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i can feel it in the atmosphere, will smith hockey will be at one of noah kahans fenway park shows

#bc yk they’re both boston down #can u tell i wish i was there #the fomo is insane bc wdym mess AND lighthouse #gonna scream orbiter about a certain someone #call mack during northern attitude and chirp him about being canadian #he’s gonna go with will vote watch #will smith hockey #willmack #macklin celebrini

jimiscellaneous

You all need to know that it doesn't matter what bullshit I'm RPFing about, if I'm talking about WillMack, Will Vote is always there. Even if I don't mention him, he is always there. If WillMack are fucking on a beach, Will Vote is there. If WillMack are fighting in the produce aisle at Safeway, Will Vote is there. If WillMack are practicing their passes, Will Vote is there. If WillMack are sleeping on a plane, Will Vote is there. You can't see him, but he is always there in the background like a force ghost. He is only corporeal in the state of Massachusetts. He is always there, watching, observing, holding the Willmack Extended Universe together.

suriwillmack271

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connor storrie being an emmy nominee. like that’s my baby, look how grown up he is. ugh i love unknown actors so much because you get to watch them grow like nothing compares

#connor storrie #heated rivalry

my bsf did the grouse grind today and i had to educate her to make sure that if she saw mack sprinting up that mountain she would send me a video. she didn’t but she saw a kid wearing a celebrini tarp that was half sharks half team canada and im like wow. becuase at one point that was mack wearing the team canada jerseys wanting to be like the older players and now its the next generation

#they grow up so fast #macklin celebrini #willmack #team canada hockey #wdym hes not so baby anymore like

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etheltempest

this would happen to connor bedard

mints-tea93

is connor bedard an ao3 author or smthing genuinely how does this keep happening to him

dawg4aday

it brings me great joy to know that while will spends his summers in boston, training under ken whittier at BU for the third year in a row, this time he has to walk into the training room everyday and be hit with a big ass photo of his boybestfriend

glovesdown

this article about cat belanger toffoli is a foundational text to me like this woman got a full-ride scholarship for softball to gwu. she transferred to usc and graduated with a broadcast journalism degree. she worked a high-level job with the dodgers for eight years. and THEN she married an nhl player six years her junior. moral of the story NEVER let marrying rich get in the way of having a crazy sick career

wmsckiki

tbh I have never seen Mack more genuinely happy and joyful and free like when he is with will. You can feel it even in pictures, just how much happiness will brings into mack’s life, i love them so much

reveurciel

I'm thinking about what makes Will and Mack's friendship different from a lot of hockey pairings and I guess it is the tenderness of it all.

Sure, they bonded over shared laughs, and we might view them as chaotic kids with prefrontal cortexes yet to develop. But the deepest layer of their relationship, I think, is they see in each other something that very few people around them can truly understand.

When Toff said they are respectful of each other, I think he means the two are not just respectful in the sense that they’re polite or get along, but respectful because they understand exactly what the other person carries. They know the pressures. They know the sacrifices. They know the burden of expectations. And because they recognize those things in each other, they treat those parts of one another carefully.

Both know what it feels like to be told from a young age that they’re going to be great. Both know what that greatness demands. Both know that people are expecting them to save the franchise. Because of that, I think there’s an emotional depth to their relationship that they only fully reveal to each other. They share vulnerabilities they could never trust with anyone else, completely secure in the knowledge that they would never use those weaknesses as a weapon against the other. The vulnerabilities, fears, insecurities, and frustrations that come with being an athlete are things they can discuss with each other without worrying they’ll be judged or misunderstood. There’s a complete trust there.

Will and Mack are also incredibly indulgent of one another. They give each other the space to be the truest versions of themselves whenever they’re together.

Mack lets Will plan their hangouts and happily goes along with whatever Will wants because he knows how much Will enjoys being the planner. He lets Will drag him into starting a book club despite openly admitting before that he doesn’t read much, simply because he knows how much it means to Will. He lets Will take the bed furthest from the door because he knows Will sleeps better when someone else is in the room and acts like his guard. He always puts himself between Will and the other player whenever a scrum breaks out because he knows Will isn’t one to fight. And that’s okay, Mack has never seemed to mind doing enough of the fighting for the both of them. He even gives Will his customized Olympic stick because he knows Will is a huge gear guy, and what better gift than something as personal and unique as a stick that no one else can easily get?

Then there’s the way Will lets Mack be imperfect. He knows Mack lives under constant scrutiny. He knows Rick instilled discipline, humility, hard work, and sacrifice into him from such a young age. Somewhere along the way, Mack learned that he always had to be better, work harder, and be the poster hockey boy. Yet with Will, Mack gets to be a little brash, a little mean, a little hot-tempered (windshield gate, anyone?), a little imperfect. And Will loves and accepts every part of him anyway. He follows Mack’s instructions during games and on the bench to the point where everyone jokes that he’s Mack’s dog, because he understands how much Mack needs that sense of control and how much pressure he carries every single game night. He handles the smelling salt ritual even though Mack is perfectly capable of doing it himself because he knows Mack is already carrying enough before he even steps onto the ice, and that's one small way of taking something off his plate.

I think that’s why Will chose Mack as the person he leans on within the team, and why Mack says he trusts Will’s opinion so much. They just get each other.

Their mental and emotional wavelength are so similar. They’re attuned to one another in a way that goes beyond friendship born from proximity or shared interests. There’s a mutual understanding that they’re building something bigger than themselves; that they’re trying to leave a legacy that neither of them can do alone, that they genuinely need each other, and most importantly, they want to do it together. And despite the crushing weight that comes with chasing that kind of legacy, there's comfort in knowing that there is another person carrying it with them.