#leon/matthew

[tapedsleeves]

various hockey ships x Aaron Tippin - "That's As Close As I'll Get To Loving You"

I can sing this song to everybody And pretend it's not about you

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15

[kairos44]

Pack (5,5 k) Pairing: Leon Draisaitl/Matthew Tkachuk Rating: M Tags: AU - Werewolves, Angst with a happy ending, werewolf turning, werewolf bond, werewolf mates Summary Matthew wakes up in a hospital room, disoriented and scared. His memories of what happened are fuzzy. There was a hockey game, there was a win – and there was an attack.

Written for @mxaether and their prompt words: red, heat & fate and their love for wolves during the HRPF Summer Exchange 2024 held by @hrpffandomeventblog

[allylikethecat]

Chapters: 14/? Fandom: Men's Hockey RPF Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Leon Draisaitl/Matthew Tkachuk Characters: Leon Draisaitl, Matthew Tkachuk, Connor McDavid Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Mpreg Summary:

“What happened?” Leon demanded. “You were scratched last minute? Then I hear you’re going on long term IR indefinitely? AND THEN you left the arena- I spent half an hour looking for you before Looch took pity on me and told me you left!”

Matthew shrugged, his gaze steel. “I didn’t know you were my keeper.”

[hunterrrs]

asdfghjk incredible…

[cheddaryouthanme]

Hockey RPF writers being known across fandoms as literary masters

When I first started reading MattDrai fics on AO3 I remember thinking “wait what the HELL is going on why is this the most consistently well-written fanfiction I’ve read in any fandom? Is this a thing? Do people know??” And apparently it is and they do.

[adelphenium]

aucember day 2: mattdrai + corporate au 📈

[ijustdontlikepeople]

NHL x Internet 6/?

[intheupside]

@TheFourthPeriod: The Amazon NHL docuseries, “Faceoff: Inside the NHL”, premieres Oct 4.

Season 1 has six episodes. Some of the featured talent includes Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, William Nylander, Quinn Hughes, Matthew Tkachuk, Jack Eichel, Filip Forsberg, David Pastrnak & Jeremy Swayman (among others).

Paul Martin, Executive Producer of Drive to Survive, is also an EP for Faceoff.

They started to meet & chat with the NHL athletes in Feb in Toronto during All-Star Weekend. They’re going to show a type of authentic access we don’t often get or see.

[sara-likes-things]

[acekazoo]

nhl as textposts.. offseason is driving me crazy

[ppjeterka]

my thoughts re: the main cast of the new nhl amazon docu-series

[tkachukisms]

i think matthew would be scared of furbies. i think he'd see one and go oh gosh oh what IS that while laughing nervously and looking side to side like he's in a locked room with an ambiguously aggressive dog and not a toy made up of fluff and plastic. god forbid he finds out you can learn the language. | don't know what all that was, sorry man, anyway, hashtag rewind?

[kairos44]

Title: Immortal Pairing: Leon Draisaitl/Matthew Tkachuk Tags: Pre-Game Seven SCF 2024, established relationship, smut, hurt/comfort, light angst, fluff Summary: It’s the night before game seven of the Stanley Cup Final and Leon cannot stay away from Matthew.

Leon pulls the hood of his sweater over his head, burying his hands in the front pockets. He gives himself a critical once over in the hotel room mirror. His clothes are clean and unobtrusive, no Oiler logo in sight. The sunglasses are huge and cover half his face, the other half is covered by his bushy playoff beard. He’s pretty sure no one will recognize him once he steps out of the hotel.

Read more on A03!

[jamingbenn]

year in review - hockey rpf on ao3

hello!! the annual ao3 year in review had some friends and i thinking - wouldn't it be cool if we had a hockey rpf specific version of that. so i went ahead and collated the data below!!

i start with a broad overview, then dive deeper into the 3 most popular ships this year (with one bonus!)

if any images appear blurry, click on them to expand and they should become clear!

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before we jump in, some key things to highlight: - CREDIT TO: the webscraping part of my code heavily utilized the ao3 wrapped google colab code, as lovingly created by @kyucultures on twitter, as the main skeleton. i tweaked a couple of things but having it as a reference saved me a LOT of time and effort as a first time web scraper!!! thank you stranger <3 - please do NOT, under ANY circumstances, share any part of this collation on any other website. please do not screenshot or repost to twitter, tiktok, or any other public social platform. thank u!!! T_T - but do feel free to send requests to my inbox! if you want more info on a specific ship, tag, or you have a cool idea or wanna see a correlation between two variables, reach out and i should be able to take a look. if you want to take a deeper dive into a specific trope not mentioned here/chapter count/word counts/fic tags/ship tags/ratings/etc, shoot me an ask!

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with that all said and done... let's dive into hockey_rpf_2024_wrapped_insanity.ipynb

BIG PICTURE OVERVIEW

i scraped a total of 4266 fanfics that dated themselves as published or finished in the year 2024. of these 4000 odd fanfics, the most popular ships were:

Note: "Minor or Background Relationship(s)" clocked in at #9 with 91 fics, but I removed it as it was always a secondary tag and added no information to the chart. I did not discern between primary ship and secondary ship(s) either!

breaking down the 5 most popular ships over the course of the year, we see:

super interesting to see that HUGE jump for mattdrai in june/july for the stanley cup final. the general lull in the offseason is cool to see as well.

as for the most popular tags in all 2024 hockey rpf fic...

weee like our fluff. and our established relationships. and a little H/C never hurt no one.

i got curious here about which AUs were the most popular, so i filtered down for that. note that i only regex'd for tags that specifically start with "Alternate Universe - ", so A/B/O and some other stuff won't appear here!

idk it was cool to me.

also, here's a quick breakdown of the ratings % for works this year:

and as for the word counts, i pulled up a box plot of the top 20 most popular ships to see how the fic length distribution differed amongst ships:

mattdrai-ers you have some DEDICATION omg. respect

now for the ship by ship break down!!

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#1 MATTDRAI

most popular ship this year. peaked in june/july with the scf. so what do u people like to write about?

fun fun fun. i love that the scf is tagged there like yes actually she is also a main character

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#2 SIDGENO

(my babies) top tags for this ship are:

folks, we are a/b/o fiends and we cannot lie. thank you to all the selfless authors for feeding us good a/b/o fic this year. i hope to join your ranks soon.

(also: MPREG. omega sidney crosby. alpha geno. listen, the people have spoken, and like, i am listening.)

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#3 NICOJACK

top tags!!

it seems nice and cozy over there... room for one more?

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BONUS: JDTZ.

i wasnt gonna plot this but @marcandreyuri asked me if i could take a look and the results are so compelling i must include it. are yall ok. do u need a hug

top tags being h/c, angst, angst, TRADES, pining, open endings... T_T katie said its a "torture vortex" and i must concurr

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BONUS BONUS: ALPHA/BETA/OMEGA

as an a/b/o enthusiast myself i got curious as to what the most popular ships were within that tag. if you want me to take a look about this for any other tag lmk, but for a/b/o, as expected, SID GENO ON TOP BABY!:

thats all for now!!! if you have anything else you are interested in seeing the data for, send me an ask and i'll see if i can get it to ya!

[nottodayjustin]

June 6th 2024 best hockey tweet(s) of the day

[icantswim-03]

Safe to say I like making these