#dan riley

[jqteee]

Some of the og YCMAL with Dan and Marc. They’re my favorite couple from ycmal since they started everything!! Tbh I made Dan look a bit like how I imagined Lourdes but tbh sometimes all these white hockey boys look too similar 😭

I’ll have to go back and redraw some of the other guys from the other fics in the ycmalverse

[emjoyy]

I really really liked how YCMAL is about Dan, a pretty regular guy, who happens to be gay and play in the NHL. Meanwhile, Dan is like, “here’s Marc, my boyfriend, he’s fucking feral and French! Did I mention he’s literally evil too? Isn’t that neat!”

[the-young-metal-attack]

Dan Riley: "James looked like hell back then; he wore those ripped-up pants and old sneakers. One day he was waiting for his girlfriend to get out of school and fell asleep on a park bench. When he woke up, there was a camera crew filming him. They said: "Hello. We're doing a documentary on the homeless in San Francisco". James goes: "I'm not homeless!". They're like: "It's okay. There's no need for denial". James freaked, like, "get the fuck away from me!". He's running off and they're filming him - this crazy, homeless guy."

[youcouldmakealife]

Look I'm sad that Scratch is in pain but goddammit I could suppress the smile on my face over Derek Carruthers being The Worst

HE’S A DICK.

To be fair it has NOT been a one-sided battle between those two in particular. They’re both hunting for one another at this point, and Scratch has the size advantage AND he’s not in his early thirties. Derek’s hurting too.

Derek to Dan and Andy right now: FUCK ANGELOPOULOS WHAT A FUCKING ASSHOLE. HOW DARE HIS NAME BE SO IRONIC. DEVILOPOULOS.

Dan: I went to school with his sister. She was really nice. Met him when he was a teenager, signed his cast. Seemed like a really nice kid with a good head on his shoulders, nice family.

Derek: ...

Andy: ...

Dan: But yeah, fuck him.

Toronto Brotherhood is on pause.

[letsgoroundagain]

Dan: *Says something wrong about gender politics*

Marc: I don’t even have time to tell you how wrong you are. 

Marc: Actually, it’s going to bug me if I don’t. 

[emjoyy]

I’m new to YCMAL but where are the posts about Dan and Marc??

[youcouldmakealife]

SOTW (pt 2!) Dan/Marc, Riley Lapointes; tuning it out

Is mortifying your teenagers with your continued physical affection for one another soft? Dan and Marc say yes.

The problem with teenagers is they get downright mortified if they’re reminded of exactly how they were made.

Well, maybe that’s not the perfect metaphor considering Charlie’s birth was via a surrogate mother and Leon’s adopted, or whatever it is if it’s not a metaphor — he’s sure Marc could tell him — but Dan can’t even kiss his husband in the comfort of his own home without a groaned ‘dad!’ from one of his kids now. It’s annoying.

It’s not like they’re making out like, well — he refuses to think about his teenagers making out, he knows it’s something that is probably going to happen if it’s not happening already, but even though Marc keeps saying it’s ‘healthy’ and ‘don’t stigmatise it’ and ‘if we want them to be open with us we need to be unilaterally supportive, stop making that face, Daniel’, all that totally reasonable stuff, he still refuses.

He can’t even get away with a hug or a peck to Marc’s hair in the morning without Charlie making a noise like he just ruined her breakfast, and even Leon, sweet, wonderful Leon, has started doing it too. They don’t let him hug them or peck their hair anymore either, with rare exceptions. He misses that.

“Ironic,” Marc says when Dan complains. “Considering you hate public displays of affection.”

“This isn’t public, it’s my house!” Dan says. “I should be able to kiss my husband in my own damn house.”

Marc gives him a condescending pat on the shoulder, but Dan knows it bugs him too.

Dan refuses to be bullied in his own house. He’s going to learn to tune out the ‘ugh’ noise the same way he learned to tune out tantrums and that particularly whiny ‘dad’ tone when Charlie wasn’t getting her way about something minor.

It works for awhile, but the kids change it up.

“Scoot,” Dan says, Marc blocking his path to the fridge while he’s trying to make dinner, and when Marc ignores him, makes it happen with a light hip check, finishing it off with a less light tap to his ass.

“Dad!” Charlie shrieks. It’s harder to tune out shrieking. Leon just ‘ugh’s, but he throws in a disappointed in Dan head shake, which is unfair.

“Ass slapping is a hockey thing!” Dan says. “You do it too!”

“With padding!” Charlie says.

“There’s padding,” Dan says. Plenty of padding. Ten years into retirement, and Marc’s thankfully still got a hell of a hockey ass.

Charlie groans and then says something about Dan being the most embarrassing father of all time into her hands. Marc smirks at him, probably just glad he isn’t being called the most embarrassing father of all time for once.

“Right?” Leon says to Charlie.

“You too, Lion?” Dan asks, hurt.

Leon gives him another disappointed head shake.

[youcouldmakealife]

wait, so, unless i have my timeline REALLY off, Marc and Dan are out and together and have been married at this time in Jared and Bryces timeline. So theres an example of a married couple playing on different teams in the league, thats totally functioning. Did teams just write them off as like, an exception, assuming they would never have to deal with a situation like that themselves? Why are they so concerned about Jared and Bryce? Is it just about them potentially being outed?

Your timeline is completely accurate! 

Part of it is that this is very different than the Leafs situation though: Dan was outed, against his will, and that’s how the Leafs found out about him (and subsequently Marc, and there WAS a bit of meltdown then). They’d literally just won a Cup and Marc was one of the key reasons why they did so, so they a) were reacting to a situation that was already happening rather than something that may create a situation they would like to avoid and b) the team had about as much goodwill among their fanbase at that moment as it is possible to have, as did Marc. And while Marc and Dan are playing for divisional rivals now, they were teammates at the time. 

Calgary already considers Bryce a problem child – he doesn’t have a good relationship with management or the media, and while the fanbase generally likes him (can’t argue with point totals), he’s in a v different place in Calgary as Marc was in Toronto.

Meanwhile Edmonton has about as little goodwill from the media and fanbase as possible, as a team that consistently performing below even the lowest expectations (Julius Halla, presumptive Calder winner this season aside), and the last thing they want is a controversy that may drive away any portion of that fanbase.