#ft. sterling levin.

[luckylewis]

lucky 📲 sterling.

Lucky: Hey

[atlasnolan]

"That is adorable. It's better to have a weird name, I reckon. There's plenty of Janes and Johns in the world, can't say the name for Sterling Roses."

It both sounded rich and she seemed to be rich, which seemed more fitting than being named after a book of maps when he was a non-reader who rarely had any sort of direction.

"I'll have to find some patience for them while I'm here then, might be good for me."

( That might also be impossible, but it remained to be seen. )

Atlas is almost certain that from what he surmised so far about this Sterling Rose, the chances of her knowing his sister was slim, but there seemed no harm in seeing.

"Her name's Scottie. She looks a bit like me but if I was a girl with wilder hair and wasn't on the ugly side of life."

@sterlingxlevin

“Well…” Sterling huffed out a small laugh but let that part of the conversation die as they quickly moved on. The comment about her name made her shake her head. “Not really sure what my parents were thinking. They gave my sister a normal name and they named me a silver flower. Sterling Rose. Adorable, huh?” She rolled her eyes at that but her attention was quickly back to him as he answered her questions.

“Florida? Well, you’ve definitely moved from one place with tourists to one of the most tourist-y tourist places in California.” Okay, it wasn’t that bad, it just wasn’t a huge town so everyone knew everyone and Sterling was pretty sure half the town had slept with each other at this point. Running into tourists was inevitable.

“Who is your sister, maybe I know her. At least heard her name, probably.”

@atlasnolan

[lonelyhcart]

📸 + Sterling

@sterlingxlevin

also have an insta story from june of 2023.

[fletcher-bailey]

📸 fletcher and oli

@sterlingxlevin @leomlarson @reggiellewellyn

[lorelailewis]

👀 + your opinion on the levins

"Sterling? I haven't bought the sweet as pie routine since she wouldn't allow any of us to have a relationship with Sunny after Lucky ditched them both for England. She's vindictive as fuck"

"As for Liza? We've never really crossed paths that much all things considered but she should be at the club." @sterlingxlevin @thelizaxlevin

SEND MY MUSE “👀 + A QUESTION” AND THEY’LL HAVE TO ANSWER WITH 100% HONESTY.

[atlasnolan]

"Sunny's the little one, right?" Atlas asks, wiping his brow with the back of his hand before he uses it to indicate to a height he thinks is around the same one as the smaller-but-very-similar-to-Steling-looking blonde child that had been running around the last time he had been over to fix up the siding on the house.

It had involved some trial and error on his part, but he had gotten the hang of it and his second trip over that day had him finishing the job in half the time.

( No thumbs lost either -- success. )

"Who's Liz? She good at cupcakes?"

@sterlingxlevin

open starter: @aurorabaystarter

where: Sterling's home

"Sunny's going into kindergarten and I'm actually losing my shit over this. It was bad enough that I cried on her fifth birthday and now I'm gonna be a mess this whole week." Sterling could already feel her eyes glossing over again. It didn't help that she was pregnant and her emotions were way heightened. "I'm making her cupcakes with my mom's old recipe and I'm already kind of wishing I got Liz to do it instead."

[modern-inheritance]

MIC Song List (Feb 2024)

The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy

The Massacre of El Kuroke by The Dead South

Nothing Left to Say by Imagine Dragons

Bud Like You by AJR

Lay Me Down by The Dirty Heads

I'm a Wanted Man by Royal Deluxe

Ghost Light by TheFatRat and EVERGLOW

Demons by Delta Heavy

Feel Something by ILLENIUM, Excision and I Prevail

Sway by Michael Bublé

I Shall Rise by Karen O

I Bet My Life by Imagine Dragons

Blood on My Name by The Brothers Bright

Hazy Shade of Winter by Gerard Way

Some Nights by Fun.

Another Me by Excision, Dylan Matthew, Wooli and Seven Lions

Spirits by the Strumbellas

My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark by Fall Out Boy

I'm So Sorry by Imagine Dragons

Warbringer (Feat. Lindsey Sterling) by TheFatRat

This is War by 30 Seconds to Mars

Thanks for the Memories by Fall Out Boy

My Silver Lining by First Aid Kit

Bangarang by Skrillix

Sober Up (Feat. Rivers Cuomo) by AJR

Back One Day (Outro Song) By TheFatRat and NEFFEX

Feeling Good (David Foster & Friends) by Michael Bublé

Let Me Live Let Me Die by Des Rocs

In the Air Tonight (Dead Space 3 Remix)

Who We Are by Imagine Dragons

Two Moons by BoyWithUke

She Wants Me Dead by CAZZETTE

Bones by Imagine Dragons

The Man Who Sold The World by Midge Ure and Ultravox

When We Were Soldiers by Trocadero

Say Amen (Saturday Night) by Panic! At the Disco

Out of My Mind by Jamie Berry

You're Dead by The Brains (WET soundtrack)

Put It on the Line by The Heavy

Let Love Win by TheFatRat and Anjulie

Fire by TheFatRat

In the Woods Somewhere by Hozier

Go To War by Nothing More

Renegades by X Ambassadors

Round One (feat. Lamar Hall) by Jeff Williams

The More (feat. Lamar Hall) by Jeff Williams

Oxygen (Feat. Julianne Hope) by Excision, Wooli and Trivecta

In the Pines by Janel Drewis

Pray by Jeff Williams

Short Change Hero by The Heavy

Forever (Feat. Casey Williams) by Jeff Williams

Natural by Imagine Dragons

Stronger by TheFatRat, Slaydid and Anjulie

Lost in the Rhythm by Jamie Berry and Octavia Rose

Warriors by Imagine Dragons

Our Song by TheFatRat and Cecila Gault

Bang Bang ft. Adam Levine by K'NAAN

Monody (Feat. Laura Brehm) by TheFatRat

Freaks by Timmy Trumpet and Savage

Legacy by Dirty Palm and Benix

Lean (Live with Strings) by Oh Land

Sharkface/Rooftop by Jeff Williams

Hunger by TheFatRat

Addicted by Bliss N Eso

Be Calm by Fun.

Can't Hold Me Down by GRiZ

Shepard's Tango (Citadel DLC Soundtrack)

Meet Me on the Battlefield by SVRCINA

She's Lost Control by The Arkhams

[mitchbeck]

CANTLON: NIGHTHAWK GREAT ANDERSON ENTERS AHL HALL OF FAME

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings SPRINGFIELD, MA - John Anderson's road to the AHL Hall-of-Fame is a true hockey journey. Beginning with his captaincy during his junior days with the first edition of the Toronto Marlies of the OHA (now OHL). He was a first-round pick and spent eight years with the Maple Leafs. His journey continued for a brief one year stay with the Quebec Nordiques, who had drafted him during their WHA days. Anderson then had a strong four-year run with the Hartford Whalers. While in the Connecticut capital, Anderson would score the game-winning goal that gave the Whalers their one and their only division title. After leaving the Whalers, Anderson headed for Europe, which didn’t make me him happy. “I really hated it. I wanted to come back. The following summer I had worked as hard as I could, but I got no tryouts to any training camps and I have to admit, I was angry with the game at the point. Then, I got a call from an old friend, Gabby (Bruce Boudreau) to come to Ft. Wayne. He said, 'Play with me. We'll have some fun again.' I asked him, 'I’m not much on geography where is Ft. Wayne?'” After a season with the Ft. Wayne Komets (IHL) and listening to Boudreau, it was his best hockey decision. “It was a great piece of advice that I listened to. I was worried about riding the bus everywhere and the whole nine yards. It was the best thing I ever did. It was such a close-knit group. Everybody checked their egos at the door. I appreciated those guys giving me back the love of the game. It was a very special group.” Anderson would then begin to make his AHL mark with the New Haven Nighthawks as a Player/Assistant Coach a year later. “I really have to thank the New Haven Nighthawks. They made an old hockey player feel good and resurrected. It could have been over for my career. That was a very good group of players we had that year. It made me, an old player, feel a bit young again.” Anderson captured the Les Cunningham AHL MVP Trophy that season playing with a team that was half a crew of refugees from the Quebec Nordiques. The team they assembled was one of the last two Independent AHL teams. The line he was a part of, was one of the most fearsome in league history. Anderson played on the left wing. Stan Drulia manned the right wing while Paul Willett was the center. The group compiled 277 points in 1991-92. Drulia had 102 of those points. He was one of only two players in Nighthawk history to top the century mark in total points. Willett had 80 points. Anderson had 41 goals and a team-leading 54 assists (95 points) and a plus-42, as the trio blitzed goalies in what was then, just a 15-team AHL. Putting that in perspective, it's less than half of today’s what today's AHL landscape encompasses. Interestingly though, the line almost never happened. “I was injured late in the year in Ft. Wayne and didn’t play in the playoffs, I had a bad charley-horse. In fact, they thought it was broken. It actually laid down extra calcium (similar to Cam Neely’s career-ending injury). It never really healed in the summer, I barely trained, so I walked into camp, literally walked in, as a free agent. The only other person who had a worse camp than me was Stan. I saw him play one game the season before, you noticed him. "Dougie Carpenter (the team's head coach) wasn’t going to sign him and he had like 140 points the year before (with Knoxville ECHL). I said he had something special and I really lobbied Carpenter to sign him. Drulia took a pay cut to play in New Haven. He was being offered $1,500 a week to play in the East Coast League that year. "Then there was a shooting in the mall (Chapel Square Mall) around the corner from the arena (New Haven Coliseum) during camp. His wife was like, 'What are we doing here?” said Anderson. The AHL minimum at the time was far below what it is today ($70K) and this was just before the first rise in salaries that started with the 1994 NHL work stoppage. Anderson mentored many of his teammates. One of those he taught, Trevor Stienburg, has for the past 17 years, been a head coach with the St. Mary’s University Huskies (AUAA) in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Stienburg was one of the ten players on that Nighthawk roster who were Quebec Nordiques prospects assigned to the team. Another ten were an assortment of AHL free agents of which Anderson was one. “John was such a good guy and a great teammate. He is so worthy of the honor,” Stienburg said in a phone interview from Halifax. "John’s style at that time might not fit the way hockey is structured today, but it was highly effective back then. “John played hockey like some people play basketball. He would set picks for others. He was the dean of subtle obstruction. When I would have the puck in the offensive zone, he would skate to me trying not to get open, and then at the last minute he would shake his coverage with his pick and he was open for the pass or created an open lane for you to shoot. He would always say, 'Act like an object'" The seeds for the second half of Anderson’s AHL career as a head coach were planted in New Haven. “John was the MVP of the league in so many ways. He always took the time to teach guys. He was maybe one of the very first player-assistant coaches in the AHL. He and Doug (head coach Doug Carpenter) were a good team and he gave him a lot of opportunity. "I would be a veteran at the point, and to be honest I wanted to be in Halifax. So, when I went to New Haven with that group, it felt like a demotion, because it was. To be honest, I was down emotionally. As we grew as a group, it got better each day and John was a big part of that. He was open. If you didn’t understand something, he would say, 'Come over here, I’ll show you.'  He made me receptive to learning new things. That really helped me at that point in my career and down the line. "As my skating started to suffer late in my career, I always remember what John taught me and others in New Haven. I teach that to my players now just, in a bit more of a modified approach.” Anderson was an important part of the fabric for that edition of the Nighthawks. The Nordiques didn’t think they were prospects to be with the Halifax Citadels, the primary farm team for the Quebec. “He was the centerpiece of the team; a natural born leader, and he has accomplished a lot in this game. He is a Hall-of-Famer in my book,” said Stienburg. For Anderson and that team they started off quite poorly at 3-14, but his troublesome charley-horse finally began to heal and the trio started to click and collect points. They turned their record around with an inverted 14-3 run. “Stiener was one of funniest teammates I ever had, and he and all the guys made me feel so welcomed. He was the reason we turned it around had such a good year. We had so many good players in that group. Scotty Arniel, Brian Dobbin, and Lou Francheschetti were on the other line. Once, I got healthy, and guys got to know each other, we got better as the season went along. "All of the guys on that team got an NHL contract to sign except me,” Anderson said with his huge broad smile and a laugh. It was in New Haven that Anderson caught the bug for coaching which would be the other half of his sterling AHL career with the Chicago Wolves. “Doug never called me his assistant coach, he called me his little helper.  We went up to Adirondack together to watch a pre-season game there to see if we might be able to pick up a couple players for us. We were up in Lake George. It was a beautiful fall day and Doug says, 'Do you want to sit in the restaurant?' I said, 'No, let’s go on the tour boat.' Doug was kind of a staunch guy, I was a bit (adventurous), but we're symbiotic as coaches together. That year he lost his mother which was very hard for him, but he was a great coach because he let me do my thing." He remembers his last AHL game in Springfield as a player vividly. “We sit down after the Star Spangled Banner. I see guys at the end of the bench to the right are laughing. I look left the guys are laughing and our head coach, Dougie Carpenter, is behind me. He’s laughing, and so I Iook at Stan Drulia and said, 'What the heck is so funny?' He said, 'Look behind you. "A guy came down behind the bench with a huge sign the size of a bedsheet: 'Anderson: Caution Microwave In Use.', "I wish he were here today because I have a new pacemaker and its microwave proof - Ha!” Chicago is where Anderson made a tremendous mark with two of the three last IHL Turner Cups, and their first year in the AHL won the Calder Cup over Bridgeport in five games. “We had all the ingredients. Kevin Cheveldayoff (the GM) has more rings than fingers, who might get one more in Winnipeg was great and he just let me coach. The owners, Don Levin, and Buddy Myers gave me all the tools I needed. And by tools I mean money.” Anderson said chuckling. The Wolves captured two titles in the AHL and the two in the IHL for an impressive seven-year run and add in the United Hockey League title he won in Quad Cit,y Anderson’s resume had the word winner stamped on it." The team also helped Anderson with their affiliation with the now-defunct Atlanta Thrashers where he eventually got his first NHL head coaching gig. Teaching others came naturally because of his strong competitive desire. “I really wanted to win that year. It was important to lead by example with such a diverse group that we had in New Haven. Being personable with players was a big thing. It doesn’t take much but finding out how a guy is doing. Bruce Boudreau and I have the same philosophy. What we always talked about was talking to every player, every day, because you don’t know what is going on. His kid might have been sick, or something else going on. It went a long way with players.” After two more years playing with San Diego, he began his hockey coaching odyssey in the Southern Hockey League in 1995, a six-team reincarnation of the mid-‘70’s version that lasted all of one year. Anderson had a tale from his Winston-Salem Mammoths days that brought the house down. “There was a lot to learn you had to do a lot yourself there wasn’t an assistant coach at the time. I even learned how to put up signs on the dasher boards. I learned a lot valuable things. "I was at the dinner table with my (unofficial) assistant coach Victor Posa, and I get a call from Walt Podubny (Ranger from the 1980s), the head coach of the Daytona Beach team. "We start discussing a trade. He wanted a guy we had on defense, and I wanted one of his offensive defenseman. We talked about 20 minutes and I ended it, 'Hey Walt, We're set. We have a deal? Yes, we do. "Next morning, he calls me and says his owner won’t let him make the deal, so the deal is off. I said, 'OK Walt if anything changes and you can call me.' "We have a game that night. We're playing great. We were down to four D as one player got sick before the game. So we're ahead in the third period, and one of my guys punches a guy in the head, the defenseman I was going to trade. So he gets tossed and we're down to three D and are shorthanded the rest of the game. "So, my youngest, Spencer, was six at the time, and he hung up things in the locker room and he goes in there and the player is throwing a fit. He’s throwing everything, gloves, helmets, and shoulder pads. "Spencer asks him, 'What’s wrong, Travis (Hulse)?' "Your father is gonna kill me if we lose this game. He’s going to be angry with me. It’s gonna be horrible.” "My son gives him a Gatorade and says, 'Don’t worry, Travis my Dad is going to trade you anyhow.' "Note to future coaches never discuss work at the dinner table.” Going to the AHL was always a place of last resort for hockey players in his day. “Everybody says I don’t want to go the American League till you get there. I look back as a player and a person how necessary and vital it was to go there to grow and develop personally. I realize just how vitally important the AHL is and it made me a better coach and a better person in being honored today says everything for me.” John Anderson has shown just how valuable the AHL is, and how valuable he has been to the modern era of the AHL as he proudly takes his place the Hall of Fame. Read the full article

[luckylewis]

[luckylewis]

be honest... would you ever get back together with sterling?

"No. I think we're in the best place we've ever been, I wouldn't jeopardise that by complicating it or risking things by going down that road again." @sterlingxlevin

send me “be honest…” with a question your muse has been dying to ask mine and they’ll answer truthfully.

[luckylewis]

closed for: @sterlingxlevin

where: outside the hotel

With the ball in full swing and midnight looming, Lucky had taken himself outside for a brief reprieve from mingling and for a cigarette. The latter was lit and held between his fingers after he had taken a drag, his black and red mask removed from his face and dangling around his wrist.

Another figure in the space caught his eye easily -- even in a mask, even in the dark he knew exactly who the blonde in silver was.

( He thinks he might always be able to, Sterling Levin easily managed to make the earth around her shift by presence alone. )

It's not the first time that night that he had noticed her, but he had seen that she hadn't shown up alone, which is why he had intentionally kept a distance.

"This isn't what it looks like," He says after he exhales, knowing it's exactly what it looked like. "Don't tell the warden."

The warden in their case being their four year old who had taken an iron clad opposition to her father's occasional stress fuelled habit which is why he had taken to hiding his box in his own house and not smoking when he had her.

[luckylewis]

closed for: @sterlingxlevin

where: levin residence, aurora bay drive

"Are we doing a theme?" Lucky asks, half scrolling through pins on Pinterest that he had marked for some inspiration. It was to be their child's fifth birthday but the first one he had an active hand in planning with Sterling, and he wanted that to go as smoothly as possible.

New Years Eve had been strange, mostly because of him and he hopes it was an isolated weirdness.

"If we are, I think it should be B-A-R-B-I-E," He spells out, knowing actually saying the word would have trigger their four (soon to be five) year old's interest like a summons and that would lead to her quizzing them on what her parents were talking about.

[lonelyhcart]

ft. @sterlingxlevin

EMILY IN PARIS (2020-)

[luckylewis]

hc + 🚬 for a headcanon about a bad habit

"Smoking is probably low-hanging fruit. It's a gross habit, I know. I'm trying to quit, I'm closer to it than I've ever been. Mostly because my kid keeps telling me off about it and I don't want to be on the wrong side of her. She's got her mom's temper." @sterlingxlevin

Thematic Headcanons.

[luckylewis]

👀 + if you went back in time to right before you headed off to london with the knowledge of today, would you choose to go again, or would you have stayed?

"I'd stay. If I knew then what I know know, of course I would have stayed. I'd have been the first person to hold my daughter, not the last. I'd have held Sterling's hand instead of breaking her heart. I'd have friendships where I wouldn't spend most of it second guessing what it is they really think of me." @sterlingxlevin

"But that's not what I did. That would have been a good life, but it's not my life. I can't turn back the clock and I can't keep turning myself inside out for the shitty choices of a scared eighteen year old. All I can do is try learn from it and not repeat my mistakes. And I think I am, at least in some ways. I'm still scared every day but I ride it out even though I'm afraid every time. Sunny's getting bigger and smarter and so much more aware every day. I've got years yet but I know there's going to be a day where she's going to want answers and she'll want an explanation for why her dad wasn't around for the start of her life. I hope when that day comes I have the right words for her, but I can't guarantee it. What I can guarantee is I'll be there to have that conversation. The guy that hightailed it out of here, he couldn't do that."

Send my muse “👀 + a question” and they’ll have to answer with 100% honesty.

[luckylewis]

👀 hottest people in town?

"Man, I hate these. But if I have to answer then I guess Mac, Aylin, Kate, Sterling, Angel, Cricket, Christina, Emerson and Finn."

@macaulaymontgomery / @aylinxc-s / @katexharmon / @sterlingxlevin / @firefighterrojas / @cricketcampbell / @christinaxwagner / @emersonxcassidy / @finn-brooks

send my muse “👀 + a question” and they’ll have to answer with 100% honesty.