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norway’s curling team is appropriately dressed for valentine’s day

day 2: norway is still slaying the pants game

day 3: pants game is still on top

day 4: still impressive

day 5: another day another trouser

day 6: they have yet to wear one pair twice

Okay so I already reblogged this once but I’m reblogging again because I just watched a short documentary about these pants.

Apparently back at their first Olympics appearance, they (especially Chris Svae, the ginger who plays second) were pretty disappointed with their gear because the gear didn’t look flattering. They couldn’t change the shirts because of Norway federation sponsorships so they started looking for pants to wear. They had a hard time finding pants that both looked respectable enough for professional curling and stretchy enough to allow curling, and promptly gave up on finding pants that were both stretchy and professional.

Chris Svae ended up finding pants that were Norway-colors-ish that looked comfortable enough for curling, but had crazy patterns. People at Olympics were not happy about this because PATTERNS AREN’T RESPECTABLE ENOUGH, so they were conflicted. But the night before the opening ceremony, they were hanging out with a bunch of lady skiiers. Chris at some point just takes off his pants and put on the crazy pants they bought and asks “Do you think we should wear these pants” and the skiers were like “he’ll yeah you should totally do it”

So they wore the crazy pants to play in the Olympics, and a few days later the website where they bought the pants crashed. The owner of the website visited them in Vancouver for the Olympics, and then decided to sponsor the team.

And now, 8 years layer, the Norwegian team has a different pair of pants for each match. Including a Valentine’s day pair.

This is a weird but lovely kind of wholesome.

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hate how having a special interest in a character will turn u into a giggly little anime schoolgirl im like kicking my legs and squealing into a pillow and and blushing and smiling like an idiot and its like Oh yeah no this about a guy who should be in federal prison. yeah. yeah like unforgivable crimes

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STOP TAGGING THIS WITH CHARACTERS WHOSE WORST CRIME IS THE MORAL EQUIVALENT OF TAX FRAUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they need to be someone that chronically online twitter users will accuse you of being immoral for liking because what they did is so awful. i will not stand for this

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surely not. surely you jest

i honestly don't get mad at people who get mad because one person views the character as transmasc and another view the same character as transfem, we should be happy that the character is transgender enough to have both vibes, god bless that blorbo ain't cis, bonus if another one sees the character as transneutral/nonbinary, that means the blorbo is too powerful and has mastered all gender umbrellas

btw shout out to the entire sonic main cast–

i honestly don't get mad at people who get mad because one person views the character as transmasc and another view the same character as transfem, we should be happy that the character is transgender enough to have both vibes, god bless that blorbo ain't cis, bonus if another one sees the character as transneutral/nonbinary, that means the blorbo is too powerful and has mastered all gender umbrellas