ok top 5 hrpf fics any ship
I decided to go with some older or maybe less popular pairings to hopefully give people insight into something new :) these are in no particular order.
genuinely anything connor/jack that @iddayidnight has ever written. I am idday's biggest fan 😤
give up the ghost (stop the haunting baby) by tourdefierce
"James Neal falls in love, gets traded, gets his shit together and (mostly) grows the fuck up. Just not necessarily in any order that makes sense. He hears it's the journey that counts, not the destination." paul martin/james neal, rated E, 15k words
how strange it is to be anything at all by thesaddestsong
in which taylor grows up, finds himself, and falls in love, though not necessarily in that order. (or, the one where taylor plays for the golden bears and jordan plays for the oilers, and still they find themselves gravitating toward each other) jordan eberle/taylor hall, rated T, 38k words
down by the brazos by ionthesparrow (archive locked)
"Sometimes you can love a place, even if it don’t love you back. But sometimes you can find someone that do." jeff carter/mike richards, rated M, 23k words
if heaven's hypothetical by impertinence (@stopthatimp) and shoemaster
"Jeff runs away from Toronto and finds himself homeless in Raleigh, where he accidentally starts serving eggs to Eric Staal." jeff skinner/eric staal, rated E, 63k words
settle down (you're not alone anymore) by hishn_greywalker (archive locked)
"they say the first six months are the hardest." danny briere/claude giroux, rated T, 9k words
