#i love how we met

[exhuastedpigeon]

How did you meet your partner?

Oh man are you ready for the maybe the nerdiest story you've ever heard? be warned, it's kind of long lol.

Back in the day I used to co-host a hockey and baseball podcast with one of my best friends (who I actually met on tumblr through the Sterek fandom). The friend, we shall call her M, is so smart that she got invited to present at a sports analytics conference. We talked a lot about analytics on our podcast, so I was/am very familiar with sports analytics.

She asked me to go with her and on a whim I said yes. The conference was on the west coast so it was a pain to get there, but I'd always wanted to go to a HAC/SAC (hockey analytics conference/sports analytic conference).

The first night there's a social event and M asks if I recognize a guy across the bar and I said 'he looks like every other white guy here, but he's kind of cute'. I thought that would be the end of it. (reader, it was not the end of it).

The next day he sat near us in the hall (not that weird since it wasn't a huge space) and then that night at the social event he slowly made his way over to where I was holding court (I only say it like that because when you put me with a group of people that I'm pretty comfortable around I like to tell stories and keep conversation going).

Eventually he sits down across from me and immediately started roasting me for my choice in hockey team. I did the same thing to him and we were bantering and flirting and it was all very fun, but I didn't think it was going anywhere. Then he bought me a drink and sat down next me when he got back.

(I still didn't think it was going anywhere. I was sharing a hotel with M, he was staying on a friends pullout couch.)

But, like it was meant to be, some other dude came over and tried to start flirting with me by bragging that he was doing a speed talk the next day about how baseball games were getting longer/the product was worse. That guy was an idiot and I told him so because I had just written a piece on how baseball game run times had only increased by 3 minutes over the last decade.

My now partner jumped on the bandwagon and when the guy walked away my now partner turned to me extremely embarrassed because he realized he listened to my podcast while I was roasting the other guy.

We shared a cab back to the conference area with some other people and the next morning we chatted a bit before the lunch break. I had to leave to catch my flight, that should have been the end of our little flirty encounter.

But he followed me on twitter already and DM'd me saying it was nice to put a face to the voice on the podcast and if I was ever in his neck of the woods I should let him know. The next day I worked a 14 hour event at work (after getting home at 2am). I posted on twitter that I was going to pass out, but I would love to wake up to photos of people's pets.

He sent me a bunch of pictures that night and continue doing that for like 8 months. We kept talking, exchanged numbers, started facetiming all the time, and eventually a few months later met up to spend a long weekend together in Toronto.

We met in March, had our first 'date' in May, and got married in November all of the same year. We never would have met if we weren't both giant sports nerds.

anonymously ask you one thing you want to know about me

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

god i love my friends. shout out to people who love their friends. this is a post for friend lovers

[aalghul]

once again thinking about jason as duke’s robin. he’s ~4 years younger than jason, and that puts him at 8-12 during Jason’s time as robin. that’s prime time to get attached to your local kid vigilante before your own life goes downhill.

and if we try to keep duke’s meeting with bruce in zero year + duke’s age (so he can remember the meeting and hold that conversation with bruce), he has to be around 8. if he starts following batman through the news at that time because of the mess that just happened, the robin he sees is probably jason. I’ve literally connected the dots

[rainbow-sunshine-unicorn]

Remember when Anthony Bridgerton said:

And then it turns out that this is him with his wife:

[technically-human]

Hey, don't cry. Ghost yuri, okay?

(Now that you know the girls, they need to meet the boys!)

[wangxianbaybee]

"Your flowers."

"You're welcome, I gave them to you."

[welcometogrouchland]

Disgustingly messy and crusty sketch dump but I couldn't get my own terrible theory out of my head and ended up making a bunch of sketches about it. Also at the end a bonus dickbats and Damian doodle bc I was reading an issue of their Batman and Robin run (IDs in Alt)

[krarka]

I MET SOME LITTOL GRUBS AND THEIR MOMMA

[jesncin]

BruHarvey Royalty AU prompt for DC Gotcha For Gaza (requests closed)! I like this ship and this was a fun opportunity to draw fancy clothes~

[iilmunchkiin]

"Rough Hands"

[destielwarmsthecocklesofmyheart]

happy vessel day to cas

and happy anniversary to the ship of all ships

16 years

[bluebugjay]

accidentally starting to believe the Charles fell first, Edwin fell harder agenda...

like we've all joked about how at face value Charles is the one who acts more like he's crushing than Edwin, the things he says, how clingy he is, the way he looks at him even from episode 1. Even, I'd argue, the way he looks at Edwin when they first meet, and him smoothly bringing up kissing and then more obviously trusting and enjoying Edwin's company enough after those few hours to stay with him rather than passing on to his afterlife. I don't think he clocked it as romantic when they met or even in the 30 years between then and the show but I think that what they have kind of transcends labels anyway. As if he's been falling ever since they first met and just hasn't really realised what that means yet, so he hasn't hit the ground yet. Charles loves Edwin and he has such a open heart and fondness for Edwin, it's hard to believe he wouldn't have fallen first.

With Edwin we actually get to see the whole journey he goes on that helps him realise his feelings and it hits him like a tonne of bricks, after 30 odd years of being best mates suddenly Edwin's forced to come face to face with the fact he's in love with Charles, not that he's falling or starting to fall but that he's right there, in love already. Fell harder.

[https-hunter]

[sableeira]

I love how we go from episode 3 “no one ever figured out what Dazai’s former occupation was” to episode 5 “Dazai corrects someone in detail on the mafia’s revenge mo”

[faaun]

last night i got home kind of tipsy and very much in tears and my mother told me the force you exert to keep someone in your life is proportional to the force with which they will leave your life. if you have to fight tooth and claw to keep them, their leaving will be just as hard, just as harsh, and just as definite.

[moppets]

this show established that older daniel could never give love to those around him properly. he loses wives and his daughters don't call. he's bitter and mean and tired. except, we're shown that wasn't always true. daniel, the boy with a drug problem and no self-preservation. the boy who went everywhere with a bulky tape recorder because he truly believed everybody was important, everybody had a story. he bonded with vampires, single mothers, and those suffering from aids in a time where nobody else would. he opened people up because he connected with them. he saw them when he didn't even want to see himself. that's why he was fascinating!

and what?? i'm just not supposed to entertain the thought that armand didn't look at that snarky, happy guy with a streak of coldness and fall in love?? that when armand carved himself and his love so deeply out of that boy's mind that he didn't also take daniel's concept of love and compassion out with it?? that if armand could not have daniel, then nobody else would either??