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Hockey Big Bang 2026 sign-ups are here. Full information for the challenge can be found at https://hbb.dreamwidth.org/113114.html
Timeline:
Sign-ups Open: Sunday, June 14 (now!)
Primary Fanworker Sign-ups Close: Saturday, August 1
Primary Fanworker Check-In: Sunday, August 2
50% Draft Completion/Summary Submission: Sunday, September 27
Summaries Posted For Viewing: Saturday, October 3
Summary Claims Open: Sunday, October 4
Posting Date Claims Open: Sunday, October 25
Mandatory Check-In for All Participants: Sunday, November 15
Posting Begins: Sunday, December 6
💙❄️ Accidental Courting 101:
A Guide by RigYanni ❄️💙
Ships: RigYanni & LarsDunn (background) | Team: Seattle Kraken
written by HockeyWasMyFirstLove | Read on ao3
read by @wjgravity | Listen on ao3
written for: @12daysofchristmas ❄️ day one: ❄️ 2024: First snow | Getting soaked | “Your hands are so cold.” ❄️ 2025: Hallmark AU ❄️
Chapters: 3/3 | Complete Word Count: 11,942 | Rating: Teen And Up Audiences | Warnings/Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Omega Verse, Alpha Jamie Oleksiak, Omega Yanni Gourde, Accidental Courting, Idiots in Love… what else with this team ;), Established Vince Dunn/Adam Larsson, Like A Gay Hallmark Movie, best friends Yanni & Vince, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Protective Jamie Oleksiak, Jamie to the rescue, Yanni is a reluctant damsel in distress, and he hates it, Feelings Realization, Friends to Lovers, Getting Together, Mating Bites, Sharing Clothes, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Seattle Kraken NHL Team
Summary:
Everything Jamie does for Yanni, a good teammate and concerned friend would do. There’s really no other reason why the alpha notices the shitty guys his friend dates or why he shares his triple-chocolate muffin when the omega is sad or his clothes when Yanni’s cold. Just normal ‘taking care of a friend’-stuff, nothing else.
(It’s totally something else…)
This fic and eleven other drafted and partially written fics were planned for last year's 12 Days of Christmas Challenge. I asked twelve fandom friends to please pick a day and a ship and I would write them a fic... well, it took a bit 😅 but I'm finally able to share the first one - also thanks to this year's @hockeybigbang and @wjgravity picking my fic. Big, big hugs to them for creating the beautiful podfic of this story, and also for beta-reading and all the emotional support 💙
Sneak peek under the cut:
Jamie soon gives in to his instincts, sliding down the wall to sit next to the distressed omega.
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing.”
Yeah, very believable. But it’s Yanni he’s dealing with – the guy who will smile with a bloody mouth and laugh when he’s hurting. Jamie can’t remember ever seeing him looking so… fragile.
Contemplating his options, Jamie surreptitiously opens his jacket so his scent can flow more freely. With the lack of any kind of blockers today, not even neutralizing spray, he hopes the scents of pack and calm alpha will soothe his friend. The rustling of the paper bag gives Jamie another idea, so he pulls out the triple chocolate muffin.
Knowing Yanni after over three seasons of playing together, Jamie doesn’t bother offering the omega first. It will only lead to protests about how he doesn’t need pity and how chocolate is such a cliché when it comes to omegas and blah blah blah. Forgoing those protests, Jamie breaks off a big piece and shoves it in his own mouth. Yanni doesn’t move, doesn’t look, but when Jamie breaks off another piece and loosely holds it in his direction, Yanni takes it with hardly any hesitation. Can’t complain about clichés when the big, strong alpha cheats right next to him.
They sit in silence like that for a while, sharing Jamie’s muffin piece by piece.
“Got dumped today. Again.”
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This fic covers/is part of four events:
💙 The @hockeybigbang 2025 - thank you for running this Big Bang, @wjgravity was an amazing partner 🥰
💙 The @12daysofchristmas challenge - I started writing this fic and eleven more last year, so they mainly fit last year's prompts. All the other fics will still fit perfectly this year's days (or the available alt prompts). Sadly though, this first one doesn't, so it falls a bit out of line... but meh.
💙 The @ao3tagbingo - this fic covers the square Courtship - (it was that prompt that thankfully gave me the idea for the entire plot in the first place!)
💙 The @flufftober fluff bingo - this fic covers the square Hoodie
