A Leafs fan, a Bruins fan, and a Flames fan walk into one another on Redacted Asmr tumblr.
HERE HAVE A HOCKEY WIP BC STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS! This is all thanks to a post from @zozo-01 regarding Darlin’ and the success of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Thank you to @taelonsamada for throwing your heart and soul into this concept as well. Just reposting this here so it can be its own separate thing lmao. Original chaos post.
Just a lil’ snippet of Darlin’ coming to after getting the absolute daylights illegally checked out of them. I have the beginnings of an outline in the making and I am wicked hyped for this.
“Sam? Did we win?” Darlin’s dazed voice rose above the distant hum of the arena. They were starting to come back around again, having zoned out for a few minutes due to a combination of the IV drip of painkillers and concussion.
“Not yet, Darlin’, game’s still goin’,” Sam replied, voice soft as to not aggravate the headache he knew was still there.
“Oh,” they blinked slowly before looking up at the man sitting beside them. “I gotta get back there, then.”
“Nope, we’re actually going to stay out right here, you and I,” Sam told them, gently applying pressure to their chest to keep them laying down. They didn’t get very far to begin with, they were still out of it. He made sure their left wrist remained stationery, not wanting to worsen what he hopes is just a sprain.
“We are?” They asked, eyes blinking owlishly up at him.
“Mhm.” He nodded with a soft smile.
“Just us?” That earned them a small chuckle as Sam moved his hand from their chest to push some their sweat-damp hair away from their face.
“Yup, just us, Darlin’. ‘S that okay?”
“Obviously,” they scoffed playfully with what Sam assumed was their best attempt at an eye roll. They didn’t get very far before wincing in pain.
“Oh, ow, fuck,” they hissed, their muddled thoughts slowly registering the pain they were in.
“Easy, now. You got banged up pretty good out there,” Sam soothed, eyes flicking to the check the status of IV drip for the umpteenth time since first inserting it, making sure nothing had stopped or gone awry. “There’s an ambulance on it’s way, we’re gonna go to the hospital together, you and I, okay? I don’t have what I need here to help you.” His heart squeezed at the sight of their brows furrowing, right fist clenching, and entire body tensing. He knew right away where their thoughts were headed.
“This isn’t your fault,” He took their clenched fist in both of his hands, gently kneading the tense tendons with his thumbs. “You were hit illegally and with malice. Darlin’, you didn’t do nothin’ wrong. No one is mad at you. If anythin’, everyone is itchin’ to make sure you’re alright. Hear me when I say that, okay?”
They nodded tightly, their eyes squeezing shut as a tear escaped. It would be the first of many, he knew.
The crisis I go through every time I open a fic to find that it’s written in either first or second-person point of view. I personally cannot read First/Second POV, it fucks with my brain and takes me out of the story. aaahhhhhhhhhh
And I know there’s some great fic out there that’s written really well but I can’t bring myself to read it bc I won’t be able to enjoy it in its entirety bc of the pov. It sounds absolutely ridiculous because it really kinda is. But it just derails the entire fic for me.
This is nothing against people that write or enjoy reading first and second pov, this is just me ranting. Everyone is fully entitled to create and enjoy what they enjoy, 100%!
I am ridiculously picky about what I read and I make it a problem for myself lmao.
But please tag your fics for pov /hj
