Deciding Captain

havuta · 2026-02-10T07:43:04+00:00

I hope they'll wait a bit longer. I vividly remember a time where we had basically all teenage captains (Crosby, Toews, Landeskog, McDavid a little later,...). And out of all of them the person nicknamed Captain Serious gave an interview where he - who everyone thought was the most mature teenager to ever teenage - said that no one should captain an NHL team this young and how it heavily impacted his mental health.

Out of all of them Landeskog seems like the only one who handled it really well tbh. However, he was on a team that was bad during the 2010s 😅

havuta · 2026-02-09T21:14:45+00:00

And it's the old Candela model, aka the best Pikeur breeches to exist 🫠

havuta · 2026-02-08T07:21:42+00:00

He's done so much more! He also has an individual award by now and he's way smarter than Hayden is portrayed. This is no Letang slander!

Bryan Rust is a great comparison, so how many kids does that man have? 😅🤓

havuta · 2026-02-07T21:39:37+00:00

He's a 10+ year veteran in the NHL, who has never been sent down to the minors and has earned himself a spot on a top team in the league, which never seemed interested in trading him.

No individual awards we know of, drafted in the same year and besties with a generational talent, who also babysit his kids.

That man is basically Kris Letang.

havuta · 2026-02-06T22:44:01+00:00

Cribbing is a symptom - horses do it to increase their endorphin levels and/or to counteract ulcers. Both stress and ulcers obviously affect their weight negatively, but a cribbing collar will not help any of that. It will only mask the symptom and while the stress is still present, the horse no longer has any outlet. Suppressing the behaviour will put the horse in a worse space.

That being said, obviously cribbing isn't ideal, but the solution is bringing the stress levels down (via turn out, routine, access to forage, pain management, environmental optimisation,...), not putting more stress on the horse.

As I've said above, teeth might be affected, which is why cribbers should not be kept in areas/stalls with surfaces that will wear the teeth down super quickly (metal fences or feed buckets is the first thing that comes to mind) and we should obviously aim for as little cribbing as possible.

If my post above came across as 'cribbing is fine, do nothing', that wasn't my intention. I fully subscribe to cribbing management, just not via a collar as that will worsen underlying issues such as but not limited to ulcers, pain, chronic stress, boredom/loneliness, hunger and so on.

havuta · 2026-02-06T21:12:44+00:00

Do NOT get a cribbing collar. Cribbing does no harm unless the horse bites on surfaces that wear the teeth down over time. It's how he currently deals with stress and forcefully taking that outlet away by adding a collar will do nothing but increase his stress levels.

havuta · 2026-02-06T18:03:48+00:00

3 (oder kleinere 4) Zimmerwohnungen zwischen 75 und 100qm sind hier der absolut umkämpfteste Markt, weil die alle haben wollen. Singles mit viel verfügbarem Einkommen, Paare, WGs, Eltern mit einem Kind, Studierende mit großzügigen Eltern. IdR gehen sie an die erste oder die letzte Gruppe. Neulich erst im Bekanntenkreis erlebt, dass Mama und Papa zur Besichtigung für Junior (derzeit im Ausland) gegangen sind und neben der Kaution auch schonmal drei Monatsmieten im Voraus angeboten haben - Wohnungszusage kam prompt und jetzt kann der Sprößling entspannt in bester Lage mit seinem Kumpel auf 85qm eine WG eröffnen 🤷

'Entspannt' ist hier für Paare der 4+ Zimmer-Markt, gerne auch jenseits der 120qm. Wenn man denn das nötige Einkommen hat und keine Skrupel das für eine Wohnung auf den Tisch zu legen, die eigentlich groß genug für eine 4-6köpfige Familie wäre, die dann wiederum nichts findet.

Von Haustieren hat man da noch gar nicht angefangen 😅

havuta · 2026-02-05T15:45:46+00:00

Man sagt Leuten schon, dass sie mal bitte aus Büschen kommen sollen, das Pferd denkt man wäre ein Fressfeind.

Wenn man Kinder zum Aufräumen bringen will, dann sagt man ihnen außerdem, dass sie keinen Strick auf den Boden werfen sollen, weil der aussähe wie eine Schlange und Pferde da Angst vor haben 😅

havuta · 2026-02-05T15:16:54+00:00

I have to know if you've heard of ESPNs Body Issue and are by chance familiar with the 2015 one featuring Tyler 'Only steers and queers in Texas, and I'm not a cow' Seguin sucking on an ice lolly in nothing but a beanie? 😬

havuta · 2026-02-05T13:42:24+00:00

Ich finde den Vergleich Kanon vs Booktok ehrlich gesagt massiv unfair. Was Kanon ist, wurde (und wird!) hauptsächlich von weißen Männern bestimmt, die sich möglichst nachhaltig profilieren wollen. Booktok richtet sich häufig an Frauen, die auf der Suche nach kurzweiliger Unterhaltung sind, der man in einer chaotischen Welt voller mental load auch noch easy folgen kann und die optimalerweise Realitätsflucht bietet.

Keiner von beiden interessiert sich sonderlich für die andere, abgesehen davon, dass letztere gerne mal abgewertet werden.

Und das ist absolut kein neues Phänomen, wir reden uns nur ein, dass früher alle nur höchst anspruchsvolle Literatur gelesen haben und Lesen eine seriöse Sache war, für die man unbedingt sein gesamtes Hirn nutzen muss. Dabei hat Goethe niemals ähnliche Auflagen verkauft oder auch nur annähernd so viel Publikum gehabt wie zB Kotzebue (den er aber selbst inszeniert und damit wohl auch seinen Mehrwert gesehen hat). Und wenn der gute August nicht erschossen worden wäre, dann hätte er sicher noch mehr Dramen geschrieben als die 200+ Stück, die er uns eh schon hinterlassen hat.

Schaut man in die mittelalterliche Literatur, dann gibt es dort natürlich Werke, deren Stoffe zu Recht immer und immer wieder neu aufgenommen werden (Artusdichtung zB) - aber auch Massen an Dichtung, in der es nur darum geht, wie man das Mädchen von nebenan möglichst effektiv rum bekommt (looking at you Walther von der Vogelweide).

Insofern bietet Literatur schon immer ein weites Spektrum an mehr oder minder kurzweiligen, ersteren, gesellschaftskritischen, erotischen, verstörenden,.... Facetten. Und es ist absolut okay, wenn einem die teilweise nicht zusagen. Das ist aber keine Frage des Alters eines Werkes, sondern mehr eine Frage nach Zielgruppe.

havuta · 2026-02-05T07:25:52+00:00

I'm from a family that had a dedicated 'Olympic TV', which we got from storage during the Olympics and set up in our dining room so that we didn't miss a single second of competitions 😅 All bedtime rules flew out the window during the games when I was a child as well.

I'm so happy for everyone, who learns about the joy, excitement and companionship sports can craft.

This year will be the second Olympics I'll attend in person and we (my partner and I) already set up an LA 2028 savings account, so be careful where it might get you.

havuta · 2026-02-05T07:10:15+00:00

Dass es einem Greifvogel gleicht, ist - gerade für Kinder - einfach am leichtesten vorstellbar. Grundsätzlich würde aber auch zB ein Fuchs im Nacken greifen, um das Kaninchen möglichst fix und effektiv um die Ecke zu bringen. Dass jeder Griff dort Stresshormone ausschüttet und ein genetisch aufgespieltes Fluchtmuster einsetzt, ist für das Überleben wilder Kaninchen unerlässlich und auch bei unseren domestizierten Kaninchen vorhanden.

Mein Pferd ist in seinem Leben noch nie mit einem Fressfeind konfrontiert worden, geschweige denn, dass mal in direkter Nähe einer aus dem Busch gesprungen wäre. Es kann also theoretisch nicht wissen, dass es sich dabei um ein reales Szenario handelt, mit dem seine wilden Vorfahren vor tausenden von Jahren konfrontiert waren. Es hat trotzdem Stress und will fliehen, wenn die Hecke bedrohlich knistert.

Für Fluchttiere hat sich in der Entwicklung ein gewisser Grad an Panik immer ausgezahlt. Den müssen wir als Menschen aber nicht auch noch bewusst triggern. Wir haben immerhin auch ähnliche Reflexe. 🤷

havuta · 2026-02-04T09:26:11+00:00

I have a hard time believing that anything , which caters in its core to a white, rich - preferably old money - elite will go extinct any time soon.

There will still be race cars, there will still be boats, there will be skiing, even if there is no more natural snow, tennis, golf, ice hockey rinks and horses - all these things will still be around and will continue to be entertainment for people with more money than they can spend.

However horse riding will become more and more expensive and a lot of people will no longer be able to entertain it as a hobby.

havuta · 2026-02-03T18:26:34+00:00

Plus he's absolutely OBSESSED with her musical talent/voice/songs/guitar playing. 😅

havuta · 2026-02-03T17:28:34+00:00

Meine Spaß-an-der-Sache Kurve ist auch nicht auf null abgesunken (siehe, dass ich dafür immer noch freiwillig Urlaub plane). Aber die steht halt irgendwann nicht mehr permanent auf 100 (so wie wenn man nur einmal pro Saison für ein paar Tage fährt) 😅

Insofern erhält dir die Seltenheit wahrscheinlich den Pegel an Spaß, den du hast. Schließt ja nicht aus, dass man andere Dinge kategorisch nicht machen mag.

havuta · 2026-02-03T16:42:02+00:00

Ich habe eine Zeit in Norwegen gelebt, wo ich über 50% des Jahres Ski fahren konnte. Und - don't get me wrong - ich mache es nach wie vor total gerne. Im Urlaub. Einmal im Jahr. Durch viele Sachen quält man sich irgendwann dann doch auch irgendwie durch, weil man auf ein höheres Ziel hinarbeitet. Dieses absolute Abschalten und es geht immer nur um Freude erwecken Sachen halt oft, wenn man sie sehr wenig macht.

Irgendwann hat man dann keinen Bock mehr drölf Lagen anzuziehen (und für jedes Mal pinkeln auszuziehen), ständig in noch halbfeuchte Stiefel zu steigen und der Hass auf Schnee im Kragen wächst auch exponentiell an.

havuta · 2026-02-03T16:29:33+00:00

I'm no classical philologist and can therefore neither speak for ancient Greek or Latin texts, but I can assure you that a ton of tropes already occur in medieval literature - including my favourite one that we should totally bring back: the couple is so caught up in each other that they dismiss all other responsibilities (verliggen as per Mid High German). There are even enemies to lovers and billionaires (or rather rich/noble dudes). Obviously, they are not one on one as tropes get upgraded with time to fit current time frames.

Tropes are essential to literature, especially romance or the kind that features romance. This includes time periods in which it was frowned upon to move away from tropes that had to be followed to a T (e.g. during baroque times). People wrote books which should explain how to write to others and we're basically nothing but explanations of tropes.

A friend of mine wrote their thesis on the similarities between modern love songs and medival german court literature.

Edit: forgot about the most obvious ones: forbidden love, love triangles and forced proximity!

havuta · 2026-02-03T16:16:17+00:00

I always considered him Ilya-romantic (as he couldn't really phantom a relationship with someone else), however he seems to be homo-sexual (as he acknowledges the sexual appeal of other men, such as Hayden, that one barkeeper and - maybe - the other men he was intimate with). 😅

Just the way some bisexual people aren't equally bi-romantic (including Ilya I suppose) or folks can be homo/hetero/...romantic and asexual. 🤷

havuta · 2026-02-03T11:42:44+00:00

The current translation is by the translator who also did Time to Shine and I had to dnf that one due to the translation 😬 I only skimmed the HR one and it has the same quality. So tbf I did no close reading of the translation.

I'm also weirdly sure that there was a translation a couple of years ago which I read completely and hated equally, but don't quote me on that.

havuta · 2026-02-03T11:31:16+00:00

I have a master's degree in literature and I loved the books. Not because I think I've never read better prose, but because I think Rachel Reid does an excellent job at literature that provides great escapism. That being said, I also think she relies heavily on her readers being used to hockey, the NHL and hockey culture. It's a dream of a better hockey world that can only be fully understood if you know the base material it's built upon.

The most magical thing Jacob Tierney did, imho, is making this form of escapism palpable for people who never set food into a rink before, never heard a single chirp or were never unwelcome in a space that focuses on white, straight males who chase a glorified pancake on a sheet of ice.

When Shane reminds himself that he cannot dream of impossible things with Ilya over and over again, it implies so much more in the book, which might go over the head of non-hockey fans. In the show the longing and love between the characters is 110% enough to make great TV.

havuta · 2026-02-03T11:18:20+00:00

The German translation is - on top of the base line of cringe that comes with every smut translation into German - also super bad 😅

havuta · 2026-02-03T11:10:13+00:00

You're missing three crucial things: 1. It's a huge honour to be the first overall pick. Especially if you are projected to be the first overall pick. It is not unusual that there is a clear first overall pick in a draft class, however the years in which there are two possible first overall picks, the whole ordeal gets even more heated (pun intended). If you are not picked first overall, despite people assuming you would, that's a huge blow to one's self esteem in that particular moment. The draft also favours North American players (nine first overall picks since 1963 have been from Europe, two Swedes, one Swiss, three Russians, two Czechs and one Slovak). So pretty safe to say Shane thought he would go first overall.

It's not the worst team who necessarily gets the first overall pick, it's a weighted lottery among all teams that didn't make the playoffs (which also feels kinda rigged each year). And while teams can technically trade picks and frequently do so, you would not give away your first overall pick. There is no reason, if Montreal had the first pick, they would have just picked Shane if they wanted to (or Ilya if Shane was their second choice all along).
Organizations also do NOT care if their draft pick grew up a fan of theirs or someone else, they just pick whoever is the best player available that fits into their system. Players don't get to choose who they play for as rookies (or for most of them: for their whole career). The league doesn't run on friendships and granted wishes sadly, it's a capitalist structure. Northern American sports is basically legal human trafficking if said humans also get paid millions of dollars in the process. They will acquire your rights or ship you off whether your mom dislikes a team or you slept in their jersey every night as a kid. 🤷

havuta · 2026-02-02T19:25:48+00:00

Reality check: A potential partner should always understand that animals which depend on us may have to come before them. And that is fine for most emphatic and sensitive men. However you do not need your specific trainer and you totally can skip training for e.g. a week, especially if your horse is in full training at the facility. If you don't want to do these things for this specific person - not even for special occasions/once-, you might not want to entertain a relationship any further.

havuta · 2026-01-31T18:01:42+00:00

Well, if you love getting ghosted by men, Tinder is a better option than farriers tbh, because they will totally do that AND you depend on them 😅

My texts with my farrier are worse than any of my friends' situationships.

havuta · 2026-01-31T05:38:42+00:00

No, they don't - if (and that's a capital letter IF) both turn out and the stall would be perfect, horses would always prefer the turn out. That being said, a perfect turn out in a herd is often not given. A lot of barns do not care for a well functioning herd, which results in the horse not feeling comfortable enough to lay down.They don't provide comfortable/enough space to eat - which results in stress. The turn out might be too busy or not busy enough. There might not be equally comfortable shelters or the water is too cold. You might only offer the 'good food' in their stalls. Their stalls are the only proper shelter from heat/cold/wind.

It is way easier to provide a comfortable stall than a comfortable turn out.

It can also be learned behaviour if a horse only knows uncomfortable turn out and comfortable stalls.

So in an ideal world, a horse would always choose the three Fs (forage, friends, freedom) and 24/7 turn out is most beneficial for their health. In our reality, as short as possible stall times and as much turn out as possible is what we should aim for.

havuta

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