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jes | 30s | used to be a hockey rpf blog and then this happened to me | hockey content now at @ticklefightgeno | saysthemagpie on ao3

[thirdity]

“You write the beginning and then you go back and rewrite the beginning, and you never got off page one. It’s kind of a syndrome, and I have a rash piece of advice which is — Go on, page two, page three, and never look back. Get something finished, no matter how lousy it is. […] Perfectionists cannot get going unless they kind of do violence to their own instincts, and just blast ahead.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

[gaygoatshane]

ilya: i like trouble

the trouble:

[ticklefighthockey]

fleshed out bicurious jj and rose...do you see my vision

but why does JJ have to be bicurious 😂 can’t this poor woman date a man who is not questioning at all

[ticklefighthockey]

hii idk if this will be quite up your alley but THIS FIC (https://archiveofourown.org/works/86720386) IS MAKING ME FEEL SO INSANE it’s kind of like if the spectral and unlikely possibility of Shane having some kind of employee/boss billionaire romance made Ilya crash out so hard they accidentally speedran a bunch of feelings

also: breeding program au: https://archiveofourown.org/works/86553411

omg I haven’t read the first one yet but I just read all the currently posted chapters of the breeding program au and I’m clawing at my face POOR SHANE POOR ILYA!!!!! both in the torment nexus where they belong… munch munch yum yum etc. I love a breeding program au that really delves into how fucked up and traumatizing the whole thing would be for everyone involved

[eleadore]

art meme

[ticklefighthockey]

my one editing note for jacob tierney—aside from deleting episode 3 and completely overhauling episode 5—is that after ilya says “shane hollander. will you disappoint them?” shane shouldn’t have said “no.” lamest possible answer. just have him say nothing and cut immediately to him scoring seconds later!! that’s so much more badass!!!

[ticklefighthockey]

also I meant to thank you all for the fic recs last week I am very slowly reading my way through many of them and will rec as I finish

[ticklefighthockey]

I have zero interest in mackwill but I also won’t be reading any of it because I know myself too well. “I have zero interest in X” is what I always say mere moments before I get fanatically obsessed

[pingupipit]

my fav photos from the photographer's website for the sport chek "ode to hockey" ad campaign:

📸: Riley Smith

[ticklefighthockey]

annoyingly it turns out that leaving the house is the secret to getting writing done during babysitter time

[ticklefighthockey]

it’s weird you would think lounging on the couch in your pajamas while a very chatty toddler bangs pots and pans together downstairs would be really conducive to deep thought and creative problem-solving

[ticklefighthockey]

personally I like to trap my characters in impossible unworkable no-win situations and then be like ok :) what now

[ticklefighthockey]

annoyingly it turns out that leaving the house is the secret to getting writing done during babysitter time

[ticklefighthockey]

now there’s something here I think… there’s something here

[jinxproof]

Liv Tyler | © Jonathan Glynn Smith

[ticklefighthockey]

will we ever get the sequel to (you fit into me.) i keep rereading it bc i love it so much

first of all it makes me sooo happy when people tell me they reread my fics… so thank you. second of all I just spent an hour this morning wrestling with my concept for the sequel trying to see if I can wrangle it into some kind of workable shape. stay tuned… I would really like it to be geno’s POV but it keeps wanting to be sid’s because I just love that grimy self-justifying ‘asshole alpha jock whose actual deepest inner instinct is to not be an asshole but he doesn’t know that consciously’ voice so much. we shall see…

[aangisdead]

sometimes…….things that are fanon………are worse

[ticklefighthockey]

recommending this situationship era fic where Ilya gets chlamydia

https://archiveofourown.org/works/88443821

this was fun and I enjoyed it thanks for the rec!