#important lore

What is it like to live a life without this knowledge...my beautiful secret pond..let me save you now...

The secret pond is very real! It is mentioned in this article from March 11, 2024:

Will Smith still won’t reveal where he found the “secret little pond,” other than that it’s nestled amongst the trees somewhere in Lexington.

Though college hockey’s leading scorer hasn’t skated regularly on that pond or at The Old Reservoir, aka “the rez,” for years, the 18-year-old Boston College freshman dynamo still remembers the spot.

Before Smith became arguably the best player in college hockey on the sport’s top ranked team, and an NHL first round pick, Smith honed his hockey skills on local ponds and in a shooting room in the basement of all of the three different Lexington homes his family lived in. “Where the dreams were being dreamt,” he says.

That secret pond in the Lexington woods is sacred to him. It's where he dreamed his dreams, where he built his future in castles in the sky with every trick shot he sent into a snow bank, every between the legs Kaner spinorama he carved out of bumpy outdoor ice. It's his and he doesn't want just anyone to find it. Robbing it of that hiddenness would strip it of its magic. He needs it to stay his lodestone, to hold and protect the little boy with big dreams who used to skate there.

Looking at these panels, you'd normally say "The Joker has listened to Britney Spears" BUT actually this is not the real Joker, this is Cass's hallucination of him.

So the correct answer is Cassandra Cain has listened to "Oops!... I Did it Again" by Britney Spears (and it's implied she's had it stuck in her head).

From Batgirl (2000) #15

1st place (gold rupee/300 rupees): Skyward Sword Zelda.

2nd place (purple rupee/50 rupees): Ocarina of Time Zelda, Echoes of Wisdom Zelda, Four Sword Adventures Zelda.

3rd place (blue rupee/5 rupees): A Link to the Past Zelda.

Sara Civian -- May 27, 2022

There are too many golden deadpan Teuvo Teravainen interviews to pick a favorite. A few from this month alone still inspire a giggle.

But for some reason, one interaction I had with the succinct Finn after the Canes’ 2019 Eastern Conference final run always stands out.

Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour had mentioned he thought Teravainen’s “compete level” improved during the season and into the playoffs. I approached Teravainen at his stall (ah, the good ol’ days) and started to ask him a question based on Brind’Amour’s comment.

Teravainen interrupted.

“Wait, he said something nice about me?” he asked. “That’s good.”