many thoughts... few good

anna, she/her, 20s 🍡 ghostsinmachine on ao3; ghostsinmachina on twt 🍡 lover of losers 🍡 fic tag!

[ghostsinmachine]

Shadow in the Sun

author: ghostsinmachine pairing: macklin celebrini/will smith (b. 2005) chapters: 2/2 word count: ~17k rating: explicit tags: canon compliant; friends with benefits; smut; will smith hockey is Going Through It

They didn’t do this often. Only when Mack wasn’t in the mood to find a girl, and only when they were on the road, and only when they were roommates. Any more effort than that meant they were trying to make something happen, turn it into a thing, and that wasn’t what this was. There was an element of plausible deniability still; a lot of things had to fall into place first.

[ghostsinmachine]

i’ve been following you and your writing since you were still updating “skinny bitch” and you’ve been one of my favorite authors ever since, every time i see a new post or fic from you i get so giddy it’s like christmas came early

omg.... this is like a ten-year long relationship 😭 thank you so much!!!!

[hokeypuck]

mack: will only wears wired headphones to protect himself from 5G

john tavares: your friend sounds very wise

[hokeypuck]

mack: and he has a saint christophers medal on a chain around his neck

john tavares, nodding: an amulet

[ghostsinmachine]

https://www.tumblr.com/totheecore/816240871764901888/100526-can-fra-iihf-worlds-2026-postgame

It really is such a good nose 🥰

having a strong nose is such an admirable quality...

[heartpdf]

[ghostsinmachine]

almost every time i reread my own writing i'm not very pleased with it and this is still kind of true re: the technical execution of this excerpt but. i still do like the scene very much

[aquilotti]

hockeycanada Meet the captains! / Voici nos capitaines! 🇨🇦 C: Macklin Celebrini. A: Ryan O'Reilly. A: John Tavares.

[ghostsinmachine]

the mass exodus of casey, m, hannah, nic, j who were pivotal to the wacklins. I'm not too sure if you were here on monday but gossip blog nothinngimportant531 cyber stalked the tik toker who was drunk and posted that embarrassing story of running into will and some girl in a boston bar to feed the tin hatters and all hell broke loose after. Fandom got invaded with weirdos and now the vibes are super low.

some of these people are still around even if they’re not posting wm! and tbh the annoying conduct has been happening for a Minute. like sure this one instance could be the straw that broke the camel’s back but also it’s been crazy for a while. plus interests really do just change… when things are no longer as fun as they used to be it’s reasonable to move on. i don’t have much to contribute to this convo bc i’m very much in favor of curating your own online experience!

[ghostsinmachine]

what are your thoughts on everyone who contributed to the wm community jumping ship and leaving?

honestly i haven't been super dialed in myself so i'm not sure who you're referring to. it may just be part of the natural life cycle of fandom--people's interests in things wax and wane for lots of different reasons!

[urie]

oh, okay. i see. you think rpf has nothing to do with you. you go on the internet and say heated rivalry rpf is immoral and invasive because you’re trying to tell the world that you care too much about these actors to read fic about them, but what you don’t know is that the rpf is not just a byproduct of their good chemistry, it's not just parasociality, it’s actually the only next logical step.

you’re also blithely unaware of the fact that, in 2011, hbo produced a documentary series about the washington capitals vs pittsburgh penguins stadium series, and then i think it was on livejournal, wasn't it, that sidney crosby/alexander ovechkin hockey rpf began to really circulate widely. and then sid/ovi rpf quickly showed up in the collection of several prolific fanfic writers. then it filtered down through tumblr and ao3 and then trickled on down to miss rachel reid herself, who no doubt was the first to be brave enough to send it to print

however, heated rivalry represents millions of works by countless hockey rpfers, and it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from rpf when, in fact, you’re watching a tv show that was selected for you by the same rpfers you're condemning... from a pile of "stuff"

[ghostsinmachine]

mack being dogshit under pressure in every context outside of hockey is very funny 2 me. guy playing heads up whose clue for princess diana was just saying “princess diana”

[ghostsinmachine]

just watched the mack & ned head’s up video in horrified disbelief

[ghostsinmachine]

i stumbled upon this a few weeks ago and i haven’t been able to stop thinking about it ever since, and i just wanted to ask if you and/or your friend would mind if i maybe wrote a fic with this premise? totally understandable if not!! https://www.tumblr.com/somewhatinvested/781111002560430080/ghostsinmachine-and-i-really-are-the-2-dumb

go ahead, i don't mind! checked with shaun and she's fine with it as well :)

[kyumo-02]

get a fknnn room

[ghostsinmachine]

mack yearning for armpit time.... rotating this in my mind like a gas station hot dog

i think this is foundational to the premise really. guy who just Needs something to justify this

[heartbreakincident]

writing your fave having sex with with their love interest is OUT writing your fave shamefully jerking off and coming pathetically fast at just the idea of fucking their love interest is IN

[ghostsinmachine]

Adding on to the WillMack A/B/O: Mack insists he's alpha because he was so protective of Will at lunch.

"Smitty did you see how I snapped at Voter? When he tried to put a hand on your shoulder? That's like the definition of alpha"

And Will points out Mack is always like that. He's just a possessive undersocialized little shit. And Mack's argument turns into a whiny pleading thing which Will is quick to point out is not very alpha of Mack

mack never paid attention during middle school health class so he's just pointing to random behaviors like "dude i think mind over matter works i'm willing myself into alphahood" but really he just wants armpit time because he's into how grimy and intimate it feels except obviously the only justifiable reason as to why he likes it all is because of his newly developed pheromone-sensing abilities.

all the while will is entertaining it even though he knows it's stupid and total bs bc there's a secret part of him that's kinda holding out hope. because it could be good, if mack were an alpha. or if will were. something beyond his control that could explain away how bad he wants it.