#helenorvana

[ijustdontlikepeople]

Zach Werenski + “Cannon” as requested by @helenorvana

[alpineshift]

Ship alignment! Any combination of the Canucks polycule (Quinn, Elias, Brock, Thatcher)?

canucks polycule ahaha I almost feel like I can't split them up. like a huge pile of shelter kittens they must be kept together(!!)

But if I must - makes sense, compels me: Quinn/Thatcher. my initial vibes came from reading some rly nice fics of them but then I saw their hug at the NHL awards and I was like "ma'am this is a wendy's."

alt scenario - doesn't make sense, compels me: a combo of Elias/Brock and Quinn/Brock. largely bc I simply don't know enough about everyone but Elias/Brock are perfectly opposite blonds to me and I'm feeling the a bit of the introvert/extrovert vibes for Quinn/Brock. I can be convinced otherwise. 🙂‍↕️

maybe this is the year I watch more Canadian hockey teams hehe

[claraxbarton]

Echo

For @helenorvana

[honeylemonicedtea]

tagged by @alpineshift !!

if you had a spotify wrapped but for which hockey players you talked about the most, who would be your top 5?

1. Quinn Hughes (loml)

2. Jack/Luke Hughes (tied, really)

3. Brady Tkachuk (that's my captain, baby!!)

4. Nico Hischier (that's my 2nd captain, baby!!)

5. Josh Norris (babygirl)

honorable mentions are Jamie Drysdale, Jeremy Swayman, and Linus Ullmark :)

Tagging @rohruh , @imperatorrrrr , @helenorvana , and @proudcanadian83

[korshrimpski]

(@helenorvana) HE REALLY DID!! he said it in an interview with the What Chaos! podcast

something that better continue in utah is the d's and goalies having a dinner once a month to shit talk the forwards, like please that is so funny to me

[blackkatmagic]

I love watching gifs of Aayla fighting, 'cause more than any other Jedi, she looks like she's dancing. So fluid and graceful.

Yes, she’s so wonderful, I really wish they’d given her more than one episode.

[calebandnott]

@helenorvana replied to your post “around which episode/arc did campaign one start getting really good...”

If Orion leaves in the next episode, then you've just started the Briarwoods arc, which is, yeah, where you really started getting deep with these characters, and that emotional depth and conflict is really where this show shines

*chef’s kiss* BEAUTIFUL that’s just what i wanted to hear thank u!

[swedishgoaliemafia]

helenorvana replied to your post:helenorvana replied to your post:helenorvana...

Imma say yes, although they’re probs mainly Tyuts’ purview. T for homesickness/culture shock stuff, H for funtimes rookie stuff, and F for Dadliness Dad stuff? But mainly Tyuts looks after them. (such a snuggly happy family, absoLUTELY)

I like how they organize their duties for maximum rookie care.

I have so many fic ideas right now for their snuggly happy family and I have SO MANY THINGS TO WRITE, I have a literal list and I’m trying to write that sequel to Yours (I made significant progress today! by which I mean I finished a scene and actually wrote over 1.5k which is a big deal for me because this story is like having to arm wrestle a hammerhead shark for every word) but I just keep thinking about writing happy Lumbus snuggles where everyone loves each other and takes care of each other and ugh

[ijustdontlikepeople]

ooh, for an edit request, Zach Werenski, cannon? (a bit cliche, but my brain always blanks for prompts/requests)

Yes!! I hope you like it! I may have also gonna a bit cliche lol

[alpineshift]

End of year asks! What about 20 or 25?

OOH ok I am ready for this q 🤩

(I answered 20 so I'll do 25!)

25. Did you create any characters (in games, art, or writing) this year? Describe one

I think my favourite characters are the OC rookies from 'after after hours'! Becks, Ninesy, and Kalum; they're my emotional support OC trio so I can't just leave one of them behind LOL.

I like to think that the three of them are people that wouldn't necessarily be friends if they'd met each other on the streets, but instantly clicked when they all became devils rookies. Ninesy is the baby of the group and subsequently gets spoiled as such; he's not even a passenger princess, he's backseat baby. Kalum is a little older and wiser (?), since he finished college and temporarily stared into the void of unemployment before getting into professional hockey. Becks still gets stress nightmares where he dreams that he missed exams and had to rewrite them and then showed up late to a game and Nico gives him a Disappointed StareTM.

They all have varying levels of crushes on model!Jack but Becks probably has it the worst right now, bc he's also highkey got a crush on Nico as well. This is especially confusing for him bc Nico and Jack are such different people so what does this say about his tastes?? Now his stress dreams also include Luke finding out about his double crushes and then chasing him down the ice with five hockey sticks.

[wolfieswords]

There was a prompt on sinbin about Sid spending the week surrounded by children and WANTING so hard that Geno walked out his door in Russia to find a baby in a bassinet, and it all just sounds ADORABLE

 Sidney doesn’t believe in magic.

Most of the people he knows would argue that fact, he knows, but it’s true.  He knows how it looks, with all of his rituals and superstitions, so he can’t say he totally blames them.  None of that is magic, though.  Maybe it’s all just psychological, little tricks he uses to coax himself into the right headspace.  At best, he thinks of it like chaos theory–a butterfly flaps its wings in New York, and there’s a typhoon a thousand miles away.  He eats a peanut butter sandwich before a game, and his shot slips through the five-hole instead of going wide.  He might not understand all the steps in between, and yeah, he knows it might all be bullshit, but he’s never once suspected that it was anything more than science.

This … isn’t science.

“Okay.  Okay.”  Sidney takes a deep breath, pinching at the bridge of his nose.  It’s really too late at night for obscure practical jokes.  “You’re saying that this morning, you opened your door, and you found–”

“Baby, Sid,” Geno grits out, somehow having the nerve to sound frustrated with him.  “I already tell you three times.  No, shh,” he says, suddenly soothing.  “Is okay,” he murmurs, and lapses into gentle Russian.

“Look, Geno, I don’t–I don’t really get the joke, here,” Sidney manages to say after a moment.  “It’s late, okay, maybe you can just.  Explain it to me tomorrow?”

“You think I joke about something like this?”  Geno sounds legitimately offended, even a little hurt, and for a moment Sidney misses him so fiercely it aches.  “Is our baby, Sid.”

Sidney lets his head fall back to thump against the wall.

“I don’t even have time to list all the ways that isn’t possible,” he says to the ceiling.  “And this really isn’t funny, G.”

“No,” Geno agrees.  “Is not.  You want I prove?  Okay.  I call you back.”

The line disconnects and Sidney’s left staring blankly at his phone.  There’s a hard lump forming in his throat, a grittiness behind his eyes that he refuses to give in to.  None of this seems fair.  He’s kept everything to himself this summer, every wave of aching longing when his students’ families come to collect them, every time he sees a mother or father scoop their children up into their arms.  He and Geno haven’t even discussed what they are to each other yet, if their time together is just casual fun, or maybe something more.  Something real, that might be permanent.  He hasn’t wanted to frighten Geno off with everything he wants, and now …

It wouldn’t be a funny joke under the best of circumstances.  Coming now, it seems almost cruel.

His phone chimes in his hand, and he opens the text from Geno with a weary sense of resignation.  One of his friends there must’ve just had a baby, he thinks when he first sees the picture.  Geno hoards photos of cute things on his phone like some people store canned goods for natural disasters; this could’ve been taken anytime.

The next thing he notices, though, is the nose.  Tiny and not yet fully formed yet, true, but clearly, unmistakably Geno’s.  Her ears, too, he thinks, something cold and hollow settling in the pit of his stomach, and when a new call from Geno’s number flashes across the screen, Sidney accepts the call with shaky hands.

“She has your nose,” he says before Geno can even manage a word.  “Why is there a baby that has your nose, Geno?” he demands.

“Has your eyes.”  Geno doesn’t sound upset.  Geno sounds … smitten, deeply and helplessly fond.  “Such pretty, yes?” he coos.  “Prettiest girl in whole world.”

Sidney can’t seem to catch his breath, but he switches over to speakerphone and pulls the picture up again.  It’s true, he realizes through the buzzing in his head.  Those are his eyes, the familiar line of his jaw.  His mom’s chin, he thinks distantly.

“This isn’t possible,” he mutters, but he’s remembering the end of classes yesterday, the little girl who’d swept an eyelash from his cheek and told him very seriously to make a wish.  The twisting in his gut when the only thing that came to mind to wish for was– “Why did she come to you, though?” he hears himself blurting out.

“Already know I’m best,” Geno says smugly, and Sidney chokes back a laugh.  Really, what else was he expecting?  “Oh!  You have smile for Daddy?” he says suddenly.  “Think she know your voice, Sid.”

“She’s smiling?” Sidney asks, leaning forward as his brain jumps straight past the how and why and what the fuck of it all.  “Is she?”

“Maybe I come home early this year?” Geno asks, almost shy now.  “Bring Albina so you can meet?”

“Yes,” Sidney says immediately.  “Of course you should, she’s my … come home.”  The echo of the words settles into his chest, not like pain this time, but like hope.  “We’re going to have to seriously talk about the name, though.”

[honeylemonicedtea]

rules: pick a song for each letter of your url and tag that many people (if you can)

tagged by @alpineshift - thank you!! i highly rec all of these

H - Heaven is a Bedroom (TV Girl)

O - Oil (feat. Stevie Nicks) (Gorillaz)

N - Not What I Meant (feat. Lewis Watson) (dodie)

E - Everything is romantic (Charli xcx)

Y - You First (Re: Remi Wolf) (Paramore)

L - Life Is Simple in the Moonlight (The Strokes)

E - Electric Relaxation (A Tribe Called Quest)

M - Matrimony II (Tennis)

O - Ode to Viceroy (Mac DeMarco)

N - Narcissus in a Red Dress (The Like)

I - If I Believe You (The 1975)

C - Crescendolls (Daft Punk)

E - Everlasting Light (The Black Keys)

D - Diplomat's Son (Vampire Weekend)

T - Tossing Tears (Twin Peaks)

E - Edge of the Earth (The Beaches)

A - Are You Satisfied? (MARINA)

oh my... @rohruh @grittyreadsfic @loviess @offside-the-lines @summerko8 @hischierlovebot @solip1386 @whatthe-puck @lightmymcqueen95 @phoebo-fugiente @ijustdontlikepeople @hisch13r86 @belteppismo @helenorvana @drysday @wymgreenteam @baiyunli

that's 17! <3

[blackkatmagic]

I realize it's just the way his armor plates are sitting in that first photoset, but at first glance on a phone screen, it looks like Mando is wearing teeny little track shorts, and having seen it the once, I cannot now unsee it.

Thanks i hate it.

[swedishgoaliemafia]

helenorvana replied to your post:helenorvana replied to your post:helenorvana...

omg, Marcus is totes Hottest Foligno. Wiz as Team Dad is largely extrapolated from the 1st 2 paras here: bit.ly/1ydLKUN And…look, there are A Lot of Team Dads on CBJ, okay? :D Hartsy for the rookies, Tyuts for the Russians, and Fliggy as Main Dad

Right?? Nick is pretty but then you see Marcus and it’s like whoa. (Most of fandom doesn’t know who he is, so whoa is usually the reaction when people see him for the first time.) 

Okay, so, that article only throws fuel on the “Columbus is a Big Snuggly Happy Family” fire. I’d say it’s a team full of only Team Dads except I think that’s the Canucks, who are pretty much all dads at this point... I love how they have different Dad Responsibilities - if you’re a Russian rookie, are all three your dad?

[tokidokifish]

helenorvana replied to your post: “::stares into space:: Okay but honestly who the fuck thinks Steve...”

I was willing to play along with it (he moved it, at least!) until Vision lifted it like "no biggie" later in the movie. THEN I started fuming :/

The only thing I can see happening was that that little movement was Steve been surprised to realize he could move it, and being like “oh shit I don’t actually want anything to do with this, pretend like nothing happened, oh noooo look how hard I’m trying to lift this, too bad I’m not worthy of Thor’s hammer”. 

[alpineshift]

Hey, what's your preferred pasta noodle (#29)?

oooh it's penne!! penne my belovedddd 🥰

last year I won a pasta box for charity raffle at work and there were two types of penne pasta included. best delight of the year.