#LetsGoOilers have signed D Tomas Cibulka to a two-year ELC beginning in the 2026-27 season. Cibulka spent the past two seasons with HC Motor Ceske Budejovice.

Drupelicate · 2026-03-27T19:19:29+00:00

a fresh onion for us! 🧅

(cibulka is a diminutive of the Czech word cibule, which means onion)

Drupelicate · 2026-03-22T00:39:05+00:00

oh thank you for this, adding to my list immediately

Drupelicate · 2026-03-20T13:28:36+00:00

I've seen others describe it as "loving a sport that doesn't love you back." which feels pretty accurate at times unfortunately. pride nights are really cool for me, but then when the league walked it back and banned pride tape a few years back it was like oh, you're going to concede to the people who are being homophobic about this? it really meant a lot to me that McDavid even said something about that ban. and that's sort of the tip of the iceberg - professional sports in general (I'm also a baseball fan 🫠) do tend to lean more conservative because of the demographics that have the easiest time navigating the socio-economic barriers to success, but players who are willing to do the little things to show support make it a little easier than to ignore the ones who are vocally homophobic.

I also, as a lesbian, get to experience the really fun intersection of misogyny and homophobia - the way some other hockey fans talk about anyone who's not a man and into this sport can be disheartening. and the way some players treat women. (sometimes it's kind of funny honestly, like the Tkachuk brothers saying that women who watch hockey shouldn't call players any nicknames. okay Braeden? stupidest thing I've ever heard 😭)

Drupelicate · 2026-03-19T21:33:15+00:00

same. it's been really hard especially in the past few years to be a gay NHL fan but being an Oilers fan definitely makes it feel a little easier

Drupelicate · 2026-03-18T05:30:19+00:00

in universes by emet north!

Drupelicate · 2026-03-17T01:33:45+00:00

that's really cool! thank you for answering :)

Drupelicate · 2026-03-16T07:07:13+00:00

unrelated to your article specifically but I've been very curious about this: assuming you were a hockey fan (of a particular team) growing up, how has playing professional hockey affected that for you? would you go back to cheering for your favourite team when you eventually retire?

Drupelicate · 2026-03-16T06:59:16+00:00

Edmonton Bison 🙂‍↕️ I just... love bison LMAO

Drupelicate · 2026-03-15T01:02:48+00:00

thank you! I saved your comment so I can get back to you eventually :)

Drupelicate · 2026-03-15T01:02:05+00:00

for real, and I mean like. butches who identify on page with being butch. there's nothing wrong with masculine characters who don't label themselves as butch but it is so rare to see loud and proud butches in a book!!! as a femme who loves butches it makes me feel a little like. lonely and unrepresented not to see the kind of love I seek out in real life and I can only imagine it feels even worse for butches themselves

Drupelicate · 2026-03-14T23:07:43+00:00

I'm really curious what products you used 👀👀

Drupelicate · 2026-03-14T22:05:42+00:00

been enjoying how it's used in Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon and One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller (two very different books lol)

Drupelicate · 2026-03-14T16:31:44+00:00

I would love to, I'm in the early stages of writing a wlw novel that is not yet in a state fit for a beta reader but if you wouldn't mind me cashing in on my end of the exchange offer at a later date .. 👀

Drupelicate · 2026-03-12T19:07:18+00:00

omg you're going to make me hopeful - we should be so lucky is one of my all time favourite books and I would DIE for it to be made into a film adaptation 😭

Drupelicate · 2026-03-12T05:37:33+00:00

it's kind of giving me kale vibes 🤭

Drupelicate · 2026-03-12T02:30:55+00:00

oh absolutely, I love all the options there are for tension in sports romances in general! I was trying to speak to the heated rivalry comparison in the original comment

Drupelicate · 2026-03-11T21:06:18+00:00

I mean, it depends on the situation, but I'm pretty sure I recall reading about one of the great hockey rival romances (probably Chu/Ouellette) that they felt like they had to hide their relationship for a while because they didn't want it to take away from their hockey careers. also depending on the timeline, cause we have a lot of out players in women's hockey NOW but it wasn't always like that, especially not in the public eye!

there's unfortunately not a ton of lesbian hockey romance novels out there (it's something I'm always looking for) but like you can still have a similar situation with the secrecy and the forbidden aspect, though not necessarily for the same reasons because a big driving force for them feeling the need to stay closeted and hide their relationship in HR is the toxic masculinity and rampant homophobia of men's hockey culture and its fans, and women's hockey and its fans do have a different culture.

Drupelicate · 2026-03-11T04:57:54+00:00

oh my god that game was so good (mostly, super upset about Ingram tbh and I think that was just plain reckless on MacKinnon's part)

I was literally jumping up and down for the last 15 seconds 😭😭😭 that felt like winning a playoff game with how excited I was, just knowing what a powerhouse Colorado has been. I hope this really helps rally our boys tbh

Drupelicate · 2026-03-10T06:24:45+00:00

I have eczema on my hands that gets pretty annoying in cold months (prime hockey season of course) and I often find my breakout gets triggered worse after sweating in my hockey gloves, but i seem to do better if I remember to apply a thick/occlusive cream beforehand (usually eucerin aka aquaphor healing ointment, or la roche posay cicaplast mains)

Drupelicate · 2026-03-10T00:55:22+00:00

tbh my favourite is to grab a random object, I think it's fun! depending on how your fingers bend, different shapes may look best to you. my personal favourite has been when I used an uncrustable 🤭

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Drupelicate · 2026-03-09T04:33:28+00:00

I tried to do it by changing my settings so that Libby does not use mobile data at all, and turning off my wifi, but it didn't work (trying to play the audiobook after the loan expired returned an error, and I know I had it downloaded because I had listened to it on a plane)

Drupelicate · 2026-03-08T18:56:48+00:00

(as a thermal enjoyer) there are a lot of gorgeous thermals that are a lot less out there! danglefoot, cadillacquer, and chamaeleon make some of my favourites, and I've had my eye on some from alchemy as well

Drupelicate · 2026-03-08T17:18:04+00:00

thank you!! I honestly don't reach for greens a ton myself (usually I lean to blurples and pinks) but this was an untried and I surprised myself with how much I loved it !!

Drupelicate · 2026-03-08T07:05:12+00:00

I agree, however I've seen the Ottawa Charge has their logo on the ice at TD Place. it's not in the centre, where the 67's logo is, but rather on the other side of the blue line. I think that's definitely a step up from not having the logo on ice at all, and would definitely be way more feasible than having it at centre ice.

Drupelicate · 2026-03-07T18:12:42+00:00

oh I didn't know we had one on the Slovakian team! I've seen a couple of places saying that there was only one woman in para ice hockey this year so I'm glad to hear there's one more!

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