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girls when jolach posts more fics 4 a fandom theyre not in

[kitebird-hockey]

Okay! This list got a little out of hand, whoops. Pick whatever sounds fun to you. I tried to include fics featuring a number of popular tropes and from several different "eras." Feel free to ask follow-up questions (or run away in terror).

"die verwandlung" by astronicht 10k. Leon Draisaitl/Matthew Tkachuk

The ratification, a brief Californication, and the post-post friendship tour of Matthew Tkachuk. Or, Leon Draisaitl's ongoing adventures with North American fauna.

This fic is an excellent example of one of hockey rpf fandom's favorite tropes: animal transformation. It's also an excellent example of MattDrai, a very popular enemies-to-lovers pairing!

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"Wins Above Replacement" by bossyicynerd 22k. Travis Konecny/Nolan Patrick

The author calls this "a love letter to hockey fandom." It's an AU where Nolan is not a player, but instead writes for "the fourth most popular [team] blog" while working a shitty retail job and carrying on an online correspondence with some anonymous guy with lots of hockey opinions...

Travis Konecny/Nolan Patrick was a huge, if brief, pairing on the hockey rpf scene circa 2020, 2021. This fic is a good introduction to both those characters and to the fandom.

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"Friday Night Arrives Without A Suitcase" by marycontraire 15k. Danny Brière/Claude Giroux.

Once upon a time (like 2011) Danny and Claude played for the Flyers together. Danny got divorced and immediately invited Claude to move in with him. Claude moved in with him, helped co-parent his kids, and they sent out a Christmas card "from the Briouxs." When a lockout happened, they played hockey in Berlin together. This fic is about that time in Berlin together. It's a classic pairing with lots of domesticity and kidfic. This one is a reverse!curtain fic, kind of?

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time for the inhuman race by wrishwrosh 5k. Erik Johnson/Nathan MacKinnon

Josty matches with a vamp on Tinder, and it's all downhill from there. Vignettes in the life of Nate Dogg, accidental vampire interviewer.

This fic is so dear to me. Hilarious and a pitch-perfect Colorado Avalanche ensemble from the era of that team that is beloved to me. Incredible worldbuilding here for a fic where the author's note says "dumb immortality jokes ONLY. NO vampire worldbuilding and NO deep questions about the nature of eternity."

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Closed Fracture by lightgetsin 6k. Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin

"You're on Puck Daddy," Taylor said, instead of a greeting. Sidney sank back into the pillows. "So? What's new?" "The headline is 'Best Hockey Player in the World Sidney Crosby Taken Out by Eight Year Old, Breaks Arm in Mite Hockey Game.'"

Sid and Geno are one of the juggernaut pairings of this fandom. They've been playing together for almost 20 years! There are, to some extent, two phases of fic about them: earlier (late 2000s-mid 2010s) and recent (mid-late 2010s onwards). I admit my favorite examples of early-career fic for them are all way, way over 10 to 15k. ("and never been kissed" is a fandom classic for a reason, but it's like 200k, lol.) This is a cute fic and a good example of early Sid/Geno fic dynamics.

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"Flip Shut, Hang Up" by thehoyden, twentysomething 4k. Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin.

By the fourth time Crosby has hung up on him, Alex has to admit that this has gone from funny to, frankly, a little hurtful.

This is another great example of early Sid/Geno fic (featuring interfering Russians, another popular trope). It's set during the last lockout, during which Crosby was part of the team of players negotiating with league management and Geno was playing in Russia. "Zhenya" is also Geno. The Alex/Sasha in this fic is Alex Ovechkin, star player on a rival team.

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"here comes the spark" by saysthemagpie 22k. Sidney Crosby/Anna Kasterova/Evgeni Malkin

Sid had typed out multiple texts in those first few agonizing weeks, but nothing looked right. Sorry I slept with your wife. Sorry I did it while you watched—I thought, for some reason, that was what you both wanted.

This is a great fic full of feelings! Friends-to-lovers with an OT3 endgame. It packs so much into 22k. It's also an excellent example of later-career Sid/Geno fic!

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"A Case Study in Non-Traditional Pack Dynamics" by 7iris 7k. Carey Price/PK Subban.

"Well, you're going to have to bring him along anyway," Kayla says. "Bring me where?" PK asks, flipping his menu open. "The Greater Pacific Northwest Werewolf Symposium," Kayla says. "Duh."

I had to put at least ONE Carey/PK fic on this list. They LOVE each other okay and I'm still not over them both retiring. This fic is a canon-plus-werewolves fic and uses a lot of tropes from Teen Wolf fic, so it should feel familiar! It's a great fake-dating story.

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"You So Quite New" by knight_tracer, thefourthvine 27k. Paul Kariya/Teemu Selänne/Sirpa Selänne.

This fic is a fae!AU that is, in large part, about disability. Some years after Paul retired from hockey due to complications from repeated concussions, Paul and Teemu have to swap bodies.

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"Hockey at the End of the World" by ionthesparrow 25k. Jeff Carter/Mike Richards

Dystopian AU featuring plenty of even-more-violent-than-irl hockey. The Ballad of Carts and Richie (actual words a newspaper used once) is one of the greatest bromances of hockeydom, and this fic is one of the best written for them. I feel the word "gripping" is overused but I can't think of any other way to describe this fic!

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"catch and release" by lagyeggplant. 14k. Mathew Barzal/Anthony Beauvillier

Tagged "the mortifying ordeal of your best bro seeing your nudes." Ladyegg writes spectacular fic and does the best bro voice I've ever come across. Incredible, hilarious sports bro narrative voice every time (along with hot smut).

What kind of hockey fic are you looking for? Short, long? Is explicit a problem? Are you into enemies to lovers or domesticity or animal transformation or werewolves or do you want something completely off the wall bonkers?

Truth be told. Im not a hockey watcher and don't really know much about the players or teams or anything but I've heard how amazing the fic is and I do want to start watch hockey next season so something that is a good intro maybe?

Explicit is fine with me, I do enjoy it but its also fine if it doesn't have smut. For length I would say no more than like 10k to 15k or several shorter fics that total that?

I love all the tropes. I don't have any squicks or triggers but I think since I don't know the lore something canon or hockey related would be good to start with but I trust your judgement on that because I love a good au as much as the next person

My fic reading history for context is (in no particular order) teen wolf, supernatural, one direction, patd, 5sos, and currently men's soccer rpf

So do with that what you will.

Thank you so much for answering me!! I'm so thrilled that you did! ☺️🫶

[antimonyandthyme]

could you list one favorite fic for every seb pairing? sebchal, sewis, sebmark, whoever else you like?

Dear sweet anon I shall endeavour to! I deeply adore so many writers and works in this fandom it's gonna be real tough to choose just one of each huehuehue.

Seb/Charles: time and again by @badboy-george aka Anney

Seb/Daniel: it's alright, the way that you live by @loveisworry aka bestliars

Seb/Fernando: Principled Cheese: A Prelude by @traincoded aka drivetrains

Seb/Jenson: Solar Flare by Tianvette

Seb/Lewis: resolve by @grideon aka jolach

Seb/Mark: We Are All Made of Stars by gemjam

Seb/Max: The Stick Pins and the Cottons by @kritischetheologie aka Kaytheologie

Seb/Michael: Never Have I Ever by Tianvette

Seb/Mick: spoils of war by @rosyjuly aka floretum

Seb/Mikey: lies can't disguise what you fear by @loveisworry aka bestliars

Seb/Nico: Everybody Wants to Rule the World by @kritischetheologie aka Kaytheologie

Seb/Toto: divest, attach by me kekekeke

Seb/Valtteri: liminal space by captainharkness

Are there any more seb pairings I'm missing?

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Men's Hockey (RPF) fanfiction recs:

Travis Konecny/Nolan Patrick

"how to cherish your own shadow" 🔒 (E) by notthequiettype | 15,525 | Nolan thinks about praying. He thinks about TK, how good it's been to have him here, how easily they move around each other. He thinks about the stretch of days ahead of him once TK heads home. TK looks over and smiles, soft and crooked, and Nolan imagines leaning in to kiss him, pressing their bodies together. He smiles back.

"an illicit divide" 🔒 (E) by notthequiettype | 2,851 | TK unbuttons his shirt, opens his belt. He turns around and Patty's still standing in the doorway, a shoulder against the frame. "You coming over?" "Can't," Patty says, and drags his socked foot along the threshold between their rooms. "Against the rules."

"but i pinky promise i'll try" 🔒 (E) by anonymous | 12,152 | Nolan comes across one guy, just a scant two miles away, who actually has his face in his profile picture, which is a refreshing change. He’s cute, longish dark hair with a sneaky smile, and his name is Travis. Nolan has never started a conversation with anyone before, but again: antsy and horny.

"how winning is done" 🔒 (M) by jolach | 8,823 | Travis isn’t buying it. “Nah,” he says. “You’re not good.” He sees Patty whip his head around, ready to start shit, which normally Travis would be into, but– “You’re fucking...” he searches for a word, “awesome.” “Trav–” “You were a fucking monster out there tonight, that call was bullshit–” “Oh my God–” “You’re better at COD than me, I’ll never repeat that–” “–you don’t have to, we both know–” “You’re a goddamn smokeshow, you bagged a fucking NHL captain without even trying–” “Jesus fucking Christ,” Pat says.

"hear the river say your name" 🔒 (E) by notthequiettype | 2,481 | "Howdy's got plans, so." Pat says it like it's a whole explanation, low and easy. It's been a while since they've been in the same room, but the way they talk to each other, the half sentences and shorthand, it's all still there. They're good to go and Pat's leaving it up to him.

"teach me how to cry" 🔒 (NR) by notthequiettype | 693 | TK knows the second he hits the ice his season's done.

"Combative" 🔒 (E) by notthequiettype | 3,517 | "You know you could just fuck me without setting weird little benchmarks for yourself." "Yeah, but like, if I don't have a goal, how do I get better?"

"when i see your light shine" 🔒 (E) by notthequiettype | 4,700 | Patty says, "Hey" and TK pulls him into a hug, lets himself hang on slightly longer than is chill. Patty just spreads his big hand out between TK's shoulderblades and holds on back. When they pull back TK says, "What the fuck are you doing here?"

"this will be our year" 🔒 (E) by notthequiettype | 4,380 | When TK turns back around, there's a tall, handsome guy leaning on his elbow on the bar, two fingers rubbing at his temple under his shaggy hair. "What can I get you?" "What's the least annoying thing to order?" "For real or like how people are always asking bartenders what they like to make?" The corner of the guy's mouth twitches a little. The tops of his cheeks are flushed. "For real."

"absolute ultimate" 🔒 (E) by heroics | 4,669 | It’s a kind of ritual, now, that Travis and Pat spend at least the first night of every road trip at the hotel, bickering over the Discovery Channel.

"dial this lover’s heartache" 🔒 (E) by notthequiettype | 5,219 | TK hits Pat, 21, 7km away and pauses, mostly to size-up the bass hanging from his hand in his profile photo. TK swipes right because he likes Pat's wide, open-mouthed smile, like he's in the middle of a laugh, and the soft curve of belly sitting at his waistband in another shot. TK's not expecting the match to pop and it startles him into dropping his phone on the counter.

"just like this" 🔒 (E) by jesuisgrace | 1,144 | TK plays beautifully. He knows they should wait, but when TK rips his helmet off after the game and flips his disgusting, sweaty hair back, he wants to eat him alive.

"Slow and low" 🔒 (E) by bitter_leaf | 10,451 | “You really gave that girl a lap dance, eh?” “I fucking said I did, didn’t I—” Travis starts, irritated, because he just told Patty not half an hour ago that he did and— his stomach drops through the floor. Oh fuck. Oh shit. Oh no. No no no.

"take down some summer time" 🔒 (T) by manybumblebees | 2,507 | Summer is lake days and fishing and coolers full of beer, the boat kicking up spray in its wake, and Nolan coming to stand next to him on the deck in his too-short shorts, holding his forearm next to TK’s and complaining about his Irish skin, which burns and freckles but never tans.

"it's hard to look right at you (so here's my number)"🔒 (E) by backseats | 2,914 | “Why’d you, like…” Trav tries to kick his brain back into conversation-mode, momentarily distracted by the way Patty’s flushed all the way past his throat, down to the divot of his collarbone. “Why’d you call me, man?”

"Motivation" 🔒 (E) by connectknee | 4,696 | Kevin knows when to back off, the article said. He knows just when to shut up and leave Patty alone, something Travis has never known how to do.

"Strange Torpedo" 🔒 (E) by connectknee | 31,270 |In which TK is the unconventional first-grade teacher in charge of Nolan’s niece, and Nolan is trying to figure out what to do with his life after crashing out of hockey.

"Dead reckoning" 🔒 (E) by murkya | 10,768 | Patty came over after lunch, one eye hecticly red and his jaw occasionally grinding about as if something was wound too tight inside and he was stuck on trying to work it free.

"History, and other forms of strife" 🔒 (M) by murkya | 16,925 | Summer of ‘26, Nolan got traded to the Flyers. That was fine, just great. Shit happens.

"don't let me fall behind" 🔒 (T) by growlery writes | 2,187 | It happens quickly, too quickly, but this is how it ends: the guy is on the ground. The guy isn’t moving. Nolan is safe. There’s a knife in Travis’s side. Nolan is safe.

"keep it on a high note" 🔒 (E) by notthequiettype | 3,915 | Nolan has never been a particularly tactile person except for with the people he's been closest too. Nobody's expanded those boundaries like TK and Nolan likes the ease of it, that he has someone around all the time who he likes to be close to.

"hold on to your aftertaste" 🔒 (E) by notthequiettype | 8,305 | Kevin stops him at the door. "You are my beautiful, gay, virgin friend. And we are going to go take care of the one part of that description that's bothering you." It's strangely heartening and Nolan follows him in.

"Cheetle" 🔒 (E) by notthequiettype | 7,061 | Nolan made Travis kind of stupid in all these strange, inarticulable ways that didn't really have anything to do with how smart Travis wasn't, but instead were about like, how he felt.

"see you in the depths" 🔒 (E) by eversincewefellapart | 6,718 | "You're a virgin?" TK repeats incredulously.

"my heart is thrilled by the still of your hand" 🔒 (E) by callabang & manybumblebees | 3,139 | Patty tries a lot of shit to help with his migraines, but TK still isn't expecting to hear that he’s doing a “chastity cleanse” because Tazer said it would help him to “reset his mind.”

"save your first and last dance for me" 🔒 (E) by manybumblebees | 21,374 | They're several hours, a slow dance, and too many bright orange shots that taste of cinnamon and paint thinner into their joke date to G's wedding when TK looks up at Nolan and says, "Marry me." And that's just their first wedding of the summer.

"play with fire till your fingers burn" 🔒 (T) by manybumblebees | 6,048 | Nolan goes through his first NHL camp knowing three things about the guy in the next stall: 1. He talks a lot. 2. He likes to fish. 3. The ducks in his tattoo are named after the Ninja Turtles.

"port stanley is for lovers" 🔒 (T) by manybumblebees | 7,518 | “Imagine–” Nolan chokes out, trying to stop laughing long enough not to totally butcher the delivery on this. “Bro, imagine making a whole town think we’re hooking up because you couldn’t shut up about me.”

"i'm dying, i'm dying to touch" 🔒 (E) by anonymous | 2,023 | Patty won't look at him. He's not paying any attention to TK, sitting there shooting the shit with Raff like TK doesn't even fucking exist. Fuck it. Fuck him. Fuck this.

"like home" 🔒 (T) by anonymous | 4,595 | The entire season feels like it’s going on in the next room, like Nolan’s watching it through a one-way mirror. Him on one side, hockey on the other. And then it stops, the whole season, the structure he's been clawing himself along and against, and... It's not a good week.

"if you leave the light on" 🔒 (M) by countthestars | 7,753 | “Do you really want me to come to Winnipeg?” TK doesn’t mean to blurt it out, but he’s not good at being subtle or holding back or thinking through any of the possible terrible consequences for his actions before he’s already done them, so. The question’s just. Out there. Ball in Patty’s court.

"the new three's company" 🔒 (M) by blaahaj | 3,000 | There are probably better ways to seduce your teammate than asking him to have a threesome with you, but this is working out alright for Travis.

"let's get drunk, i’ll pour my heart out through my mouth" 🔒 (M) by anonymous | 7,139 | Holy fuck, did he pick someone up last night? Travis isn’t in the habit of waking up with strangers, not really, but at least he’s in his own bedroom, that doesn’t— Wait. He knows those shoes.

"a line that we can just go cross" 🔒 (M) by whiskey_in_tea | 3,266 | Travis thinks about when he chipped his own tooth: how it felt to run his tongue over the unfamiliar jagged edge of it, over and over and over again. That’s the only reason he got it fixed, is because he cut his tongue on it, worrying at it, and that seemed unnecessary. That seemed, like, bad. He imagines saying to Pats, I’m worried about your tongue.

"I'm Your Wreck" 🔒 (M) by whiskey_in_tea | 7,126 | “If I was gonna,” Nolan says. “With a guy. Why would it be you?” “Because you love me,” Travis says, smug, shit-eating grin on that ratfucker’s face as he walks over to where Nolan’s sitting on the bed. Nolan tries desperately to trace how this night got so out of control so quickly and comes up with only: this is what happens when you make friends with the craziest person on your crazy-ass team.

"wild thoughts" 🔒 (M) by whiskey_in_tea | 6,996 | Nolan watches Travis’ hands, browned from the summer, scarred by fishing hooks and trigger pulls and ice burns and god knows what else, as they finish putting dinner on its plate. That’s the thing about Travis: he understands how to make the life he wants for himself. He’s not stupid, except about the things he’s fucking stupid about.

"working for it all the time" 🔒 (E) by whiskey_in_tea | 8,105 | It’s just, like, Travis thinks, as Patty lets go of his wrists and they walk inside together, Patty saying something about dinner plans. With other guys, there’s this static zone between them. Travis doesn’t think about it because there’s nothing to think about. But with Patty… it could happen. Just technically. It is possible. The door is open, he thinks, for the possibility of something. Not that he wants something to happen. But Travis has to admit that he thinks about it. He does.

"Surveilled" 🔒 (M) by notthequiettype | 639 | The thing about TK is that he doesn't lack impulse control; it’s that his impulse control was getting in the way of his life, so he just kind of learned to suppress it.

"Horseshoe Lake" 🔒 (E) by notthequiettype | 5,386 | "So, what, you just came over in the middle of the night to like, end our lifelong friendship?"

"Eye to Eye" 🔒 (M) by canary | 4,077 | Five times TK asks Nolan to talk about it, and one time he doesn’t.

"never have i ever" 🔒 (E) by anonymous | 5,653 | “Never have I ever kissed a guy,” he said, without really thinking about it. Nolan didn’t respond right away, and Travis realized about five seconds too late that that was probably a really weird thing to say.

"same building, different views" 🔒 (E) by atswimtwobros | 5,636 | Patty’s not always easy to read but Travis can tell that he hates this, being held down while Travis just looks at him. He can feel Patty’s pulse thumping in his wrists.

"haven't left your bed since" 🔒 (E) by heroics | 6,002 | "So, is it a rule that all bassists have to be really stoic and hot?" Travis asks.

"second sun came past the glass" 🔒 (E) by heroics | 3,614 | When TK glances at him across the elevator, Nolan leans against the wall and lets himself stare back. They start going up, agonizingly slow, dinging past each level. He really hopes nobody else comes in.

"headed your way with the devil on my fucking shoulder" 🔒 (E) by eversincewefellapart | 5,434 | They've been rooming since September and TK had tried valiantly, in the beginning, to strike up a friendship. When that seemed impossible, he attempted to go for a casual acquaintanceship at the very least. But Nolan consistently and coldly turned his advances down each time, shrugging into his big purple and yellow Laurier sweaters with his snapback pulled low over his eyes. TK has still never seen him hang out with anyone. He apparently runs a one-man show.

"only demons come to mind" 🔒 (T) by manybumblebees | 3,727 | Next to Nolan, TK’s slamming his gear around and swearing, and that, too, is becoming routine.

"sunlight on our clean clothes" 🔒 (E) by sarcangel | 19,923 | “Turns out I have a thing for centers,” Travis started. It came out pretty good, just a little wobble. “Or, um. Mostly one center. A center. Like, 6’2”, born in Winnipeg. Virgo. Likes cabins, dogs, weird music with violins and shit—”

"great expectations" 🔒 (E) by atswimtwobros | 5,287 | It's starting to give Travis a little bit of a complex, is all. or: the small dick fic.

"Close ain't close enough" 🔒 (E) by bitter_leaf | 33,590 | They’ve only got three nights left before they head back to Philly, training camp starting up a little over a week after that. With a heavy heart, Travis realises that he’s gonna head back home and have to deal with this same stupid flickering torch that he’s been carrying since Patty got put on long term IR that just will not go out, no matter how much he tries—and fails—to ignore it.

"Call me out (bring you home)" 🔒 (M) by bitter_leaf | 19,319 | Nolan’s gaze flickers periodically to the rear-view mirror as he barrels down the highway, one shaky hand shoved under his thigh, the other slung over the wheel. The road is quiet now that he's clear of the city but he can’t bear the thought of getting pulled over and having to roll his window down for some bored traffic cop, tell him he’s heading across provincial borders in the middle of a pandemic to get Manitoba’s favourite son to rail the existential angst out of him.

"break my bones" 🔒 (E) by anonymous | 3,387 | Nolan’s been here enough times that he heads straight to the counter. He does a double-take when he sees the new barista, then immediately kicks himself for being obvious. It takes a surprising amount of concentration to order coffee while acting like he's never gotten off to videos of the guy getting fucked to within an inch of his life.

"pictures of success" 🔒 (E) by whiskey_in_tea | 16,171 | “The trick,” Travis is saying, “is to get past where the waves are breaking.” He gestures to where the water is rising like a wall in front of them. “See how it comes up and up, then it starts falling in on itself?” The ocean crumbles, collapses, sprays them with spume. It seems angry. What’s it so angry about?

"all candor and style in the crook of your smile" 🔒 (M) by p3trichor | 12,031 | It’s a photo of Nolan on his knees with someones’ fingers in his mouth, lips slick with spit. Travis flicks by it almost too fast and he’s only got seconds to decide if he wants to screenshot it, if he wants to just give up the ghost right then and there.

"but your heart got teeth" 🔒 (M) by countthestars | 6,619 | Patty’s gonna wolf out. Travis has never seen him do it before.

"i saw you in the water" 🔒 (E) by LouLa | 24,944 | “Why are you always collecting my garbage like a weird, violent crow?” Nolan asks, bewildered. Travis doesn’t have an answer for that, he just shoves at Nolan’s face instead.

"Nothing to Prove" 🔒 (E) by canary | 42,342 | Nolan picked a college based on two criteria. One: That it didn’t have a hockey program. Two: That it was in some random corner of the southern USA, where the air was thick enough to bite, and football was the only sport anyone talked about in October. He should have known his dumb ass was still going to fuck it up.

"Sugar Honey" 🔒 (T) by canary | 3,904 | TK had always liked color. TK had always liked Patty. TK had always liked it when Patty smiled, and it seemed like he smiled all the fucking time in Winnipeg.

"How the Future Knew" 🔒 (E) by canary | 63,728 | It had been some stupid, throwaway picture from the gym. He’d been shirtless, taken a selfie in the mirror between sets. Nolan hadn’t been thinking about it, really, just like, oh, my abs look pretty good for this late in the season, and he’d thrown it on the gram. It had made some horny Canadian’s “boys next door thirst trap compilation” post on Tumblr. Nolan hadn’t heard of Tumblr before but apparently it was a thing. He’d gotten like, thirty DMs about it.

"the space between your words" 🔒 (E) by TheNorthRemembers | 18,189 | Travis visits Nolan during the offseason and starts spiralling into his insecurities after being told by Nolan's sister that she doesn't like him.

"Made of Glass" 🔒 (M) by makeit_takeit | 14,689 | Inside the locker room it’s pure chaos, noise and people and Nolan immediately feels overwhelmed by the sheer volume of it all, both literal and metaphorical. His heart lurches and his gut tells him immediately, this is a bad idea, and you don’t belong here.

"Things We Missed" 🔒 (T) by makeit_takeit | 4,622 | It was literally, unquestionably, like - the dumbest thing he’s ever done, hooking up with Hallsy. Because Nolan is very - . Like, extremely, super, totally, literal-hours-of-his-life-lost-to-conversations-on-this-topic aware, that Travis Konecny is mad jealous of Taylor Hall.

"Last Ones Standing" 🔒 (E) by makeit_takeit | 22,772 | At the bottom of the ad there’s a link, and Travis finds his finger hovering over the screen, lip still caught between his teeth. “I mean,” he says very reasonably, speaking out loud to his empty apartment like some sort of possibly-crazy person, “just applying doesn’t mean anything. Maybe I just fill it out, and see what happens. It’s not like I’m really gonna get picked to be on TV, come on.”

"Just Getting Started" 🔒 (E) by canary | 10,719 | Several things clicked into place. “Are you trying to court me with Bud Lite Lime?” Nolan asked in disbelief. “Dunno,” Travis said, with his crooked smile. “Is it working?”

"body's in trouble" 🔒 (E) by cloudsandpassingevents | 55,915 | “I don’t know,” Nolan finally mumbles. “I’m not, like, trying to – ” the rest of the sentence gets stuck in his throat. He takes a sip of tea to force it back down. “Like. I wouldn’t do anything drastic. But, like.” He gestures vaguely at the air between them. “If you had a bike that was broken, you wouldn’t just keep it around anymore, you know? Like, it’d just be useless. You’d throw it away. So, like, if your body can’t do stuff that it’s supposed to be able to do, then…” he trails off, chewing on the corner of his lip. “What’s the point, you know,” he finally finishes.

"when the night falls" 🔒 (E) by anonymous | 16,519 | In which Travis is strangely fascinated by the moody guy who keeps showing up at his coffee shop right as he’s closing. Well. The dude is hot. It’s not that complicated, actually.

"River for the Sea" 🔒 (E) by LoveLeah | 39,152 | It’s not that Nolan’s, like, hugely fucking into Travis. He literally barely knows him, but obviously he’s hot, tan and athletic with nice hair and pretty eyes and this dark tattoo just dipping out from under the sleeve of his t-shirt, wrapping around the thick muscle of his bicep.

"Bathe with You in the Sea" 🔒 (M) by LoveLeah | 2,549 | “Chase told us something,” his mom says. Travis' body feels fire hot under his parka, sweaty and closed in. “He says he thinks you didn’t come because--Travis, he says you told him you were gay.”

"Breathing Room" 🔒 (E) by makeit_takeit | 16,149 | “I dunno, dude.” Travis chews on the inside of his cheek, rubs his hand over the whiskers on his chin to feel them bend and slide and prickle under his fingers. “You ever just get tired of being in the city all the time? Just seeing like – airport, hotel, arena, bus, airport, and that’s it?”

"faith between our teeth" 🔒 (E) by waytoobright | 10,602 | For Travis, it feels like home. He knows the streets up and down every block, and he’s been working at his family friend’s hot dog stand since he turned fourteen and was legally allowed to work in the state of New Jersey. He’s got friends who work at other restaurants and shops down the boardwalk and everyone still comes back every summer. They all come rolling into town during the first few weeks of sun and sand, and then the summer really begins.

"The Strangest Trip" 🔒 (E) by makeit_takeit | 19,562 | Pat’s at the bar, back turned to the speeches. He looks like always: big, beautiful, perfect in his almost-pink-but-still-technically-taupe suit. Hair slicked back off his face, jaw clenched and trying hard to hide how much he doesn’t want to be here, gripping his wine glass a little too tight. Just looking at him, Travis can feel the almost desperate pull in his chest, the longing.

"Two Halves of a Whole Idiot" 🔒 (E) by littleconnections | 19,089 | Nolan's hair is getting long too, flicking into his eyes and Travis sits on the shore and watches, the pulling in his gut both familiar and not. What if I kiss him, he thinks.

"Friends Don't Look At Friends That Way" 🔒 (E) by Matriaya | 5,519 | Travis knows as soon as Sara suggests a threesome that he's gonna pick Patty. Obviously. Patty’s his best friend, and they see each other’s dicks like every fucking day at the rink, and he’s definitely walked in on Patty boning a chick before, so it will just be like that only… together.

"Hot House Grapes" 🔒 (E) by LoveLeah for Matriaya | 7,636 | Even after TK told him; after he found out he and TK both liked guys, he hadn't thought about TK as anything more than just TK. Like, he hadn't thought he wasn't hot, but he'd just never thought that much about it at all. Then they came back from the summer after their junior year, and Nolan walked into their dorm, and TK was sprawled out shirtless on the bottom bunk, dark tan and smiling, and Nolan took one look at him and was like: oh.

"Twice As Many Stars" 🔒 (E) by TheNorthRemembers | 230,251 | “Told you,” Nolan says, and it’s meant to be teasing but somehow his voice trails off into something softer at the look on Travis’ face. It’s not really surprise or shock like Nolan had expected, not entirely anyway. There’s disappointment there too, mixed with defiance and sadness. “You can’t save everyone.” The character's death screen is still showing, and it feels mocking in a way Nolan didn’t quite see coming. “I had to try, though,” Travis still says, unmoving for another second before he musters up a smile and presses the controller into Nolan’s hand. “You always gotta try.”

"in the name of being honest" 🔒 (E) by coastalhighway | 51,655 | From the moment the Flyers had stepped on the ice, Nolan had tried to catch TK’s eye, tried to make him fucking look at Nolan, but— The entire goddamn time. The entire goddamn game, TK never once met his eyes.

"Coming Undone" (E) by Linsky | 3,184 | For the record: Travis does hook up. A completely normal amount, even. He finds girls on Tinder and totally does go out with them. Just, that’s a lot of work, and sometimes he’s tired from hockey, and it just seems easier to stick to messaging. It’s still sort of like hooking up.

"latibule" (E) by wolver | 40,601 | "You're Nolan Patrick, right?" The guy presses on whether he gets an answer or not (he doesn't), "Bro, it's sweet we get to play together. You're fucking sick; your stick-handling skills are off the charts, my man, this is gonna be so sweet." Nolan can fucking feel the vibrations of Travis stifling a laugh, but of course Travis isn't going to throw him a rescue line like the fucker that he is. All Nolan can really do is stare blankly -- his first choice of words are highly inappropriate and he smothers them into an unintelligible mumble.

"before the wave hits" 🔒 (E) by anonymous | 16,477 | It's not really a big deal, is the thing. It's just that Travis thinks it's kind of weird that they've been best friends for three years and he's never seen Patty's dick.

"let's get tangled up together" (E) by wolver | 3,236 | Patty's back. A slice in the life from training camp.

"he's kinda quiet (but his body ain’t)" 🔒 (E) by thestarsatnight | 2,956 | Nolan is looking at him and with soft, knowing eyes, because he knows exactly how taxing it is sometimes to manage anything past getting up, breathing, and going back to bed.

"Tazete Tazone" 🔒 (M) by soupbowlfulofsins | 7,464 | One drunk kiss does not a bromance make. So obviously, Travis and Nolan step up their bro-kissing game.

"So long, Honey" 🔒 (E) by TheNorthRemembers | 11,649 | Nolan and Travis have been friends since they've been kids and in love almost just as long. Nolan is a hockey player, but Travis isn't, but Nolan still comes home to him every off season.

"wouldn’t know where to start" 🔒 (M) by anonymous | 7,090 | Travis just keeps pressing, keeps touching Nolan the same way he always has, and waits for it to stop feeling normal. It never does.

"what we do when we stop thinkin" 🔒 (E) by Matriaya | 6,687 | Travis leans up and presses a kiss to Nolan’s cheek, right smack in the hollow of it, where the fuzz is starting to creep up. It’s no more than a second, lips on skin, barely a glance, but he can’t quite meet Nolan’s gaze as he pulls away. “For good luck!”

"Good For You" 🔒 (E) by TheNorthRemembers | 40,282 | Travis finds out that Nolan has a big dick and becomes obsessed with it, discovering some stuff about himself along the way. Nolan mostly just enjoys the ride.

"Does Anybody Know" 🔒 (E) by thestarsatnight | 3,509 | Kevin was beaming at him. “Better believe we’re gonna celebrate that hatty once this pandemic’s over, TikiBar.” “Sure, sure,” Travis said, bobbing his head. There was a lot he’d told these guys over the years, a lot that he’d shared with this team, but some things were just for him, even in the jumbled up excitement of his brain. Instead, he said, “Plenty of time for you to catch up, Hayesy,” and Kevin’s answering laugh was enough.

"Rattling Cages" (E) by LoveLeah | 48,562 | Nolan gets ditched, wears short-shorts, and tries to figure out his head. Travis buys a dildo, spends $2000 on Etsy, and makes a folder for all the Nolan pictures on his phone.

"worn but young" 🔒 (E) by grace | 28,525 | Somehow though, with Patty it’s all felt different so far, though he would never have guessed it would in a thousand years. Travis keeps looking back to check how far ahead he’s gotten and every time Patty is right there with him, pacing him quiet and calm. Acting like it’s normal to want the things with a friend that Travis wants, the constant closeness, acting like Travis isn’t bothering or taking from him at all. It makes Travis feel giddy inside, like bubbles fizzing.

"shines when the sunset shifts" 🔒 (E) by grace | 15,391 | Nolan feels all the things he’s been wanting to say to someone and can’t rise up and crowd in; a pressure, a weather system. I thought I was better. I’m not doing well. It is happening again. It will happen forever. Instead he says, “Does that hurt?”

"born to be crazy, born to be wild" 🔒 (E) by anonymous | 6,353 | Nolan was not throwing himself a pity party. Was he injured? Yes. Was he injured for the seven-millionth fucking time? Unfortunately. Had he succumbed, under the covers in the wee hours of the morning, to his weakest impulse, searching his name on Twitter? Also yes. Had that sent him into a shame spiral? Obviously.

"if you need me, i'm the same as i was" 🔒 (T) by donderwolk | 4,719 | TK clears his throat, tries to go for sultry again then, but it’s part of the bit now, a little in-joke between the two of them, says, “What are you wearing?”

"i miss this time, last year" 🔒 (M) by donderwolk | 18,048 | Travis calls him about two hours after the news drops, says nothing for a whole ten seconds, then comes out with just a, “Nolan.” It’s less a word, and more a sigh. A strange and desperate thing. They haven’t spoken in eight months.

"stuck in my head, heart, body" 🔒 (E) by donderwolk | 2,434 | God, what would TK even do if he just — showed up? Pretend, Nolan thinks. Knows, really. He’d pretend, at least for a little while, that Nolan standing on his doorstep in fucking Haddonfield unannounced and on Valentine’s Day was the most normal thing a guy could do.

"sing it in my sleep" (M) by fadeastride | 3,954 | It takes three days after leaving the bubble for Travis to check his phone. He deletes most of the texts unread, but there's one from Nolan that just says, "You should come see me."

"the most exciting thing I'd ever known" (T) by fadeastride | 3,072 | The first time Nolan starts to actually think about it, they're in Claude's backyard for some kind of "welcome spring" barbecue that's really an excuse to drink too much cheap beer and cook meat over a fire. Nolan's four, maybe five, beers in when he tells Travis that he's got the balance of one of those goats that walk sideways up mountains and that he could totally walk the fence like a balance beam. "You cannot," Travis says, smashing another bite of hamburger into his mouth.

"any thrill will do"🔒 (E) by hackysack | 8,372 | Pat copes with it the same way he’s been coping with every other part of the Philadelphia break-up: he goes on Grindr.

"hold (me) still" 🔒 (E) by notthequiettype & solarperigee | 3,343 | Nolan watches out of the corner of his eye as TK gets more and more jittery, before he finally springs to his feet, presses a kiss to Nolan's cheek, and announces, “I've gotta go jerk it so I'm not sitting here with a boner all game, 'kay?” Nolan doesn't know what drives him to say it, but the words are out before he can stop to think about them. “You can do it here, if you're quick about it.”

"occupying space" 🔒 (E) by toxica939 | 4,278 | Nolan loves him. The thought’s like a bruise. Something better left to poke at later, press down on, see if it hurts.

"I Wish That It Was Easy" 🔒 (E) by littleconnections | 10,393 | Getting stuck in a time loop has never made anyone realise their feelings any quicker.

"Someone Else's Solid Ground" (E) by Linsky | 21,757 | Nolan’s body has never been his friend.

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That's 100!

[gayferrari]

You’ve said that you don’t really like fics with late-stage sewis but have you read wire to wire by jolach? starring mclaren lewis and rbr seb feat. catholic guilt and old testament lewis’ intense sexual repression

https://archiveofourown. org/works/37586293

I HAVE NOt!! thank you for the rec. delighted. link

[crawsley]

hey chandler how about that rec list please 👀 I need to be obsessed with it too

I made a post about this and immediately got really busy but now I’m free so here!! Short mostly f1 list but I cannot stop thinking about this trope so.

Touch and go by jolach—I had this bookmarked before I was even into f1. Pretty close to a perfect fic, every line is a treasure, etc etc

On the ground by 74234— this fic makes me feel insane, literally all of this author’s stuff does. If you’re into dyke dick irl or in fics this one is hiiiiiighly recommended.

Don’t shiver now by glasscushion— Charles has a big dick and George is obsessed w it!! There’s a Tumblr fic I can’t find now where Alex walks in on George on his knees for some random guy and goes and jerks off in his car about it, and that sparked my interest in george (Ken doll, soaking wet, etc). Author nailed george voice in this one.

Just racing by beechersnope— this author writes the weird tense horny parts of sex so fucking well and also I love their girl max. Looped and twisted around herself but also as straightforward as a battering ram lol.

[foggieststars]

oh yes sebson is seb/jenson and i also have strong positive feelings about them

one thing you need to know about me anon is that my dad is a huge racing fan and as a child i always made fun of him cos i thought it was so boring. but i did used to imagine me and jenson getting married at like age 10

anyway i know i mostly post abt like the current grid but i have so many thoughts on gridsluts of yesteryear and have read so much fic... i have strongly positive feelings abt seb/jenson like. so many egregious incidents....'only bcs he saw the tv camera he came and said hello'....making fun of seb for not wearing a tie and offering him one...the champagne incident. height difference....good lord. please also see this post for reference as to why jenson specifically drives me batty

also i know you didnt ask for ficrecs but @bright-and-burning did so pls see here...

the world ain't ending but it might as well be - tabris

a sense of proportion - jolach

supernova - tianvette

ft. some seb/mark/jenson just for fun

wider, baby, smile - tianvette

triptych - tianvette - this is possibly my favourite f1 fic ever

also. related yet not: does anybody else go fucking crazy for lando/jenson or is that just me

[grittyreadsfic]

this Nico/tk asg fic by jolach....yes!!!

[jlf23tumble]

👍 and 😂 and ☺️ and 🔥 (a lil bonus up for interpretation wink wink)

This combo, lmao! I've got you (and me, one and done for each one):

thumb = something else, by jolach

cry laff = Harry Styles Cooks..., by sunsetmog

fi-yah! = it ain't trickin' if ya got it, by sarcasticfluentry

In response to this

[1ocust]

like literally.....f1 drivers r not real ..... 2 me they r the characters in my favorite jolach book ..... does anyone understand .....

[gillianthecat]

This advent calendar style list of links is cute, but not very helpful as a rec list. So here are what each trope sends you to (they're don't all fit the trope exactly, but the trope made me think of them)

found family: of mute swans and nests by steponthegaslys — Formula 1 RPF ballet dancer au

soulmates:  Summer to Your Heart by Deastar (@youhideastar) — soul bond au Hockey RPF ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

slow burn:  Grounds for Divorce by Tepre (@tepre) — 120k Harry/Draco curse fic

established but complicated:  one foot in sea by theundiagnosable — friends-to-lovers Geralt/Jaskier The Witcher fic ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

enemies-to-friends-to-lovers: Why R U? (Thailand 2020)

best friends-to-lovers: Theory of Love (Thailand 2019) ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

love at first sight:  Utsukushii Kare (aka My Beautiful Man) (Japan 2021)

get back together:  To My Star Season 2: Our Untold Stories (Korea 2022) ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

morally grey character:  The Devil Judge (Korea 2021)

unreliable narrator:  Bad Buddy (Thailand 2021) ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

sunshine character:  About Youth (Taiwan 2022)

sarcastic character:  Halo Effect by Alex51324 (@alex51324) — Thomas Barrow/OC Downton Abbey, WWI set fic ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

self-sacrificing:  Guardian (China 2018)

teamwork:  Kieta Hatsukoi (aka My Love Mix-Up!) (Japan 2021) ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

fire-forged friends:  Reunion: The Sound of the Providence (aka The Lost Tomb Reboot) (China 2020)

childhood friends:  My Only 12% (Thailand 2022) ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

description-heavy:  I Told Sunset About You (Thailand 2020)

dialogue-heavy:  Secret Crush on You (Thailand 2022) ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

fluff:  Cherry Blossoms After Winter (Korea 2022)

angst:  Lan Yu (Hong Kong/China 2001) ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

high school au:  World Ain't Ready by idiopathicsmile (@idiopath-fic-smile) — Enjolras/Grantaire fic, a modern au of Les Misérables 

college au:  Love Mechanics (Thailand 2022) ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

flower symbolism:  that scarlet tree within by steviethenarwhal (@steviethenarwhal) — Hockey RPF Hanahaki disease fic

color symbolism:  Semantic Error (Korea 2022) ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

hero from the start:  For the Asking by gremble (@abeautifulblog) — Geralt/Jaskier The Witcher fic

reveal the hero near the end:  Misethere by astolat (@astolat) – Geralt/Jaskier The Witcher fic ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

body swap:  The Boy Who Only Lived Twice by lettered (@letteredlettered) — Harry/Draco spy fic

gender swap:  if you leave the light on by steviethenarwhal (@steviethenarwhal) — Hockey RPF, women in the NFL fic ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

bed sharing:  Not Me (Thailand 2021)

clothes sharing:  Takara-kun to Amagi-kun (Japan 2022) ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

magic au:  when the sun goes out by travelingneuritis (@travelingneuritis) — Wei Wuxian/Lan Zhan The Untamed modern tech magic au

human au:  Adorned by jolach (@hyggles) — Hockey RPF not-famous au ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

de-aged:  Away Childish Things by lettered (@letteredlettered) — Harry/Draco fic

future fic:  At Home in the Uncanny Valley by ionthesparrow — Hockey RPF, not future set, but some futuristic elements

Tropes - This and That

Thanks for the tag @kireshai! I did this one already, so instead I channeled my inner overachiever and came up with a drama series, film or fic for each of the tropes. All links go to either MyDramaList or AO3.

found family or soulmates || slow burn or established but complicated || enemies-to-friends-to-lovers or best friends-to-lovers || love at first sight or get back together || morally grey character or unreliable narrator  || sunshine character or sarcastic character || self-sacrificing or teamwork || fire-forged friends or childhood friends || description-heavy or dialogue-heavy || fluff or angst  || high school au or college au || flower symbolism or color symbolism || hero from the start or reveal the hero near the end || body swap or gender swap || bed sharing or clothes sharing || magic au or human au || de-aged or future fic

Some of these jumped into my head right away - the fic for de-aged gave me this idea in the first place; I don't generally like that trope but thought that fic was amazing. Others don't exactly match their trope, but were something that I liked that sort of fit.

Stats: There are 18 dramas, 1 film and 15 fics. Dramas: 8 Thai BL, 3 Korean BL, 3 Japanese BL, 1 Taiwanese BL, 1 Chinese censored BL, 1 Chinese bromance and 1 Korean (b)romance. Plus 1 queer film from China/Hong Kong. Fanfics: 5 Hockey RPF, 3 Harry Potter, 3 The Witcher, 1 The Untamed, 1 Les Mis, 1 Formula1 RPF and 1 Downton Abbey.

I'm not going to tag people this go round, but anyone who wants to do either the original version or this one should consider themselves tagged.

[fuckyeahrtfanfic]

Old School Mavin 1 Old School Mavin 2 Old School Mavin 3 

CJ

Michael/Gavin

Now You See Me by PicassoPickle

Summary: Gavin wakes up one morning to find himself invisible. He has no idea how or why, but his friends believe he has been kidnapped, presumed dead. [PG]

WC: 8,377 - Complete

[Tags: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Series]

The Boy Behind The Fence by Hashtagmavin

Summary: (15 year old AU) Michael’s family has just moved to a new home, and he quickly becomes friends with his next door neighbor through the fence in their backyard. But as he talks more and more to the young boy, he realizes that something isn’t right, and Michael’s determined to find out what it is. [R]

WC: 22,230 - Complete

T: Child Abuse

[Tags: Angst, AU (School), First Time, Hurt/Comfort, Series, Violence]

The Helpless and the Holders by BloodstainedBlonde

Summary: Michael had always known about Gavin’s OCD.

He’d always had it, and it had always been severe, and Michael had always loved him regardless.

He’d wait through a million light switch flickers because they needed to be done, listen to a million repeats of words just been said because they didn’t sound right and stand through a million retried kisses because the angle wasn't aligned perfectly.

Because Gavin always said ‘I love you’ afterwards.

And almost as if he had his own compulsive disorder, Michael always said it back.  [R]

WC: 3,720

T: Mental Illness, Self-Harm

[Tags: Angst, Hurt/Comfort]

[crawsley]

i love lewis as a princess and you are giving it to meeeeee. I want him bottoming 24/7 but I feel like I'm fighting for my life on AO3.

On the other hand did think that I would love to see omega girl lewis and alphas Toto and Susie

I think he should get to lay back and be treated exactly how he wants to be treated, which is being gently and lovingly picked apart til he’s sobbing and then someone wiping his tears away with like a cashmere handkerchief. I won’t lie I also like top lewis, in the sense of that also being exactly what he wants. The outdoor sex free use fic by jolach fundamentally rewrote my brain, as well as the small dick seb one 😵‍💫 I can’t even comment on girl omega lewis 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 if it was a Toto Susie lewis threesome it would have to be f/f/f for my taste but even just thinking about that in passing is making me 😵‍💫 Susie being Lewis’s peer (Lewis having to show her how to drink her champagne on the podium forever ago), and Toto being her lesbian daddy would be the most insane psychosexual sex possible.

[workingforitallthetime]

ao3 wrapped

all the “lol what if ao3 did a spotify wrapped” tweets got me thinking about what mine would look like. some of the best fics are ones i don’t reread regularly because i can’t always handle the intense emotional experience (looking at you, heel and shines when the sunset shifts.) and in a new fandom, some of my favorites are new enough to me that each reread still feels like a Special Occasion that i must ration so as not to expend all the most intense joy just yet (looking at you, Growing Into Someone and fishin’ in the dark.)

but if you were going by my ao3 “most visited” stats (plus an estimate of other numbers known only to me and my kindle and the god who will judge me at the last), here’s what it would look like:

Top artists

1. canary 2. jolach 3. ratcrimes 4. disarm_d (mainly because I obsessively reread dwelling) 5. linsky (100 percent because i obsessively reread Race Like Falcons to Crash and Burn)

Top songs

1. save your first and last dance for me 2. head caught flame 3. The Christian Foundations of Healthy Spirituality: A Worksheet For Men 4. How the Future Knew 5. dream team

[blorbocedes]

not jolach kudosing my fic (lies down)

[grittyreadsfic]

ooh do you have podfic recs? I just got into them too they have made my life so much better

i DO have podfic recs!

stop making sense (by vidriana) read by frecklebombfic is a kasperi kapanen/willy nylander fake dating fic, and actually the first one i ever listened to? i relistened to it today and i'm truly amazed by how they read the dialogue during the big emotional scene, it's absolutely perfect and makes it hit so hard

how winning is done (by jolach) read by frecklebombfic is a travis konency/nolan patrick fic and it's such a gem-the podficcer also picked out the perfect song for the intro that just sets the tone so well

the ballad of the worst barista in the worst cafe in detroit (by thescrewtapedemos) read by annapods is an andreas athanasiou/tyler bertuzzi fic where one of them isn't a hockey player/coffee shop au, and it has a lot of fun audio added in to really enhance listening-annapods does that in a lot of fics and it always is really fun

my unicycle has one wheel (by mcspot) read by annapods is a brock boeser/elias pettersson fic where elias is a wiggle. it's fun and absurd and i think that annapods nails the comedic timing in it

life in living color (by catchascatchcan) read by matriaya is a radio show au that's kind of like a love actually style take? pairings are uhhh carter hart/kevin hayes, travis konecny/nolan patrick, scott laughton/michael raffl, and joel farabee/morgan frost. matriaya straight up nailed the delivery of hardhitting lines in this

never going back again (by lilcrickee) read by ofjustimagine is a lawson crouse/travis konecny roadtrip fic, and ofjustimagines intersperses the driving mix mentioned in the fic throughout and it's just so well executed

throw me on the first line (by lotts) read by lotts is my all time favorite fake dating fic ever, and it's zach hyman/willy nylander. i did embarrass myself on twitter by talking about that where they could see it rip 2 me but they do such a great job with reading and the emotion they convey in their tone is *chef's kiss*