#superstition hockey

[what-if-superstition]

What if Jacks was not quite given to Luc so he can play hockey, but his interest in hockey sure was (#8)

Jacks didn't love hockey before he moved to Moncton. He barely even knew how to play. Then they moved, and suddenly hockey was the best thing in the world, and his body knew what to do all on its own. His mom was very confused.

[lannamichaels]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Superstition - Superstition_hockey, @superstitionhockey Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Luc Chantal/Oliver Jackson Characters: Luc Chantal, Oliver Jackson Additional Tags: Yuletide 2020, Yuletide Treat, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hockey Gods, superstition by superstition_hockey - Freeform Summary:

Luc Chantal quits hockey in his second NHL season.

[airilymusing]

Le Vole and Le Cadeau: Transitions

Photo manip/fanart for the Superstition original fic series by @superstitionhockey! (I heartily recommend both the original fic and all accompanying fanfic btw). Specifically, this was inspired by the superstition fanfic Beep Boop by @lannamichaels.

Beep Boop talks a lot about the choices and lack thereof that Jacks and Chants had as professional hockey players. So of course I was immediately consumed by feelings about identity and the identities you choose for yourself vs the ones others assign to you. Mostly because I love the Quebec fans’ nicknames for Jacks and Chants and how they stick even when Jacks and Chants themselves are just done or even uncomfortable with them and that dynamic is fascinating to me. 

Including the color gradients used in the jerseys on their own below because I think they’re really pretty and wanted to show them both off.

Image description:

[First image: A simplified outline of a hockey jersey on a dark grey background. The jersey reads “Le Vole” with the number 38. The jersey is colored in a gradient from San Jose Sharks teal in the lower left corner into Quebec Nordiques blue in the upper right corner.

Second image:  A simplified outline of a hockey jersey on a dark grey background. The jersey reads “Le Cadeau” with the number 42. The jersey is colored in a gradient from Philedelphia Flyers orange in the lower right corner into Quebec Nordiques blue in the upper left corner.

Third image: a square with a color gradient transition from San Jose Sharks teal in the lower left corner into Quebec Nordiques blue in the upper right corner. Text reads “Le Vole 38″

Fourth image: a square with a color gradient transition from Philedelphia Flyers orange in the lower right corner into Quebec Nordiques blue in the upper left corner. Text reads “Le Cadeau 42″]

[lizloveslaughs]

“Do I look like Wendy Fucking Darling to You?” - Svetlana Volkov

From Superstition by @superstitionhockey.

Luc  -  Jacks  -  Crash 

[threepatchpodcast]

Episode 79A: Extended Cut, Fandoms of Interest: Superstition and YCMAL

In this extended version of the Fandoms of Interest segment from Episode 79, @emmagrant01, @sundayduck and sylviarachel squee about @superstitionhockey and @youcouldmakealife, two original fic fandoms focusing on fictional queer hockey players. This version includes spoilers for both universes and a mini mailbag segment!

Show notes and links to download or listen here

Banner art by @foxestacado

[leftwinglibrarian]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Superstition Hockey Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Luc Chantal/Oliver Jackson Characters: Luc Chantal, Oliver Jackson Additional Tags: Romantic Gestures, Fluff and Smut, Soft Hockey Boys, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Making Love, Dumb hockey players being dumb, Hockey sweaters as lingerie Summary:

The jersey settles on Luc’s shoulders and try as he might, he can’t contain the shudder that twitches through his body at its touch. Orange. So orange. Philadelphia-Fucking-Flyer-Orange.

or

Luc continues his attempts at romance by wearing Jacks' Flyers sweater. And nothing else.

Several friends and I have become completely obsessed by the Superstition series by @superstitionhockey. It is absolutely fantastic and you should all go read it right now. I mean it was good enough that it got me off my lazy butt to write - WHICH I HATE DOING - so you know it has to be good. I would die for Oliver Jackson, he deserves all the grand romantic gestures in the world.

[aninvisiblemonster]

I still have way to many Jack feels with the end of Superstition 

[ilovetextingandscones]

Superstition, by @superstitionhockey

There’s no one, really, ever in the world who’s going to love Jacks the way Luc Chantal does, and there’s no way Jacks is ever going to love anyone else as much as he loves Luc, either.

[what-if-superstition]

In a world where Luc never went into hockey, he becomes tik tok famous

I'm sorry, nonnie, I didn't see this! Which means you might not see my reply, which would be a shame, because I need details! What does he do on TikTok? And did he get into a different sport instead, or did he find something else to focus on?

[stitchandnonsense]

Progress thus far.

Caps: Devante Smith-Pelly

Preds: PK Subban

Coyotes: Hjalmarsson

Nordiques: Luc Chantal

Sabres: Bogosian (chosen bc a friend likes him & it turns out I know nothing about the Sabres.)

Sens: Erik Karlsson

Letterkenny Irish: Reilly

Bruins: Willie O’Ree

Rangers: Lundqvist

Kings: Jaret Anderson-Dolan

Ducks: Kariya

Butt: the little dog

[obsidianblackcats]

Rescue cat read-aloud!

Part four: reading If the light’s good by @superstitionhockey to the senior cat room residents.

[marlleau-blog]

some art i’ve been playing with over the past day or two instead of studying like im supposed to be doing.

these two are luc chantal and oliver jackson from the amazing Superstition series by @superstitionhockey! if you dig hockey, dumb boys in love, and/or shenanigans then i highly recommend it!!! madi can vouch, we’ve been yelling for like three days now

luc is the tired lookin hipster wannabe surfer on the left who gets into fights probably too much and thinks about his emotions probably not enough. jacks is the ginger on the right who loves sci fi but not his false tooth. he also loves luc a whole bunch. oh jacks.

fun fact about how i drew luc: i based him mostly on the dudes who hang out at the hipster coffee shop over near the convention center in san jose but also partly on the guys down in santa barbara who go to artisanal ice cream parlors with their instagram model girlfriends

[lizloveslaughs]

“Stand before your gods barefaced and proud.” - Beatriz “Crash” Teixeira

From Superstition by @superstitionhockey.

Luc  -  Jacks  -  Sveta

[what-if-superstition]

So....Luc as the High Priest of the Hockey Gods y/n

Uh, obviously yes????

So we're talking organized religion, right? Luc having even more pressure on him, epithets having a deeper meaning, but also Luc not being alone in his religion.

Does he get selected as a child? Does Jacks have some kind of related role that also makes them bound by divine will? I don't know but I really really want to.

[what-if-superstition]

Arranged Child Marriage (Jewish Shtetl-inspired)

Again, please see the title as a content warning. 

So, this is probably not going to be quite accurate because I'm writing it from memory from a class I took more than a decade ago, but here's the gist of it: there used to be a thing in the Jewish towns in eastern Europe in the 19th century, where a promising scripture scholar boy was married by arrangement to a rich man’s daughter. The rich man got to boast that he was sponsoring a genius and supporting the study of the Torah, and the boy got to continue his studies and not worry about being conscripted to the Tsar’s army for 25 years, because he was now exempt as a married man. Except he’s not a man, he’s a child of 13 who is now alone in a different home in a different town, far from everyone he knows. The girl got... nothing, really. Sure, maybe she’s proud of her husband too, but she’s also just a kid. Or maybe she’s actually already an adult, and now she’s stuck being married to a child. 

So in our story, the Chantals are rich people who want to support hockey rather than the study of Torah. In this universe, time, and place, whatever they may be, there is that same kind of threat of being conscripted to the army for decades, so rather than just billeting hockey players, it’s customary to marry them to your child. And maybe in this alternate Canada-Ukraine mashup girls don’t play hockey, though progressive parents might let them shoot pucks in the back yard. And Luc is AFAB. I don’t know what Luc’s actual gender is, maybe none, but at this point everyone including herself see her as a girl, so we’ll go with that.

So, Luc loves hockey. She practices shots and stickhandling all the time, and she skates a lot, because that’s allowed, and sometimes she even sneaks out to the pond in boys’ clothes to skate with her stick and pucks, though only at night, lest she be recognized. And she’s good, really good. At the things she gets a chance to practice, that is. She has no one to practice passing with, or faceoffs, or takeaways, or you know, shooting against an actual goalie.

And then Jacks shows up, and Luc is so jealous. Because not only does Jacks get to play hockey while Luc can’t, the whole marriage is all about him being able to play hockey. This whole change in her life and her status just so he can play, but she’s not allowed. But she also can’t fully resent him, because his hockey is so, so beautiful. She wants to beg him to practice with her, but she knows she shouldn’t. Her parents didn’t say it, because they don’t personally agree with it, but she knows from exposure to the rest of the town that it’s better not to show how interested she is in hockey just yet, be more of a proper bride. Not that the marriage is any more than a formality just yet, no one expects that when they’re both so young, but it’s best to keep up appearances.

(At this point I have to stop and say that in this version Jacks also gets to bring his mom with him because I refuse to do the whole “all alone in a new household with no one in your corner” side of child marriage. His parents just got divorced, Charlotte is a midwife and Luc’s town happened to need a new one, so the Chantals take her in, supposedly for for the good of the town, but also just for Jacks. Just because he’s a hockey genius who they want to sponsor and protect doesn’t mean he’s not also a kid who needs his mom.)

So anyway, Jacks eventually finds out about Luc’s hockey, and he’s delighted. He thinks the idea that girls shouldn’t play hockey is arbitrary and stupid. So now when Luc sneaks out to the pond at night, Jacks comes with and they can actually practice for real, and they love it. But the better Jacks does with the local team, the sadder they both get that they can’t play together. Eventually Jacks convinces Luc to talk to the parents, because even though they’re also limited by what’s considered proper, they themselves are progressive. They call a family meeting and the Chantals agree to let Luc play hockey. They really can’t just enroll their daughter in hockey, but when they see how serious Luc is, and how good, they feel ashamed that were willing to help a strange boy play hockey (not that they don’t love him like their own by that point), but not their own child. 

So the five of them leave town. I would say they move somewhere far away, change their names, and introduce Luc as a boy. And maybe Luc is happy about that, or doesn’t care, or doesn’t like it but sees it as necessary because girls just don’t play hockey. Or maybe they just move to the city, where girls do play hockey, because that was an option all along and they’re finally ready to take it. Saves them the embarrassment of having to disclose the ruse when the army comes calling, whoops. 

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So, usually I don't like making Luc a girl because I don't like making Jacks not gay, but in this case I don't know if it's even relevant. Is gay even a thing in this time and place, or is it just actions that may or may not be frowned upon, but not an identity? And does it even matter? Maybe marriage is just completely separate from any preference, because arranged marriages are the norm.

That's also why I'm all 🤷‍♀️ about whether Luc is trans or not, because if living as a boy is necessary, social transition will happen either way and Luc might never take the time to think about personal gender identity. Although I suppose there might be something with Jacks finding Luc handsome and Luc saying "you know I'm not really a boy, right?" and Jacks saying "aren't you, though?"

[what-if-superstition]

Arranged Child Marriage (Royalty)

Please treat the title as a content warning.

The kids are both princes, and their parents sign some kind of peace treaty that includes promising them as spouses to each other. Luc’s parents absolutely don’t mean for the marriage to happen before they’re of age, but Jacks’s father is a terrible person so he just sends him over immediately. The Chantals are appalled, but recognize that sending him back would cause tension because it could be seen as breach of treaty. They’re at a loss because they loathe the idea of a child that young having to leave his home to live in an unfamiliar place where he is alone and has no power, even if the kids do get along great, and having an actual wedding is of course completely out of the question. Then Charlotte shows up. She didn’t even know Oliver was being sent away, and when she found out she just left the kingdom and followed him. The Chantals immediately invite her to stay, figuring that with a husband like that maybe it’s for the best that she and Oliver live with them instead, and now he won’t be alone there.

The kids are still betrothed, of course, but no one can fault the Chantals for not marrying actual children to each other, so the peace treaty is safe. They do marry when they come of age, but before that there’s probably a bunch of “yes, I know we’re going to marry each other, that was decided for us a long time ago, what's your point” and “no, you don’t understand, I would still want to marry you even if we were just peasants who met at a festival”. Is the gay/not gay thing a complete non-issue? Maybe, maybe not. Clearly it’s accepted, but perhaps with royalty it’s more of a ceremonial thing and not expected to be an actual marriage, so that could add an extra layer to the confusion.