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[workingforitallthetime]

"honestly! where’s the fun in making a hockey player gay and/or a girl if they’ve already unlocked those levels on their own?" what's the fun in someone being a girl???

(context for the quote in comments here)

for me, the fun in in making someone a girl is exploring how a male character's traits might express themselves differently if the character were operating within the cultural constraints of being a girl. for example, rutger mcgroarty's canonical thesis statement is "i love the game, i love the boys, i love life. what's there to be sad about?" i started to wonder what it would be like for rutger, as a girl, to deal with the realization that she was never going to be one of the boys, and that became a 60K fic with internalized misogyny as an animating theme (which i will finish eventually! perhaps even in 2026!)

here are some other fun examples of questions that r63 fic can explore:

how would owen power's canonical discomfort with physicality translate to a girl's body?

what would trevor zegras's brand of confidence look like as a girls' soccer player?

how would quinn hughes's eldest daughter traits manifest if he was an actual eldest daughter?

what if rutger's brand of irrepressible optimism collided with a guy who did not reciprocate her feelings?

how devastating would will smith's slow blink be if he was a girl?

wow wouldn't nolan moyle be an incredible slutty disaster of a girl? (the questions don't always have to be deep)

somewhat relatedly, and just because i'm always looking for takers on this one, i also think a super interesting question is how rick celebrini's parenting philosophies would affect a trans kid's relationship with their gender.

[workingforitallthetime]

what is The Rumor?

during the will smith SC episode, one of the loathsome hosts (i can't tell their insufferable boston accents apart) emphasizes that he is completely serious about this rumor that he heard about isaac howard at the draft:

I heard to a couple of GMs that he said "If you don't pull me in the first round then I'm gonna bang your old lady," and that's why he ended up going.

this is important not because it is a True Fact (maybe it is, maybe it isn't) but because it is a story that hockey men like to tell each other about ike. it's peer reviewed. this is ike's rep. his big dick energy is so profound that hockey bros are willing to believe that 18yo ike told an NHL exec that he was going to fuck his wife.

[workingforitallthetime]

Bro… that podcast made Mack sound deranged… and like, not in the usual good way. Punching and damaging the windscreen because he took “25 minutes” is… bad-deranged.

to the extent that you are serious about the opinion expressed in this ask, i must emphasize that i am not in the business of passing judgment about real life hockey boys, and i am especially not in the business of real life worries about them or their partners.

what i AM in the business of is fiction! and my business happens to have a robust subsidiary in daddy issues, and from that perspective this incident is ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING.

once more with feeling: fiction. fiction fictiony fun fun fiction.

when i listened to the tale of the windshield incident this morning confetti rained down upon me and a giant sign lit up with words spelled in lightbulbs that said GENERATIONAL CYCLE OF ABUSE. where did mack learn this behavior? oh maaaaaaybe from the father who took his frustrations out on his kids via hill sprints? maaaaaaaybe from the guy whose wife once looked directly into the camera and announced with grim matter-of-factness that "i'm not scared of him."?

sheriff rick's in town making sure that everyone's following their program, and i am fully willing to believe that when something didn't go according to sheriff rick's schedule, sheriff rick did not have the healthiest ways of expressing his emotions. i am also fully willing to believe that mack absorbed all of that, learning by example that when your partner unexpectedly inconveniences you it is fine to show your frustration physically, and if anyone objects, you respond by minimizing your actions and blaming them for breaking their own windshield.

FURTHERMORE, i am intrigued by how hockey culture -- a culture in which violence is understood to be a reasonable and even expected response to certain slights -- could reinforce the appropriateness of a reaction like this, to both mack and will. how far would mack have to go before will would identify an act of violence as inappropriate? would he ever?

what i'm saying is that i'd like a scene at the livermore ranch, some kind of family gathering. some kind of mild inconvenience: will forgot the salad they were supposed to bring, or one of the kids hit the switch for the dome light and the battery in the range rover died. mack punches something, breaks something. there's a split second of awkwardness but rick gets the conversation going again. maybe one kid gets a little teary about it and the celebrini cousins make fun of them.

later, in the kitchen, robin catches will's eye. they understand each other. they're not scared.

[workingforitallthetime]

cole/trevor is alive for those of us willing to squint at the text on the bottom of an instagram story and then call it a romance (or something adjacent)

as jess pointed out, it’s impossible to tell whether he’s telling trevor to enjoy dvorak (“enjoy, trevor”) or dvorak to enjoy trevor (“enjoy trevor”). either way is a treat, especially when accompanied by a video of cole delightedly hassling the older gentleman in question. what is dvorak gonna do with those two when the flyers visit montreal???

[workingforitallthetime]

It’s honestly kinda crazy to see pics of macklin where he looks Conventionally Hot nowadays because I remember thinking he had a weird and imo off putting face for a long time lol and I’m not sure when exactly that changed but I think it was this past year?? Is it the hair cut or did he just grow up…also not that it hasn’t already but I think his fame is going to reach levels unknown to hockey fandom if he keeps looking and playing like this lmao

yeah, that pic is kind of the first one where you can See It, huh? he’s just looked like such a baby to me for so long, it’s fascinating to see his facial structure start to get defined. thank god that he will continue to have an atrocious personality to balance any hotness that emerges.

[workingforitallthetime]

I sometimes forget Leno has freckles and then I'll see a pic that's just F R E C K L E S and I'm like oh thats right

the freckles were what sold me. here is the freckly draft pic that did it:

the jaw has gotten increasingly huge in the two years since but the freckles remain unchanged. and thanks to his nevernude ways there are still uncharted freckles to discover. every time we get content of new freckles i'm like an old-timey prospector dancing around a fresh ore deposit with my pickaxe in the air. did you see the recently revealed underarm freckles in this pic?! yeah that's the good stuff.

[workingforitallthetime]

My literal first thought when Keller scored was "I bet Tumblr user workingforitallthetime is psyched" hahahaa.... Your influence...!

it is such an honor to be associated with this moment. my years of establishing myself as megan keller’s #1 fangirl are really paying off today!

THATS GODDAMNED RIGHT THEY DO

[workingforitallthetime]

I bet leno blushed when he asked ovi if he could touch his stick

leno came in his pants the moment CCM called to tell him about joint sponcon with ovi