Rivalry Rec Room

Sorry I can't provide more details, I entered a fugue state where I read a bajillion fics in a very short period of time, and did not save/bookmark judiciously.

Thanks again for all you do!

This fic doesn't seem familiar to me, but hopefully it rings a bell with one of my followers. Here is what I could find though.

This time around I'll make you proud 

Coach Wiebe realizes Shane is going to come to Ottawa as soon as his relationship with Ilya is revealed. He has plans : the Cup is going to be theirs. Said plans involve Shane and Ilya together on the power play, of course, but also training a player specifically to complement Shane in an insane penalty kill set up...

For the World to See 

Shane and Ilya's first year playing together on the Ottawa Centaurs as seen through interviews, news articles, texts, YouTube videos, the Centaurs social media pages, and Hollanov stan Twitter.

The Trade

Between a late-night highway drive, a captain with pale curls and a competitive streak a mile wide, and a press conference full of carefully polished lies, Shane discovers that maybe losing a franchise means finally finding a home. Also, he is absolutely not getting first line centre without a fight.

Luna: I also definitely hear what you’re saying about Wiebe working towards player strengths, and it brings up something else I really wanted to talk about. Hockey teams in general tend to think of offensive lines as being formed in, like, descending levels of talent. So your stars are on the first line, your good but not great players are on the second, and so on and so forth. But that’s not what’s going on in Ottawa this year. That first line is usually Rozanov at center, with Bood and Barrett in the wings, and the second line is usually Hollander at center, with Haas and LaPointe. Then we have Boyle, Holmberg, and Dillon. Ilya: Right. Luna: But I say usually, because you guys mix that up constantly. Wiebe seems more likely than most coaches to be willing to change a lineup just to fuck with the opposition, or based on what’s going on with the score. I’ve also never seen a coach more willing to move players around. Ilya, the few times this season that we’ve seen you on Shane’s wing have been the most gorgeous hockey I’ve ever seen played. Ilya: Is not a… a hierarchy. This is the first team where I have ever played like this, and is great. Is not a ranking or anything like that. Is genuinely us asking the question, ‘what is best for this team in this play in this moment?’ And we have enough depth of talent and variety in play styles that we are able to do this. It keeps the pressure up, so is not like we put up our third line and the other team has an easy shot on goal. It confuses the other team, it makes the game more fun for us, it makes a better locker room. Everybody wins. Except the other team. Luna: You love to see it. Cassie: Is there a future where we see Shane Hollander play wing? Shane: I’m working on it. I’m not good at it yet, so I don’t know if it’s going to happen this season. Ilya: I would like to clarify. He is very good at it. But Shane Hollander’s standards for ‘good at it’ are higher than a normal person’s. Cassie: I have no trouble whatsoever believing that.

the big threeee, lock in guys, get that pic, y’all are all friends now c’mon now 😤‼️

From the article:

“If you look only at the trend of species declines, it would be easy to think that we’re failing to protect biodiversity, but you would not be looking at the full picture,” said Penny Langhammer, lead author of the study and Executive Vice President of Re:wild. “What we show with this paper is that conservation is, in fact, working to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. It is clear that conservation must be prioritized and receive significant additional resources and political support globally, while we simultaneously address the systemic drivers of biodiversity loss, such as unsustainable consumption and production.”

This massive meta analysis (for those not familiar, a study analyzing the results of many studies on similar topics) found that the vast majority of conservation efforts show much much better results than doing nothing. In many cases, biodiversity loss was not only stopped but reversed.

Forty years ago there were zero condors in the wild.

There are over 300 condors now, free and wild and breeding by themselves without our help.

We did that. We did. Lots of people said "that's stupid, you won't succeed" but people made condor puppets and they said "fuck you we're gonna try anyway" and they fed the babies and raised them up wild and did their best with their big human brains and human cooperation and WE FIXED IT!!!!

YOU ARE NOT THE FIRST GENERATION TO CARE.

YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO CARES.

IT IS NOT HOPELESS.

by facingthenorthwind (spacegandalf) and SiladhielLithvirax

INCREDIBLY useful hockey guide for if you write Heated Rivalry fanfiction! The author is a literal godsend?!