#pickleballing

[baloneymacaronii]

Pickleball?

[catfindr]

[wyrmwright]

are they, y'know... (mimes hitting a tennis ball)...?

[nedison]

Sparkstember Day 30: 'A metaphor is a pickleball court...'

So literally on the afternoon of Hello Young Lovers day I was reminded of this absolutely (and intentionally) ludicrous article from the New York Times last year and it struck me and reading the words MALE and LONELINESS next to one another set off the Metaphor alarm in my brain. So rather than hold this one over until next September 20th, here it is now before the pickleball craze is just a forgotten cultural reference.

This was another fun one! See you next year folks.

[boardwalk-absurdist]

I'm sure this was talked to death back in the early days of the fandom back when both were big, but do we think Bill Cipher would love or hate the citizens of Night Vale? Like it's such a weird place already that Weirdmageddon wouldn't be that far from a particularly interesting week, and if it's not enough he could always go to whatever new Desert Bluffs Kevin set up in the desert otherworld (idk if that's still a thing, I'm so behind on wtnv again). Though he may find himself in a turf war with the Smiling God in that case and I'm seriously not sure who'd win. But like, if Bill was capable of chilling out a bit and going for lower-grade weirdness and slightly less sadism, Night Vale would probably tolerate him pretty easily. (Unless he messed with the resident scientist of course.)

[thatsorand-o]

[therealslimshakespeare]

“Yeah sweetheart, at you they won’t. But me? They’ll have my balls. Pardon the language .”

HAHA I JUST SENT AN ASK ABOUT THIS. she’s freaking out over him calling her sweetheart and is back on his lap

“i AM your sweetheart aren’t I?” she asks as she grinds down again and what even was he gonna say?????

[inkpug]

A grave misunderstanding, indeed!

#PickleBall

[noodyl-blasstal]

Plot Game - Ethersea

It's @taznovembercelebration and a lot of us are having a time of it. Instead of working on a big thing, I want you to play plot with me.

1) look at the existing plot

2) reblog with more plot

3) tag someone else to add a detail

4) make your own if you want to!

Plot: Amber invites Oksana to meet her later. Doing a small crime counts as a date, right?

I'm tagging @ethersierra (or anyone else who sees this and wants to play!)

[sillygoofyart]

tumblr. What is this tumblr.

[nickelthesarcasmspasm]

spread pickleball propaganda

[turquoisetardigrade]

[fuddlyduddly]

I think any sequels to Challengers should have the same cast, make them suffer through even more extreme melodrama, they're just in a different sport each time, like an absurd sports-based time loop. so we'd get:

Challengers 2: Pitching Season

Challengers 3: Tackle Time

Challengers 4: Sticks On The Ice

Challengers 5: Hoop Dreams

Challengers 6: Lacrosse

Challengers 7: Bend It Like Beckham

Challengers 8: Golfing To Glory

Challengers 9: Jai Alai (Hili) Hoedown

and finally, to bring it all back,

Challengers 10: Pickleball Panic

[dudja]

Pickle on the Run

[seecarrun]

Somehow, Ben, Mike, and Eddie get embarrassingly into pickleball a year or two after Derry, and are delighted to find that Patty is already a devoted and established Picklehead herself, so they have an even group of four to play.

They meet up every other Sunday morning at a small park near the modest apartment Mike rents on Bill’s dime in LA where all the Losers eventually found themselves, happy to be the farthest away from Derry they could be while still in the continental the United States.

They usually go out to brunch after playing for an hour or so, sometimes joined by the other Losers, but more often than not just Stan, who likes to go to the park to bird watch while the others play.

They’ve all tried their hand at the game at least once, with Richie and Bill coming out at the top of the Least Athletic list, to no one’s surprise, and Bev ends up having deadly accuracy, when she is able to actually get the ball over the net, at least. She and Richie usually skip the physical activity and head right to brunch, but they do come every so often to ogle Ben and Eddie, though they always refuse to admit that’s why they’re there.

Of the regulars, Mike is easily the best, with Eddie not far behind; but Eddie tends to let his anger get the better of him and is constantly hitting balls out of bounds and getting even madder. Ben is usually just there to have fun and hang with his friends, but when he and Patty team up they’re unbeatable.

Anyone that gets stuck with Bill as a partner when he comes is pretty much guaranteed to lose. Bill has yet to realize this and still gets offended when no one wants to be his partner, so Ben usually ends up falling on that sword, because he’s a sweetheart.

They are somehow both the darlings and the enemies of all the other, older pickleballers at the park.

[masodemic]

What if, the Death Note tennis match but instead of tennis they play pickleball