has he ever been satisfied with not being good? never. and now he's stuck on this shitty team just starting out and got abandoned by his franchise and what the fuck is he supposed to do now.

and the other thing is, 2020 was not all that long ago. and yeah, leon never actually hated matthew tkachuk, not in the way it got spun up, but that doesn't mean they're best friends. not even buddies. they are teammates, and they have a job to do, and leon doesn't need to get along with the guy except on the ice.

except a week into the preseason, he and matthew go for some pr thing to a local brewery, and in between tasting beers that are disgustingly hoppy and eating too many pretzels, matthew hisses across the table that look, he knows leon doesn't like him, that leon isn't his biggest fan, but doesn't he want to work together? doesn't he want this to work out? and when leon glares back, matthew adds that he at least wants to prove his old team wrong.

well. leon can't argue with that.

first season is shit. the way everyone knew it would be. but it's not - absolute shit. they get a lot closer to the playoffs than they have any right to. leon and matthew and mccann are producing. and - turns out matthew isn't so awful, once he's out of calgary. turns out he's down to do whatever - team bonding experiences, checking out new restaurants. and half the time, leon gets roped along. he stops protesting after a while.

second season, though -

they're better. they're a lot better. francis made some solid moves; they managed to snatch up a first overall pick at fourth. matty beniers is here from ann arbor, and yeah he looks at matthew a little like matthew hung the moon, but that's mostly funny instead of annoying. the ntdp really is a cult. matthew and leon aren't always on a line, but when they are, they click.

and matthew hasn't stopped being down to do whatever. has continued, in fact, to insist on doing things. exploring the city. becoming regulars. they'll get lunch after practice. drinks after games. on the road, more often than not, when leon's making plans, he's making them with matthew.

halfway through the season, they're on track to at least get a wild card spot. maybe better. during their bye week, they join a group of guys going to cabo. at the bar, matthew orders them both drinks in flat midwestern-accented spanish, clinks his shot glass against leon's. leon spends half a second staring at matthew's hand around the tiny glass, then his mouth, wet and red, before he remembers to take the shot.

when leon takes his shot, he opens his eyes to find matthew looking back at him, eyes dark and heated and unmistakable, and oh, this is not something leon wanted to know that he wanted. not now, when they still have so much to prove.

#ask meme #something something they make the playoffs and THEN fuck

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saintclay · 2 months ago

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so I just gave myself OC brainworms on a parahumans shitpost so now I'm making a full OC

her name is Flashback (she wanted VHS but the PR person for her Wards team said no), and she's a member of the Calgary wards (she was from New York, but she got rotated there when her parents moved for a job opportunity). She's 15, and had her trigger event at 12, but she didn't tell anyone she triggered until she was 14. yes that does mean she spent almost 2 years dealing with her powers on her own.

Her trigger event was an internal one where she had so much pressure on her to live up to her 'potential' that she ended up breaking. that original trigger only granted her the ability to cause people to view her 45-70 seconds in the future at the expense of them perceiving where she currently was. in addition, she got minor thinker powers that allowed her to calculate her own momentum (expressed in the understanding of where people see her future projection, she's not fully aware of many of the things behind it)

A few months and one (1) major depressive episode she had a second trigger that modified her ability to allow her to toggle between having people only able to view her 45-70 seconds in the future or only able to view her 45-70 seconds in the past, based on her own personal frustrations and desire to return to the person she once was.

Important note: while Flashback can set and forget what mode she's toggled to, unless she's actively suppressing it, her power is always on. Because thats how shards fuckin work baybee they constantly retraumitize you.

Also her civilian name is Alex Grey. while living a civilian life, Alex uses he/him, and uses she/her only while suited up (since she wears a quarter-face mask, she says that presenting as the opposite gender while in costume is a good tactic to hide her identity- after all people don't expect the tomboy-but-feminine hero to actually be a boy in civilian clothing. its actually because she's a trans woman but she's not ready to admit that to herself, much less anyone else). Flashback mainly identifies with her hero identity rather than her civilian identity (gee I fucking wonder why).

this is Alex in civilian clothing. its totally a style and not a dysphoria hoodie and thats totally a mullet and not a desperate attempt to have somewhat socially acceptable long hair as someone who presents masculine.

#parahumans #worm oc #why have I done this #oc: flashback

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's office lashed out against the CBC on Wednesday, calling the news outlet's recent reportage regarding the provincial government "defamatory."

Smith's office demanded a retraction and an apology for its reporting on allegations of judicial interference.

The CBC responded to the demands in a statement.

"We stand by the story, which transparently attributes the allegations to trusted sources and provides context to the allegations," said Chuck Thompson, CBC head of public affairs.

"As is our practice, we gave the premier and her office an opportunity to react and we included that response prominently in the story, including the sub-headline."

Despite denials from Smith's office and the Crown prosecutor's office, CBC Calgary reported a Smith staffer challenged prosecutors via email on cases related to the Coutts border blockade and protests.

Previously, Smith said she hadn't been in direct contact with prosecutors, walking back comments made to Rebel News saying she asked prosecutors to review and reconsider pursuing the cases. [...]

Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @abpoli

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magneticovitalblog · 1 year ago

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La Procrastinación y sus 3 activadores

Para la psicología, la conducta de retrasar todo hasta el último momento se denomina “procrastinación».

Etimológicamente, “procrastinación” deriva del verbo en latín procrastināre, postergar hasta mañana. Sin embargo, es más que postergar voluntariamente. La procrastinación también deriva de la palabra del griego antiguo akrasia, hacer algo en contra de nuestro mejor juicio.

La «Teoría de la Procrastinación Temporal» del psicólogo canadiense P. Steel, explica el fenómeno de la procrastinación, es decir, el acto de retrasar o posponer tareas importantes a favor de actividades más placenteras, pero menos prioritarias, basándose en tres factores clave que interactúan entre sí y pueden variar en función de situaciones y contextos:

La expectativa de valor: se refiere a cómo percibimos la importancia de una tarea en relación con otras actividades que podríamos estar haciendo en su lugar. Si consideramos una tarea valiosa o significativa, es más probable que nos sintamos motivados a realizarla de manera inmediata, mientras que, si la percibimos como poco importante, tendemos a posponerla en favor de actividades más atractivas.

La impulsividad es la tendencia de tomar decisiones rápidas sin considerar las consecuencias a largo plazo. Altos niveles de impulsividad llevan a procrastinar, ya que buscamos recompensas inmediatas en lugar de comprometernos con tareas que requieren un esfuerzo a largo plazo.

La sensibilidad al retraso se refiere a cuánto afecta el aplazamiento de una tarea a nuestro bienestar o metas a largo plazo. Las personas que somos menos sensibles al retraso tendemos a procrastinar más, ya que no percibimos las consecuencias negativas o las implicaciones a largo plazo. Por otro lado, las personas más sensibles al retraso somos más propensas a evitar la procrastinación, ya que tenemos una mayor conciencia de las consecuencias negativas de posponer tareas importantes.

La procrastinación es una conducta en la que posponemos o evitamos ejecutar tareas o responsabilidades que tenemos que hacer, a pesar de que seamos conscientes de las consecuencias negativas de hacerlo.

Según P. Steel de la Universidad de Calgary, “es hacernos daño a nosotros mismos”. Es por eso procrastinar nos hace sentir mal. Cuando procrastinamos, no solo somos conscientes de que estamos eludiendo una tarea en cuestión, sino también de que hacerlo es una mala idea. Y, aun así, lo hacemos: es esencialmente irracional”, según F. Sirois, de la Universidad de Sheffield. “No tiene sentido hacer algo que sabes que tendrá consecuencias negativas”.

Cuando procrastinamos, hay partes de nuestro cerebro que piensan como si las tareas que estamos aplazando —y los sentimientos negativos que las acompañan y que nos esperan del otro lado— son problema de alguien no somos nosotros.

Frecuentemente reemplazamos lo importante por cosas irrelevantes o agradables, haciendo de la procrastinación un ladrón del tiempo útil.

Causas de la procrastinación

La procrastinación es una manera de afrontar nuestras emociones desafiantes y estados de ánimo negativos por tareas que supongan sentimientos como

aburrimiento

ansiedad

frustración

inseguridad

resentimiento

tedio

Existen otras causas, como

Búsqueda de recompensas inmediatas en lugar de otras a largo plazo

Deseo de sentirnos aceptado por los demás, creyendo que ello nos convierte en “personas válidas” y, por tanto, trataremos de congraciarnos con todas las personas, independientemente de las demandas que estas nos hagan. Como consecuencia, iremos postergando las propias actividades a medida que vamos realizando las actividades que creemos que nos solicitan los demás. Esta dinámica va acompañada, también, de ansiedad y culpa, pues es imposible agradar a todos. Gestionar esta situación pasa por aceptarnos a nosotros mismos, con nuestras virtudes y debilidades, y aprender a priorizar los objetivos personales frente a los de los demás, fundamental para el desarrollo individual, y para evitar procrastinar.

Dificultad para enfrentar tareas desafiantes

Es una obligación, no un deseo propio. Cuando fijamos metas en función de lo que idealmente queremos, de lo que nuestros padres, amistades o pareja desean, puede hacer que los objetivos sean muy interesantes, pero no estaremos centrados en lo que realmente nosotros queremos afrontar. Hace que no nos planteemos retos, sino obligaciones.

Falta de motivación. A menos motivación más procrastinación y viceversa.

Impulsividad, en ocasiones empezamos varias tareas a la vez sin planificar la estructura que nos conducirá a realizarlas. De nuevo, la urgencia por acabar todo, y la consecuente frustración por no poder hacerlo, nos genera la sensación de que las actividades de la vida diaria son difíciles de gestionar. Para evitar llegar a este punto, conviene que organicemos la secuencia de requisitos para terminar la tarea, hacer una valoración de los tiempos necesarios, y evitar empezar nuevas tareas sin haber acabado las previas.

Miedo al fracaso. Los miedos, o en general cualquier sentimiento que no nos apetezca sentir, favorecerá dejarlo para otro momento. Cuando nos cuesta identificar o reconocer lo que nos atemoriza, normalmente hace que sea difícil fijarnos objetivos realistas. Cuando nuestra valía como personas se define en función de nuestros propios resultados en un ámbito de la vida, la posibilidad de deterioro en la autoestima es constante. En lo académico o en lo laboral se manifiesta mediante la ansiedad a la hora de ejecutar o anticipar la tarea, sumiéndonos en un bloqueo. Otro enfoque es auto-aplicarse la consabida frase: “si lo hubiera intentado lo habría conseguido”, atribuyendo el abandono de la tarea a la falta de tiempo.

Perfeccionismo. La búsqueda de la excelencia mediante el esfuerzo es un arma de doble filo. Lo que percibimos como “imperfecto” nos causa un sentimiento de incompetencia que nos anima a evitar la tarea. No se trata de quitarle valor al esfuerzo y al buen hacer, sino de comprender que los resultados, a veces, son ambiguos. No suele haber una solución única ni un consenso establecido de lo que es “perfecto”, y en ocasiones nos autoexigimos en exceso. ¡Si lo hago, lo hago bien, o no lo hago!. Cuando nos proponemos hacer las cosas muy bien, nos vemos obligados a hacer mucho esfuerzo desde el principio. No vale empezar y luego ya se verá. Hay que estar a tope. Este hecho hace que, si no estamos muy motivados, o no es posible renunciar a algo, acabemos posponiendo con la esperanza de retomar o iniciar la tarea cuando tengamos más ganas…

Rabia e impaciencia, cuando pensamos que deberíamos “poder con todo”, y nos encontramos con nuestras limitaciones, pudiendo aparecer una sensación de impotencia, precipitando el enfado y la pérdida de tiempo que conlleva. En este escenario, nos metemos en una espiral de frustración y enfado hacia nosotros mismos, empeorando aún más la situación, cayendo en la procrastinación. Conviene que ajustemos la percepción de nuestras propias capacidades, ser consciente de que las tareas asumidas son excesivas para nuestros recursos, aprendiendo al mismo tiempo a asumir nuestros límites.

Sentirnos saturados según la creencia de que “todo se tiene que hacer con rapidez y simultáneamente”, supone que cueste mucho priorizar actividades. El resultado es una sensación de agobio, de saturación, que puede generar una serie de emociones y sentimientos (angustia, desidia, lamentos, etc.) que conducen a la procrastinación. Además, en ocasiones se acabamos creyendo que resulta más fácil evitar una tarea que afrontarla, pensando incluso que las cosas se arreglarán por sí solas si se espera lo suficiente. Para afrontar esta situación conviene aprender a diferenciar lo importante y lo urgente, lo aplazable y lo inaplazable, estableciendo prioridades y respetando los tiempos necesarios para cada tarea.

Sentimientos más profundos relacionados con la tarea, como dudar de nosotros mismos, una baja autoestima, sentir ansiedad o inseguridad.

Consecuencias

Procrastinar puede afectar negativamente en aspectos como

el bienestar emocional

la productividad

las relaciones personales

En caso de procrastinación crónica las consecuencias pueden llegar a efectos destructivos en nuestra salud mental y física, incluidos

Angustia general psicológica. Cuando nos enfrentamos con una tarea que nos hace sentir ansiosos o inseguros, la amígdala —la parte del cerebro “detectora de amenazas”— percibe esa tarea como una amenaza real para nuestra autoestima o nuestro bienestar. Incluso intelectualmente reconociendo que suspender la tarea nos creará más estrés en el futuro, nuestros cerebros están programados para preocuparnos más por eliminar la amenaza en el presente.

Baja satisfacción con nuestra vida

Enfermedades crónicas como hipertensión y enfermedades cardiovasculares

Estrés crónico

Hábitos deficientes de salud

Síntomas de depresión y ansiedad

Estrategias para superarla

Para superar la procrastinación, pueden ser útiles

Romper la inercia del primer minuto. Arrancar es lo que más cuesta.

Eliminar las tentaciones y distracciones que en un momento determinado puedan suponer una tentación para invertir en nuestro tiempo en actividades más gratas.

Desarrollar habilidades para resistir la tentación y mantener el enfoque en las tareas importantes.

Evitar los argumentos autoabsolutorios o autopermisivos del tipo “no pasa nada por un día que me retrase, tengo tiempo”; “miro Facebook, solo cinco minutos”; “ya lo haré mañana, que es lunes”. Simplemente, hagámoslo ya.

Planificación y organización del tiempo

Establecer metas claras y alcanzables.

Dividir la tarea en pequeñas subtareas que sean manejables, estableciendo hitos más pequeños que respondan a preguntas del tipo: ¿qué es lo primero que tenemos que hacer para abordar este tema? ¿Y, después? ¿Y, después? Poco a poco, y cómodamente, nos iremos aproximando al objetivo final.

Asociar recompensas a la finalización de tareas y consecuencias negativas al no hacerlo puede motivar a evitar la procrastinación.

Si cada vez que finalizas alguna de las subtareas que te has planteado haces un pequeño descanso, verás como “recuperas” fuerzas tanto físicas como mentales. El cansancio es un factor que multiplica el desinterés y reduce la capacidad de esfuerzo. Por lo que es importantísimo establecer pequeños periodos de desconexión y descanso de la actividad.

Identificación y gestión de pensamientos y emociones que incentivan la postergación

Recompensa de logros y avances en lugar de esperar hasta el final.

Apoyo de un psicólogo para abordar patrones de este tipo de conducta. Algunas formas en que la terapia puede ser útil:

Autoconciencia para comprender las causas de nuestra procrastinación. A menudo, hay factores emocionales, cognitivos o de comportamiento que contribuyen a posponer las tareas importantes. Identificar estas razones es el primer paso para abordar el problema.

Establecimiento de metas claras y realistas para superar la procrastinación; identificando tareas específicas y un plan para abordarlas con eficacia.

Habilidades de gestión del tiempo y la planificación que nos puedan ayudar a ser más organizados y productivos en nuestro día a día.

Estrategias de afrontamiento de las emociones y del estrés, porque a veces, la procrastinación puede estar relacionada con sentimientos como la ansiedad, el miedo al fracaso o el perfeccionismo.

Cambio de patrones de pensamiento negativos o irracionales que contribuyen a la procrastinación.

Refuerzo positivo de nuestros logros y avances hacia nuestros objetivos, lo que aumenta la motivación y reduce la procrastinación.

Desarrollo de hábitos productivos y establecer rutinas que promuevan la realización de tareas importantes de manera consistente.

Gestionar “la primacía de la reparación del estado de ánimo a corto plazo por encima del objetivo de las acciones planeadas a un plazo más largo”. Es enfocarse más en “la urgencia inmediata de administrar los estados de ánimo negativos” que en dedicarse a la tarea.

post de Cristian Cherbit psicólogo online https://christiancherbit.com/

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Omggggg I knewwwww it. Can’t believe it’s confirmed that Ellie and Matt are PR. But like ….Matt is a grown ass man he needs to come up out from under his dads belly and stop letting him control his life. It makes him less likeable the way he comes off so contrived now that he’s in Florida. Before you saw more of his personality-and yes, he wasn’t as liked by the public but atleast you could tell he was being himself in Calgary

He was happy in Calgary but Florida’s a team that apprieciates him and doesn’t have a bitch for a coach (s*tter)

#ellie connell #m.tkachuk

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gdmbrwiththerealcrew · 1 year ago

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Day 4 - July 2nd

Getting started on a long ride like this requires time, adjustments, and rest. We knew we were not in the best touring shape. We knew we didn’t have enough experience on our bikes when loaded with gear. Travel, in general, can be tough on the body.

Since Ed needed a bike adjustment and we all needed a rest we decided to take some extra time in the morning and shorten our ride in the afternoon. 20 miles instead of 56 seemed reasonable. And it boasted our spirits to think that we might be in camp before 5pm.

Understand that we had a target destination but no idea on nightly accommodations. We believed there was camping but we didn’t have details. Regardless, this is an adventure right! We moved forward.

We left Fernie after lunch and found gravel roads to avoid some tough single track. We didn’t realize that we also shaved about 5 miles off the day and we were happy to discover that later. While the road was generally up and down, we all felt good and we were not fatigued by the effort.

Lovely scenery.

Our destination was Elko, a town of 140 that supposedly had camping. Three or four miles out of town we started to notice more cars on the road and a few potential primitive campsites. As we rolled along, three people walking with towels and backpacks asked if we passed the trailhead for Silver Spring. Within a tenth of a mile there were at least 100 cars parked along the road with more coming in. We learned that there was a big party going on at Silver Spring. If it wasn’t a 1500’ hike with a significant climb we would have gone to check it out.

A mile or so later we dropped across a river and saw a few more primitive campsite in the hills near the water. We passed on those in the hopes of finding better. Elko had nothing.

We rolled out of town to find construction on our route. We stopped at a C-Store that was packed with Silver Spring party goers buying ice and beer. There, we researched camping and found an RV park about 10 miles down the road. Oh well, so much for a short day!

We bombed down a hill, crossed the Elk River, and climbed up the other side. Seconds later we rolled up on a dairy bar with a line of people placing orders. We jumped on line too! What the heck, it was a short day so why not hit all the stops!

David and Jose ordering excellent ice cream.

David with a cone.

After a couple miles of highway we turned off into a gravel road that took us through meadows and lightly forested hills. Generally downhill, we cruised through the miles. The road was quite dusty and any approaching cars weren’t exactly happy to see us. We wondered what camping in a nearby RV park was going to be like.

Nope, we’re not going that way today!

PR RV Park and Campground was near capacity with full time trailers and RVs. There was a shower, laundry, and, unfortunately, an outhouse. They gave us the first space next to the entrance. The camp host made a special point of telling us that they test their water weekly and it met all standards. If he told us twice he told us four times.

Not bad at all!

We were settling in when our neighbors in the next lot came home. Kevin & Shelley had a full time space in the park as did a few of their relatives. They immediately offered us chairs, firewood, and weed. We accepted 2 of the 3. Kevin came back with beers for all of us a few minutes later. He gave us a little of their story and then went back to his place. He’s a truck driver, Shelley is an account for an oil company and does the books for a few companies on the side. She also has a janitorial services company. They come down to the Baynes Lake area from Calgary and spend as much of the summer as they can there. They have a pontoon boat and they go out on Lake Koocanusa to fish for their 15 limit of Kokanee Salmon on a regular basis. It ticks them off that Americans have a 50 limit on the same lake.

Kevin bearing gifts! (And Vladimir Putin in the background).

Oh, and Kevin is a musician. He plays guitar, banjo, and mandolin. He loves to rock out the RV park on special occasions. He was good enough to leave country music playing for us until 10pm.

And a little while later Kevin came back with more beer and more stories. He just met his 67 year old 1/2 brother who his mother had given up for adoption when she was 16. The brother and his wife like their liquor and usually start drinking after their morning coffee. They usually polish off a 40 (1/2 gallon) every day.

Kevin with more gifts.

Regardless, Kevin and Shelley are salt of the earth people. They were generous and engaging. They didn’t hesitate to tell us their story and ask us ours.

After Kevin and Shelley headed down to the relatives to play cards we burned some firewood and hit the sleeping bags by 10:30pm.

All in all, a very good day.