#allie jennings

[pricklylittleloaf]

[late-to-the-party-81]

Just in case anyone is in any doubt (and cos I wanna test the censors)

Trans men are men.

Trans women are women.

Your value is not defined by your genitals but by how you treat others, especially those who are having a tougher time than you are.

[daradiostarzz]

Who are your fav HN characters?

Ooo okay! I'll give u my top one from all the IP... It'll get long if I list all of them so I'll give the top 9 I have been in this fandom for 8 years help me

Also heavy spoilers for like.... The books... And the first graphic novel....

1. Obvi the main 4 kids from the books (Nick, Enzo, Trinity & Maritza) super super grew fond of them since book 2 and have made them basically my childhood version of a girl group from a cartoon show (think winx club). They really play off each other well, Trinity having this very lawful chaoticness with Maritza (also when Maritza tells Nick "Oh yeah we bribed the teen to like distract Ted for 5 bucks" that shit was SOOO FUNNY) and then ofc there is Enzo... Ough I have alot to say about Enzo, he truly turned me around and made me start loving like "The asshole frenimie" relationship he had with Nick and god does he and Nick steal the whole of book 2 with chapter 7 for me, and also just like the one thing I enjoy out of them is the fact despite how they can be investigating on Ted, they're still children and they're very flawed and likable like you don't have to take my word:

Carly Anne West (The Author) really characterizes them so well and just god I love these four

2. I don't see these two tend to get talked about it's really sad cause like I really love the two, Jen and Allie from the Bosco Bay Graphic Novel HUGE SPOILERS FOR HN BOSCO BAY

Something about the way Zac Gorman writes these two are so infatuating especially cause they were the FIRST to confront Ted about his negligence and willingness to hide about the disappearance of Joe (Jen's brother and Allie's cousin) also just off tell him girl:

3. Minor characters again from the books but in a way really needed uh.... (specifically) Luanne & Jay Roth and Miguel Esposito..... (Yes.... Nick's parents... And Maritza & Enzo's dad in the books their mom fucking oofed) I really love the breath of fresh air that is the adults seriously they are so fun and charming from Jay's sweet tooth that Nick has a whole list of every treat Jay will consume just on a thought, Luanne's literal grief that is her mom despite her anger when she found out her mom left Nick in a storage closet in the fucking SUPERMARKET WHEN HE WAS 4-3??? CHRIST???? Also literally Miguel is everything Theodore wished he was and told Jay off after saying Ted should be in a lawsuit after killing a 7 year old girl with his death machine rollercoasters (also he's a single father I love single fathers 🫶🫶🫶) they also really play off each other so well and honestly idk if I want to call them archetypes for parents who aren't aware of how their child feels cause like... You kinda get why they were so busy but they still care and will protect their respective kids and like ngl it really puts in perspective how Ted is kinda... A bad father in the books....

If I had to categorize then like... Here lol obviously yes Nick really holds a place in my heart (He's the reason I'm trans and I realize my own traumatic experience) but like seriously I LOVE to talk about the parents and Jen and Allie cause I feel I'm the only one who really love them

Sorry if like I'm super uper rambly but it's soo fun to talk about them 😭😭

[womensworldtour]

The final track cycling events of the 2024 Paris Olympics have wrapped up, and they saw some impressive performances that *almost* convinced us to watch track cycling more.

New Zealand had a very good last week, with Ellesse Andrews winning women's Keirin. Hetty van de Wouw of the Netherlands and Emma Finucane of Great Britain finished silver and bronze, respectively. (Can we also mention how absolutely 🔥 the New Zealand kit is? The stark black and fern motif looks so cool. We almost want to do a best of Olympic cycling kit, there were some other great ones out there.)

Other than the funny bike situation, Keirin seems like one of the track events we understand best. It's a bike race, you race together and whoever is fastest wins. There's a pacing motorcycle on the track? It speeds up, or it just pulls off? I dunno, that's weird, but at least it's just becomes a race, and very fast one!

Sprint is a different animal, and seemingly a misnomer. They just ride around slowly, looking at each other. It's like the silliest, slowest part of a road race that ends in a two-up sprint. And they do it again? Okay, whatever, that's fine.

It was more than fine for New Zealand, because Ellesse Andrews took gold in that event as well, followed by Lea Friedrich of Germany for silver and Emma Finucane of Great Britain for bronze, added to her silver in the Keirin.

And then we come to the omnium, a track cycling race that we truly do not understand. Seriously, what is this event? You race around and there are periodic sprints, and you score points on certain laps, and the points add up over multiple races? This just sounds like an event that makes you race a bike and do math in your head as you keep an eye on competitors and laps, and that makes our heads hurt.

This event was dominated by American Jennifer Valente, who already had a gold to her name in women's team pursuit. She entered the final race in the lead, and kept it all the way for gold. Poland’s Daria Pikulik won silver, and New Zealand’s Ally Wollaston took home the bronze after holding off Lotte Kopecky of Belgium.

(For the record, Australia's yellow and green kit with indigenous designs on the sleeves also looks very cool.)

But it gets worse! Because the madison is a very similar event that is like a tag-team relay involving tagging in and out, and half of the riders aren't engaged at any particular moment, and they sling-shot each other around, all while keeping track of points and competitors and laps. 🫠

The madison was apparently (who knows, we couldn't even tell) won by a resurgent Italian team made up of familiar names in road racing, Vittoria Guazzini and Chiara Guazzini. Great Britain's Elinor Barker and Neah Evans took home silver while Maike van der Duin and Lisa van Belle of the Netherlands leapt into third place after lapping the pack to score big took home bronze.

Our heads hurt just trying to describe it all, but it was exciting racing, and a nice send-off for cycling at the 2024 Paris Olympics!

[t-is-for]

Four #BayFC Players Walk into the iconic White Horse Inn in Oakland… 🌈 Visa is proud to celebrate Bay FC players on and off the pitch.

via wearebayfc June 25, 2024

[xmenred2022]

Clint and his girlsquad reuniting YIPPEE!!

[head-post]

New NATO chief Rutte makes support for Ukraine top priority

New NATO chief Mark Rutte pledged to boost support for war-torn Ukraine when he headed the alliance, according to The Independent.

We have to make sure that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign, independent, democratic nation.

The former Dutch prime minister officially succeeded Jens Stoltenberg as NATO secretary general on Tuesday. His appointment came at an important moment for NATO, with the US election just weeks away.

The secretary-general said during a press conference on Tuesday that he could work with either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris and appreciated that Ukraine would be his top priority.

“I will be able to work with both. Whatever is the outcome of the election.”

Rutte, 57, was prime minister of the Netherlands until he resigned earlier this year following the collapse of his coalition government in 2023. He was appointed to lead NATO in June.

The cost of supporting Ukraine is far, far lower than the cost we would face if we allow Putin to get his way.

One of Rutte’s key tasks will be to persuade NATO members to commit additional troops, weapons and spending to strengthen the alliance’s collective defence.

“We need to do more in terms of our collective defence and deterrence. We have to invest more and close the capability gaps and try to achieve all the targets NATO has set here.”

Military aid at risk

However, Ukraine’s allies are struggling financially, jeopardising further shipments of money and weapons, according to Bloomberg. People familiar with the matter said some even refused to increase funding to help Kyiv.

Much of Ukraine’s military aid for 2025 is tied to a G7 deal to provide $50 billion in loans from the profits of frozen Russian central bank assets. However, even if an agreement is reached, the $50 billion is still not enough to meet Ukraine’s needs for another year of war, military analysts warned.

Meanwhile, Polish Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz called Ukraine an ungrateful recipient of military aid.

There is no memory of this aid from Ukraine’s side.

Kosiniak-Kamysz argued that the first Ukrainian statements were very ambitious and the number of Ukrainians who were supposed to apply to join the special brigade in Poland was too small. Aid to Ukraine amounted to 3.3 per cent of Poland’s GDP or 100 billion zlotys ($26 billion). This included humanitarian aid and military supplies, which reached $5bn.

Read more HERE

[theatrefanatic27]

6teen LGBT headcanons:

Caitlin - Ally

Jen - Ally

Nikki - Bisexual

Jude - Pansexual

Jonesy - Questioning Bisexual

Wyatt - Asexual Heteromantic

[upthewitchypunx]

This heartbreaking. I read Jen's zine Fucktooth back when I still lived in Utah in the 90s. I stayed with her in Ohio the time I rode my bike from Toledo to Bowling Green for the Allied Media Conference in the 00s. It's always so hard when people who bring so much to the world leave it too soon.

[lovevalley45]

there was some big jens energy in rapunzel being like "oh yeah i'm spying on u" n he basically said "uh listen i'm worried abt a bird trying to kill me fuck off"

[coolcarabiner]

they fucked up BAD when they didn't make joey potter a butch lesbian. hello. she can't close the deal with guys she's the childhood boy's boy she flirts with jen she and abby have their weird back and forth she won't leave andie alone with a creepy guy like!!! just give her dyke swag and some more boy shirts and she's literally the lesbian i'm trying to be

[pricklylittleloaf]

[livvyofthelake]

i saw avalon high when i was like 9 or something but all i remembered was allie is king arthur AND the delusional belief that will was guinevere (not true at all <- disappointed) but for some reason despite the explicit jen is not homo happening here every time she and allie talk it's always just the most straight girl will they won't they homo moment. once allie comes out as king arthur it's going to be unbearable

would will being guinevere truly be the win you think it would be tho. i mean. she very much cheated on him idk if that would be a win at all really… like you have got to understand that jen as guinevere doesn’t even remotely matter in this situation when allie and will are so cosmically in love that it transcends lifetimes and their identities are so deeply wrapped up in each other that their atoms have intermingled enough that they’re almost the same person. everyone thought will was king arthur because he is because allie loves him so much that she becomes a part of his soul. whatever it doesn’t matter that much to me 😐.

[entriprises]

tag dump # 4 !

[marsbotz]

happy trans rights tuesday