Clouds of Lethe

I gestured a hand across an explanation of a Scottish field geologist character named Ken(dal Mint Cake) stating that he always has a packet of Kendal mint cake somewhere and received a message from a friend saying “I didn’t know you also knew (guy that Ken could conceivably be based on)”. I didn’t. This is just a portrait of too many extant guys.

There are several species of this man crashing cheerfully around the UK receiving deep spiritual pleasure from crouching in a puddle in a howling gale up a mountain nibbling pieces of violent mint sugar and apparently metabolising sufficient joy from this to polish off Kendal Mint Cake in marketable quantities for over 100 years.

Unless they made too much of it originally and are still selling it.

Step 1: go on an entirely optional adventure

Step 2: get into an unpleasant condition in bad weather

Step 3: become very uncomfortable and hateful

Step 4: Kendal mint cake

Step 5: access stratosphere with tits blown off

Step 6: summit

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

I don’t think Bood is making the Montreal dream team, but that’s because I want him to be the captain that rebuilds the Centaurs.

I want him on a winning team too, but I want him to get to be the one to make that happen. I think he’s working on his own historic rebuild in the background of the fic.

I think between the international attention on Shane from Sochi and the number of minorities that turn the fuck up for the Montreal dream team rebuild, the Metros primary owner just about adds a fucking zero to his net worth. Like it is such a sleeper hit of financial success, which is why he keeps green lighting Shane to do whatever the fuck he wants with the team. #lovewins #womendoitbetter. He does not fucking care. He is profiting so much off of this. Do whatever hashtags you want. He thinks he’s gonna convince Obama to go golfing with him soon.

I think Ottawa’s ownership takes a page out of the Metros book and sees if they can get some measure of financial return from this failing team by leaning into the Diversity Hire angle. You want… you want a woman? POC? Homosexuality??? And then I get money?? Okay…

But this means that they just end up with a load of highly qualified people who were getting locked out by stereotyping. The Centaurs start winning more and more under Bood’s leadership.

I like the idea that Bood + Shane + Ilya become friends down the line. There are still hosts of people who act like they + Scott Hunter are the captains personally destroying hockey. I think they bond over it. And the Centaurs and the Metros dream team rebuild are geographically close enough to do group hangouts, with Bood killing it on the grill.

Right now this is what I’m thinking of for the metros dream team rebuild:

Shane, Hayden, & J.J. - all stay, captain and alternate captains

To Be Named Violent Lesbian - first line wing

Ryan Price - first line defenseman (has to be on the ice at the same time as Shane to protect him, Shane is Vibrating at the idea of having just a Fight Guy on the first fucking line and insisting on BARE MINIMUM fights. We have to work on your passing. Ironically has never been fighting less in his entire career despite the fact that he was only acquired to protect Shane. Currently the most eligible gay bachelor in Montreal. Has never been happier in his career)

Wyatt Hayes - goalie w/ Miitka, Drapeau gets traded to Toronto for him

To Be Named Asian American AHL player who was getting underestimated as not “physical” enough - second line center or defenseman, still deciding which

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

eating disorder recovery is just getting angry over and over again because food is treated like some horrible necessary evil instead of one of the great joys of life. eat some nuts because they taste good and you are a living thing that thrives on pleasure and calories. you need both.

And it pissed me off so badly that I spent the ENTIRE WORK DAY today compiling evidence from every project my team has ever done for her, pulling past emails she’d sent us, putting together an entire case proving that she had been the problem all along. That she got projects mixed up, that she’d made requests that were nonsensical, literally everything you could possibly imagine. Screenshots of emails, reports we’d submitted, EVERYTHING.

This woman in particular has been terrorizing my team for years, her name is almost a slur in my office, I had simply had ENOUGH of her.

I put all of this evidence together and sent it to all of my bosses at 4:30pm. Then I took a long break to eat a sweet treat and drink some tea.

After my break, my bosses all called in an emergency meeting with me and they said they read my report and fucking loved it. And I sat on a teams call with my boss’ boss as she wrote my nemesis the scathing email I had always fantasized about sending, using the evidence I’d compiled, and hit send.

this particularly works with anything negative i’ve forecasted. “i woke up feeling like shit today, so my day is gonna suck” isn’t a particularly helpful thought, but “it’s a great day to be alive!!!!!” feels hollow and insincere when i have a pounding headache & am running on three hours of sleep

instead i’ll tell myself, “i really don’t feel good right now, but i’m open to the possibility that coffee and breakfast might perk me up a bit.” or “i’m in a lot of pain today, but i’m open to the possibility that my workday might still have fun parts despite that”