#manybumblebees

[lemotmo]

@manybumblebees

OMG!!! Twincy!!! OMG!!! VES!!! How are you guys!!! I could cry!!!

How long ago has it been since our wonderful Without a Trace trip to Rome? It was somewhere in the 2000's, but it's been such a long time. I still think about our early LJ fandom days so much. I miss LJ a lot, because it was such a great medium for fandoms. I remember the way we clung to each and every conversation and scene between Martin and Danny. The way we all watched the episodes together in that Rome hotelroom and went mental over our boys. That show and Danny/Martin still holds such a special place in my heart. It was, by far, the best and most involved fandom I've ever been in.

And I've been in many fandoms since those years. Forever a fangirl at heart! So when I found 911 and Buddie in early 2019 I fell in love instantly. It's so great to see some familiar faces in this fandom. I've seen some other fans around from my Stargate Atlantis days, but never from all the way back to WaT.

You know what I've been thinking lately? Buck/Tommy is Danny/Elena all over again. Both relationships that literally came out of nowhere, but became popular fast. Remember how we were so bummed when Danny/Elena became a thing?

The only difference today? I think that this time the ship we're shipping actually has a chance. Back then a ship between two men was doomed from the start. We didn't even expect canon. We just wanted scenes between them and we were happy.

It's so great to see you again. Feel free to talk to me through DM's. I'd love to catch up and maybe we can talk fandom things again, just like old times. :)

[callabang]

the whole courier fleet idea from the goblin emperor is simply so good, like YEAH it's a job for people that would have otherwise been prostitutes and instead only SOME of them are prostitutes but ALL of them are sneaky conniving little runners who know everything about everyone and read your mail

[manybumblebees]

something terrible has happened to your friend and mutual manybumblebees (started rewatching the west wing)

[fly-guys]

Tagged by @callabang — pick ten pictures from your year that you absolutely love and tag ten people to do the same

No pressure!! 💕💕

@whysamwhy123 @suplexkitty99 @ohjafeeljadefinitelyfeel @manybumblebees @sequentialprophet @thesuninperigee @transmjfagenda

[thatsnotbuddies]

tknp fic that i got my url from is this one btw

take down some summer time by manybumblebees

[morewonders]

Spotify tag game! Thanks @aringofsalt for tagging me!

Rules: put your music library on shuffle, then list the first 5 songs in a poll to let people vote on which they like the most

Notes: including links to the songs or a playlist is completely optional

No pressure tags: @noblealice @banthacakes @laralaralara @lulabo @manybumblebees

[eclaireparlalune]

Tagged by @jesuiscenseedormir

do this picrew

do this uquiz

tag people

thank you for tagging me! <3

tagging:

@eddiegirls @manybumblebees @inell @smallandalmosthonest @ranbling

@bakasara @hearteyesdiaz @buckleydiaz @sunshinediaz

[redjacketficrecs]

play with fire till your fingers burn

manybumblebees

Summary: 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.

Recommendation: There are the cutest dumbest softest boys. Come for the humour, stay for how heartfelt this actually is. It’s really just TK and Patty being dumb and mean/nice to each other and falling in love as only big dumb boys can over two seasons. Love the way they’re both written in this.

[doeeyeseddie]

#first kiss where his hand starts on buck's shoulder and migrates to the back of his neck/side of his face pls#pairing that's got me thinking THUMB THUMB THUMB (via @manybumblebees)

#Eddie + grabbing buck's shoulder

[dontmakedemands]

1, 13 and 20 for the fic ask game?

1. favourite fic you read this year?

oof, this year it’s probably a football rpf fic, maybe I like you unsweet by lesbleusthroughandthrough which is probably my ideal fic & i cannot recommend it enough!

13. song you now associate with a fic?

definitely sure as shit by kathleen edwards!!

one of my favourite songs by one of my favourite artists & i discovered it through sure as shit by manybumblebees

20. last fic you read?

i’m currently sorting through my bookmarks & rereading a lot of my favourites haha, the last fic i read was one of my favourites carraville fics loss / loss / win by milleseptcent (i am a sucker for soulmate aus)

[callabang]

Tagged by @barebevil — pick ten nine pictures from your year that you absolutely love and tag ten people to do the same

It was harder to do this than I thought because of my no-face policy. But also fun to go back through the year :)

I tag anyone who wants to do this but ALSO @manybumblebees @fightingfuries @killjoys-makesomenoise @littleconnections @thesuninperigee @chevalric @love-leah @slowestdive @suleskerry

[grittyreadsfic]

hello my friends, one singular person asked for this weeks ago so i’m here with my most unhinged rec list yet: tk and nolan.

now, this one was hard to reign in, so i really didn’t. this pairing had maybe 230 fics in the tag when i first started reading hockey fic, and it’s now over 900, and i’ve read far too many of them, and that makes it so hard to parse it down. so i just...didn't!

so with that said, please enjoy so you want to get into tknp: a beginners guide to a classic case of idiots to lovers

i told myself that i couldn’t rec an author’s entire body of work but then i remembered this is my blog and i do what i want, so i did some consolidating. here’s a list of the quintessential authors for this pairing, you can start at any of their profiles and pick any of their fics at random, and it’ll be one of the best ones for the pairing, hands down.

therainbowsedge: i’d start with the summer camp fic, or the sex toys one, as both beautifully capture the true idiots to lovers nature of this pairing, but just top tier writing all around

manybumblebees: the wedding fic is so tender and port stanley is a classic, but literally pick any single fic and you’ll have a perfect tknp fic. i’m not kidding

jamesvanriemsdick: their tknp fics in their series are some of the hidden gems of this pairing (the tk heartbeat fic makes me LOSE it) but the delaware fic or the seattle fic…..there’s really something for every mood

catchascatchcan: start with era of gods because i could write literal essays on how it’s some of the best fantasy worldbuilding i’ve ever read, but then just read everything else on their account, including non tknp fics. you won’t regret it

hackysack: ao3 user hackysack has written one of two timeloop fics that i absolutely adore, and i thought about just calling that one out in particular, but all of their work deserves the attention

canary: nothing to prove was the first tknp fic i ever read and i was immediately hooked. all of their fics are a good starting place for the pairing, and just really give you a feeling for the pairing

and now, for the fic recs!

to be, despite it all by smudgedfreckles

summary: or, nolan patrick’s gender thesis, by travis konecny.

why i love it: there’s not a lot ofo nonbinary characters in media, even in fic, but this fic’s treatment of nolan and their path to figuring out their gender just feels so real and made me feel so seen. tk’s characterization is also just top notch, and it’s just a super sweet story about two people who love each other

last ones standing by makeit_takeit

summary: If you’re committed to finding your future spouse, reads the last line of the ad, and are ready to look at yourself and your love life in a whole new way, apply now.

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.”

He snorts out loud, just to show his apartment he hasn’t lost his grip on reality or anything; he fully understands how ludicrous that would be.

Then he clicks the link anyway, because yolo or whatever.

why i love it: what part of a married at first sight fic doesn’t make you want to immediately dive right in? the concept is fun, the execution is absolutely flawless, and it captures their dynamic so well while letting it develop naturally

motivation by connectknee

summary: 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.

why i love it: the thing i love about this pairing is that tk is loud and in your face, and nolan’s more reserved, a little quieter, a little harder to read. this fic does a really great job of exploring how tk could feel like maybe he’s just a bit too much and is one of my favorites in terms of miscommunication

a tenderness grows by rusesdeguerre

summary: Nolan wouldn’t say that landing a job as the Philadelphia Flyers’ psychotic and probably clinically insane mascot was a childhood dream of his. Maybe tangentially: playing pond hockey in –30°C weather and pretending to be Sidney Crosby is practically a rite of passage when you grow up in Manitoba. That, and experiencing the distinct displeasure that is thousands of mosquitoes sucking your blood out when your father drags you on a father-son camping trip into the backwoods of the northern Canadian Prairies.

why i love it: this was the first fic i recced on this blog, and i stand by that decision. a fic where nolan is not only not a hockey player, but is in fact the person in the gritty suit? absolutely perfect, and so charming from start to finish

meet me at my window by springsteen

summary: Travis has lived in Philadelphia for a few years now, long enough to know there isn’t a major city in America where superheroes don’t destroy an entire city block trying to save humanity or whatever. He can deal with all the super-shit, but Travis did not sign up for getting woken up from a deep sleep because some fucker’s trying to break in through his window.

(5 times the super-villain known as "The Cat" breaks into Travis's apartment, plus 1 time Travis invites him in.)

why i love it: there’s a lot of things to love here, but the concept is just absolutely one of my all time favorite aus ever. it’s fun and charming and the perfect glimpse into a world where heroes and villains exist, and what it’s like just to be a run of the mill kind of guy existing in it. tk and nolan’s back and forth in this make it so engaging, and it’s such a top tier fic

body’s in trouble by cloudsandpassingevents

summary: “Oh, sorry,” someone says. “Didn’t know anyone else was here.”

Nolan freezes, then turns around very slowly. When he looks up, Nicklas fucking Backstrom is standing behind him in a hoodie and baggy sweats, holding the biggest bag of Swedish Fish Nolan’s ever seen in his life in one hand.

“Uh,” Nolan says around the pop tart between his teeth. “Yeah.”

What the fuck, his brain helpfully supplies.

why i love it: from nolan’s inner voice, to the way the author explores all the dynamics within the team, to the way they write the unexpected but actually, it kind of makes sense friendship between nolan and backstrom, is just absolutely fantastic. there’s a lot of moments that circle back and build on each other in a way that really just makes it super compelling

rhizomatic foundations by lighthousetowers

summary: Twenty days after he moves in with Kevin Hayes, twenty days – three months, five months, depending on how you look at it – after not talking to TK, TK shows up at the front door with a plant the size of a basketball in his hands.

TK grins. "Patty, meet Reginald." He lifts up the plant. "Reggie, meet Patty. He's going to be your new - caretaker."

"What the fuck," says Nolan, not moving a single muscle.

Or: That Nolan can hear the plant talk might as well just happen.

why i love it: this is probably my favorite magical realism fic just about ever. it’s fun and charming and a little weird, but in the best possible way. there’s such a wonderful narrative in it, and lighthousetowers always has such beautiful writing, and it really shines in this one. the dialogue and nolan’s characterization are also part of what set it apart for me as one of the best tknp fics

in the dark of any town by mengetpegged

summary: If the voice has an accent at all, it’s a flat prairie Canadian, with none of G’s French-Canadian softness at the edges. But mostly, the accent is just ‘pissed off,’ which TK believes is a default setting for ghosts.

“Who are you?” TK asks, and he doesn’t like how strained his voice sounds, doesn’t like the tinge of anxiety tinting the rise of his question. He tries to regulate his breaths—in through his nose, hold, out through his mouth—but it feels like he’s not getting enough oxygen, which makes him panic even more.

“Someone with a fucking migraine, dickhead,” the voice says. “So keep the lights off and shut the hell up.”

(or: Nolan Patrick, Hotel X Ghost)

why i love it: i’m usually not super into ghost fics, both the spooky kind and the nonspooky kind, but this one is a rare exception. it’s charming and fun and tender and it’s got some of, in my opinion, the best characterization of tk and nolan in any fic. the way the author writes their dynamic and their dialogue is just unmatched

lets_make_this_moment_a_crime.mp3 by honeydripping

summary: Travis meets Nolan at a Midtown show in 2002 when he punches Nolan in the face. He can’t help it, “Like A Movie” just goes off.

But he does feel guilty about it.

or

TK and Patty work at a bakery together. They go to punk shows to pass the time.

why i love it: idk if anyone asked for an early 2000s emo/punk/alt au but wow! i sure am glad it exists! really the vibes of this fic, as silly as that sounds, are absolutely unmatched. i love the structure with the music, the development of their relationship, and just everything about how the author wrote the setting (there’s this whole thing with tattoos in it that makes me feel absolutely insane)

you’re ripped at every edge by you’re a masterpiece by conformityissuicide

summary: “Ugh, look, this yoga teacher has it out for me, man. And I can’t go back there without at least having some of the basics down. I’ve got to win this battle.”

“Yoga isn’t really something you win at,” Hartsy starts.

Travis cuts him off, “You can win at anything if you try hard enough.”

+++

OR that time Nolan's a grumpy yoga teacher and Travis realizes he wants to bone him and prove him wrong about Travis' non-existent yoga abilities.

why i love it: listen, if you want tknp, at least one of them has to be an idiot, and this tk absolutely captures the obliviousness i love to see in him in fic. it’s such a great characterization of them both and such a great concept (and even better execution)

you form a terror pack (and i’m aware of that) by dalmatienne

summary: “Can I help you?” TK snarks, both eyebrows hiked up in a way that has earned her many elbow checks to the ribs.

The chick looks down her nose, long thick eyelashes fluttering. Red-bitten lips part to blow a florid pink bubble and TK can smell the chemical sweetness when it pops.

“Yeah,” she says in this monotonous voice that seems almost at odds with her bubble gum and neon skates. She jams her stopper into TK’s thigh again, literally inches away from where it’d really hurt. “Tie ‘em.”

why i love it: to be honest, i generally don’t read rule 63 within hrpf, but this one is just absolutely knocks it out of the park. the concept (i fuckin’ love roller derby), the characterization of nolan, the pacing, the rituals, the tone of the entire fic, it’s just all around a perfect read from start to finish

thrills and grills by bitter_leaf

summary: Travis can’t even begin to wonder what he did in a previous life to incur the wrath of this fucking cook. Travis thinks he’s a nice person, doesn’t conduct himself in any way that could be considered particularly dickish, and unless this guy has some sort of issue with hockey bros or people from the boonies, he’s not sure how he started shit without even knowing.

__

Patty has a vendetta. Travis just wants to eat his eggs in peace.

why i love it: honestly this is the enemies to lovers fic i’ve been waiting for. i remember seeing the reddit post when it first went viral and thinking it would make such a great fic premise, so stumbling across this one was just so wonderful. super engaging and fun and so hilarious to read!

nothing but room for you by fightingfuries

summary: When his agent tells him he’s going to be traded to the Devils, Nolan isn't sure how he feels about it. Might be easier if he was going somewhere farther away, like California or fucking Florida. Somewhere sun-soaked and foreign. Someplace so different from Philadelphia that he can forget he ever played for the Flyers, forget everything that happened there.

Or Nolan fucks up, gets traded, gets his shit together and falls in love. Not necessarily in that order.

why i love it: i cannot stress to you how much i love trade fics, and this one is one of my absolute favorites. the trade to the devils-so close to philly, still, but there’s more to distance than physical miles-was such an excellent choice and the split timeline adds so much to the narrative, and the emotions are real and messy and complicated in the best way

a couple of runaways (i’m glad you stayed) by overturnedgoal

summary: The person in the video he’s watching is super annoying. Some obnoxious holier than thou granola type who keeps talking about their environmental impact as if they aren’t driving a gas guzzler around, but the basic idea of living in a van, driving around wherever, camping all the time, just going hiking and swimming and seeing the whole country? It sounds pretty dope, honestly.

why i love it: i like to watch tours and conversions of vans/buses into tiny homes as a self soothing method, and this fic has the same impact that watching those do. it’s such a fun concept, and it’s so fuckin’ soft, and the dialouge between tk and nolan is just *chef’s kiss*

all candor and style in the crook of your smile by p3trichor

summary: 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. Except Travis’s phone freezes momentarily and then the group refreshes, sidcros87, Bert59 and 14 others took a screenshot!

It’s gone before Travis even has time to process it and he already wasted his replay of the day on a stupid video of a stupid fish that Hayes caught.

Can you send me that screenshot Travis texts Bertuzzi before he can overthink it, his dick already stirring in his sweats. Tuzzi sends back the cry-laughing emoji and then the screenshot before Travis can be too annoyed at him.

Or, Nolan is being weird about Travis's break-up and TK is maybe not straight.

why i love it: i genuinely don’t think i have words for the amount i love this fic. it took me forever to actually read, but it’s absolutely one of my favorite fics, and it’s an absolutely riot to read. carter’s meddling and the presence of tyler bertuzzi both make it extra fun, in my humble opinion

[white-spirit-of-darkness]

see this is why i've been thinking about changing my url, it's too bloody long

but anyway, hey @sabotage-on-mercury thanks for the tag! i'll do my best

pick a song for each letter of your url, then tag that many people

w - work song by hozier

h - heaven by troye sivan

i - i'm like a lawyer with the way i'm trying to get you off (me and you) by fall out boy

t - time flies by z berg

e - exile ft. bon iver by taylor swift

s - social climb by i don't know how but they found me

p - pompeii by bastille

i - i have friends in holy spaces by panic! at the disco

r - rose-colored boy by paramore

i - i'd be fine (if i never saw you again) by all time low

t - the things we used to share by thomas sanders

o - one day robots will cry by cobra starship

f - fair by the amazing devil

d - dernière danse by kyo

a - azul by cristian castro

r - rollercoaster by bleachers

k - kill all your friends by my chemical romance

n - no me compares by alejandro sanz

e - everything we had by the academy is

s - some nights by fun

s - someday's gone by the all-american rejects

i did my best to not repeat any artist, figured it would be more interesting that way

if y'all wanna do this, cool, if not, no pressure

@stillebesat @manybumblebees @phaniji @estrogengerard @greenninjagal-blog @the-sleepy-raven @abadbadbrujah @philsmeatylegss @part-time-deranged @sgstrider

thanks for the tag @ineffabildaddy <3

pick a song for each letter of your URL, and then tag that many people

tried to choose the first song in my head without repeating artists

s - sabotage by beastie boys

a - angel or small death and codeine scene by hozier

b - burn it down by linkin park

o - one way or another by blondie

t - the fruits by paris paloma

a - apocalypse by cigarettes after sex

g - good old-fashioned lover boy by queen

e - everybody's changing by keane

o - overwhelmed by royal and the serpent

n - no light, no light by florence and the machine

m - my name is human by highly suspect

e - everybody wants to rule the world from tears for fears

r - R U mine? by arctic monkey

c - champagne problems by taylor swift

u - undisclosed desires by muse

r - raise hell from brandi carlile

y - you want it darker from leonard cohen

no-pressure-tagging: @foolishlovers @weasleywrinkles @lineffability @crawley-fell @unicornbeck @white-spirit-of-darkness @teddybearbutchh @lemon-tart-221 @spyghetti13 @tortugay @noblogname765 @faintforestmelody @lizzisgeek @crowleybrekkers @mysticaleyeliner @junee-e @stab-of-hunger

[saint-patrice]

when you go onto ao3 to see a new 23.4k tk/nolan fic and think... maybe there is a god

[oh-fuckberries]

Entirely new to hockey,, and the mount of RPF fics out there is daunting,,, any fic recs? (I don't really care about the pairing atm but quality content 😌)

hello, sorry for taking so long to answer this! i've loved plenty of fics, but these ones are my absolute faves. they vary in length from a few thousand words to 150k+, and from fluffity fluff to steamy porn. i will not be shamed.

ok, so i'm gonna put these by pairing

Patrick Kane/Jonathan Toews - Like You Have a Secret by Linsky - Beer League MVP (among other things) by orphan_account - Trust Fall by trademarkgiggle

Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin - i've run out of places to run by amosanguis - talk to me, baby by CloudCover (RainyForecast) - And Never Been Kissed by thehoyden, twentysomething - Once Upon A Dream - omelet - The Sheriff of Consol by james - Pass It On by knight_tracer, thefourthvine - This is my game and you better come to play by sheyrenawyrsabane (+ /Alex Ovechkin)

Travis Konecny/Nolan Patrick - save your first and last dance for me by manybumblebees - Last Ones Standing by makeit_takeit - The Most Dangerous Game by Mellow_Yellow - purrda boys by arzoensis - a tenderness grows by rusesdeguerre - Kitten Play by iaintafraidofnoghostbear (+ /Claude Giroux) (I recommend all of iaintafraidofnoghostbear's works very strongly, they write incredible porn) - peg city, bitch by Jongley (+ /Kevin Hayes)

Nicklas Backstrom/Alexander Ovechkin - Whatever happened to all this season's losers of the year by Thorne - The Washington Cat-pitals by Fourthlinewinger, saltlicorice - A Long, Long Getaway by McSpot (i also highly recommend anything by mcspot, they are a creative genius and i worship the ground they walk on)

Various Other Ships - Eyes on me by Vidriana (Henrik Lundqvist/William Nylander) - Rats R Us by McSpot, scribe-tuesday (Leofuller) (Johnny Gaudreau/Kevin Hayes, Matthew Tkachuk/Jake Virtanen) - Non-Traditional A/B/O by whitchbhitch (Michael Latta/Tom Wilson) - coiled and tucked by paperdolls (J. T. Compher/Tyson Jost) - Stockholm Therapy by barefootstarz (J. T. Compher/Tyson Jost/Alexander Kerfoot) - it only gets sweeter by sevener (OMC / OMC)

Gen - Catch and Release by McSpot (Mario Ferraro-centric)

i'm also going to promo myself, because i'm working on being more positive with myself and i think my writing's good, dammit. hope you enjoy these recs!