No Moral Value in Dirt Time

The Ilya we see in Heated rivalry would not be throwing the first punch, he's not an enforcer. Ilya is a star center and a Pest. He wouldn't be doing his job correctly if he was punching players every other game, it would end up with not enough ice time to let him be the playmaker he's paid to be.

But being a pest can be playmaking! Find a player to bait, emotionally push them just enough that they try to fight you, and then get the fuck out of there before the ref gives you both penalties. This gets your team the power play. There is probably someone on Ilya's line dedicated to helping him get out of the fights he starts, and finishing them for him!

I also think this is also something that Shane would respect. Ilya is good at it and it's a good strategy for his team. I don't think Shane would see it as some dirty tactic, because Shane probably thinks everyone with a brain can see it for what it is! He probably thinks everyone should be able to see that being an asshole is a tactic for Ilya, that it's something to ignore and not fall for, that it's a strategy and not personal beef.

Having grown up in the former: Florida is a miserable, sad place. It feels choked, the thick humid air feeling like a miasma. Florida is a cursed land. I think it was possible, if your vision was clear enough, to stand on its grounds a thousand years ago and see the problems of today, from Florida Man to Tort Reform. It is a land that never should've been built, the water of the swamp drained but not its black essence.

California is an Eden ruined by humanity. It is a living, 750 mile long proof that Man did not need a serpent in Eden: He could fall on His own, and Samson-like, bring down the temple with him. Every problem in California could be solved by human hands, and every problem in California is doubled, tripled, like a fractal of sin, across the state, by human hands.

The beginning

Just to clarify, Erik is clutching his mother's hair...

I don't draw kids often so I hope it just doesn't look like adult Erik with small body 😅 I had to dig up that photo of little Jim as a small reference point

An isterik comic; more below the cut

little stickers i made for some really cool people and little stickers i made for fun and could give out to some very cool people c:

one still hasnt arrived to its destination so i have to hide it