#anyway idk i have never written cisswap before but i'm having a lot of fun with the gender of it all

[msmargaretmurry]

Anything you can tell us about your eldest daughter Quinn Hughes fic idea? That sounds amazing and I’d love to hear a little about what sort of ideas and thoughts you have floating around for it!

anon, i am so tickled that you've asked. i am unfortunately one of those people who refuses to reveal TOO much about a story before i'm done with it (i feel like i was like 50k into head above water and my friends were still like, so uh, are you gonna tell us... what it's about......) BUT i am happy to share a few little thoughts and feelings! under the cut, to spare y'all's dashboards.

i must say my off the bat that my eldest daughter quinn concept was fully inspired by ao3 user bropunzeling's girl!leon extended universe. firstly it's just great and secondly i was super enamored with her worldbuilding around women in the nhl and so i am uhhh borrowing heavily on that front, thanks jess :)

the main thought that initially sent me spiraling on this concept was thinking how the mama hughes teaching her boys hockey thing could be flipped in a fun way to be like, maybe the nhl was wasn't quite letting women in yet in ellen's day even though she might have been good enough, so quinn "mama's girl" hughes has strong feelings about having the kind of career her mom deserved. i then saw this clip of baby ellen telling the dallas local news that she wanted to play pro hockey and i DID have so many feelings i had to lie down.

i also like thinking about how eldest sister quinn would still be super protective of and proud of her little brothers but also have complicated feelings about how much easier it is for them to navigate a sport and a world designed for them, whereas it only begrudgingly made space for her. the girl!quinn in my head has a complicated relationship with femininity and struggles with figuring out how she wants to be vs how she feels like she needs to be to make it as a girl in the nhl, and because of this she has a strict "no sex/romance with fellow hockey players" rule but unfortunately for her she IS going to eventually fall ass over tits for brady tkachuk and is going to have a minor breakdown the first time she thinks she might want to kiss him. terrible!! that's her best friend!!! he's not even hot!!!!!

also i just think the image of her and girl!petey swiping through dating apps and judging the men of various nhl cities together is very funny 😌

anyway i've got like 15k of it in a gdoc that i have been kind of stuck on but i actually did a little reworking of the story structure tonight and so i think it might work better now?? only time will tell!!