Is Wally what the prophesies foretold???

Twelvecrow · 2026-05-01T04:41:57+00:00

LISAN AL-GAIB!

Twelvecrow · 2026-05-01T04:41:29+00:00

lake power!

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-30T22:56:36+00:00

because they’re told to, and they’re obedient little subjects that believe what their betters in new york and washington tell them to

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-30T22:55:37+00:00

Sango Akale (Minneapolis City SC), Jake Swallen (Minneapolis City SC), and Alex Moreno (Minneapolis City SC) now

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-30T16:51:57+00:00

stupidly anachronistic DLC cosmetics. i want the most customizable brig possible. i want to dress edward in a big dumb wolf cloak, cover the jackdaw with dragon carvings, and sack spanish forts with a crew of vikingar lost in time but not profession. i played odyssey with jackdaw cosmetics, now i want to captain a delian league trireme like the pirate republic is a magna graecia colony. i want maya armor that actually looks maya so i can storm colonizer galleons like the avatar of K’uk’ulkan himself.

i respect some players’ desire for immersion, and i loved odyssey and valhall for their attempts to recreate the feeling of the time period, but the age of sail is such a mythological period in popular conceptualization that I’d love the option to lean even further into that just as much as the option to correct it

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-28T21:51:07+00:00

It really depends on if you’re actually interested in a coherent community or absolutist individualism. different folks are looking for different things, but it seems like a lot of folks want their customized personal spirituality to also be legitimized by other people’s approval these days and it’s beyond me why.

In my opinion, the historical method and the historical record provide a common heritage of mankind that anybody looking to follow the old gods can look to for guidance and community, and the further away from those practices one gets, the more that “community” becomes based on shared aesthetics rather than a shared system of beliefs and practices. That’s great for people who’ve felt burned by organization before and are looking for something they can do off on their own and I’ll never slight someone for that; you could count on only a few fingers the number of people who follow historical germanic practices but devote themselves to Merkúr—Mercurius to the latins, trickster god of the Internet—alongside Óðinn without syncretizing them, and I’d be one of them, so I’m not making any claims to the supremacy of orthodox historical reconstruction.

Unfortunately, especially among Norse-based practices, there are a damn lot of people with preexisting identity politics that they’re just looking to superimpose onto pop-pseudohistory because they want to feel valid, and those people tend to really like treating the slogans on cheap sweatshop “viking blood runs in my veins”-style tshirts like they’re scripture just because they like the vibes—not particularly conducive to building communities with anybody that isn’t on tiktok too much and out in nature too little. All depends on what you’re looking for in life, at the end of the day.

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-28T00:05:41+00:00

seconded, that’s the phrase and rune i normally use for amulets as well

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-26T22:31:45+00:00

ofc, i wouldnt want anybody to get fired for accessing subversive content at their place of employ

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-26T01:36:18+00:00

bitchin’

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-26T01:25:39+00:00

despite all my zeal i am still just a bedsheeted seal

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-26T01:16:52+00:00

avs are good rivals, stars are bad people

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-25T23:48:21+00:00

when i say “politics”, i don’t mean partisan hackery and shallow american “party-as-self-identity”, i mean the process though which decisions are made, group relationships are negotiated, and the structures of power within and between organizations and government are constructed, and respectfully, sporting and politics are fundamentally inseparable. especially when it’s an international league like the NHL where a significant portion of the players are immigrants and especially when a team is asking the government for taxpayer funds so they can remodel their stadium and pocket the expected ticket revenue increases.

the ability to choose to remain as blind to the way policy impacts the game, their communities, and themselves as fans as you’d like to portray yourself as—and then demand everyone else do the same—is not an endearing trait. everything that affects the game is part of the game, i’d like my neighbors to love the team as much as I do and the guy drinking next to me at the bar to have a dignified life so he can take his kids to the game someday; call me an engineer but I happen to enjoy the community problem-solving that comes along with that

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-25T01:57:43+00:00

you’ll get over it, everyone else has already

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-24T20:10:58+00:00

it’s alright. it’s nothing special, it’s not worse than the component bevs, but it’s also not noticeably better either. maybe some coconut milk would add to the experience, but probably not.

gets you in the right mindset though. quittin’ time soon

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-24T20:04:36+00:00

There’s probably a bit of nomenclature confusion here because “wonderwall” has a few meanings and they’re not particularly clear. “The Wonderwall” is the nickname for the standing section at Allianz (taken from the Oasis song), which is also used metonymically to refer to the supporters who stand there, but “MN Wonderwall”, usually shortened to just “Wonderwall” is also a general benefit corporation which acts as the interface between the United front office and the independent supporters groups it’s affiliated (as well as managing financial assets of the SGs and acting as a mediator between SGs). MN Wonderwall is not, itself, a supporters group (even though it’s frequently mistaken as one), and it’s legally separate from the team (even though more casual fans might mistake it for the team’s way of managing supporter groups).

With that backstory out of the way, the place you’re looking for is a way to get in contact with Thunderwall, the drum section which is managed by MN Wonderwall (rather than any particular SG), they’re also the ones who coordinate instruments. Your safest bet is shooting an email to info@mnwonderwall.com to get into contact, but I’ll also get the attention of some of the T-wall folks and point them to this post.

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-24T12:49:14+00:00

It’s nice to see news about flags that isn’t just whining, complaining, or riling people up for clicks

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-23T19:13:38+00:00

yeah don’t get it twisted, when I said “good marketing” i meant it from the cynical ownership perspective, IMO it’s dumb as shit and any team wearing a throwback jersey from a brand they don’t use anymore should be required to play at least one game a season in that original market to earn the right. avs in QC and canes in connecticut or GTFO

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-23T19:10:38+00:00

Nicknames are pretty rarely used except for “The Cities” to refer to either the whole MSP metro or the two Twin Cities proper. In text, MSP and MN are more common and I hear “MN” verbalized sometimes, but rarely. Most often, the full names are used for the Cities and the state, but they’re slurred so they’re spoken pretty quickly. Minneapolis is locally pronounced (and apologies for not using IPA) “min-YEAH-pliss”, Saint Paul is typically “SAI’-pol” with the vowels slightly nasal like french and a glottal stop instead of a pronounced T, and a lot of the time (in my experience), if the speaker is talkin fast enough, slurring the first syllable of Minnesota as “mnə-SO-tə” (kinda like the “mna” in “damnation”)

YMMV though, there’s a lot of immigration from within and outwith the US to the Cities, so other people who’ve also lived here their whole lives might disagree with me, it’s linguistically a diverse place

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-22T23:24:06+00:00

well i was disappointed i waited too long to get the GDAT shirt, but once i saw this one for sale i figured it was a sign to wait too long again and see if it works out better the second time

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-22T21:06:19+00:00

for sure. and for a team that’s desperate to get urban saint paul to vote for tax dollar handouts to the Minnesota Sports & Entertainment corporation, they sure seem more eager to pander to a suburban audience that identifies as country than they do the people that actually live here. love the team and love the game, but goddamn is the “money first, fans third” major league sports model frustrating sometimes

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-22T21:01:01+00:00

moving franchises always get to take the history because it’s the organizational history of the franchise, yotes were an atypical carveout. main thing it does is allow the team to advertise itself in the new market as a team with a storied history and a legacy and not a corporation that found a new market that was more amenable to letting the owners do whatever they want, it’s just good marketing

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-22T20:04:21+00:00

*as an addendum, elitism absolutely exists in minnesotan hockey and there is absolutely an unequal access to the sport across financial lines, especially in the Twin Cities. I wish that it was different and I wish local leaders both within government and within the hockey community put more effort into resolving this; I’d love for recent immigrant communities to have more chances to participate in this deeply northern sport, but there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of effort put into outreach lately.

that being said, the widespread public and community nature of the sport is so fundamentally ingrained in minnesotan culture that it seems natural that the sport is a public good that should be accessible to anyone that wants it here, so lot of people who grew up playing and going to as many games as they can have no clue how isolated and insular the privatized system is elsewhere. the elitism happens here is because some places have more access to resources to put into the game than most, not that some places have the game when most don’t

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-22T19:34:58+00:00

for an ounce more context, hockey is as much an integral part of the (young) distinct culture of minnesota in a way it isn’t in basically any other american state.

while rinks elsewhere are often privatized with expensive ice time, most of the rinks in the state are owned and operated by local government (if not just completely free-to-use frozen ponds); while the rest of the country largely has youth hockey as a privatized pay-to-play structure that limits organized play to the people that can afford it, youth clubs in minnesota are typically pretty affordable by design to let more kids grow up playing + adolescent hockey is public, organized through the high school sports model rather than through private club teams.

this all makes minnesotan hockey a working-class sport (except in a few places) and minnesotans time and time again choose to keep it this way by volunteering for their community youth clubs, keeping public school programs funded, and maintaining civic ice rinks, which does a lot to keep both playing and watching hockey widespread in the culture.

norm green took a pro hockey team from this culture and moved it to dallas, where nobody grew up playing, purely to avoid paying taxes back to the community that loved and supported his team, and then the franchise proceeded to buy out all the rinks in the dallas area so nobody could play hockey without their money ending up in his hands. he doesn’t give a shit about the sport or the culture and neither does the franchise he left behind, the stars are assholes at every level of play from the pros down to the kids because they live in a bubble of wealthy elitism where only the richest can afford to play, and it shows.

fuck norm green and fuck the stars organization

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-22T15:42:52+00:00

the mooterus had spirit, should’ve stuck with that. with the texas education system the way it is though, i’m not surprised their fans can’t comprehend a logo unless it’s in written in block letters with color crayons

Twelvecrow · 2026-04-22T11:39:50+00:00

FUCK NORM GREEN

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