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tampa bay lightning brainrot ⚡ game reactions, hockey photos, heated rivalry discourse, and gifs of whatever fandoms are currently overwriting my last braincells probably yelling about a power play

[overtimeatamalie]

Hi! Quick blog housekeeping post:

This blog is going to stay mostly Lightning/hockey/general fandom yelling.

Chaos happened, I took a break, and I ended up rebranding this blog as @overtimeatamalie and am reusing @peachteaglitter for a separate writing blog.

Most of what I post here will stay the same, but if you are curious about the more literary side of my brain —essays, fragments, theory notes, weird hockey-writing experiments — that is over at @peachteaglitter now.

No pressure to follow both — just wanted to point people in the right direction if that's something you'd be into.

Same person. Still chaotic. Just slightly more organized.

[overtimeatamalie]

I feel like Ilya heard "What You Like" by Darren Hayes at 13-ish and made it his personal mantra

[spankerella]

Happy perfect date day. Bust out those light jackets, people.

[placeboweb]

[ X ]

[headshotheaven]

i understand where you're coming from ma'am but the amulet has been nothing but civil throughout all of this

[headshotheaven]

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[hockeyheritageposts]

Hockey Heritage Post

[overtimeatamalie]

I love fanfics with Ilya and his niece having some sort of relationship, but here is what I don't get about so many of them... She was clearly a preteen when the funeral happened. His sister-in-law was shown with a baby when he was a rookie. So why do so many fics that have Ilya Alexei and his wife dying and Ilya getting custody of his niece have her so young??

People keep saying that the timeline on the show is confusing but, it isn't?? They clearly label the time skips?? If you are paying attention you shouldn't be confused as to what year and how old everyone is.

Except Alexei. His age continues to be confusing because Rachel gave us one answer, but I swear the actor playing Alexei looks at least seven years older than Ilya.

[witchaj]

She does look like a preteen in that scene, but she can’t be any older than 8.

When Ilya is on the phone with Alexei on New Year’s Eve 2010, he is at a party and there is no baby visible. The next phone call we see, the baby is several months old. She was most likely born in 2010, although it’s possible she could have been born in late 2009. I can’t remember how many months were supposed to have passed between those two phone calls.

If people want to make her younger for fanfiction purposes, of course that’s fine! But if you want to be accurate to the timeline, she would have to be 7 or 8 in 2017.

[overtimeatamalie]

Preteen is 8-12 😁

[overtimeatamalie]

Every time I rewatch Heated Rivalry or watch a reaction video I think I should rewatch Nip/Tuck because I haven't seen it since it aired....

But it was such a mess of a show. Do I do that to myself? Do I put myself through the rollercoaster of a Ryan Murphy show again?

[overtimeatamalie]

Seeing the scene where Shane gets leveled by Marlow for the 100000th time and all I can think about is an AU where he ended up getting traded after the playoffs ended because I have Mikhail Sergachev on my mind 24/7 and I keep flashing back to when he went down at MSG (completely different, his leg was fucked) and then he made it back for two games in round one only to get traded to Utah and him blasting the Bolts defensive coaching (rightfully!) afterwards.

I would have loved to have seen something like that in the Game Changers Universe.

You give everything for a team and get injured in a big moment that has fans and teammates alike fearing for your future... Only to have that same player get traded as soon as they're healthy.

I love my Bolts. And I like JJ Moser. But that was stupid AF.

(Also, side note: as much as Rachel used Sergy for how Ilya's English progressed throughout the books his hiring a stylist this season? So Shane coded. I love him.)

[overtimeatamalie]

Watching a Heated Rivalry reaction and watching the Metros grab their sticks and the only thing I can think is

DOES NIKITA KUCHEROV STILL PLAY WITH A STICK THAT SAYS KILLORN ON IT.

DOES KUCH STILL USE A STICK WITH KILLER'S NAME ON IT EVEN THOUGH IT HAS BEEN YEARS SINCE KILLER WAS A BOLT?!

[overtimeatamalie]

I love fanfics with Ilya and his niece having some sort of relationship, but here is what I don't get about so many of them... She was clearly a preteen when the funeral happened. His sister-in-law was shown with a baby when he was a rookie. So why do so many fics that have Ilya Alexei and his wife dying and Ilya getting custody of his niece have her so young??

People keep saying that the timeline on the show is confusing but, it isn't?? They clearly label the time skips?? If you are paying attention you shouldn't be confused as to what year and how old everyone is.

Except Alexei. His age continues to be confusing because Rachel gave us one answer, but I swear the actor playing Alexei looks at least seven years older than Ilya.

[bisexualchaosdemon]

I can just imagine Troy laying in bed one night and being like, "Oh, I almost died."

Harris would chuckle a little like, "Yeah, I know, I was there. Did you just realise this now?"

"No, not that," Troy would correct him. "Before we got together, I'd heard rumours about Shane being gay and I thought Ilya was just his friend still, so I almost asked Ilya for his number."

"Oh, shit. Yeah, you would have been super dead, dude, damn."

[harpieisthecarpie]

[queso-blanco]

[tpwrtrmnky]

researchers: this condition is underdiagnosed advocacy groups: we'll spread knowledge that it's underdiagnosed healthcare workers: some of us will use expanded diagnostic criteria now patients: wow we finally know what's up

tabloids: the condition is mysteriously spreading. this is DANGEROUS.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

"thought crimes aren't real, it's your actions that matter" and "your mindset informs how you treat others, so you should try not to have a shitty one" are another pair of things that are both true btw

[softbrah]

“online fandom bestie that you once shared intense intimacies with but don’t really talk to anymore simply bc we drifted into new blorbo obsessions” is such a specific type of relationship that has to be impossible to explain to anyone who hasn’t experienced it

[macaroni-rascal]

woke up thinking about how connor is going to absolutely devour the line “I already chose you, Hollander” and how hudson is going to destroy the world with his reaction to that line. oh holy god none of us will be okay.

[overtimeatamalie]

How did we score 7 goals and still lose that game? Could it have been all of the fights? Could we maybe want to work on that before the next game? Do something about all that rage maybe?