#maybe ottawa

[travisdermotts]

mockups of possible jerseys!

(truly guessing with some of the secondary colours)

[captain-casual]

Better late than never. Let’s hope CERTAIN OTHER COUNTRIES follow suit.

[tkachunk]

I present to you an incomplete primer on your 2023-24 Ottawa Senators. Come for your fav players that signed here, stay for the vibes. 

If you want to know what the hell I mean by MSRH, there's a primer on that here

Bonus PWHL annex:

[dumbgaycatthing]

Just got a bullshit $260 ticket for bus fare skipping even though I fucking used my bus pass. Apparently my card didn't work when I tapped it even though the bus driver definitely seemed to think it did considering they let me on. Its real fucking interesting too how the only two people who's fare they checked was the only black guy and the visibility transgender looking punk

and she even kept calling me sir the whole time even though I'm fucking dressed like this

[pwhlmontreal]

yall: rb and put in the tags what city you would put a new pwhl team in & what colours they would use (& team name if u wish)

[snakesanderson]

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[canadianlucifer]

WHY DOES ALL THE COOL STUFF HAVE TO HAPPEN IN AMERICA WHY CAN'T I HAVE THE FUNDS TO FLY AT LEAST 5 TIMES ROUND TRIP EVERY YEAR 😭😭😭

[skater110599]

the way i wanna learn how to dance soooo badly but i would feel SO awkward going to classes without a partner as a built-in friend/moral support

[jimothystu]

Incorrect Sens Quote 4

Timmy, cowering in fear: What do you want from me?!

Brady, standing in front of Timmy: *bites into the whole KitKat bar like a heathen*

Timmy, crying: Please...stop...

[the-physicality]

it's here!!!!!!! March 2 Boston at Montreal!!!!

[mccoys-killer-queen]

Styx obsession, day -38: I'm gonna see Styx at the M3 festival in May! I think it'll be fun :)

Styx obsession, day 176: I've never been to Canada before but I just met Lawrence Gowan in an alley in Ottawa in the middle of the night and I know what underwear he was wearing and also when and where he bought said underwear

[tkachunk]

I don't care that your team is slow dancing on crowded club dancefloors after winning the cup it should have happened to my team

[fumblingmusings]

ONE MORE THING regarding late 19th Century Anglo-German relations... Okay. It's a little paternalistic but I imagine each European nation gets a bit touchy when it comes to these poor girls being plopped in a place they aren't prepared well enough for being asked to carry out diplomacy at a time when personal politics don't matter as much anymore. And I think Victoria's eldest daughter Vicky, the mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II, kind of shows this phenomena in a nutshell.

Also I do imagine that Arthur would be incredibly uncomfortable with how Princess Vicky was treated by the Prussians (then Germans) which would really colour his interactions with Gilbert and Ludwig in the second half of the 19th Century. It's a narrow scope example of why relations between the two just crumble so badly by the 1880s on.

Bear with me. I have a point.

Okay so, Queen Victoria's girls were very much trained for politics. Prince Albert was like here have all the philosophy and theory you could ever need. So Vicky, Alice, Louise, Helena and Beatrice all would be ready to be good Queens. Or, at least, trained to be good British Queens, which doesn't really fly in the German states. Especially for eldest daughter Vicky.

Sidenote: They all have chubby cheeks and I want to squeeze them.

So you have a Princess who yes has a nice like-minded husband, but her in-laws dislike her, and her eldest son rebels against his liberal mum by going full on authoritarian and creates a rival court so extensive that by the time she becomes German Empress this other faction frequently raids her home for anything that would excuse her exile or worse... you know. Typical royal family stuff.

But she is also a woman who reads and supports Karl Marx (what the...) and Charles Darwin, builds hospitals during the Franco-Prussian war, founds girls schools and nursing colleges, visits Synagogues, openly calls antisemites lunatics, encourages a free press... and the German court hate her for it. Largely because she refuses to be quiet.

So it's not just a case of 'the mean Germans think my perfect Princess is annoying' for Arthur; it's that conflict between Liberalism and Conservatism which is the very crux of why Germany and England are incapable of having friendly relations. Arthur watches the soft power and these (somewhat bullshit/hypocritical) liberal ideas and principles he has set himself up as representing on the international stage get completely and utterly rejected by another nation. One that he cannot exert control over. And I bet that infuriated him. His way absolutely is the right way what is Ludwig's damage you know? And I guess after WWI he feels mighty vindicated but until then... what a frustration.

Arthur and Ludwig (or Gilbert, depending on how you interpret who's actually in charge at this time) have such very different ideas on power and ruling and what a monarch is even there to do. It's just a very personalised example of why Arthur cannot get along with Ludwig. A British Princess (friendship) was a very precious thing to have, and the Germans squandered her (it). At least in Arthur's eyes.

[yjarnkrok]

chabby and tarasenko are soo cat coded to me........ giving me ideas

[sgian-dubh]

I'm sorry but no one gets winter like me and 20th century landscape artists. the barren branches with a hint of stubborn colour. the stillness after a fresh snowfall. the birch trees and the pines. a half frozen pond. it's so cold but so beautiful. & maybe we don't deserve it but it's here. and we get to see it.

[cornsobsessions]

i know that y’all are like up to date on who is on what teams but i am still fully getting team member whiplash about trades that i fully missed