(fun fact: i write my drafts directly on ao3. they expire in 1 month but i like that because it forces me to write faster (i still don't))
Jake Oettinger/Jason Robertson - expires June 30, 2026 (TODAY?)
E rating, rule 63, genderbent jason, pwp fic!? ohhh okay i remember
basically: jake finds jason drunk and weepy, takes her back to her hotel room, she tells him she broke up with her long longterm bf, jake's like damn ok lets get drunk then, so they drink and she's really sad but gets angry and says WHATEVER he couldn't even make her come but then uhh drunk shenanigans (i already did this with show hole, what's my deal) lead to jake giving her like the orgasm of the lifetime and she's obsessed #robostyle. jake is still married and has that newborn baby btw.
Roope Hintz/Jason Robertson - expires July 2, 2026
T rating, not too sure i can/should say too much because it's actually for a prompt from the 2026 Puck Luck Fest ... i haven't even started it yet but the title is "jason from work" which i love and think im so smart for. roope and Jason (From Work)
Jamie Drysdale/Trevor Zegras - expires July 7, 2026
T rating, self discovery, chaptered fic wow
this one actually has a summary 😭: Where Jamie Drysdale gets into [queer media], visits websites like Pronouns.page, and starts realizing stuff a little too late (or is he?)
you may think this is too farfetched but because i kin jamie drysdale too hard (this is so embarrassing to say about a real life white man) i believe it could actually happen. and in this essay i will
Jamie Drysdale/Trevor Zegras - expires July 8, 2026
T rating, high school au, pizza deliveryman au, misunderstanding/"assuming the default sexuality is straight and all the problems that come with it"
basically: jamie drysdale is the new kid in a cali high school, moved there with his family (iirc charlie is 3 years older than jamie so they'd be in the same hs for one year), and gets a pizza delivery job. do you want to guess who he delivers pizza to on one faithful day. yes it's trevor zegras and it's love at first sight for z so he keeps bothering him and hitting his line (the pizza place he works at) ... confused jamie x1000
okay i love this one i def want to finish it because IF YOU'RE REAL you should've noticed it's very inspired by Short Sleeves in December... i love this tzjd fic omggg it's so true to me!!! and maybe because im. fresh out of high school. but i've always loved high school AUs i love messy teenagers! in fiction. not irl ... or maybe i need to work on being less judgy and more fun irl
Jamie Drysdale/Trevor Zegras - expires July 16, 2026
E rating, fantasizing, feminization, internalized homophobia, the haunting of jamie drysdale
basically: jamie has been traded and trevor reminisces on his 2024 missing jamie drysdale jerk off diet
... no way this one is the one i have the most written for rn 💀 wait why is it kinda cooking though
hmmm i feel like this exposes me too much. i want to write more non-romantic fics too!! also as a teenage girl, death and murder have been on my mind. but that feels weird to write for Real Existing People, like what if im cursing them or something...
Have you seen this?! Official RobOtter jersey! https://x.com/mrgusting/status/1837625609968930958?s=46&t=OWXis_uOIbAQpZkOt5OdIA
i have!!!! listen, if fanatics is going to fuck shit up as the nhl's jersey supplier i am glad that at least there is some benefit for me personally.
also for what it's worth, i joked yesterday when i first saw this that it's probably a v romantic proposition for athletes to take their partner's number in marriage (having read this as robo also taking on 29) but i'm realizing now it makes infinitely more sense to read this as otter keeping 29 & taking robo's last name. a lot of options!!
enduring misery about wedge's goodbye post aside, i DID make note of otter & robo's use of 😢 and 🥺, respectively. it feels good to lock down that they are both Emoji Users but the fact that the emojis they both picked are sooooo on the nose is simply icing on the cake for me
(if you meant AMA for real) What do you make of Robo not being at Otter's wedding?
(i meant ama insomuch as you can pretty much always send me an ask & if tumblr doesn't eat the notification and i feel comfortable with it, i'll answer)
i don't make anything of it!!! i talked about it in discord earlier but the group of people we're seeing at the pre-otter's-wedding festivities – tyler, mush, delly – are the people i expected to be there. they're the group him & kennedi have vacationed with the past two years. if anything wyatt not being there is more surprising to me than robo not being there, since he's also part of the vacation crew. after wyatt, wedge not being there is also a little surprising but wedge & britt have a new baby so not going to destination weddings is like, yeah, okay, that makes sense. i'm sure they sent a wedding gift or something.
i do think that if otter were getting married later in the offseason or not In Mexico it would be a little weirder that robo isn't there but like. listen okay as the person who put together the robotter mega primer last season (shoutout to the robotter mega primer i put together last season) the basis for them as a ship has always been built more on their narrative potential, commentary on each other's on-ice performances, and vibes than anything off-ice. they're not each other's off-ice best friends on the team!! that is, in fact, part of the draw for me!!!
they are always always always going to be tied together whether they like it or not. they seem to like it fine. both of them are sooooo committed to being well adjusted 'normal for a hockey player' guys that they aren't going to openly like it more than fine.
i'd have lost my shit if robo & rachel were there. but them not being there isn't, like, a surprise to me!! it's fine!!!
the robotter primer is finally finally here!! i had so much fun working on this — it is truly my belief that these two have one of THE MOST fun vibes to take in & Experience and i'm hyped to get to share in the vibes with everyone!! if you've ever had even a passing interest in one or both of these guys, or the stars as a team, i think they're worth giving a chance & i think this primer is a great jumping off point.
you can find the primer here on google docs; it's separated into three sections — one for jake, one for jason, & then one for the ship itself. i hope you enjoy it 💚 and everyone is, as always, more than welcome to come & talk to me about these two here on tumblr!
this is link heavy; there’s some pictures & i used footnotes kind of liberally, so while you can in theory read it on mobile if you have the google docs app i personally feel like desktop will give you the best reading experience.
Robo/otter for the ship ask thing bc I’m kinda slightly obsessed with the way that you write them about them in fics/tags and this way you have to say more stuff. (Insert evil laughter)
god this is almost too open ended ........ my brain is exploding with everything i could say about their vibes & why they work for me as much as they do. this is really like. the essayiest essay of all of these so it is MOSTLY under the cut & i hope it appeases your evil laughter <3
i think the basis of the appeal of them for me is the same of any ship you build up out of people in the same draft class — whether you're looking at preexisting besties who get broken up or strangers who become insanely important to each other in an instant, there's a very real hand-of-fate quality there & that makes everything about the 2017 draft class in particular feel kind of fairy tale.
and otter is SO aware of it. they both give insane quotes about each other on the reg & have since their rookie season (the fact that it's Their Rookie Season is both another point & part of the same point; like, that was also tydel's rookie season, but also, he's not part of their conversation yk?) but otter especially is always talking about how happy he is that robo plays in dallas with him & how he hopes he continues to never have to play against him, etc etc etc.
otter's almost ...... intensely introspective. like, his quotes on the podcast he did for pavs' company about wishing he could go back & play just one more game with every old team of his are insane. BUT both of them have spent soooo much time this season talking about how they still look at each other as the same guy they came up with in the ahl which gives me absolute brainworms. i think it really started in earnest w media asking robo about otter at the all star weekend, but then they both had carte blanche to keep talking about growing up together & how they don't look at each other any different now.
they're both just so aware of the narrative & their respective places in it (otter always calling himself the best & his teammates the best as a way of shouldering his own high expectations; robo always tempering people's praise of him by calling out his weaknesses & what he does to offset them; etc etc etc). BUT they both seemed to have readily accepted that they come as a package deal, narratively, which i just think is the height of romance in sports. agreeing that you come as a duo with someone ..... that you shouldn't be separated ....... that you've been together for long enough that the other person's changes simply do not register .............. Peak Romance!!
when robo finally got a contract signed last season, the first thing he did was change his pfp to a pic of him embracing otter & looking at things from a shipping lens it's like. well obviously. to both of them, being part of this team means being together. all other vibes can be built from there.
there's also other less Foundational aspects of their vibe that really work imo!!
like obviously they're both different flavors of weird-normal, which i love. they're both so proud of being Normal Guys but it's clear that they are also, yk. freaks. i think they should be freaks together because they're obviously complimentary flavors of freak. also the jakey nickname!! i know a lot of the guys use that for otter now but robo started it. razor even called out that jakey was a robo-ism. that their love language is being assholes to each other at practice is so fun. robo's just obsessed w goalies & i think it was soooo nice of jim nill to draft a lil freak goalie at the same time as him so they could just be a matched set forever.
