If you've been reading "The chips are set to fall" by the incredible @exactphoify then you also probably know that it's grown into a delightful logic puzzle of trying to keep track of who is who, who's out, who knows what, etc.
(if you haven't, hi, you should be reading "The chips are set to fall," Ilya makes it his personal mission to make the MLH gayer and he's using his impeccable powers of gaydar to make it happen by recruiting everyone into a bet. It's insane and delightful Ilya's Army grows by the second but he mostly refers to them by the order they joined the bet in so it can occasionally be hard to keep track of everyone)
Anyway, I've collated a running list from the author's notes helpfully provided at the end of each chapter, and I'm going back now and starting from the beginning with my own list and posting it in the comments of each chapter. I'll link to the chapter comments here, and the current, up-to-date list up to Chapter 28 (with all the spoilers) is under the cut.
Chapter 1 - 1
Chapter 2 - Mafia
Chapter 3 - Lois Shane
Chapter 4 - Council of Straight Elders
Chapter 5 - 5
Chapter 6 - Pike-Shane Problem
Chapter 7 - State of the Gay Union 2018
Chapter 8 - After Party
Chapter 9 - Underground Journalism and the other kind ***
Chapter 10 - Shane's backup
Chapter 11 - Pick 6
Chapter 12 - Shane Hollander, pick-up artist
Chapter 13 - Barrett
Chapter 14 - 14
Chapter 15 - Bianca
Chapter 16 - Dept. of Gay Agriculture
Chapter 17 - Las Vegas Bathroom
Chapter 18 - Powerpoint
Chapter 19 - r/MLHCorruption
Chapter 20 - Bad Meetings
Chapter 21 - Excellence in Noncompliance, Ill-Timing, or Scandal
Chapter 22 - Melnyk
Chapter 23 - And Rivera
Chapter 24 - 24
Chapter 25 - Box Suite
Chapter 26 - Scott Hunter, Politician 2020
Chapter 27 - Democracy, or The MLH Players' Union
Chapter 28 - Wiebe
Chapter 29 - Ilya’s backup
*** the point where I started having to leave multiple comments to include everything
Up to Date List through Chapter 29 (from Author's Notes, will be expanded GREATLY once I've caught up)
ENDLESS SPOILERS BELOW
#1 Scott Hunter - came out for 2017 cup
#2 Retires
#3 was on Carolina, traded bc of the toxic locker room
#4 Kowalski - flirting with their lawyer
#5: Baldwin, goaltender for Vancouver, now retired (minor canon book-gay), came out for 2018 cup
#6 Shane - came out for 2020 cup
#7 Vinny Marcello - New Jersey Alternate Captain, wants the Scott Hunter moment, originator of RASHYCOCK & PENIS, knows about Hollanov, attends Scott & Kip’s wedding, Troy realizes is not at the after party
#8 Ryan Price - Came out (more loudly) in 2019, originator of the PENIS award (not intentionally)
#9 retires
#10 says Kent is assaulting women, wishes Crowell took the allegations seriously
#11 Lundin (minor book-gay) - Swedish player for LA
#12 Eric Bennett - NY, 2020 PENIS winner
#13 Danny Melnyk - Ilya wants to set up with #14, Montreal backup, corrupt, additional 2020 PENIS winner before playoffs
#14 Mateo Rivera - Little-Shane, Ilya wants to set up with #13, Washington player, came out for 2019 cup
#15 Anaheim, likes Ilya being carrier pigeon to chirp at hunter for him, thinks Hollanov would be hot, wants to come out after homophobic Grandpa's death
#16 Houston, hooked up with Adrian Dela Cruz, wants Rozanov to come out
#17 takes issue with Crowell's silence on racist fans
#18 says Kent is assaulting women, wishes he had a chance to hurt Kent, was already in the ally army
#19 New Jersey younger player
#20 Thinks Roz should come out after MLH awards
#21
#22 Anaheim
#23 Jethro Young - Utah captain, now knows about Hollanov, is Mormon?, thinks hockey players are too gross to date (who doesn't?)
#24
#25 Ray Henderson - Buffalo rookie who Ilya turned gay, 2020 DICK COMA winner
#26 Nashville - is in touch with Hunter
#27 Silas Wagner - Washington, Playoff MVP 2019
#28 Lavelle - retired Spring 2019, came out at the end of the summer
#29 Fredericks - original DICKCOMA, transferred from Carolina to Ottawa after coming out
#30 Beltran - Utah
#31 Richards is about to move to Anaheim (making three players on one team)
#32 thinks Wagner & Fredericks should choose DICK COMA
#35 Innocent little baby who doesn't know the moral questionability of the group
#37 Tampa, Doesn't know DICK COMA
#38 At 2019 MHL afterparty arguing about cupcakes
#45 Troy Barrett - not in the Cup Bet, elected to union through combined powers of the armies
#46 Luca Haas - Ottawa, secretly on r/MLHcorruption
#47 Lowery - Tampa Bay Homosexual/Aromantic/Genderqueer Rookie that Crowell had booted
Honorable Mentions (And not numbered):
Unknown Boston Player
Troy realizes not at the after-party, but we don't know numbers (Marcello is #7):
Helthon
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okay but ilya being mildly annoyed but not at all surprised that shane was laser-focused on their conversation and not even registering the hand actively on his dick makes me laugh imagining the first time this happened
like it's still early days but enough that they talk in addition to just fucking, and ilya makes the fatal flaw of bringing up something with either hockey or real estate, and now shane is off on this talk, and ilya is just ?? what the fuck is happening here right now?? it's not even hollander playing a game or teasing??? hollander, hand on dick??? are you aware??? do you remember???? it does not seem like you remember
the real reason ilya said they could talk later at his house in boston is that he knew by then that talking first risked shane edging him via socratic method
I see ao3 as a library, because ao3 hosts millions of written works for people to visit and read. That’s what libraries do. But I get it that to some people, the library part may be more of a metaphor than a literal meaning for ao3.
But you have to be either clueless about what ao3 is shortened for and what the platform’s full name is, or on another level of stupidity to say archive of our own isn’t an archive pls lmao
And it’s not just the name, mind you. AO3’s main purpose is to archive transformative works. Archiving works is literally the only thing it does and was created for. Which just makes anon’s claim even funnier.
Your Friendly Neighborhood Librarian says yes, AO3 is a fucking library AND an archive. Does it have a curated collection of materials? YES, it’s library. Does that collection contain materials curated specifically in part for preservation purposes? YES, it’s an archive.
And it’s my dream that someday our public library catalogs will be able to organize content the way AO3 can.
Proud of myself, I translated a whole sentence from Korean myself without looking any of the words up. I haven’t been learning that long and that was an awesome feeling!!
Some character designs with some…atypical color choices? I guess. I don’t know what’s going on in that area.
This is Nimona and her supervillain friend (He doesn’t have a name yet, I’m working on that). Nimona is his sidekick/squire, they’re like the Batman and Robin of slightly Medieval villains, but she’s actually way more evil than him. He does what he does to make a point, and he doesn’t really want anyone get hurt - Nimona just gets a kick out of destroying stuff.
I’m going to attempt to make a two page comic with them? We’ll see how this goes.
Took advantage of societal norms on the Amtrak to make sure no one sat in my row when more people boarded in the middle of the night. I ended up with one of the only empty neighboring seats lol
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