#i'm beside myself thanks

[fannyyann]

Keeping up with the Florida Panthers (aka Sara Civian interviews Matthew)

EP Rinkside: What's something away from the rink that’s making you happy these days?

Matthew Tkachuk: I would say, just, I'm lucky at this time of year. Especially across the whole country, it seems like it's freezing everywhere. It's beautiful down in Florida. And we just moved into our new practice rink recently, so that's been awesome.

EP: There was a quote floating around from (head coach Paul Maurice) from before the nine-game win streak and before you started getting hot on the scoresheet. He said people are going to say “Matthew Tkachuk is back,” and he's going to say you never left. Did you see that?

MT: I did, yes.

EP: How did you feel about it, and what's your relationship with him like?

MT: Well, Paul's been a very important part of my last few years. He’s one of, if not the best, coaches that I've ever played with. He's been very important for my development, and I just think that he trusts my game, and I trust my game. I wouldn't say (the puck) was going in early, but I haven’t changed one thing, I'm still doing the exact same thing, it's just finding a little bit more success right now.

It’s been a great year for our team and as of late, it’s picking it up a little bit for myself. Hopefully, we can just keep trending into the second half of the year here.

EP: How important is that trust between a coach and a player and how is it developed?

MT: I just think that he's always given me the right leeway, but still expects me to play the right way. He knows that there's some parts of my game that (are unique) I need to maybe take a little bit more chances than the average player. He gives me full leeway to do that, but also expects me to work my butt off and to lead by example.

EP: We always talk about “buy-in,” it's kind of cliché at this point, and you guys obviously have that factor. But how does something like that start?

MT: I just think being so close to winning it all last year has made it very, very easy to come back this year and have that immediate buy-in from the guys wanting to win a championship here. So many returning guys who are so close and so upset with not finishing it off. There's a lot of motivation.

EP: Do you have a favourite moment from last season's run?

MT: I would say, probably all of the series-clinching wins, the series-winning goals. The overtime winner in Boston, the overtime winner in Toronto, the last second one at home against Carolina.

All three of those are by far the greatest goals I've ever been a part of.

EP: I feel like we're not as a society talking about Sam Bennett enough. Can you give us a little bit about what he's like off the ice and what it's like to play with him?

MT: He just plays so hard.

He was one of the first guys I met when coming to Calgary, and we've been so close ever since. I'm so happy that we got to play together again down here in Florida. He was the first guy I talked to when I got traded, and we've just been so close for eight-plus years now.

It’s so fun that we're able to play with each other still, we just have such great chemistry on and off the ice. He just plays so hard and he complements my game so well. And off the ice, we're just super close and have a great group of guys that pretty much do everything together away from the rink.

It makes it so much fun to come to the rink every day, work with them, and then when we leave the rink, do stuff together.

EP: If you became the commissioner of the league today, what's the first thing you'd change?

MT: Overtime until somebody scores. No shootouts. And no back-to-backs. I don't know if we need any more back-to-backs right now.

EP: Other than you, who has the best chirps in the league?

MT: I'd say the guy who chirps a lot on our team is Brandon Montour. He has some good ones. Nick Cousins has got some good ones. (Ryan) Lomberg, too. They all have some good ones.

EP: Best advice your dad ever gave you?

MT: Two things: Compete and be a good teammate.

EP: Last year you gained some recognition outside of the hockey world, and it kind of sparked, like, a debate about personality in the NHL. I've always wondered What you actually think about this whole conversation, like, do you like being kind of the personality guy in the NHL?

MT: Well, I’m never going to not be myself. I grew up with great parents that taught me great things and around a great family. I’ll carry that for the rest of my life. I’m not trying to do anything, and some guys are (quieter) and that’s OK. This is just how my personality is.

EP: Can you give me three words to describe the current Panthers?

MT: Oh, I would say very fast. So fast. Close – we’re a super close team.  I've never seen a team like this where, you know, we're going to dinner on the road and we're having, you know, 15 people reservations and everybody hanging out with each other. it's been awesome. Fast, close, and fun. Nobody has more fun than our team.

[yinorii]

tl;dr: orv anime leads to game, i am coping and cooking

see, i woke up today and had a revelation about the orv anime.

yes, it's going to bring in a lot of people i wouldn't want to touch with a ten foot pole because that just happens when it happens when a good series gets an anime. but ALSO it means that the possibility of an orv game, or a collaboration with a game is infinitely more possible.

you see, solo levelling got a game a bit after the anime came out. admittedly, i've tried it and i don't love it, but the same could theoretically happen for orv, since the fandom is already popular enough.

(is the game likely to be good? probably not?? but like, the thought of an orv game is...)

secondly, the possibilities of game collaborations, even if orv doesn't get a game, is also significantly increased. most games that do collaborations are either with other games or popular anime.

(coping that one day one of the games i love will do a collaboration with orv, or that orv will come out with a banger game,, like dungeon meshi is doing a collab with arknights and i WOULD DIE for an orv collab for arknights, like genuinely die and soul ascend and i)

[lemoncrushh]

omg you guys...

bad idea is almost at 1k notes 🥹

[molter-writes]

the fake twitter trolls alicent reads are really so excellent like your brain being capable of making fake-mean tweets for a fake movie in your fan fiction feel real and compelling and also based on the irl reception to alicent/ olivia cooke's portrayal

me sitting down to imagine what psychos must think of olivia cooke

[xemnas178]

How to find me in other place:search for "xemnas178"

(but my name is phillip karfere:3I hope you can call me phill or phillip

I think maybe I'll never update the blog.Or until they fix the mistake,I'll come back.But who knows?

can't find my page or posts in search results of Joachim＝kill me :/

↑anyway put a injured Walter that I didn't post here🙃

[arcandoria]

quick road stop 🚗

feat. @pinkyjulien's bbs 🧡

[kindahoping4forever]

Hello crystal ! I hope u r doing well and taking care of yourself .. just the most random thought I can't seem to get out of my head as of lately .... Parallels between drummer boy and henry cavill pls I need to know someone else also sees it and I am not just crazy

I don't think you're crazy! It's something about their mannerisms, maybe? It's so funny I was lowkey obsessed with Mission Impossible: Fallout the summer it came out (like I saw it in theaters 5x obsessed 😂😭) so I'm not sure if this is something I've actually thought before or if it just makes sense but when I read your ask my brain was auto like "oh yeah, of course" so 😅🤷🏻‍♀️

[somerandomjewelleryonthefloor]

This is NOT good for Francesca's mental health.

I've already stated that he has to take both anti-depressants & anti-psychotics to make sure he doesn't lose his own head, but this is REALLY screwing some nails loose...

Oh my poor MC Francesca just wanted to be making snow angels, but now he's regretting even going here and is planning on staying inside the whole day.

Fuck that fuckass pirhanna-razzo that took that picture‚ fuck the media in spinning a nice friendly moment of 2 guys chilling by the lake (in my Headcanon they have clothes on and are just leaning on eachother), and FUCK everybody that's giving him shit.

[rayjeff]

Hey!! I just wanna say I LOVE your Hazbin art, especially your Alastor redesign I am in love with it!! Especially the granny glasses and the ponytail they're PERFECT ahsbsidbsj

Ik it says in your f&q that it's okay to use your art as a pfp with credit, so I am, but I just wanna make sure this is enough? Or if you'd rather I do something else too I don't wanna step on any toes lol

Looking at him just brings me great joy I need you to know that, it's Wonderful

But yeah if you'd rather I do more/something else please let me know!! I know credit is really important to artists and I don't wanna screw it up

Awwww It's so sweet of you!! Thank you so much! My heart melts when i hear that someone looks at my art this way 🥺💖💖

AND OF COURSE!! I always appreciate any form of giving me credit! It's perfect the way it is! :]

[femmeleatherface]

hello random people on the internet. i really prefer to keep this stuff private and keep this blog pretty upbeat, but desperate times, desperate measures, etc. anyway could you please do me a favor and remind me that it's okay to eat and i should. it will genuinely help A LOT right now.

[watery-melon-baller]

an unexpected consequence of not isolating urself and actually hanging out with friends is that people want to hang out with you all the time

[mossmx]

I would like to take this moment (shitty glue has to dry - so a very looong moment) to thank ppl who leave nice messages about my art in the tags <3<3<3

[asterdeer]

video called "pirate shirt tutorial that actually makes sense" with a thumbnail clickbaitingly copying bernadette banner's style, which does the exact same thing as bernadette banner's video but more confusingly and without a diagram in the video itself, also failing to understand that bernadette banner's channel is primarily a history channel and not a sewing tutorial channel so telling people they don't have to hand-sew the pirate shirt or they don't have to thread-pull is unnecessary because bernadette banner literally said "do this however you want, i just do it this way because it's how i learn about historical dress practices" in her own video. couldn't ask for better youtube entertainment

[icharchivist]

But honestly, Maleagant's speech moved me to tears. Just. Being subjected to all of that horror just because of the way you were born. Being ostracized and hated and treated as less than human just because of the way you are... As a LGBTQ person, that hits close to home. That's really relevant in today's times and I'm glad the subject matter was treated with respect and they weren't made out to be the villains because they retaliated against the oppressive system. It was just really good. cries

honestly yeah, same. it genuinely messed me up.

i don't really talk about it on here but hhh my Mom is of Jewish and French&Algerian descent, and while she didn't pass down anything culturally speaking (she considers herself atheist and she did everything in her life to conceal our heritage, so i don't know as many cultural stuff that isn't just. the Trauma:tm: or just things my mom unconsciously passed down), the conversation, especially, about how much our family had lost to the holocaust when her family lived in France, and then to the Algerian war after they moved there have been.... a lot. this is something we talk about a lot.

like. i think it's why i also kinda flew off the handle a little at receiving dick jokes out of it because to me it's just. Yeah. Yeah i those are conversations that hit extremely deep especially in term of generational trauma, and, of course, current politics as well.

I think it's also like. something i'm kinda eyeing Lancelot about in case his Valiant heritage ever happen to be relevant. Because i know i've seen people brush it off like it doesn't matter because Lancelot doesn't seem to feel anything with the dragons around him or not but there's... definitely something to be had with a heritage to a culture you weren't taught anything about and yet still the ghost of knowing it could fall down on you at anytime.

I think it's really hard to find a story that really talk about genocide while also being like. fair to the victims. More often than not fantasy stories in particular end up falling into the trap of saying that there was a reason it happened, actually, or that well it's from the past you can't punish the people now :/ or stuff like that and it's. wehh.

Personally, it made me think especially about the Ainu people in Japan. I am not really well versed on the topic, but there was basically a whole genocide on the Indigenous people of Hokkaido, and i know in recent years, Japan has been trying to take some lands that belonged to the Ainu in order to build in some themeparks, and when the Ainu survivors tried to make their plea heard and have Japan acknowledge their warcrimes, the government denied it fully. (and it's not to mention how Koreans have been asking for the past decades for Japan to recognize their warcrimes and the gov still fully in pure denial it even happened. which is a similar topic that is worth mentioning)

in the past few years Japan has been under fire for their complete refusal to address the genocides and warcrimes they had commited, and there's been a really big public outcry around the world about the state denial going on and the way it also transcribe on how those genocides are... well... /not/ taught.

so i do think it's like, extremely relevant to Japanese politics. I even saw a seiyuu mention how topical this event is. This is an event that directly criticize the current Japanese policy of constant denial and stuff.

and, obviously, it can apply to any other situation where rights are denied to people for various reasons, which is extremely relevant all around the world because of the rise of fascism and the way most governments these days are completely lost in the history revisionism sauce, and it's genuinely alarming. Look at any country's politics and all of them are trying to rewrite history in some way and it's sickening.

I personally immediately connected to it because, on top of my history awareness, it's just like. conversations i regularly have with my mom when we discuss our family's past. It stung extremely close from home. even if i'm also LGBT+ this was where my thoughts immediately went.

but therefore, it's something that applies to any experiences of oppressed people who are currently having their history erased by fascist government that are trying to get rid of "the undesirable"

i genuinely think granblue dealt with the topic with a lot of grace, and Maleagant genuinely managed to pass down the politics, the pain, the history, the old hurt as well as the new hurt, just so well.

it really struck a cord with me. It was really well done.

so yeah feeling you fully on this one friend.

I think this event was pretty graceful at addressing this topic while also really anchoring itself as anti-fascist and it was honestly a breath of fresh air.

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

ngl, when i started coloring in the stars in the background of that one killer drawing i posted

i like, zoomed out and nodded like “yeah yuri’s gonna love this >:]c”

teehees because of that reason, im really really happy you liked it cackles

liked it??? i LOVED it!!!

ngl the trickiest part for me once i finish a piece is the background, no matter how simple it is >:'D so i just saw the stars and went auhghg i WISH i could absorb your braincells you talented little muffin waaa<333333

[bandzboy]

recently i've really been noticing how much better i got at gfx like i feel like my gfx always had good quality to them (a lot ppl can vouch for that) but i feel like recently it's sorta kinda obvious that after doing this for like 2 years or so that the improvement is really showing and it makes me happy and proud tbh...