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Dylan, you couldn't have picked a better day to cry about your friends leaving you less than one minute into an eighteen minute press conference.

without further ado!

The buzzer rings. It’s a win, but not the win: the celebration is subdued. Dylan lines up for handshakes, his own team first, then Team Slovakia, who is visibly crushed by the fourth place finish.

He circles back around to the person that he can barely believe he’s leaving behind. Again.

“You good? Had me worried with the block in the third.”

For those of you who are NOT obsessed with a ship that had its heyday five years ago, you might not be aware, but Zach and Dylan are hanging out again!

(Stolen from Twitter, source unknown, would love to add the source if you have it)

The first sign of life was from Zach’s dog’s Instagram account, where we see Dylan in the background:

Next, the two of them hopped across the pond to watch some football (soccer) and see Coldplay:

(Stolen from Twitter, source unknown, would love to add the source if you have it)

Dylan didn’t appear in the photos at Wembley, but his teammate Lucas Raymond was sitting next to Zach at the game. (The game actually happened before the concert, so for a while, we didn’t know if Dylan was in Europe, and we thought Zach might just have met up with some of Dylan’s teammates 👀).

(From Zach’s and Lucas’s Instagram stories, 2023-06-03)

Then their girlfriends flew out to meet them in Monaco where we were blessed with yet more pictures:

From Dylan’s Instagram story, 2023-06-07.

Really nice recipes. Every hour.

The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands is a micronation near Australia.  This is their flag:

The Gay Kingdom (as it is colloquially known) was founded in 2004 in protest against Australia’s legal stance against same-sex marriage.

Here are some of their stamps:

They are currently ruled by Emperor Dale I, and their currency is the Pink Dollar.

they have a declaration of independence that talks a bit about gay rights and then just flat out copies the “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness” part from the american declaration of independence. and here’s the best part: the founding group actually elected their emperor. he was originally going to be called the “administrator” of a republic. their website, however, says that “upon legal advice, his title was changed to that of Sovereign on the grounds that under Australian law a defacto prince trying to claim his crown cannot be charged with treason”. so they made it a kingdom and he now claims to be a descendent of edward ii.

everything about this is glorious and everyone should know about it.

So, Disney storyboarded Hercules in live action with dancers. My mind is blown

And the safety briefing included the question “So if you’re pregnant, do you want to know or not?”

Turns out there had been a bit of an awkward situation once where the keepers had casually mentioned a woman’s pregnancy in a group, and she herself didn’t even know yet. Turns out the wolves are excellent at telling if you’re pregnant and the keepers can tell based on their body language.  They get all odd and careful around pregnancy. (Even wolves knows that you have to take care of pregnant people.)

So they definitely knew she was pregnant.

And if I remember my BBC documentaries right, a wolf will leave the pack to give birth and introduce the cubs to the pack once she feels ready for it. And maternity leave is flexible but often around 6 months so they’re going “YOU WERE GONE FOREVER! WE WERE SO WORRIED! WHERE ARE THE CUBS?? WE HAVE TO GREET THE CUBS!!“ 

Architecture Students Reimagine Harry Potter 

Students of a 12 day course at the Melbourne School of Design were not sorted into houses, but they were assigned Gringotts Bank, Grimmauld Place, the Shrieking Shack and other fan favorites in the Harry Potter universe. their Harry Potter architecture models were laser cut from cardboard (ten house points), hand-modeled (forty house points), constructed in very little time (fifty points), and remind us of the truest magic of all (teamwork).

Students at the Melbourne School of Design had very few spells to work with in order to cast these gorgeously film-accurate 3D models. Students were given 1.0 mm and 0.6 mm boxboard to create their models from. They used trace paper — for windows and diffused lights — and LED lights and motors connected to Arduinos.