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I'm a simple man | The Drop 033 | 26.04.23

#mine #gif #edmonton oilers #oilers lb #this is for my friend :)

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zach hyman's game 1 hattrick | 22 april 2024

+ connor's ridiculous assist on the 1st goal

#gif #eighteen #ninety seven

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happy playoffs to all who celebrate

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speak to me about these wips of yours. i've never heard of any of them before and i am simply so very curious

I love you so much Julian mwah

I will not talk about the funny gamer men on here but uh catboy fic (ie My Teammate Turned into a Cat?!) started as "what if Draisaitl turned into a cat sometimes" and has quickly turned into "hey what would the PR and hockey ops response be to a player literally turning into a cat" and also "hey what's the horror of people changing in ways that are unknowable to you" so it's going well! The horrors of bureaucracy, mostly.

Nonetheless here's a TikTok/IG Reel I thought one of the content producers would make as a sick joke a few weeks into the curse manifesting:

The players are walking back to the locker room, still in gear, presumably after a practice. A text caption reading, “If you could be any animal, what animal would you be?” is displayed on the screen as the video rapidly cuts to the players responding, either off the ice or in the locker room.

McLeod grins, looks at the person holding up the phone camera.

“Uh, definitely a dog.”

Nugent-Hopkins looks mildly taken aback but is smiling.

“I’m not sure, actually. Maybe a wolf?”

Someone calls out something unintelligible from off camera. The camera spins and zooms in to catch Hyman laughing.

“I’m not a horse, you —”

Hyman looks thoughtful and affable, as if giving the question serious thought.

“I think I’d be a dog. A Golden Retriever, maybe? They’re pretty smart and loyal.”

Kulak looks mildly amused.

“Some type of dog.”

Holloway laughs loudly.

“I think being a dog would be great.”

Desharnais shrugs, before turning to someone off camera.

“A bear? A bear’s cool, right?”

The response is muffled, but Desharnais laughs anyway and faces the camera again.

“Stu says moose. I’ll go with that.”

Skinner smiles politely at the camera.

“I think I’d like to be a cat. They seem pretty smart and quick.”

McDavid lets out a little media chuckle and runs a hand through his hair.

“Uh… I don’t know. Probably a dog. … What breed? I’m not sure. Maybe I’d just look like Lenny, or something.”

Draisaitl stares at the camera, stone-faced. After a couple of seconds he grits out —

“A cat. I guess.”

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Bouch/Clouder Academia AU is basically omg they were roommates doing graduate degrees. It's part of a much broader alternate universe where basically any NHL player that is funny to me is now an academic. I have read so many papers on topics that are not relevant to my own field of study.

Bouch is studying sports medicine as an MSc. He's looking at resiliency and recovery in professional sports and aims to be a physiotherapist after he graduates. He was set to go pro but had a spree of injuries and rough accidents on the ice before and during his stint in the OHL and his drafting prospects plummeted.

Clouder's a PoliSci/Media Studies MA studying how nationalistic narratives are built through sports coverage. He's the only one of three sons that is not playing pro hockey and he has no problems because of it at all :) He's still figuring out what he wants to do with his life.

The fic is mostly following them in their first year at their local university and how they navigate each other and the hockey-related problems they're both dealing with. It went shippy/slowburn "mostly" by accident, but whatever. They'll figure it out eventually. Here's a random snippet:

The holidays seem to have started a pattern. Not enough to be a constant, but enough to know it’s always there, a safety net in the back of his mind. Some days, Ryan will hang up from a family call the day after an impressive game from Michael and there’s a case study that needs to be proofread, immediately; some days, Evan’s gritting his teeth going down the stairwell and it’s easy to duck under his arm, take some pressure off his knee. A scar for a story, one regret for another.

Back and forth, like a passing drill.

It’s not weird, or gay, or whatever bullshit Jungian term Stu is now using for their friendship just because he got caught asking D.R. about painkiller interactions once. It’s open — there’s a comfort there, a familiarity that settles somewhere near Ryan’s sternum and makes it easier to breathe. That’s normal, probably, for a friendship. Quiet reciprocity, which might be the crux of the problem, a fear that he can’t properly describe.

He appreciates those moments where Evan feels comfortable enough to share, to trust in him. Some are easier, a memory of unlucky circumstance with a speedy return. Others — the larger ones, usually, or complications that took him off the ice for months at a time — make it seem like he’d rather pull out his own fingernail than tell. But he does so anyway, stilted and hesitant, and something cold slides down Ryan’s spine every time.

It takes a few more weeks for him to name that feeling guilt, but it’s the closest he’s probably going to get.

#answer #yes everyone understand the depths of my insanity in terms of making things in my aus “practical”

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connor knight

#art #ninety seven #good god op

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"how many drinks would it take for you to kiss leon draisaitl?" (x)

#really gang

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happiness

#press #seventy three #seventy four #it's a good friendship...

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your second star of the night | 15 april 2024

#gif #thirty seven #foegs!!

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Oh no uh

I have... a lot of leftover drafts, so the common ones I currently actually have in my draft folder are:

My Teammate was Hit With a Generational Curse and Now Turns into a Cat?! (Draisaitl Fruits Basket AU that is slowly veering into a body horror piece. It was meant to be cute).

****/****** Hatefuck (lolesports hatefuck. I'm not putting the names for my mental health)

I can’t quite remember how this goes / my memories are starting to know me less (lolesports age regression / role swap. Older player regresses back to a roughly rookie age, before he and the pov character almost got together and then almost broke up. It's very angsty)

I Don’t Know What I’d Do (But We Could Find Out Soon) (Bouch/Clouder Academia AU that is half angst half homoerotic slowburn)

I uh. Confessedly do not have anyone to tag

thanks for tagging me @raineyraven

Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then, tag as many people as you have WIPs.

ouagh okayyyy fine for you rainey

i dont actually have that many wips i mostly finish everything in one or two writing sessions or i consider it incomplete and unfinished forever

they're pulling out the tarot cards (i fucking hate this) (marauders)

do you have something against dogs??????? (marauders)

take his name out of your mouth (you don't deserve to mourn) (marauders)

dude not this guy again . can someone get this guy out of my docs (batfam)

once there's time (spn)

first of many (spn)

post show for the rest of my life (og work, poetry)

god willing i finish . even just one of these actually .

im tagging !!! @pinkcowzz @my-critical-rolemance @doingthewritethings and @everwalldigan if any of you have any writing stuff you wanna share ! i dont have any other people to specifcially tag if any of my mutuals see this and have writing they wanna share consider yourself tagged !!!!

#tag game

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🍎x100

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great reaction right here from connor mcdavid, having a little laugh, always so serious, right? but not right now, he's soaking this in, having a little chuckle on the bench

connor (+ leon) after connor's 100th assist of the season

#gif #ninety seven #he's happy! #see this man can experience joy in his life

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davo's programming short-circuiting for @annieqattheperipheral

#press #ninety seven #media training hits different lmao

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after his 100th assist of the szn

mcdrai | SJS @ EDM | 04.15.2024

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#they can't act (affectionate) #press #twenty five #sarah nurse

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fleury

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#he's so wonderfully cringefail #marner