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[starshipoftheseus]

joey daccord and the giveaway oven mitt (x)

[starscelly]

"REAL MAN'S SPORT" ZINE ONE: HOCKEY

individual images + link to other zines under cut

if there's any particular image or quote you want a source for that i did not personally take/make, feel free to ask!

and if anyone is interested in how i made this and the template to do so i'm also happy to make a post about that (:

other zines (mma and wrestling) found at this tag

[zetterbabe]

01.04.24

[compher]

Calum Ritchie during the 1st intermission, 14.10.24, NYI @ Avs

[kitnita]

actual otter sign of life !!!

[3416]

Hi! I did a spring cleaning recently and was curious if you could recommend some more blogs to follow? I love yours, so you're a trusted source.

fjklsjfklsd well i'm honored to be a trusted source. i'm gonna assume you mean hockey related blogs, but i follow quite a few people for like.. the mix of their personality/hobbies PLUS hockey (not just leafs but.. a lot of leafs), so i can give you some of my favorites i've followed from the past year in no order (and i'm gonna miss people and i'm so so sorry.. just anyone i rb from is good too, lol) ..

@583416 @donttelltheelff @kucherovv @pokedcheck @allthisscienceidontunderstand @shoot-the-puck @9116 @nhldraftbust @smithrowed @wmnylander @girljeremystrong @periodicavocation @grantmentis @kylesdubas @sergeifyodorov @hockeyliefde @m3tth4ws @13-7-86 @dancingonmyown @goaliekisses @ghostgeno @softhockeyybros @fersurebud @mcgayvid @brandoncarlo @songsandswords @tonightisthenightofnights @butchmarner @flaticeball @snidneycrabby @nylwnder @hockeyburner @microwaiver @atreebreathing @marnerism @boohowdy @mmmitchmmmarner @jasonspezzas @glovehearts @fouraloe @jakeguentzels @regularseason @graves-makar @tavaresfucker @wagtivities @catboygretzky @egggslay @himbeaux-on-ice @txstars

hope you enjoy!!!

[msmargaretmurry]

idk if you’re still doing the fanfic title ask thing but if you are, mattdrai + neutral zone

i feel like this would be a sweet, funny little story where they have their bye weeks at the same time and coincidentally wind up on vacation at the same resort. big romcommy vibes. more of a @bropunzeling style joint than my own usual style, but i would do my best 😂

obviously leon's there with connor, third-wheeling with him and lauren, since they're coming straight from the all-star game. matthew, also coming straight from the asg, is flying in to meet up with some friends — maybe brady's bye week was before the asg, but robby thomas, or some florida pals, or whoever are there. mostly i just want him to be free of familial obligations so that he can let his freak flag fly.

anyway, the all-star weekend was good for everyone involved — let's say this is set this coming year, so no one was thrilled about going to cold toronto and losing out on three extra days of real vacation, not like florida, which was basically just extra vacation, but it was fun enough. neither the pacific or the atlantic won; none of our main cast here became the main character of the weekend, but there were some fun moments. matthew and leon didn't really talk during the asw, didn't really talk during last year's asw (although, to be fair, matthew was very busy playing host last year), because the thing is, they don't really have any reason to interact now that they're not in the same division.

leon didn't think he'd miss it, but he kind of misses it. the battle of alberta isn't nearly as exciting now. matthew pissed him off a lot when they were younger, yeah, but he has always been fun to play against. the 2020 asg was the first time they ever had a real conversation and it wasn't a big thing or anything, but it was kind of a turning point in the somewhat one-sided animosity, and by the time the 2022 playoffs rolled around, they had developed this kind of almost-friendly (slightly flirty?) respect. matthew still pissed him off on the ice, yeah, but they had some laughs, too, at faceoff circles, between whistles. leon started to believe the people that said, well, if he was on your team you'd love him.

and then matthew got himself traded to florida, built himself a happy new life there, became the main character of the nhl, etc. leon's not not happy for him, but maybe, when he thinks about it in certain moods, he does prickle a little at how easily matthew left the alberta of it all behind.

meanwhile matthew figures they were all just glad to be rid of him. he's been having a great time in florida. a great enough time that it's mostly healed the sting of how his last season in calgary ended and how frustrating his career there was sometimes. there was a time in his life when he would have really, really liked for leon draisaitl to like him, but he's totally past that now.

anyway, due to a series of somewhat comedic near-misses at the airport, they don't realize they're going to the same place until they get onto the plane and they're all in first class: matthew, leon, connor, lauren. everyone's like uhhhhh ?? but matthew makes a joke, retreats to his seat behind them, puts his headphones on, doesn't make conversation except to charm the flight attendants. when they land, connor asks him where he's headed, if he wants to share their cab. matthew politely declines. he's not trying to be anti-social, he's just not trying to intrude on someone else's vacation.

but, of course, the resort isn't huge. it takes, like, a day for matthew's group to run into leon again — at the tiki bar on the beach, where leon is loitering even though lauren and connor are down by the water, because he's feeling particularly third wheel-y today. matthew had the right idea, finding a whole group to glom onto after the asg. all this to say, he's kind of relieved to see other people he kind of knows, even if it all feels a little awkward. but hey, they're on vacation. everyone can be friends here.

cue a beachy vacation montage of drinking and laughing and playing volleyball on the beach and splashing into the water — leon (and often connor and lauren — i feel like there are other wags around with matthew's group of friends) gets kind of folded into the group, and here on vacation away from all the hockey stuff, past rivalries, etc, it turns out that they just kind of click. they're both super competitive, even about dumb things like beach volleyball — but that's fun when the stakes are low, when they're on the same team. matthew's always checking in to make sure leon's having a good time if he's hanging with them while connor and lauren are off doing coupley things — he's always making sure everyone's having a good time, really, and leon starts to really get why his teammates in florida talk about him the way they do. leon is surprisingly funny and surprisingly affectionate when he doesn't want to kill you, and matthew keeps getting that old familiar feeling that he'd really like for leon to like him.

it's only like two days in when they get tipsy and hook up, which is probably a good thing, because it's so mind-bogglingly hot that if they'd held out until the end of the week and just did it once at the end, they would have both gone a little crazy not getting to do it again right away. cue all sorts of sneaking off to have all sorts of gross, sweaty vacation sex, and maybe getting a little obsessed with each other in the process.

the last night of the trip, the whole combined group of them has a big dinner on the beach and everyone just hangs out until late, long after the sun goes down. matthew and leon keep not-so-subtly making eyes at each other, trying to gauge when they're gonna sneak off to go wreck each other, but matthew is also a little in his head about this being the last day of vacation, because he's 100% sure this is gonna be a "what happened in bye week stays in bye week" situation, which is how it should be, anything else would be too complicated and make no sense, but he knows that despite knowing all that logically, it's gonna do a number on him to fly home alone after this whirlwind — whatever it is, with leon, so at some point he disappears, and after a while leon finds him sitting down by the water a little ways away, looking out at the ocean.

leon goes to sit with him. kisses his shoulder, but doesn't try to make conversation. he kind of thinks he knows what matthew's thinking, but it takes him a while to figure out what to say about it in a way that won't be too embarrassing if he's wrong. eventually he settles on, "we should do this again sometime."

matthew looks over, surprised. "you'd want to?"

leon shrugs. "i mean. it's been fun, right?"

and then they make out on the beach, and then they go back to one of their rooms and have sex, and then shower sex, and then morning sex, all of it increasingly clingy in a way they will not discuss until, like, sexcation #4 at least, but leon does kiss matthew's cheek when they part ways at the airport later, and matthew's friends tease him mercilessly about it for the rest of the day.

[joyfuladorable]

@elbisivni's you, alive now because someone loved you and @threestripeslider's odd man out say Pinoy Jones Family Rights and I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE!! 😤

Bonus doodles under the cut:

^^ Quick midnight doodles cuz my mind is a steel trap when it comes to unhinged sapphics and also was just Thinking about Story Stuff I wanna do at some point. (yes, I know a hockey goalie is a goaltender now but I didn't wanna go back in and change that)

^^ Had just finished reading OMO and felt no other course of action than to practice the Joneses so I could draw them in pinoy outfits uwu

OH! And if you're wondering: Casey's wearing a filipiniana gown and the lesbian flag-colored sash is called a sablay. Junior's wearing a barong tagalog.

[hexiewrites]

happy to report that absolute fucking insane leafs/tampa game just pulled like 1500 words of hockey au out of NOWHERE and the worms are WORMING again friends so like

thanks to auston matthews and whoever in toronto is doing ritual sacrifices to keep pulling out these absurd third period catch ups and overtime wins

[iwonderifthatisart]

i cannot BELIVE i'm losing sleep over the nhl playoffs, i really woke up at 2am and then at 4:30 am and checked the score and immediately couldnt go back to sleep. like girl i dont even watch hockey like that. why am i upset about the panthers losing after a 3-0 lead, i havent even seen a single game. hrpf and all the poetry ppl on here rly got me into this, they tricked me and now i'm INVESTED 😞😭 i cant wait until its over next week. god help me

[v8mpvrse]

girl help my sense of justice won’t let me move on from this game ‼️

[zetterbabe]

leon draisaitl for team europe at the 2016 world cup of hockey

[roadkill-dreaming]

♡

[so-you-melted-22]

The people who say being utterly obsessed with something helps you become better at art because you can draw a bunch of fanart are so right btw.

[dontforgetoctober3rd]

I feel like I've been so blase about the Golden Knights rn but as soon as it's 2024 every game is gonna feel like do or die.....not looking forward to that...

[t1erradelfuego]

please do not read the tags i am being insane at 10pm on a sunday night