#Prize boxing

[kulkulcan]

The greatest Ukrainian Boxers ever

I try to make a list of the best (or most successful) boxer from the Ukraine pound for pound:

Vitaly Klitschko

Wassili Lomaschenko

Alexander Usyk

Wladimir Klitschko

Sergey Dzinziruk

Wladimir Sidorenko

Artem Dalakian

Viktor Postol

Oleksandr Gwozdyk

Andreas Kotelnik

Notable mentionings: Vyacheslav Senchenko, Serge Derevschenko, Yuri Nuzchenko, Alexander Gurov, Denys Berinschyk

[gongyussy]

the h in nhl stands for homoerotic

bonus intricate rituals:

[tarochimochi]

Man parents are so cool I wish I had some

Part: one of bfdi fan - parent project!

[aquanutart]

"little miss prairie faerie" is a cute name actually... (but I won't use it if she doesn't like it)

[mabaki]

GW2CC Attack for @ecunderbase! (Rad Corduroys!) Rad's Corn-O-Roys available in your nearest Black Lion Supermarkets! (jk) LMAO

[sherokutakari]

I want everyone in my favorite tiny fandom to know that my unwavering love for the Eighth Doctor has finally manifested this

masterpiece directly into my life as a birthday present from my Classic Whovian, completely offline, and meme-free father

I don't think he knows why I'm so extatic about it, but he's happy I'm happy, and that makes me happy

Happy my birthday, everyone

Cheers

[saturnhas82moons]

Yes I know it’s 2:01am

Vi rides a sport bike (motorcycle) the license plate says cupcake

Goin to sleep now

[mirensiart]

Oh no! Poor Ravio! His Scarf has Holes in it now!!

It's what he gets for trying to sell Mr Hero's things tbh he knows most of them are cursed or dangerous lmao

[buggbuzz]

did the "all about us" art collab trend with my bestie @starcades-prize-box :D!!! soooo much fun and their side came out gorgeous, totally worth how long it took

template is under the cut, as well as some silly game screenshots of us together :)

[slaygentford]

ms reid calling dream lestat daffy is a huge win for my political stance as a top donor to the lestat not very smart party. so glad that we're all on the same page re lestat being utterly empty behind the eyes and not even in a psychopath way just in a truly and genuinely not a lot going on up there way

[kulkulcan]

The best boxers in Welterweight of 2011 - 2020

I try to make a ranking of the greatest welterweights of the past decade in boxing:

Floyd Mayweather

Manny Pacquaio

Keith Thurman

Terence Crawford

Timmothy Bradley

Erol Spence

Renè Marcos Maidana

Shawn Porter

Juan Manuel Marquez

Danny Garcia

Jan Zaveck

Kell Brooks

Adrian Broner

Robert Guerrero

Amir Khan

Victor Ortiz

Devon Alexander

Jeff Horn

Jesse Vargas

Paul Malinaggi

Andre Berto

Yordanis Ugas

Ionut Dan Ion

Vyacheslav Senchenko

Egidijus Kavaliaukas

Yuri Nuzchenko

Randall Bailey

Selcuck Aydin

Konstantin Ponomarjew

Mike Jones

Kevin Bazier

Leonard Bundu

Jesus Soto-Karass

Jamal James

Said Quali

Lamont Peterson

Diego Chaves

Antoine Decarie

Brad Solomon

David Avanesyan

Notable mentionings: Rafael Jackiewicz, Felix Diaz, Chris van Heerden, Ismael El Moussadi

[bottombaron]

lmao it just occured to me that if Zemo is in the Thunderbolts* does that mean he's the super secret prize inside the cereal box??

🤣🤣🤣

[puzzlevision]

lesbian redraw

been fan of them together before box was revealed to be alive

[atopvisenyashill]

hot take maybe but i think framing the entire lyanna jon situation to defend elia as “elia doesn’t owe them anything” is a really shitty way of framing lyanna being statutory raped and held captive in a tower to give birth to rhaegar’s prophecy baby. you can defend elia without saying insane things like “it’s morally good if elia forcibly marries lyanna to someone she hates & separates her from her child” just bc that child is politically inconvenient to elia’s children. this is the exact same justification tywin uses to murder elia’s own kids. i think maybe the point of showing multiple women get shitty with their husbands bastards isn’t “it’s morally fine if a politically dangerous child is mistreated” but rather “it’s fucked up that men are allowed to fuck whoever and then foist the consequences onto their children & wives”

[lil-bastard]

Throwback to Brad Marchand being a total menace in a Pure Hockey commercial circa 2012. X

[ghostieblotts]

SAF Linguistics Lecturers AU

FINALLY I AM MAKING THE POST ON THIS.

So these are some of the initial ideas I have for a very random and niche Curtwen au where they are linguistics lecturers, which I came up with because of this post.

The premise of the au is reasonably simple: Curt and Owen are researchers and lecturers in linguistics. I might add in other characters as well, but for now, I've only really gotten as far as beginning to figure out Curt and Owen's research interests (and a brief thought for Barb). This is going to be a meandering and nerdy post, so I'm putting it under the cut :)

Apologies in advance to non-linguists for anything I don't explain clearly enough, and to linguists for anything I get wrong.

So! As part of this au, both Curt and Owen work in the same university department. Which university might that be? ...dear reader, I must admit that in my heart, this au takes place at my own university. However, given that I'm not going to tell you which one that is, kindly choose a university of your own, and we will chalk any inconsistencies that arise up to my own folly. Cool? Cool.

Something else to mention is that this is a modern au, for a few reasons - I am more familiar with the modern state of linguistics than the state of the field in the late 50s and early 60s, I don't want them to have to invent certain subfields that I want to see them in (though that would be funny!), and for one other reason that will become apparent later.

In terms of research interests, I would like to preface by saying that this is only one possible direction to take them in - I think there would be compelling arguments for either of them to be involved in a range of subfields. Do let me know which ones you would put them in! However, here are my ideas.

First, the elephant in the room: Owen Carvour is not a phonologist. I'm so sorry, but if we take the YouTube version's accent performances as canon, he is not a phonologist - this man cannot handle the allophonic distribution of a glottal stop. (Said with the utmost love for the original performances. Accents are hard.) No, this man does not do his work on the sound level of language. That's Curt's job!

Doctor Curtis Mega's research interests are a little trickier for me to pin down, so I would love to hear other people's thoughts on the subject - but I think he leans mostly towards working with sound. In the show, we see him criticise Owen's Russian accent, and he aims to toast with Tatiana in Russian (though I lack the experience to judge this performance myself). So, broadly, I think that his research interests would include sociolinguistics (language and society/social groups), translation, contrastive linguistics (comparing languages), and forensic linguistics (roughly, using sociolinguistics in criminal cases).

Part of my reasoning for having Curt have an interest in translation and contrastive linguistics is because of the kind of stereotype that a linguist is someone who knows lots of different languages - when, in reality, a lot of linguists are monolingual. To mirror canon Curt's James-Bond-superspy elements, in this au he therefore lives up to this stereotype about linguists in some ways. He's a polyglot, he's great at identifying and mimicking accents, and he's the kind of guy who knows the International Phonetic Alphabet inside and out (and can make most if not all of the sounds it categorises).

Forensic linguistics, in some ways, is where Curt deviates from the stereotype, as well as fulfilling another aspect of canon. Canon Curt channels the wants to "fight crime again" and "make a difference" into being a spy, so to me it follows that this au's Curt would be interested in forensic linguistics - using his knowledge of regional and social variation in speech sounds (as well as grammar and lexis) to help solve criminal cases.

So, if Curt's research leans towards sound, with some work on structure in there (dialect studies!), then what does Owen do? Thankfully, I think he balances Curt's interests quite well, as I see him leaning more towards the other end of the spectrum, so to speak - if we divide language roughly into sound, structure, and meaning, Owen works a little with structure, and predominantly works on meaning. Because, I swear, that man would be a pragmatician.

And yes, that is what it's called. Doctor Owen Carvour's research interests begin with, and always circle back to, pragmatics - roughly, looking at meaning in context - how words and sentences are used in interactions, how meaning is negotiated between speakers.

For the most part, I'm basing Owen's research interests on a specific line - "If it weren't for my spot-on aim and interest in foreign policy, well, I might have been an actor" - and also just generally what he's like as a character. Pragmatics relates to topics like implied meaning/implicature, conversational norms, joint commitment, cooperation, pretence - he would love it.

At the beginning of his career, I think Owen would have been solely focused on pragmatics. Over time, he gains an interest in Critical Discourse Analysis - carefully looking at things like how power is wielded and how ideology is embedded in language use, particularly in mass-media texts but useful in other text types too. And eventually, he gains another research interest, related to a particular methodology - corpus linguistics.

Modern corpus linguistics is characterised by the use of large bodies of text, called corpora, which are stored in formats that allow them to be analysed with the help of computer programs called concordancers. I think that Owen "I'd have all the world's secrets" Carvour would love concordancers. I think if you gave that man some corpora to sit down and analyse he would be content for hours.

This is part of why I want this to be a modern au, because otherwise I would need Owen to be inventing the machine-readable corpus in 1961, which would indeed be funny, but I'm not here to change the history of linguistics. Why do I want him to use machine-readable corpora, specifically? Well, before they were invented, corpora were on vast collections of paper, which took ages to analyse and required the hiring of large teams of analysts - and, well, what use will a massive group of analysts be when a box in a room can do their job in seconds?

(Another thing about corpus linguistics - it's quite handy for taking the guesswork out of linguistics. Barb designs concordancers is what I'm saying here.)

So - Curt is a sociolinguist, originally, who is also interested in translation, contrastive linguistics, and forensic linguistics, while Owen is a pragmatician who is also interested in Critical Discourse Analysis and corpus linguistics. What are they like as educators?

I think students generally like Curt's classes a lot. He makes the material engaging, and he's not super strict. I think he's also students' first port of call when struggling with referencing - since that did NOT come naturally to him, so he's generally very helpful with that. That's if you can get ahold of him, though - I don't think he's great at replying to emails, and students probably learn quite quickly that they're better off asking him questions in person.

Owen, on the other hand - instinctively I think he'd be the kind of lecturer that students are kind of intimidated by. He won't accept nonsense in his classes, and he's quite particular about the standards of student work. However, as soon as students have a class where Owen gets to talk more about his specific research interests, it becomes pretty clear that he's just a huge nerd at the end of the day. He's a lot less scary once you've seen him light up over some incredibly specific aspect of pragmatics, and eventually it turns out he's actually pretty funny. Jury's out on whether he actually sleeps, though - he's been known to have email response times under ten minutes at 2 in the morning.

Some students notice around their third year that if one of them is away at a conference or something, the other will be grouchier and have a shorter fuse. At events and sessions with the whole department staff, they are always sat together, and a few students have noticed them arriving or leaving at the same time. Around campus, in the earlier and later hours of the day, more studious students may notice that they are more likely to bump into both than just one.

Anyway. There we go! Do I have an actual story for this au? No. Have I properly developed the curtwen side of it? Also no. Have I gotten around to the other characters properly yet. Also no! But, if you read this far, THANK YOU, I hope this was at least somewhat fun or interesting - and if you have any thoughts on any part of this au PLEASE let me know as I would love to hear them! Is there a subfield they would love that I have missed? Do you have ideas for their teaching or their relationship? Do you have ideas about another character? Whatever it is I want to hear it!