Ovi‘s Dick Piercing

local fandom old dropping lore and meta in irregular intervals. living sidnate encyclopaedia. pens, avs, and general hockey shitposting. i have a Fondness for team germany. thekookster on ao3, I like and follow from @thekookster art blog @tamerof

[crosbyism]

links to all my stuff:

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my primers and meta posts:

Sidney Crosby/Nate MacKinnon .pptx primer -> Sid/Nate: it writes itself | the early years | Sid’s fanon characterisation

German NHLers primer

The Ballad of Erik Karlsson

What the Fuck’s the Deal with Matt Duchene?

Next Generation’s Best Masterpost

[goaliekisses]

SCREAM

[gabelandeskog]

Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog sits down for an interview about winning the Mark Messier Leadership Award, but what he doesn’t know is he’ll also be awarded the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy for exemplifying the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to ice hockey. Watch as his wife and kids give him the biggest surprise of the day.

[pissyleon]

NHLPA is asking for a full investigation into Babcock

[winningmachine]

it's #EvilCoach season. fwiw the provided reason is one but really you're gauging how they cope with doing something they feel to be pointless and insulting and being watched by figures of authority while they do it. how do they process, express or suppress embarrassment, confusion, shame, frustration? obviously a lot of hockey is having the ability to focus on a task before quitting but it's usually a task they believe in. what happens if they dont believe in the task. probably this specific test reveals nothing very much but it's fun for everyone involved to pretend it does, and the willingness to engage in the shared delusion that it's a meaningful activity is actually itself an important little bit of data.

[pleasantearthshake]

these two idiots (affectionate)

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[loverboyilya]

My husband and I saw you from across the rink and we absolutely hate your vibe.

[justhereforthepies]

Seeing @luulapants & others talking about issues with Ilya's representation as a second language speaker in fics made me want to list out some patterns of "Ilya speak" and how they do and don't align with real second language speakers of Russian.

My credentials: 2 graduate degrees researching multilingualism & second language phonology. Plus copyediting a book written by a first language speaker of Russian & Ukrainian after being her coworker for a decade <3

1. Pronoun drop: e.g. "is good". It is common with second language speakers, but I'm gonna support Luula's analysis of this as based on a mis-hearing of 'It's good' in a Russian accent - Russian has palatalized stops and the frication makes listeners reclassify them as fricatives. t^j -> s

2. Article issues: most common error, even amongst very fluent speakers. Includes mixing up indefinite (a/an) and definite (the) articles, dropping articles (e.g. 'I was going to store'), and hypercorrection (inserting unnecessary articles, e.g., 'I am going to the home').

3. Copula deletion: Russian has a null copula (when you can replace 'to be' with an =, that's the copula) so copula drop can happen in English (e.g., "I a teacher"). This one is drilled really hard for Russian learners so it doesn't come up as often as you would think. I can't think of canon examples of Ilya doing this.

4. Unfamiliarity with vocab: non-Russian fic writers - try checking a Russian/English dictionary because there are lots of English loanwords in Russian (or other Latinate loans) that share a common root. Luula's anon brought this up, but as an example, 'autism' in Russian is 'аутизм' and is basically pronounced the same - they are cognates. Ilya would have a very good guess of what this word means, along with other loanwords.

In my experience, idioms are some of the hardest/last vocab items to grasp because the words are common (so English speakers don't expect there to be a problem) but the meaning is non-obvious. Lots of English speakers won't even say the whole idiom, just expect people to understand from a partial recital. E.g. "When you assume..." ; "the best laid plans..." ; "speak of the devil" ; "when in Rome" etc.

5. Word order: English is pretty strict about word order, Russian has more free order (supported by their very robust case system + grammatical gender). This mostly comes up with subordinate clause order. For one example, I've noticed that English writers tend to put clarifying phrases before, Russian speakers after. (E.g., a Russian speaker might have written the previous sentence with 'as one example' at the end). These re-phrasings aren't necessarily ungrammatical in English, but they may come off as confusing (for very complex sentences) or the overall pattern across multiple sentences comes off as unnatural.

6. Question tags: fanfic writers love to give Ilya simple question tags as a vocab quirk (e.g. 'it's special, no?' ; 'You like this, yes?'. I haven't memorably experienced this from the Russian first language speakers I know, but Russian does have question tags like this (e.g., I understand that так is used pretty similarly to Canadian English 'eh?')

7. W vs V: I definitely exit out of fics if they give Ilya a use of "w" like Chekov from Star Trek. This is made up & fake.

8. Avoiding Do / Don't: English is weird about the verb 'to do' and lots of the time you can leave it out (even if native speakers would use it). Using question tags for yes/no questions is one way of avoiding constructions with 'do', another is using the target verb rather than replacing with do. E.g. 'Do you like to row?' An English native might reply 'yes, I do' while an ESL speaker might be more likely to use 'yes, I like to row' or 'yes, I like rowing'. Again, not incorrect but when it builds up as a pattern of speech it sounds less natural to a native speaker.

9. Skipping contractions: very common amongst all kinds of ESL speakers. English speakers will throw in a "had'nt've" and always use "doesn’t" over "does not". But lots of ESL speakers just pronounce each word always - especially if there is an auxiliary verb. It can be difficult to remember combinations like - is "I've not" or "I haven't" more natural (& the answer is different for different English varieties).

10. Verbs & nouns paired with prepositions: it's just really common to select the wrong preposition or drop it altogether. E.g., "baked with hands" instead of "baked by hand"; 'compliment about' vs. 'compliment on', etc.

Rule of thumb: just give Ilya good English. It's less inaccurate than 'caveman' Ilya and less xenophobic to boot!

[this-account-doesnt-exist]

don’t ask me why i made this

[sidmackk]

[crosbyism]

philipp grubauer posts about his horse like some people post about their long distance boyfriends and honestly that’s among the reasons why he’ll never stop being my favourite goalie

the “Miss him” in the bottom right corner is truly taking me out. the most horse girl of men for real

[channelslam]

I love when we get ex athletes commentating on their sport and you can tell they havent moved on or processed the trauma from their athlete years and project it on current players

[frasermittens]

happy pride month

[puckplume]

my pick for hockey tweet of the day:

[crosbyism]

btw for any people getting into sidnate who have like, timeline questions or anything for fic research purposes, feel free to hop into my DMs or asks. given im like a living encyclopaedia about them at this point i may as well put my knowledge to use for the greater good (fanworks creation)

[summerboyfriendsexchange]

Welcome to the 2026 Sidney Crosby/Nathan MacKinnon Prompt Exchange!

This year, due to popular demand, we’re going to be hosting the exchange in a prompt challenge format! That means that instead of the previous Secret-Santa-type gift exchange format, creators can choose the prompts they wish to create a work for freely from the pool of submitted prompts.

Come join the fun and sign up here!

SCHEDULE:

Sign Ups Open: June 5th (TODAY!) Sign Ups Close: June 28th Prompt Claim Deadline: July 5th Pinch Hit Window: July 5th-September 26th Works Due: September 26th Collection Goes Live: October 3rd Author Reveals: October 10th

Want more information? Check out the RULES and FAQ on our AO3 profile here!

[crosbyism]