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[exactphoify]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Ilya takes fate into his own hands to normalize gay hockey. Thus begins his part-time side hustle as community organizer, mastermind, and Commander-in-Chief of the Gay Hockey Army.

If you’ve ever read a crack fic and thought “needs more discussion of logistics,” or “there aren’t enough people for me to keep track of,” or “I wish someone would form a violent rebel militia right now,” this is probably for you.

(Chapter 38/42 up now, updating frequently lol)

[madgirlautumn]

Are there any other attorneys on here who want to argue about The Chips Are Set to Fall like it’s a law school hypo?

[exactphoify]

Hey can I do something real quick?

I know deep in my heart that Ringleader sex is different than Ilya sex, and sometimes Shane will try to provoke Ringleader sex by like, designing team jerseys, or bringing up Scott Hunter not recording that one time, or saying “You know, in the PWHL...”, or really just talking about Crowell at all, and there’s an entire filthy companion piece that could be written for every chapter just with that in mind.

Ok I’m done, thanks for doing that with me.

[exactphoify]

One fun thought about Troy Barrett in “The chips are set to fall”:

Troy’s first All-Stars Weekend is 2019 in the books, but I had him in the first one in 2017 (Because I thought it was going to be a oneshot and I wanted to reference as many bookgays as possible and I didn’t know I would be aiming for obsessive canon-checking).

SO it’s possible that his presence that weekend is the reason Ilya was struck with the idea to do any of this to begin with. Like, he saw him on the way in and that’s the first domino in the butterfly effect that led us here.

If that’s true, then this entire alternate universe is just answering the question, “What if Troy Barrett were just a little bit better at hockey?” and that’s something so special to me ☺️

[exactphoify]

Giving my Tumblr lovers advance warning: Chapter 24 has the 2020 cup finals, so it's the season finale (like Chapter 14 was when the 2019 cup was over). That means Big Plot Moves but also potentially a few extra days for me to collect my scattered/melted brain into one place (hopefully, words) so future chapters can be better. 2019-2020 season was GREATLY improved by the two extra days I took getting ready for it, so I definitely want to do that again.

You already know me, and you know I am impatient. I can't help but post things the moment I have anything, so you already know I won't leave you like that for too long. I also know a lot of people follow me because my schedule is pretty quick, so I want to continue to honor that, too.

I'm not apologizing for taking my time or anything like that, I never feel any pressure to maintain any sort of schedule, but I want you to know to expect an extra few days (I’m aiming for Friday/Saturdayish)

anyway go look: https://archiveofourown.org/works/78909961/chapters/218808521

[exactphoify]

I think I would normally post a chapter today? Who knows what’s normal anymore! But it’s a crazy time for my actual job right now so I have to take a few extra days. Hoping for Tuesday or so?

[exactphoify]

Tell me I don’t have 1.2k based off yesterday's comment that said Dykstra would do a livestream album reaction video.

[exactphoify]

Updates on updates: I do still want to post tonight BUT I went to fact-check something just to be safe and ya’ll I’ve never been more wrong about how something works in my life.

So I have to fix some things and just hope the butterfly effect isn’t too strong with this one! Give me a few hours lol