if brad isn't an all star again this year i am going to lose my gd mind

Former athletes: do you ever wake up crying from a dream where you were moving in your sport exactly like you used to? Asking for a friend

Good morning! I have a new piece about the 1986 Texas women’s basketball team, which 40 years ago became the first women’s bball team to go undefeated and win the championship. How hard it was to do and how great this team was that did it. www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

Truly astounding to me to have 4 of the same Shakespeare play running within 6 months of each other in the same city. Y’all know there are 36* other options right? And that if you just talked to each other this could be avoided????? *ish

Help. Tinyurl.com/wssp26

Watching Mike White cry about how overwhelming White Lotus can feel, on a night where I’ve been crying about how overwhelming producing our own show is, is making me feel so understood by a man three thousand leagues above me lol

Y’all @flavorflav.bsky.social is about to start season 4 of Flavor of Love but it’s all the American women athletes from the Olympics and it’s not a dating show it’s just a chance for them to hang out in a house and celebrate each other. Flavor Flav supporting women supporting women. 🥰

One of the best things about this Olys is seeing the age of skaters rising. When my coaches told me to quit at 17 I listened bc I assumed they were right - I was past any chance of ‘prime’ and would never find success. They were so wrong for that, I just had no idea there was another option.

I love this so fucking much

Also I keep getting served reels on ig and fb of adults who have started skating in their 30s+ sharing their progress. It is the most delightful content imaginable. To see people falling in love with this sport on their own terms with whatever body they’ve got? Unbelievably inspiring to me

Look at what can happen when we prioritize joy. When we do things for ourselves. I keep crying thinking about Alysa. I hope this sport never goes back to what it used to be. It feels like she won it for everyone who has ever quit because their body wasn’t theirs anymore, who had lost the joy.

What’s the fucking point of this judging system if judges refuse to use it right Alysa’s 2A should’ve been +4 g GoE minimum 😤😤

“I wish pairs was more fun like dance” @futurexskeleton.bsky.social I swear I’m gonna marry this man again.

Tara said one of the pair teams was skating 8mph and that most average 15. I thought that was SO SLOW so @futurexskeleton.bsky.social told me to dl Strava and track my warmup on the ice this afternoon as not-an-Olympian 😅

Ioulia Chtchetnina is doing this Olympics so right - she and her partner are at the bottom of the pack but their pure joy and delight shows they understand that just being there is the win. I yearn for that joy in every skater.

Honestly the fact that Tara and Johnny compliment the artistry of any pair team with a straight face makes me feel like they should’ve been better on The Traitors

Watching Deanna compete at the Olympics at 42 is literally the only thing I have needed all life. See yall back on the ice lol I’ll *only* be 43 at Paris 2030 soooooooo let’s do this shit

Say what you want but watching Ilia go straight to Misha to congratulate him tells me everything I need to know that he is a good kid.

Wtf is with these costume reveals????? I hate them

What an honor to be able to talk skating on this incredible show. It’s an exciting and an important time to really pay attention to what’s happening in this sport. Thank you Jessica for letting me yell a bunch 😅

Everyone yelling about ‘they were robbed’ is right except only if you were talking about Piper and Paul of the silver medal 🤷🏻‍♀️

Anyway, any 40 year old former skaters wanna slip back into ice dance w/me lol

Oh my God Piper and Paul 🥹🥹😭😭 What a perfect program.

Scott Hamilton “now there are actual athletic things” <in ice dance since the new system was implemented> Freestyle skaters will never respect this discipline my fucking GOD. They’d never be able to do half the shit dancers can do with edges but I guess go off on how it’s just pretty 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

I don’t understand why @nbcnews.com shows the max score for elements in dance when they show the base value (MUCH MORE HELPFUL) in every other discipline. Like I wanna know exactly how much over the base these judges are giving each element 😤

‘I should give you a hug. Can I?’ That from Rafael to Ilia is going to stick with me forever 🥹🥹🥹🥹

It is incredible that I’ve somehow tricked @futurexskeleton.bsky.social into caring deeply about figure skating to the point he wants to watch every event together. What is not incredible is that every social media site and also group chat becomes a minefield from event time to when we can watch

Expected score creep is already ruining my day 😤

I AM SO HAPPY

Figure skating hasn’t been this exciting in so long I love the team event holy cow

Amber Glenn talking about Magic the gathering as her hobby is everything I need in figure skating

Catching up on Olympic team skating and Chock/Bates have done such a hilariously petty thing with this free dance. Next year the rhythm dance rhythm is paso doble and they just eliminated this music (and essentially costume choice) for every single team next year 😅

The nice thing about being married is that @futurexskeleton.bsky.social is like legally required to listen to my rants about figure skating

This tho 👇🏼👇🏼

No shame I’m buying quadgod merch and bleaching my hair in a halo this nationals has me INFLUENCED #figureskating

SKATING SHOULD BE THIS FUN.

put a 4 point deduction on falls at the senior level and it'll fix #figureskating

Just hanging out in a hot spring humming @thenorthendpodcast.com ‘s Green Smoke song like it’s a Christmas carol

This organization is so important to us - any little bit helps us keep sustaining our programming for another year ❤️

Best team in the world 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

My Venn diagram middle of MLS podcasters and people who can recite all the colors in Joseph’s coat tripled today listening to @kickbackcommittee.bsky.social today 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 I love y’all

Last night @futurexskeleton.bsky.social and I got to meet @susannahfuller.bsky.social 🥹 The Call Up was such a huge inspiration for @swoontower.bsky.social , and it was very very cool to meet someone who has been so instrumental in shaping sports content. What a legend.

Our very own SecUnit keeping us safe 🥰 @austinfootballclub.bsky.social #austinfc #murderbot

Tag yourself. I’m. Um. The Pepsi can.

been in Boston for 4 hours have seen seventeen million khakis Hashtag swoontower origin story

cashing in my ‘i grew up in mn’ card to justify buying seventeen of these.

Don’t tell me if you think Landon is right but definitely tell me if you think I’m right 😅😅

There are two kinds of people in this world. People who think The White Lotus Lachlan finale arc was bad writing. and People who’ve met teenage boys.

Ok @fortheglorykc.bsky.social Sheena the question you need to ask yourself is not ‘why did I just sing’ it is ‘why don’t I sing more’? Top tier podcast moment 💚🩵

Hi this should be fun! If you’re interested in helping me find out if the 30+ hours of work I’ve put into this script is any good or a total dumpster fire, this’ll be your front row seat!