take it by storm

we only get moments

[barkeycowan]

mari ✩ 25, he/any, canadian, i follow from glowingyears

-> leafs primarily. + prospects, ldn knights

-> fond of the ducks, bolts, & other select players. but i’m only truly loyal to the leafs and i like other teams mostly just for players and their narratives more than the team itself.

-> rpf sometimes/often

ao3 • priv twitter (i’m more active here)

[barkeycowan]

HAAAIIIII i just wanted to say that i LOVE ur sambeck fic so much!!!!! i love samisa as much as the next guy but sambeck is my og my number one AND WE’RE LOSING THEM :( like guys lock in they’re childhood friends and playing on rival teams now there’s so much material to work with lollll and i’ll lowk prob leave a long ass comment on that fic in the near future as i tend to do for fics i rly rly liked but for nowwww i loved the concept of it and i feel like that one tag ‘the mortifying ordeal of being 19’ sums it up perfectly and it was such an interesting concept to read abt like what does one do when they thought they’d finally made it big only to have it all embarrassingly taken away in one fell swoop 🫨 and also the characterization of the two of them was so good like YUUUMMMM GOOD FOOD lol

ALSOALSOALSO (sry this is so long btw i just have so much to say 😭)

I ALSO LOVEEEE ur denver barkey/easton cowan fics!!! (help do they have a ship name???) i love them both ofc ‘best impersonation’ is so funny to me like oooo he clocked ur shit lolll and it’s also very bittersweet like it’s giving bing bong death scene take her to the moon for me in the best way possible lol but ‘at last, and too soon’ is my FAVEEEEE i kid you not i read this fic like at least once a week i love it soso much i lowk should’ve left a comment on it ages ago but trust i’ll get on that lol but in short i just loved how they were so effortlessly intertwined in each others lives and routines and the whole concept too of like losing the thing u care abt makes u realize how much u care blah blah blah was v interesting

ok jeez that’s enough out of me lol i just love ur work so much bc it’s so good but especially bc you’ve written abt two of the more niche ships i rly like that barely anyone writes anything for (at least compared to other ships) <3333

THIS IS SUCHHHH A SWEET MESSAGE and i am so insanely late replying because i'm the actual worst but thank you SO MUCH!!!!!!!! i love how much these fics resonated with you :') you really get exactly what i was going for like god there is nothing i love writing about more than junior hockey and the coming of age of it all.... i love lots of ships i love putting my guys in situations but i'll always be compelled the most by a true best friends to lovers narrative And/Or childhood friends like it really does get to me every time... you understand....

[barkeycowan]

have you changed your ao3 username? the link is dead on your intro post

i haven't, i think the link may have just been broken ?? thank you for telling me lmaoo i just redid it so its definitely working now i'm not sure why it wasn't before mb 😭

[barkeycowan]

mirror of a mirror

— denver barkey/easton cowan • 16k words

No one ever questions whether or not he belongs, whether or not he’s meant to be here. Denver blends right in. It’s exactly where he’s supposed to be. The rest of it, well—he’ll figure it out. She will. Whatever.

Ever since he was a kid, Denver's been pretending to be a guy so he can make it to the NHL. He's not really sure when it stopped feeling like pretending.

[antrea]

[26.04.22] vs. rochester americans (playoffs, round 1 game 1)

[puckpocketed]

27/12/2024 - LAT vs CAN | WJC Day 2

He's not just a proud Canadian, he's a proud member of the Hän Nation, the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin Tribe, and he's a member of the Wolf Clan. And that is a vest made by his grandmother Karen [Mason], all embroidered. It took an incredible amount of time to put that together and he wears it very proudly. - Bob McKenzie on TSN broadcast

[frasermittens]

made from nothing but milk and love

[barkeycowan]

being at a packed marlies playoff game the moment i found out the leafs got the first overall pick is something im literally going to remember for the rest of my life like what the hell. what the hell!!!!!

[barkeycowan]

i left the game and saw the cn tower lit up blue and genuinely burst into tears like oh my god what the hell. i love this team so much i love this city so much MAYBE EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OKAY

[barkeycowan]

being at a packed marlies playoff game the moment i found out the leafs got the first overall pick is something im literally going to remember for the rest of my life like what the hell. what the hell!!!!!

[antrea]

[25.06.01] vs. medicine hat tigers (memorial cup final)

mckenna experiencing easton cowan

[antrea]

[26.04.29] vs. pittsburgh penguins (playoffs, round 1 game 6)

barks can't believe this is his life

[barkeycowan]

borrowed time

“You’re not gonna fight back?” Sam goads, infuriating as ever. “C’mon, you can do better than this.” “You actually wanna?” Beckett asks, twisting out of Sam’s grip and raising his eyebrows. “What?” Sam asks, apparently not following, so Beckett takes the initiative himself and shrugs his gloves off. Sam’s eyes light up immediately, because of course they do.

-> sambeck, mature, 24k words

[not a new fic!!! i posted this on ao3 at the end of january but i wasn't active on here and it is my favourite thing i've written in ages so i wanted it on my acct.. Sometimes your self-indulgent passion project is a fic that's like 50% about junior hockey and player development and 50% about the actual romance]

[couthbbg]

[delusional sports fan voice] but what if something really good happens this time……….

[barkeycowan]

Today i have decided i am going to remember to be active here again

[livefromthegarden]

live seaside

“I want a jacket.” “A what?” Beckett was putting his fork in the dishwasher, really, he should run it soon, and he had to have heard Sam wrong. “A jacket. For your playoffs.” He doesn’t sound like he’s joking. “You’re joking,” Beckett says.

sambeck | 4.8k | teen | no warnings

sometimes you get possessed by the concept of sam dickinson in an anaheim ducks wag jacket and need to take an afternoon to deconstruct how that might play out in your brain. okay?

[weaponizedspite]

Who else crode

[stromerisms-deactivated20240505]

auston matthews — beartown