#moregraceful

[mattstrahm]

Trea, 44!!

you've put me in a real situation with this one haven't you. inspired by Scene Queen, Set It Off - Barbie & Ken ... content warning; graphic depictions of murder :)

Send me a ship and a number from 1-100 and I’ll write a short ficlet inspired by the corresponding song in my wrapped top 100

He flexes his hand around the baseball bat, the leather of his glove squeaks and he adjusts the mask covering his face. One good swing and he can get out of here. Well... The man has no idea what’s coming, focused on counting the bullets in the magazine, and Trea prays he doesn’t turn around, it’ll only make this harder. He rears the bat behind his head.

The crack echoes in the hall. Trea doesn’t know if it was the bat or the skull of the man now on the ground like an abandoned toy. He kneels over the body and hesitates for a second, before reaching for the broken beer bottle in the trash can under the table.

“This one’s personal,” he whispers, pushing the man’s unconscious body to be face down on the ground. Trea pulls his head up by his hair and places the sharp edge of broken glass on his neck. He takes a deep breath and pulls, hard, slicing his neck open. The blood sprays across the floor and makes a wet splat when Trea drops the man’s head into the puddle that’s forming. He leaves the bottle next to the man, picks up his bat and leaves.

[crossbackpoke-check]

18 + swaymark!!

oooo thank you!!

#18 - pleaser, wallows + swaymark

okay i know they are canonically obsessed with each other but. the song is in some ways about feeling like you’re failing in your relationship and being not quite as obsessed with them as they maybe are with you, and in this video of them talking about being a tandem, there is the slightest pause before swayman answers “do you miss him?” that makes me want to probe a wound. we’re not talking irl reasons of how that’s an absurd question (how do you miss him. you’re coworkers you’re seeing each other all the time) we’re talking that maybe this whole goalies-in-love thing got blown out of proportion and now swayman’s having to buy into the bit too hard. linus loves it & everyone’s asking about their bromance & how they love each other so much and the thing is—linus is safe. he’s got a wife and plausible deniability and jeremy? jeremy is gay. sure, he can crack jokes and people-please but the more people ask the more they're going to find out until maybe they find out something jeremy doesn't want them to know. and the longer this goes on, the more jeremy has to sit at linus' dinner table with linus and his beautiful wife and pretend like he isn't a little bit in love with him. and you know what? the longer it goes on and linus doesn't dial it down jeremy does stop being in love with him, because it just feels cruel, until he finally is done enough that he stops biting his tongue and ruins the moment.

[shanewright]

ahl > nhl

[fossore]

Ok I was looking for something completely different in Sheng Peng’s tweets but this presented itself to me so I guess it’s just that kind of day

Saw an old picture of Cooch playing wordle with the sharks equipment manager and I have got to ask. Is he a word games guy. Was he pulled into it or do you think he instigated. Does he have a NYT games account.

There is no reason you should know but I feel like your augury will be closer than anyone else I can think of (or at least more fun)

WELL. He had a book club during the pandemic so canonically he can read and loves to share literacy. And Wordle is a good game not just because it works your brain but also bc you have a limited number of chances before you legally have to go to idiot jail, which for a man as chronically depressed as Cooch, it does feel like he would enjoy the challenge. I bet he has an NYT game account. I bet bro loves the honey comb one.

This is giving me a perfect excuse to talk about one of my favorite articles from Corey Masisak's tenure with the Sharks: the Sharkies' lil nerd ass bookclub. You may have read this already bc you've been in these trenches but here are my favorite excerpts. There's a lot of Reimer in the article and while I don't care for the man or his politics, he does have some fascinating insight into why the Sharks are cringe nerds (so much travel time)

He likes to share books with guys on the team!! He's the team librarian!! Drop your book talk Cooch I wanna see something. It actually tracks because every librarian I've ever worked with was deeply and chronically mentally ill. This is why we need more mundane workplace aus that aren't coffeeshop aus.

in my sexiest imagine, Logan is an extremo depressed burnt out librarian and Thomas Bordeleau is the guy who has to do community service due to getting arrested for idk stealing a doctor's prescription pad and starting a black market estrogen prescription economy. And now he has to just, teach Bordy how to read so Bordy can pull holds. And its not making Logan less depressed.

Logan Couture 🤝 Bryce Harper: reading pulp novels so they can get away from the horrors of being an athlete. Wait let me cook. What if I was an athlete who read copaganda novels and you were an athlete who read hockey romance novels...and we never even met

The thing about John Grisham, Jimmy Pat, and Lee Child is that the people who checked out those books the most ofte at my library were like 80 year old women, who would read approximately 7-10 books a week. From this we can conclude Cooch is an old woman. Do you think he does the kinds of fiber arts crafts you have to learn from a book and not a Tiktok

This excerpt isn't about Cooch but I feel its critical knowledge: Pickles hasn't read a book in at least 3-4 years

The real bomb we're throwing here is if Pickles doesn't read books but does do the NYT crossword puzzle every day and has a streak. I mean maybe he's doing like, my first crossword puzzle for kids, but EYE like thinking about him seriously working on the Sunday crossword for an entire flight. I would say he completes it perfectly but he made fun of Nick Bonino's ereader and made Nick got mad as hell and EXPOSED him

Words are still words you're SO right king. It's not about the format or the length or the type of book you read. It's about reading . Because to read, to use your words, to engage in the action of imagination, education, storytelling and build, is to live. And I include nonfiction in that. And also audiobooks.

Also thank you for your kind words about my augury, that really made me smile 💙💙🦈🦈

[puckpocketed]

hello i was tagged by @18minutemajor for WIP Wednesday. it is not Wednesday but i am also not a cop so . here we gooo!!!!!!! tagging my esteemed colleagues (very politely and with no pressure!!!):

@neonfretra @oensible @sorrellegiance @moregraceful @stereax

@wheelsnipecelebrini

@korshrimpski (EDIT: it won’t?? let me tag you. unless these are on separate lines <3)

what's in-progress in your life <3 writing? art? recipe? skill acquisition?

if any crafty people see this - if ANYONE sees this - and would like to join in, feel free and consider yourself tagged <3 (and tag me back so i can see your stuff!!!) link to 18minutemajor's post if yall curious :3 my VERY long wip dump + ramblings under the cut!

its christmas soon and i like to paint gifts for my friends + and i'm finally revisiting my anime/lineart/inking era (here you are K!! my lineart past, present, and future!! <3) so here are some things i've been working on/coming back to/MAY NEVER FINISH: hockey related:

this is juraj slafkovsky and his dinky little middle part which he can absolutely learn to style into something a little less dinky but never does. i am so charmed by him. i imagine he just rocks it because his pretty privilege supersedes dinky middle parts . LMAO!!

here is Sasuke from my Naruto Hockey AU. I am a little stuck on jersey mockups lol. here he is. our haunted little 1OA who is absolutely normal and regular about his captain (LOUD incorrect buzzer):

personal oc art

wanna know some puckpocketed deep lore? i've never been one to make OCs. i was just not a very creative kid tbh. spent all my time drawing sailor moon instead. i still go back to her sometimes because she is one of my favourite shapes in the WORLD!!

in my 20s i took up playing d&d because of the. uh. plague. <3 and got pretty close to having OCs!! those count right? anyway. here is my tavern-wench-turned-wizard!!! i think i painted this 2 years ago? <- put dates on your works guys it saves lives. her name is Mel (short for Melins (pronounced like melons. on account of her knockers. can you tell i never grew out of my 12 yr old booby/cock joke era?) i revisited Mel recently and have started painting her in earnest again!! :3

I briefly dated someone who was very into streetwear and fashion, and I fell down a techwear/gorpcore/cyberpunk rabbit hole for a couple days out of curiosity. i remember literally zero salient info on any of it except the broad strokes of silhouetting and Vibes. what i emerged with, however, was a ?? sorta OC?? im not sure what to call them. they dont rly have a name or gender. I did this little sheet ages ago + the aborted attempt at a portrait later:

Here are my most recent explorations (i have been doing SOOOO much art. <3) which include:

unfinished character sheet + chibi art. I played with their jacket (much more structured/square/tailored thing) and added a lotta random buckles and belts. i took textiles class years ago and have a little experience in garment construction. and i know for a fact this thing does not make any sense. it hurts me to look at a little bit LMAO so i've paused it while i go draft patterns (badly. i was never good at drafting. i think i may have to break out my scrap fabric stash and hand sew a real life mock-up. HELP!)

here is me having fun with them and imagining them as some kind of cyber-fisherman. the best part of every game is the fishing mini-game to me. i love fishing mini-games so much. I made their hair really big because i wanted them to have big unwieldy hair and the vibes told me i should add more movement to the piece aside from the fishing line. I messed with their jacket AGAIN because i can't stop thinking about what kinda jacket they'd wear. gorp-core ? idk. it sure is something!

gifts for my friends :3

back in my weeb era for real YAYYYY!!! up til now i'd been making hockey art using a zero pressure sensitivity pen brush because i simply did NOT want to deal with that. it is and has always been a barrier to me making art that uses line art. <3 easing my way back into it though!

I used to paint gifts for my friends and then get them printed into lil posters and mount them on nice backing :3 i am now ready and back to painting.

Here is my girlbestie's OC. just a rough pose sketch. i think im pretty unsatisfied with the gesture of the head/hand. i wanted to include her gun in some way. i fear i may have to rework the pose entirely <3

For the genshin girlies.. here are some of my friends fave characters.

Yelan - this one i started many holidays ago and put on the backburner because the colouring was wigging me out. you can see where i started rendering stuff + got sidetracked and started on something else (the crystal choker IM LAUGHING @ past me...)

Ayaka - I reaaally like what i did here with the perspective + foreshortening. I don't know if the pose or expression is in-character or not, but i had fun :3 got stunlocked looking at references of genshin weapons so this is where i left off:

if you made it all the way down here hi... <3 ice hockey really cracked the ketchup bottle open for me when it comes to making art again. i love the communities i've found, and i'm inspired by every artist on here every day. thanks for being so cool + have a great day :)

[knitpurlgoal]

WIP Wednesday- knitting, spinning, writing

Knitting

Sharkuda gnome

Hat for Louise

Sweater for Adam

Spinning

Monet inspired merino rolags (electric eel wheel nano)

Palate cleanser (Turkish spindle)

Writing

Sharkuda prompt meme: ekky, keebs, sharkie

Mack & Will team puppies

[work] staff report

[work] (resource) management annex

I wanna see/ hear about what other people are doing!

@moregraceful @neonfretra @18minutemajor and anyone else who sees this and wants to share?

[soyouwinagain]

tagged by @zweizimtsterne to post six pictures from my camera roll from the last week (except the best photos would doxx me massively and/or be spoilers for a snecret project so here's the redacted version) <3

pride & prejudice reread | pumpkin soup | sugar on stinky clothes | best leberkässemmel in the world | wiesn | miracles do happen (train one minute early)

tagging @mattstrahm, @juergenklopp, @beehtml, @notthequiettype & @moregraceful if you want to :)

[hopetorun]

🎤 maggie with the cup final in play, i have ogwacs on the brain. who are your guys who haven't won that you would most love to see get one before all is said and done? we won't define an ogwac as strictly as most, so i'd say like. if we feel like they've been around forever and they're like 30 at least we can call them an ogwac for this exercise!

oh gosh!!!! there's such an assortment of guys that i've been fond of over the years for various and sundry reasons so in no particular order of fondness but starting with oh let's say the strongest contender on the list

pomo!! you didn't say i could include non-players but i am anyway, i think he's earned the title. two scfs more than twenty years apart gets you on my list

jeff skinner revenge tour. i don't think this requires explaining. i can't believe i have to root for the sabres but christ. if there's anyone in the league who deserves it. my only comfort here is that the previous record holder for most gp without any playoff games got traded to a contender as a deadline rental and promptly won the cup that year. only good thing the p*ns have ever done for me.

taylor hall. he's one of my longest-tenured favorite guys and like. man what a rough go of it he's had since 2018. also before 2018. but i had such a blast watching him when i was first getting into hockey and i think he deserves nice things.

jordan eberle. he was never quite the same level of special guy for me but i would truly be so stoked. kr*ken stop being cowards and make him captain.

justin faulk. one of my guys!! not on the blues though. i would bust out my old extremely stained faulk jersey in his honor!

someone on twitter pointed out that if the cats win, oel will be the person player to win the cup while on the canucks payroll which i do unfortunately think is very funny. anyway i love a comeback story AND that man did his time in the wars (coyotes org) so i think that would be a lovely cap on a rough few years

honestly most of the core players from the sharks mid-teens teams. some exceptions apply. that team was so bananas good for so long and not only did they never win, i don't think any of them have even gone on to successfully cup chase anywhere else? rough. i think pavs' likely retirement leaves burns as the only guy who was really there for all of it, assuming @moregraceful told me correctly that couture is probably a perpetual LTIR guy now, and burns took a step back this season in a way that has me wondering if father time is finally coming for him. anyway it's a bummer. and on that note

erik karlsson. god i can't root for the p*ns for it but i've been fond of him for so long! yet another man who has been in the wars. one of us, etc

claude giroux. because i've had to see that goddamn quote about how he thought he'd have plenty more chances at the cup back in 2010 and he's literally never even made it back to the final. good god man

john hock. i've enjoyed his work for years (he's actually the reason the flames ended up as one of my higher ranked sure i'll put that game on teams)

dylan larkin is only 27 but like. spiritually.

i would love for sam gagner to cap his baffling, delightful resume with a cup. but not this year.

roman josi. i was hardcore pulling for the preds the season they made the final 😭

yes i did go through every roster for this. yes i did find several old guys without cups where i was like, no i want him to stay that way.

[gulabsjamun]

For any fic writer looking for inspiration this holiday season: here's a hrpf prompt advent calendar to help you! Do as many or as little as you want.

Tag it #hrpfadvent24 so @moregraceful and I can see! Happy writing!!

[selkiefinalist]

4, 10, and 20 for the fic rec ask game?

4. favorite rarepair fic? i’m trying to rec fics i haven’t before so please allow me recommend off-season acquisition by @moregraceful a sharks goalie4goalie that is soooo tender (and tender-horny) that also hints at a morning kitchen scene at the end and honestly there’s nothing like extreme tenderness followed by a good morning kitchen scene to make me want to scream and cry and shake my fists at the heavens, which this did

10. a fic that made you laugh? go for lost in foreign lands (nate/ej) a fic which i am sure i have talked about before but hoping it was on the old deleted url, which has the most unhinged, well-executed, delightful premise

20. last fic you read? here are two, very different: who can grow me by @crosbyism (matthew & brady tkachuk and mind the ‘&’ if you’re hoping for sibcest), read it recently and have yet to properly recommend it so now i’m rectifying that injustice!! be prepared for feelings

and it would be a sin not to sin (dunn/larssen) by @tapedsleeves which was a delicious slice of established relationship D/s (light) which honestly i don’t see in combination that often

[crossbackpoke-check]

♾️!

shuffle said “your apartment” by wallows!!

Who said / I don’t understand or that I probably don’t remember / Time in the palm of your hand / we both let go together

&

Who’s been tryin’ to get their signal sent? / I promise I get your sentiment / I wonder who’s been at your apartment?

not like. lyrically the greatest song but i love that there’s a storyline that runs through the first few songs of the album and the ways they reference each other (you called me over to your apartment, whose signal sent? -> you can call me anytime -> i know you’re calling after me). shout out also to the pre-chorus pauses for questionable punctuation and interpretation because it’s one of my favorite things when the inflection and performance can change the meaning of the lyrics!!

[bakingblues]

Thank you to @sl0wdiver for the tag! <3 I tag @justkisa @serve-cunt @mysticaltramping @moregraceful @jenkinsknope <3

1. Do you make your bed?

Absolutely!

2. Favourite number?

13 because it's my birthday.

3. What's your job?

It's really just emails!

4. If you could go back to school, would you?

Christ, no. I like the idea of learning more, but not in a structured educational environment. I want to go to courses and learn how to spin yarn, I want to be taught how to read tarot, I want to know the name of every plant and flower I see on my river walks. Just not in a school please.

5. Can you parallel park?

Barely, but if there is no other option I'll give it a whirl and humiliate myself and everyone watching. The other year I had to park V's car and was making such a hash of it our neighbour peered in to see if I was okay, we were both so embarrassed.

6. Do you think aliens are real?

It seems unlikely they aren't.

7. Can you drive a manual car?

I hate driving anything but a manual car.

8. Guilty pleasure?

When you get to my age no pleasure is guilty and you learn to embrace the joy in everything that makes your heart swell.

9. Tattoos?

I have two Jimmy Eat World tattoos and one Alkaline Trio one. It's not that I regret any of them per se, but the Jimmy one on my ankle I wish I'd chosen different lyrics and different font.

10. Favourite colour?

Yellow!

11. Favourite type of music?

I mostly listen to pop punk, punk rock, pop, and sad girl singer songwriters.

12. Do you like puzzles?

I like doing crosswords with V whilst we're cooking and with E & M & R curled up on a sofa in R's living room.

13. Any phobias?

Trypophobia is the closest I have. I get very very uncomfortable, especially if the holes are photoshopped onto the human body.

14. Favourite childhood sport?

I played netball a lot until I started to be bullied and then quickly stopped.

15. Do you talk to yourself?

Hmm, yes.

16. Tea or coffee?

Earl Grey tea. Weak, no milk and no sugar, please!

17. First thing you wanted to be when growing up?

I honestly cannot remember. For a very short minute I'd wanted to be a horologist and I wish I'd pursued that.

18. What movies do you adore?

My absolute favourite film is unironically The Devil Wears Prada.

[tapedsleeves]

tagged by @hckyrcl

Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then, tag as many people as you have WIPs.

helleytiney

tknp

sand inside that hourglass

chlb 2fic2furious

i'll be your man

untitled

now i gotta tagggggggg uh 6 people

@moregraceful @lurlur @stereax @puckpocketed @selkiesmile and YOU. yeah you. i love you and want to include you. Ty.

[teekays]

thank you @hckyrcl for the tag !!!

Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then, tag as many people as you have WIPs.

okay let's see.....

philly's ONLY gay romance computer repair

a bitch might start quacking

the pet project

girlllll dot com (vip room)

havasu

blockbuster

cuda restaurant au

mcstroming it

all star games indeed

arranged marriage au

tagging ummm @tofumilanesa @whoredeleau @moregraceful @cullthedeer @txstars and anyone else who wants to do it because i'm not tagging that many people lol peace and love

[moregraceful]

complaining to beryl and j about being bored and hobbyless while actively pondering what a comment amnesty week would look like. just kas moregraceful things

[hopetorun]

Continuing the topic of winner's room fic, it's mentioned that it's known that there are guys around the league who use it for recurring hook-ups... are the identities of these guys known (by you, by their teams, by Matthew and/or Leon?) It's SUCH a fun verse and I really like the world-building you've given us, especially with the traditional vs non-traditional teams' approach to the room!

(but also oof poor Matthew, with his not great experiences, I hope he and Leon continue to talk about it and he gets cuddled, and Leon, heart on his sleeve guy that he is, gets cuddled too because someone hurting his favorite guy makes him upset! actually!)

i honestly didn’t have any particular guys in mind! while i was thinking about how i wanted the winner’s room to fit into the culture of the sport and how i wanted people to feel and act around it i thought SO much about what kasper @moregraceful did with Fragments, and especially about how much i liked the background details of different people’s relationships to the ritual sex. there’s this one line that’s like, well if those guys need the ritual of the winner’s room to be a little freaky together that can be their thing (this is SO loosely paraphrased but i can’t find the line easily on my phone), and i wanted to capture that people do all kinds of stuff with the opportunity to have a little ritual sex!

anyway i think they probably both know a couple of people who do that and that teammates can probably guess sometimes? and ofc how obvious they are about it is gonna depend on team culture. but i didn’t have anyone in mind so feel free to put your personal favorite guys in that situation 😂😂😂

to be honest leon’s experiences, while fewer and without the rookie season edge, are also not great — neither of them is exactly a sex ritual enthusiast. matthew makes the best of it with his friends but he’s definitely had some guys wanting to put him in his place experiences. leon’s had less of that but he isn’t as comfortably with casually demanding blowjobs from his juniors buddies, and is overall even less inclined to engage in the weird rituals. so less specifically bad but he doesn’t like it! he just gets a good vibe off matthew very early on. lots of cuddling all around down the road tho. they are gonna be so gross