#Icebreaker by Graziadei

[duckyjokes]

Y'all I've been reading Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei and when I tell you I am losing my mind over these boys. I'm barely on chapter three and they have a grip on my heart. God damn.

Mickey James III >>>>>

[will80sbyers]

I have to say Mickey James III is exactly the depressed bisexual representation the world needs

[chronic-optimistt]

YOU WRITE ICEBREAKER FANFIC OMG BEST NEWS EVER!!!! also lol fo you have any other family headcannons your enjoying cureently its no big deal if you dont!

I DO!!! my user on ao3 is imdeadsirius and i’m dedicated to exclusively icebreaker fics :)) got my first little au almost finished and should be up this month! soooo excited for yall to see this one !!

Now here’s some headcanons ! I’ll share some more in the future if that’s what yall want

I’ve made a post of this before but Mickey wears a necklace with a “J” charm because he can tells everyone it stands for “James” but the real ones know it’s for “Jaysen”

Whenever Nova + Mickey don’t like someone they call them a “3-in-one” (calling them unhygienic; a user of 3-in-1 soap) ex. some asshole: “I agree with the All Lives Matter movement.” *walks away* Mickey and Nova: “what a fuckin 3-in-one”

Dorian doesn’t wet his toothbrush before brushing his teeth. he says the saliva in his mouth is enough. diabolical.

I touched on this briefly in a fic, but Cauler is a naturally good artist. He’s got doodles for days and they’re all surprisingly lovely. Sometimes he draws in the corner of the page of Mickey’s homework when he’s not looking and Mickey finds it and secretly thinks it’s so fucking cool how genuinely talented he is without even having to try

Novas a huge swiftie. Like. Huge. I mean this chick is a straight white girl with a thing for hockey boys and a canonical ao3 addiction. There’s no way around it.

^ Cauler absolutely hates Taylor Swift. Like. Rolls his eyes whenever the name is uttered. Is visibly disgusted when her music plays in a public facility. The second someone outs themself as a swiftie he’s putting at least 8 feet of space between the two of them and sanitizing his hands in fear

Mickey’s shoe size is legitimately oddly small. Like when Barbie joked that he had fetus feet he was borderline right. Bro’s a men’s 8 on a good day

Mickey falls asleep during class alllll the time but when he does in their public speaking class Celeste and Nathaniel make a game out of stuffing as many pens in the hood of his sweater as they can before he wakes up and then letting him walk around all day with pens falling out of his hood and internally confusing the fuck out of him as he wonders which of his pockets he has pens falling out of unknowingly

^ when his teammates pick up on this they start to do it during the team study sessions except instead of pens it’s like tupperware containers and tissue boxes and stress balls and instead of in his hood it’s them balancing random shit on his body so Mickey’s eventually just like got his head resting on his arm snoozin with everyone’s stuff stacked on the back of his head in a giant tower on the verge of toppling

Delilah is obsessed with asmr and it annoys the shit out of everyone because she’ll just be sitting in the corner listening to *tappy tap tap* when ppl are trying to sleep

Mickey’s mom used to tend to his hair when he was little and it now brings him so much comfort when people play with his hair. Sometimes when he’s chilling with his sisters they’ll sit behind him and take out a comb and brush it out of his face and he’s like falling asleep. The first time Cauler runs his fingers through his hair he absolutely fuckin melts. (Cauler does it a whole lot more after noticing how much he likes it.)

[hot-glue-burns-hurt]

R.I.P. Zero and Kovy you guys would've hated the PlayStation networks being down.

[fruitybookworm]

went on a little book shopping spree and ordered these today

[seaglasstortellini]

Icebreaker was such a fun read!

[grooviestguru]

okay so i just read icebreaker by a.l. graziadei and LOVED IT for so many reasons, but i couldn’t help but think to myself that mickey james iii is basically hockey’s neil josten without the murder and violence and trauma. (i’m aware that those elements are part of what makes neil neil, but trust me, the correlation is there). 

it goes like this: i’m part of a team sport that i love and i’m determined to be the best and i’ve never tried to know my teammates before but now the upperclassmen are making me bond and i actually... love them? and my mental health really isn’t the best and i’m aware of this but will also tell everyone i’m fine????? and that really compelling guy on my team who is amazing at the sport but is also my nemesis but we start sharing extended eye contact and what can this mean because he hates me????? what is this personal growth i’m experiencing in my first year of college??? what are these FEELINGS?????

i love these sarcastic, caustic, irritable, and grumpy children so much. these fandoms should be best friends.

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: M/M Hockey Romance

Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei (YA) Gravity and The Rest of the Story by Tal Bauer On the Board by Anna Zabo and L.A. Witt Penalty Box by Ari Baran Scoring Chances by Avon Gale

[binvibin]

read the good icebreaker yall, by a.l graziadei

[an-ivy-covered-summer]

you guys can’t understand the anger that takes over my body whenever i see that silly chicken breast heterosexual steamy book about a figure skater and a hockey player bc a book called “icebreaker” about queer hockey players dealing with racism, anxiety, depression and the insane pressure put on young athletes already existed before that one came out but now all i ever see when i try to search anything about it is the basic straight porn with the blonde girl and the tall white dude and it sucks!!!!!!!!!!!

[87sjosten]

Lately I've been so obsessed with icebreaker from a l graziadei to the point I've just reread and I NEED to reread it again! I just need more content of my little sillies boys so much I need more fans to this work I need fanart and I need this book to become famous or something pls pls pls.

Last time I felt like this with a book it was aftg 😞

[monica-tailor]

Random Bits from Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei that Hit Me Way Fucking Harder than They Should Have

Mickey always feeling like the outcast in any given group of people

feeling like everyone around him is better friends with each other than they are with him

being singled out form a young age as "special", resulting in lifelong feelings of alienation from his peers

his ton of abandonment issues and how they don't just go away when people randomly start showing that they care about him

how his father kept pointing out all his mistakes until he could score 5 goals in a game and only remember the one time he stupidly lost a puck

the scene where a professor randomly asks him if he's okay and he nearly breaks down crying and spills all his problems to her but stops and he's like "this is wrong, I should be talking to my sisters about this, whom I love and care about, so why don't I?"

the scene where one of his sisters points out that he's been doing better, looking less depressed etc but it makes his mood instantly plummet

the scene where he tries to cheer up a depressed roommate in the most awkward way imaginable but it still somehow helps

how he can hear the difference in tone between "it's a skill you should have" and "it's an embarrassing skill not to have as Mickey James III the hockey legend"

the random strikes of loneliness that come out of nowhere (when Cauler is playing a video game without him; when he learns that three of his teammates will be rooming together next semester since he'll be gone)

"Everything's awful, but I can pretend." *sends a bunch of funny emojis in the chat*

"God I feel so pathetic. I could easily message him myself."

"It's not that I don't like hockey, it's just... I don't like anything. Not enough to matter."

And finally... "I want to be the one you call when you're having a rough time."

[will80sbyers]

Read She gets the girl by Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick and Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei recently and loved them I need to search to see if they plan to do screen adaptations omg I'm also reading The Poppy War but I have to finish that yet and getting distracted by lots of stuff

[chronic-optimistt]

don’t mind me. just thinking about the fact that mickey canonically gets a tattoo of a crown for the royals. because they gave him hope for the first time in a long time. and allowed him to find joy in his future finally. and maybe he wants their impact permanently etched into his skin to look at for the rest of his career as a reminder. nope don’t mind me. totally normal about this.

[hot-glue-burns-hurt]

icebreaker headcanons story things idk what to call these pt 3

Mickey likes nice big oversized hoodies. This leads to him consistently stealing Jaysen's hoodies whenever Jaysen leaves them in his vicinity or dorm. So once Jaysen went to visit his family Mickey didn't have any hoodies that smelt like him or were nice and oversized since Jaysen stole them back to do laundry. So Dorian just ended up lending him one of his. So when Jaysen came back he was just so confused. Like why is my boyfriend wearing your hoodie?!?! Dorian was like "why are you beefing with me rn my bro was cold???" Jaysen since then has consistently given Mickey his hoodies so it won't happen again. Mickeys is quite happy with this but he also only accepts Jaysen hoodie's if they smell like him. However obviously if it's one of his friends like Dorian he doesn't care just as long as it's oversized.

[bluesargentirl]

i haven't been active in months but i desperately need someone to talk to about icebreaker