#sunscratched

i think maybe everyone needs to get way more normal about irish art & media and irish people creating or even just existing in art/media cause i don't know how much longer i can see "hozier is a bog dwelling elven fae king and i don't listen to his political lyrics because i can't understand his mysterious forest king accent teehee" before i snap indefinitely. your fetishistic approach to irish art while simultaneously devaluing its messages and themes because you'd rather see it as your romanticised ideal of our culture is BORING. it happened to the banshees of inisherin on the "mental illness site" and maybe if they'd had southern england accents you'd have taken it seriously. it happened to DERRY GIRLS. derry girls. a show explicitly about irish catholicism, the troubles, life in derry in the 90s and female solidarity and you people dressed it up as some twee little mockery of itself. talk and talk about how strange the writing of finnegan's wake is and don't think critically about why james joyce, an irish man in 1939, would write a book in a confusing, dense style, with made up words with strange spellings. could this possibly be a commentary on the way the irish language has become jumbled and obscure? how it's become almost foreign to us? how for a long time it was an oral language and that didn't always translate to paper well? our art is "irish art" but simultaneously not allowed to be important art. it has to exist in that niche to marvel at but not take seriously. irish dance, trad music, celtic knots, claddagh rings, our poetry and literature and murals and paintings and our culture packed away into a neat stereotype. i see it and it irritates me endlessly.

if you're an nhl fan and not a pwhl fan you don't have to post about the pwhl. it's literally fine. i would be much happier if many of you just let pwhl fans talk and didn't make posts in our tags about how awesumm you think it is that women can play hockey now 🥺🥺 and goshh all these women are so pretty LOL all the nhl players are ugly and these women are so ethereal and nice to look at :)) they're just so pretty lalalala :)) you wish the nhl was queer like the pwhl lol lesbians play sports lol these women are so pretty beautiful etc yes i have every fourth liner on my teams' stats memorised no i could not tell you what position that female player whose appearance i've posted about seven times in a row plays, i wish i could get into woho but this but that but the other it's okay. it's actually okay. you don't have to perform your guilt for us. you can just not watch women's hockey but stop posting about not watching women's hockey in the women's hockey tags. thank you

jamie drysdale shows up in philly january 2024 fresh off the Trade Conversation with trevor and coots takes one look at his sad puppy dog eye pug face and attempts the man to man captainly "we support Any And All Identities" talk with meaningful eye contact. jamie, alarmed & deeping hetero cosplay: "i'm not homophobic". tk attempts cool mature i'm a guy too haha advice that is so incomprehensible jamie ends up with a top ten list of places him & nolpat went to in their prime and a cryptic message about metaphorical concussions? possibly? (tk does not get drunk and break no contact with patty to text drysdale's like you if you were nice). owen tippett sends him links to lgbtq groups in philly and jamie sends back an orange heart emoji. they think they've successfully allied up and he gets it. he does not get it. danny briere who is now an Adult starts a dialogue. he starts it with "i was young once too.." and jamie thinks he's getting kicked off the team. sanny, who dealt with tknp many moons ago, just pats jamie on the back and leaves it. jamie is sure he's getting kicked off the team. trevor shows up at camp a year and a half later fresh faced and smiling and jamie's heart stutters and he goes oh. oh. coots tells trevor we support Any And All Identities on this team and trevor (mildly insulted) says i'm not homophobic. tk tells him "we don't support homophomic [sic] language". danny briere starts summoning spirits to bring g back. denver barkey shows up in december starry eyed and gushing over his ldn knight boyzz & especially easton cowan. tzjd start making meaningful eye contact about having the Gay Conversation with the rookie. coots says we support Any And All Identities and barks says oh sick man i totally agree dw i'm not homophobic!! porter and alex show up in march and coots hypes himself up in the mirror to tell them We Support Any And All Identities Hem Hem and porter says sick man my buddy's gay. coots falls to the floor sobbing. matvei michkov is torturing rick tocchet in rick's secret dungeon basement where tocc was torturing him first. danny is communing with the spirit of mike richards.

feel like such a fake feminist because i talk a big game about respecting female hockey players as professional athletes and not reducing them to their looks or "girlboss slay" etc but in the end i have a folder of videos of sarah fillier taking her helmet off on my phone. sorry women

thinkinggg ab connor "she can juggle" bedard and like. it is objectively hilarious but it's sweet that while the other guys were giving (cute! they were nice!) responses about what their mom does for them and their family, what she's sacrificed etc etc, he took the time to think about it, and came back with a fact about her he thought was cool, a talent she had and curated and was nothing to do with him or his family. like he loves his mom

we don't talk enough about how loadbearing podcasts are for the tzjd lore. jamie saying he plays guitar on the roof while watching the sunset with trevor and the host saying "that'd be good for dates". jamie saying him and trevor were going to "cuddle up on the couch together". trevor telling a host he's wearing jamie's favourite hat ("oh, is it his hat?" "no, it's his favourite hat") and informing us all that jamie has opinions on what clothes he like seeing on trevor.