#eclipse is so late game so I keep sneaking him in drawings

[crow-n-tell]

I've been staring at the art you posted 3 days ago for all 3 of thouse days and I swear I must know am I actually loosing my mind and seeing stuff or is there an EYE behind Y/N in the second image???? /gen

Heheh

Yeah

I wanted him to mostly be hidden you can see his ey and his little body lights :)

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Eternal eclipse - Klance Month Week 4

I have no idea where I was going with this but it happened, so yeah. I do wanna redo week 2 of @monthlyklance at some point, but I’ve got a mer bang to finish, so don’t be too surprised if the last prompt for this week is late. Enjoy I guess. Eclipse/Victory

“I’m the sun and your the moon.”

“What does that even mean?”

“We’re apart, but an eclipse is a moment worth watching.”

Keith burst into laughter. “That made no sense.”

“Yes it does!”

“No it doesn’t.”

Crappy webcams couldn’t distort the pout on Lance’s lips.

“What I mean is when they do get to pass each other, it’s one of the world greatest wonders and us being reunited would be the airport’s greatest wonder. Or at least, me getting to see you would be mine.”

While the analogy made no sense what so ever, knowing that he was Lance’s always put a smile on his face. Even when they were miles apart.

He and Lance met at a convention and had a slight competition over who had the better mecha lion cosplay from their shared favourite show, Space Warriors. Keith wouldn’t admit it then, but Lance had won with his Blue Lion cosplay, seeing as the people he came with were engineers and had made the moving pieces of their costumes. Lance himself, despite being a professional stage manager, was able to create the light up weapons they used. Keith made his Red Lion cosplay with hard work and long nights but he was willing to wave the white flag, if Lance hadn’t been so smug about it. In the 3 days of the convention, they always seemed to bump into each other, competing over the smallest things, like who could get a better score in the game room or who could find the better deal on a plush in the dealer’s hall. Even though they spent a good amount of time arguing, Lance had given him his number and told him to call if he ever wanted to admit Lance was better.

Keith was mostly never planning but he was working on a cosplay and the top didn’t look right and he had no other friends who liked cosplay, so he texted Lance.

‘Ah, so you admit I am the better cosplayer. it’s fine, no need to send a voice memo saying so. By the way, the shirt is the wrong colour if that’s the character your going for. You can actually order to correct colour from Jo Anne’s if you want to make it yourself. Check H&M or Forever 21 for similar looking shirts in the correct colour.’

While he rolled his eyes at how utterly smug the guy sounded, he took his advice. It was easier to get the shirt and fix it up himself and it was actually surprising how close to the real thing he needed was. Their relationship continued in asking for advice on cosplays or line ups for conventions and then he happened to find Lance’s Instagram.

Keith kept his cosplays and personal life separate, but Lance combined everything. Pictures of his cat, pictures of the beach, pictures of his friends as they lounged around, somewhat professional pictures as Lance worked, even though Keith knew enough about theatre to know Lance should be completely in the dark in the booth. So, Keith started asking questions about his life, Lance asked about his and they started to become friends. Lance could still be as snooty about his cosplay skills as possible but he was always helpful when it came to offering advice. Somehow it took finding a small fandom they both liked to make them closer.

“Whoa, wait a second. You like Kirarin Revolution?”

“Yeah?” Keith had been playing his usual cosplay making focus playlist and the second opening had come on and Lance heard it over the phone.

“Do you have any idea how hard it is to find someone who likes that anime? Almost no one knows it! I’ve been trying to find someone to be my Hiroto to my Seiji for a cosplay. What convention are you going to next?”

“Um, Galaxy Con?”

“Prefect, text me your sizes. we’re doing a cosplay together.”

“Wait, my size?”

“How else am I suppose to make your cosplay?”

“Wait what?”

Lance would not be swayed and when he arrived at his hotel on badge pick up day, like a hound dog, Lance found him and put him in his cosplay to do finishing touches. He even styled his wig for him.

“Why don’t we do this more?” Lance asked as he fixed the feathered pieces for the coat.

“Because you live in LA and I live in Texas.”

Despite Lance claiming not a lot of people knew the anime, they had made quite a hit at the convention. He became good friends with Hunk and Pidge and got to see another side to Lance that wasn’t hidden in smugness. Lance was actually a pretty nice guy and once they had separated again, they still kept that closeness they gained during that convention. They had even started to stream animes together, texting each other on everything.

Even with the distance between and the fact that they didn’t always go to the same convention and see each other, they kept getting closer and closer. One day, they were video chatting and Lance had been falling asleep on himself. His cat had joined him and was asleep herself and looking at him with his face squished by his hand, his half awake eyes and how he was all cosied up, Keith couldn’t help thinking he looked really cute.

He might not of been one for relationships, but was he even considering doing a relationship when your significant other lived so far away. Ok, maybe not that far, but long distance was hard. There was a reason it had such a stigma around it, even if people claimed it could work out.

Keith broached the subject and while ecstatic that Lance felt the same, he’d been as worried as Lance was. They were such good friends, what if this relationship didn’t work?

It took a lot of communication to make it work. Keith tended to keep things inside, including his nerves about how to act around Lance when they could meet at conventions. Lance was always nervous he’d be too clingy. There was a good moment where they stopped talking because not talking meant things couldn’t change or get worse. It was miserable and if it hadn’t been for Shiro – and Hunk on Lance’s side – it would of kept up. Once they talked everything through, it got better. It wasn’t like they’d go ages without seeing each other. Keith always saved up his vacation days at the Fire Station for conventions and he was always working so often anyway that the guys kept insisting he take more time off. Plus they loved teasing him about Lance, trying to sneak into the background of any video calls.

Lance would talk to Keith during shows that he knew the cues for like the back of his hand. He considered it worth getting in trouble for. he’d always count down to the next convention they’d meet at, somehow always knowing where he’d bump into Keith. they’d been doing it for a year now. There were long periods were they couldn’t  see each other at conventions, maybe due to flight issues or work and the distance, while manageable, did hurt. Keith didn’t know why he didn’t just take a random week off when the theatre Lance worked with was in the dark and just spend the week with him. Maybe the fear that without conventions, they’d fall apart. Not a healthy way to live, which was why he was sure Lance announced on this very chat he was coming to visit him. Which kinda lead to their discussion on eclipses. When Lance was in town, in between actually hanging out and not sticking to a convention schedule, he wanted to make a couples cosplay with him. they’d been bouncing back ideas, almost going with Zuko and Sokka from ATLA (even though Keith knew he was more into Zuko and Katara), when Keith went on a tangent about the BNHA manga.

“You know I rarely read manga half the time.” Lance complained.

“I think you’ll like this one. The artist made this little drawing moon Todoroki and Sun Izuku and tododeku shippers have been going insane. it’s a whole huge thing now. I mean, everyone already says things like ‘oh the moon and sun get to kiss each other during an eclipse’. I must of seen 1000 fan arts of those two getting their kiss.”

“Oh! We should do that! it’ll be like us!”

which then lead back into their current conversation.

“Lance, when I get to see you, it’s not going to be a one time thing to kiss you. If it’s up to me, I wouldn’t stop. We might not even get any cosplay work done because I’ll be too busy kissing you.”

“Ooh, eternal eclipse. Kinda like the final battle with the Dead Moon Circus.”

Keith furrowed his brow. “What?”

“Sailor Moon? My god Keith, we might not be doing any cosplay stuff if I have to school you on essential anime.”

Keith rolled his eyes. “It’s not essential.”

“Keith, it’s changed the whole game. it’s essential.”

Keith could put up being school with ‘essential anime’, as long as he got Lance with it.

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Hart Trick: How the Should-Be MVP Claude Giroux Carried the Flyers to a Playoff Matchup with the Penguins

Sometimes, the best players in their sports raise their level higher than you ever thought possible to will their team to victory.

For the Flyers, their Hart Trophy-deserving captain Claude Giroux did something he had never done before in 738 career regular season games to ensure a must-win game was, in fact, a victory.

Giroux registered his first career regular season hat trick and in turn became just the sixth Flyer in franchise history to eclipse the 100-point plateau as the Flyers dismantled the New York Rangers 5-0 in the final game of the regular season Saturday.

The win catapulted the Flyers into the playoffs for the 39th time in 50 seasons played, and set up yet another series with the hated Pittsburgh Penguins that will begin sometime later this week.

We’ll dive into that pairing a little bit later in this post, only because it would be a disservice to Giroux to not focus on him first.

After all, the guy has put together one of the best Flyers seasons in history, and arguably could be the best.

I know what you’re thinking. He had a good season, but the best in Flyers’ history?

I’ll be honest, I was a little skeptical of my own thoughts at first. But the more I considered it, and the more I compared it to the other great seasons in Flyers history, it became more and more apparent that the 82 games we just watched Claude Giroux play, may have, in fact, been the best ever by one Flyers player.

And at worst, it was second-best.

To test my theory, I sat down with Hall of Fame reporter and Flyers historian Jay Greenberg to discuss the contenders. We narrowed it down to these:

Bob Clarke 1975-76

Mark Recchi 1992-93

Eric Lindros 1994-95

Eric Lindros 1995-96

Claude Giroux 2017-18

We didn’t consider Bernie Parent, because it’s impossible to compare a goalie to a skater, and we didn’t consider Mark Howe, who had some great seasons as a defenseman, but none that individually carried a team like the four forwards mentioned above.

We quickly ranked Recchi’s season fifth among the five – as great as it was – and it’s still a team record for points – it came in an era where scoring was much easier than it is today. Consider Recchi’s Flyers had a 50-goal scorer, a 40-goal scorer (Lindros) and two 30-goal scorers (Rod Brind’Amour and Kevin Dineen) and still finished in fifth place in a six-team division.

That was the other reason we ranked it fifth. As good a season as it was for Recchi, it didn’t elevate his team at all. Not only were they not a playoff team, but they finished with the eighth-worst record in the league in a season with one bad team (Tampa Bay) and two horrific expansion franchises (both San Jose and Ottawa lost more than 70 games – although it was the Sharks’ second season of existence).

Sometimes, guys on bad teams have great years, but it’s hard to count them as the best in the storied history of a franchise when there were comparable individual seasons that had teams with better outcomes.

The next on the list was Lindros in 1995-96. This is when he had 115 points, and was the last Flyer before Giroux to reach the 100-point plateau.

We ranked that fourth because as good a season as it was, Lindros had a lot of  help. The Flyers were the best team in the conference in the regular season. John LeClair nearly reached 100 points himself (97). And the Flyers were coming off a run to the Eastern Conference Finals and were a really good team who would reach the Finals a year later.

Yes, Lindros missed nine games this season, and with his points per game average probably would have eclipsed Recchi’s team points record if he played the full 82, but the fact still remains that while it was a great season, it didn’t elevate the team far beyond where it already was.

In third place we put Lindros in 1994-95. The only negative here was that it was a shortened season based on the lockout. But Lindros posted 70 points in 48 games and carried the Flyers – who had missed the playoffs for the five previous seasons – back to the playoffs and all the way to the conference finals.

He won the Hart trophy this year, and deservedly so. He was the most important player to his team in the NHL. The Flyers don’t have the success they do without Lindros being that good. Clarke doesn’t trade Recchi for LeClair and Eric Desjardins if Lindros wasn’t this good. It was only 48 games, but it was an incredible 48 games, and it could have been the best season ever by a Flyer if it hadn’t been a season cut short by labor strife.

That leaves Giroux and Clarke.

This is where the argument happens.

First, let’s look at the team around them:

Clarke’s season came as the Flyers were pursuing their third straight Stanley Cup – so the team was excellent – and according to Greenberg, even better than the two teams that won Cups.

Meanwhile, Giroux’s team needed to win their 82nd game just to make the playoffs.

Edge Giroux.

Using teammates as a comparison, Clarke posted a 119-point season, but Bill Barber had a 112-point season and Reggie Leach had a 91-point campaign. It was the best season in total points by one line in team history.

Giroux had one constant partner in Sean Couturier (76 points) and split the season with Jake Voracek (85 points) and Travis Konecny (47 points) as his other wingers.

It’s not even close. Clarke had more scoring talent with him. So, again, edge Giroux.

Clarke was more than just a prolific scorer though. He was an excellent defensive player. As a matter of fact, Clarke was not on the ice for a 5-on-5 goal against in 1975-76 until mid-January. Think about that for a second. That’s insane.

Giroux isn’t known as much for his defensive prowess as Clarke was. He had his best defensive year, but even he admits it’s not really a specialty.

“To be able to start the year and play – I think it’s my first time playing with one guy the whole year playing with Coots,” Giroux said. “And as a winger I don’t always do the right things, but I get away with it because I got Coots making the smart plays so I really feel lucky to play with him and we’re gonna hopefully keep going here.”

So, edge to Clarke there.

But Couturier is an interesting case that may, in fact, tip the scales here for Giroux.

Clarke certainly made Barber and Leach better players, but they were good enough to make Clarke a great player also.

Leach scored 61 goals in 1975-76, a Flyers record. Clarke set him up a ton, but to score that much is pretty incredible. Couturier only had 31 goals by comparison, meaning Giroux had to find other people to assist, or do it all himself (as he did Saturday).

Barber is a Hall of Famer. Teaming up with Clarke and getting to watch them play together was incredibly lucky for the Flyers fans of the day. Sure, the Bullies mentality was a draw, but it’s easy to forget the awesome offensive skill, creativity and chemistry Clarke and Barber had together.

Barber put up great season after great season. By comparison, Couturier’s career-best scoring season before this year was 39 points.

Now, he deserves credit for the breakout for sure, but it’s almost certain that a big reason for it was playing with Giroux.

As such, I think Giroux gets the nod here as well.

As you can see, his season has been incredibly special. He’s carried a team into the postseason that one could argue – that with 42 wins and 40 losses – isn’t really a playoff team.

But every time you questioned them, there was an answer. The team always found a way to respond. And when they had to do so in clutch situations, more often than not, Giroux was at the center of it.

Like yesterday.

100:

Giroux sneaks it through Lundqvist. pic.twitter.com/Di57B3jU6g

— Sons of Penn (@SonsofPenn) April 7, 2018

101…

Giroux snipes his 2nd to make it 4-0! pic.twitter.com/bY7mCCsr5o

— Sons of Penn (@SonsofPenn) April 7, 2018

102:

Sanheim lifts a puck to a wide-open Giroux, who beats Lundqvist for the hat trick! pic.twitter.com/VESpzVJRsG

— Sons of Penn (@SonsofPenn) April 7, 2018

And hats amore:

Clean up on aisle 28! pic.twitter.com/dUtG7z4Oew

— Sons of Penn (@SonsofPenn) April 7, 2018

Giroux finished the season second in the NHL in points with 102. He finished tied for first in assists with 68.

Just give him the damn Hart Trophy already, would ya?

The Pittsburgh Penguins

On first glance, this isn’t a great match-up for the Flyers. The Penguins won all four regular season contests between the two and scored five goals in each game.

However, it’s not that simple.

Two of those games went to overtime. The Flyers actually led in all four games. And, if there’s another team out there with goalie problems akin to the Flyers – it’s Pittsburgh.

The Penguins aren’t as deep a team this year as they were the previous two when they won the Stanley Cup, so they have holes that can be exploited.

But this was far from the most ideal matchup for the Flyers in the playoffs.

Washington would have been best. The Flyers can play with them five-on-five, and although the Caps’ power play is lethal, the Flyers are a pretty disciplined team these days and don’t take many penalties.

So, they could have neutralized Washington.

Pittsburgh, however, has the speed/size combination that is so prevalent among the best teams in the NHL. Look at Nashville. Look at Vegas. Look at Winnipeg. Look at Boston. Even teams the next tier down like Anaheim and Los Angeles employ that balanced mixture.

The Flyers don’t have that really at all.

And that’s where this is a bad pairing.

I think they can hang in the series with Pittsburgh – and make it a longer series than many might expect – and I’ll wait until later this week to give an actual prediction, but this is probably the second-best opponent for the Flyers out of the four they could have ended up with yesterday.

As for the schedule….

It should be out late today or tonight.

I spoke to an executive who told me that decisions are still being made on dates and times for games and that TV is the driving factor. Not only that, the NBA and NHL are working together – especially in cities that will have two playoff teams like Philly, Boston and Washington – to identify the best TV schedule.

With the Flyers-Penguins promising to be the biggest ratings winner for NBC in the first round, I’m certain they are going to push to have them play in their premium time slots – so I think a Sunday afternoon or two are likely.

That said, I’m not certain the league will want to rush to get the series started Wednesday to assure a Sunday on NBC for Game 3 – Especially since the Sixers will start at home and could get a Sunday home game as well.

I think the Flyers will either be Thursday/Sunday or even Friday/Sunday in Pittsburgh before coming back to Philly next week on Tuesday and Thursday for Games 3 and 4.

Just a prediction. I could be wrong, but I think they’ll try to get at least one of the Sixers’ first two home games out of the way first before bringing the Flyers back home.

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