#hockey references

[heartorbit]

figure skating set right now please. thanks

[overtake]

This is a super short (550-ish words) snippet from the maxiel hockey au I got 30k into before life got in the way. I’ll probably never finish it, so have this random scene. For context, Daniel is staying at Max’s home because he has an ankle injury and the only bedroom at his own place had stairs.

Daniel hears Max before he sees him. Based on the frantic pounding down the stairs, you’d think Max was being chased by a fucking murderer.

“Daniel,” the shadowy figure in Daniel’s doorframe says in a shaky, frantic voice. Daniel hasn’t kept his door shut since the cats first started scratching at it and demanding to be let in, and he briefly wonders in the recesses of his sleep-addled mind if Max has ever Edward from Twilighted him and just watched him sleep.

“Hmmph?” Daniel manages. His brain is thick and sluggish through the foggy, sleep haze surrounding it. He tries to prop himself up on one elbow and immediately fails.

“There’s a spider in my room,” Max hisses, as if he’s scared the spider might somehow hear him and immediately attack. “Can you come kill it?”

“I am not walking up stairs right now,” Daniel groans. It was a brutal PT session, and he spent half his afternoon with his ankle wrapped in ice and elevated. Plus, he’s not exactly fond of spiders either.

“I can’t sleep in there,” Max says, and Daniel wants so badly to make fun of him, but there’s an edge of real panic in his voice. Also, Daniel is even more scared of far more embarrassing shit, so he’d never win.

“Stay in here,” Daniel says, reaching an arm behind him to flop at the empty space. “Plenty of room.”

Max only hesitates for a second before crawling in. “Are you sure?” he asks, like he isn’t already sticking his cold toes against Daniel for warmth.

“The terrors will probably kill the spider by morning for us,” Daniel says, letting his head drop back onto his pillow.

“Jimmy and Sassy are not terrors. It’s not nice how you talk about them,” Max says primly as a crash echoes from somewhere upstairs. Daniel doesn’t dignify him with a response.

He feels Max’s weight settle behind him, and a hand reaches out as his eyes drift back shut and lightly caresses his exposed shoulder. “Thank you, Daniel.”

In the morning, Daniel wakes up to find Max curled in a ball around a pillow he somehow stole from under Daniel’s head, quietly letting out cute little snores. Sassy is lying content on the floor nearby with half a dead spider dangling out her mouth.

“That’s your problem to collect and throw away,” he tells a sleeping Max. He’s got freckles on his shoulders, Daniel notices, a whole constellation of them decorating the broad, pale canvas.

He fights the urge to trace the space between them and instead collects Max’s morning Red Bull from the fridge. He leaves it to drip condensation on the bedside table closest to Max’s pillow-creased face, next to a little note that Daniel is out for his morning walk.

Max texts him twenty minutes in to his stroll.

Max Verstappen: thanks for the red bull. okay if i stay again if we don’t find the spider? It was huge.

Daniel gnaws at his cuticle, contemplating his response for half a second. It’s not like he has proof that spider was the one Max saw. Sassy probably got rid of the evidence, so he can’t ask. He doesn’t want to make Max sleep in a room that makes him anxious.

Daniel Ricciardo: Of course. Better to be safe. That spider could be deadly.

Max Verstappen: Need your Australian powers to scare it off

Daniel Ricciardo: 🤺🤺🤺

When he opens the kitchen bin later that day, he sees the body of the spider sitting on the top.

“Crazy girl. You learned how to open the bin,” he coos to Sassy, aiming for a head scratch she runs away from and pretending he doesn’t see the very human tissue wrapped around the remains.

[zeakis]

made this right after the W, decided to now finally post it on tumblr a few months later lol

gotta love the rat

[pierremcguire]

[sportsthoughts]

Kris "I've been telling you he's the best for 18 years" Letang - 25/2/24

[kentjohnson91]

nhl memes again cause i need hockey back

[antsrust]

Diver! Marlene Mckinnon <3

Another addition to the Olympics AU I have in my head. Marlene is a diver for the Australian diving team.

[texastendy-29]

the stars at night, are big and bright

deep in the heart of texas

[kitnita]

wyatt johnston on the growth of hockey in texas   —   practice   —   11.19.24 

… yeah, i’ve been to a couple. uh — yeah, i mean, great rinks. yeah, and, uh, fun to watch — fun to watch nate play at some of these rinks. [from a guy from ontario, are you surprised that hockey as spread so much and that the youth hockey is so good down here?]   um … yeah, i mean, i didn’t, i mean, really didn’t know what to expect. um, you definitely don’t think of, you know, texas as being a, a place where, you know, hockey might, um … be as big as it is, so, yeah, it’s amazing. and i mean, the support i’ve felt in my time here has been amazing. and i mean, yeah, you see how good the hockey is, especially being able to witness it with the pavelskis.

[seaquestions]

big dog little dog energy. uh anyway.

[id: two drawings of conor garland & nikita zadorov as furries (a russel terrier & a great dane) referencing the video of them shoving each other at practice. text reads "lil' push!" & "BIG SHOVE!" end id.]

[marino436]

I think Gabe wants that cookie

[divorcedtom]

SUCCESSION S04E03

[scratchlock]

titled in my computer as "i told him this would happen if he didnt cut it out with the jesus parallels.psdc"

[national-hockey-gay]

Making an Edit for Every Team in the NHL: The Dallas Stars (12/32)

Richard Siken, Snow and Dirty Rain

[thatrandombookworm]

The amount of times I pictured the aftg boys (minus matt) with hockey boy haircuts during my reread is a problem

[simmyfrobby]

Where the water / Bubbles up / At the spring: / Isn’t that a wound?

@girlfriendline back to september etc etc