#bjk talks

[blackjackkent]

I'm making an actual romantic gifset of Hector and Karlach in the Act 1 romance scene that I didn't get in his actual run, but I had to pause and make this because I was cracking up that the animation made it look like Hector was sitting up to examine Karlach's boobs with the eagerness of a man spotting an oasis in the desert.

[blackjackkent]

Whoops. O.O;

[blackjackkent]

Huge news regarding my prize from the company white elephant gift exchange:

[dracimexidae]

Love is all around 🫶🇮🇹 The Italian team congratulate Lucia Bronzetti after her opening match victory 🤗

[blackjackkent]

The one I always heard was a PEBCAK error. XD

"Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard"

[rolandkaros]

hey i didn’t manage to watch karo’s match today but obviously it went, umm bad. was it wrist problems or something else? how serious did it seem?

Not wrist problems (thank god), appeared to be a potentially ongoing hip issue…idk if you’ve seen but she’s been stretching it out during changeovers for at least the past few matches (maybe longer but my memory fails me). She called for an off court MTO to get treatment after the first set and then retired after the first game of the second. It didnt seem to effect/limit her movement all that much (or at least not that obviously), but she definitely looked to be in some discomfort by the end. I’m thinking (hoping) that it’s more about circumstance than anything else - she talked previously about struggling with building up match fitness because she had kind of thrown herself back into the season once the wrist was ready, plus a lot of delays/late finishes this week, so it might be related to that as well.

The good/bad news is that she probably won’t play again until the United Cup in December, so plenty of time to recuperate. Might be playing BJK qualifiers but I’m not 100% sure about that.

[dianashnaiders]

i will be talking about the erralini BJK cup comeback forever

[blackjackkent]

This is a running joke on my stream at this point, but one such highlight XD

I just love it when video games let you do really stupid shit that kills you immediately. I love being like "oh this is a terrible idea" and being able to do it and then die. It's good game design.

[nbmsports]

Billie Jean King on Victories Past, and the Battles to Come

The more Billie Jean King talked about the past, the more animated she became about the future.King, the 79-year-old grand champion of tennis and gender equity, said she wanted to see more investment in women’s sports. More teams. More leagues. More women owners. More racial diversity, more data, more access and more opportunities.She charged crosscourt from one topic to the next, not content to celebrate the history she had made; she was too busy creating the template for tomorrow.“Equal investment is the most important thing,” she said during a telephone interview from London, while attending this year’s Wimbledon. “If I talk to a C.E.O., I ask him, or her, or whoever, ‘Do you spend as much on women’s sports as men’s sports?’ That’s the magic question.”It always has been.This summer marks 50 years since the United States Open awarded equal prize money for men and women, becoming the first of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments to offer it. King, who won 39 major titles, made that milestone possible with her relentless activism and by securing corporate sponsors behind the scenes.On the eve of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup — set to showcase the rise of women’s soccer and the movement for equal pay, led by the U.S. Women’s National Team — King’s influence still ripples through the sports ecosystem.“She is working as hard today as she was 50 years ago,” said Stacey Allaster, the United States Tennis Association’s chief executive of professional tennis, and the first female director of the U.S. Open, said. “And she’s so focused, I would say possessed. She’s continuing to live by what she believes: that sport is for social change, and it’s not what you get, but what you give.”King and her wife, Ilana Kloss, who is also her longtime business partner, have invested in six sports. In June, it was announced that Billie Jean King Enterprises would help run a new six-team women’s ice hockey league starting in January along with the Los Angeles Dodgers’ majority owner, Mark Walter, and his wife, Kimbra Walter.“We believe this is transformational, and it’s a sport that hasn’t had the platform that we believe it needs,” said Kloss, 67, a former doubles champion from South Africa and the chief executive of BJK Enterprises.Although she admitted that the path to establishing a successful women’s hockey league has been a “long road” (one that’s littered with past failures), she applauded the Walters’ commitment to women’s sports. “That belief sends an incredible message to the rest of the investment community,” Kloss said.Flashback to 1970 when King and eight other players, outraged the men were earning more than eight times the prize money that the women were at one tournament, signed $1 contracts to form a offshoot professional women’s tennis tour. The women, known as the “original nine,” risked being banned by tennis officials, but the gambit worked. In 1973 at Wimbledon, King led players in a vote that created what is now called the Women’s Tennis Association.It was a heady time for women’s sports. In 1972, Congress enacted Title IX, which prohibited sex discrimination in schools and thus led to the creation of sports programs that spawned a generation of female athletes. Against that backdrop, King, No. 1 in the world, won the 1972 singles titles at the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.In New York, she was incensed to earn $10,000 — $15,000 less than the U.S. Open men’s champion, Ilie Nastase, did. King recalled how she met then with the tournament director Bill Talbert in a referees hut.Turning her chair to face him in the tiny space, she argued that a fan poll showed massive interest in women’s tennis. Then she revealed her ace: She had secured a sponsor — Bristol Myers’s “Ban” deodorant — to make up the difference in total prize money. Equal prize money became official in 1973.A few weeks after the 1973 U.S. Open, King crushed former No. 1 Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes spectacle that catapulted gender equality onto a world stage.“It’s hard to believe that 50 years have gone by — boink!” King said.This year’s U.S. Open, starting Aug. 28, will mark the equal prize money anniversary in multiple ways, including posters of King, an opening night tribute and an “equity lounge” on the site of the United States Open in Flushing, which in 2006 was renamed the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.When she’s on the way to her office there, Allaster touches a sign bearing King’s motto: “Pressure is a Privilege.”Allaster, the previous chief of the WTA, said King was an “accessible leader,” not just for her, but for rookies and superstars alike. Allaster called Venus Williams a “modern-day Billie Jean King” for how, during her prime, Williams lobbied Wimbledon officials — and by extension the French Open — to award equal prize money to women.King’s advocacy has always transcended tennis. She started the Women’s Sports Foundation in 1974 to develop sports opportunities for girls and women post-Title IX. After she was publicly outed for being gay in 1981 and lost many of her endorsements, she later became an activist for gay rights.Phaidra Knight, a World Rugby Hall of Fame player and past president of the Women’s Sports Foundation, said King created an inclusive culture at the group. “Through that LGBTQ+ lens and her courage, she has inspired courage in many other lanes, for people to work together,” Knight said in an interview.Beyond King’s encouragement of her as a Black and gay woman, Knight said she valued how King taught her to approach rugby officials to improve business opportunities for the women’s game.Angela Ruggiero, another past president and a former women’s ice hockey Olympian, has also followed King’s lessons. She co-founded the Sports Innovation Lab, a market research company that uses analytics to understand digitally savvy sports fans. Her research shows that fans of every gender are responding to women’s sports. She has frequent brainstorming sessions with King, who never stops asking questions.“We’re going back and forth on how do we bring more capital into women’s sports,” Ruggiero said. “She’ll be at the edge of her seat, fired up. It’s just her nature to be an agent of change.”King said she secretly advised the soccer player Julie Foudy and eight of her teammates in 1995 to hold out for fair contracts and get the younger players behind them. The team won the 1996 Olympics and ignited the frenzy for women’s soccer by winning the 1999 Women’s World Cup before 90,185 fans in the Rose Bowl.Twenty years later, Megan Rapinoe led the U.S. women to another World Cup victory, this time with the fans chanting “Equal Pay.” In 2022, the women’s national team settled its gender discrimination lawsuit against the national federation for $24 million, and a pledge to equalize salaries and prize money.Last month, Rapinoe talked at a news conference about how the 2023 World Cup would be a game-changer for women’s sports, showing that “equality is actually good for business.”King chuckled.“Every generation thinks they are the first to say this — it’s fun to listen to them,” she said. “I’m glad we’re on the same page trying to get things done.”As always, capital is key. She and Kloss — who joined the celebrity ownership group of Angel City Football Club of the National Women’s Soccer League in 2020 — were encouraged by Y. Michele Kang’s recent $35 million purchase of the league’s Washington Spirit.“We need more people to continue to step up,” King said. “If you look at everything now, it’s the billionaires. And then you look at the Middle East, that’s going to be another thing.”In a news conference, King supported the WTA’s exploration of funding from Saudi Arabia, which has already bought in to professional golf with its LIV Golf merger with the PGA Tour. Although she acknowledged the country’s discriminatory policies around women and homosexuality, she told reporters, “I don’t think you really change unless you engage.” She added that this was her opinion. “I’d still probably go and try to talk with them,” she said.Engagement has always been King’s life philosophy, along with knowing your history. She’s not ready to finish writing hers.In November, King will turn 80.“She really has a sense of running out of time,” Kloss said, “and she can’t get enough.” Source link Read the full article

[pigspeetsandhooflikefeets]

on the topic of the whole netshow thing and sports netshow questions being in offline. i know you've talked about that a bit before but did you find some sports netshow screenshots of the same questions (god, if only...) or is it a "it definitely seems like it would be" thing like with the nate lines?

there are bits that feel Off for Cookie to say, like the line where Cookie says he's from Arkansas. Cookie has one of the more defined voices and it's def not an Arkansas sounding voice. Nate has multiple country-isms as well as implying he's participated in pig catching (along with Buzz) so it'd make more sense it was him that originally said it.

with the Sports Netshow-vibe questions, there's multiple Jack Attacks about sport terms and team locations that just feel so align with Sports rather than Gen Ed. there's also the Billie Jean King question, but I think not only was it redubbed but also changed to fit Cookie. Cookie acts arrogant about BJK, prompting her to kick his ass, but Guy states in Sports he's a massive fan of hers. like autism levels of adoration (good for him). the question feels like something Guy would say, but the closer joke was changed since Guy is less headstrong than Cookie is. and it'd make no sense for Cookie to gush over BJK

one of the rare question number segments IS one from Sports if you wondered. I got really lucky getting it, since I thought only Vol. number segments were included in the throwbacks. never got one for TV or Movies, that's all.

[blackjackkent]

So. Probably not getting any writing done this week because I feel like someone removed my stomach. Feels ridiculous trying to be business as usual today.

I hope those of you who have followed me for writing still want it and that you will wait for me. Deeply insecure thing to say when so many other more important things are happening but whatever.

[blackjackkent]

Of my fics in the BG3 fandom the most I've gotten is 57 on Prayers and Hellfire.

My most out of all my fics is 160 for An Unexpected Pleasure (Mass Effect fandom) although that's mostly because it's been quietly chugging along accumulating them for nearly ten years. XD

(My least kudos is 5 on Fault Lines which sort of landed with a wet thud even though I'm pretty pleased with it so far. XD But I'm hoping it might do a bit better once it has more chapters.)

Straight up cannot IMAGINE getting 500+ kudos on fics but I super admire the people who do. c:

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[woogurl]

Can we talk about woo's body, that bois arms are thick and sculpted to the Godsss.

honestly he looks incredible, the beret looks so good on hiiiim.  zwsxdcfgv bjk

[menkomaster]

Budget BJK is a decent pick but man the variety in this lineup is so disappointing

Simon talking about his explosive family while I’m over here exploding with salt

[imnotagracefulpoet]

BJK (sfw) for Tamaki Amajiki please (If you don’t write for him, then Deku instead?) thank you!!!

absolutely! here ya go

Tamaki Amajiki

B/Best Friend (what would they be like as a best friend? how would the friendship start?) - It would definitely have to be started by you, because of his extremely shy nature. Even as a best friend, he would remain quiet, not because he doesn’t want to talk to you, but because he’s just a quiet person. Despite this though, he’s fiercely loyal, and will go through great lengths to try and protect you.

J/Jealous (would they ever get jealous? how would they act if jealous?) - He doesn’t get jealous, more so insecure. He’ll assume that you think he’s a burden, that you don’t want to tolerate him anymore, so he’ll become even more skittish than normal. You’d have to reassure him plenty that that isn’t the case.

K/Kisses (how would they kiss you? where do they like to kiss you? where do they liked to be kissed?) -  His kisses would be very soft and light because of his nervous nature, and even after a long time dating, he’d still engage more sweet kisses than super hot and passionate ones. He would prefer to simply kiss you on the cheek or forehead, and likes kisses in those places as well, especially the forehead or the top of his head.

requests for everything but matchups are open! 

[blackjackkent]

Recently I was on vacation for a week and the Jimmy Johns delivery lady was like "Good to see you back, we were worried about you." 🥹

Starving to death this morning because ive been to the new local cafe twice this week already and if i go a third time ill look desperate.