#björnstad

[hopefulalways]

rip benji ovich you would have loved heated rivalry

[anchy2006]

Them: If you liked Heated Rivalry and want more books about hockey you should try Beartown

Me: takes the recommendation and then proceeds to get shot 20 times in the face point blank

[lurkingteapot]

When some boys find their first best friend it’s the first real love of their lives, they just don’t know what falling in love is yet, so that’s how they learn what love is: it feels like climbing trees, it feels like jumping in puddles, it feels like having one single person in your life who you don’t even want to play hide-and-seek with because you can’t bear being without him for a single minute. For most boys this infatuation obviously fades as the years pass, but for some it never does.

—Fredrik Backmann, "The Winners". English translation by Neil Smith.

[susiephone]

I'm 80% of the way done with Beartown and it keeps making me think of that one TikTok where a woman said "idolization is just dehumanization with better PR."

[aroaceandhappy]

Me (a veteran Björnstad fan) looking at the new gay hockey show that’s trending on Tumblr rn:

(I hope I’m wrong about how it goes but I’m scared that I’m right)

[lucky-lmf]

Fuck Heated Rivalry, the only hockey gay I need is Benjamin "Benji" Ovich. He deserved the world, and got so little.

Go read the Beartown trilogy- (spoilers under the cut)

and cry, beg and pray for him to get a happy ending even when Backman tells you he dies at the end of the first book

[somnidasha]

is there any chance benji was inspired by ovechkin? i mean i really need someone to explore this, because that's what i think about everytime they say ovich, but unfortunately i know close to nothing about hockey and hockey players

[nothing-mancer]

Benjamin Ovich

That’s it that’s the post