#moregraceful

[based--ball]

also kevin gausman/chris bassitt

I love you for asking me about them tysm

They are the moms of the team and they just met and they have been married for 30 years and they probably went halvsies on a minivan last week. I am losing my mind

[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!!

[shanewright]

ahl > nhl

[neonfretra]

does everyone know that this tradition is stolen from moregraceful tumblr? this tradition is stolen from moregraceful tumblr

[msmargaretmurry]

hrpf advisory council meeting with @hopetorun and @moregraceful

[kitnita]

🧸💖🥰❤️‍🔥🐻💕

happy valentine's day @moregraceful!! modern royalty with these two was such an inspired prompt & your brain is huge. you can find a fic that does a little more with it here, but i wanted to pop out a sketch of the biggest goalie4goalie pair out there while i was feeling their vibes. thanks so much for @hockeyficexchange for running this exchange!!!

[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.

[moregraceful]

i would listen to you tell me literally anything about “bryce harper winner's room intimacy virgin” but if i had to ask a number… 6??

oh this question is so scary why did i include it

If Publisher's Weekly announced that your WIP had been acquired by a publishing house, what would the acquiring agent say about it? What are the publishing details? [PW's book deals examples.]

Deeply unwell rarepair author Kas moregraceful has sold the worldwide rights to [Untitled Document] to ArchiveOfOurOwn.org. moregraceful's globally acclaimed 2023 winner's room work, Fragments, has 110 bookmarks, 70 of which are private. The Kas who has been driving across the USA for three days straight alone says "[Untitled Document] is unflinching but tender portrait of a man constructing a world around over a decade of harm, mining ritual as self-care, community as identity, and intimacy as emotion to slow, painful, beautiful gains in reckoning a legacy of harm with a life of love." [Untitled Document] will be released in December if we're all very very lucky.

[fic wip panopticon ask meme]

[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

[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.

[based--ball]

vladdy/bo!!!

3 separate people said vladdy and bo (I agree that they are just that important and amazing and compelling) so I will answer it here

Send me more ships!

Notes: the instagram comments scare me bc of everyone saying to trade one of them which is horrifying because they can never be split up or else they will die and I will also die. Also: I did not choose the me and 1 other sicko on ao3 because they're so iconic and ppl know and love it. However. How are there only 9 works on ao3 for them. Wtf. Perhaps I will make it a round number soon (unless someone else does first 👀)

@planesandtrainingwheels you also sent them in (ty!) so I'm tagging you :)

[pacific-coast-hockey]

I have a no RPF fic rule on this blog for myself due to the horrors (perceived by the org) but if any of you have questions about like. San Jose. Sharks Ice. The Jr Sharks program. The Sharks' and Barracuda's arenas. Pacific Division AHL hockey. The Bay Area's public transit. Any of that...for whatever purpose you may need it - PLEASE feel free to ask me questions, I am always happy to share knowledge. Asks or DMs or hit me up on main (@moregraceful), I am always happy to talk at length about San Jose hockey.

[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.

[neonfretra]

dedicated to @moregraceful's weekly ritual that brings me great joy

[msmargaretmurry]

i wanted to write some fandom-related new year's reflections down and this felt like the best place for it! i miss livejournal every day!

i don't generally do formal new years' resolutions, mostly because i am always too busy around the new year to really sit down and think and reflect about what they should be and how i would want to measure them, but i do think the new year is a good time for a little mental reset regardless and i have been Pondering over the past few weeks about what i would like that to mean for me...... i have always complained that tumblr as a platform is terrible for making friends and i stand by that (i have met good friends on tumblr but the friendships flourished when we took the conversation elsewhere) but i do think this past year i have been #blessed in obtaining some really lovely mutuals and acquaintances On Here in a way that has made me feel more connected to hrpf fandom at large, which has been really nice ❤ so that is something i would like to continue in 2024. i hesitate to be like "i want to spend more time on tumblr" because i probably do not need to do that lmao but i do maybe want to try to be a little more proactive about making/maintaining connections and loose ties. my dear pal kasper @moregraceful has talked about fandom as community and that always resonates with me, because it can be so easy to feel like you are feeding Content into the Content Machine for people to Consume and honestly that is so miserable! i don't want that! maybe 2024 will be the year i finally post my thoughts on the interminable "bookmarks comments are for readers, not writers" discourse.

anyway. i know a lot of the actual fandom ~conversation these days happens on discord, which is am afraid of, but idk maybe i'll try to have more of an open mind about it this year. but maybe i won't. making no promises to myself there 😂 i am trying to be realistic about how much free time i will have for fandom in the midst of work and grad school and real life social life so i think the upshot here is wanting to be thoughtful and deliberate about how i spend the free time i do have for this stuff.

on the fanfiction front...... i came into 2023 in a pretty shitty mental place about writing, mostly due to how lonely i felt about writing-as-community in 2022 — it's just not fun to feel like your friends are having fun without you about things you thought you'd be included in! — and spent most of the year trying to pull myself out of it, with middling success. like, i enjoyed the head above water ficlets i added to that universe but i do still feel a little crappy that those were the only things i was able to finish writing. i have so many stories i want to get out! so i am also trying to look at this new year as maybe a chance to give myself a clean slate and say that no matter what writing goals i set for myself i will also try to be gentler with myself and focus on enjoying the writing process regardless of the end product. but i would also like to actually finish some real fics this year, lol. i might set some measurable goals, but that will not be happening until i get home next week.

in conclusion, idk what i want this year to be yet! a friend of mine recently mentioned the joys of using the julian calendar for her winter celebrations means the new year isn't until january 14, so the first two weeks of the year get to be kind of a "soft launch" of the year to figure out what works best and i did immediately steal the concept even though i am a gregorian calendar girlie. so i am still pondering, still percolating. if for some reason any of you actually read all this and have your own fandom- or writing-related new year's goals/resolutions, i would love to hear them ❤

[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