#marcheron

[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 8: marcheron + film noir au 🔍

[youbeautyyy]

sooooo picture this: I’m wine drunk. I’m in Boston. the Bs won in OT at home so the energy at the alumni game is already INSANE. they announce the team, including Patron Saint of Boston Patrice Bergeron. I’m on fire. and then they start listing the stats for the honorary assistant coach for the alumni team. slowly, I start to put it together even in my buzzed state.

anyways, long way of saying that I was SURPRISED IN PUBLIC WHILE INTOXICATED WITH BRAD MARCHAND and then with some absolutely prime BergyMarchy behavior:

fully in Bergy’s lap, no hesitation from either of them, just the most natural thing in the world. they’re incapable of not being hockey soulmates; where one is, you’ll find the other 🫶

[maxz-b]

back for more we're already on part 7 out of ???

[rpfshippingpolls]

⚠️ DON’T START DISCOURSE ABOUT RPF IN THE NOTES!! YOU WILL BE BLOCKED IF YOU DO SO ⚠️

Do you ship it?

Reason:

“sb who follows the bruins more might be able to give a better advert than me but!!! marchand sat on bergeron's knee at the alumni game and said that it felt like a force of habit for him to sit there! they had a mock wedding dance together at one of their teammates's wedding (to the routine of one of their other teammates's wedding dance) to shallow by lady gaga and kissed each other on the MOUTH.”

[rinkrat63]

in honor of a 100 years of bruins hockey 🥰

[lovelycrow-1]

37 + 63

[gaybroons]

No one talk to me for three days

[youwillfindilluminating]

this is what they look like walking down the aisle right after they get married 💍

[reverselayupz]

When Bergy said “Marchy, my boy” he was 100% right

[k-ky]

for @gaybroons hehe bergy and marchy kissy

[adelphenium]

your coloring is so beautiful I don’t even know how to explain it like your understanding of light and anatomy makes me want to sob because it’s just so pretty 😭😭 I’m not sure if you take rqs or not but if you do would you be willing to draw Angry Greaseball Brad Marchand & Perfect Angel Patrice Bergeron / flower? anyway I just wanted to tell you how amazing your art is 🫶🫶🫶

dearest sweet anon.

this request intrigued me so much that i got carried away and ended up making a whole comic based entirely off of this legendary post by @cats0p and @ghostgeno .......

thank you for the req and your kind words :,)!!!!

[patrice-bergerons]

Not to get lost in the narratives and such, but I think it's a wild thing to take a young player with fire in his belly who will be the first to admit that he was never even the best player in his junior teams made it to the NHL it's because he clawed his way thru via any means necessary, and to tell him, I want you to look at this example of all things beautiful about hockey, and do everything exactly as he does it.

And how all of that, instead of breeding resentment can turn into devotion. I'm thinking of faith and how Bergy will be the first to talk about all the ways in which Marchy made his game better, of two people who pushed and balanced and completed each other, who worked so well because they were so different in so many ways, two people who would suck at being each other. And what happens when, you say now you take over. Now you lead, on your own.

And I guess I'm also thinking of that 22 year old with a chip on his shoulder who was told: you will never be the best player on ice as long as he is on the ice, so I want you to be second best.

[blindbatalex]

bruins hrpf recs from the server #5

Hello again! The theme for this week was ✨ a fic that broke your heart ✨ Below are our recs:

rec lists so far: || week 4 || week 3 || week 2 || week 1 ||

A (Little) Slice of Heaven by Anonymous || willypasta || 11,541 words || reccer's notes: this fic rewired my brain. I read it months and months and months ago and I have yet to recover. 11/10 I come back to it way more than I probably should

(and i’ve got a plane to catch) you drove me all the way back by @fvcking-damage || mcgryz || 2,862 words || reccer's notes: this is some self-indulgent mcgryz angst i wrote a couple of years ago, idk what i was writing out with this one but. yeah

and turns to dust by adjacently || Jordan Eberle/Taylor Hall || 2,130 words || reccer's notes: i can eat taylor hall angst for breakfast, lunch, and dinner

between your love and mine by @blindbatalex || willypasta || 6,360 words || reccer's notes: This is a story about trying to reconcile two sides of your identity that are at irreconcilable conflict with one another, and what having your wings clipped like that at a young age does to a person.  I certainly broke my own heart while writing it.

dancing by @rasksmoustache || marcheron || 1,111 words || reccer's notes: This fic is so vivid and visceral and sad, it permanently altered my brain chemistry.  Unrequited (but is it really?) marcheron which gets the feeling of loving someone and being just a little too late so so well

Done & Undone by @ghostgeno || marcheron || 14,428 words || reccer's notes: 2023 Game 7, the aftermath. Fair warning: I don’t reread this very often because of how effectively it puts you in Brad’s headspace immediately after the game, in brutal, excruciating detail. And yet. And yet. If you feel like being taken apart and then put back together, if you want to feel all the loss and tenderness and love that remains despite the loss, read this fic.

good at secrets by @fridgefishwrites || prefix boys; mcgryz || 4,017 words || reccer's notes: this fic meant (and means) so much to me because it just gets what trying to live your life and build something beautiful while faced with unrelenting homophobia is like.  I love the non-linear narrative and the prefix boys but it was always Matt who stole the show for me in this story

like a stranger by blindbatalex || marcheron || 13,142 words || reccer's notes: not a fic alex hasn't read before (sorry bud) but i'm Obsessed with fics where the characters talk past each other and the angst compounds and this fic is a perfect example of that, amongst other things!!!

make no apologies by @sphesphe || marcheron || 3,757 words || reccer's notes: Brad gets himself suspended before the Winter Classic and Patrice takes it harder than he thinks he should.  He plays it off as fine, things happen, just be better Marchy but it isn't true. He's angry. After the game, Brad stops by, they have a talk and lo and behold, feelings emerge! (And much more!)

Sixth Borough by bookhousegirl || Jimmy Hayes/Frank Vatrano || 3,067 words || reccer's notes: The third in a trilogy of fics featuring this pairing. This is a very quiet little vignette featuring two former Bruins who were not stars and did not end up experiencing great success in their time here. It exists entirely in the gray of adult complications and disappointments, and refuses any easy catharsis, and is beautiful for those reasons. For those of us who cared about the Bruins in the (relatively) dismal era between 2015-17 it may come across as a tiny time capsule; for everyone else, I hope the delicate way it honors the hopes and dreams of those who don’t become hometown heroes, who don’t get the happily everafter ending, stays with you.

Westward Expansion by bookhousegirl || Jimmy Hayes/Frank Vatrano || 3,625 words || reccer's notes: Jimmy stares out vacantly at the coaster climbing the track. “Just because we’re from the same place doesn’t mean we’re from the same place.” When Frank takes Jimmy to Six Flags, he expects it to be a fun day, showing Jimmy all the rides he used to love growing up. Jimmy is distracted though, melancholy because Frank has so much promise and Jimmy took so long to get to where he is.

Wolverine Feed by @sphesphe || swaymark || 10,659 words || reccer's notes: fic that makes me ill each and every time i think about it

[youbeautyyy]

anyone else see these shots from the centennial on the bruins facebook and then get hit with a wave of emotion so strong that they just sat in their car and stared for 10 minutes while waiting for their target pickup order? anyone else feel so fucking soft and warm about these giant men looking like wide-eyed kids again? anyone else feel so goddamn romantic about the entire ceremony and hockey magic? about Marchand and Bergeron being immortalized for all the next hundred years in this fucking celebration?

no? just me?

[lindholmline]

i’m mentally unstable