FreakTheFrogOut

Welcome to my OMGCheckPlease Side Blog. :D Ok, so I just started this up because I'm #obsessed Also, if you would like, I discuss real hockey over @jabennforthewin! Thank y'all!

[kindofapieceofshit]

all i know is that post-canon chris chow would be 8000% obsessed with aerin frankel. that's his deity. "father god?" no, its mother god. he prays to her before every nhl game he plays. he got really into chicken caesar salads because of her. he is the first to bring her up whenever media tries to make it seem like he's doing something extra special or rare, like, "oh well i mean yeah it's great getting two shutouts in a row but have you seen how many aerin frankel has?? i'm playing catch-up here!"

[heartbeatline]

[unfortunatebedhead]

i'm not saying that gritty shouldn't be in season 2 but also, this is an alternate universe where the nhl doesn't exist, and the idea that in a whole different league with different teams and names gritty is completely 100% the same is really really good

[symphoniccowboy]

ilya constantly jealousybaiting shane is one of my top five favorite things about him, especially before he finally cracks & tells shane that he loves him . he’s like a big fluffy cat showing you his belly like :) so soft :) i kiss you so gentle & tease you & look after you :) & then shane reaches for the belly with fascinated reluctance & ilya goes SCRATCH >:3 what if i greencard marry my old friend i used to fuck more often than you >:3 & shane’s eyes go so wet & shiny & his jaw is clenched . & some raw, young part of ilya heaves a big sigh of relief to know that even if he can’t make shane love him, at least he can affect him . & then as soon as he learns that shane has turned the precise, devoted attention that makes him a legendary hockey player onto ilya he has that flash of holy shit . he is going to love me forever in a way that no one but my mother has ever loved me & i am never going to be the same . & every ounce of tension in his body just evaporates & he melts into a puddle under shane’s hands .

[symphoniccowboy]

@tallsinspace AND ILYA STARTS CRYING !!!!

[ticklefighthockey]

I love shane jumping in to answer the question for ilya when the language barrier is too hard… love this because it’s so kind/considerate but also because he’s modeling for ilya the invaluable pro hockey player skill of talking to the media for a long time without conveying a single piece of information

[ticklefighthockey]

“ilya is SMART shane is NOT” boring take. very dumb. “they are both soooooooooo stupid in their own special ways and the joy of episode six is witnessing two idiots work it out against all odds” real and so true we all know what we saw

[ticklefighthockey]

it’s actually very important to me that ilya flirts outrageously with the refs while they pretend to be annoyed with him. I think shane doesn’t even know most of the refs’ names and his interactions with them are intensely formal and professional. he’s at work why would he be pestering his esteemed if somewhat loathed colleagues. ilya meanwhile has given them all affectionate hockey nicknames and tells them they’ll have to take him out for dinner to make up for bad calls and signs stuff for their kids after games. this does not earn him any fewer penalties as he is utterly shameless about tripping and slashing and hooking, but it does get him a lot of fond eyerolls as the refs herd him over to the box

[dubiousculturalartifact]

Me, looking at Yuna, the mother of Shane Hollander the autistic man:

yuna: but don’t you hate him?

yuna: exact relationship timeline please

yuna: wait if you werent in love back then, what do you mean by ‘since rookie season’ I do not compute

yuna: would you like a beverage? I am hosting, I will get you both a beverage. Wait no, the emotional stakes are even higher than I thought- SECOND beverage. Alcohol. Good plan.

yuna: you never let him win did you, because secret gay love affairs I can accept, but I will disown you if you dont treat hockey seriously

yuna: oh yeah true i would rather die than let my husband win while playing cards

yuna: okay okay I need to go walk outside for a minute because I am emotionally overwhelmed by this conversation

yuna: oh right this conversation is very important, let us now both share a prescribed Moment of Eye Contact to affirm the importance of this moment. This is a thing we should do.

yuna: btw i am sorry i wasnt emotionally available enough that you felt comfortable coming out to me

yuna: Ilya moving teams to Ottawa? But the hockey rules say you should have team loyalty For Life. Oh yeah I guess that’s romantic gesture and all but. Hockey team though? Hmmm.

yuna: okay so let’s strategize and come up with a twelve point plan accounting for the possibility of y’all being outed, how it will impact sponsorship deals…

yuna: wait why would we need to text you first?

Me: wow, genetic

[femaustinpowers]

david hollander is the true winner of the idgaf war. he doesn’t know what youtube is. he doesn’t care about shane’s sponsorships. he understands why shane doesn’t wanna go to wimbledon and is just happy to go with his wife. he sees his son making out with his supposed arch enemy and turns 180 degrees, gets in his car, and doesn’t tell a soul. he pulls out the vodka when his newly out gay son is having a freak out at the dinner table. if shane had even 1% of his idgaf powers he would be unstoppable. unfortunately that boy inherited his mom’s gaf-ability, which is constantly set to 150%.

[emerlandlady]

Don't you dare rush Jacob Tierney while writing the 2nd season. I don't care if it takes the man decades, fuck it, I'll watch it in the nursing home if it means the second season is minimum as good as the first one! This is not some Netflix crap, art takes time!

[omgpoindexter]

nurseydexposting never stops

[alltoowille]

Yuna and David having watched their autistic son be so isolated all of his adult life and never having a happy relationship or close friends who understand his anxiety and then finding out that the man they’ve spent a decade hating on his behalf can casually talk him down from a panic attack in less than a minute

[livingasaghost]

genuinely i do think it's crazy how this show hit every single mark for no reason other than pure love of the game. like this wasn't a money grab and it didn't think it would be a big success, jacob just read a book he enjoyed and thought huh i think that would be a cool thing to make into a tv show. and then he brought on hudson and connor and they're fresh and passionate and not bogged down by the industry yet and they instantly became best friends and wanted to just have fun bringing these characters to life. and they didn't have a huge budget but they did the most with what they had and everybody took the show seriously and everybody took the book seriously. the cinematographer worked his magic. the music supervisor managed to snag a well-known queer hit and an up and coming new release and old school gems that have been around since the 2000s. it's canadian to the core, built from the ground up. it takes russians and the russian language seriously. it uses sex in such a specific, meaningful way that almost no other show has done thus far, and especially not in a queer context like this. they interlaced every episode with callbacks and parallelism and self-references. they didn't take themselves too seriously. they took everything so seriously. there is love and care baked into the core of this show and it's deeply queer and it doesn't shy away from the horrors of toxic masculinity and hockey culture but it is also, always, a story of joy and love and happiness. and on top of everything, it's almost word for word, the original source material from the book.

like damn it's no wonder this thing has made us all insufferable and become a huge fucking success! so few productions in hollywood are doing it like this!!!

[shut-up-gwen]

The show’s so serious when it comes to treating the subject matter with care and respect, be it the queerness, the sex, the languages, the cultures…

But then, it’s so deeply unserious when it comes to just having fun. Calling the podcast ‘man in the crease’. The extra banana jokes. The fucking top and bottom jerseys.

It’s such a perfect balance and I don’t think it could have been achieved by anyone else other than Jacob Tierney with the help of Canadian tax money.

[lovedheronthecoast]

when u learn coding so u can make an ao3 workskin where u can scroll through messages like a real phone... right right right totally normal behavior

@definitelynotilyarozanov by oxfordcommachameleon

[audible301]

I KNOW Yuna shot up in bed that night like “DAVID THE ELEVATOR. HE WAS IN THE FUCKING ELEVATOR.”

[omgpoindexter]

🦞🍃

[aristocrating]