Blue 2, by Joan Miró, 1961

Although if I have to pick a side I'm siding with the old men (Pens).

The Battle of Pennsylvania (hockey) is so fun to watch as someone who has no emotional investment in either team but loves watching two teams that genuinely dislike each other go head-to-head.

Ugh (this is about hockey)

We're fun! Our hockey...might not be all that great but what got us here is being well-coached, having great vibes, and also using our giant dudes to hit people a lot. ^ ^;

Oooh so I think they're good (I also think their actual hockey is a bit boring) but Seth Jarvis is awesome and I'll forever be mad that we decided not to hang onto Bussi who has had an amazing season with them thus far.

Let's goooooo. Hope you have a quick and safe recovery! ^ ^

These playoffs in particular should be really fun because there are a some teams with either young-ish talent coming into their own at the right time or teams punching above their expected weight to make it at all.

But my actual answer would be to just watch some of the playoff games and see which teams you end up vibing with if you don't have any preexisting player or geolocation attachments.

Weirdly this would probably be the Buffalo Sabres right now by virtue of the fact that they've sucked (until their turnaround after firing their GM mid-season this year) despite getting repeated high-end draft picks for years.

What do you look for in your sports teams?

This Bruins team is mostly a bunch of dudes in a trenchcoat masquerading as a hockey team and they're in the playoffs and I love that for them and me.

all the best on the surgery and a swift recovery! <3

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An image of Italian figure skater Daniel Grassl in his Italy team jacket shaking the hand of Pope Leo XIV. Grassl previously skated his free program to music from the movie "Conclave."

The Pope Grassl and Pope Leo XIV meetup. ^ ^;

Inhale, and Exhale: Akane-banashi Episode 1 One of the most difficult things I did last year was enter couple’s therapy. Jeez, Natasha, you might say. Is everything alright? Why couple’s therapy? Dear reader, I assure you –…

I wrote!!! A thing!!! After many years. shibirerudarou.wordpress.com/2026/04/11/i...

I have sharp features, resting bitch face, and an inability to turn my brain off at any time. This probably means that I look pissed off to people while waiting for the train when in reality my thoughts are: "Hm, a little animation of Kim and Harry to 'Platinum Disco' would be hilarious."

very funny to think about now that I have a job in League that one of the first ways I found out about its existence was thanks to Penguindrum. ^ ^;

iirc it might not have been directly at the time of Penguindrum but the banner for their site was Cottontail Teemo.

I remember vibrating on my couch waiting for Penguindrum fansubs while members of GGsubs were supposedly playing a game called...League of Legends... ^ ^;;;; bsky.app/profile/good...

Just Witch Hat Atelier thus far but it's so good. ^ ^

Lately, I've been feeling the itch to blog about anime again.

And by near-weekly I mean, I blogged about Space Patrol Luluco with some Kiznaiver thrown in there.

"Lay Your Hands on Me" by Boom Boom Satellites came on the old anime playlist while I was out walking the dog and I remembered that Kiznaiver was a show that I blogged near-weekly.

Some conservatives here think that secular young Iranians would be happy if America would come and liberate them. What would you say to them? Democracy, contrary to what they try to tell us, it’s not a paper that you hang on the wall and then you have a democracy. Democracy is a social evolution. It is something cultural. Iranians, they have become much more secular, and they are ready for democracy, but they have to fight themselves for democracy, and the only thing that other countries can do is to understand their fight and help them in their fight. They [America] talk about the human rights in Iran … how is it that the United States makes the biggest deals with China, and China is far from respecting human rights? What about Saudi Arabia? If you want to talk about an inquisition, the Iranian regime is far from being an inquisition. We have almost a free press, people leave, women have the right to study, they drive, they work. Saudi Arabia, they don’t have anything like that! Talk about human rights in Saudi Arabia! Why doesn’t anyone go and put a bomb in Saudi Arabia and kill the king?

Do you think it’s ironic that, in the face of American threats, you almost find yourself defending the Iranian regime? Absolutely, but if we want a democracy, the Iranian people have to do it themselves. The Americans say they want a democracy in Iran, and at the same time, when the Iranians wanted to become democratic in 1953 with [Mohammad] Mosaddeq and to nationalize our oil, the CIA came and made a coup d’état in my country. Why do you want me to believe that they want to come and make a democracy? We have to make our democracy! There are many things that I wish for in my country — I want my country to be free, I want my country to be democratic, I don’t want any journalists to go to jail because of an article they wrote in my country. But if the United States of America attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the United States.

Do you see similarities between the Christian fundamentalists in our government and the mullahs in Iran? They’re the same! George Bush and the mullahs of Iran, they use the same words! The mullahs of Iran say we have God on our side; he has God on his side, too. Both of them are convinced that they are going to eradicate evil in the world. But when these words come out of the mouth of a mullah, it’s normal. It’s a shame that the president of the biggest secular democracy in the world talks with the same words as the mullahs. It’s extremely scary.

Do you have any advice for secular Americans who are faced with living in a country that’s increasingly governed by religious fundamentalists? If I have any advice, it’s that every day that you wake up, don’t say, “This is normal.” Every day, wake up with this idea that you have to defend your freedom. Nobody has the right to take from women the right to abortion, nobody has the right to take from homosexuals the right to be homosexual, nobody has the right to stop people laughing, to stop people thinking, to stop people talking. If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.

The full 2005 interview it's from is well worth a read btw. Sadly just as relevant today as it was 20+ years ago—moreso, in fact. www.salon.com/2005/04/24/s...

"There are many things I wish for my country . . . But if the USA attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the US."

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.” ― Edgar Mitchell Image: Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.

Waking up to the awe-inspiring images from NASA at the same time the US President is implying that he will commit genocide, I can't think of a better quote for the times than this one from Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell. I added it to today's Earthset image:

ad astra, artemis ii 🌒

#illustration

Sorry I didn't see this until now but yeah it's one of the new League shirts. (Tbf I just liked that it says "King of Fruit.") ^ ^;

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