#it would be an ultimate spiderman pointing at each other meme

[izzysarchivedblogs]

Actions Speak Louder Than Words -> Accepting All Memes // Time to put those parenting/mentoring skills to the test, @crisispider, especially when she's not your biggest fan -> catch, sender catches receiver by the waist after they bump into each other. - for Nadia!

THERE'S NOT A LOT THAT NADIA LETS GET TO HER. Growing up she had to be tough to survive, her childhood would be enough of any proof to be moody, depressed, and angry. There's plenty of reasons, and yet she isn't. Or well, that's not to say those feelings were not felt that she didn't have things that kept her up, or things that were kept inside.

It's more that every day, Nadia makes a choice. SHE CHOOSES THE OPPOSITE. Choses on the daily to embrace the freedom she fought for herself, choses to fly, and to smile, to be warm to people, and ultimately be a positive force of good on the world, to give effort. TRY TO BE THE OPPOSITE AND EQUAL REACTION TO THE NEGATIVE.

Nadia's Neat Science Facts; let's break down Newton's Laws of Motion. The first law of Newton's is that an object at rest remains at rest, and an object in motion remains in motion at constant speed and in a straight line unless acted on by an unbalanced force. FOR EXAMPLE.

THE LITTLE WASP MAKING A BEE LINE FOR THE EXIT. A feeling of defeat, of frustrating starting to hollow out her chest and she doesn't like it. Let's not forget that being a superhero was new to her, that she was still a teenager whose entire world had been in a bunker under Russian ice up until a few months ago. She's net even paying attention, as she goes to storm off to fix her gear; but that's not what was bothering. It's the sense that she didn't do good enough today, that the telepath got under her skin and instituted things about her father, about her future. HANK PYM WAS A GOOD MAN. Her knowledge of the man only cherry-picked from what the Red Room would let her know, his science and works, and the impression that he was one of Earth's greatest heroes.

SHE IS IN MOTION. MARCHING OFF A QUICK SPEED. That's Newton's first law, she's in motion and will remain in motion. Nadia isn't even paying all that much attention as she shoulder checks Spiderman.

Nadia's Neat Science Facts; Newton's Second Law of Motion states that thee acceleration of an object depends on the mass of the object and amount of force applied. This law has lesser bearings on the situation here.

Back to the first law, an object in motion stays in motion UNLESS acted on by an unbalanced force. Nadia would have kept storming off if now for the fact that an UNBALANCED FORCE changes that. Point in case, Spiderman grabbing onto her wrist and pulling her back from continuing down her path.

Nadia's Neat Science Facts; Newton's Third Law of Motion does apply here, for whenever one object exerts a force on another object, the second object exerts an equal and opposite force on the first. This does apply here in multiple different ways, for instance the present moment and another instance the state of her life.

FOR EVERY NEGATIVE FORCEIN THE WORLD, Nadia tried to be the positive reaction, equal in force and opposite in reaction. That is why she tried to be positive, action and reaction, to what her childhood was and to thee state of the world. NOW BACK TO RIGHT NOW.

For every action, there's a equal and opposite reaction. Spiderman grabs her wrist, pulls her back and for an ex-Red Room trainee; the instinct of her assassin training overrides any thought process of what would be appropriate response to A TEAMMATE halting her storm off, even if it was done in good nature.

Newton's third law applies, the young girl raising her hand up that's been grabbed onto, than bring her other hand up to grab onto Spiderman's wrist, then turning them around, squeezing her hand and moving her hips to turn and force herself out of the wrist hold. Now he's holding nothing, and she's got his wrist.

Nadia take a step back, feeling shaken and bites at her lip. ❝ пиздец (pizdec), can't anybody leave me alone?! ❞ Her voice sounds watery, on the verge of tears and upset, panic attack on coming and she just needs to go fix her suit, go do something. Today may have been a success for the Avengers ultimately, but a personal failing to herself. Proof that she is still just a kid.

[scourgeofshadows]

How Emperor Belos Shall Die

- His au selves from fandoms emerge through portals to kick his ass (yes I encountered enough fandoms to see better versions of himself lol) - Hooty swallows him whole - Sans gives him a bad time for stealing his eye - His cursed form is blended into a smoothie and Hooty drinks it - Ends up deceased from extreme palisman addiction and his cursed form (now that's gotta be one of the worst ways anyone can die: aDdIcTiOn) - Should he instead die from simply being high on mountain dew? (caffein is lethal yes) - Alastor cooks him into a venison sausage and eats him (demonic deer cannibalism cuz why tf not!?) - The Titan kills him (what if all of the Titan's puppets have a death match & end up killing each other?) - The cleaning lady sweeps up his goop on Monday while he's asleep on the floor (Scott Pilgrim reference go brrr!) - Facepalms his goop face too hard into a wall or with his metallic glove - Chokes on his own goop - Hunter lures him into Kikimora's death trap (I bet Kiki's trying to be sneaky with how she'll attempt to kill Hunter) - Hollow Knight path of pain (heard about that highway of hell from my siblings) - Deer hunting season - Petrified and left outdoors to decay slowly from weather - Gets eaten by a titan from aot - John Kramer traps him cuz of his sins

[foryoumyheroes]

Otaku

[Bakugou + Todoroki] are in love with the anime character [Name]. 

A/N:  Gender-neutral reader  Crackish?? 

Bakugou Katsuki: 

He’s sort of picky with the genre, be it fantasy, horror, shonen, but his favorite character has to be a super cool, super powerful one. No excuses. 

You know, the type of anime character that’s probably introduced through a silhouette of them posing dramatically with their notorious group whose image is teased throughout the first few episodes/seasons. 

He goes pretty hard for All Might, and he’s definitely the same for your character. 

Reads the manga (but he buys it super secretly, like in a hoodie at night and the cashier probably thinks that they’re being robbed until he brings the entire [Series] collection to the register). Watches the anime the moment it’s broadcasted, reads metas and watches youtube videos that talk about conspiracies/analyses of your character. 

NO ONE CAN KNOW THOUGH. 

He’s taking his anime phase to the grave. 

For some reason gets super aggressive when you’re being flirty or being shipped with another character?? He hates all the scenes that tease any potential romance between you and other characters. asdfgj He’s like, “No one is good enough for [Name]!!! Except for me.” 

He even tries to think up ways he can legitimately square up with them LMAO. Like he wonders how he could defeat your potential S/Os in a fight but y’all are like ,,, anime characters SO WHY DOES IT EVEN MATTER LOL 

“Three-sword style?? Tch, I’d fucking blow that bastard to bits.” 

“Who’s this Gaara of the Sand looking ass and why is the author getting so bold.” 

He even tries to think of how well your abilities match up with his own Quirk, this dork. 

THE LENGTHS HE WOULD GO FOR YOU.

If you were a real life person and your dislikes are lets say spicy food or loud, overbearing people, Bakugou would be like, “Tch I’m right, they’re wrong. Shut the fuck up!!!” But if his ultimate wifu/husbando has those dislikes he would be like, “Omg...😳😳 opposites attract...👉👈” 

He honestly tries to be a low-key fan (as in, not be a fan at all to outsiders), but if one day during class Kaminari ends up saying that in [Series], you’re the weakest character in your group/squad, Bakugou would get super angry. 

“Hey, Dunceface!! It’s so fucking obvious that you’re an anime-only fake fan, so don’t talk as if you know shit!” 

Bakugou is those “um actually” ;; fans 

Bakugou is a manga reader, so by the time your introduction scene or Ultimate Attack scene is being aired he becomes super OOC. He’s hyped for it for days, incredibly nervous at how the animators handle the scene. 

By the time he watches it?? 

THE ANIMATION!! THE VOICE ACTING!! YOUR COOLNESS!!! PLS ORA ORA HIM IN THE CHEST!! HE’S BEGGING YOU! IF YOU’RE GOING TO UNISON RAID WITH ANYONE PLS LET IT BE HIM!! 

He’s legitimately sweating buckets by the time the episode is over. A whole-ass fire hazard. 

Probably knows how to play your character theme on the drums. 

Omg but if your character dies/is hinted toward dying/or the most recent chapters ends with a cliffhanger where you’re fatally injured he will become legitimately depressed. 

Like holes himself in his dorm room for a whole day without contacting anyone and with the blinds drawn type of depressed. 

When he comes to class the next day with eye-bags and is slouching and his classmates think that something horrible has happened, it’s probably only Izuku who knows what’s going on. 

He’ll say, “You’re upset about the most recent chapter of [Series], right? I know it must be hard for you right now.” He’ll give Bakugou an officially licensed rubber strap of your character and Bakugou will just ;; cradle it in his hands softly. 

In complete seriousness, your character is probably someone who is strong physically, but publicly rallies for things like, “Failure is fine.” Your character arc would probably explore what it’s like being not good enough or feeling constantly disappointed, so he feels comfort in your character. 

Todoroki Shoto: 

In comparison to Bakugou, he’s probably a more low-key fan unintentionally, but goes just as hard. 

Buys all of the merch, limited-edition or not, has your picture set as his phone lockscreen and homescreen, has a little acrylic charm of you on his phone, follows several fanartists that draw your character on social media. He buys enough merch that his room looks like a glorified shrine. 

It’s canon that he reads manga, but I headcanon that he’s even less picky with his genres and willingly reads things like slice-of-life or shojo all the way to shonen or adult fantasy, so your anime could come from any possible story. 

Your character is probably someone who is sweet and kind but has a traumatic character backstory. 

He probably ends up thinking stuff like, “If [Name] was with me, I would never let them get treated like that.” asdhj he’s a dork too. 

Unironically dramatically quotes you during battle and thinks that it’s still badass because he’s a teenage boy in his anime phase. 

Doesn’t get into debates with people who don’t like your character. He’s like, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion :)) even though they’re wrong. >:(.” 

If you’re from a sports/competition anime he’ll try to learn all of the rules, and even try it out for himself (if it’s not fighting) but he finds out that he’s... not very good at it. That doesn’t make him any less amazed though! 

If your character is from a different culture with different customs and traditions, he’ll even learn more about them outside of your anime! 

Forces his siblings to watch the anime with him. They don’t necessarily have to, but the Todoroki household has one big TV and he hogs it all the time watching your anime over and over. 

Natsuo is begging him to watch something else and Shoto will just pout angrily from the other side of the couch.( ￣＾￣)

It’s so jarring because he doesn't look or appear like a hardcore anime fan, but sometimes he’ll just butt into conversations randomly and talk about you. 

Like you know those tumblr Naruto posts that talk about it as if it’s some sort of Renaissance literature. That’s Todoroki. 

[”Man, they’re so hot--!” 

“You want to see someone hot?” Todoroki asks with a perfectly straight face, and he’ll just... turn his phone around and show them a picture of an anime character.] 

When his dad tries to set him up with someone else: “You think they’re my type? Do they watch [Series]? Do they know what true friendship is?? Do they understand pining and love the way [Name] does?” 

Endeavor: who the FUCK is [Name]. 

Gets into fanfiction because of your character and series. He’ll just be reading on his phone during break times at school and everyone thinks that he’s being so well-read but he’s just reading pure smut with a straight face. 

Doesn’t mind when you’re shipped with other characters necessarily but he is super picky. If your character is hinted toward a potential romance with another character that’s pretty crass and doesn’t necessarily treat you well but you’re sticking together through the power of friendship, he won’t ship it. 

He’s just like “[Name] would be so much happier with someone else like me.” ://// 

And if your character goes through something traumatic or terrible during the series he’ll be so sad, like soooo sad. :((( Deku would probably be comforting him on the couch in the common room and everyone is concerned because he looks like he’s mourning a lost pet, but it turns out to be over some anime character pshhhsdfh. 

Deku would just be patting his shoulder trying to console him and Todoroki’s just sitting there with a big frown on his face going, [“But they’ve been through so much throughout the anime already...” 

“I know, Todoroki-kun, I know...” 

“The author can’t do that to them... It’s just not fair.”

“I get it,” Midoriya says mournfully.]  

Plot twist: They like the same anime character 

They’ll probably find out when they have to retake the license exam together. 

Todoroki will just take his phone out during off times and Bakugou’s eyes looks over because it’s drawn by the noise but then his head just snaps to the side when he realizes its a little charm of you, like, he’s going to get whiplash from that. 

“What the -- is that [Surname] [Name]?!” 

Like they have never really hung out together before this, so when they both first realize that their favorite character of all time is [Name] they’re left ,, just standing there ,,, pointing at each other like the spiderman meme.

At first they’re both inwardly excited because FINALLY someone cultured and with taste. They spend the entire time talking about your stats, your attacks, your post-timeskip character design, and your personality, and then they delve a little bit deeper and then they realize ,,, oh. 

Bakugou says that you don’t belong with the dumb protagonist, you should be shipped with someone strong, confident and loud, but Todoroki is like noooooo they deserve to be with someone that treats them gently. 

They connect the dots. 

[“Bakugou, you aren’t compatible with [Name]. It says so in their trivia page.” 

“Says you! They won’t want some bland-ass pretty boy! They would want a real man!”] 

They’re such fanboys ;;; they do realize that you aren’t real, right asdfghj?

One day Kaminari and Sero separately invite them to an anime convention, but they both say no and that they have plans or “something better to do” that day. 

Then Bakugou and Todoroki both turn up to the convention at the same place because they both reach for the last limited edition [Name] figure and they just stare at each other wide-eyed (ʘoʘ╬) like that. 

They start verbally fighting each other over the last figure and then physically fighting each other andddd then they get kicked out of the convention. 

Izuku ends up swooping in and getting the last box. 

[familyofpaladins]

*puts idea of lmk x bnha crossover into your brain :)*

(Just imagine the kids interacting aaaaa <3<3<3)

@berryblu-arts thank you for this ask, it brightened my mood and also apparently I have more thoughts on this than I realized lol

Sutsjgdkgxfjsutd HONESTLY I WAS SORTA THINKING ABOUT THIS THE OTHER DAY

When I drive to work I listen to music and theres certain songs that I have amv ideas for (which will never happen because I dont have the skills/tools to make them😔) for mha, and not that I've got lmk brainrot , I'm going "oh this song works for lmk too" 👀

Specifically like, Izuku and MK are very similar. Regular Kid given extraordinary power by a person who they've looked up to and admired for years. Then being trained by said person, who as best as they try, not necessarily the best teacher (not that they dont care or arent trying. Just . Miss some points on teaching their protege). The Dad and Son type relationship between them.

So like, if Izuku and MK met, they'd start talking about their experience and be like !!!!! SAME!!! *spiderman meme*

Also, Izuku has his notebooks and MK has his biography of Monkey King, and they'd share those and point out how well drawn things are and how detailed everything is. Itd be very cute .

I think MK and Denki would also get a long well. Like they'd both have that excitable-enegry-with-no-focus thing, and I think they'd like playing video games together.

Tang and Izuku would start to share interests and knowledge and it's just an hour of intense mumbling as they share all the information in their brains.

Izuku, MK, and Tang are the ultimate fanboy group.

Ppffffff Red Son and bakugo would get on like a house fire hdjshdskals. They'd immediately fight each other after they both call each other "peasant/extra!". Everyone else is gettign along fine, but these two are just starting fires and exploding stuff in the background ("How DARE you call Me an Extra! Do you know who I am?!" "Why would I know some random extra loser!!! And I'm no PEASANT! IM THE MURDER EXPLOSION GOD-" )

Now Red Son and Aoyama, now THEY would get along I think. Idk why, they just do.

Mei would be best friends with Mina, they have the same energy and they would be absolutely unstoppable. Imagine them going to the mall and/or arcade. Someone separate them now before they take over the world.

Actually I think Mei would get along great with all the girls. Mei and Tsu like each others blunt honesty. Uraraka and Mei would also be very good friends, cheerful and bubbly, but with that hidden murderous determination. They get into a friendly sparing match. Kirishima would also join in.

If mineta tried anything with mei she would absolutely yeet him across the room with no remorse. But possibly before anything would happen, she'd give him the Dragon Death Glare and he'd be terrified to approach

Momo would have a lovely tea session with Sandy, and they talk for like. 3 hours straight just about tea. Sandy also provides some good advice for her about anxiety and stress and self worth.

Todoroki spends most of the day in Sandy's house petting all of the cats. But I think he would also listen to any stories that Tang tells. (Todoroki after listening to Tang tell stories about Monkey King and MK: .... is MK monkey king's secret love child?") He and Red Son might also have a heart to heart about meeting angry fathers' expectations, and how they're trying to be better. Also Fire Powers (TM)

Sandy also tries some anger management with Bakugo. It is about 30% successful.

Pigsy and Bakugo actually get a long great (theres a lot of yelling, but that's just how they communicate to each other), because they have about the same temperament and bond over cooking (and kicking the others out of the kitchen when they start to be disasters). Satou also gets to stay in the kitchen and helps make noodles and actually teachers a dessert recipe to Pigsy.

All the kids just talk a lot about what powers each of them have. And quirks vs being a demon/descended from dragons/random kid given a punch of powers from ancient being. "So you have dragon powers but can you turn INTO a dragon?" "If you can make extra hands can you also make extra feet??" "What's the heaviest thing you can lift?" Are you actually turning into flames or just transporting with flames???" "Who Has The Hottest Flaaaames!!!" "Holy crap MK has a lot of powers" "kinda like Midoriya" "wait I thought you guys said everyone only has one quirk" "... uuuuuhh its complicated???"

Aizawa walks in and is just like... goddammit not more over powered teenagers. But then also adopts them. Aizawa's quirk doesn't work on MK and co (because their powers arent quirks), but his Glare does get them to stop whatever they doing, so its basically the same.

(Funny bonus: when I first watched the show, when macaque's big shadow form thing was first shown, my first thought was "Giant Evil Monster Aizawa")

[siriusanotherside]

I was thinking about how the class 77 will react to Yuki!Sora. I believe that some of them will think that he's Akane (Beacuse, he's in her body), but Hajime/Izuru (With the talents he has as the "Ultimate Hope (Or, as i call it, "Ultimate Ultimate")) discovers that, even if the body is Akane's, the mind is not.

OHhhh class 77 reaction!

Things to consider: How they would find Yuki; If they thought Akane and Utsuro were already dead/ If they even knew that they existed/

I usually lean towards they thinking both Akane and Utsuro were already dead, or perhaps not precisely them as individuals, but like, the external ultimade despair pair (their title) were dead, and thus not searching.

I like to imagine that they would become aware of Akane being alive("alive") when they caught wind of news of the Kisaragi Foundation, as well as the bizarre events surrounding them (ie: bridge collapsing)

Komaeda voice: Oh yeah that sounds like some luck power guys

(we interrupt this post for my little existencial realization that there are 2 Akanes djsiojia)

Fuyuhiko: Oh shit, another one?

Hajime, who had Izuru information and i suppose would be aware of the external despair pair: Uh oh, i recognize this luck method...

Kazuichi: Gee... wait if we threw Komaeda at them would that luck vs luck power neutralize itself?

Class, minus Hajime and Imposter that are organizing a plan as to how to scout for info and prioritize the situation:

Class:*X files theme starts playing*

Class: *scrum debate starts*

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As for going to find Yuki, i think that would be... hard perhaps. If Yuki didnt want to be found then i can see a scooby-doo-like chase where Yuki not knowing keeps avoiding them by sheer luck.

As for finding Yuki though, i think that since this process (heh) would have a lot of info gathering, they would end up slowly realizing that Yuki did more “good actions” then bad. Like, in a similar way the Voids tracked Utsuro, i imagine that they would start to realize a pattern of Yuki being around places where miracles/lifes getting saved happen.

So, while some people might still be “hmmmm dont trust” about him, i think most of them would be open to him. Like, in a neutral way. Ie: We wont have many preconceived notions, since you might be actually helping people, but if turns out this was only for a cover, your ass is gonna get kicked.

As for meeting Yuki... Oh ... so many possibilities in what could happen and what kind of interactions would happen.

I feel like there would also be an misunderstanding in the beginning, where they think its actually Akane, trying to redeem herself as a former despair. Oh, I also wonder what he would think on the 77th Class, since last he heard, they were actually still ultimade despairs.

Yuki, fists clenching: Time to check if those Divine Luck powers are actually that OP.

There would be a lot of wariness at first i think. In fact, maybe the true reason the class is able to find Yuki, is that Yuki himself allowed since he saw as an opportunity to arrest the other despairs and stop atrocities in some way.

Then after an epic drama of misunderstandings, he realizes they are actually not despairs, and only using it as cover to stop other despairs.

Yuki: I will defeat you despairs!!

Class: Wait What.

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I feel like Yuki!Sora and Hajizuru would be like *spiderman pointing meme* over “normal person that wished so hard to be special BUT OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK NOT LIKE THAT UNIVERSE”. And. “Wait YOU too had an AI friend/shaped you as a person, that went against their code and DIED in order for you to live??”. And “So now you want to go through atonament and use your powers to save lifes”. And “so you also had another consciousness of someone else in your head huh��. 

Yuki: Yours was also in the body of an terrorist??

Hajime:....I uh... was the terrorist.

Yuki & Hajime: 🤝

Dang, i really want to write an interaction between Komaeda and Yuki but i am unsure on how it would be.

I can see them talking and relating to each other’s luck. Perhaps while Komaeda would realize Divine Luck was mostly good and an amazing hope, it also had drawbacks in both isolation aspect and that if it was gifted to someone it would eventually deteriorate. 

An hope speech would likely get inserted there somewhere but i can see it either as uplifting or

Yuki: *blinking meme* Did you just implied people dying for me was a good thing? CatCH THOSE HANDS-

Imposter and Yuki talking and Yuki talking about his difficulties with the new body, and like, Imposter helping him as someone that, like relates to identity crises, and they chatting about gender and idsajoadjodasj yeah. Let them bond!!

I feel like there are so many possibilities its pretty fun to think through.

[bella-spil]

Halloween

Summary: you and the avengers spend Halloween together.

Characters: Y/N (your name), Bucky, Loki, Thor, Tony, Steve, Sam, Natasha, Clint, Vision, Wanda, Peter, Shuri.

Warnings: cursing, tbh thats it.  VINE REFERENCES

Word Count: 2.4

A/N: hi.. I’m sry I haven’t written in a while.  School has been killing my creativity.  This is gonna be more of a miniseries, more like 2-3 parts.  It’s prob not gonna get much attention, but if you like it, just comment or re blog bc it helps my confidence with posting stuff on here.  This is also inspired by a meme I saw (Ill post it at the bottom of the story) and a video with Anthony Mackie and Chris Evans (link) Masterlist is here

Tag List: @sea040561 @wednesday-add-em @kmuir1 (lmk if you wanna join)

Halloween was a week away.  Tony being Tony, already paid for the decorations for the tower, so basically all of the floors look like a haunted house.  Rolls of toilet paper stretched across arches in the hallways, tiny spiders were all over furniture, bones and eyes and zombies and witches and everything in between that you could possibly think of was in the tower.  The tower looked like a zombie on steroids; creepy yet entertaining at the same time.  

Everyone was fine with the decorations, but the costumes were a big issue.  Steve and Tony kept arguing over the ideas, both of them wanting to do group costumes.  Everyone else had their ideas too, but Tony and Steve were at each other's throats for the past couple weeks, since like August.  Your room in the tower was right by the meeting office, so hearing the two of them screaming at each other for the most stupid shit was driving you insane.  Once it got to the point where you had to yell at them to shut up.  

This morning, a week before Halloween, while everyone was there, you cleared your throat while you heard Steve and Tony bickering.

“Guys this is getting to be too much.  We need to have a meeting to discuss these fucken costumes.” you said.

“Yeah this is getting out of control,” Nat agreed.

“Guys, cmon, you have to agree with me.  All of us having Iron Man suits would be awesome.  We could fly around the city all night and have so much fun!” Tony said.

“Tony, stop.  All of us being soldiers is better.”  Steve countered.

“STOP!” Clint groaned.  “You guys are insane.  We need to discuss this as a group.”

Tony and Steve sat across from each other, glaring at each other.  Death was looming between them.  

“Fine,” Tony sighed.  “When and where?”

“The office, 2pm,” Nat said.  “And everyone has to show up, that means you too Bucky.”

Bucky groaned from the other side of the room.  He hated group discussions, he liked working alone better.  Said that it was faster to be alone and you didn’t have to worry as much.

~~~

2pm finally rolled by.  Everyone has showed up in the big office, one that seemed a little too big.  Everyone was tired of the bickering and had showed up, thankfully.  

Tony, Steve, Natasha, Clint, Thor, Bucky, Sam, Peter P, Shuri, Wanda, Vision, Loki and you were crowded around the table.  Tony was standing at the end with a whiteboard, prepared to write down ideas.

“So guys, what do you want to do?” Tony said.

“What about we dress up as famous Star Wars characters?” Sam suggested.

“Nah, Steve isn’t going to know who Yoda is.  That’s a must if we do Star Wars.” Tony said.

“Devils and Angels?” Wanda said.

“Not original,” Steve said.

“What about we just wear each other’s costumes?” Thor suggested.

“You really think you are gonna wear my wings?” Sam said, a hint of annoyance in his voice that made you and Bucky snicker.

“I don’t think any of you guys want to wear a leather catsuit,” Nat said.

“We could dress up as famous vines,” Shuri offered, smirking at you and Peter.  

The three of you quoted vines daily and the rest of the team never knew what you guys meant, which made it even more fun.  Eventually, Sam, Bucky and Clint started learning vines with you because they kept saying things which you guys followed up with vine references.  The frustration got to the three men and they started to learn with you, but they weren’t nearly as attentive as you, Shuri and Peter.

“What’s a vine?” Steve asked.

“Vine was a website created in 2012, officially released in 2013.  It was ultimately shut down in 2016.  Vine was a website where users would create short videos an-” Vision said.

“Vis, I don’t think they want a whole essay,” Wanda said, seeing the reactions of the other Avengers.  Sam had started to fake snore, Loki was muttering something to Peter about knifes, and Shuri was about to watch vines, from what you could tell.  

“It’s this app filled with people saying and doing stupid things for attention,” Nat sighed.

“IT IS NOT STUPID!  VINE WAS LEGENDARY!!”  Shuri shouted.

“YOU WOULD DO THINGS FOR THE VINE, YOU UNCULTURED SWINE!!” you shrieked.

“EDUCATE YO SELF!” Clint shouted, right in Natasha’s ear.  Doing that earned him a hard punch in the back of the head.

“Well I don’t have all day so we need something,” Tony groaned, hitting his expo marker against the whiteboard.

You and everyone else was trying to come up with ideas when all the sudden, quiet Peter Parker, who was pretty much the baby of the tower, spoke up.

“Mr. Frost Giant, God sir?” Peter asked.

“Loki,” Loki sighed, pleasantly shocked.

“So, you have ice powers right?” Peter continued.

“Yes, I am an ice giant,” Loki said.

“You should be Elsa for Halloween,” Peter gasped.

Then, out of nowhere, Clint jumped up, looking like he had 5 monster energy drinks and 10 packs of warheads.

“I’LL BE MERIDA!!!” he screamed.

“I must assume that I am going to portray Elsa then,” Thor said, with a smile on his face.

“So...we are doing Disney princesses?” Tony asked, slightly confused.

“Looks like it,” Bucky said.

“Who the fuck am I gonna be?” Shuri asked.

“Language.” Steve said.

You and Shuri looked at each other for a moment and with a slight nod of your head, you were both in a song.

“FUCK SHIT PUSSY ASS!!!” you and Shuri sang.

“MOTHERFUC-” Peter started to continue, but Tony just slapped his hand over Peter’s mouth.  Tony swore that Peter wasn’t like a son to him, but this didn’t help his situation.

Steve was turning ad red as a tomato in his seat, not being able to process all the dirty words that escaped yours and Shuri’s mouths.

“Ok, who are all the Disney Princesses?” Tony asked, frustration in his voice as he looked down at Peter.  Tony gave him a look, one that said “Stop this shit or you get your suit taken away for two weeks” and once Peter nodded his head slightly, Tony removed his hand.

Vision started to list a bunch of them off, even some of the ones that aren’t considered princesses, like Megara, Alice and Jane.  Once Tony had a list of all the princesses, he started to write of all the avengers, making lines to match them up with their character.  

“Ok, who wants to find their Disney princess counterpart first?” Tony asked.

“Me, I already asked before,” Shuri said rolling her eyes.

“Well I mean you already are a princess.” you said.

“Oh,” Shuri said. “I don’t have to dress up then.  Haha.  You can cross my name off, Tony.”

Tony sighed and rolled his eyes, while taking her name off.

“Next?” he sighed.

“What about me?” Steve asked.

“Oh this is gonna be interesting.” Sam grinned.

“Snow White.” Bucky said, without even hesitating.

“Wait why?” you asked.

“Ohhhhh, I think I see why,” Wanda smirked.

“Continue Barnes,” Natasha said.

“First of all, Snow White was the very first princess to come out.  She came out in the thirties or forties.  She’s the oldest.  Steve was the first avenger and he is the oldest.”  Bucky said.

“Bucky, you are a couple months older than me.” Steve countered.

“Second,” Bucky continued, ignoring his friend completely.  “She is like the most gullible and is surrounded by followers.  Snow White was like living with seven dwarfs.  And she was underage and just lived with them. Steve here, was the leader of the Howling Commandos.  And I was in that group, so I had to endure him and his stupid ass decisions, but I couldn’t elect to ignore it.”

“That’s offensive,” Steve said.

“That's the point,” Bucky said.  

“Ok so Steve is Snow White.”  Tony declared, making a line between Snow White and Steve on the whiteboard.  “NEXTT!”

“Me,” said the super secret Russian spy.

“Hmm..” you thought.

“Megara,” said Clint.

“Oh that's a good one,” Sam agreed.

“Who is Megara?” Steve asked.

“She is an attractive Greek lady that Hercules, the son of Zeus, who is the King of the Greek Gods, falls in love with.” Thor explained.

“Thor, how do you of all people know that?” Shuri asked.  “Shouldn’t Vision know all of these things?”

“M’lady, I am formally educated in Disney movies by the request of Peter Parker, also known as ‘The One and Only Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman’.” Thor explained.

“Kid, you make Thor, the God of Thunder, sit through Sleeping Beauty?” Tony asked, shocked.

“My dear man of Iron, Sleeping beauty was quite relaxing.  That Prince Philip, that amazing man, demonstrated quite intellectually advanced ways to use a sword.  Ways that I can use Storm-breaker effectively in battle.” Thor smiled.

Tony and Sam shared a look of disgust with a combination of interest and concern.

“Thor, I don’t think you can learn fighting tactics from a cart-” Vision started.

“I need to watch the movies again,” Clint and Bucky muttered under their breaths.

“No she should be Mulan,” Wanda said.  “Mulan is determined and strong.  Megara just messed with the God of Death.”

“I mess with death all the time,” Natasha countered.

“I should be Megara.” Bucky stated.

“Because you almost died?” Steve asked.

“Because your soul is dark and empty?” Sam asked.

“Yes and no.  My hair is long, not as long as her’s but I can make it work.  Hair extensions.  She plays with Hercules’ emotions.  She is also strong and independent.  Like me.” Bucky explained.

“That settles it.  Bucky is Megara and Natasha is Mulan.”  Tony said, making lines between the two avengers and their princesses.  

“nEXXttT!” Tony shouted.

“Me me me!” Wanda said happily.

“Yes Mr. Stark I would like to go as well.” Vision added.

“Wanda would make the perfect Moana.” Thor said.  “Moana and Wanda both demonstrate very strong emotions, which affect their abilities regarding their powers and limits and they care deeply about the people that mean the most to them.”

He nudged Loki in the shoulder to try to get him more involved in the meeting.  Loki was just throwing his knives up in the air, and Peter was getting very interested, and getting dangerously close to the God of Mischief.  Tony was eyeing the two of them very, very carefully.

“Yeah, yeah sure,” Loki sighed, just going along with Thor or the sake of it.

“Who would Vision be then?” Sam asked.

“He could be the dead grandma,” Clint suggested.

“Yeah, that one that turned into the manta ray.” Nat agreed.

“It’s settled.  Moana and Dead Grandma Ray.” Tony said, making the lines once again.  He had to add “dead grandma” to the board for Vision’s sake.

“NeXXXXXtttT!!” he shrieked.

“Tony, you should be Belle,” Natasha said.

“Yeah.  I mean, they both fall in love and save the people that mean the most to them, even if it means putting their own life at risk.” Steve agreed.

“And they are both really smart.” Peter added.

“Peter, you just had to say that and I would have been on board.  Now I had to listen to Steve and Natasha for a minute.” Tony groaned as he drew a line between his name and Belle’s.

“Thanks Tony,” Steve said sarcastically.

“Your welcome, Capsicle.” Tony gleamed back.

“Sam should be Cinderella.” Bucky said.

“OMG that works!!” Shuri exclaimed.

“Yeah..” Sam realized.  “I’m Cinderella ‘cause she broke, homie.”

“Yeah,” Steve said, smiling from ear to ear, looking back at Sam.

“She represent me, yooo,” Sam said.  Then he looked over at Steve and said, “Lemme borrow twenty dollas.”

By this point, Steve couldn’t hold in the laughter and almost fell out of his chair.  And Sam, being as he called it “Steve’s best friend, better than Bucky,” saved Steve from collapsing on to the floor.

“Steve is the cinder princess.  Deal with it.” Tony declared, adding another line.

“NeeXXttTTT!” Tony screamed.

“Now, all that’s left is Peter and Y/N,” Wanda said, eyeing you two.

“Peter should be Rapunzel.  Before they face the real world, they are both innocent, but then when they see what the world is really like, it changes them.” Thor said, analyzing the similarities between the princess and the superhero.

“Jesus Christ, why is Point break actually really on point?” Tony asked.

“My dear Stalk of corn, I am educated like I told you earlier.  Insect man has really helped me tap into my inner child and all of the pain my demon brother made me endure.” Thor said.

“Spiderman,” Peter mumbled.

“I take that as a complement.” Loki stated, out of the blue.

“Rapunzel is Parker.” Tony declared.

“Last but not least, Y/N.” Steve said.

Now, it took everyone a while to come up with a princess for you.  You didn’t fit the exact mold or looks of a certain princess, so it was definitely harder.

“What about Alice?” Sam said/

“Why the fuck would she be Alice?” Bucky asked.

“Because Alice in Wonderland is supposed to portray the effects of drugs.” Sam explained.

“So your saying that I act like a drug addict?” you asked.

“NO!” Sam shouted.

“Sam, drop it before you dig your own grave.” Steve said.

“What about Jasmine?” offered Wanda.  “You have a very free spirit like her, and she’s your favorite princess.”

“Yeah sure, that sounds fine.” you agreed.

“Y/N is Jasmine!  dOOONNEe!” Tony shouted with relief.

“WAIT I CHANGED MY MIND!” Shuri shrieked.  “I WANNA BE A PRINCESS.  I WANNA BE TIANA SHE IS AN ABSOLUTE BADASS!”

“FINE!” Tony shouted back.  “NOW WE ARE DONE.  EVERYONE HAPPY?”

Everyone in the room, not wanting to disagree with a hot-headed Tony, looked around at each other and slowly nodded their heads.

“Great!” Tony smiled, a complete change in moods.  “Tomorrow we are going to Party City to get our costumes.  Everyone in this room has to come so we can get the wigs and dresses and makeup.  No skipping out.  That includes you Clint, Bucky and Loki.”

The three men who were called out rolled their heads and sighed.  But they agreed to go.  To Tony’s happiness.

“Great.  Meeting finished.  Pepper wants me for something.  Probably for the party.  Nobody try to call me or you will be met with an ear rape of AC/DC.” Tony said, putting on his glasses and promptly leaving the room in Stark fashion.  Everyone eventually left the room, you being lost in your thoughts.  

“You coming, doll?” Bucky asked, seeing you were still sitting in the room.

“Ya, I’ll be out in a second.” you said.  

“Alright, you, me and Clint are doing a Disney marathon for fighting tactics.  Don’t be late or you because we are gonna eat all the food.  I don’t wanna hear you complain.” Bucky said, walking out the door with a lazy drag of his legs.

Now, relief filled your body.  Now you wouldn’t have to hear arguing about costumes!  And they actually agreed to costumes, shockingly.  Now you just couldn’t wait to go to Party City and endure all the chaos.  And then, you left the room to watch Disney movies again, for fighting tactics.  

Oh, the chaos that awaits.  

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yuuuuukiiiii anon :D what would you say!! is the cutest point!! of yuki?!? one of my favs is his voice hehe ono kensho voices a lot of cuties, but his old voice, hosoya, was super good too, i miss him LOL

My original answer was going to be how he cares a lot about MC despite being shy about it or lacking the experience to show it, but I’m gonna change my answer to how he presents himself as a super confident man!! but is actually a complete sucker for how cute MC is!! owowowowowowo I think the fact that he doesn’t really notice her appearance until after he develops feelings (omg yes!! a personality > looks man what a blessing) is super cute as well! And It’s always such a treat to my weak ass heart when he tells her forthright how cute she is. Did you also know that he doesn’t pay much attention to what he looks like but starts getting hella embarrassed when MC insists that he’s handsome? 

DOESN’T THAT GIVE YOU MEGA UWU ENERGY

I love both Kensho and Hosoya’s interpretation of Yukimura ;w; I think Kensho Yuki is more boyish and teaseable, makes me want to bully him-- but Hosoya Yuki is more manly and more ‘ikemen’ in my opinion. But Hosoya’s Yuki actually makes him have more of that a-bit-dumb charm more than Kensho Yuki? Not gonna lie I’d attack them both :weary:

Cybird pls my ultimate dream is to have Kensho and Hosoya Yukis meet each other and it’ll be like that spiderman doppleganger meme.

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abdsjkfhjdks dr bnha au time (by that I mean dr characters in bnha universe, I should specify)

(just thought of this and there’s not really anywhere to put it otherwise, so: in this au, there is no ultimate despair or anything like that, so Tsumugi, Junko, and Mukuro are all like. Normal.)

okay so, I brought up this idea earlier when I finished sdr2, but I think it makes more sense for not all of the characters to be in the hero course because A) it fits the character and B) there’s technically only two hero classes (that being said, if I really wanted to I COULD have made it three classes, but I think it’s more fitting that there aren’t) 

so characters that wouldn’t be in class a or b first, because in my head starting with that makes more sense

Hajime is a General Education student, and his character is a lot like Shinsou’s 

Kokichi and Nagito are vigilantes (not that they work together, I just listed them both because it fits them both)

Miu and Kazuichi definitely fit more in the Support Course because of their talents

Tsubumi is interested in costume design

aaand Hifumi and Teruteru don’t exist, because that would give us 40 left and that’s nice and even.

NOW THEN! SO CLASS A!

I tried to split up the classes by “which characters do I like more” but I like so many of them that even some of the ones I love are in Class B tbh, so if a character is in Class B instead of Class A, don’t get too ultra offended. This is a “we respect Class B” zone.

Makoto

Kyoko

Celeste 

Taka 

Mondo 

Chihiro 

Hina

Fuyuhiko

Peko

Mahiru 

Chiaki

Gundham 

Ibuki

Sonia 

Shuichi

Rantaro 

Maki

Himiko

Tenko 

Keebo 

And that leaves for Class B,

Byakuya

Toko

Hiro

Sayaka

Leon

Sakura

Junko

Mukuro

Ultimate Imposter (Byakuya and Imposter point at each other like the spiderman meme)

Hiyoko

Mikan

Nekomaru

Akane

Kaede

Ryoma

Kirumi

Kiyo

Angie

Gonta

Kaito

Later I’ll post a list for all their quirks, but for right now, this post is long enough

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Mayor Pete vs. Beto: The battle is back on

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Mayor Pete vs. Beto: The battle is back on

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. | Sean Rayford/Getty Images

2020 elections

A spat over gun control has revived the rivalry between the next-gen hopefuls.

LOS ANGELES — Pete Buttigieg appeared to smother Beto O’Rourke in the early stages of the presidential primary, captivating viral media attention and surging in primary polls just as O’Rourke stalled.

Now comes Round Two, as the two youthful Democrats, in need to regain a step in the primary, began tangling over guns.

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The spat — which gained air on cable TV over the weekend and spilled into this week — pits two fresh-faced, telegenic candidates facing a transitional moment in their campaign. Buttigieg, who’s plateaued in national polling, is looking to assemble a campaign in keeping with the staggering $25 million he raised last quarter. O’Rourke, who’s languished in low single-digit support, is trying to recapture his early mojo with a passionate crusade to curb gun violence.

Following a debate last week at which O’Rourke called for mandatory government buy-backs of assault weapons, Buttigieg was asked on CNN if O’Rourke was “playing into the hands of Republicans.”

“Yes,” Buttigieg answered.

“When even this president and even [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell are at least pretending to be open to reforms, we know that we have a moment on our hands. Let’s make the most of it and get these things done.”

“Well, shit,” O’Rourke responded, hours later, tearing into candidates he said are “triangulating, poll-testing, focus-group driving their response,” adding that “Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell pretending to be interested in something that is literally a life-or-death issue … is simply not enough.”

Then, after Trump said this week that he would not consider a universal background checks bill passed by the House, the Texas congressman rubbed it in.

“Exactly,” O’Rourke said, when asked during a campaign stop on Tuesday about Trump’s spurning of Democrats on gun control. “And Pete even admitted that Trump was only pretending, so why would you change your position, or moderate your position to meet someone who’s only pretending half way.”

Asked in South Carolina about O’Rourke’s recent criticisms, Buttigieg said Tuesday he’s “focused on what we can do right now, because I don’t think we can wait.” He also said he “could care less” how Republicans might react to gun control reforms and that he’s “talking not just about politics, but about governing” and “what we can do right now.”

Buttigieg has “consistently” supported background checks on gun sales, an assault weapons ban and red flag laws, said campaign spokesman Chris Meagher.

O’Rourke isn’t the only Democrat supportive of mandatory buy-backs. Kamala Harris said on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show on Monday that a buyback program is a “good idea,” and Cory Booker supports such a proposal.

But O’Rourke is pressing the case for buy-backs most forcefully, and the opportunity to draw a contrast with Buttigieg is especially significant to his campaign. O’Rourke and Buttigieg are battling to be the choice of voters seeking a generational change. They are also young, white men who lean less heavily on their resumes than on their biographies and next-generation appeal.

It’s not clear what effect this sparring might have on their polling. A CNN national poll last week found O’Rourke at 5 percent, while a Morning Consult survey on Monday had him at 4 percent, just 1 percentage point behind Buttigieg. But in an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Tuesday, O’Rourke failed to register above 1 percent, while Buttigieg rose to 7 percent.

But the back-and-forth may ultimately help both candidates as they struggle for oxygen in a primary dominated by the three top-polling candidates.

“Pete’s trying to, and has been all along, positioning himself as a pragmatic progressive. …Beto has become a missionary for a cause, to stop gun violence, which is really admirable [but] the politics of that, and Beto knows this, are more complicated than that,” said David Axelrod, who served as chief strategist for President Barack Obama. “In this fight, it probably serves both their purposes.”

It’s also a reminder that “Beto was going to be the ‘next generation’ candidate, and Pete usurped that space, so it’s not surprising to see this back-and-forth,” Axelrod added.

Watching O’Rourke and Buttigieg’s sparring, one Democratic strategist involved with another presidential campaign scoffed, “Isn’t this like the Spiderman meme, where the two spider men are pointing at each other?”

“They’re just two very similar characters trying to carry a very similar space in this battle,” he added.

O’Rourke’s supporters privately acknowledged their glee in the reemergence of headlines featuring their candidate’s name alongside Buttigieg’s. Many O’Rourke loyalists still grouse about the day this spring when Buttigieg, gently chiding O’Rourke for his habit at the time of standing on chairs and tables, told a crowd in New Hampshire, “I heard the way you ingratiate yourself to voters is to stand on things, so I found this park bench here.”

And they know that slicing into Buttigieg could help O’Rourke’s cause now.

“The reality is that Buttigieg has been thought of in a higher tier or strata than O’Rourke … and there’s usually very little value in punching down,” said Chris Lippincott, a Texas-based consultant who ran a super PAC opposing Sen. Ted Cruz in O’Rourke’s near-miss Senate campaign last year. “[But] O’Rourke has elevated his idea and his campaign with this policy proposal, and that will force other candidates to respond.”

Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), who’s endorsed Buttigieg, said the Indiana mayor is “doing his best to deescalate the confrontation” because “he wants to stay focused on the bigger picture.”

“Ninety-eight percent [of the time] Pete and Beto agree,” Beyer said. “It’s a difference between what’s possible in the near term, the next two years, and what’s possible over 10 years or more.”

It’s also a stylistic contrast “between a mayor, whose main emphasis is on figuring out really specific, concrete things to advance the ball and a legislator, who is speaking in, perhaps, more aspirational terms,” said Austin Mayor Steve Adler, who endorsed Buttigieg over his fellow Texan.

Gun control activists are split on whether mandatory buy-back programs would prove as effective as other reforms like background checks and red flag laws. But a spokesman for Everytown for Gun Safety told Fox News that though “presidential candidates are talking about a number of policies to address gun violence in America,” background checks and a federal red flag laws “need to be the Senate’s first priorities.”

O’Rourke drew newfound attention after the mass shooting at a Walmart in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, including for his mandatory buy-back proposal.

Democratic strategist Mathew Littman, a former Biden speechwriter who works on gun reform issues, said Democrats should “start on the areas that we agree upon” on gun control, including universal background checks and “red-flag” laws.

But Littman, who now backs Kamala Harris in the primary, said O’Rourke is “getting a lot of attention now that he hadn’t been getting previously.”

“He’s staked out a position in the Democratic primary that is a little bit different than everybody else’s,” Littman said, “and he’s benefiting from it.”

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DGB Grab Bag: Players' Weekend for the NHL, Salty Blue Jackets, and Buckets

Three Stars of Comedy

The third star: The Columbus Blue Jackets – Somebody's feeling a little salty about going all the way from one game to two on NBC's new schedule. (More on the new schedule in a bit.) It's the eyeroll emoji that really sells it

The second star: I has a bucket – Not sure what was funnier, the original photo or the fact that literally everyone Twitter made the same joke about the bucket getting signed by the Oilers.

The first star: This SHL video about rule changes – I can't stop watching this. It's the fist pump that gets me every time. If Tom Wilson starts working in this move every time he blindsides somebody a half hour after they touched the puck I'll admit he's worth every penny.

Be It Resolved

We're closing in on one of the weirder moments on the MLB calendar, as the annual "Players' Weekend" is almost here. The event debuted last year, and its main highlight is that players get to wear their nicknames on their jerseys.

That's… different. You have to give MLB some credit here, as they're basically offering up an open invitation for players to cut loose and show a little personality. It's fun for the players, and everyone gets to sit back and try to figure out what some of the nicknames even mean.

If you've been reading this column all summer, and god bless you if you have, then you're probably figuring that this is the part where we play our weekly round of "the NHL should steal this cool idea from another sport." That's been kind of a theme all offseason, and this feels like a great time to break it out..

But here's the thing. Ultimately, we try to be realists around here. Sure, we'll propose things like radically changing the way powerplays work, or having a special draft where everyone picks Jaromir Jagr, or letting every champion legally kidnap somebody for their Cup parade. But those are things that could actually happen someday.

NHL players volunteering to put cool nicknames on their own jerseys? Never. Zero chance. There's no point even thinking about it. Every player would just use their regular name, while old-school types swooned about how winners don't have personalities. A few players would probably insist that they didn't have a name back there at all, because the team is the only thing that matters, dammit. It would be awful.

Besides, even if the NHL stole baseball's idea and forced the players to take part, the result would just be depressing. Can you imagine an entire weekend of guys skating around with names like "Smither" and "Jonesy" and "Other Jonesy" on their back? It would be embarrassing.

So here's my proposal: We steal MLB's good idea, but then we improve on it. Be it resolved that once a season, we have a player's weekend where every team gets to force one player from another team to wear a specific nickname on their back.

Which player? That would be up to them. They could take a vote on who the victim would be. And then they'd get to choose the nickname that the player had to wear. If I know hockey players, they'd probably spend more time figuring this out than they do on special teams.

Admittedly, we'd have to iron out a few kinks. For example, we'd need some sort of tie-breaking system for when 30 teams all submitted different insults for Matthew Tkachuk as their first choice. And there would probably be some team every year that would use their pick to say something nice about some veteran opponent because they wanted to be "classy" or whatever. We'd deal with that by immediately relegating that team to the ECHL.

Still, how much fun would it be to see who each team in the league decided to target with an embarrassing nickname? And how quickly would you line up to buy an officially licensed Bruins No. 63 jersey with "Rat Face" or whatever on the back?

Maybe we can't steal most of baseball's good ideas, like "not having a salary cap" or "interesting free agency" or "replay that mostly works" or "actually noticing when defensive strategies are out of control." But we can steal this one. After we're done improving it.

Obscure Former Player of the Week

This week's Obscure Player honors go to Swedish goaltender Tommy Soderstrom, for no other reason than reader Nate wrote in to suggest him. Thanks Nate.

If you're like me, the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions Soderstrom is the brutal game-winning goal from center ice that sent Belarus to a stunning upset over Sweden in the 2002 Olympics. That's unfair, for a couple of reasons. First, even the best goaltenders gives up the occasional bad goal, and it's wrong to remember any athlete for their lowest moment. But more importantly, that wasn't Soderstrom—that was Tommy Salo. What can I say, Sweden produced too many 1990s goalies named Tommy S.

In addition to not being Tommy Salo, Soderstrom was picked way down in the 11th round of the 1990 draft by the Flyers. He played for Team Sweden at the 1991 Canada Cup, then made his NHL debut in 1992, splitting the Flyers' starting duties with Dominic Roussel. He played reasonably well, but struggled badly as a sophomore, winning just six times in 34 appearances while posting a GAA of 4.01. It didn't help his numbers that his own teammates occasionally scored on him.

Somehow, that made him worthy of being dealt to the Islanders straight up for Ron Hextall in a trade that probably happened mainly because nobody has any recollection of Hextall being an Islander in the first place. Soderstrom would spend two years as the Islanders' starter and wasn't bad, and to this day many fans probably remember his big white Jofa facemask. He once got into a fight with Corey Schwab.

As you can see, he didn't do all that well. But for the record, he didn't get destroyed by Dan Cloutier. That was also Tommy Salo.

Soderstrom would play a single game for the Islanders during the 1996-97 season—according to hockey-reference.com, his appearance lasted all of ten seconds—and that was it for his NHL career. He'd head to the IHL, and then back home to Sweden for several seasons.

According to his Wikipedia page, he apparently appeared on a Swedish reality show in 2014. I don't read Swedish so I don't know what the show is about, but I'm going to just assume it featured him and Tommy Salo living together while doing the Spiderman pointing meme and trying to figure out which one of them it was that Mike Milbury made cry during an arbitration hearing.

Outrage of the Week

The issue: NBC released their 2018-19 schedule. The outrage: Your team isn't on it enough. Is it justified: Kind of, in the sense that fans are fans, and you're supposed to want your team to get as much airtime as possible. Even if it doesn't really affect you—and let's face it, it doesn't, because you still have your local broadcast—it feels like a respect thing. Your team is great, or at least better than everyone thinks, and NBC should love them as much as you do.

Of course, in the real world it can't work that way. There are only so many games to go around. And while it would be nice if the games were handed out based on merit, ratings still matter and some teams do better than others. So sure, the Blackhawks are the most heavily featured team, as always, even though they missed the playoffs last year. And no, you won't see struggling Canadian teams like the Canucks or Senators at all. That's not fair, but life's not fair, and hockey fans know that better than anyone.

Still, the overall schedule is… not bad? I'm going to go with not bad. NBC made some smart moves, including the decision to scrap the Wednesday Night Rivalry that sounded great in theory but never really worked in reality because there hasn't been a good NHL rivalry since 2012. And while they're still giving you the Blackhawks out of a firehose, they've done a better job of spreading the love around. We've even got a game between two Canadian teams on the schedule, as the Leafs and Jets face off in October. That's the sort of matchup the league should want to see promoted, since it features two teams packed with young stars who should be good, and could even end up playing in a Stanley Cup final someday.

We're also getting more of fun teams like the Capitals, Predators, Golden Knights, and Lightning, and less of traditional teams like the Red Wings and Canadiens who figure to be iffy or worse. It doesn't all make sense, and nobody can quite figure out what's going on with the Kings, but it's a decent effort. So yeah, not bad.

Will "not bad" be enough to keep hockey fans from complaining? Of course not, because it's August and the only other things to talk about are Andrej Sekera's achilles tendon and Max Pacioretty's golf tournament. So we squabble about the TV schedule, if only to remind ourselves that meaningful hockey will return some day. That's as it should be. At least until the Senators and Canucks are playing in the Stanley Cup final and NBC can't figure out why the ratings are so low.

Classic YouTube Clip Breakdown

Hey, who wants to close things out with a bizarre short film about hockey, made by a Canadian celebrity, and aired at a late-night talk show hosts film festival? Why not. Let's get weird.

I'll be honest, I don't have a really strong grasp on what exactly this is or why it exists. Let's cover the basics. This is a short film that was produced by Michael J. Fox for David Letterman's 2nd Annual Holiday Film Festival, which aired in 1986. The film is called The Ice Man Hummeth. And yeah, it's going to get strange.

Why yes, David Letterman apparently did have his own film festival, or at least a TV special that was presented that way. He had two, in fact. The first aired in 1985, and this one followed in 1986. You can watch the full thing here.

So on to the film. We start things off with Fox arriving at a rink, looking suitably badass given he's fresh off of Back To The Future and is pretty much one of the biggest movie stars in the world at this point. But that doesn't last long, because once he gets to the door he's suddenly a mild-mannered guy in a suit. But he's in a hockey dressing room. But he's not. We've got some sort of Westworld-style dueling timelines deal going here, with Fox as both a hockey tough guy and a classical musician. He's basically David Schultz with slightly more high-brow tastes.

We cut back and forth between the two scenes, including a shot of Hockey Fox's locker, complete with an autographed Letterman photo. That gets the first laugh from the audience, albeit a confused one, as they're clearly waiting for some of that Alex P. Keaton magic. Where's Uncle Ned and his maraschino cherries when you need him?

The next joke gets a better reaction, as Fox has to return a jock strap for something larger. Because the other didn't fit his oversized junk, you see. Look, it's his movie and Back To The Future made $210 million, he can write himself a big package if he wants to.

We get more juxtaposition, until we finally arrive at game time. That leads to a reasonably clever transition from pucks on ice into musical notes on paper as the orchestra warms up. Then it's back to the rink, where Fox's team has been joined by their opponent, who are very clearly wearing Winnipeg Jets uniforms with just enough strategically applied tape to prevent a lawsuit. Players from both teams are constantly threatening to kill each other in that way that happens in 100 percent of 1980s hockey movies, but only like 80 percent of actual 1980s hockey games. OK, fine, 95 percent if it was the Norris.

Also, a mid-80s goaltender makes a save, which is the least realistic part of this whole film.

One note about all of this that's kind of neat—in the comment section from the video, someone shows up who claims to have done the music for the film and explains that he actually had to compose a song that switched back and forth from classical to heavy metal and time it exactly to the final cut. That's kind of cool, and I'm going to assume it's true because I'm pretty sure it's illegal to lie on YouTube.

The referee, who is like eight inches taller than any of the players, drops the puck to start the game, and we instantly go full Rangers/Devils.

The benches empty because it's 1986, and at one point Fox seems to take a swing at the referee. More importantly, careful viewers will have noticed that we've now got a fully classical soundtrack, meaning the clean separation between timelines is starting to break down.

Sure enough, Hockey Fox looks up and realizes that Violin Fox and the rest of the orchestra is now in the stands. That somehow turns our bench-clearing brawl into an ice-dancing spectacle. There's a joke here about going from mid-80s hockey to the 2018 version, but I'm too mature to make it.

Meanwhile, Violin Fox is getting crowded by a fellow musician, and you can probably guess where that's headed. Soon enough, the orchestra is brawling while the hockey players tut-tut about unnecessary violence. Up is down, left is right, Harold Ballard does something nice, and we're done.

In the full version of the show, Fox gives a little more information about how this was all made. The entire project took four weeks, the shooting lasted just two nights, and it all cost less than $40,000. And best of all, he tells a great story about how the musicians couldn't wait to fight each other. It's well worth a watch.

And there you have it: Quite possibly the best artistic interpretation of the marriage between hockey and music every filmed that didn't involve Neil Sheehy.

Have a question, suggestion, old YouTube clip, or anything else you'd like to see included in this column? Email Sean at nhlgrabbag@gmail.com .

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DGB Grab Bag: Players' Weekend for the NHL, Salty Blue Jackets, and Buckets

Three Stars of Comedy

The third star: The Columbus Blue Jackets – Somebody's feeling a little salty about going all the way from one game to two on NBC's new schedule. (More on the new schedule in a bit.) It's the eyeroll emoji that really sells it

The second star: I has a bucket – Not sure what was funnier, the original photo or the fact that literally everyone Twitter made the same joke about the bucket getting signed by the Oilers.

The first star: This SHL video about rule changes – I can't stop watching this. It's the fist pump that gets me every time. If Tom Wilson starts working in this move every time he blindsides somebody a half hour after they touched the puck I'll admit he's worth every penny.

Be It Resolved

We're closing in on one of the weirder moments on the MLB calendar, as the annual "Players' Weekend" is almost here. The event debuted last year, and its main highlight is that players get to wear their nicknames on their jerseys.

That's… different. You have to give MLB some credit here, as they're basically offering up an open invitation for players to cut loose and show a little personality. It's fun for the players, and everyone gets to sit back and try to figure out what some of the nicknames even mean.

If you've been reading this column all summer, and god bless you if you have, then you're probably figuring that this is the part where we play our weekly round of "the NHL should steal this cool idea from another sport." That's been kind of a theme all offseason, and this feels like a great time to break it out..

But here's the thing. Ultimately, we try to be realists around here. Sure, we'll propose things like radically changing the way powerplays work, or having a special draft where everyone picks Jaromir Jagr, or letting every champion legally kidnap somebody for their Cup parade. But those are things that could actually happen someday.

NHL players volunteering to put cool nicknames on their own jerseys? Never. Zero chance. There's no point even thinking about it. Every player would just use their regular name, while old-school types swooned about how winners don't have personalities. A few players would probably insist that they didn't have a name back there at all, because the team is the only thing that matters, dammit. It would be awful.

Besides, even if the NHL stole baseball's idea and forced the players to take part, the result would just be depressing. Can you imagine an entire weekend of guys skating around with names like "Smither" and "Jonesy" and "Other Jonesy" on their back? It would be embarrassing.

So here's my proposal: We steal MLB's good idea, but then we improve on it. Be it resolved that once a season, we have a player's weekend where every team gets to force one player from another team to wear a specific nickname on their back.

Which player? That would be up to them. They could take a vote on who the victim would be. And then they'd get to choose the nickname that the player had to wear. If I know hockey players, they'd probably spend more time figuring this out than they do on special teams.

Admittedly, we'd have to iron out a few kinks. For example, we'd need some sort of tie-breaking system for when 30 teams all submitted different insults for Matthew Tkachuk as their first choice. And there would probably be some team every year that would use their pick to say something nice about some veteran opponent because they wanted to be "classy" or whatever. We'd deal with that by immediately relegating that team to the ECHL.

Still, how much fun would it be to see who each team in the league decided to target with an embarrassing nickname? And how quickly would you line up to buy an officially licensed Bruins No. 63 jersey with "Rat Face" or whatever on the back?

Maybe we can't steal most of baseball's good ideas, like "not having a salary cap" or "interesting free agency" or "replay that mostly works" or "actually noticing when defensive strategies are out of control." But we can steal this one. After we're done improving it.

Obscure Former Player of the Week

This week's Obscure Player honors go to Swedish goaltender Tommy Soderstrom, for no other reason than reader Nate wrote in to suggest him. Thanks Nate.

If you're like me, the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions Soderstrom is the brutal game-winning goal from center ice that sent Belarus to a stunning upset over Sweden in the 2002 Olympics. That's unfair, for a couple of reasons. First, even the best goaltenders gives up the occasional bad goal, and it's wrong to remember any athlete for their lowest moment. But more importantly, that wasn't Soderstrom—that was Tommy Salo. What can I say, Sweden produced too many 1990s goalies named Tommy S.

In addition to not being Tommy Salo, Soderstrom was picked way down in the 11th round of the 1990 draft by the Flyers. He played for Team Sweden at the 1991 Canada Cup, then made his NHL debut in 1992, splitting the Flyers' starting duties with Dominic Roussel. He played reasonably well, but struggled badly as a sophomore, winning just six times in 34 appearances while posting a GAA of 4.01. It didn't help his numbers that his own teammates occasionally scored on him.

Somehow, that made him worthy of being dealt to the Islanders straight up for Ron Hextall in a trade that probably happened mainly because nobody has any recollection of Hextall being an Islander in the first place. Soderstrom would spend two years as the Islanders' starter and wasn't bad, and to this day many fans probably remember his big white Jofa facemask. He once got into a fight with Corey Schwab.

As you can see, he didn't do all that well. But for the record, he didn't get destroyed by Dan Cloutier. That was also Tommy Salo.

Soderstrom would play a single game for the Islanders during the 1996-97 season—according to hockey-reference.com, his appearance lasted all of ten seconds—and that was it for his NHL career. He'd head to the IHL, and then back home to Sweden for several seasons.

According to his Wikipedia page, he apparently appeared on a Swedish reality show in 2014. I don't read Swedish so I don't know what the show is about, but I'm going to just assume it featured him and Tommy Salo living together while doing the Spiderman pointing meme and trying to figure out which one of them it was that Mike Milbury made cry during an arbitration hearing.

Outrage of the Week

The issue: NBC released their 2018-19 schedule. The outrage: Your team isn't on it enough. Is it justified: Kind of, in the sense that fans are fans, and you're supposed to want your team to get as much airtime as possible. Even if it doesn't really affect you—and let's face it, it doesn't, because you still have your local broadcast—it feels like a respect thing. Your team is great, or at least better than everyone thinks, and NBC should love them as much as you do.

Of course, in the real world it can't work that way. There are only so many games to go around. And while it would be nice if the games were handed out based on merit, ratings still matter and some teams do better than others. So sure, the Blackhawks are the most heavily featured team, as always, even though they missed the playoffs last year. And no, you won't see struggling Canadian teams like the Canucks or Senators at all. That's not fair, but life's not fair, and hockey fans know that better than anyone.

Still, the overall schedule is… not bad? I'm going to go with not bad. NBC made some smart moves, including the decision to scrap the Wednesday Night Rivalry that sounded great in theory but never really worked in reality because there hasn't been a good NHL rivalry since 2012. And while they're still giving you the Blackhawks out of a firehose, they've done a better job of spreading the love around. We've even got a game between two Canadian teams on the schedule, as the Leafs and Jets face off in October. That's the sort of matchup the league should want to see promoted, since it features two teams packed with young stars who should be good, and could even end up playing in a Stanley Cup final someday.

We're also getting more of fun teams like the Capitals, Predators, Golden Knights, and Lightning, and less of traditional teams like the Red Wings and Canadiens who figure to be iffy or worse. It doesn't all make sense, and nobody can quite figure out what's going on with the Kings, but it's a decent effort. So yeah, not bad.

Will "not bad" be enough to keep hockey fans from complaining? Of course not, because it's August and the only other things to talk about are Andrej Sekera's achilles tendon and Max Pacioretty's golf tournament. So we squabble about the TV schedule, if only to remind ourselves that meaningful hockey will return some day. That's as it should be. At least until the Senators and Canucks are playing in the Stanley Cup final and NBC can't figure out why the ratings are so low.

Classic YouTube Clip Breakdown

Hey, who wants to close things out with a bizarre short film about hockey, made by a Canadian celebrity, and aired at a late-night talk show hosts film festival? Why not. Let's get weird.

I'll be honest, I don't have a really strong grasp on what exactly this is or why it exists. Let's cover the basics. This is a short film that was produced by Michael J. Fox for David Letterman's 2nd Annual Holiday Film Festival, which aired in 1986. The film is called The Ice Man Hummeth. And yeah, it's going to get strange.

Why yes, David Letterman apparently did have his own film festival, or at least a TV special that was presented that way. He had two, in fact. The first aired in 1985, and this one followed in 1986. You can watch the full thing here.

So on to the film. We start things off with Fox arriving at a rink, looking suitably badass given he's fresh off of Back To The Future and is pretty much one of the biggest movie stars in the world at this point. But that doesn't last long, because once he gets to the door he's suddenly a mild-mannered guy in a suit. But he's in a hockey dressing room. But he's not. We've got some sort of Westworld-style dueling timelines deal going here, with Fox as both a hockey tough guy and a classical musician. He's basically David Schultz with slightly more high-brow tastes.

We cut back and forth between the two scenes, including a shot of Hockey Fox's locker, complete with an autographed Letterman photo. That gets the first laugh from the audience, albeit a confused one, as they're clearly waiting for some of that Alex P. Keaton magic. Where's Uncle Ned and his maraschino cherries when you need him?

The next joke gets a better reaction, as Fox has to return a jock strap for something larger. Because the other didn't fit his oversized junk, you see. Look, it's his movie and Back To The Future made $210 million, he can write himself a big package if he wants to.

We get more juxtaposition, until we finally arrive at game time. That leads to a reasonably clever transition from pucks on ice into musical notes on paper as the orchestra warms up. Then it's back to the rink, where Fox's team has been joined by their opponent, who are very clearly wearing Winnipeg Jets uniforms with just enough strategically applied tape to prevent a lawsuit. Players from both teams are constantly threatening to kill each other in that way that happens in 100 percent of 1980s hockey movies, but only like 80 percent of actual 1980s hockey games. OK, fine, 95 percent if it was the Norris.

Also, a mid-80s goaltender makes a save, which is the least realistic part of this whole film.

One note about all of this that's kind of neat—in the comment section from the video, someone shows up who claims to have done the music for the film and explains that he actually had to compose a song that switched back and forth from classical to heavy metal and time it exactly to the final cut. That's kind of cool, and I'm going to assume it's true because I'm pretty sure it's illegal to lie on YouTube.

The referee, who is like eight inches taller than any of the players, drops the puck to start the game, and we instantly go full Rangers/Devils.

The benches empty because it's 1986, and at one point Fox seems to take a swing at the referee. More importantly, careful viewers will have noticed that we've now got a fully classical soundtrack, meaning the clean separation between timelines is starting to break down.

Sure enough, Hockey Fox looks up and realizes that Violin Fox and the rest of the orchestra is now in the stands. That somehow turns our bench-clearing brawl into an ice-dancing spectacle. There's a joke here about going from mid-80s hockey to the 2018 version, but I'm too mature to make it.

Meanwhile, Violin Fox is getting crowded by a fellow musician, and you can probably guess where that's headed. Soon enough, the orchestra is brawling while the hockey players tut-tut about unnecessary violence. Up is down, left is right, Harold Ballard does something nice, and we're done.

In the full version of the show, Fox gives a little more information about how this was all made. The entire project took four weeks, the shooting lasted just two nights, and it all cost less than $40,000. And best of all, he tells a great story about how the musicians couldn't wait to fight each other. It's well worth a watch.

And there you have it: Quite possibly the best artistic interpretation of the marriage between hockey and music every filmed that didn't involve Neil Sheehy.

Have a question, suggestion, old YouTube clip, or anything else you'd like to see included in this column? Email Sean at nhlgrabbag@gmail.com .

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