#Wichita Nation

[thomaswaynewolf]

[in-the-toeloop]

OH MY GOD ITS MY DREAM PODIUM😭 I AM GENUINELY CRYING I LOVE FIGURE SKATING

[travelella]

Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma, USA.

[goalhofer]

[harocat]

Skaters, coaches, and family killed in the Washington Plane Crash over the Potomac River:

These skaters were returning from the post-Nationals Development Camp for young skaters in Wichita, KS. This is an event for up and coming athletes that gives them the opportunity to be seen by USFS officials and train with top coaches. All of these skaters were extremely young. Please correct me if I made an error, but I don't believe any of them were older than sixteen.

Unfathomable tragedy. Skating is such a small community. Everyone is going to feel the resonance of this. It's reminiscent of the 1961 Team USA figure skating plane crash. My heart goes out to everyone affected.

Spencer Lane (athlete at Skating Club of Boston) and his mother, Christine Lane

Jinna Han (athlete at Skating Club of Boston) and her mother, Jin Han

Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shiskova (coaches, 1994 world pairs champions, two time Olympians, and parents of US skater Maxim Naumov- Skating Club of Boston)

Eddie Zhou (athlete, Skating Club of Northern Virginia) and parents, Kaiyan and Joe

Everly and Alydia Livingston (sisters and athletes at the Washington Figure Skating Club) and parents, Donna and Peter

Franco Aparico (athlete, Washington Figure Skating Club) and father Luciano

Inna Volyanskaya (coach, former pairs champion- Washington Figure Skating Club)

Angela Yang and Sean Kay (athletes, ice dancer partners- University of Delaware Figure Skating Club) and mothers, Lily and Julia

Brielle Beyer (athlete, Skating Club of Northern Virginia) and her mother, Justyna Magdalena

Cory Haynos (athlete, Skating Club of Northern Virginia) and parents, Stephanie and Roger

Alexandr Kirsanov (coach, former elite ice dancer- Skating Club of Delaware)

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Olivia Eve Ter (athlete, Skating Club of Northern Virginia) and her mother, Olesya

[goodobservationshirley]

From Gabi's instagram post (x)

Last week, @splashmadison and I were both in Wichita for U.S. Nationals. She as a coach, and I as a commentator. Amidst our busy schedules, we carved out a little time on Wednesday morning for a practice session and asked our friend Jordan to capture the moment for us. Sharing a work in progress always feels vulnerable. When I first watched this video, my instinct was to focus on the details—to see what could be refined, what we’ve already evolved beyond. That drive for precision is part of me and always will be. But stepping beyond competition has also shifted my perspective. I’m learning to see movement not just as something to perfect, but as something to experience—to create for its own sake. The joy is in the doing, the freedom in the expression. Hope you see it too Music : Not loud enough, @marius.bear

[saywhat-politics]

A regional jet collided in midair with a helicopter while on approach to Reagan Washington National Airport around 9 p.m., the FAA said Wednesday evening in a preliminary update.

What we know

An American Airlines regional jet collided midair with a helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

One or both of the aircraft may be in the Potomac River, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

A search-and-rescue operation is underway on the river, officials said.

A source told NBC News that the plane, which was coming from Wichita, Kansas, was carrying 60 passengers and four crewmembers.

[thedialoguedilemma]

An American Airlines commercial plane heading to Washington DC from Wichita Kansas collided with a military Blackhawk helicopter causing the plane to crash into the Potomac

Just last week, President Trump FIRED the heads of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Coast Guard, and disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee.

Trump also froze the hiring of Air Traffic Controllers. All flights heading to Reagan National Airport have been diverted and all planes are grounded effective immediately

Devastating.

[frownyalfred]

"#you want a barrier sometimes #but if that's airtight then you have pressure issues"

Is this like a general knowledge thing or something you had to research? Also, how much random stuff do you think you've learnt since you got into this fandom? I can imagine that you've had to Google loads of random stuff for the fics you've written

I mean...it was a guess but I just did a dive into "Diving-related Ocular Barotrauma" so it looks like it's a thing. When you have rapid changes in pressure (like during a fight involving metas or magic) that could affect the goggles/masks themselves if they're fully sealed, which would be very bad for the eyes. That was just me spitballing, since eyes are very sensitive to changes in pressure. But it looks like it could be an actual consideration in goggle usage, which would be relevant to superheroes like the Batfamily. Again, I'm no expert -- I was just guessing, and it looks like I was on the right path.

I've googled SO much stuff since starting to write fics. I have gathered so much random information across a variety of bizarre subjects. Police call codes in different states, how to reduce pediatric fractures with protrusion, weird bits of language translation, gun stuff. I'm not smart enough to retain or really use this information in a meaningful way, but for about 30 minutes I feel like I almost grasp maybe 2% of it.

My google search history when writing a fic is hilarious, I should definitely post it one day. I know just enough to be dangerous. Which is to say, I know enough to know I should know more about this, and I'm probably going to summarize this information in a way that does a disservice to experts, but. It's for a fic, and as long as it passes the sniff test, I'm fine with it.

Though I will say, while I'm at it (since I'm petty at heart) the Kwik Trip in my recent Trinity fic was researched AND correctly used as the gas station of choice. People were trying to ding me for using a gas station brand that's too "large" for Kansas and not like the normal, traditional brands they find close to home, but they were wrong! In the fic, Clark mentions that the Kwik Trip was built recently. Kwik Trip is slowly buying up those old gas station chains and building new stores across the Midwest, including Kansas. So it actually makes a lot of sense that they stopped at a Kwik Trip which is 1) a novelty compared to normal gas stations 2) more likely to be present than other smaller chains in 2025 (and near a major city) and 3) is referenced to have been built recently, which lines up with national trends. Also, I googled Kwik Trips near Wichita and there's a ton. So there's a great example of a huge amount of time I spent researching something to be right, and people still told me I was wrong lmao. And also it was probably not worth the fic-writing time to be right about.

[cryptid-quest]

Cryptid of the Day: Boar Man

Description: For an unspecified amount of time, people in and around the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge claimed to have seen a strange creature called the Boar Man. He’s described as an 8ft man who wears pig-skin, carries boar tusks, and could transform into a massive boar. 

[in4newz]

An American Airlines commercial plane heading to Washington DC from Wichita Kansas collided with a military Blackhawk helicopter causing the plane to crash into the Potomac

Just last week, President Trump FIRED the heads of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Coast Guard, and disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee.

Trump also froze the hiring of Air Traffic Controllers. All flights heading to Reagan National Airport have been diverted and all planes are grounded effective immediately

Devastating.

What was the main cause for the midair crash?

[in-the-toeloop]

I love Alysa liu. Thats all I wanted to say.

[sharkuda-prompt-meme]

IT'S NICE TO BE WANTED: A SAN JOSE SHARKS PROMPT MEME FOR '24-'25 SEASON

Landed at the bottom of the Mariana Trench for Macklin and there’s nowhere to go from here but up. Sharkies, assemble: the Sharkuda prompt meme is back and it’s open ALL SEASON.

🦈 Schedule 🦈 Prompts open: Now ✨ Posting opens: November 10 Soft Deadline #1: February 12 Soft Deadline #2: Western Conference Final end 2025 Collection closes: June 30

🦈 How this works 🦈 This year we’re keeping the prompt meme open all season long. Prompting opens the day of the Sharks' Home Opener on October 10 and the collection closes on June 30. The collection opens for posting on November 10, but this is not a hard deadline! There are instead two soft deadlines for you to work for: 4 Nations Cup 2025 and the conclusion of the Western Conference Finals 2025. There is a hard deadline of June 30, at which point, the collection will close for posting and prompting.

🦈Prompts & Fills 🦈

Leave at least one but no more than 50 prompts. Pairing prompts must include at least one member of San Jose Sharks, San Jose Barracuda, or Wichita Thunder organizations, past or present. General, non-pairing prompts must involve the team, franchise, or the Bay Area in some way.

All fills welcomed - fic, art, podfic, poetry, fanmixes, creative nonfiction, whatever you can think of! Fic must be a minimum of 100 words and all other works must be equivalent effort. Fills must include at least one member of the Sharks, Barracuda, or Thunder organizations at any time in franchise history.

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[sywtwfs]

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[boymanmaletheshequel]

Reports are coming in of a midair collision over Reagan national airport in Washington DC between a D60 Pavehawk military helicopter and an American Airlines flight inbound from wichita. Both aircraft have crashed into the Potomac river. It is being said that the American flight was carrying 64 passengers and crew, and that the D60 was carrying 3 service members. As of now, all are believed deceased. This is just days after Donald trump fired the heads of staff at TSA, and disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, or ASAC. It is because of the defunding of critical government services like this by trump that more accidents like this will continue to happen. My heart is with the families of all who are likely dead, and I am both mournful and fascinated to see what the subsequent investigation reveals.