#so this is how the hockey thing starts

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

Leonard 'Cold As Ice' Snart: Huh. It's been almost twenty minutes since I explained to a murderer just how much Flash and I like each other. I better do something about that.

[3416]

1634 make me genuinely ill because there are just.... so few bonds in this sport where you look at them and go. that was 100% meant to happen like that and no one else could've slotted in. like yea, so many of players across the league form close bonds and friendships bc that's the nature of spending a whole part of your life sharing a common goal and space when you're like.. doing this team activity... and guys are constantly befriending ppl and moving on... but auston and mitch it's like. it's almost like THEY feel that they were supposed to have that bond... and go out of their way to reaffirm it at every turn... like they met and got along and loved each other immediately and were so excited to get to play hockey together only to NOT get to for a long while and while they waited, they ??? developed all these rituals. and these things together... their personal routines, things to communicate to each other that they have each other's backs and are building each other into their visions and superstitions and dreams, some of which we'll never know about (unless they'd so kindly like to tell us a la mitch's interview with cabbie where he says maybe some day he'll share the gifts auston's gotten him w the world. tell all book when mitch).. but their gloves and their handshakes and their warmups and even the way they walk into road games and it's jsut. like it's friendship, for sure, obviously. they get along off the ice and make each other laugh the most and have a good time, but it's also the inextricable linking of their own careers. BY THEIR OWN DOING. like they want their names jotted next to each other and that's PART of the chase for this greater goal. yes, they would have been talked about in tandem anyway bc they're out here being the best leafs ever and hitting milestones like 500 points.... 600 points... just weeks apart from each other season to season. but also it's their commitment to each other that makes them talked about too. it's commentators saying they love to play together bc they can see it. they've heard them talk about it. they watch it. "marner to matthews" "matthews to marner". they're always gonna know where each other are.... it makes me . feel. violent with love, lol. makes me feel like some things are definitely meant to be.

[sarcasmchandlerbing]

Some Leafs players collages

[muirneach]

need 2 make peace with mens changerooms immediately cause using the all gender changeroom at my schools gym is okay but in playing hockey this summer and. well. that is a whole other vibe. jeepers

[writingonleaves]

another narrative that will always break me: the concept of The Last Game. the last game you’ll play with this specific team. maybe not knowing it’s your last game but deep down thinking it could be. the last of everything you’ve known. built up and up and up and for it to fall flat. sigh.

[tootalltech]

in this video on faksa’s story you can SO hear how many blues fans were at this fucking game BC OBVIOUSLY WE ALL DECIDED TO DO THE THING OF GOING “BLUUUUUUUES” ON THE WORD “BRAVE” IN THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. AS ONE DOES WHEN ONE IS A BLUES FAN.

[princemick]

k bye gonna read hockey rpf now, will report back

[exopelagic]

i said i wouldn’t do it this time but it’s 3am and mods asleep. boy

[1327-1]

paul kariya.......................................................

[cornerihaunt]

btw i have a whole cover story for my irl friends on how i got into hockey and no one has ever doubted it because it relies on me being a language nerd

[fifteensjukebox]

today's sierra news is that im accepting that i almost definitely have contamination ocd and ive called my dr who in june said it sounded like anxiety and neither of us brought up ocd despite. i mean. fucking look at this situation it's obvious. anw we discussed referring to ppl for either therapy or meds and i started the process of trying therapy after that but even as early as research and the intake call i just know im one of those introspective bitches who hate that shit bc im already so in my head i don't need someone to tell me what i already know. and i had been against meds too bc i had so many side effects from adhd meds as a kid and birth control for my period more recently. but it's clear that it's hard for me to fix my sleep schedule BECAUSE i spend too much time cleaning myself so. i'll keep trying that but also we know my brain chemicals are fucked so why not give in and t r e a t that.

[strohller27]

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[lovethytendytenderly]

Sunrise, Louise Glück, x x x x x x x x x x x

[muirneach]

you all must be quite happy with the noticeable decline in tennisposting since a few weeks ago. unfortunately for you hockey season starts in six days and ill start being incredibly bizarre when it does

[crossbackpoke-check]

about to be sooo nosy so. my apologies. but. morgan frost? girlfriend? do share (or don’t! again this is so nosy i’m sorry)

for legal purposes i can neither confirm nor deny anything about morgan and his girlfriend but afaik i think he’s single right now? at one point (within the past four years 😭) he did for sure have a girlfriend and that is the extent of my wag knowledge

[exopelagic]

I need to go to bed I’m just gonna shout a lil