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[eileen-crys]

Hello love. Some random prompts that you can ignore or just pick and choose whatever you fancy:-

John and Ronnie's first date (not their first meeting at the disco, but the first time he took her out just the two or them).

The first time Ronnie met John's Mum/sister in Oadby or the first time he met her family in Sheffield.

The first time they exchanged I Love You's.

Other band member's perspectives on the first time they all met Veronica for the first time.

The first time Veronica heard YMBF.

Lots of firsts basically!

Hiii thanks for sending these! Omg they're a lot, but I think either me or other writers tackled most of these prompts a bit already, so I chose only one to write about, I hope you don't mind 🥰💕 I chose John meeting Veronica's parents for the first time... as her boyfriend!

The wheels of the Silver Bullet stopped in front of the building, but John couldn't take his hands off the steering wheel. He was paralyzed and shot a nervous glance at his side, where Veronica sat looking at Sheffield out the window.

She felt John's terrified look on her and turned to meet his eyes, shivering.

"I'm nervous too, John, but it's going to be okay, don't worry." She gave him a tentative smile and John let out a deep sigh, finally leaving the car.

John and Veronica have been knowing each other for over a year, she even went in Cornwall with his band, and that time she really struggled to get the permission from her parents (only with the promise of behave well and don't do anything sinful, coming from both John and Veronica's own lips), but this time... well, now John wasn't only a friend, they were together.

Like, really together, very much in love with each other, which was the reason behind this visit. She told her parents about it on the phone, and they demanded to see John in person for the second time with a rather unpleasant tone.

"My hair's even longer this time, your father's really not going to like it even one bit." John whined, carrying their bags for the night up the stairs.

"I told them you're not a hippie, I'm..." Veronica let out a frustrated sigh. Her parents had complained about John's fashion style and being in a band, but they clung to the promise he was going to be a respectable engineer and had extremely good grades at university. But she was still quite worried about her parents' welcome.

Edmund and Catherine still lived in the same public housing in Sheffield where Veronica grew up in, a rather big apartment stuffed with children that now were all moved away or, in Veronica's case, studying in London, leaving the parents alone with a couple of extra rooms in case of need.

And as expected, they got welcomed by two pairs of stern, concerned and judgmental eyes.

-*-

"I'm sure you'll understand our concerns about our daughter, John, given you're a very intelligent boy." While Veronica's father silently stared at John, giving him the most awkward dinner of his life, her mom kept bombarding him with questions. Some of which she did actually already ask during the first time they met, but this time he was there as Veronica's boyfriend, and not just as a friend, and that carried a whole bag of implications.

"I do, ma'am." John replied with a nod, trying not to show how pressured he felt. After all, John was a master at keeping a poker face. "I'm... I might be in a music band and I like to keep my hair long but I can assure you I'm responsible and I deeply care about Ronn- Veronica." He corrected himself, biting his lip, and Ronnie gave an invisible, gentle rub on his thigh as she sat absolutely silent next to him.

"Have you had a girlfriend before?" Another question from Catherine, who seemed only curious about it, but for sure had a deeper meaning about John's behavior.

He swallowed and Veronica noticed his cheeks flushing a bit. He told her about that first, naive attempt of a relationship which didn't land anywhere. He's never been interested in any relationship before Veronica arrived in his life like a wrecking ball.

"Uh, n-not really... Well, kind of, I suppose, I had a girlfriend when I was seventeen, but it was... You know, just an approach and I wasn't really chasing girls. Never went further than a kiss." He stammered a bit, fidgeting with the fork.

"And how's this... rock band thing?"

This time Catherine gave John an icy glare that drilled right through his soul. He read the question in her eyes as clear as reading the newspaper: she was assuming he intended to be promiscuous and break Veronica's heart, which was opposite of his intentions. He felt purely in love with her and didn't need anything else.

"I'm just the bass player, it's just for fun, we're all students. My bandmates have very different... personalities than mine, you know." Seeking genuine comfort, he glanced at Ronnie and met her loving eyes. "But I'm already happy and fulfilled with Veronica."

It was then that both her parents exchanged a look that seemed softening, lifting the weight on both John and Veronica's hearts.

"I can't foresee the future, I don't know where life will lead us, but I'll do my best to make your daughter happy as long as we're together." John promised, making the bold move of holding her hand tightly in front of her parents, and Veronica's wide smile gave John enough courage to speak those words out loud.

For now, it seemed enough for her parents, who quietly agreed with a silent look at each other.

"We'll keep our eyes on you, boy." Edmund finally spoke, but his threat had a friendly tint in it and John replied with a vigorous nod, before the dinner continued and Ronnie's parents asked her about her studies, almost as if she just joined the meal.

-*-

As both of them expected, Veronica's parents put them in separate rooms to sleep, but as soon as the night came down and a dead silence dawned on the Tetzlaffs house, Veronica stood up from her bed and tiptoed in the room that used to be her brothers'.

John wasn't sleeping either and she was met with his green eyes staring at her.

"Jesus Christ, Ronnie, I thought it was your father checking if I was still here." He hissed, a little frightened before softening up once Veronica sat on the bed.

"Better not call Jesus's name out loud in this house…" She giggled, "I know, but I also know my parents well enough to be sure they won't disturb us, they're very deep sleepers. My dad snores-"

"I heard!"

"... and mom wears earmuffs and takes sleeping pills. It's actually pretty safe at night, I just have to go back to bed later and not fall asleep here." In the dark, Ronnie gave him a warm smile which made John's heart flutter violently.

He cherished the sensation of his cheeks flushing while he adjusted himself on the single bed and made room for Veronica, inviting her under the covers.

Despite her parents' concerns, they never went further than cuddling and kissing, yet, but they were comfortable with it. John loved the domesticity of holding his girlfriend so close, and respected her will of waiting a while before eventually taking some steps forward, because not only her parents were religious but she was as well, after all, and was struggling between her beliefs and her "sinful" desires. But thankfully, John didn't feel like rushing their relationship either.

Quietly, Veronica slid under the covers and winded her arms around his waist, listening to his warmth and heartbeat.

"I'm sorry my parents are so rough and cold… I have told them many times you're a guy with his feet on the ground, they're just… very conservative, you know. Religion, and all that." She murmured. "My two sisters also struggled a lot with their boyfriends…"

"You didn't speak a word earlier… I was rather scared." John admitted, being used to Veronica speaking her mind about her parents and venting when she was with him made him worried about her well-being first.

"I know, I'm so sorry! My father really never lets me speak and they were having a conversation with you, so… I shouldn't interfere."

"As if you were disturbing?"

"Yeah… interrupting, even." She sighed and John gave her a nod. Her situation with her parents was definitely a complicated one for a girl her age in the roaring Seventies and he didn't blame her one bit.

"It's unfair, you're involved as well... It felt like an exam…" John added with a pout and exaggerated his expression, mimicking Edmund's stern face and making Veronica smile . Until she looked at him and a veil of sadness covered her eyes.

"I don't want them to scare you away from me…" Ronnie admitted weakly, her voice thin as if she was afraid to say that out loud.

Cupping her face, John caressed her soft cheek and cradled her sorrow away.

"They won't, don't worry."

[itsallaboutbl]

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[brotherconstant]

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[landonmikaelson]

Happy Birthday @userlaylivia! 💛

[eternalyoo]

𝐻𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 𝒷𝒾𝓇𝓉𝒽𝒹𝒶𝓎 𝓉𝑜 𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓈𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓉 𝒜𝓃𝓃𝒶 @jiwoonhyung 🥰💙

Happy birthday to one of the sweetest, most supportive friend I have ! I Hope your birthday was amazing and I’m so happy to have you in my life even from afar, ily 🫶

[emry-stars-art]

Hi Emry! How are you?

Do you think there'll be some Andrew shark hoodie stickers in the shop in the future or no? 🥺

(i really a in love with shark hoodie Andrew)

bye! <3

Hmmmmm you know

There's really just no way to be sure

[doodlingwren]

The brainrot is speaking... I need to create a side account for my DnD AU of Saint Seiya or I might turn evil for real this time

[merry-arts]

Fan art for lovely Notchka88 (on AO3) for 'Miles To Go' story💗

[secondpersonpoetry]

hi! oh my goodness. i am SO sorry i didn’t say anything earlier. i did read everything a couple days ago, and i Have been chewing on it, rotating it in my mind, etc etc…..and the graphic has been my phone lockscreen since i first read it!!!!!

frankly i am obsessed and have also been a little frazzled this month lol. saw your post late because of the general whirlwind that is december and then couldn’t quite get my thoughts into sufficient words n got worried “oh no would it be weird to say something now…..” which is incredibly silly in retrospect, so sorry for that. 

i’m relatively new to hockey fandom and the Narratives don’t always quite click for me (yet, at least :)) because i don’t know all of the lore for a lot of the popular pairings haha, so it means a lot that you’ve taken time out of your day to break things down for me and share your own thoughts <3 tysm. again, super sorry for the delayed response. i’m very sorry if you felt as though you’d wasted your time or something along those lines :’) just wanted to let you know that i really appreciate you and the time it took you to get everything down and make the graphic!!!! and like i can’t overstate how much your tags both over here and on your other blog have helped me to Get It since the start of this season, so thank you.

but now the house is quiet, the in-laws are gone, and no new work stuff until january :) so i can finally get some stuff down. every point you brought up hits in it own way but gosh you are very incredibly right the mcstrome of it all…..that’s sort of the lens i’ve been listening to the song through since you mentioned it.

the golden boy and the “draft bust” and the ever present notion of “isn’t it all about old friends? like everything? all of it?”.  like idk looking back on a bestfriendship from when you were a teenager that was Super intense and the lines were blurred and maybe realizing (if you hadn’t had the words or the “guts” or awareness or wtv to put a name to it at that point in your life) that y’all were a smidge more than just friends. 

best friends forever until you just aren’t! growing up and growing apart. it’s just the way things go but it can and will ache for a damn long time! you think you’re over it until their birthday or the holidays roll around and you wonder in a distant sort of way who they’re spending it with. what you would’ve hypothetically gotten them as a present if you still spoke. what do they even like nowadays, anyway?

maybe having the friendship end subtly. going from playing and traveling together and living in one another’s pockets to 2,080 miles of distance? (i may have my timeline/details confused here so sorry in advance) texting as much as you can at first but he’s a phenom he’s mcjesus he’s the next in line he’s expected to win the cup with his new team and end the drought for Canada. and they have him now but he was yours first, wasn’t he? but it’s fine. because you’re busy too. you’re captaining the team now. you’re gonna get the memorial cup that he couldn’t. it’s fine. you’re fine. you don’t even have time to worry about it anyway. 

one conversation a week turns to one a month turns to once in a blue moon turns to stale words until it goes cold. these days you can’t quite seem to remember who ended things, but does it really matter all that much now?

or maybe it doesn’t end like that at all. maybe it ends in a flurry of angry words and digs in some or other of the endless hotel rooms you’ve shared together over the years. who knows!

and that’s not even getting into the rest of the 2015 draft class. or the ld19 of it all! ooh hoo hoo. you grew up with him but he’s not your waiting room. he grew up with you but he’ll grow “old” (end his career) with someone else. and isn’t that just something! 

i don’t think it’s totally them, but sort of the sentiment of “I hope you get everything you ever wanted and I hope I never hear a word about it.” I want one ticket off of your carousel!!!! merry christmas, please don’t call!!!!!!!

dylan being sent up and down and traded around until finally landing in washington, a place where he is clearly at home and LOVED for the guy and player he is!!!!!!!! watching a game and seeing all the strome jerseys in the crowd……..wagh.

all that said. some other songs that are mcstrome to me in various ways: hot & heavy by lucy dacus (lol kinda the whole song). before the world was big by girlpool (“i just miss how it felt standing next to you wearing matching [jerseys? sweaters?] before the world was big”). happiness by Taylor swift (“i guess it’s the price i pay for seven years in heaven”), cut your bangs by radiator hospital (maybe? possibly? unsure. i like the whole dog thing there). i’m so glad i feel this way about you by insignificant other (!!!!!). there are so many THEM lyrics in there……..waough.

anyway. other things off the top of my head: 2015 connor specifically saying something like “hey let’s wait a minute so we can see this” to stand by the stage when dylan was getting drafted after him. MAN. you reminded me of the fact that they couldn’t even make eye contact at the handshake line!!!!!!!!! they didn’t go to each other’s weddings!!!!!!!!!! (do you think once upon a time they ever thought they’d being each other’s best man?). just a couple months ago dylan liking the tweet of connor getting that goal during the playoffs!!!!!!!! makes you wonder if he texted him………..

lol this was all over the place and i was probably wrong on some things and there’s SO much more that someone else could say way more eloquently, but i digress. i dunno everything about them is so nuts to me!!!!! needless to say i will be incredibly sat for the game january 21 🙂‍↕️

thank you again for your time :) hope you have a good one and a happy rest of the holiday season! <3333333

what a lovely message to receive 🥰😭🥹 i had to break it up into chunks because i couldn't sit down to read all of it at once without just. bouncing right back up and shrieking. i am also at heart terribly shy so i understand the struggle but it is never too late to say something <3 you are always welcome here

first!!! i love sharing!! i think most of hockey tumblr loves to see people finding out the Lore for the first time and the wonderful thing about hockey is that. it keeps going on. so there's years and years and generations and generations and always something new to learn about. i've learned to just not be afraid to ask!!! between different teams and players i'm always discovering new narratives (learning about the sharks old man yaoi rn... cbj rarepairs...)

no... to my heart's despair... you have the timeline right. i think in the best most tragic sense there's a mcstrome narrative where it is truly that nothing went wrong. the love was there. we couldn't do enough to save it because we didn't see it slipping away. i didn't notice when you didn't call until you never did. i don't know you now but i still remember when i did, do you?

HE'S NOT YOUR WAITING ROOM?? passing out. i do see "i hope you get everything you ever wanted and i hope i never hear a word about it" as them because!! they didn't go to each other's weddings!!! i don't wish you harm but i'm not going to put myself through that!! i hope you're happy and i'm never going to look on purpose.

i love dylan strome so much and the best part is that they all love him so much too. he wore a cool vintage ovechkin jacket!! and got slapped in the face with a tortilla!! he loves to gently rag on the rookies!! it just takes some time, everything'll be just fine. you're only on the middle of the ride.

OKAY WHEN I READ THIS PART I SCREAMED BECAUSE I DO HAVE A MCSTROME PLAYLIST AND!!!! HOT & HEAVY BY LUCY DACUS IS IN FACT ON IT!!! SO IS CUT YOUR BANGS (BUT BY GIRLPOOL SO DOUBLE JINX)!!!! i have dorothea by taylor swift on there but i don't know happiness so i'll have to give all the other songs a listen. mostly i just shrieked because i was like NO YOU GOT THE VIBES EXACTLY

🧠〰️🧠 truly the mind meld happening here. the handshake line. the mutual wedding non-invitations. i won't block your number or your name on twitter i just hope i don't see it come up on screen!! i do think that we got confirmation the last time they played each other that dylan did text him to say congrats on a milestone but i would have to check the archives

p.s. i think you said it perfectly eloquently :) what matters is that you said it at all and i was delighted to read it 💕

[darehearts]

good morning and happy weekend babes 💛

[sforzesco]

Allow me, if you will, a moment to go absolutely rabid over your blog and everything that goes on here. I’ve always loved history but the USA hardly likes teaching anything that isn’t American History. I’ve forgotten how much I love WORLD history, specifically the rise and fall of empires.

I’ve been smothering myself in your posts and I love it ALL. JC, Pompey, Crassus, Sulla, Octavian, Antony, Cassius, and Brutus. Wow what a mood. You don’t miss on your references or your modern AU’s and I’m over here like- I’m trying to buy whatever web comic you put out, book you write, etc.

Also, if you’d be so kind to list some material with like themes to start breaking into these topics. Preferably materials in English or translated materials.

HELL YEAH LET'S GO

if you really want to start on the ground floor for breaking into something, I'd recommend my personal favorite approach which is picking the figure that's most interesting to you, reading through plutarch's biography on them (free! online! in english!) and then putting their name through a jstor search and reading whatever sounds fun.

other than that, the primary theme I've been wandering around in lately, so these are the materials I've been really enjoyed related to that:

The Deaths of the Republic: Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, Brian Walters

The Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide, Paul Plass

Ideology in Cold Blood: A Reading of Lucan's Civil War, Shadi Bartsch

Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid, Randall T. Ganiban

Rome, Blood & Power, Gareth C Sampson

I also have a comparatives tag where I play connect the dots with texts that made my brain go brrr

[kachulein]

give ur moots a valentines day ship! (totally not peachie <3)

y'know what, I'm gonna give you two because stanning so many groups, there are too many options that are tempting to say the least😌💅🏻✨️

@http-peachie -> My first thought was Seeun because that just makes sense. I'm sure he'd have an amazing date planned for you on Valentine's Day 🤭 Secondly, I would also like to throw Ricky in here (I would like you to know that I accidentally mistyped his name as "Dicky" first)(trying not to laugh rn)(failing miserably)(anyway, moving on). 𝓡𝓲𝓬𝓴𝔂 may look all dark and charismatic (at first, only at first, lbfr) but he's actually a soft, lil, awkward cutiepatootie and I actually really like how soft-spoken he is (when he's not fighting with gyuv atm) and srsly the ✨️vibes✨️ just tell me this is a cute ship that feels right!!

@solovolpe -> Since this is a Valentine's Day ship, I can choose whoever I want and I want to push the Intak agenda, so here we go. Listen, when I tell yall, Intak and Lys simply make sense together, they just haven't realised that yet <3 pls help me set her up w/ him 🤧😔 and secondly, I would like to choose Gunwook because he just perfectly fits into Lys' type (iykyk🤭). There is just something about this dude that makes me go "Oh yeah, he belongs to Lys" (getting into zb1, I thought he might become my bias but he's so strongly Lys' in my mind that I might even be unable to bias him)(he's still a candidate so far...we'll see I guess🤭 indecisive zb1 still haven't made their decision��). So there you have it, another otp😌🥰✨️

[eliteseven]

Ah, the anguish, how I love anguish... even though I love it because I'm sure we will have large doses of scenes that will make me feel single beyond belief. But I live for moments of anguish because I know the reward is cute, domestic and beautiful, beautiful and beautiful moments and you're great at writing them, so GIVE ME ANGUISH. (but kindly because I'm not made of iron either).

Pinky promise it’s all to set up some of the fluffiest gayest most healing brainrot shit you’ve ever read in your life bc that’s all I actually know how to write 🥰

just…pls know it’s coming in 2 installments probably (IF I have a chance to edit and post tomorrow, I might have too much work 😅)

[luyo-mi]

*places a flower wreath on your head* thank you for your lovely art hope you have a nice day :)

O O H stop it youu 🩷🩷🩷 ᵍᶦᵍᵍˡᶦⁿᵍ ᵏᶦᶜᵏᶦⁿᵍ ᵐʸ ᶠᵉᵉᵗ ᵒᵐᵍ

[crossbackpoke-check]

Hello, im wehaveagathering from my main blog, im kind of obsessed with your hockey poetry edits and I think your blog is great! I guess I kind of have a dumb question, where do you find the images you use for your edits? Did you say Getty in your tags?? I’ve gotten into making icons recently (and i have ideas for poetry edits hrrrghhh) but it’s hard to find high res images. Thanks for your time and I hope you have a nice day :)

first of all thank you so much 🥹 and second that’s absolutely not a dumb question!! i do pull a lot of images from getty and i’ll also download pictures from sports articles (i got a lot of the hugheses pictures from online access articles, for example), or sometimes from instagram/facebook/twitter if an account is public. freely admitting that i am not technologically advanced? inclined? in the slightest here, but the image editing software that you use and how you import/export photos with it makes a difference in the quality of them as well!

if you haven’t seen them yet, i would also recommend checking out @simmyfrobby @national-hockey-lesbian @hauntedppgpaints @tapedsleeves @starscelly and @captainbradmarchand’s blogs just off the top of my head!!! they might know more places to get high res images and also i love their work 💕🫶

[itsallaboutzayn]

✨ Tag game ✨

I was tagged by the lovely @clutterbugs to share my receptify. Thanks Emma 🥰💕

I'm tagging: @justapayneaway @faithinlouisfuture @yilinglaozu @khaotunqs @khaotunq @bellepark @leedongwook @vrainydays @markpakin @toptaps @ueasking (feel free to ignore 😘)