#snowytater

[killadelphias]

GUESS WHAT I FINISHED WRITING!!!! IT IS DONE!!! Chapters: 14/14 Words: 165,806 🎉🎉🎉

[backwardscapsmh]

so i’m thinking about snowy and tater again…

[thunderhel]

Could you please feed us some beautiful Snowy/Tater hcs? 😔🙏

ALWAYS. I mean you sent this to me a few days ago so I guess the real answer is ABOUT ONCE A WEEK. So anyway here’s some more headcanons about this rarepair couple that I’m obsessed with.

I’ve said it before but Snowy regularly puts on Russian subtitles for Tater when they’re watching a movie. Tater can understand English just fine but sometimes it’s nice to not have to think, especially when they’re watching it late at night. It takes Tater a while to realize that Russian subtitles don’t come standard on most movies in the US and that Snowy is purposefully searching for and ordering movies with them. He never says anything about it though and Tater is never sure how to thank him for it. 

Tater is pretty much fluent in three languages; Russian, English, and Ukrainian. His Serbian is pretty good, he can read it better than he can speak it. His French is pretty bad but he can roughly understand some of Marty and Jack’s conversations. Snowy can barely remember how to say hello or goodbye in anything other than English. Tater likes to joke that sometimes he forgets that too. 

Snowy is incredibly impressed by Tater’s multilingualism and sometimes when he’s relaxed/drunk enough he tells him so.

This isn’t SUPER long but I still feel bad so it’s going under a cut.

Tater has taught Snowy the wrong words in Russian multiple times for his own amusement, but feels so guilty he has to correct him after less than a day. Snowy can always tell when Tater is lying to him but he has so much fun with it that Snowy just goes along with it. 

On the flipside Tater also likes to pretend he doesn’t know what a word in  English means, or purposefully messes something up to make it sound dirty. It’s one of Snowy’s favorite things in the entire world to watch the rest of the team scramble to try to tell Tater -who fully understands what he’s saying- why he shouldn’t say Marty got ‘eaten out’ by the press while Tater acts completely innocent and insists he doesn’t know why that’s wrong. 

Snowy isn’t much of a talker unless you know him well, and then he can ramble like no one’s business. Tater loves to listen to him talk on and on, especially when he’s kind of tired and he knows that Snowy is talking more to himself than anyone else so Tater can just sort of zone out to the sound of Snowy’s accent and just feel content knowing he’s there. 

Snowy likes to sing to himself when he thinks no one can hear. This usually means around his apartment by himself but occasionally in the shower on roadies. He’s not great but he’s also not bad either. Tater had a full existential crisis the first time he heard Snowy singing softly from the shower on the roadie and ever since then he’s been trying to think of a way to convince Snowy to sing for him, but also a little afraid that he’ll actually fall apart completely if he does.

Speaking of music their tastes differ wildly and they have to compromise with a VERY strange playlist when they’re in the car together. There’s something unsettling about hearing ABBA back to back with Alice in Chains. Or at least there is if you’re Poots. If you’re Jack you’re probably barely aware music is happening. 

When Poots and Jack join the team, Snowy latches on pretty quickly to Poots while Tater obviously starts hanging out with Jack. The four of them together are pretty chaotic foursome, but separate are more of a problem. 

Snowy is trying his best not to be jealous of Jack and Tater because he knows he’s being ridiculous but it’s difficult when Jack is Jack and Snowy has always been a little aggressive. Also Snowy has always quietly prided himself on being the smart one of the team. But now Jack is here and Jack has a degree and Snowy basically finished high school on a technicality to pass him into the AHL and he’s still trying to deal with that. 

Tater thinks Snowy is the smartest guy he’s ever met. 

One time Tater checked Poots so hard in practice that the medic came out to check him out. He felt horrible even though Poots had laughed it off, and Tater swore up and down it had been an accident. And it was! But he had also been thinking about how right before they went on the ice Poots had run his hand through Snowy’s hair and made some joke about him being a model and Snowy hadn’t shaken him off. Tater is still guilty about it all.

One time Snowy had jokingly called Tater ‘Lexi’ just to get a rise out of him and Tater has liked it so much he hadn’t known what to do with himself and had panicked and called Snowy ‘Dusty’. 

Snowy threw a drink in his face in disgust and everything had returned right with the world.

The first time they kissed was after the cup. Tater had been so excited for them all, completely unconcerned with his injured leg and had been ridiculous all evening. And when he cornered Snowy in Jack’s kitchen he hadn’t even thought anything about it when Tater had grabbed his face and planted a kiss square on his mouth while someone cheered in the background. But he didn’t pull away, just lingered there for a few seconds too long and Snowy swore he felt Tater’s tongue against his lips before Tater was pulling back and shouting something again like he had been all night.

They spent the entire rest of the night within arms reach of each other but unable to look each other in the eye.

They’ll get there. 

[moved-to-killadelphias]

tater is being hit on by Snow

it’s a metaphor, folks

snowytater lives to see another day

[tater-mashkov]

SNOWTATO

Also thinking about Snowy affectionately weaponizing his use of “Totty” to get Tater to do stuff for him (and also they are gay)

[requiemforthewolves]

Ok so (correct me if I’m wrong on this, but) I just realized that in every episode that we see Tater he interacts with Snowy at some point in the episode (yes, I include getting ready to beat the fuck out of somebody for him as interaction) except for in the most recent update. However, Ngozi just confirmed for us that once Tater gets back he tells Snowy all about his adventures at Samwell, so I just feel really blessed, you know.

[birlcholtz]

What about snowytater(snowtots)?

gonna be honest snowtots is a lot cuter than snater which is where my brain immediately went. (i've been conditioned by snail church -> snurch)

tater is an excellent dman bc he is determined to not let ANYTHING happen to snowy

favorite topics to chirp each other about: the lengths tater will go to so he can get blueberry baked goods from bitty and snowy's pickiness about brands of eyeliner, respectively

tater is the biggest guy on the team and snowy is the smallest. this entertains everyone to no end

despite the chirping snowy supports tater's love of literally anything containing blueberries even if he doesn't understand it

'someone will die.' 'of fun!' is basically them but more bro-y. also they definitely play up their personality differences for comedy reasons sometimes. falconers faceoffs with them are absolutely hysterical

tater literally doesn't shut up about snowy in interviews, like even before they're out he's constantly talking about what a great job snowy's doing and how tater's role on the ice is basically to support him

tater: i'm dating a teammate

george: jack said that to me once and he followed it up with 'from samwell'

tater: haha no

...

tango: so if tater's our uncle then does that make snowy our... step-uncle???

tater, immediately: y e s

snowy is the king of planning surprise parties and tater knows this but he still can never predict the surprise parties. snowy's just too good. one year on tater's birthday snowy swears up and down he isn't setting up a surprise party and tater cautiously believes him and then they go over to jack and bitty's and snowy is like psych. jack and bitty set up the surprise party. but it was my idea and tater is like of course

they fucking love the farmer's market mostly because of free samples and they always come home with. so much fruit

snowy likes potatoes more than tater does and tater chirps him endlessly for it

they're super big on like. casual touch and physical affection

'snowy getting plaque in trainer's room' 'fuck you, tater' 'haha maybe later' alternatively: 'SNOWY, not at WORK *wink*'

tater is desperately trying to get snowy to lift him (b does it!! even smaller than you!!) and snowy Refuses point-blank (he's just really worried about dropping him)

[ranholts]

hi I lost all of my ao3 history so if anyone has any holsom, nurseydex or snowytater recs it would be much appreciated ty

[littlestar2rayoflight]

i just found like,,,, 800 words of a snowytater fic that i apparently wrote a few months ago and forgot about

[killadelphias]

we've hit 70k words at the halfway mark and FOR WHAT??? the burn is still as slow as ever 🤭🤭🤭

[backwardscapsmh]

i know in my heart that tater listens to female rappers like doja cat, megan thee stallion, cardi b, saweetie, etc. he loves their music and he definitely plays it in the car, before games, and secretly queues it up at parties and stuff. it drives snowy up the wall and mildly amuses the rest of the falconers (unless he plays it around marty or thirdy’s children).  *tater messing with the sound system*

“fuck being good i’m a bad bitch! i’m sick of motherfuckers tryna tell me how to live!” (aka ‘‘girls in the hood” starts playing)

snowy: gODDAMMIT TATER

[thunderhel]

hi hi i enjoyed those snowy/tater hcs so much ahhh. i didn’t even like that ship before i found your blog and then i went through like the entire tag and enjoyed it v v much. also do you by any chance have any hc of how they get together/as a continuation of that post?

My entire purpose in this fandom is to make bad aus and convert people to Snowy/Tater (sometimes at the same time). So thank you I’m glad you liked it! And honestly I love get together stories and I have so many ideas for them. I also wrote a whole get together fic for them that you can read here!

Regardless of exactly how it happens I think with those two it’s always a slow burn for a while. I think they meet and hit it off pretty quickly as friends and they stay friends for a while. It’s a whole lot of little things all piling up. They’re both practically living in each other’s laps and know the other like the back of their hand for months before things start to click into place. They are both very deeply in love before either of them realizes they even have a crush.

Someone I was talking to once described it as this inevitable slow crash into one another and I love that. I think there’s a lot of fun in (mistaken) one sided pining and then being shocked when they find out the other person also has feelings for them but I really think with these two it’s more of an understanding. Like they both know it’s going to happen and know the other feels the same at some point but just struggle to take the final step. But they will. Eventually.

[bittysvalentines]

I Want to be There for You

By @Dellessa for @jackzirnmermann​

 Tater was the only one sober in the house. Or at least he thought so before he hobbled into the kitchen. He had made it to one of the downstairs bedrooms in Marty’s house. Most of the team was sprawled out in the living room asleep. Jack and B had taken off the night before. Tater guessed it was to celebrate on their own.

 So he was surprised to find someone humming in the kitchen, the smell of bacon sizzling on the pan enough to draw Tater further into the room. He half wondered if Bitty had come back to the house, but no. It was the very source of Tater’s own ‘girl problem’, one Jakub Snopek.

 “What you doing, Snowy?” He moved across the kitchen tiles slowly. His leg ached still. A dull throb that had him grabbing for the meds he had stashed in the cabinet.

 “Breakfast. How are you feeling?”

 “Mmmm...been better. Can’t drink with these things. Still hurts.” He maneuvered onto a stool, and gave Snowy a grateful smile as he deposited a glass of water on the bar. “Sucks to miss the last game.”

 “I know, big guy. We wouldn't have gotten there without you, though.” Snowy makes a plate for himself and slides one in front of Tater was well. There isn’t just bacon, but eggs and little, silver dollar pancakes as well.

 “Maybe,” Tater said. He couldn't help but shrug. Even though they had just won the Cup he was having a hard time not feeling morose.

 “Just maybe? Well, when are you going home? Any big plans?”   

 “I’m not sure. Was planning on staying home. Leg makes it hard to travel. And I’m think. Maybe. Maybe---what are your plans?”

 Snowy smiled at him, as easy as he ever did. “Nothing really concrete, maybe we could hang out together. I mean. It sound like you could use the company.”  

 “You---you sure?”  

 Snowy hummed. “Wouldn’t offer if I wasn’t, and look I just I feel like we’ve been dancing around each other all season. I guess I could be wrong. I’m not wrong am I?” He looked up through those thick lashed of his and Alexei found himself catching his breath.

 “No. Not wrong. Not wrong at all.”

 Snowy’s lips curled into a tiny smile. “Glad we are the same page.”

_/ _X_ \_

 They watched movies together that night, curled together on the couch. Alexei propped his leg up on the ottoman, and was content to sleepily lean against Snowy and drift in and out of sleep. It was nice and domestic, and hardly how Tater had expected to be spending the summer. He tried not to dwell on it to deeply. He tried not to hope.

 It was hard not to when Snowy put an arm around him, tucking him into his side.

 “This is nice,” Snowy murmured.

 “Mhmmm,” Tater agreed. He let his eyes close. “Best.”

  “I know,” Snowy laughed.

 _/ _X_ \_

 They danced around each other for weeks.

 Tater thought asking Snowy about what he wanted, about what he had meant, but he chickened out each time. The words just froze on his tongue.

 He wanted things, always wanted things, and it was just out of his reach. It was hard, maybe even harder still with the way Snowy fussed over him.

 Jakub tucked the blanket around Alexei when he sat on the couch, brought him solyanka that he had made with a recipe that he had procured from Alexei’s own mother days before. It was good soup, and left Alexei warm inside. It was like a little piece of home, and it was the straw that finally broke.

 “What you want, Jakub?” Alexei finally said.

 “I’m not sure what you mean,” Jakub hedged.

 “You say we on same page, not so sure. What you mean? I mean,” he asked. He looked down, and picked at a thread on the blanket covering his legs. “Could be home with family. Could be some place nice and warm. Maybe on a beach with a bunch of pretty girls.”

 “Yeah, Tater. I don’t want those pretty girls, or any girls for that matter. I want you. I thought that was clear. I thought---” Jakub seemed to sink in on himself, shoulders hunching. “I guess I’m sorry if I read things wrong.I don’t want to make things weird between us.”

 “You---oh---oh! Kuba! Why you not just tell me? I’m---I’m like you for so long, and I’m just not sure. I’m think maybe, but then I’m think ‘no, no Tater. You are being silly. Kuba doesn’t like you. Not like that.’”

 Snowy sat down beside him. “I do though. Very much. I just, I mean if you want to try, I’m all on board for that.”

 The leaned against one another, and Alexei reached out slowly, twining their fingers together. “I’m want that too. So much.” He had wanted that for what seemed like forever. “You sure?”

 Snowy curled up against Alexei, careful not to jostle his leg. “Surer than I am of anything.”

 Alexei wrapped his arm around Snowy’s shoulder. He could work with that.

[moved-to-killadelphias]

here, have a few out of context quotes from my epic SnowyTater fic that i’m powering through writing. 27k words so far and counting!!!! 

what the fuck is this fic even about 

[bisexualdinahlance]

I recently have become very taken with the idea of tater/snowy?? Honestly they would be so hilarious together, I can only imagine that Tater would tease Snowy all the time and Snowy would just be so. done. But he loves tater nonetheless and y'all know they fuck with each other so much during practice it's great

[cakemakethme]

So...where's all the snowtater fics we were promised?