#i should start a hockeyblr

[moonlightdistractions]

ok I know this isn't a hockey blog but omg it's exhausting being a Leafs fan.

from 1-4 at end of 1st period to 5-4 in the midst of the 3rd period. I've got whiplash just watching.

[blusical]

i am once again begging hockeyblr to stop censoring player names with asterisks

(rant in tags)

[86espresso]

can I get the "too much communication" with jack?

I think that's what your last post was for 😭

shut up (with affection!) | jh86

sum: in which jack likes to hear himself talk

prompt: too much communication (💀)

warnings: smut, angst, fluff ☺️ use of y/n :/ ,use of she/her pronouns for reader, short

wc: 908

a/n: help yes, im sorry i wasn’t clear with what i wanted but if you haven’t noticed im pretty small on hockeyblr 😔 so i didn’t think anyone would actually ask but omg so happy you did ❤️ also not sure why im seeing this decades later.

—

LIGHT shone through the curtains in Y/N’s bedroom, though that wasn’t what woke her up.

An arm was slung across her waist, legs were tangled with hers, a face was buried in the crevice of her neck, and soft lips were moving up and down her shoulder. She felt something go off in her stomach. She could get used to this.

“Awake, angel?” Jack’s rough morning voice reached Y/N’s ears and could’ve just melted right then. He had been with her for close to ten months now; meaning they had practically moved in with eachother, she was at every home game, he was at every soccer match, she had a drawer at his, he had a toothbrush at hers. They were slowly intertwining in each other’s lives and neither of them wanted to stop anytime soon.

And then he started.

The endless rambling that half annoyed, half endeared Y/N.

“Wait no- I mean that I should use a different word instead of pretty because you’re so many things and you like when i use long words, don’t you ? I should-”

“Jack, my love, slow down,” Y/N says, facing him and cupping his cheek. His hair is tousled, eyes droopy, bottom lip jutted out, and brows furrowed. He’s shirtless and the sunlight bathes him in a soft golden light. Her heart skips a beat as she assures him that complimenting her in any way would melt her even if it was the same thing, every day, for the rest of their lives.

—

The room was dark and hot and the bed rocked with Jack’s movements. He had one hand loose around Y/N’s throat and the other supporting her leg that was thrown over his shoulder.

It was all going fine until

“Y’know what Trev told me the other day.”

Y/N’s eyes snapped open. What the fuck???

His hair was falling in his eyes and a thin sheet of sweat covered his body. He looked so good and was doing so well.

“Jack? What-” she stopped short when he thrusted particularly roughly making her jaw drop and her eyes roll to the back of her head. Jack wasn’t phased though.

“He- told me how-oh fuck I’m so close, baby-” Y/N quickly shut him up by yanking his mouth down to hers. She really didn’t want to hear how fucking Zegras did whatever in her current position.

—

Y/N stood off to the side as Jack abruptly wraps up the post game interview after giving curt responses. She raised her eyebrows; normally it could get hard to not make him overshare.

Jack had already showered and changed into a delicious suit that was for sure coming off as soon as they got home.

“Hi, angel.” Y/N got on her tip toes to press a soft kiss against Jack’s lips. He wrapped his arms around her and sighed, pulling back and resting his forehead against hers. “Hey.”

It was short and quiet and so unlike Jack (even after a loss) and she hated it.

“Baby, what’s wrong?” Y/N reached forward to cup his cheek and lightly caresses it with her thumb. He leans against her hand and his eyes droop.

“Nothin’, sweets. Just tired.” Y/N knew there had to be more, she could tell by the way his fingers were fiddling with eachother and the almost unnoticeable clinch of his eyebrows.

“C’mon, baby, talk to me,” Y/N softly murmurs, Jack’s new behavior doesn’t feel natural at all. He was so full of energy all the time (definitely because of the three hour naps) that she didn’t even have to match it if she was tired; he had enough for both of them.

“D’you-,” he pauses and steps back, removing his arms from her and running a quick hand through his hair. “Do you think I talk too much? Or I over share? Does it bother you?” His brows furrow deeper and Y/N’s heart stutters. She understood why he got so closed off all of a sudden. Her tough, strong boyfriend had such a sweet heart she could cry.

“Oh hon, well yes you do but it’s never bothered me. I actually really love it. You’re able to talk so much all the time and there’s nothing I love more than the sound of your voice.” Y/N watches as Jack’s expression softens. She steps closer and weaves her arms around him from the inside of his suit jacket.

“I love that you’re so expressive. I love how you just say anything no matter, I love how-” Y/N pauses. The three words dancing on the tip of her tongue, waiting and anticipating. She takes a deep breath and sneaks a glance at Jack, who had the hint of a smile that reached his eyes.

“I love you.”

He goes limp in her arms.

“Y/N I-”

“One second. Let me finish.” Y/N steps back and fully looks into his eyes. “And I know you love me too. You know why, angel? Because you tell me every single day. Every sweet nothing, all the random babbling about how I’m so sweet to you at any given time, gave me enough courage to say it right now.”

Jack looked like he could cry; Y/N didn’t get the chance to see it though, because of the soul crushing hug he just pulled her into.

“I love you so much more.”

“I might get dry as fuck during sex though.”

“Yeah? Wanna take me up on that?”

[tastytoxicwaste]

Hey bestie I just saw your post about not being able to find many hockey fanfics about people who aren’t the Hughes bros. I’ve been on hockeyblr for a few years now and it just so happens that this is what’s stuck, but there are people who write for other players. Here’s what I suggest doing to try to find what you’re looking for

If you have an account/writer you already like try taking a look at their masterlist and if they don’t have one take a look at how they tag their fics and find them that way on their account

I’ve also found that a lot of accounts that are mutuals post/write about a lot of the same players so that may give you more accounts to look at and read through

Also try looking up ‘Sidney Crosby x reader’ or ‘Sidney Crosby fic’ or ‘Sidney Crosby imagine’ you can also look up angst, fluff, and so on. People tag things differently so looking up different things should help you find more what you’re looking for.

when looking up ‘Sidney Crosby fic’ it’s worth taking a peak at the blogs that ‘frequently post about ____’

Alot of people do fic recs too so you can look that up in your fav blog or like up ‘hockey fic rec’ or look up a specific player too

And some players just don’t have fics written about them for whatever reason. Like I don’t think I’ve seen a geekie fic at all. And that just happens like so many of these other players deserve the love but don’t really get it.

And as for patty kane, it’s not even worth looking for because he’s like hated by all of hockeyblr so don’t waste your time.

And if all else fails just scroll back to like 2021 of the tags you’ve been looking up, as that was around the time the Hughes bros started to get popular on here. But back then a lot of people write for Nolan Patrick, Travis Konecny, the entire Avs roster, and Tyler Seguin

I hope this helps you find what you’re looking for :)

That's actually incredibly helpful thank you! Also I had no idea Patrick Kane was such a bad guy😰. Thanks so much again! 🤭

[coffee-at-annies]

Wait there's lore for knife jars ?

Hi anon. Sorry Jars did *gestures* that and I had to be insane about it before I could finish this.

In regards to your question. Actual hockey lore? No. Pensblr lore? Sorta.

The start of it is a screenshot from twitter that I’m reposting below that says “If a goalie makes over 40 saves and still loses they should be allowed to chase after their teammates with a knife.” I think it originally entered hockeyblr with Gibby last year cause he was getting shelled constantly but like it’s universal the same way love thy goalie is universal.

I wanna say last year between bad losses, bad defense, and Jars himself being spicy in various ways, it developed into he deserves a knife. What’s he gonna do with that knife - stab his enemies or his disappointing teammates - who knows who cares Jars can be trusted. He deserves one. Give him a knife. So whenever Jars is being extra spicy or the boys are playing bad in front of him, he deserves a knife. It’s a reward and a punishment and it’s whatever. One of the spicier (though knife-less) plays last year was Jars going to the bench for the extra attacker (delayed penalty) and full on checking Leon Draisatl. So yeah. Spicy.

God there’s also that one image of (the gc says it’s) Tukka Rask brandishing his skate blade after it popped off mid game. So that’s in there in the collective “you can definitely trust a goalie with a knife” brain space.

[karlkapri]

I am in my Kyle Dubas era!!!!!!! 😩🥵💦🔥 who has written about him on ao3?? Who is he with? Who do I need to start obsessing over to be with him?! 😭 are the pens worthy? I do not want him to go there and fail!! (I’m a baby hockey fan just finding my feet)

Hi hockey baby!

You probably know about as much about Kyle Dubas as I do. I follow hockey from Europe, and there is very little interest for anything but the Scandinavian players over here.

(We don't care about the OG 6 teams at all, but we like the Swedes and of course Mats Zuccarello makes the national news every time he gets even a single point in an NHL game. It's kinda cute. We're proud of our boy.)

If you want any Actual Information you might be better off asking a Maple Leaf blog, but I can try to answer a few of your questions based on what I've learned trough hockeyblr osmosis and by watching the Maple Leafs docuseries like.. 5 different times..

So who should you obsess over him to be with?

AO3 says William Nylander, and based entirely on that one clip in the Maple Leafs All or Nothing documentary series where Dubas says Nylander is "SO FRUSTRATING" I'm inclined to agree with that.

There's also.. um.. this..

Which: hot.

(asked @sidcrosbrainworms and they said Nylander and maybe Matthews so.. peer reviewed)

Dubas is close friends with Jason Spezza and there's some speculation about Spezza potentially joining him in Pittsburgh. Could be cute. I'm also linking this post by himbeaux-on-ice about the relationship between Dubas and coach Keefe because I found it interesting.

RE: Dubas and the Pens

Josh Yohe seems to have decided that it's Fanfic o'clock:

And not to slutshame or anything, but Sidney Crosby is the easiest person in the world to write fic about, so I have 0 doubt that there will be Crosby/Dubas content published within the next few weeks, it just might take the fanfic girlies a few days to catch up on the news.

Here's Pens twitter making a case for a Dubas sandwich on pens bread:

I personally would love for Sullivan/Dubas/Crosby to become A Thing on pensblr at the very least.

Now:

Are the Pens worthy? Sigh. I mean, I love them, they're my little guys. The core 3 are still playing very well and I think there's definitely potential for this to be a good season if Dubas can scrape together some support for them. Goaltending has been an issue though, and Dubas has already spoken about the need to address it:

(check out this website if you're curious about our cap situation & feel free to just message me if you have any questions about how all of that works or drop another anon ask & I'll get back to you)

I obviously don't want Dubas to fail either, but even if the Pens aren't immediately in contention for the cup, even if Dubas makes a million mistakes, our previous GM was fairly awful so like.. the bar is literally on the floor.

Things Can Only Get Better

I think Kylie Dubes will be fine 💛

I hope you enjoy your hockey-watching-experience, and if no ones told you yet: welcome to hockeyblr!

EDIT: check the replies for Sheldon/Kyle notes provided by @pptiny

[kitnita]

Talk Hockey To Me

(tag game)

tagged by @eliooliver83 @oetter & @txstars!! mwah thank you!!!

1. The thing that got you hooked on hockey

i am a lifelong member of the 'being insane about sports' club in that i still have a poster of my baseball team's 2005 roster hanging over my bed & used to get SO pissed in middle school when boys in my class had incorrect college basketball opinions. but hockey was just? never on my radar?? due to the south texas of it all. then i went to college for broadcast in new york state & made friends with some guys majoring in sports broadcast and was like wait ....... there's a sport they talk about that i can't talk about (i loved knowing more about sports than boys so this was a serious blow) (football doesnt count i decided when i was a kid that i didn't care about football therefore its not real) & a friend of mine with whom i watched the world series was like no i've got you i can get you into hockey. i realize now she just wanted an excuse to proselytize about the new york islanders.

but anyway yeah!! i stuck with being fond of them because of her & then added the stars because as a Texan i had to root for them & also tyler seguin hooked me. i was a casual fan until there were absolutely No Sports in 2020 & i accidentally stumbled upon hockeyblr just in time to get hyper mega insane about hockey before the bubble playoffs.

2. Your first ever fandom friend

like any normal well adjusted person i feel weird calling someone my friend even if we're friendly because what if they don't actually like me (again this is normal & well adjusted behavior) that said tanya txstars was the first hashtag mutual i had in starsblr whomst i feel like i talked to via the tags!!

3. The jersey you would most like to own

wait have i ever mentioned that i own a mooterus jersey. it was like eighty dollars off depop because its a) womens cut & b) a size small which means that while it does technically fit, my tits stop it from looking like, you know, a jersey should look on the human body. so i'd love one that i can wear without feeling ridiculous!! through logan stankoven all things are possible!!! i'm generally a jersey thrifter so i do love the $16 tyler jersey i found but im sure one day ill bite the bullet and buy a non-secondhand otter jersey.

4. YOUR player (you only get ONE so choose wisely)

unfortunately goalies are inherently endearing & then on top of that he's also insane in the most confounding way possible so jake oettinger is My Guy whether he likes it or not

5. A pairing that deserves more fic

as someone who has written just over half of the robotter fic out there in the world: please put more robotter fic out there in the world. also i think robo & otter both deserve to fuck otter's goalie partner. also also it's not technically a pairing but i think we as a people need to embrace delly's clear & evident love for throuples and start sticking him in other peoples relationships. it's what he would want <3

6. Your favourite on-ice moment

jason robertson laying flat on his back on the ice after finishing his first career hat trick lives in my head rent free btw. if you even care. it just plays on a fucking loop up there. also the the dellymiro delly's first goal celly. also also that time those flames fans tried to actually curse jake midgame. like on the one hand what the fuck but on the other hand i actually admire that kind of dedication yk

THEN

link someone else's art/fic/etc that you love & think everyone should check out

i'm still foaming at the mouth over @txstars's rule 63 robotter fic!! also i think it's clear what robo ship i've dedicated myself to but everyone in the roboroope trenches is soooo impressive to me. i see the vision. @winningmachine's stats guy robo fic is a foundational text. thank you @starscelly for also giffing insane random things during games. there's so many other fun people in starsblr specifically & hockeyblr generally but see above re: being normal and well adjusted so You Know Who You Are & also I Love Your Work

AND

link something you made & are proud of & want people to see

my magnum opus ............ the robotter primer. linking anything else feels weird BUT please enjoy my unhinged labor of love. i saw someone mentioned it to that gay hockey tournament blog but didnt want to link it?? please link it places. put how unhinged i was/am about them on blast.

tagging @coffeehound91 @moregraceful @hintzy!!! & also idk who has and hasn't been tagged so if you see this & would like to do it please do & feel free to tag me as the person who tagged you because i am a certified nosy bitch & love seeing other people talk about themselves <3

[starscelly]

Talk Hockey To Me

(tag game)

tagged by @eliooliver83 and @oetter mwah love u both kisses

Tell me about:

1. The thing that got you hooked on hockey

oghhh long story for Sure. i became like. distantly enamored with it watching the bruins with my dad/brother during the 2010-11 playoffs like that and soccer were the only sports i could bother watching. then in 2019? i re-read check please, became obsessed with it on that read through, started following the players some characters were based off of - namely sid and segs. then segs lead me down a path of delusion and insanity forever. so like. either the 2011 bruins cup run, check please, or tyler seguin.

2. Your first ever fandom friend

was trying to think of tumblr moots but ! technically predates my hockeyblr era by a couple yrs. met @stickypucky through. s. stephen johns discord/minecraft server. in 2020! i think!

3. The jersey you would most like to own

it feels sacrilegious that i dont own a roope or robo or otter jersey?? so any of theirs. Need. would also kill for a mooterus jersey sorry that design fucked

4. YOUR player (you only get ONE so choose wisely)

if i said anyone other than miro i think i would collapse dead.

5. A pairing that deserves more fic

listen. i agree with 2124. u all might expect me to say 424. however. i would pay the first person to write 455 or 42455 a billion dollars. i need harls hero worship turning into "oh hes a bitch and i like him so much" ness. i would cry tears of joy .

6. Your favourite on-ice moment

OKAY . niche roopemiro moment i am abt to throw at u. first thing that came to mind was when they had a FLOP ASS zone entry moment and miro just barrels straight into brick wall roope and they have to giggle abt it from last season. it was one of my first gifs and ik there are better sets of it but. here's mine. sooo pathetic and stupid and uncharacteristic of their perfectly in sync asses.

THEN

link someone else's art/fic/etc that you love & think everyone should check out

first of all everything stars hyacinthed has written i hold sooo deep in my heart especially the 1053 fics. THIS ART STUDENTS ROBOHINTZ FIC... so special 2 me for reasons i am sure u can figure out. many more fics tbh but ummmm there are sooo many beloved hockey artists/poetry ppl/gifmakers/editors/etc i love the work of i have to fire off here. this is not all of them by FAR but. follow all of them Now.

adelphenium / stillfertile / kitnita / 39oa / txstars / ghostgeno / oetter / teex / castilles / cats0p / nash13 / suburbanbonfire / nhlportraits / a million more i am POSITIVE i am forgetting...

AND

link something you made & are proud of & want people to see

ummm. most stuff in my art tag but especially fond of this miro and this intense delly recently. also my flying stars au..... also my miro sacrificial lamb edit...... many such things i actually am proud of shockingly !

no pressure tagging, sorry if you've already been tagged or did it and i missed it or u dont do these things etc etc:

@rookiestars @veryconfusedunlabeledguy @icecoldversace @saltandpepperbox @stillfertile @stickypucky

[reavenedges-lies]

if you're naturally this mean I would consider taking more time off hockeyblr.

I... I would say this would help but it won't. It's like a muscle you have to stretch it and I've spent the last month refusing to deal with people that I have to be nice to. This drama that I've started proves to me that I have spent too much time not stretching that muscle.

Being kind is a choice that I have to make, it's difficult and it's hard and it's annoying but it's so much better than this. And honestly I'm perfectly fine with being the bad guy right now because I deserve it because I decided not to be kind when I should have been earlier.

Me being mean is not going to stop or go away, and everything y'all have seen of me being nice and kind and welcoming has been me making the choice of doing that day in and day out.

[buttercupjosh]

hi! so i saw your post regarding vince and i just wanted to throw in my two cents:

as much as i love him and he is one of my favorite players, i don’t excuse what he did and i held him accountable for it when it was first revealed.

now i’m not black or a poc, so it’s not my place to speak about or over what is deemed racist or not. people have the right to feel however they wanna feel about certain individuals. but i believe that there is a difference between calling someone “racist” or “ignorant”. vince in this case was ignorant.

another thing i have a problem with are with people who try to fuel their agenda with false claims. i’ve seen people say that vince allegedly got people watching his streams to go after the person who called him out after that, but nobody ever clipped that part of the livestream and posted it. someone also said that vince allegedly made racist jokes in that same live, which again was not clipped or shared. only the part where he was singing the song was clipped and shared, why not those other alleged incidents?? and people also tried to mistake him with completely different player of the same name who got suspended in the junior leagues for using a racial slur towards an opponent.

like i said, i’m NOT justifying/defending what he did. but what i’m saying is that i also wanna bring up people who wanna treat this instance like it’s a trend and only use it to gain brownie points, when in reality, it does more harm than good.

Hi anon,

Thank you for the constructive criticism and for expressing how you feel. However, I have a few thoughts on what you said.

First of all, I mentioned in my post that I didn’t see the actual video of the stream at the time it was more widely available so I don’t have that direct evidence besides what I saw that other people have said (I also used the term “allegedly” in my post too because I don’t have direct access to that evidence if it exists) and like I mentioned in the post, I found out about it a year after it happened. As I mentioned in my post, I did not say or claim or imply that Vince is/was a racist for using the word (I only used that term because it involves the use of a racial slur and I know someone would probably accuse me of accusing him of being one if I never mentioned it originally) and yes, he should be held accountable for his ignorant behavior. (This is also a different type of ignorance though because Vince is old enough to know that singing racial slurs, even if it’s in songs you like by artists you love, isn’t cool at all. It would completely different if he somehow had no idea the true harm behind that word). Being held accountable does not mean that people should dismiss what he did and act like he didn’t do anything wrong because he won’t face actual punishment for it.

Another thing you mentioned in your comment to me is that you “held him accountable for it when it was first revealed” but I wonder if you still hold him accountable now or if you don’t hold him as accountable anymore because as you stated, you love him and he’s one of your favorite players.(tense does matter)

Second, I’m not treating calling Vince out like a trend because he’s been popular on hockeyblr for years (I used to really, really like him a lot for a few months and obviously was devastated when I found out) but as I mentioned in my post, the only reason I brought it up is because I’ve seen an uptick in posts about Vince and wanted to bring it up so that other people would know or to remind those who forgot. If you were on here in 2021 and were invested into hockeyblr like that, you would know that after this incident was exposed, people slowly stopped talking about him for some time but once Seattle started getting good in 2022 and beyond, Vince became popular again (of course, this uptick also goes in hand with him being talked about on TikTok and Twitter/X too) and I never really heard anyone mention this incident again anywhere. This whole incident got swept under the rug; all I ever saw were posts about how hot he is, more fics and imagines about him, how he’s playing well with Seattle and some contract stuff.

It’s also funny to me that you said that people are treating it like a trend as if calling out people for any sort of problematic behavior is a brand new thing online but guess what? there are no brownie points or kudos gained for doing such a thing. If there is, let me know where I can get that because I’ve never gotten any. Calling someone out actually helps in a sense by preventing people from being fully ignorant of someone else’s wrongful behavior (how were we supposed to know any of this happened if no one ever said anything about it? Imagine how foolish it makes fans, especially those who are from marginalized or non-traditional groups, look when their fav did something that may have hurt the group those marginalized or non-traditional fans or their peers belong to). The concept of “more harm than good” goes both ways too. It does more harm than good to support problematic behavior because there’s nothing gained from supporting that type of behavior and all it does is show that people tolerate/support harmful things to benefit themselves and their emotions (don’t try to tell me that a person you like doesn’t have some sort of impact on your feelings) and it shows the people that were affected by those harmful things don’t really matter.

Finally, I’m not fueling some agenda by because if I was, I wouldn’t have shared my opinion and said way worse things about Vince and the people who like him. Again, my post is about education, accountability and my opinion of what happened. Like I had mentioned in my post, you’re entitled to your opinion and point of view on this and I respect it, even if I don’t like it.

[blusical]

Hi hockeyblr! We have NHL hockey today! With the first preseason game starting tonight, I think we should keep some reminders in mind: -Don't crosstag! This is general tumblr etiquette (and if I remember correctly also against Tumblr TOS as a whole!) but I'm putting it out there just in case!

-Not every person who cheers for a team you hate is your enemy. Not every person who cheers for a player you hate is your enemy. Trash talk is fine (and encouraged!), but harassment isn't. This isn't Twitter! Be kind (or atleast classy) to everyone- yes, even those 'stinky' bruins fans and hawks fans that yall like to dog on so much. --Additionally, don't go to team lb tags and comment hate on said team. That just makes you an asshole.

-Tags and filters exist for a reason; USE THEM. Tag anything that needs to be tagged, and filter out stuff you don't like!

--Additionally, if someone doesn't have anything tagged (ex. injuries not tagged, smut not tagged, etc), kindly tell them to tag it. If they refuse, block them! Remember: Don't like, don't look! --STOP CENSORING PLAYERS/TEAM NAMES L*KE TH*S (like this). Not only does it fuck with tag filters, but it's also not helpful for people who use screenreaders. (See also: This post which goes into more detail on this subject). -As stated above, the block button also exists for a reason; USE IT. -Live blog tags (lb for short) stay separate from regular team tags! Lb tags should be used during games or other events (like the draft, all star game or free agency).

-I feel like we could all use this, especially with the events of the offseason and last season (and prior seasons tbh): Someone not knowing or posting about a serious event does not mean that they don't care about said event. You don't have to speak on every bad thing that occurs in hockey! I know I complain a lot about hockey fans and their hypocrisy when it comes to discussing issues with hockey culture, but at the same time I want people to focus on themselves and their health too! <3

-You don't have to know about everything a player thinks or does! You also don't have to know about every single problematic thing a player has done/said. If we knew every single negative trait about every player, none of us would be here lol. -Whatever happens on Tumblr (Or AO3 if you write fic), STAYS THERE. We don't need a repeat of the Booktok incident. -While block buttons do exist, it's also not hard to say "Hey maybe saying this isn't cool" to a mutual when they say something really fucking bigoted. -DON'T. WISH. INJURY. ON. PLAYERS (Or celebrate injury!). Yes, even if said player is a shitty human being. Again, this isn't Twitter.

-Lastly, just have fun! Just chill and argue about who's the best player!

[hockeyisforthegays]

totally normal and not convoluted necessary background information

in about 2016-17 we were preparing for a new franchise to enter the NHL; that is, vegas was getting a team, where no team previously existed. that meant the Knights existed as like, a concept, before they played any games OR, importantly, had any actual players under contract

most of their roster would be formed at an event called the expansion draft. before then, they could sign players, but only ones who weren't yet associated with any other NHL team. this meant they didn't sign many players before the expansion draft.

after they signed their first player, and proceeded to. not sign any more for a while. there was a lot of joking about the One Knight

it is a pretty ubiquitous hockey tradition for, pre-game, players to get together in a group and kick a ball around to collectively keep it in the air as long as possible. this is frequently documented for social media these days, e.g. you'll see clips of players doing this on snap chat or insta stories or whatever

the Knights social media decided to poke fun at themselves by producing a video of their One guy acting like he was abt to start a game. and kicking the ball in the air and it dribbles sadly away as no one is there to catch it

i found this very funny

on tumblr at the time people frequently made powerpoint presentation style posts to convince people to check out the things they're a fan of. usually they are not very serious

hockeyblr specifically would do this to be like "heres why you should cheer for [my team]." hockeyblr powerpoints tended to mostly consist of humourously profiling the Big Name players on said team

it occurred to me that it would be really funny to do one of those for a team that only had One Player to profile

i double checked his name immediately before opening photoshop

i proceeded to make the duke reid powerpoint

i posted the duke reid powerpoint

everything happened.

if someone ever asks me what's the funniest thing i've ever done my mind is always gonna go to when i made the duke reid powerpoint, however the humour of that is not something that anyone is gonna understand unless they're familiar with a highly specific moment in hockey tumblr culture in 2017

[coffee-at-annies]

I have crawled out of my hole long enough to go “huh looks like hockeyblr is doing another round of head hits bad and dops useless” discourse. The last time we did this was *checks notes* round 1 of this year’s playoffs (I fully checked out in rounds 2 and 3 so maybe we did it there too). Before that was about six months ago. Before that was the start of the season. Before that last years playoffs. It’s almost like hockey has a cyclical and structural problem with allowing head hits and not punishing people via the department of player safety and of course let’s not forget the maximum possible fine under the CBA.

I’ve been saying for several years now both that any head contact should be illegal/an automatic penalty at minimum (even accidental contact!!!) and that the teams that make it far in the playoffs seem to be whichever teams can injure/concuss the opposing star players until they can’t play through the injury. Hockey has a culture problem around injury, player safety, and what teams are willing to do in the name of winning it all (both personally re: injury and to the other team). So long as any head contact is acceptable within the game of hockey there is nothing that will stop players from doing head hits when frustrated or when it’s simply easier to take a player out of the game. There is not team or player that is excluded from this. The sport is dirty and as long as it continues to support and reward headhunting and violence this will not change

[brockachu]

i said yesterday on twitter (and i guess i wanna express the sentiment here as well b/c idk it explains how i approach ~all this~) that how i experience hockey is like this:

i consume hockey the way howl swallowed the shooting star. i see these beautiful, funny, bizarre little threads of narratives skipping across the surface of the nhl fandom landscape and i shove them down my throat and hold them deep in my chest. and at the very least it gives me a way to feel my feelings (because not all my hockey feelings are entirely about hockey, not most of my hockey feelings are entirely about hockey; not most of anyone's feelings are entirely about where or what they're expressing them through. humans transmute things. it's what we do)

and sometimes, if the lil creature that ate my heart & came out of my chest has been satisfied, the star bits i swallowed get to become something fun -- video edits, fic, memes, photoshops, doodles, fanart, or even just me shooting the shit and sharing ideas & opinions

idk if y'all need to understand that about me or how i hockey blog. but expressing it this way is helping me puzzle myself out

[desharbaby]

Hello! Your addition to the ari post was rlly enlightening. As someone who is Asian from Asia, I’d like to know more about the usage behind yellowface beyond caricaturization in media. Could you point me to some lit about it? Tried finding some online but to no success…

hi, anon! i’m glad my comment brought you to looking into it more.

tbh, it’s been a little bit since i’ve had access to lit about specifically yellowface (the last i learned/researched specifically about it was in undergrad, which was nearly a decade now)

so as a starter, here’s the short blurb about it from the wiki page (link):

and some of the most pertinent sources referenced in that wiki article:

"Yellowface: Asians on White Screens"

Vanishing Son: The Appearance, Disappearance, and Assimilation of the Asian-American Man in American Mainstream Media

"Monitoring Asians in the American mass media"

separately, there is also the specific page: Examples of yellowface, which also has sources that can be read through. since they're in response to specific instances of yellowface, none of these are likely to go deeply in depth but many will likely include explanations of what constitutes yellowface & some history of yellowface.

for a general look at physical appropriation of cultures of color, google "my culture is not a costume" -- this is a phrase originated in use by many universities in the late 2000s through early 2010s (when i was in undergrad) to discuss how often yellow/black/red/brown-face was (maybe still is? again, i'm not in academia or undergrad anymore) used in american college partying culture. it caught enough steam that teen vogue also did a series of videos discussing it and there's also several articles by major american news sources discussing it across the years. it appears the first majorly reported use of the concept was by ohio university.

another good starter resource on asian american discrimination in general, who has often discussed the rift between how asian stereotypes affect diasporic (usually american) asians vs asians in asia: Angry Asian Man — the blog/website (link) & the twitter (link). phil yu (the blogger) tends to approach things with a lot of humor, which sometimes lacks nuance, but is an approachable resource

finally, i think an important thing to note here, which i only slightly discussed in my original comment -- the term yellowface (like blackface, brownface, redface, etc. b/c these terms are all linked to how poc have been portrayed in usually north american & european cultures) was originally meant to specifically reference portrayals of east asians (And southeast, i'd argue, since ppl tend to act like viet/thai/khmer/lao/indo/filipino/hmong/etc ppl are just a subcategory of east asians) in media, usually film & stage. this is where we'd have to have a more thorough discussion about the impact of media portrayal in how actual people treat other everyday people in their lives. it's also harder to find specific literature on that, because the average person isn't academically documenting all media they consume & how that therefore impacts their treatment of others, or even how that affects their concepts of self -- recent academic scholarship has started shifting towards considering how the dominance of whiteness as central to the american experience creates an inherent egotism to whiteness, even without direct racist depictions of poc. ie whiteness in media essentially proliferates white 'main character syndrome', to borrow from current memes. And then, building further on that, the average person whose idea of fun involves trying to dress up as other (stereotyped) cultures, isn't about to be a willing participant in being studied or documented for actual academic research. bc trying to convince them to talk about it points out that what they're doing is possibly a source of negative attention, which then leads to them doing everything to detach themselves from the act -- i have personal first-hand experience with this, since my undergrad focus of study was in the history of racism in the united states (focus mainly in the early to mid 1900s, roughly world war one to civil rights movement)

i hope this helps you with things to read or can act as some starting points to learn more! if any of this also leads you to further questions or down into different related topics, totally feel free to check in 😊

[karlkapri]

Talk Hockey To Me

(tag game)

sneaky of u to tag me right back @captainbradmarchand 💛

Tell me about:

1. The thing that got you hooked on hockey

i'm big on sports documentaries & equally big on not paying for streaming subscriptions so i watched the pens 2009 cup run documentary on youtube kind of out of nowhere and there was a clip of Evgeni Malkin going from just walking normally to sudDENLY SKATING REALLY FAST and i was like oh that is COOL and then i found out that all these big strong professional athletes nicknamed their little goalie friend FLOWER and then that was the beginning of the end for me.

2. Your first ever fandom friend

@national-hockey-lesbian was the first person on hockeyblr i ever messaged (about a poem, unsurprisingly), but then it took a few months for us to actually start talking For Real. @sidcrosbrainworms was my first ever hockey friend.

3. The jersey you would most like to own

CAPTAIN BRAD MARCHAND BLACK CENTENNIAL JERSEY.

4. YOUR player (you only get ONE so choose wisely)

i almost said Brad. i was THIS close to saying Brad. but no. it's obviously Flower.

5. A pairing that deserves more fic

ok hear me out because i want there to be more tangerkarlsson fic as much as the next person but tangerkarlssonSULLY fic is where the real money is at.

6. Your favourite on-ice moment

sids goal against the red wings in game four of the cup final in 2009 where tanger celebrates by tackling sid to the ice.

THEN

link someone else's art/fic/etc that you love & think everyone should check out

this UNFINISHED mattdrai fic that i have reread 5+ times and still think about all the time. i can't tell you what it is about it that i love so much. i just do. i think it's incredible.

AND

link something you made & are proud of & want people to see

war is kind is probably my best edit. or at least my favourite poem.

tagging:

@lemondropbois, @eusuntgratie, @sergeifyodorov, @david-reinbacher

Talk Hockey To Me

(tag game)

Tell me about:

1. The thing that got you hooked on hockey

2. Your first ever fandom friend

3. The jersey you would most like to own

4. YOUR player (you only get ONE so choose wisely)

5. A pairing that deserves more fic

6. Your favourite on-ice moment

THEN

link someone else's art/fic/etc that you love & think everyone should check out

AND

link something you made & are proud of & want people to see

tagging:

@rimouskis, @captainbradmarchand, @gaybroons, @annieqattheperipheral, @kitebird-hockey, @mikathemad, @charleskachow, @jonassiegenthighler