A(watch every game, my babies <333): New Jersey Devils, Buffalo Sabres
B(watch most games): San Jose Sharks, Minnesota Wild
C(wouldn’t consider myself a fan, but watch most games(watching for a select few players)): Utah Mammoth, Philadelphia Flyers, Chicago Blackhawks, Winnipeg Jets
D(teams i’ll watch if none of the above teams are playing): Montreal Canadiens, Dallas Stars, Toronto Maple Leafs, Nashville Predators, Edmonton Oilers
(teams i talk about most on here)
PWHL Tier List
A(watch every game, my favs): New York Sirens, Boston Fleet, PWHL Hamilton
B(positive opinion of/like a few players): Toronto Sceptres, Seattle Torrent, PWHL San Jose, Vancouver Goldeneyes
C(neutral/no opinion yet): Ottawa Charge, Montreal Victoire, PWHL Vegas, PWHL Detroit
F(dislike): Minnesota Frost
AO3 Fic Recs !
I am currently working on fulfilling all of the off-season prompt event submissions i received! thank you so much to everyone who submitted a prompt!
Masterlist
I have a handful of fics on AO3!
AO3 Masterlist
Here are some of my favorites;
some invisible string tying you to me • JackNico • 32.4k words • Completed
That panic comes the next morning, as Jack was sure it would, when he wakes up with a pounding migraine and Nico’s arm slung over his waist, his warm breath coming in steady puffs at the nape of Jack’s neck.
Jack coming to terms with his feelings for Nico and dealing with the internalized homophobia that comes with that.
is it over now? • JackNico • 24.9k words • 2 part series • Completed
at least i had the decency to keep my nights out of sight • 8.8k words
“I’m not angry with you,” Jack whispers on a sigh. He squeezes his eyes shut like it’ll be easier to admit if he can’t see Luke, if he can pretend he’s speaking to no audience but the air around them. “I just thought if we started winning you’d care.” Or; Luke’s first season in the show doesn’t go quite the way he expected it to.
say the one thing i’ve been wanting • 16.1k words
“I’m not angry with you.” Jack can’t be, refuses to be. He closes his eyes, knowing this is something he needs to say, but taking the coward’s way out, incapable of meeting Luke’s eyes as he utters, “I just thought if we started winning you’d care.” Come on, Luke. Care, just a little bit. For me? He wants to beg. Or; Luke’s rookie season doesn’t go quite the way Jack was expecting it to.
Jack & Luke’s struggles navigating Luke’s rookie season— one part in each of their perspectives.
cursing my name, wishing i’d stayed • JackNico • 21.2k words • Completed
“I made you tea.”
Nico snorts. “You made me tea for a fight?”
It feels— it feels normal. Like they’re a couple and Nico’s in the mood to not take anything Jack says seriously. And that’s a dangerous thing, crossing Jack’s wires and blurring the lines. “Yeah,” Jack says quietly. “Can you sit down?”
Career ending injuries, kid fic, break up (with a happy ending!)
smoke billows from my ships in the harbor (people look at me like i’m a monster) • JackNico • 58k words • Completed
Nico hates sirens with every fiber of his being. So Jack absolutely cannot be a siren.
The Siren AU
no grave can hold my body down, i’ll crawl home to [him] • JackNico • 117.8k words • Completed
Jack’s voice is wobbling. He thinks he might start crying, actually. Can feel it bubbling up in the back of his throat, behind his eyes.
“I want everything with you,” Nico admits quietly, almost sad about it.
sure! it’s called collect every dream in these old empty pockets and was supposed to be a sort of forced proximity, enemies to lovers thing with jack and nico. seeing ghosts was like an old family gift that the hughes brothers inherited to varying degrees that they maybe aren’t being entirely honest about. there’s an accident that happened with jim that led to jack mostly staying away from michigan/the rest of the family and he’s since been tagged by a peryton, which is this little guy
essentially the myth with these guys is that they cast a human shadow until they kill a human and then they’ll get their own shadow
so when a baby one starts stalking jack, it’s essentially “tagged” him or claimed him as the human it’ll kill to get it’s shadow once it’s full grown
the whole fic was supposed to be, like, an allegory for the impossibility of outrunning your problems and the importance of facing your grief head on, but yeah, i ran out of steam at just under 10k words
1,4,6,19,&20 for the ask game please! Sorry if it's too much or I seem weird! I'm just very curious about people whose writing i like! I hope you're having a great day! <3
first of all, thank you for the ask! definitely not too much!!
1. If you could sit down and finish any one of your WIPs without anything stopping yo which fic would you choose?
omg there’s so many WIPs i have that i want to be done with but my brain just turns to molasses every time i open the doc
there’s a jj peterka/jack quinn fic i was doing for a sabres fest thats like a year over due so finishing that one would be great
but also I’d really like to be able to finish part iii of my that’s so true series because it was meant to be finished SUCH a long time ago but i’ve just lost all steam on it unfortunately
4. is there an au or trope that you haven’t written before but would want to try?
i’d love to do something supernatural involving ghosts. i did actually start writing something along those lines back in december 2022 but i only got 9.4k words in before losing steam. but now that there’s been an uptick in people writing about quinn being able to see ghosts, i sort of want to pick it back up as like a halloween fic or something
6. if you were to write a part 2/sequel to a fic, what fic would you want to write it for?
this one’s tough, because i have a lot of fics that i’ve wanted to write a part 2 for but then i get like halfway through and change my mind because i really like where i ended the original fic off. like 50% of the fics i’ve posted have an unfinished part 2 collecting dust somewhere in my ‘abandoned’ folder
i was going to try to give you an “if i had to pick one it would be ____” but i honestly really don’t know
there’s so many of my fics that could have a part 2 but there’s a reason i stopped them where i did so. sorry!
19. give a hint/teaser about something you’re writing without any context or explanation
It’s late enough into the evening that there’s only the one guy working, around Jack’s age probably, eyes bored and half-lidded where he’s slouched behind the register, tawny brown hair a mess atop his head. His spine snaps straight as a rod with the thunk of Jack swinging the shovel up onto the conveyer belt.
“All right, honey, just let me know,” his mom’s saying in his ear. “You know your father would love to see you.”
“Yeah, okay, love you, mom,” Jack mumbles, letting the line go dead. He shoves his phone into his back pocket and tries not to resent his mom’s relentless optimism. There isn’t much his father loves anymore, not since everything happened. He can hardly remember anything most days, let alone his middle kid.
20. answer any one of the other questions that you want to!
hmm okay i’ll go with 5. is there a certain kind of fic that feels the most satisfying to finish?
it’s definitely most satisfying when i finish a super long fic that i’ve been working on for months. fics like summer sun and no grave that are like so absurdly long they’ve practically consumed my life for a period of time. because it gives me hope that one day i can maybe stick with a story for long enough to write an actual book lol
And for twelves either lightning strikes twice or you’ll be my summer sun forever (my favorite nicojakc fic)
2. if you could sit down and finish any completely new fic without anything stopping you (time, tiredness, etc), what would you write?
hmmm i’ve always wanted to write a fic that’s completely outsider pov / media for nicojack. so like from the pov of a rookie call up trying to figure out wtf is going on in the devils locker room with the leadership group mixed in with media speculation and never actually get into jack or nico’s POVs at all, but i’ve never had the actual motivation to sit down and write something like that and media fics are just so tedious with usernames/handles and formatting and ugh
12. what’s a song you associate with—
so there’s always an aspect of it where i associate the fic with the song the title is after. which for lightning strikes just once, not twice would be crazier things by noah kahan and chelsea cutler and i’ll be summer sun for you forever is forever winter by taylor swift
—lightning strikes just once, not twice
practically the entire time i was writing this fic i was listening to
1. crazier things (chelsea cutler & noah kahan)
2. reckless driving (lizzy mcalpine & ben kessler)
3. i remember everything (zach bryan & kacey musgraves)
4. i know the end (phoebe bridgers)
just because i really felt like those songs captured the sort of hopelessness jack’s feeling throughout the fic.
crazier things & i remember everything — jack had this beautiful, wonderful, perfect thing that he lost and he’s never going to have it again. these two really captured jack’s melancholy reminisce of his time with nico
reckless driving & i know the end — i love the build up in these two, like this mounting sense of dread where it becomes clearer and clearer that something is about to break aka the lead up to jack’s eventual and inevitable breakdown in switzerland
—i’ll be summer sun for you forever
i was listening to forever winter while i was doing a good portion of the planning for this fic and so it’s heavily inspired by that song, specifically;
he says “why fall in love just so you can watch it go away?” // he spends most of his nights wishing it was how it used to be // he spends most of his flights getting pulled down by gravity
all this time i didn’t know you were breaking down // I’d fall to pieces on the floor if you weren’t around
he seems fine most of the time forcing smiles and never minds // I pull at every thread tryna solve the puzzles in his head // live my life scared to death he’ll decide to leave instead
if i was standing there in your apartment I’d take that b0mb in your head and disarm it // I’d say i love you even at your darkest and please don’t go
the idea there was kind of like the lyrics are nico talking to/about jack
i’d actually originally been planning to have a different lyric for each chapter title until i realized just how many chapters it was going to be and switched to just doing one per part lol
17. are there any songs you want to write a song fic for?
i don’t necessarily want to directly use song lyrics in a fic, so i don’t think i would ever write a song fic in that sense. but in the heavily inspired by a specific song sense, i would love to do something based off of haunted by taylor swift bc that was my favorite song for like a decade straight and i love the idea of writing a fic where someone (probably jack) is clinging onto a failing relationship where the other person is already mentally checked out and trying to physically check out too, but that person just cannot let go
like specifically
something keeps me holding onto nothing
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come on, don’t leave me like this // thought i had you figured out // but something’s gone terribly wrong // you’re all i wanted
i just think the angst and grief and denial of it all could be so good
“There’s nothing wrong with you,” Quinn murmured into the darkness once Jack had settled. “Dad’s just being an ass, but he doesn’t actually think that.” Quinn hated lying to Jack, but he didn’t want Jack to know just how little their father really thought of him— thought of them both. Jim’s words stuck with him though. Days and weeks and months later. Are we going to have even one kid that’s normal? I think we’ve earned that, don’t you?
Getting together, Angst, Brotherly Love, Still Hockey Players, Jim Hughes A+ Parenting, Quinn Hughes Needs a Hug, NSFW
It takes him exactly four days to cave and shoot Kirill a text. He keeps it simple, not incriminating. Hey, it’s Q. And then stares at his phone awaiting a response for far too long. Ashamed of himself when ten minutes have passed and he’s still got his lone message staring up at him.
1 ⧽. if you could sit down and finish any one of your wips without anything stopping you (time, tiredness, etc), which fic would you choose? tell us about it if you want!
2 ⧽. if you could sit down and finish any completely new fic without anything stopping you (time, tiredness, etc), what would you write? tell us about it if you want!
3 ⧽. what's something you like about your writing?
4 ⧽. is there an au or trope that you haven't written before, but would want to try?
5 ⧽. is there a certain kind of fic that feels the most satisfying to finish? any reason why?
6 ⧽. if you were to write a part two/sequel to a fic, what fic would you want to write it for?
7 ⧽. is there a fic you wish you received feedback on, but didn't get any/much? this ask game is asking someone else to then give feedback on said fic, pretty pretty please!!!
8 ⧽. what part of [insert fic] is your favorite?
9 ⧽. tell us about a wip/idea that you're excited about!
10 ⧽. what genre is generally the easiest or most enjoyable for you to write? which is the hardest?
11 ⧽. if you were to rewrite [insert fic] with [insert different character/ship] how do you think it might change?
12 ⧽. what's a song or two you associate with [insert fic]?
13 ⧽. do you have any writing projects/goals/plans you're working on/want to work on?
14 ⧽. is there anything outside of your normal content that you want to write?
15 ⧽. if you wrote a fic called [insert title] with [insert character/ship] what do you think it might be about?
16 ⧽. if you wrote a fic called [insert title] what character/ship would you want to write it for?
17 ⧽. are there any songs you want to write a songfic for?
18 ⧽. how do you want your writing to feel to your readers?
19 ⧽. give a hint/teaser about something you're writing without any context or explanation! tease us haha
20 ⧽. answer any one of the other questions that you want to!
Jack frowns. He opens his mouth to argue, but Nico's quick to hold up a placating hand. "All right, all right. Let's just take a second, yeah? We're gonna figure this out."
Luke sighs, slumping down further in his own chair. "It's been five freaking years, dude. Excuse me for not getting my hopes up."
Jack looks at his little brother, really looks at him. The dark bruises underneath his eyes, the defeated slump to his shoulders. However hard this has been on Jack, it's been infinitely harder on Luke.
angst, hurt/comfort, amnesia, unreliable narrator, still hockey players, mutants AU, dysfunctional family, major character injury, nsfw
this is sort of a reimagined version of my fic who you are is not what you did but you by no means have to read that one first since this isn’t the same reality/timeline as that one and i took a completely different approach here
i kept most everyone’s powers the same in this one because i liked the set up, but have an entirely different plot. so, nico’s a mind reader, jack can conjure/control lightning, quinn’s a healer, luke can stop other mutants from using their powers and ellen can control other people’s emotions
i just read the sixth book in the shatter me series and the novellas and the first book the spin off series and was reminded of how jack’s power is treated sort of like juliette’s in my mutant fic and was like. hm. i want to do something with that again. this didn’t turn out anything like that, but that’s how it started lol
also largely inspired by x-men, the hunger games, twilight, victoria aveyard’s red queen series and the frozen movies !
title from willing and able by noah kahan (who i had the privilege of seeing live earlier this month and omg best experience of my lift istg)
takes place during the 2025-2026 season but i took out jack’s chicago injury because i’m 100% sure that luke had something to do with it irl and that it just wouldn’t happen within the circumstances of this fic lol
this is the first fic i’ve been really excited about in quite a while so i really hope you like it !
