i’m really enjoying the olympics this year, there is some quality nonsense going on
for the first time in the modern olympics (possibly ever?) there’s an equal number of women competing to men, and included in that group we have icons like simone biles, kim yeji, imane khelif
and then over with the dudes we’ve got yusuf dikec who took up shooting after he got divorced, turns up in a t-shirt with no ear protection only to shoot near perfect rounds. we’ve got henrik christiansen who is taking tiktok by storm not for his swimming prowess but the fact he is obsessed with the olympic village chocolate muffins. we’ve got stephen nedoroscik, who is trained literally only in pommel horse so he kinda just sits around doing rubik’s cubes while everyone else does their thing (pommel goes last) and then they activate him like a fucking sleeper agent to crush the pommel routine, secure the usa a medal, and also he cannot fucking see the entire time bc he needs glasses
quality, quality nonsense
EDIT: okay so apparently the smoking thing wasn’t true, my bad guys! dikec has been competing in the olympics since 2008 and is ex-military (but his showing up in a t-shirt without any visual aids is still iconic!!)
HE DID! :D! luckily it only took me three ten-pulls; I think my past experience of being so thoroughly denied a Fairy Gala Ortho made me more worried than I should have been. may the gacha blessings pay forward to everyone else! (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧
so far this is hands-down the funniest Lilia card, because he'll say something all edgy and badass in that deeper ~General Vanrouge~ tone and then follow it up immediately with one of the non-card-specific cutesy Lilia lines, and it gets me every time
thank you muffinblr @werehangingout @pulltheotheroneithasbellson @goseungseng @towerofserenity @replayrewoumd for your help i am 100 per cent by hook or by crook trying all the different permutations you and everyone who's messaged me suggested (including baking them......). i WILL find get that muffin inside me!!!! and i too will have my summer romance. (also here you go @grantmercies @liptongay @narniangirl1994 and the everyone else who asked for updates on muffin info)
(also anon... if you're serious, please dm me! i'll be in paris for a few days mid-August and i am DOWN to commit muffin crimes with you /said by a person who does not understand stranger danger and whose obituary will be: lured to her death by promises of muffins)
"How great is it to be 25 years old, come on national TV, and the first thing you hear is Henrik Lundqvist saying, 'I love everything about your game'?"
"Yeah that's, that's uh kinda a 'pinch me!' moment, so. Hank's my favorite, uh, favorite goalie, uh, of all time, um so to get to be talking to you Hank now is pretty cool, and um, you know, dream come true. So I look up to you a lot, and just an honor to have you say those kind words about me."
"Oh my god!"
"Ah, thanks Jake. And listen, I'm a big fan of your game, keep up the great work. Really enjoy watching you play, and good luck down the stretch here."
six sentence story prompt hm perhaps about your henrik being alive cause he stole the magic glow theory? Silver out on his own realizing he has to be the one to end the cycle before henrik kills the remaining draconias
Sorry if it doesn’t make much sense
" . . . For what little it is worth— I am sorry."
He's mournfully earnest, voice wracked with the weight of several centuries of guilt. Silver cannot imagine what it must be like: to be awakened from the bliss of death you had thought you uncharitably earned, only to discover a portion of your soul had been unwillingly bound to a suit of armor along with those of several of your most trusted men. All the while your child stands before you, hundreds of years too late and very much alive.
"There is nothing that you have to be sorry for . . . Father." The name feels strange on his tongue, as if he's not adored those syllables like priceless gold ever since he could make sound.
The Knight glances at him, all creaking metal and acute devastation, as if to protest the unworthy gift of such a beloved title, as if he hadn't cradled Silver's bawling, pink-scrubbed frame fresh from the heat of birth as if he were handling the treasures of the gods and all their kingdoms. Whatever he sees on Silver's face halts him; perhaps he too understands it is not wise to spend what little time remains arguing pointless semantics.
Perhaps he's making peace with the fact that he'll see his son again soon.
That is, after all, what Silver understands the task at hand to be, the meaning behind the glyphs etched into the back of the ring clutched within his gloved palm.
Ending the cycle, preventing the taint of his family to spread across the land once more, saving Malleus-sama from the cruel whims of a man who claims to be his uncle, protecting the happy ending that his beloved father so dearly deserves.
Except, Henrik isn't the only Istovan left standing, is he?
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one of the girls i live with knows the norwegian olympic muffin man, and we’ve decided that i’m going to try and make the muffins and she’s going to give them to him and see how they compare
TVDu was all 'family is really important to the Mikaelsons, they have a whole saying about it' only to turn around and be like oh yeah that only applies to three of the siblings though !?! what!!?! how dare you!!
Last anon here, I forgot to say, I imagine Gabriel would love it if he had a mirror in front of him lmao
Indeed he would! Gabriel spends hours upon hours preening every day, zealously rehearsing in front of the mirror and meticulously practicing what it has learned during training. As expected of a pet worthy of bearing the Kalavinka.