#i am the avalanche

[equalvision]

Be Well leaves for tour with I Am the Avalanche for the 20th anniversary of the band this Friday! Get tickets here.

[ghostgnashplaylists]

1. "Green Eyes" by I Am the Avalanche

2. "Clavicle" by Alkaline Trio

3. "Lucky Me" by Alcoa

4. "It's Gonna Rain All Day" by Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room

5. "Landing Feet First" by Bayside

6. "Going to Georgia" by Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties

7. "I Can't See You, but I Know You're There" by Laura Jane Grace

8. "Red Lights" by Brian Fallon

9. "I Wil Follow You into the Dark" by Anthony Raneri

10. "I Don't Mind" by Defeater

11. "On Love, On Life" by Bayside

12. "Transient Love" by The Menzingers

[crocodiledeathspin]

KOYO

[i-believe-in-u]

So here's a story:

I get to see I Am The Avalanche, who I love, this week.

I have not always loved this band.

I bought their eponymous album while I was visiting my sister (technically, she probably bought it for me) when I was fourteen. I was having a certified Bad Time while I was on that trip.

A lot of things were happening that amounted to a great level of suckage. Foremost among them was the crush I had on one of my friends. He started dating a girl who I had a falling-out with only a few months before. You can see how this was not great for my ego. It was baby-teenager drama at its finest, worthy of a B-plot in a show on the CW.

So this album became intrinsically linked in my developing brain with my wildly hormonal, dramatic, unceasingly emo heartbreak. I binged I Am the Avalanche until I accidentally Pavlov-ed myself into having a hysterical reaction to it.

The next summer, I got a knock at my door.

Who should it be, but the guy I had been so desperately in love with and the girl who I was friends with until our explosive un-friending. How many times had I imagined this exact scenario? How many times had I dreamed about slamming the door in their faces?

"Hey... we were wondering if we could stay here for the night. We don't have anywhere else to go."

Now, I could have told them to fuck off. They had alienated every one of their friends to the point that they had to come to my house-- the house of someone who they knew didn't want to see them-- asking for a place to stay. That's just not who I am.

"Okay, come in."

I gave them some food and a place to sleep, but not without hanging out late into the night watching horror movies on the combination TV/VCR in my bedroom. We laughed and talked and it was like old times. Also, by the time they passed out on my couch, they were too tired to steal any of my stuff.

I let them sleep in until about nine the next morning and then kicked them out telling them that my mom didn't want to see them on her lunch break. That was true.

After they left, I played I Am The Avalanche and it was not just okay, it had a new meaning.

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[scoringeffects]

do you have/know of any kind of natejo primer post? i am starting to be very very intrigued by them…

there is this very delightful primer that covers natejo during their halifax mooseheads era (juniors, age 16-18 [2011-13]) and their team north america era (made up team for the 2016 world cup of hockey) i would so so super recommend clicking on every link there, and as for the 2023-24 season:

nate reached out to jo about playing with him in colorado during the summer because he knew his contract with montreal was coming to an end and jo signed for league mininum to play with him

jo talking about nate in his 'get to know me' interview

jo knows where nate is knows what he likes can almost feel him on the ice. normal things to say about your center.

they walk their dogs together!

bench yappers. ignore that nate probably doesnt have a great deal of concepts about personal space.

both nate and jo achieved career highs in points playing on the same line. nate by 29 freaking points. jo also had a career high in time on ice per game !

nate has the most assists on jo's goals, and jo loves to pass to nate.

one of jo's very best games as an av where he scored the OT winner and partially helped nate extend his second to gretzky home point streak. not inherently natejo but the nhl put the full game up on youtube and its a fun background watch because the announcers r so very nice about jo yayayyyyy. okay hold on it definately used to be up on youtube as a 'fan favourite' voted in game and now its either unlisted, restricted, or entirely gone. fascinating. what a wonderful league. anway.

here's nate saying that jo is his favourite teammate ever. since 2010 nate has played with at least 280 people. he said this during his hart (league mvp as voted by the writers' association) and ted lindsay (league mvp as voted by the players' association) award interview. also couldnt find it for the life of me but im certain there's an interview where jo says he wants to play with nate for ten more years. EDIT: here is the article, found by the lovely @mi-kko-ran-tanen it is also a bit of a natejo primer very very good would encourage a read

24-25 season:

jo resigned for another year ! turned down money again for 'loyalty and happiness'

they actually might have seperation anxiety

jo is going to be point per game this season i believe it with my whole heart.

r-ing into the rpf:

nate's start in the league was . well. the avs were very very bad for quite sometime, bottomed out nearly historically after the 2016-17 season (season directly after team north america and the world cup of hockey) and i think this is around the time nate locked in so to speak. this spittin chiclets interview from 2019 is pretty good (dont let the spittin chiclets part put u off 🙏), he talks about worrying about being a bust, about his expectations and also just the way he talks back then and what he's achieved in the five years since oh nate u have no idea whats in store for u ☹️

jo's time in the nhl has been tumultuous to say the least.

mid way into the 2022-23 season he held the record for most points without a goal by a forward in a single season. (he ended the season 2-27-29, scoring a goal in his 46th game) teammate and close friend josh anderson was quite sweet about it all

there's a lot of talk about jo being a draft bust, there's also a lot of talk about his development being screwed from the get go (sent back down to juniors for the 2013-14 season despite having won the calder cup the uear prior because if a player is juniors eligable they cant play in the minors or smth like that), he was also injured a lot, the habs under bergevin not being great at player development, and in tampa and montreal there was an expectation on him to be an offensive powerhouse that he just wasnt unfortunately due to injuries and mental health issues. they also tried to develop him at center.

it is absolutely not the best metric to measure 'draft bustness', but sorting the 2013 draft by games played and total points, jo is top 20 for games played and top 15 for total points

an espn redraft from march of 2023 has him still in the first round but much lower

absolutely crushing thank u greg

jo was actually injured so much holy shit bro has never played a full season. the closest he got was 81 games in 18-19

apparently there was some buzz about a drouin-iginla trade in 2015 between tampa and colorado??? what couldve been damn

ALL THIS TO SAY nate believed in him and jo believed in nate and it paid off so freaking hard last season and jo has his love for hockey back and nate had his career best personal season next to him and they are it if u think about it

f-ing into the rpf:

i know you didnt ask but i would be remiss if i didnt share these, they're currently what i would say is quintessential natejo reading

I don't believe in soulmates (but nobody saw me like you) by shade_of_blue (@shade-of-drou) (M, 6k) soulmates au where jo realises dewey has soulbond sickness

those who favor fire by bruinss (@droumack) (M, 14k) absoloutely crushing magical realism fic where jo's heart freezes the more he falls in love. it is actually unfathomable how much nate loves him, and how much nate loves jo

got my finger on her trigger by creamsicle_melt (@creamsiclemelt) (E, 6k) lesbian natejo nate fucks jo within an inch of her life absolutely fantastic peice of literature.

you'd have to stop the world by bladeless_knife (@mi-kko-ran-tanen) (M, 12k) nate is stuck in a timeloop watching jo get hurt no matter what he does. genuinely incredible theyre so so very much natejo here and also very nate and very jo

Gather by plethoriall (@plethoriall) (E, 4k) once again, another fic where theyre so very natejo. like that interview linked in the very first bullet point? those guys ("yeah we're dumb and dumber") def did this. a delightful study in what if our codependant homoerotic teenage friendship turned into a regular healthy adult friendship except every time you touch me i remember how we used to jerk eachother off which (thankfully for everyone inolved) turned into Yay sex and also i love you. instead of turning toxic.

all very very very good writers i would highly highly suggest checking out their other works as well + commenting and kudoing

[fiveminutemajorpenalty]

[comphyjost]

“property of colorado” YEAH

[fun-k-boards]

New X-Men: Evolution plot idea -

Mystique gets sent to court for tax evasion and the brotherhood need to defend her in court. This doesn't make any sense legally. But I can do what I want.

[annieqattheperipheral]

so much nate'esque nate squished into one whole entire minute😌

What does that accomplishment [3rd most points in avs history] mean to you?

Not a whole lot to be honest.

but then also

[mackblack] looks, i think-- uhh not gonna say that word-- uhh he looks very hard to beat.

self-censoring nate wary of jinxing?? oh ofc. this is a man who just recharged spent time w his superstitious emotional support creature sidney crosby last week

and finally, that end nod like 'hmm ok i don't think i liked not emptying every thought from my head with no regard for consequences bc now I'm anxious overthinking about em.

'also this fulfills my media quota for the month so note that down.'

2nd intermission // preds @ avs // dec 4, 2024

[callsign-bubbles]

i stayed too long before but i think it was just my right if it’s my choice than it just has to be right no, it can’t not be right (come around. lisa curtis.)

(x. x. x. x. x. x. x.)

[avslanche]

col (1) vs dal (2) (2OT) | alexander georgiev sv% .947

the truth about grief - fortesa latifi

[sidsthekid]

sid and nate for tims!!!

[this-ass-is-eikonic]

LOOK, ALL I’M SAYING IS -

It’s interesting that

and

coincide.

…

I’m tagging @annieqattheperipheral here because I »know« they’ll have some thoughts to share

(and if you are unfamiliar, please see the following supporting documents):

Former Roarin’ 20s Line centre/reluctant third wheel Logan O’Connor has a grasp on the situation:

and @nateslehky definitely gets it:

as does @penaltyboxmaster:

and, perhaps most importantly, Coach Bednar:

[off-screen] “do you see guys who don’t get along off the ice?”

Coach Bednar: “well no, but they’re, like… inseparable.” [chuckles]

…

these two are NEVER 👏🏻 BEATING 👏🏻 THE ALLEGATIONS 👏🏻

and I think that’s just beautiful 🥹

​seriously though I love them and I’m so glad they’ve embraced Jacko as part of their polycule line

…the polycule line.

Happy Pride Night, Avsblr! 🥰

[titsbeauvillier]

Ryan Lindgren's first goal as a Colorado Avalanche

COL @ CGY ● 03.14.2025

[samgirard]

└ not even ten games into the season and we're already talking about bednar leashing georgie