#things to do in Edmonton

[nash13]

mcdrai cowboy

[jeynearrynofthevale]

Connor McDavid might be a tragic figure with a shit on of pathos but I do unironically get annoyed when people suggest he hates playing hockey or is always miserable. Like, if you watch that man on the ice, he clearly loves it. In his documentary, the moment he starts skating again after severely injuring his knee, he’s immediately so much happier and so much better able to deal with the world. Maybe he doesn’t love everything that comes with being a hockey player, especially the media, but he loves playing hockey. And if you watch him around his team, he clearly loves them too.

[subbanator]

mcjesus

[sunshine-gumdrop]

Drai doing drai things vol 828

Lol, what's happening?

The drop ep 36 wcf

[demenior]

its only 7 wins to the cup

[stereax]

[19871997]

three inch height difference Can infact seem like so mych more. thats toad and luigi. btw

[oscarkelfbom]

dear god may this goalie chanting backfire on them so badly

[battle-of-alberta]

This question is for the artist; if the albertans could meet you do you think they’d like you?

yeah, no <3

re: ed's name, back in ye olde IAMP days circa 2009-2010 when I first posted their designs to the forum, there was a big interest in city rp's etc and i wasn't really prepared at all since, yknow, i like to mull things over for years and I was also being very obstinate about shipping since it's not a lens i usually approach things with. For a while they were just known simply as "Ed and Cal" while I pondered surnames for them.

Calvin was easy, I was able to both pay tribute to a historical figure and create a nice sounding alliterative name with McCall.

Ed was a lot harder, I thought about paying tribute to one of the famous five since I wanted to acknowledge women in history... and since I was spending a lot of time around Emily Murphy Park during undergrad at U of A, his name ended up coming from there. Something that I later regretted, of course, but it's been a dozen years and it feels too late to change it. As I've mentioned before, I did think about giving him a Ukrainian surname but the issue with living in Edmonton is any Ukrainian surname is going to either be someone you knew from school or a hockey player or something, lol.

I didn't think about Sinclair until like, the last few years as I was reading a bunch of early Fort Edmonton history; it's something that refers to one of the founding families as well as the strong Scottish/French influence from those days. Buuuuut it seems like a lot of work to change when he's lived in my head so long with this name. I guess we'll see what happens.

[lenacopperleaf]

Ok I did just see a comment on Facebook that said I guess Sam and Erika (from the weird avs ad) are back together and it did make me laugh

[loud-italian-fangirl]

Sometimes I forget that non-Canadians can be fans of Canadian things/people/places and I make a Canadian joke and it doesn’t land online and I get sad………… *sighs in canadian*

[thegreatgrumbolia]

[sunshine-gumdrop]

01/27/24 Nashville at Edmonton

[allbeendonebefore]

heheheh the vindication of reading about a cross country tour for a montreal magazine in the early 70s passing edmonton’s queer scene off as just for “swishy queens and hard drinking butches” and the collective eyeroll of edmontonian queer community completely used to this kind of perception of edmonton, paralleled with me in toronto a few years ago with the torontonians telling me that they heard that drinking is like the only thing to do here like. listen i am the boring hermit shut-in teetotaller and even i know better, lol

[randomoranges]

whew! somehow or other, i managed to make at least One Art a Month. it always amases me. especially since this is still not my favouristest medium, but i am aware that practice makes perfect. 

i like how i tried some different things and some months were hard to chose an art for! there are some pieces that i really like that didnt even make it on the summary.

here’s to more in 2023!

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[mindmeld1000]

I can only imagine that the feeling I get when I watch a Canadian team in the Stanley Cup Finals is the same feeling your average gun toting American feels when the watch military propaganda