This is day two of the 2011 WOMEN'S WORLD CUP in GERMANY.

Tomorrow gives us Columbia vs Sweden and, more importantly, America vs N. Korea.

So far I've had one team lose (Nigeria) and one team win (Germany).

For Japan vs New Zealand, I was pretty neutral (ESPN, did you HAVE to show the earthquake footage and tsunami footage? We all know both ( Read more... )

So the Women's World Cup starts Sunday, June 26th, at 0900 EDT, with Nigeria vs France.

You had BETTER BELIEVE I will be doing a  lot of screaming in the weeks to come.

Also, if you don't want to watch it because you don't care about sports/don't like soccer, more power to you.

But if you don't want to watch it because it's a women's league, fuck you ( Read more... )

Title: Diving
Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Characters: Aang, Thuy (OC)
Rating: G/K
Word Count: 1319
Prompt: 46 - earthball
Summary: While taking a break from treaty negotiations, Aang makes a new friend in the Middle Ring.
Notes: Written for atlaland 's Bingo Challenge. Yes, earthball is basically soccer.


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Because mine is the special crack.

Okay, short rundown.

On atlaland  we had the New Visions game:

Your game this week is to create a concept for a future or past-set Avatar series. It may mention characters who show up in Avatar: the Last Airbender as appropriate, but none of them should be the main characters.
So I did that ( Read more... )

[Ra]: But a labyrinth has two exits, right?
[Pux]: No, that's a maze.
[Ra]: You go to the center, and then to the other exit?
[Ra]: ...Aaaah.
[Ra]: Youch.
[Pux]: Presumably to get out of a Labyrinth you follow the same path you used to get in.
[Pux]: Or inform the Goblin King he and his Area have no power over you.

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[Pux]: Robo is over THREE HUNDREEEEEEEEEE-- um.
[Pux]: (TORIYAMA DID THE ART I HAD TO DO IT)

[GG]: What dark magicks has Joan Jett been mainlining?
[GG]: Because she does not look like a woman in her fifties.
[Pux]: Joan Jett is a goddess sent to bring awesome to the world.
[GG]: Hallelujah.

( Beware earworms )

That was an AWESOME game.

Sorry, Argentina, you got STOMPED.

ARG 0 - 4 GER

That was so fucking beautiful.  Oh my God.

And people said that Germany couldn't win.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA SURE PROVED THEM WRONG

I'm not quite sure what my favourite part was -- Germany's goal less than four minutes in, Argentina's denied goal*, Klose being all "here, let me nudge ( Read more... )

Final score:

USA 1 - 2 GHA

Lost in overtime.

Ghana played a great game, however -- yes, even with all the time-eating shenanigans.  It isn't illegal, and any other team would have done it.  Yes, they would.

To be honest, we were doomed from the start.  We gave them that goal in the first half, and were just... I don't know what was wrong with the team ( Read more... )