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why does he somehow always look like the cat that ate the canary

#matthew tkachuk #gonna cause problems on purpose

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mentally im friends with a lot of u guys even if we dont talk or never have talked and probably will never talk directly. its ok. the warriors bond transcends words

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I think people misunderstand "x fell first, x fell harder " trope because it's not about like the one who fell harder loves the other person harder. It's just that the one who fell first falls in a graceful way, one step at the time, maybe gradually over a span of time. The one who fell harder smashes trough the air, there's blood everywhere, everything is fine-

#mattdrai

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😛 (05.10.24)

#matthew tkachuk #oral fixation much

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Ratthew going in ass first for every hit brings me joy

#panthers lb

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you are disgusting

come over

#mattdrai

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Stanley Cup playoffs...Panthers v Bruins...game 2...09.05.2024

#matthew tkachuk #he’s just so

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no matter the struggles there is always ao3 in bed

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send me a ☕️ and a topic and i’ll talk about how i feel about it

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I think it’s important to remember that just because you don’t like something, that doesn’t make it bad.

Unless the thing you don’t like is a rival sports team then it is bad, possibly evil, and hating it is morally correct.

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what is the point of taking out your mouth guard to adjust it if your just gonna put it WRONG

boston bruins @ florida panthers game 2 | 5.8.24

#matthew tkachuk #i love him your honor

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What's wrong with you?

Depends on the day

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what's your fave sibling dynamic to write for matthew? and why??

As much as I love Braeden (lol, I can't) I probably will pick Taryn. She's so fun to write, giving her brothers shit and being just as competitive as they are, but also having more of a normal life and normal experiences. She's a great perspective outside of the NHL to write into fic, and it's just so obvious that Matthew loves her and thinks the world of her.

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would you ever write mcmattdrai

Short answer? No.

I have zero interest in getting Davo involved in my MattDrai, and shipping Davo and Leon, or Davo and Ratthew together doesn't interest me on any level. It doesn't hit my buttons, so I don't read it and won't write it.

I'm more into other narratives for Davo.

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Please share the director‘s commentary for ‚always leads to you in my hometown‘💙

Okay so I wrote this story for a wonderful friend of mine, and my informant (Otter) told me that this friend was particularly intrigued by a random plot bunny about virgin Matthew. We've had so many chat fics going in Discord DMs, you don't even know.

More rambling under the cut

I wanted to write a Matthew who just... was more focused on hockey than on relationships, who learned just enough at Catholic school to want his first time to be special, who didn't make it about internalized homophobia but instead wasn't going to sleep with someone he didn't want to bring home to his family eventually.

Leon being the slutty bad boy was a choice in contrast, because while I think Leon is absolutely a romantic, he could either lean into romance or avoid it entirely after getting his heart broken a few too many times. Plus, he has that Romance Hero vibe where he comes across as grumpy at first, but he's hiding a big heart underneath.

Writing a Leon who isn't already falling for Matthew was a fun exercise, because while he is intrigued by Matthew on several levels (hockey, looks, the banter, and Matthew telling him no)... Leon is determined not to have feelings for anyone. As they go to the Tkachuk home, Leon keeps having these little moments in which he's so charmed by Matthew. I purposefully added the little details like Leon getting a little too into Matthew's freckles and dimple (finding out all of these new things about someone he had a lot of preconceived notions about), and noticing that Matthew was nervous and trying to put him at ease - but still trying to bring out that snarky side too. And Leon falls a little bit in love when Matthew makes him laugh in bed.

Of course, Leon would wanna fuck at the Tkachuk house. There's something intimate about a childhood room instead of the anonymity of a hotel room - and there's a part of Leon that wanted to make sure Matthew was somewhere he felt safe. That and he's a horny fucker who likes the idea of sneaking in right under the great Keith Tkachuk's nose to fuck his son. I love this bad boy Leon, you don't even know.

And then they're done and Leon gets back to his routine of leaving after, of not letting himself make this into something that it's not. The ring is a complete surprise to him, and he doesn't know what it means right away, but then Matthew is kicking him out and that hits him in the ego. He spends most of the flight back fiddling with the ring where people can't see him and trying to put it together.

Buying a chain to wear it on is an impulse he can't quite push down. The ring matters, and Leon isn't going to throw it in a drawer somewhere. It's too important for that. Matthew's gotten under his skin and Leon doesn't know how to deal with that. It's why he lashes out when Matthew calls the ring meaningless. It's not meaningless to Leon - not anymore, and maybe it never was.

The next time, Leon finally gets to say what he wanted to say the whole time. His own first time wasn't great and he can't stand the thought that he might have done anything like that to Matthew. Matthew, who's so special. Matthew, who immediately wants to fight Leon's first - and yeah, Leon's lost the battle. He's falling. He's fallen.

Initially, I was going to write Leon's do-over, with an uncertain Matthew figuring out how to fuck someone, but the story kept stalling there. It just didn't quite work for me - and because I know that the friend I wrote it for likes it better when Leon tops, I deleted a part of the scene and gave Leon his moment to talk about his own regrets. Most of the story so far was about Matthew's feelings and Matthew's hopes and fears and regrets - and giving Leon his moment too actually made it work so much better. It feels like another chance for them, and because it isn't a first this time, they both get to be more comfortable with each other - they have something to build on. And that just seemed like a better metaphor for the relationship they're starting to build here.

A part of me wonders if I should have ended it there, but since I love a bit of humor, I felt like I had to include a scene where they revisit the childhood room to really make it come full circle. Back in St. Louis, back in the exact same location but they've both grown so much since then (plus torturing Brady is a bonus, you know there's a point where he overhears or Matthew and Leon forgot to lock the door).

Thanks for the ask, this was fun!

#mattdrai #director's commentary #puckthiswrites #fic: always leads to you in my hometown

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Title: doin’ what comes naturally Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Men’s Hockey RPF Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Leon Draisaitl/Matthew Tkachuk Characters: Matthew Tkachuk, Brady Tkachuk, Tkachuk Family (Hockey RPF), including a whole load of OCs, Leon Draisaitl Additional Tags: Family Bonding, not NOT a bridgerton au, but also definitely not a regency era fic, 5+1 in a trenchcoat, Non-Linear Narrative, self-indulgent nonsense Summary:

“And you weren’t just all named alphabetically… why?”

“They definitely weren’t planning eight of us, buddy.”

in which there’s more tkachuks than anybody ever asked for, but the amount that everyone needs

#mattdrai #the bridgerchuks will change your life #fic rec

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“I am normal about him” I say, panting, one hand in a white-knuckled grip on a friend's shirt front, the other on a scrungly little weirdo of a character

#ratthew