More than 8000 days since their last title. A long, meandering, complicated journey ends in joy. www.nytimes.com/athletic/729...

Premier League Champions

I couldn’t bring myself to write this until this morning. I didn’t want to do a story of the season. It’s bigger than that. It’s the story of how Mikel Arteta gave Arsenal back to the fans. Read it later. Enjoy yourself tonight.

I gotta find something cherry flavored to eat tonight.

There’s bottle… And there’s bottle. Vamos ❤️

Never a better thing to come out of traffic to!!!!

Arsenal are the Premier League champions

Straight up did not enjoy that.

Also, by far the funniest thing about that was it was very clear he lost his pants and the studio went “yeah show the replay but slow it down real sexy like”

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They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

I wrote about our next three matches

Local Raccoon Becomes Hero

ENEMYSHIP WITH VAR ENDED. FRIENDSHIP WITH VAR STARTED.

LITTLE RACCOON BOY

Did West Ham Target Ben White Because He’s Too Pretty? My 45 Minute YouTube Video Looking Into It

Win three matches, win the Premier League.

Saint Anthony Preaches to the Fish, Girolamo Tessari, 16th c, 📸 by @lindseywasson

I like goals.

That goal was the definition of spiritually onside.

My new work from home leggings don’t have side pockets and it is ruining my life.

You have got to be kidding me.

I finally listened to this and what struck me about the CEO’s take on creatives should create pocket versions of themselves for people to consult, is that it completely ignores the work of editors in helping creatives find their voice. And you know, it’s all awful generally.

Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest, by Henri Rousseau, 1905, via @garrett_TFE

The Aaron Ramsey-Andy Murray discussion is everything I have ever wanted from a podcast.

That feeling when you are racing the sun going down to finish a creepy book.

So here is a thing I am not sure how I feel about: I just finished a contemporary romance that depicts a character interacting with an AI chatbot. Based on character age and the world, it’s an absolutely appropriate depiction of technology usage. But woof.

A Bed of Red Azaleas, by Alma Thomas, 1968 (rotated, detail), 📸 by David Stluka

“The cheating trope.” “The pregnancy trope.” Make it stoppppppp. These things are not tropes. I would like to take the word “trope” away from people because it has lost all meaning.

If you haven’t read Mary Burchell’s opera category romances, you absolutely should and you should know about the woman (and her sister!) behind the pen name that helped save people from the Nazis!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bu...

Cranberry bog!

Sunday mood

Ageless talent.

I WOULD DIE FOR MAX DOWMAN

HE JUST LEARNED TO WALK AND NOW HE’S SCORING IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE

The baby did that!!!

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “If you had to do that again, is there anything you would have done differently?”

Oh, do romance readers read too much? Of the wrong kind of books, you say? In the wrong kind of language, you say? Are they too easy, too sexy, too fun, too silly? And we’re pretending this is not The argument that people have made against romance since (checks library) 1785?

It is snowing outside but it is time to #SpringIntoLoveBingo!!!

exposing all the fun microtropes in a graphic sometimes (a lot of times) ruin the moment of discovery. makes me bummed. #romancelandia

I have seen a lot of commentary on the US Men’s Hockey situation that boils down to why are you surprised. And to that, I have to ask, who was surprised?

or, y'know, we're people who work in this space and are sick and fucking tired of seeing players pay lip service and then turn around and be giant hypocrites. it's not surprising but it is completely exhausting.

in public, the men's hockey team has been supportive of the women's team, going to games, cheering them on, saying they were inspired by the OT golden goal must be gutting to feel that support and then get first-hand evidence that behind closed doors, when it's just The Boys, they're laughing at you

This is the political movement that convinced a non-trivial amount of Americans that they were going to “protect women’s sports.”

Here’s a question: as a female sports fan, how old were you when you realized that you could love them but they wouldn’t love you back? I’ll go first. In 2000, I was 17 years old which was the same age as the baby-sitter that a previously beloved football player was accused of assaulting.

I have zero expectations for male athletes and they STILL always manage to disappoint.

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Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative