joyride the pale horse

green | 27 | they/them you don’t have to love me. you already did. at least enough to keep me smiling from boston to ohio. it’s for lovers (orjustfriends)

[heinen]

basics

you can call me green

aroace + nonbinary (they/them) + autistic 

i am a writer (ao3)

i occasionally make gifs & edits

theoretically multifandom, but mostly hockey

hockey

hockey posts are tagged with the players' full name(s) + the team name (e.g. "bruins", "devils", "blue jackets", "team finland") or nickname (e.g. "canes", "habs", "pens") + "hockey". i also use the full team name (e.g. "boston bruins") for visibility on original content.

i don't actually liveblog much, but when i do it's only tagged as "[team] lb".

i do not support players accused of serious crimes (e.g. p*trick kane, dr*w doughty) or players who are openly bigoted (e.g. jordan b*nnington, matthew tk*chuk).

my #1 favorite player is honestly a tie between jake debrusk, danton heinen, and anders bjork (even though he's no longer an active player).

an abridged list of my other favorites: sean kuraly, david pastrnak, sebastian aho, dougie hamilton, roope hintz, nick suzuki, and nearly the entire 2018-19 bruins roster.

obligatory tierlist below. i like individual players on most teams (even the ones in the bottom tier) just as i dislike individual players on most teams (even the ones in the top tiers); this just reflects how i feel about each team as a whole. the bottom tiers are more or less ordered from left to right, with left being closest to the tier above and right being closest to the tier below.

tier 1: the bruins are my #1 no matter how much they test me. i was a bruins fan before i was a hockey fan. i'm from massachusetts and was raised on boston sports, but the 2013 round 1 game 7 comeback forever shifted the trajectory of my life by encouraging me to get way too invested in hockey.

tier 2: i spent most of my childhood in north carolina. when i moved back to boston in 2017, i wanted to keep some connection to my home state, so now the canes are my forever #2 or perhaps #1B, depending on how you slice it.

tier 3: the stars were my introduction to the concept of liking more than one team because i was devastated when tyler seguin was traded. but i took a break from hockey in 2015 and by the time i returned in 2017, i no longer cared about seguin and kind of just replaced the stars with the canes. then i got back into hockey (again) in 2025 and their whimsy lured me back in, so maybe it was just meant to be.

tier 4: i didn't intend to become a canucks fan; i just watched one game to see how jake debrusk was doing and got stuck here. but my canucks-fan-because-of-jake-debrusk era is lowkey just my sabres-fan-because-of-anders-bjork era 2.0, which is to say if they get rid of him they're probably getting relegated to the casual or neutral tier even though i like other players on the team. it's just not worth putting up with that 1970 expansion curse if my #1 favorite guy isn't there.

tier 5: i'm fond of the habs primarily for two reasons: 1) i enjoy watching games in french (i am not fluent; i just took french in high school and have tried not to lose what i learned), and 2) i love nick suzuki and have developed a fondness for several more players. but we can't be together for real if i'm married to the bruins.

tier 6: the devils were my main team in 2021-22 when i needed a break from both of my actual teams, mostly because i was mad the canes signed d*angelo instead of dougie hamilton so i followed him. but at heart i'm just a casual enjoyer.

tiers 7-8: essentially just the "neutral" tier, but i tried to pick a side.

tiers 9-10: teams that i hate, divided by how passionate i am about hating them. yes it's true i was once a sharks enjoyer but i cannot stand what they've become. sorry.

other interests

i love live music and go to shows/concerts pretty frequently. music-related posts will be tagged with the band name or abbreviation (e.g. "mcr" for my chemical romance) + “music”.

other media will be tagged as “tv”, “movies”, or “books” with the appropriate title

i also have a pokémon sideblog @vernalavenue. i don’t post about it much but i do have "successfully named all 1025 pokémon in 37 minutes on pkmnquiz.com" level autism.

personal posts/general thoughts are tagged "green.txt".

feel free to message or send an ask!

[reactionimagesdaily]

[sequestering]

NHL player poll: Injury transparency? Want Ovechkin to break Gretzky’s record? Expand to 34 teams? (The Athletic) / NHL watching close after Calgary Flames players target Leon Draisaitl’s injured ankle (Oilers Nation) / Buongiorno to the Olympic Break (32 Thoughts: The Podcast) / Bruins' Brad Marchand: Injuring opponents 'part of playoffs' (ESPN) / EverythingHockey on X / Why are NHL teams so secretive in the playoffs: Gamesmanship or foolishness? (The Athletic)

[chonidale]

Cheryl Blossom, according to other characters.

[snizzboner]

haaaaate when two teams i hate play each other in the playoffs like i hope a sinkhole opens under the rink

[oedipalrivalry]

being a team sports fan really is like oh what if you stanned the ship of theseus

[ozth]

fuckkkkkk I cleared the time loop first try

[ozth]

I woke up in the morning and everything was different

[biteurhip]

an aspect of project hail mary i love so deeply is how rocky speaking through a translator reminds me of my sisters AAC device. talking about the movie with a friend after we saw it, i was telling her about something my sister said with her device the other day and it dawned on me “OH MY GOD ROCKY HAS AN AAC DEVICE” yeah his translator isn’t really like a one-to-one similar device to an AAC device but it’s essentially his version! my sisters device tracks her eye movement for her to select what she wants to say, rocky can’t really do that given the lack of eyes, but it’s still just something i really enjoy about the story

[biteurhip]

also!! rocky’s translator is his voice, grace gives him vocabulary options whether he enjoys being told something or not (ex.: him giving rocky the word “brave” even if he doesn’t want to he told it), AND THATS THE SAME FOR AAC DEVICES. they’re a voice. you do not restrict their vocabulary or options just because what the person is saying is annoying you. IT IS THEIR VOICE. they deserve speech regardless of what YOU feel about it.

[exuberantocean]

You know what I think its grossly under-rated in fandom? Second loves.

What it's like to love and lose and then love again. To suffer through either the death of a loved one or the death of a love you used to share. To know that loss, to know that hurt, and to still make yourself vulnerable to someone again. To love scared, to love wounded, to love anyway.

[exuberantocean]

By under rated in fandom I mean so often past loves are either erased completely or downplayed like "oh yeah they weren't really in love.". I think it flattens the character. Humans are capable of so much love. Each relationship is different and you can learn from each one! And yes, there's something brave in learning to love again, something incredible romantic, why pass it by?

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Chuck Palahniuk, oof

[heinen]

the bruins’ season is dead because a guy in a morgan geekie jersey participated in a wall of death at the bring me the horizon show in worcester fact checked by real english parents

[heinen]

this is what i get for typing while walking out of the venue

[heinen]

the bruins’ season is dead because a guy in a morgan geekie jersey participated in a wall of death at the bring me the horizon show in worcester fact checked by real english parents

[heinen]

just saw a pic of one of those sh*rks players a block away from my apartment. don’t like that

[heinen]

chara inadvertently posting “god loves trans people” on his instagram… remember when we had it all

[rask]

round 1 game 1: ott vs car — 4/18/26

[heinen]

as much as it pleased me to find out my fave player likes pokémon i kind of assumed he was more just a card collector than anything but i just found an old tweet from 2019 where he said he’s a “HUGE pokémon guy”

[heinen]

sean 3-point night and danton 1-point night what year is it again