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[thoughtsthinksandthings]

Headcanon that baby Shane has a slight accent when speaking English, and it's for a super unexpected reason.

A few weeks post-partum, Yuna decided that their son should be bilingual. Yuna speaks to Shane in Japanese, and David speaks to him in French. Baby Shane catches on extremely quickly.

It isn’t until baby Shane is enrolled in daycare that the staff notices he has a hard time following directions and making friends.

Yuna and David find it hard to believe. At home, baby Shane is speaking two languages and actively translating between French and Japanese. It’s not until a few weeks later that Yuna comes to the realization.

“David,” she calls from the kitchen after hearing David read Shane a book in French. “Did we ever formally teach this kid English?”

And David is sitting there stunned, because no, no, they did not. Sure, David and Yuna spoke to each other in English, and to their friends and family in English when they visited the house, but they never spoke to Shane in English.

They enroll Shane in an English as a Second Language class (which really should be called English as a third language, in this case). Shane eventually catches up and becomes somewhat fluent in English, but he has this slight hybrid Euro-Asian accent when he speaks it.

[pinkhairandbooks]

It’s not gay if you do it in the middle of a game

[twoforsticking]

mack, passenger princess-ing in his own car in his own city: isn’t it so nice smitty? thank god you’re here, i was so tired of driving myself everywhere and i knew you would love to drive my new car and i’m so excited to make you drive around san jose and—

will, trying and failing to lock in so he doesn’t scratch mack’s fancy new mercedes: uh-huh, yup, anything for you, celly, i’ll drive you anywhere you want

rj in the backseat, fearing for his life: the turn was 3 blocks ago.

[totheecore]

wm summer reading list of foundational texts nobody asked for in no particular order and they're all bangers #ToMe:

@litafordvsferrari • best guess  | E / 55k Or, an AU where Mack and Will get to know each other sooner +

• the boy blue series (boy blue + ask not)  E / 36k — 2 works + • buckle on your belt | M / 10k A Monday night in Massachusetts, and some things that came before that.

@moncuries • aphasia | E / 52k Mack says it in the middle of a press conference.  Will convinces himself he had no idea. + • the celebrini-smith wedding (no, not that one) | E / 31k When Will and Mack RSVP’d to Aiden and Grace’s wedding together, they didn’t realize their siblings would assume they were, well, together +

• heaven’s own blue | T / 10k  The great loves of Will's life. 

• noseblind | T / 4.5k Soulmate/scent au 

@pert1nents • stare slave djedovino | E / 36,9k — character study of all time. prelude of sorts to anywhere but home to me (rip) What if he asks if Will can come to Halifax, and Dada can see everything, the entire fucking evening, broadcast on his face?

@ghostsinmachine • soldier boy, bleed | E / 38k  “Sit the fuck back down,” Will snaps and Mack—inexplicably—does exactly that. • shadow in the sun | E / 17k or, this would be so much easier if you were a girl

@somewhatinvested • caught up in it | E / 6,9k + new to this | E / 33k - ongoing (part 2 of caught up in it)

• white chocolate raspberry mochas | T / 7k It’s an honest mistake anyone can make, developing an unfortunate, probably unrequited, crush on a coffee shop regular. How was Savannah supposed to know he was in love with his best friend?

• sunburnt | M / 7k “Come to Boston” –or, the summer 2025 fic

@valoaa literally everything but i especially loved • your lover, your zero | E / 16 Will figures that Mack might have a small crush on him

• the coast is clear  | E / 46k  AU where will isn’t a hockey player. and mack is very very dumb bless his soul

• the ache has hands | E / 10,7k • don’t bite your tongue | E / 9,6k • you take the left side | E / 19k • swan dive at sunrise | E / 10k

MackWillMadeIt • and the streets are full of strangers | E / 17k — californiaverse, 1/3 the u could be having the best day of ur life and here comes elliotte friedman in his little click clacky dress shoes with the worst news known to mankind tweet if it was a fic. YAY i love suffering with a hea

kerfluffle • seven days a week | E / 17,8k — college AU Mack’s gonna do something drastic. 

@rainybelieverland mwah • wild, weaving | E / 8k

• clear spot | E / 21k

• the first face that i saw | E / 39k — whishbaby AU. perfectionnn

• please be somewhere tonight | E / 12k ongoing or: will in the torment nexus exhibiting levels of pathetic never seen before. amazing

Anon fic compilation i love a normal amount @ mystery author i'm very fond of you • turn it off! | T / 4,1k – or: Will gets reflective watching the Book of Mormon. Mack, as always, is there.

• how things are far from home | T / 3,6k – or: Mack calls Will during Worlds, and Will reflects. • how things are back in boston | T / 2,9k – or: Aiden is in absolutely no position to be giving anyone boy advice. Not that Mack seems to care. • how things are back home | T / 2,7k – a (Rick) Celebrini family character study, with Will in the background.

@hockeyeast EVERYTHINGGGGGGG but especially • the surface is everything | E / 32k ‘D’you want me to find you someone on Raya?’ asks Mack. ‘I could do it. I could pick out the perfect girl for you.’ 

• halfway line seriers

• adult content | E / 4,5k Mack stumbled across it kind of by accident, honestly.

@/yamssoup • your need grows teeth | E / 19,4k

@28farabee all their works no seriously but especially • it felt like something old, it felt like something holy | M / 35k

• sleight of hand and twist of fate | M / 29k

• from that day on, i made a vow | M / 39k Two days after Mack confirms he is accepting the job and moving to New York, he gets a postcard in the mail. NEW YORK MISSES YOU & CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU. (OH, WAIT…THAT'S ME!)   

@tanlineswrites another author i cannottt recommend enough • understorey | E / 13k In a game against the Penguins, Will goes down. 

• the milano-cortina series >:}

• dead reckoning | E / 19k It’s normal to want to burrow inside someone’s skin so you can feel their heart beating against your own. It is.

• pacify | E / 11k

@inlightofitall another belovedest author • baby, spare me all the rest | E / 20k Mack’s not very good at being patient, he knows that. He pushes too much too fast. Gets excited, gets mad, gets loud and childish and brash. Patient is definitely not at the forefront of words most people would use to describe him. But with this, with Will, he’s trying.

• no good state to receive | E / 71k another fic of all time to meee There’s a squirmy feeling in Will’s gut when he thinks about it. Aren’t you terrified? he wants to ask. Am I the only one that’s terrified? 

• spring tides | E / 5,6k will turns 21. he can have a little piscean crisis. as a treat

our @loglady1980!! • one year stand | E / 77,3k Will believed in both of them in ways that didn’t make sense, in ways he couldn’t bring himself to name.

• credit card baby | E / 19k ofc

eyeonthesparrow • adage | E 6k Will had tried really hard not to make it a whole thing.  or: schrodinger's canon compliance re: boston summer plans

@drivestraight again i can and i will read everything but these in particular are engraved into my skull • farther than they appear | E / 35k Ryan's surprised that Will actually showed up.  He isn't surprised that Will brought Celebrini in tow. 

• significant lover | E / 110K While on IR, Will gets a boyfriend. 

paisana • a light that never goes out | E / 24k Or, Mack and Will and God.

@jiksax • suddenly, every flash of light | M / 20k In another version of this, Will turns his head and meets Mack's eyes and tastes the metal of his split lip. But he's in this version, so he doesn't

@/kevingorg • dog teeth | E / 57k There’s something nervous in Macklin that wants Smith to like him.  Badly.

@zostapchuks • so hot you’re hurting my feelings | E / 14k or, two sweaty weeks in north van and the kind of undefined relationship that drives you insane.

@thomasmomwell • shirley temple | E / 7k unhinged4unhinged. terrible horrible perfect for each other (complimentary)

@iodinejam • fifteen minutes to the citgo sign | M / 8k - or: will doesn't spend marmon with mack.

• schrödinger's dead kennedy | M 14k - or: mack goes to worlds. will goes to the cape.

@secondhand-hockey • the patch where nothing grows | M 37k / amnesia au Mack thinks, with a kind of exhausted certainty, that he would find Will anywhere. Mack would know him by weight, by smell, by the way his breathing eases Mack's nervous system on cue.

He just can't seem to find the Will he knew in Will's own head.

@phoebebrxdgers • all things go | E - ongoing “Do you wanna come to Boston?” (or, the offseason)

@attackofthezee • say yes, then say yes again | E 42k In which Will and Mack get married in Vegas, but there's one problem: Mack isn't gay. Or in love with Will. He's pretty sure. 90% sure. 75% sure. Like 40% sure? Okay, maybe he's not so sure.

@cryproudly99 • say it once again with feeling | E / 62K The Celebrinis and the Smiths have been vacationing together on Cape Cod for fifteen years. Mack and Will complicate things. 

• i get what i want (and last i checked it's you) | E / 15k Or: Will might be a liar, but Macklin is out of his fucking mind.

• break my heart and start a fire (you got me overnight) | E / 31k Or: Will is the president of Aiden's frat. Mack is really normal about him.

jostyards • trust i seek and i find in you | M / 76k “Okay. Can you tell me the date, Will?” Will closes his eyes shut. He shakes his head, his throat tightening.

(or, the wsh amnesia fic)

@wild-andprecious • get you wild, make you leave | E / 8k Mack seemed to live in the gap between what had actually happened and what he’d wanted to happen, and the gap had no address, and he couldn’t stop going there.

or: mack turns 20

@pseudini • radiciform | E / 33k He doesn’t have to work so hard to impress Will, he’s slowly learning.

@ponyoom • what you know | E / 23k HEARTWARMING: These two frat boys from rival hockey teams are dating, and the internet cannot get enough of them! Wrong, wrong, and more wrong, Mack thinks, then reads it again, and again, just to make sure he’s really understanding it.

Anon • Status: Legendary | E / 10k or, the team takes Mack out to celebrate his record-breaking season.

[wingswin0516]

I’m sure this has been posted already but I neeeed it on my blog. Maybe my favorite Willmack edit ever.

[darkpurple12]

Willmack videos and quotes that keep me up at night. (literally. I should be sleeping rn but I made this instead agh I work in the morning 😭😭)

[wingswin0516]

Fond thoughts running through Wsh’s mind at 100 mph for these 3 seconds of non-response:

Did I know he was there? What kind of question is that. I know where he is always. Sure I see him with my eyes but I feel him in my bones and have memorized him with every part of my body. He takes up most of my brainpower at any given time. My parietal lobe is analyzing the ice but the other 71% of my brain is filled with mackmackmackmackmack. My most base instincts direct my attention to him. Urge me to go to him. To be near, always to be closer. To make him laugh, make him feel this pull that I feel, make him happy. And Mack is happy when he’s playing good hockey. I can give him good hockey. So did I know he was there?

Of course.

And I will always find him.

[keelpay]

"i thought he was there" "he wasn't even looking at me and he found me"

[burger3316271]

Drew WSH with short hair today ,and yes, the little bunny is also WSH

[burger3316271]

Drew WSH with short hair today ,and yes, the little bunny is also WSH

[brinimacks]

it’s the same picture

[normal-behavior]

WillMack Stats Glaze

[crisisthegirl]

Now your eyes are like tortures / Your presence is bliss / Planets collide, collide, collide / At the smack of your kiss / But you can kiss your brother

Because we will not be lovers, no

willeno x We Will Not Be Lovers

[superstarlit]

more fic recs!

find all fic recs here

lovesick by @beyondearths, 10.6k, omegaverse

mack has rejection sickness

killshot by @wshhater, 6k, omegaverse

mack asks will to hunt him

conflict of interest by @lavalsedutemps, 65.9k, will is not a hockey player

will is a sharks legal intern

say it once again with feeling by @cryproudly99, 62.6k, college era

the smiths & celebrinis spend every summer together on the cape; exes to lovers

leaving me in your wake by @lavalsedutemps, 14k, age gap

rookie mack, vet will

my moon, my man by @eevieurs, 12.8k, age gap

rookie will, vet mack

the elevated willmack wedding experience by @lilliesinwater13 @honelle56 + @extrasteps, 17.5k, non-au

will & mack plan eky's wedding

learning curve series by @dalsyy, 42k (& counting), non-au

will & mack discovering each others...nuances

[heyitsaxelhere]

mack is barely a quarter of an inch shorter than will and he’s already exaggerating it and treating it like a whole ass foot, i can only imagine what he’d do when will bulks up during the summer. like i’m talking bunching his shoulders to make them seem even narrower even if will is just as wide if not wider than him; as in mack leaning—basically bend over—the nearest flat surface with a crooked hip, almost crossing his arms at the elbows as he looks up at will with wide doe eye. mack placing a hand on will’s chest and noticing how smaller it seems with all the added width, and mack running his hands on the intoxicating miles of skin and muscles of will’s back when will’s traps and lats spread out as he holds himself up over mack when he pounds into hi—

[kyumo-02]

good luck in ottawa

[star-tambourine]

willmack texts