#post-OWL rebound has been going GREAT thank you for asking

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just guys being dudes

[ravewulf]

“You fall in love more than once” - Melissa McCall

I think this quote more than anything represents the pairings that Teen Wolf presents. The characters get together and break up in new configurations all over the place showing us that relationships are temporary, especially during our formative years.

For the purposes of this meta I’m going to ignore the nu!pack and only go with Stiles and Scott’s class and above. I will be getting to Sterek, but first let’s go through the relationships we’ve had so far.

Scott/Allison - Scott’s first relationship where he ends up being a bit too controlling in some cases. Allison breaks it off and although there is still attraction between them, she has no intention to get back together with him - even if she had lived.

Scott/Kira - Scott gets a bit better, but like with the full story of Allison’s mom’s death, he keeps important information from her about her fox that she deserved to know. Kira leaves to better understand and control her powers.

Scott/Malia - Up next

Allison/Isaac - Allison’s rebound from Scott. Probably wouldn’t have lasted in the long run, but sadly Allison died.

Lydia/Jackson - The power couple with problems and true caring underneath. Jackson left for London.

Lydia/One night stands - Lydia owns her sexuality and moves on from Jackson

Lydia/Aiden - Although Aiden may have initially been told to use Lydia as leverage against the pack, Lydia turned it around and made Aiden change for the better. Long term prospects probably weren’t great even if Aiden hadn’t died.

Danny/His ex from season 2 - Off and on again relationship until Danny starts a steady relationship with Ethan in season 3A

Danny/Ethan - Actually a reasonably healthy relationship. Ethan comes clean about werewolves before he leaves but Danny already knew.

Jackson/Ethan - Up next? Implied but not solidly confirmed.

Sheriff Stilinski/Claudia Stilinski - Rocky from her FTD and cut short by her death

Natalie Martin/Mr. Martin - Divorced

Sheriff Stilinski/Natalie Martin - One date. Pretty awesome for Linden and Susan to play opposite each other as they are married in real life (1986).

Melissa McCall/Rafael McCall - Divorced, although Rafael isn’t as bad as we were initially led to believe.

Melissa/Peter- Peter trying to get to Scott

Melissa/Chris - Present

Chris/Victoria - Her death thanks to anti-werewolf prejudices

Peter/Corinne aka The Desert Wolf - WTF Peter, WTF Talia, and WTF Corinne

Derek/Paige - Paige died from a failed werewolf bite forced on her by Ennis. She asks Derek to mercy kill her to spare her the pain.

Derek/Kate - Kate committed statutory rape at an absolute minimum, murdered Derek’s family, as well as emotionally/physically torturing him later.

Derek/Jennifer - Jennifer used power gained from virgin sacrifices to magically seduce and rape Derek

Derek/Braeden - Casual relationship that Derek uses to get over what Kate (and potentially Jennifer) did to him, taking back control of his romantic life. Derek implicitly ends the relationship before the final battle at the end of season 4 by rejecting her weapons. Meta - Braeden represents a helpful deity of bardo in a parallel to Jacob’s Ladder. That movie in turn leads to An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and the Sterek dream at the end of season 3B

Stiles/Heather - Almost friends with benefits before she was virgin sacrificed

Stiles/Caitlin - Kissed in Derek’s loft at a rave where she asked him if he was bi. Her girlfriend Emily was also virgin sacrificed

Stiles/Malia - Started as dub con all around given Stiles being possessed/drugged and her not knowing human social norms from being a wild werecoyote. Better consent but not always better communication after thanks to it being a first relationship for both of them. They fell apart but stay on good terms after.

Stiles/Lydia - Present

Only 3/25 (4/26 if you count Jackson/Ethan) of those pairings are current (again, ignoring the nu!pack). 22 of them have already ended in some way or another. Given Teen Wolf’s history with canon relationships, what are the chances that all three (or four) remaining ones are going to be endgame vs ended? They might be, but they also might not. We just don’t know at this point.

For Derek and Stiles, the longer Jeff keeps them from being a couple the less we need to worry about him breaking them up. If he had gotten them together sooner and kept them together he’d have to make a special exception instead of treating them exactly the same as all the other relationships listed above.

The best-case scenario would be showing Stiles and Derek entering into a relationship (or implying it) towards the end of the last episode. This way Jeff knows he isn’t bound by treating them the same as the other couples and knows he can’t upset fans from doing something wrong with their relationship after they get together. Instead it would be completely up to fans to decide what their relationship would be like after the show.

Another possibility is to end the series with everyone single and let all fans determine which pairings they want to take place post-canon. This lets shippers avoid angering other shippers over breaking up a couple that was endgame in canon.

I do think that what Teen Wolf does is show multiple possible pairings to choose from so we can pick the ones we want to explore. If we find one (or more!) that strikes our fancy but don’t like how the show did it we’re more than welcome to diverge from canon to explore our ideal versions of that relationship. After all, that’s part of the whole point of fanfiction - exploring all the “what if’s” that we come up with.

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Your Friday Morning Roundup

The Sixers had an 18-point lead. They blew it.

The Trail Blazers used a 19-0 run early in the fourth quarter for a 114-110 come-from-behind victory in Portland. It was awful to watch. Portland also didn’t have Damian Lillard and outscored the Sixers 42-25 in the final frame.

Despite Joel Embiid scoring 29 points and hitting six three-pointers, CJ McCollum went off for 34 points. Shabazz Napier had 23 points and a really sick assist, and Jusuf Nurkic put up 21 points and 12 rebounds despite having five fouls in the fourth quarter. Amazingly, the refs never called a foul on him in the fourth.

But don’t blame the refs, it was another bad Sixers collapse.

That's the third 16+ point second-half lead that the Sixers have blown in nine days. That's gotta stop.

— Rich Hofmann (@rich_hofmann) December 29, 2017

How does this happen again? Games that look like the Sixers have a grasp of gets out of hand quickly, and results in a major collapse.

And it happened on a night where Dario Saric scored 25 points on 10-of-12 shooting. A great night of shooting went to waste because of a god awful collapse.

Let’s bring up the Brett Brown hot seat question. If this continues, his status should be closely examined.

Finally, let me explain how bad Jerryd Bayless was. We were already screwed with Reggie Miller on the call. Bayless made it worse. He had two rebounds, a steal, a turnover, two fouls, a late three-pointer that didn’t count, and a -20 in 19:59 of playing time.

I am a:

Male Female Sixers fan

Seeking:

Male Female A way to get Jerryd Bayless off this team

— Chris Jastrzembski (@CFJastrzembski) December 29, 2017

The Sixers take on the Nuggets in Denver Saturday night at 9 PM. They’ll play the Phoenix Suns the following night at 8 PM. Joel probably won’t play in one of those games.

One injury note: Robert Covington left for the second straight game after injuring his left middle finger.

The Roundup:

The Flyers also returned to action for the first time in five days. And they picked up where they left off, a loss. They fell to the Florida Panthers 3-2, and couldn’t get anything going on offense until the 12:28 mark of the third period. Scott Laughton and Shayne Gostisbehere had the two Flyers goals, and Brian Elliott made 24 saves on 27 shots.

Gostisbehere has a close relationship with the Panthers organization when he played for their Junior Panthers team:

“The Panthers did a great job of instilling hockey in Florida. It’s not a hockey state per se. but as the game grew they offered kids my age a chance to play it. All my best friends are still playing hockey. And I’m here. It’s cool. It’s very unique. People ask me where I’m from, whether I’m from Canada. And I say I’m from Florida and you get a look.’’

He was the first player from South Florida to play an NHL game. A few have trickled in since, but it has done little to spike prolonged interest in the Panthers, who just three seasons ago finished  first in the Atlantic Division with 103 points. That year, the Panthers finished ahead of just six teams in average attendance.

Tampa Bay, by contrast, has finished in the top 10 over the last four seasons, even when the team failed to reach the playoffs last season.

“I mean, Florida has been a bandwagon state for a while,’’ Gostisbehere said. “Especially down south. I’m pretty sure if you go to Miami Heat games right now they’re not going to be packed. But a couple of years ago they were.’’

The Flyers play tonight in Tampa Bay against the Lightning at 7:30 PM. With Michal Neuvirth off IR, could he get the start in goal?

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The Eagles had a walk-through practice yesterday, but Brandon Graham did not participate. On Tuesday, Doug Pederson said his injury was “day-to-day.” Wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t play Sunday.

Kevin Kinkead delves into Alshon Jeffery’s bad Monday night and if he and Nick Foles need to build more chemistry.

Remember when Patrick Robinson looked awful in training camp? Well now he’s one of the more important pieces on defense:

The slot takes a much bigger toll on your body than playing outside, particularly when you’re in your eighth pro season like Robinson.

“It’s just a matter of being consistent with your body,’’ he said. “Sometimes guys, they start out pretty good. Cold tub every day. Then, as the year goes along, they start to slack off. You start to get a little lazy.

“When I was younger, I didn’t really need to do any of that, to be honest. Now I try to go in the training room and do the cold tub. Do my stretching. And get a lot of rest. I try to get as much rest as I can.’’

Dannell Ellerbe is starting to feel comfortable after his first game with the Eagles after weeks of practice.

Frank Fitzpatrick profiles Carson Wentz’s surgeon, James Bradley.

An interesting post on how important home field advantage is to the Eagles without Wentz.

Jimmy Kempski ranks the playoff teams he would want to face, from most to least desirable:

5) Atlanta Falcons

The Falcons didn’t just get hot during the playoffs last year. They were really good all season long and rode their success to a near Super Bowl win. Matt Ryan was the NFL’s MVP in 2016, and the Falcons had outstanding skill position players around him in Julio Jones and Devonta Freeman. That set of triplets is still there, and this remains a dangerous team with big-time weapons.

However, when comparing this year’s team to last year’s, for whatever reason, the Falcons have not been as potent offensively. In 2016, they led the NFL with 540 points scored. In 2017, they have 331 points scored with one game to play. That’s 10th in the NFC, behind the Redskins. That is a drastic difference.

Divisional playoff tickets will go on sale Thursday morning at 10 AM. They’ll only be available through Ticketmaster, and there’s a limit of four per household.

Here’s some fun Eagles videos for you. Happy Friday:

.@LG_Blount was cheering for his @Eagles teammates on the sidelines… Literally. #SoundFX #FlyEaglesFly http://pic.twitter.com/x1xq5xUFdz

— NFL (@NFL) December 28, 2017

Fletcher Cox, Wolf of Broad Street#FlyEaglesFly http://pic.twitter.com/ZltcYp56Gb

— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) December 28, 2017

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In college hoops, Temple opened up AAC play with an 85-75 home loss to Tulane. Quinton Rose and Shizz Alston Jr. each led the Owls with 17 points. It’s their third loss in the last four games.

Today, Penn hosts Toledo at 4 PM at The Palestra. On Saturday, La Salle hosts Saint Louis in their A 10 opener, Drexel plays Elon on the road in their CAA opener, top-ranked Villanova plays guest to Butler, St. Joe’s faces off against George Washington in their A 10 opener, and Temple is at Houston.

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In other sports news, James Harden committed two offensive fouls late as the Houston Rockets blew a 26-point lead to the Boston Celtics. He ripped the refs afterwards.

The New York Giants brought back Dave Gettleman as their new general manager after spending four years as GM of the Carolina Panthers. One decision he’ll have to make involves Brandon Marshall, who missed the final 11 games of the season with an ankle injury that required surgery.

A photographer who took pictures of the Minnesota Twins says she was sexually assaulted by third baseman Miguel Sano.

In the World Juniors, Slovakia upset the US 3-2 thanks to a late goal by Samuel Bucek. But Casey Mittelstadt may of had the goal of the tournament:

Absurdly filthy goal from Casey Mittelstadt to tie Slovakia late #WJC18 http://pic.twitter.com/o0VesFyL9Y

— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) December 29, 2017

The Americans play Canada today at 3 PM at New Era Field, the home of the Buffalo Bills.

It was also a bad day for this guy:

Not a good day to be this guy. #WJC2018 http://pic.twitter.com/5zanqDHnoS

— Alex Nunn (@aj_ranger) December 28, 2017

The Miami Marlins are now listening to offers for Christian Yelich and J.T. Realmuto.

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In the news, despite the extreme cold, the Mummers Parade is still on.

At least 12 people died in an apartment fire in the Bronx.

Apple apologized for slowing down iPhones and is offering battery replacements for $29.

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