So, funny story - I actually have brain cancer. They found the first tumor on Feb 5th, I had surgery March 11 - when they found the second tumor - and both are cancerous and they’ve left a bunch of gross shit behind in my brain.
Neat.
Been a WILD ride since the first week of February. I actually found the tumor after a MRI following An Incident at the Flyers Charity Carnival of all places.
I’ll start chemo and radiation in a few weeks. We know I’ll be in treatment at least until mid-Feb if not longer.
Thanks for thinking of me. I’m so sorry I’m not posting a lot — on here or on Ao3 — but hopefully you can understand why. It’s just a fucking lot.
Summary: Matthew's drafted by the Oilers and is driving Leon absolutely up a wall. His dad suggests helping Matthew find a way to get out all of his excess energy and ... well ... he does.
My first original fic since my diagnosis, so I truly and deeply hope it works for y'all. Thanks to @very-little-things for the prompt and to @shirtlessdigby for the unfailing cheering.
Im sorry this is so parasocial but I just saw you be active on tumblr and I hope that that means your brain shit is gettign better and that made me so so happy and I just wanted to say i hope you are doing great!
Oh thank you! And no worries - it’s so delightful to know that I’m missed!
It is and it isn’t, sadly. The thing with cancer is that it completely consumes my life and I also still have to exist as a human and go to Phillies games and play with my niblings and help my husband with dinner and hang out on here, etc.
So I’m in the “healing from surgery, waiting for radiation” portion of my cancer story. I’m exhausted all of the time, and I’m told I’ll only get more tired (goody). Chemo kicks off end of August/beginning of Sept, depending on my team’s decision. I basically have the Avengers working to clean my brain - neurosurgery, hematology, radiology, oncology.
I’m trying to work on Addieverse as this all happens, but it’s admittedly slow going. Fingers crossed it won’t be soon, though!
I hope you’re keeping well, too, Anon. Chase joy as best you can in this world that seeks to rob it. ❤️
Have you watched any women's hockey at the Olympics? I just caught the Germany-Italy game and did a double take as there are twin sisters on the German team who look very much like how I picture Addie in my head. Be in the lookout for the Welcke sisters (13 & 23).
I am trying to watch all of it, knowing Addie would be having the time of her life! I haven’t seen those girls but my eyes are sure peeled now
Not for nothing, but my favorite things about Jamie Drysdale is that his most listened to artist on Spotify last year was Irish musician Dermott Kennedy.
Preview of a forthcoming Winner’s Room fic, SPB style.
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“This is not the purpose of the winners room.”
“Fuck off, the purpose is for the first star of the opposing team to be satisfied blah blah blah, but I’ve had enough fucking blowjobs from smelly dudes jacked on Zyns, I want you to talk to me.”
“It’s blow job or ten minutes of silence.”
The deepest sigh in the world accompanied the sound of sweatpants sliding to the floor.
this year's prompts were sourced through an open suggestion form, where over 6,000 prompts were submitted. after, the best 100 prompts were voted on in a poll which received 6,265 votes. the top 28 were rearranged into the 28 prompts of febuwhump - with the most voted prompt in the number 1 position ("I like you better broken", 1,959 votes) - while the alternate prompts were selected from the mod's personal favourites of the remaining options.
this is such a great list of prompts, and i'm so excited to see what creativity they spark with you!
if you're interested in taking part in all the facets of febuwhump, then check out the expected timeline for this year's event! pay special attention to march 6-8, after febuwhump, in which everyone is encouraged to comment on as many febuwhump works as possible to ensure that everyone leaves this event with encouraging feedback on their creations!
as always, please check the faq or scroll through the previously asked questions before asking questions. i know the faq is short, but it really does answer just about any questions you have. when in doubt, assume the answer is that you can do literally anything you want.
please note: notifying the blog of completionist status will happen through a google form released towards the end of febuwhump, and if you are interested in joining the febuwhmp discord server, the link will be available to do so for one week during january.
full write-up of prompts and rules under the cut:
FEBUWHUMP 2026 PROMPTS:
DAY 1: "I like you better broken"
DAY 2: old injury
DAY 3: ghost
DAY 4: blood stains
DAY 5: survivor
DAY 6: soul bond
DAY 7: forced to hurt another
DAY 8: hunger
DAY 9: false memory
DAY 10: god complex
DAY 11: broken fingers
DAY 12: bodyguard
DAY 13: "again"
DAY 14: hanahaki disease
DAY 15: test subject
DAY 16: touch aversion
DAY 17: fingers in the wound
DAY 18: time loop
DAY 19: "I didn't mean to"
DAY 20: hunted
DAY 21: flashbacks
DAY 22: worse than death
DAY 23: kintsugi
DAY 24: head injury
DAY 25: medical restraints
DAY 26: time travel
DAY 27: "can you stay?"
DAY 28: breaking point
ALTERNATE PROMPTS:
ALT 1: environmental whump
ALT 2: pregnancy
ALT 3: alternate universe
ALT 4: lazarus
ALT 5: auction
ALT 6: live broadcast
ALT 7: the devil you know
ALT 8: child soldier
ALT 9: you would have loved this
ALT 10: flu
RULES
soft rules:
prompts should be answered in the form of whump
creators can produce any kind of media they want
you don't have to complete all the prompts to take part
you can use the prompts after the event ends
you can complete the prompts in tandem with any other event
you can post to any platform you want, however this blog will only be sharing links and prompt fills posted to tumblr
if you want to be featured on the hall of fame, you must inform this blog by the 3rd of march that you have completed all of the days using the provided form
if you have questions, consult the faq before asking
hard rules:
to be a completionist, you must complete all 28 prompts, in order, in whatever medium you want, before the end of the event
(specifically for being featured on the blog)
when uploading febuwhump content to tumblr, please use the tags:
febuwhump (or febuwhump2026)
the relevant day's tag e.g. febuwhumpday1, febuwhumpday2...
nsfw (if relevant)
any important trigger warnings
you can also tag the blog: @febuwhump
I cannot guarantee your work will be archived on the blog. a random selection of properly tagged works will be reblogged every day of february
you watch heated rivalry and you're like well i wish i could see the stakes more but sure it's men's sports and then you read anything at all about elite north american men's hockey in real life and it's like we have invented rituals of social pressure heretofore unseen to destroy young men's bodies and crush their personalities to dust. the worship of violence and conformity at all costs has wrought of this game a hell for generations. tickets available for tuesday
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