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rymurrsneckbeard · 1 year ago

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I’m having a bit of A Moment about Matthew Tkachuk right now and I’m going to ramble so you’re all gonna have to bear with me. I’m gonna get real deep into my fandom history and what an absolute nerd I am.

I grew up with hockey around me: I was 7 and 8 years old when the Penguins won their first two Cups. I grew up with Lemieux and Jagr in their primes, with a Penguins team that didn’t miss the playoffs from the time I was 6 until I was 18 years old. But I truly became a hockey fan in 00-01. When Lemieux came out of retirement in December 2000 everyone in Pittsburgh (and much of the hockey world really) watched that game. I was no different.

And then I started watching more games. And then the Pens got Johan Hedberg and he went on a tear through the playoffs with his bright blue mask, and I fell in love with a VERY young Andrew Ference (A+ first favorite player choice, 17 year old me) and my hockey fandom was sealed. Even when the Penguins were eliminated I kept watching those playoffs. In the summer I researched the game, the rules, the stats. I went from being a bandwagon Penguins fan to a true hockey fan.

Back in 01-02 ESPN had a semi-behind the scenes type show called, I THINK, Cool Hockey (it’s been 2 decades forgive me if I’m wrong). And I remember watching a segment about Keith Tkachuk and 18 year old me was in love. He was handsome, funny, charismatic, tough as hell on the ice, and one of the best US born players of all time. I became a HUGE fan of his.

In amongst my hockey searches on the internet I came upon hockey fanfic on fanfiction.net. The very first thing I read was a humorous spoof fic. It was ridiculous and silly but I loved it, and it led me to more serious fic, and then in turn it led me to the group of very early hockey RPF writers who truly founded this branch of hockey fandom on the internet. We had a Yahoo group and then an AIM chat room and when ff.net fucked over fandom in general, we all migrated to Livejournal.

On Livejournal beyond fic there was a group of us who also started a hockey role-playing game. We were essentially creating our own mini fanfiction via impersonating players on IM. We paired up random players, sometimes obvious ones and sometimes completely weird pairings. Who cared if it made no sense? It was our own little world we could play in and it was all just for fun.

I met my best friend via that original group and he and I really threw ourselves into that RPing brand of creativity. One of our weirder pairings, but one that was so good was Kirk Maltby and Keith Tkachuk. Not going into the greater details of it because none of that matters, but my role was Keith. At this point Matthew and Brady were babies. I remember seeing Keith with tiny Matthew and Brady at All Star Games in the early 00s. In our RPing stuff we dealt with the parenting aspect of their relationship because of those kids.

For 20 years I’ve watched Matthew Tkachuk grow up, and there’s a little part of my brain that is a little bit inside of Keith’s head and that’s his boy.

His boy scored 3 of 4 game winners in the Eastern Conference Final. His boy is going to the Stanley Cup Final.

I am overwhelmed with pride about this kid and what he’s become. Bring it home, Matty.

#matty tkachuk #fandom history #keith tkachuk #this is why i get so pissed off about the unfounded 'keith is a bad father' bullshit #I was THERE WHEN MATTHEW WAS A CHILD #I was a HUGE fan of his father #that family is closeknit as FUCK #i will not have your slander of matty's relationship with his dad #sorry this got emotional

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ratatatastic · 16 days ago

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THE HELSINKI DATE HAS EXPANDED UPON DEAR LORD HAVE MERCY.

#aleksander barkov #matthew tkachuk #florida panthers #2425 #“matthew tkachuk who is american” wonderful add. bring your north american husband to your homeplace day #“and then the one dessert barky had to explain he said it was a cake he had in school that was a good one”#MAFFHEW #“i had them all when i was child so its been a while”#nothing more romantic than sharing childhood favourites with your (squints) teammate #everything about this... 1619 date... maffhew liking the runebergin torttu... and that sasha had to explain it to him #this will hold me over till the video drops #im frothing over this

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3416 · 1 year ago

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Jake: There’s always been conversation about where you can make the most impact in the lineup. You’re a superstar playmaker. We know you can drive your own line…

Mitch Marner on Jake's Takes 100th Podcast | 07/14/23

#mitch marner #auston matthews #toronto maple leafs #1634 #hockeyedit #egifs #anyway................ lkfjskldhfudjsklz #the way u can tell at first when mitch thinks a gotcha question is coming at him like. hes gonna be clocked for having #an opinion when according to the toronto media hes Not Allowed #it makes him a diva. but then he rmrs this is a child w no agenda n just. says all that.#i love him #i love THEM they rlly are smth special #never thought abt the fact that theyve prob been able to celebrate each others accomplishments so hard just bc #they ARE the ones to push each other and know what theyre capable of in that way #its giving m*drai when he told him to just Score 60 so he did it like LKFJDSK #no one can understand u better than ur exceptional teammate who also clearly sees what UR capable of and how ur underachieving #but theyve got longtime friendship and vision n dreams for this team baked into that too #anyway im emo

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golden-rolling-hills · 4 months ago

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I meant 4, not 7 but you can answer 7 too 😭

4.) Rank the main 7.

this was a lot harder than i anticipated, Johnny and Two-Bit are kinda tied, idk it depends on my mood😳

1. Pony

2. Darry

3. Soda

4. Two-Bit?

5. Johnny?

6. Steve

7. Dally

#now i understand what my mom means when she says she doesn’t have a favorite child #this was almost as bad as trying to rank taylor swift albums #the outsiders #the outsiders broadway #the outsiders musical #ponyboy curtis #darry curtis #sodapop curtis #two bit matthews #johnny cade #steve randle #dallas winston

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jiminy-crickets · 5 months ago

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Okay so I’m scrolling though Instagram on my break, and I see a post from the NHL all about the ‘familial connections’ between this years draftees and other players in the league, and I saw this…

and I think….huh? I could’ve sworn Mack was the older brother (don’t know WHY I thought that considering it make literally no sense [its because I assign my blorbos either eldest daughter or only child, and Mack does NOT have only child energy {trust me I am one}]))…. So I go to google hit up db and what do I see????

Yep, YEEEEEP, poor Aiden getting out played by his younger brother in college, after being drafted 171st when your kid brother is gonna go 1st…. Finally someone who comes close to the pain of Jack Hughes (no not that Jack Hughes) who was in USNTDP the year after Jack Hughes (yes THAT Jack Hughes) left along side Luke Hughes…. And SPEAKING OF THE OTHER JACK HUGHES…..

Poor poor Jack Hughes (no not THAT Jack Hughes) little brother is getting drafted this year (though Callum is ranked at 99, and Jack was drafted at 51 so…. Probably won’t be as brutal as it’s gonna be for Aiden)

#do I even bother tagging this???#nah #also it’s VERY funny to me that one of the other family connections is Matthew and Brady’s second cousin #like…. we are doing SECOND COUSINS NOW????#I will not be emotionally prepared for when they make this post about Connor and Gavin in two years….. please no they are BABIES!!!)#GAVIN IS A BABY A CHILD!!!!

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milla984 · 1 year ago

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Criminal Minds S05E12 The Uncanny Valley

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agents-are-dicks · 7 months ago

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One of my biggest pet peeves in shows is a character who wears glasses 24/7 and likely has an astigmatism suddenly just stops wearing them with 0 explanation.

#looking at you Wesley Wyndam-Pryce and Spencer Reid #I don’t care what you say Matthew- child spencer had glasses which means they weren’t fakes #I’m willing to accept that Spencer just started wearing contacts bc he wanted to be taken more seriously but my piont stands #and don’t even get me started on Wesley not wearing them after s3 when he begins the darker part of his character arch #one could even argue Fred also fits this category but I can’t remember if her glasses were just for reading or not #these are just the first two that came to mind- I’m sure there’s PLENTY more

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caterpillarinacave · 6 months ago

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Just saw the northern lights in my backyard I am having a moment

#First of all there’s the ever present “if you killed yourself then you wouldn’t have seen this” that I hear when I see something #But in case anyone’s wondering I’m connecting it to the characters and I’m sobbing #Something something. Henry took Matthew to see the lights as a child. He took him for years. He takes him as adult #It’s a whole thing very thinly veiled “taking to the new baby to see it. Yeah. You better come along. To make sure the baby has a good time #It’s not until like two hours in that Matthew realizes that the baby has been dead fucking asleep since 7pm #“What do you mean an eleven month old who sleeps like the dead whenever they’re held won’t- wait.”#It’s a therapy moment if you would #It’s now very very important to me #It goes hand in hand with the star thing. Which is also very very important to me.#Which is in the same filing cabinet as the flower thing. Which is horrendously important to me.#Which is in *gunshot*#…why have I not answered the anon asking for headcannons I literally have so many tf #Actually I know why the sheer excitement overloads my soul

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fideidefenswhore · 1 year ago

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things that make you go hmmm.

#this scene should have been with matthew parker but i mean. im glad it was included somehow #but the personality change from s2 to s3 is...something. it means that when she returns for the finale that what she says #does not even sound like her or line up with what was (re)established of her character in s3 #umm but yeah i would not tell my husband's mistress to take care of him if anything happened to me like. lol. what #i would be like if i die? kill yourself <3 #they really just made her Selfless and Nice . no other qualities or flaws except i guess being self-abasing...?#and like no i don't watch television to find characters i can 'relate' to that's just an observation #but really it narratively makes no sense is my bigger issue with it #what has henry done for her to have earned that sort of selfless devotion . literally nothing #given her a puppy? looked at her and smiled while she was washing her hair?#whereas with her predecessors at least you get their sense of bond #in s1 henry is favouring the alliance catherine wants they have the bond over their daughter and there's the sense of their shared past #and joys at least...#for anne they have fought for so long to be married and the bond of their child again and religion #hirst was a menace. i hate this show fr sometimes #i mean i guess. henry promoted her family as he did her predecessor's #but it still doesn't feel earned bcus despite that there's so little regard for them?#she finds out her father died and that she can't even go to the funeral. so . like . again......#the tudors

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deanpinterester · 1 year ago

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a peeve i’ve had since i was a kid is when a cartoon character is supposed to be young and naive and innocent and it’s voiced by a grown man. hello??? why does wilbur the pig whose whole thing is that it’s a baby pig sound like a 30-year-old dude

#uhhhh me #this post is brought to you by 'i'm watching tales of despereaux and why is this child mouse voiced by matthew broderick'#i remember being like 12 and being so relieved when live action charlotte's web had an actual kid voicing wilbur

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redglassbird · 2 years ago

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My favorite hobby is being surprised when I'm watching a movie and an actor shows up that I know. For some reason it never fails to be comedic too. I.E. when I first watched Interstellar and Timothee Chalamet showed up I was shocked. A sick Victorian child in YOUR sci-fi movie? It is more likely than you think

#interstellar #timothee chalamet #matthew mcconaughey #actors #text post #victorian child #movies #surprises #hollywood #actors exist for me to make fun of them when they show up unexpectedly #I'll tell yall about my beef with matt damon for showing up in very many movies that i watched around the same time another day

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ash-etherwood · 2 years ago

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got into creepypasta readings on youtube again thinking "maybe this time the blatant misogyny wont be as infuriating!!!! :3" you'll never guess what happened next .......

#my words of wisdom #first fucking story i listened to was another one of these fucking #'my extremely poorly characterized wife died and left me with a small child #and now im being haunted by an incredibly generic monster that symbolizes my grief and depression boohoo'#shut up matthew the babadook already did that!!!!#and no youre also not james sunderland fuck off #your wife was just some boring ass 'she was soo beautiful and energetic and the light of my life' cardboard cutout that no one cares about!#just ONCE i want a wife whose husband/bf dies or disappears and SHE gets haunted by the grief symbolism monster </3 #or just make it gay like COME ON #and then the next story will just have a gratuitous r*pe scene for shock value or whatever #god why do i even bother #because sometimes there are good ones.... sometimes.....#rule of thumb is if theres a woman in your creepypasta she will face horror beyond her comprehension #just so the male protag can say 'woah thats fucked up anyway;;'#i know this is true for almost all the media out there but god do i notice it here the most;;;#me when they introduce a female character: girl LEAVE 😬😬😬#that was my rambling yeehaw bye

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ratatatastic · 4 days ago

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Panthers React to Magic or alternatively men get introduced to sleight of hand for roughly 2 minutes and a half and go "wow (amazed also with the fear of god instilled into them)"

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mewhenifreakit · 1 year ago

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Matthew Lillard is so fucking attractive guys I like wasn't even paying attention I was just looking at him

"Oh thank god Blumhouse didn't make the purple guy sexy" fucking dumbass Matthew Lillard is hot, what you mean to say is "Oh thank god Blumhouse made the purple guy look like an actual dad from the 80's instead of an anime soft boy twink straight out of genshin impact or gacha life."

#uh spoilers #spoilers for the fnaf movie #watch out i am about to say spoilers #not massive spoiler tbh #he was less attractive when he was stabbing his daughter #but the begging scene where hes offring him the job and like giggling #hottest man ever #i wont him #like matthew lillards expression and voice control and like ugh #i love the scream movies so so so much and i love scooby doo i watch scooby doo like on repeat as a child and now hes like a dilf #matthews in fnaf lillar and patrick #he has a theory but he works at sparkies

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whereisthedamndaddymanual · 3 months ago

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The boy reading with Halo font

I expect him to vanish behind closed doors with "someone" and we'll see him if he's hungry....

Or wandering.

#this is a pacer here #it looks like a great place to pace though #or making me a Grandpa #me: 🤔 it's fine it is just more difficult to picture him making it #not really ... I know his blood #it's like the A-team with one OΞΛ #like our culture: hey how's it going *bang*#our culture after: smokes a cigarette like Matthew McConaughey in Teue Detective talking about time is a flat circle #me: standing in his holo cells in a small plane while at 13 14 and beyond #well my vocal chords can work baritone and bass but my spirit is a rainbow of rainbows #color? I dunno ... I don't care #if you like my dick please suck it with all your might #you're gonna need heart #you're gonna need ambition to overcome a motherload #also the sawing zip ties with feet #curious that I must say #it speaks of fun pre school times and also alludes to something dark as fuck that makes me want to kill things #I don't care if I am also the Devil...so's being alive #Arthur.....I mean.... he lived #but he's still breathing here #when I sat there and had to do dead to life math I am like 167 years sir that's a while #I am also like I have made much more progress in 45 than you did in 167 so thanks for cumming in grandma #I see him again after 🤔 23 years #understandably it took almost a full school year to catch on #mhm I used to call him air as a child of not grandpa #he was standing in the hall by my door watching my room #curious old ancestors #and *I* am the one who has to ease his pain #go the distance #bring Arthur back like a good God

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ghostb0o · 6 months ago

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Cooking up some comic ideas but then I realize I'll have to draw willy afton probably constantly :(

^ originally referred to him as "old man willy" but I saw the problem very quick

#when a post gets hijacked by old man penis of your own creation #william afton #Im prob gonna design him after movie afton cause i love matthew illard so much #I had a hard time being mad at him in the movie cause i was like !!! kookey old man!!!!#He reminded me of my atmospheric sci teacher who was the best #frownie face because I dont wanna yassify a child murderer too much #but if i draw him creepy my brain will go “you look like that btw” and ill get distraugut #my brain stop comparing my face to bad people challenge (impossible)

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