#relatedly

[ouroborosgirlcocks]

My brain will not be normal about trans women with small cocks atm.

[fossore]

Managed to record this segment so enjoy Mario being introspective, to borrow a word from Mayers.

Transcript below the cut

[Stick hitting puck, goal horn sounds]

Pre-Recorded Announcer: SAP is putting the fan experience first. Through SAP insights and stats, we're bringing you closer to the Sharks than ever before. Let's go Beyond the Numbers.

Dan Rusanowsky: We go beyond the numbers with Sharks defenseman Mario Ferraro who has always had a reputation of being an outstanding defensive partner no matter who he plays with and how he adjusts to the way that his partner plays the game. I asked Mario in recent days whether that was something he took pride in.

Mario Ferraro: [slightly hoarse] It is, because I'm not putting up many points, I'm not doing the stuff like scoring goals and as much as I would like to and I try to get involved when I can that's not really what I'm doing every night, so I need something to have in my back pocket that I can bring consistently. And y'know I'm not the most perfect defender all the time either but I just, I try to work and I try to compete, I try to be aggressive on guys, finish checks, block shots, those little things.

And so I do take pride in that. Standing up for my teammates, like little stuff like that. May not show up on the score sheet but those are things that I hope — I hope people watching recognize it, I hope scouts recognize it, management, but most importantly I hope my teammates recognize that's what I take most pride in is that my teammates know who I am as a player and person.

DR: Well I think they do recognize that and y'know, it's one of the things that I think is his greatest strength. He is a really good teammate but he's also a very good defensive partner.

Jamal Mayers: Absolutely, and I think that hearing him say those things is important. Having those types of guys in a locker room that really bring people together, that are typically called glue guys, that do the right things and are team first type of players, you need that. That's how you establish good dressing rooms and good cultures, and very important to have guys like him in that room.

DR: One of the other strengths that Mario has is good communication. He talks on the ice. He talks to his linemates, his teammates, but he doesn't over do it either. He understands the balance of it and he's getting better at it as he continues his NHL career.

He's had good chemistry with his current partner, Tim Liljegren, and he talked about that and the value of communication on the ice.

MF: Yeah, I mean I love my — I love my teammates, we have a good time, that's why I lost my voice right now. In the last couple of days have been — we've had a tough schedule, we've had a lot of games. I took the opportunity to spend a lot of time with my teammates.

Something I'm trying to get better at too is when things aren't going well on the ice sometimes I let it affect me outside of the ice or outside the rink and I might isolate myself sometimes, so those are things that I try and consciously work on because it's so — what we do is so awesome and we should be so grateful for it, that you're gonna have off nights, it's gonna happen, but at the end of the day who we have, what we have and we have each other, that's the most special thing. So I'm just trying to, just been trying to enjoy that as much as I can.

I also don't have my — I actually lost my phone on this trip, I didn't lose it, I left it on the bus in Seattle by accident and it was gonna get shipped to Tampa Bay and then they delayed it so I'm like 'Y'know what, just send it to San Jose' and I feel so much better. I don't look at my phone and I'm just kind of in the moment and I feel like I'm connected more and communicating more with the people around me. So it's an interesting little unintended experiment that I have going on. But yeah, it's been nice.

DR: So maybe he's gonna leave his phone home for the next road trip because I think that's just an interesting fact about this current time away. That he's just been without a phone, not on social media, and he's talking to his teammates.

JM: Well what's his wife think of that?

DR: Oh, I'm sure she's thrilled.

JM: [Laughs] Well you know what, it's a nice social experiment for him to have to not have his phone. I think a few of us don't have our phones for several hours we get a little bit anxious. It's nice to hear him be a little bit more candid and honest about what he's experienced and it's kind of interesting to hear that.

DR: By the way there's an interesting strategy for you. 'Honey, I lost my phone.'

JM: [Laughing ]Yeah!

DR:[Also laughing] Could be something in the future there.

JM: 'Go buy a new one. Right now'

DR: Well that's what would happen exactly.

But Mario Ferraro leaving his phone on the bus in Seattle, and he's turned that negative into a positive, which I think is really cool.

JM: You know what, you see, I like the introspection that he gave in regard to, he becomes a little bit introverted when things aren't going well.

DR: Yeah

JM: And he consciously is aware that that's one of the things he does. I certainly was like that as well and I think that having the perspective that he has as an older guy will help other guys, like Macklin even or younger guys y'know like Will, leave the game at the rink and learn to enjoy it and not take it home all the time.

DR: SAP is putting the fan experience first, and with insights and stats calculated by SAP we connect you to 30 years of Sharks hockey as we go Beyond the Numbers.

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[iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast]

i love being a sentient ball of tension and muscle knots

[missmagooglie]

😬

I don't love the way it looks like they're gonna turn Amir into a full villain. I really hope the way the trailer implied he's gonna try to straight up murder Bobby is an intentional misdirection.

(Someone please come tell me I'm reading this wrong. Please.)

[quinloki]

Quin 😭🤲 I beg you for some Kid and mechanic AU ? 👀 also I hope you're having a FABULOUS day so far, mwah !! 💖💋

OH MAN - Kid and crew being mechanics is a huge head canon of mine for modern AUs.

In the one shot Elevated, the business they own is a repair/build shop, kind of handyman deal, and in A Light Touch Kid does a lot of prosthetic and practical engineering work, and in Family Ties and Birds of a Feather they own an auto body shop.

-:- Kid started out working in someone's auto repair shop when he was younger. He did a lot of gofer and under the table work, and even spent some time jacking cars for money - and the ability to learn more about working on them. He wasn't picky about the source of his knowledge, just hungry to learn.

-:- Kid's interest in the mechanical stretches way beyond just cars, but AU depending on just how much further out it goes.

-:- this guy spends hours in shop pants, a-shirts and grease stains.

-:- he's gluing cuts shut with elmer's glue while Killer is beating him with a rag to handle it properly, but he's so focused on what he's doing he just ignores him until he's done.

Gods, fuck, a premise for this. A premise. I just wanna watch this man work on cars all day. Who needs a plot. Make a calendar out of it.

Heavy metal punks for Charity or something. It's just pictures and pictures of Kid and crew in various states of uniform violations and grease. All grimy, and sweaty, with those really big wrenches over their shoulders and--

ah

/ahem/

...

Okay, but for the charity calendar, at least one month is just full on punk aesthetic, like this.

Send me a character and an AU and I'll give you a treat.

[calypsolemon]

can't wait until the rgu cast reaches the outside world and learns about public transport

[spiritunwilling]

Talked to the poli sci kid at my math table today. Maybe if the poli sci guys and humanities guys joined forces we'd be unstoppable

[leguin]

I'm sure many of you have found yourselves in a marriage where you think I wish I hadn't gone to the marriage ceremony. It would solve a lot of my problems if I just had not gone that day. So you thought to yourself how could you have avoided that cause you were already cohabiting so its not like you could have…well you could have leapt from the car on the way, nice and dramatic you know or you could show up and excuse yourself to go to the bathroom and just keep walking, just keep right on walking, walk a long time, but you didn't do that because you are a moral coward, and your curiosity of how things were actually going to go got the better of you, and I think that 'got the better of you' is a cool phrase when we are talking about what went down with you and your beloved. I was as sorry as anybody to hear about it, but at the same time I wasn't because I have a clinical kind of sadistic interest in what happens to you: the things you do when you get with these people and you can't stop drinking, and it's interesting, it's like watching fractals. You don't know what colors they are going to turn, but you know they are going to be spectacular.

John Darnielle introducing "Have to Explode" on 12/05/2008

[bijoumikhawal]

lol, I mentioned "yeah, actually I have no problem with people who don't want to see sex scenes, but if people can't handle the embarrassment of accidentally watching a movie with one in it with their family they aren't mature enough to watch R rated movies (and i really dont know why you'd watch an R rated movie with your family if you're worried abt that), and if there's trauma involved they aren't doing their diligence to protect themselves by not looking up content before, and I would know as a CSA survivor" in a long and stupid twitter argument and that got me the block

[a-queer-little-wombat]

Honestly, whatever my brain THINKS you said is probably funnier and/or more interesting than what you actually said.

Dealing with auditory processing disorder

LAWFUL: take the parts you heard and turn it into a clarifying question, e. g. "you saw your cousin where?" or "she's writing a what?"

NEUTRAL: "what did you say?"

CHAOTIC: take a wild stab at what the person said, e. g. "you want to baptize a mackerel?"

[charliecat16]

i wish i could be a cat sooo bad bro. i just wanna sleep on my friends but be small too. the want to just be a little creature is strong sometimes.

[thirteen-jades]

Do you feel more like a P or N channel mosfet?

N type feels more natural and intuitive to me. This is ~100% an artifact of the way I learned things and the sort of work I do (the focus of my research is probably impossible to dope P-type), not any meaningful physical superiority. P-type is pretty cool on a conceptual level though, in a way that's not immediately easy to explain when I'm so tired.

[unnecessarilygrandiose]

THANK GOD AND THE WRITERS OF 911

[yeowvng]

no i will not download your stupid app to bypass your stupid wall

[inkskinned]

probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.

we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."

at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.

the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.

the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.

what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.

here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.