#metropolitan riveters

[grantmentis]

Madison Packer has announced her retirement from professional hockey. She finished with:

Second all time in points in the PHF with 129 points in 131 games

Four years as captain of the Metropolitan Riveters, and the face of the franchise

Two U18 WJC gold medals (2008 and 2009)

2010-2011 NCAA champion

Six time PHF all star

2018 Isobel Cup Champion

A loud advocate for LGBT rights, equality in sports, and suicide prevention

One of the most important figures in New York/New Jersey women’s hockey, a mentor to many who routinely opened her home to rookies on the teams she played on to help them adjust to playing professional, and an icon

[goaliekisses]

meanwhile in women’s hockey: “it’s really important that we do this. it’s important in my opinion that all sports leagues and all sports teams do it. we have an obligation as athletes to use our platform for positivity and for good and there’s a lot of kids who are sitting at home right now questioning who they are as people. and when we push back and we don’t put a jersey on because it means something to us personally, we do damage to those kids. so i’m proud of our group for showing up. we have messaging in our locker room that always, no matter what, people are included. and that’s what it’s all about.”

[blusical]

Hockey teams as Littlest Pet Shop: PHF/NWHL (RIP) edition.

Boston Pride

Buffalo Beauts

Connecticut Whale

Metropolitan Riveters

Minnesota Whitecaps

Montreal Force

Toronto Six

Starting PHF vs PWHL discourse is an immediate block. This is all for fun, please keep it fun. Thank you!

NHL Versions (Atlantic - Metro - Central - Pacific) - PWHL Version

[thingsmk1120sayz]

[whalepropaganda]

The documentary on the first season of the NWHL will be out soon!

[auroraliiga]

[catrakomtrikru]

Let's go!

[bigolsoftboi]

How are the Avalanche up 4-1 against the Jets in the first period and the Riveters are up 4-1 against the Pride in the third period on the same night?!

[grantmentis]

Madison Packer acknowledging her tribute video (via Matthew Kass)

[reptilevomit]

PHF SUPREMACY. FUCK THE MINNESOTA WILD I LOVE GAY PEOPLE

meanwhile in women’s hockey: “it’s really important that we do this. it’s important in my opinion that all sports leagues and all sports teams do it. we have an obligation as athletes to use our platform for positivity and for good and there’s a lot of kids who are sitting at home right now questioning who they are as people. and when we push back and we don’t put a jersey on because it means something to us personally, we do damage to those kids. so i’m proud of our group for showing up. we have messaging in our locker room that always, no matter what, people are included. and that’s what it’s all about.”

[maybe-boys-do-love]

Don't you see that Spare Me Your Mercy was all about love from beginning to end? The only question was what kind of love.

Dr. Kan introduced a love that was wild, indigenous, communal, and, most importantly to the plot, extralegal. Here I discussed my observation about the rural-specific parallels between acceptance of death and acceptance of queerness, and now finished with the series I stand by it firmly. Tew had assimilated into an upstanding individualistic perspective as he left his rural upbringing for the metropolitan world to find acceptance for himself, the kind his mother had for him but few others amongst the male leadership in his hometown. Kan tries to offer him a perspective about connection to the world that would allow him to live in his hometown and withstand the grief and suffering of a queer life.

It struck me watching the finale, and hopefully struck many other viewers, that much of what Kan said about euthanasia's legality in his confession to Tew applies equally to the state of queer love historically: "Is the law wrong?;" "It's legal in other places," "The law never understands the inequality, the lack of resources, the suffering." Its an ethical view that puts others humanity first before society's rules.

The question looming over the series was how Tew would process his mother's death. As your local queer tragedian, I love the artistry with which the show answers the question (without killing off our gay lovers). Tew confesses his love as he drives his paramour to jail in handcuffs. That is the essence of Tew's love. His love is a prison for people to suffer in for his own pride. He's deeply selfish @respectthepetty pointed out in a conversation with @poetry-protest-pornography, and so is his style of love--or style of cathexis, as bell hooks (my rural buddhist scholar crush) might label it, adapting from psychologist M. Scott Peck. Cathexis is the investment of feelings or emotions into someone often confused with love, what's been translated in Buddhist literature as attachment. Acted upon, cathexis is obsessive, controlling, and possessive. Those tendencies might serve an emotional purpose in establishing the early stages of a relationship (puppy love is fun!), but left unchecked they can also lead to things like, you know, tapping your lovers' car and following them. Right, Tew?

That's what intrigued me about the development of the pair's relationship. It integrated the layers of paranoia inflecting Tew's character. His police investigation, his reticence about his own queer expression back in his hometown, and his egotistical approach to relationships all braided together. Kan loses the pen Tew gifted him, for example, and it ignites suspicions for Tew of murder, being outed, and Kan's fidelity all at once. Meanwhile, the doctor, whose demeanor and open flirtation mark him as out and comfortable with his sexuality, knowingly accepts Tew's double-dealings hoping while he's doing it the detective will discover the kind of love and acceptance (of queerness and euthanasia) that Dr. Kan has found.

The genre of BL that SMYM skirts made Kan's perspective seem especially possible, and I, for one, felt riveted by the real mystery of where the show would land between its bleak murder-mystery and romance genres. Personally, I think we BL fans need to become more comfortable with the breadth romance can truly cover rather than simply getting mad at tragic love and ambiguities. Shows like SMYM and Only Friends are delivering masterfully executed series, but our aversions to difficult characters, duplicitous writing, and tragic plot structures have people failing to recognize their skill or purpose, entirely. Let me tell you that having gay tragedies that aren't about people dying because of homophobia is JUST AS RADICAL as gays with happy endings.

SMYM depicts a variety of queer men's lives. They come from different backgrounds in different generations. They've faced different obstacles and led imperfect lives. They've hurt some people and helped others. And they've committed to different approaches to understanding how people are meant to help with the experience of suffering based on their queer experiences but not solely. This is the story of how their views come to a head. It's tragic and an exceptionally well-done detective series that provokes incredible questions if you're willing to let go of the idea that series are here to make you, personally, happy rather than something to engage with.

*Unrelated note to all this, but I'm also appreciating how the song used, Northern Breeze (thanks @thaisongsengsub for translating here), has a lot of relevance about the fleeting nature of love and life, but it's also the same tune as Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two) which was FAMOUSLY sung by the robot HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey when they euthanize it shut it down.

[auroraliiga]

The Metropolitan Riveters have signed Finnish forward Susanna Tapani to a one year deal for the 2023–24 PHF season

"Susanna will be a difference maker in the PHF," said Rivs head coach Venla Hovi. "She is an experienced Finnish Olympian and one of the best forwards in the world. Suski is an offensive threat due to her ability to make plays and her speed makes her tough to handle on rushes. She will lead the team by example and her humble, calm presence will be an asset for us in the locker room."

[catrakomtrikru]

Not me finally catching up on the PHF drama and crying about.

I have some much to say and no heart to say it right now.

[fashionbooksmilano]

McQueen The Fashion Icons Unofficial and unauthorised

Michael O'Neill

Sona Books, Knowle, Solihull, West Midlands 2023, 144 pages, 21,5x27,5, ISBN 978-1-915343-32-1

euro 35,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

“Alexander McQueen - Redefining Beauty” is magnificently adorned with some of Lee Alexander McQueen’s most riveting designs, and the narrative illuminates the personal and professional struggles of a man who dared to defy accepted norms in the cavernous halls of fashion and give the world a new sense of the grandeur of which human creativity is capable. From conflicted gay teenager, aggressive and remote young man, through to his lonely suicide, the book charts Alexander McQueen’s ascent to couturier par excellence, highlighting his spectacular shows and showing how his confrontational, streetwise manner was simply a shield that protected and masked a very shy, sensitive and insecure man who hailed from the wrong side of the high fashion tracks. “Alexander McQueen - Redefining Beauty” will imprint upon the reader never to be forgotten images of his explosive designs, illuminate his talent and delve into the mind of a man who was Britain’s most unpredictable, tormented and spectacular fashion designer.

Awarded British Fashion Designer of the Year 1996, 1997, 2001 & 2003. Awarded CBE, Council of Fashion Designers of America - International Designer of the Year 2003, Chief Designer of Givenchy,Creative Director of Gucci. Gucci Group acquired the McQueen fashion label, Designed wardrobe for David Bowie tours and Bjork and Bowie Albums, Patrons included Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Rihanna & Lady Gaga, McQueen stores in London, Paris, Milan, New York & Las Vegas. Hugely successful exhibition at Museum of Metropolitan of Art New York – Savage Beauty in 2011 V & A Exhibition runs in London - March until August 15th 2015

01/12/24