#who claire writes for

[matthewkniesys]

who i write for

anaheim ducks

jamie drysdale

trevor zegras

buffalo sabres

owen power

dylan cozens

carolina hurricanes

andrei svechnikov

sebastian aho

colorado avalanche

cale makar

bowen byram

columbus blue jackets

kent johnson

dallas stars

jake oettinger

wyatt johnston

detroit red wings

moritz seider

lucas raymond

los angeles kings

alex turcotte

quinton byfield

minnesota wild

matt boldy

brock faber

montreal canadiens

cole caufield

nick suzuki

kirby dach

new jersey devils

luke hughes

nico hischier

jack hughes

dawson mercer

john marino

new york islanders

mat barzal

toronto maple leafs

matthew knies

mitch marner

vancouver canucks

quinn hughes

non nhl players

cutter gauthier

luca fantilli

rutgers mcgroarty

gavin brindley

seamus casey

mackie samoskevich

mark estapa

ethan edwards

if you want me to add a player send me an ask and i might because i know there are some i've forgotten :)

[jodielandons]

I just think that The Umbrella Academy writers just didn’t know what to do with Allison which is a shame bc she had so much potential! But no they made her lose her daughter, dropped her in 1960s Texas where she dealt with traumatic racism that was never addressed, lost the man she loved, was characterized as a villain for snapping after everything she went through, made a deal with the devil to get everything back, got the man she loved back for TWO SECONDS bc the writers said jk (: All of this for what? There was no point.

[sutherlins]

ON TONGUES THAT ARE NOT BORN ↝ SydCarmy | Rated: E | Complete 3/3 | Word Count: 17K+ | [READ HERE]

Summary: Tired graduate student Sydney Adamu pays for a yearly pass to the museum. It's easier to study there than at the library and the dollar coffee makes the pass pay for itself in a few months. Something draws her to the Classics and Antiquities hall. One statue in particular seems to have a strange hold on her. The Statue of Carmen, Merchant of Arpinum. When she comes in one day to find the statue has moved slightly, it sends her down a research rabbit hole that releases Carmen from a two thousand year old curse and puts them both in danger. The soulmates have to perform a ritual to ensure Carmen stays human and doesn't turn back to marble. OR Sydney wants to fuck a statue and the feeling is mutual.

♡ any reblogs/kudos/comments are all so appreciated!! Inspired by this post ♡

Syd in this fic:

big wet kisses to @ambeauty and @bakerst-sherlolly for encouraging this nonsense

[undead-moth]

I know I've been on about this for a while now and I'm being a hater but you're telling me SydCarmy was "always meant to be platonic" even though there are two seasons of writing making use of tried-and-true explicitly romantic tropes, themes and writing signals, and SydLuca is going to be romantic because...he was nice to her on screen for a few minutes?

I don't even care if people ship SydLuca, or if they just prefer it, but you can't honestly tell me that you believe Carmy was always meant to be a friend but Luca is an obvious love interest.

Just because Syd and Carmy haven't kissed or confessed their love to each other doesn't mean that isn't very obviously the direction this show is going. The Bear has already shown you who is endgame. It has shown you every episode of the show so far.

Honestly I really don't think The Bear fanbase understands this show or cares about these characters or the story being told here, which is unfortunate because this show is shockingly well-written in comparison to most shows right now, and we should be so grateful for it but all we're doing is complaining that the writers led us on by not making a ship canon fast enough. It's just. Sad.

[fallenangelblade]

it's just that like. the more i think about them the crazier i feel

[thoughtfulchaos773]

Carmy's anxiety

My favorite thing to obsess over and that I don't write about enough is the show's depiction of anxiety and Carmy's struggles with it as his anxiety creeps into his ability to make decisions.

With anxiety, there's a lingering doom that you'll make the wrong choice, and it's paralyzing. Also, with decision-making, there's the fear that the decision could hurt someone. Along with the discomfort that everything will fall on you. You'd rather someone else make the decisions because if the other shoe drops well, it's not your fault.

We see this anxiety and the inability to make decisions specifically with claire.

In episodes 1 and 2, Carmy starts making progress in managing his anxiety. He's beginning to understand how his brain tends to focus on feelings of dread rather than joy. Despite his distress, he agrees to help Sydney get the star. He's consistently going to al-anon, and we also learn that Carmy's family inadvertently affected his ability to experience joy, which has contributed to his ongoing struggle with anxiety. Carmy also shares some mindfulness techniques for managing it, such as staying present, focused breathing, and reminding himself that everything is okay. But, this mindfulness is interrupted when Claire calls him, and his anxiousness is through the phone as he struggles to make decisions about whether to tell Claire that he can't go out and instead needs to be with Sydney.

Since getting involved with Claire he has been avoiding making decisions, delaying them, and putting everything on Sydney. He even let Claire make the choice for the chaos menu. It's easier for him to have Richie, Mikey, and Fak tell him how to feel about Claire rather than coming to his own conclusion. Because what if he doesn't make the right decision? What if he hurts her? What ifs... what ifs - dread.

I don't believe it's Claire's fault or that she has any nefarious intentions. I think one part of her role is to show what it's like to function in a stressful job without suffering from anxiety, while Carmy is dysfunctional. She seems out of place because the audience is following characters who are barely holding on while trying to live out their passion and purpose while being kind to each other, all while processing their trauma.

For claire, it seems too easy and that she doesn't need to wait for the other shoe, and it's weird to witness.

Although not evil, there is something about Claire triggers Carmy's alarms/anxiety to go off, and it could be the past. It could be Mikey. I just wonder if season 3 will we get more understanding of Claire's role in Carmys story, and will Carmy finally make a decision?

[doubleappled]

The thing with the names

… is under the cut bc of s3 spoilers…

We’ve noticed how NYC chef calls Carmy “Bergazzo,” right, and how Shapiro then calls Luca “Lucas”? We see this?

And then we see Chef Terry at the end asking Carmy to call her by her first name the next time they’re together?

That’s something.

[cambionverse]

Happy March 29th!

Once again, it's Cambionverse Day and Jesse Turner's birthday. We don't have the next chapter of Envesseled ready to post yet, so we decided to post some excerpts from it instead! Please enjoy them, and as always, thank you for your patience <3

Amazon Rainforest, Brazil

"Do you think this is what it looks like?" asks Jesse as they leave, moving on foot through the towering forest until they find a place without angelic interference to let him jump. "In...Heaven or whatever. Where souls go. Do you think this is what Ben sees?"

Claire has dreaded the thought of Heaven since she was eleven years old, and some days she thinks she only survived this long out of fear of ending up there. Maybe this forest is a close analogue, if the way her skull feels about to vibrate off her spine is any indication.

"I keep thinking about what Marie said," he confesses. "About how he might be—happy there. With his mom."

"He's probably surrounded by angels," Claire retorts. "That's no one's idea of a good time, even if you're a Winchester." She doesn't want Ben to be happy in the afterlife, she realizes; either she is cruel enough to tear him out of Heaven, or cruel enough to hope he is suffering so that even being with her again would be a relief. She kicks away a vine that crosses their path and then crushes it under her heel out of sheer spite.

"But what if she's right?" says Jesse. "Don't you think—"

"No one asked you to think," she snaps. "I don't need the Antichrist's opinion of Heaven. Just take us to the next place."

Jesse stops. Claire does too, silent and glaring. He searches her face, and for a moment it's like he's looking at a stranger.

"I still want him back," Jesse says. "I didn't say I don't."

Claire flicks out her hand like she's drawing a sword. "Then stop wasting time," she says, "and let's go."

She kisses him again later that night, after a piece of grace in Kabul knocks her out too badly to continue. It's not an apology, and she doesn't try to make it one. But it does keep him from asking about Ben again.

Nile River, Egypt

"Just leave some for tomorrow," Jesse says as she wrings out her hair. The locals on shore haven't noticed them yet, but it's getting to be a close thing. "This is already more than we usually get in a day."

"I'm almost done," Claire mumbles. Her mouth tastes like copper. She reaches down again, gets hit with a flash of Castiel fighting off one of his brothers, and comes to with the river breaking across her face as Jesse pulls her up again.

"Claire," he says, holding her upright. "This is stupid. Just stop."

She ignores him, tries to pull away. When that doesn't work, she frowns and aims her mouth at his mouth instead. To her surprise, Jesse tightens his grip on her shoulders and stops her there too. When Claire's eyes refocus, she sees him watching her with a frown.

"Look," he says, quieter. "You can get your blood on my mouth if you want to. I'm still going to tell you you're going too far."

Claire reaches up to wipe her face, petulant, and only now notices that her nose has been bleeding all along. It's not that she didn't think he would notice the pattern, but he's not supposed to talk about it. A drop of red falls off her lip and stains the river red.

Jesse sighs. "It's not like I mind," he says. "The kissing, I mean, or whatever you want to call it. But just 'cause I like it doesn't mean I can't tell what you're doing."

"It's not a reward," Claire grouses.

"It can be whatever you like," says Jesse, too sincere. His hands are still holding her in place, holding her up. "You know that's always been true, don't you? And if you decide you don't want to do it anymore, that's also fine." His cheeks go a little red. "Or if, when Ben is back—"

The warmth of tolerant exasperation curdles in Claire's throat instantly. She pushes out of Jesse's arms, and this time he lets her go. "This isn't," she begins, and then chokes as the truth curse tries to twist her words. She smears more blood off her face and glares at the river. "My usual outlets aren't available right now. I've already explained what this does and doesn't mean to me. You have no excuse for wishful thinking."

She's glad she can't see whatever face he makes at that. By the time Jesse speaks again, his voice is as even as hers. "As I said. You'll do what you like." He steps out of the water. "Let me know when you're done."

Claire tastes blood the whole rest of her time in the Nile. They don't share a bed that night.

[ladysophiebeckett]

begging people to stop recommending madeline miller's circe to ppl who like the odyssey. like at this point, it sounds like ur tricking them.

[somlkyi]

WAIT A GODDAMN SECOND.

[hsslilly-blog]

i really like how claire grew up educated and i don't think that's something people gather from her at first glance. it's not something people expect from her... she looks and sounds like a stereotypical valley girl and i don't think it would be a problem if she really were one (who cares); but part of claire's character is how people perceive her and then how that makes her perceive herself. she's a pretty good conversationalist and i don't mean that just because she talks a lot, but because she has a great range of subjects she has an opinion on since she's read about it/learnt it somewhere/took an interest in at some point of her life. she can keep any conversation going. and most people just don't have contact with this side of her because they don't give her a chance past their expectations of her <- but people who do engage with her sincerely like her a lot. and then there's the whole thing about her making you feel like the only person in the world when she talks with you.

and by 'educated' i mean her parents (both of them) actively sought out and encouraged her to learn stuff. she grew up around books and academia, and also around art and culture. she had a very privileged upbringing and she made the most of it. and at the end of the day, i do think her parents cared for her as a person and not as their little creature. to some extent. they wanted to see her grow up into a well-rounded adult, so they provided her with a lot of tools. not everything was good! i've written a lot before about how her relationship with her parents shaped her as a person, but also not all was bad. she has lots of skills she wouldn't have had otherwise.

i also think all of this relates to a broader aspect of her nature: she's very curious about things, very inquisitive and she doesn't accept most things at face value. it makes her very argumentative, to the dismay of some. it's funny to think she wouldn't have been too out of place if she had followed a career in biology.

[schrodingers-dove]

#''great and now i have to raise another one of my fatherhusband's children 🙄'' / ''dean that is an adult man''

screaminggg and he would’ve DONE IT TOO like in another universe, you know dean is driving them down once a month to stalk adam a la stanford era. and sam would be like “dean you don’t even like this kid” but that’s irrelevant sam!! he’s john’s and that makes him mine!!!

dean winchester will see an unattended youth and go "is anyone going to reluctantly parent that?" and not even wait for an answer.

but yea, he would.

okay and then i had actually serious thoughts :')

dean was ~11 when adam was born, so for dean it's two betrayals. bc it's john having a kid who he doesn't drag into hunting like he does with sam & dean and allows to grow up "apple pie." but (iirc) john doesn't seek out a relationship with adam until sam leaves for stanford. so like. there's the betrayal of your father having a secret extra child and the betrayal of a partner leaving you to go play dad to their shiny new secret kid with a former partner. it's a deep and complicated wound and tbh, dean handles it pretty well and is warming up to adam before he finds out it's actually ghoul!adam. and once we get real adam in s5(?) he's referring to him as family/a brother even tho they have never actually met before. (extremely funny tbh when adam is like who tf are you??)

ALSO. i have a lot of thoughts regarding the symbolic classism of john taking adam to baseball games being very Traditional Apple Pie Americana vs later on in s11 we find out that john mostly took sam & dean to indie pro wrestling shows (my beloved) which in my personal experience has tended to be seen as low class/trashy. all extremely sad bc on its good days, pro wrestling is shakespeare in the squared circle. sports for theater kids who never did theater.

[cosmic-walkers]

if i were to have any critque of wolf hall, it would be how the women were written T-T. like i love wolf hall, but i have a critique for how every woman who wasn't a cromwell woman or who wasn't related to them was written.

[rescuefield-arch1]

what if i changed my fc to ka.rol queir.oz

[navree]

Justice for Leah Clearwater. Still mad about it to this day.

God the Leah Clearwater stuff was so bizarre. All the stuff with the werewolves was bizarre! Oh Emery's the half brother of either Sam or Jacob or Quil but it'll never get brought up again. Oh Leah's infertile and hates it but there's no resolution to that story. Oh sometimes they can fall in love with babies but it's fine. And don't even get me started on how imprinting in and of itself is deeply fucked up for both the imprintee and imprinter alike but it's never acknowledged as such at all (the fact that Sam and Leah were deeply in love and then that went out the window just because Sam saw Emily, that's such a horrifying situation for all three of them! and that one creepy as Hell bit where Renesmee starts walking and Jacob immediately claps because he just has to automatically do what she wants even if he doesn't want to, along with the general creepiness of this adult man falling in love with a months old baby). And of course using an actual real life Native American tribe for all of this shit.

Listen, Twilight is not good. There's a lot of issues surrounding the writing and plot and worldbuilding, even if the hype against it was absolutely overblown and fueled mainly by misogyny. Unfortunately I read these books when I was ten and had a far less critical eye for the media I consumed, so I tolerated it and they still have the occasional hold on me.

[juniperhillpatient]

you’d think the hardest part of writing is like. coming up with plots & backstories & complex ideas to convey through story. but actually it’s when you name your characters things that are too similar & constantly accidentally type the wrong name