I have one kink and it's not a good idea.

hockey 101: unofficial lingo

today’s hockey term of the day: dick trick.

a dick trick is an unofficial way of referring to when a player scores four goals in one game.

term originated from joe thornton, who plays for the san jose sharks, when he was asked about tomas hertl scoring a dick trick:

why a dick trick? cos it rhymes nicely. (+ level up from a hat trick, which is when a player scores three goals in one game).

+ a more in depth explanation (ty @chaospitals​):

shortly after this, players tweeted in response to both marleau’s dick trick + thorntons comments:

ANYWAYS the term has now become a casual, unofficial term used throughout the internets:

anywho ty for coming to my ted talk, heres my evidence of dick trick being a real term that exists, i wasn’t just pulling the term dick trick out of thin air

Condom machines off for the royal period of mourning💔💔💔

It's actually kind of impressive how ill-conceived this whole "Notes Preview" business is. At a single stroke, it's been rendered impossible to curate one's experience even on one's own dashboard – now it doesn't matter that you've carefully followed a group of blogs you can trust not to reblog noxious bullshit, because with every post that crosses your dash there's now a chance that Tumblr will automatically append some random asshole's opinion about that post, in a way that neither you nor the person you're following can predict. Bravo.

In the short time this feature has been live I've already been obliged to remove a post from my own blog because I tried to do the "scroll back up the thread and reblog a version without the commentary" thing, only for Tumblr to helpfully display the exact post I was trying to avoid putting on my blog as a notes preview.

looked into it and i think This poster ended up being the basis for the Goncharov shoes

yea this is it alright

when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW

op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light

Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman

I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

I’m having some emotions about it!

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

God I’m not okay about it

Now I’m mad that this is not among any of the things I was ever told about this artist.

I knew about this in general (& via all those fabulous photos), but this just adds even more beautiful context <3

Just to add to the pile: this was the cover of Springsteen’s break-through album Born to Run, in 1975:

I mean, will you LOOK at this:

This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:

There’s a lot more online if you search. They’re all pretty amazing. But the photographer is right, the one chosen for the album cover just pops.

You are daniel larusso. You won two karate tournaments 35 years ago and also fought someone to the death once (you both survived so it’s fine) and then lived out a normal life. Your high school bully and first (but not last) karate rival reopens the dojo that terrorized you which reignites your passion for karate. You start training a protege of your own and it turns out he’s the son of your first karate rival. It turns out that your first karate rival is now teaching with his sensei, a man that spearheaded an elaborate plot to torture you when you were teenager at the second karate tournament because of your victory in the first tournament. You go back to Okinawa, where you had your first (but not last) fight to the death, where your ex-girlfriend encourages you to reconcile with your second karate rival who was the one you fought to the death and who tried to kill you both. You reconcile with your second karate rival. You go back home. Your first karate rival has had his dojo stolen from him by his insane sensei and his students launch an attack on your home. A small boy is thrown through your window. You have a fight to the death with the insane sensei that ends in a draw. He comes back with the second person who was involved with the elaborate plan to torture you when you were a teenager, the boss karate rival. You find out he has an insane bond villain plan to take over the world with evil karate so you look up your third karate rival, the third person who tortured you when you were a teenager at your second karate tournament. You reconcile with your third karate rival. You reconcile with your first karate rival. On a night out when you’re drinking with with your first and second karate rivals, your third karate rival hijacks your car because he blames you for burning down his business, when it was actually the guy that tortured you. You get kicked out of your own revenge party while your former karate rivals all team to kill the boss karate rival. Both of your children have karate rivals. Your son doesn’t even know karate.

So I finally made a uquiz to see how fandom would see you if you were a fictional character.

ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT

Can’t say I’m surprised, I bet I’d probably be like Russia in that almost everyone in the fandom made me evil and psychotic and constantly murdering the other characters in their stories even though I didn’t go nearly that far in the source material, because everyone thinks I should have been evil 😹😹

I am so fucking angry

This is not a sponsored post I am just an old man getting excited over boring things.

Hey disabled people and neurodivergents I have an app reccomendation for you, its called sweepy.

It is a chore tracker with some features that are actually fucking HELPFUL, not just like a list of shit to do.

So what you do is you add rooms, and in those rooms you list all the things that you have to do. You set how often they need doing and how much effort they take to do. So now you never have to wonder if you need to hoover yet, it will tell you! It also has options for one time tasks and seasonal tasks. Also there are a lot of task presets to make it all easier.

And that alone is all great but if you pay for premium (a very reasonable 12 quid a year), you get more features like adding other people in your house so that you all know whats going on, and my favourite feature, the daily schedule. What you do is you set how many effort points you want to use in a day, and sweepy will go through the things that need doing and assign you tasks to match the effort points. You can even set tasks to only be assigned to specific people. Also like. Streaks and leader boards and shit if that stuff helps motivate you.

Specific benefits ive noticed with this app and living with other people:

Everything is so efficient because we know exactly what each other is doing

Reduces negative feelings towards others re housework cus its hard for the brain gremlin to be like “they’re not doing anything!” Cus like. Yes they are. They got points for it. Look at the leader board u dumb fucking brain gremlin.

Ok another sweepy update let me talk about how this is the best ADHD hack of all time.

So u know how household chores are super hard with ADHD cus its not just oh do this, its an endless cycle. There is no “done”. You do not get your dopamine. It goes on and on and on and on and

Well here’s the thing. Because in sweepy you have to break down “chores” into specifics, and because it times the chores, which draws a clear line between “done” and “needs doing”, it transforms the endless cycle of housework into distinct tasks with an end point.

Which means INFINITE DOPAMINE MACHINE.

It *also* means that when sweepy tells me to go do one thing in the bathroom, I will end up doing like 3 things because DOMPAMINE. TICK THE BOXES. POINTS. I AM REWARDED. Even if those things don’t need doing yet. Yes I am wiping down clean enough sinks just for points I am a FUNCTIONING ADULT.

a mascot of the people (x)

hey so tumblr just added this thing (community labels) and by default ALL these category filters are set to remove anything labelled with these from your feed entirely (not just blurred).

Please remember to go into your settings and adjust them to what you prefer! if you're under 18, you won't be able to adjust them as they are set to Hide until you turn 18

this is what it looks like in settings (i have everything set to Show, the default is Hidden)

@maybewren @casperillion

From: usbirthcertificates.com

Your sixth most recent emoji predicts how you’ll feel about life in 10 years

Currently loosing it over this

this is all I care about right now.

ever wanted to know what your epithet would be if you were a character in greek mythology? now you can! you could be the next wine-dark sea, or maybe you’ll be unlucky and end up as the phallic gecko, because everything is possible in greek mythology

“strong-greaved god”

What is a greave?? (googles) Wait, I have sick calves?? Hell yeah I do, y'all can get this info about me for free!!