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i do like the idea that when will reintroduces colleen to mack as will’s boyfriend, colleen wasn’t really… sure, at first. colleen’s looking at her son and will’s looking back with shiny eyes and a wavering voice when he goes and um, you know mack, my boyfriend. and that’s, well, not ideal. but she loves will, so she hugs him tight and turns to mack and hugs him too, and there’s something stiff and jilted in her hug with mack but it doesn’t matter right now, because she’s too busy trying to clear the radio static filling her head.

and mack isn’t dumb, he might not be as sharp as will but he knows when someone’s sizing him up, looking past the sweat and the red face and heaving breaths, when a coach is looking at him like he’s just short of something. kinda like how colleen’s looking at him now, past the nervous flush and the expensive red wine and the bouquet of flowers will helped pick out, like she’s scrutinizing, trying to see what will sees in mack. trying to find potential good enough for her son.

and while it’s not the worst reaction, it isn’t the best, either. is it kinda disheartening? sure. but mack is good with potential. he can work with it, he can make it into reality. especially for smitty, who had to take a minute to breathe before they walked up the porch steps, fingers fumbling clumsily along the rosary ring clasped around his neck.

so mack decides mid-hug, jolted in a way that doesn’t speak acceptance yet, that he’s going to win colleen over. because he knows he’s the one for will and it doesn’t matter if she makes it hard, because mack’s gonna win. after all, he’d already won over one smith, how hard is it to win over another?

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can we recenter what a willmack bachelor party would look like. would they have separate or joint parties. who would they invite. would it be a long weekend type of endeavour where will celebrates in the cape for 3-4 days. would the bc boys try to invite strippers. would mack hop on a red eye to crash will’s bachelor party after he hears of this

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Do we think Mack ever fooled around with teamates growing up? Or do you think Will is the one and only guy he’s slept with? We know Will has a long past, curious your thoughts on Mack.

ohoho!!! in my humble opinion, mack’s always noticed attractive guys but hasn’t really bothered to explore—he’s pretty much content latching onto a new on-ice bsf in each team he joins. for much of juniors mack’s always just had his eye on making the show. EVERYTHING else comes second, and exploring his sexuality doesnt even cross his mind.

however… when it comes to The Will Thing.

to me it’s always been like an elephant in the room-type situation, because will’s always been a Looming Spectre of sorts throughout mack’s on ice life. from the all-american prospects tournament to the ntdp vs steel to bc vs bu will was just always There . older and cooler and always looks like he knows what he’s doing, always surrounded by his teammates, always within reach but never enough to touch, always close enough for a face off but never enough for mack to really get a good look past the puck between them.

but i like to think, because of how close they were in achievements, mack has harboured a sort of obsession—granted it’s the agitating, irritating kind of obsession, the type that comes with memorizing will’s stats, his form, how he skates, how he jokes with his bc boys on the bench, how he took off his helmet in celebration after scoring a fucking dick trick on mack, how soaked his hair was, golden strands turned dark. ANYWAY. mack’s one track mind ruminates on the losses against bc for a night or two then moves on. bc he has to. bc 1oa’s don’t cry over spilt milk. but the Will Thing is still there, buzzing and annoying under his skin.

i think it all comes to a head for mack in dev camp, when he realizes that he can’t exactly ignore it anymore—the Will Thing—because now instead of across the ice, like it’s always been for years, will’s in front of him, in the same white polo, same sharks branded cap, making mack laugh like it’s the easiest thing in the world, and mack goes. huh.

so he gets through camp, and his one track mind comes to a conclusion pretty quickly. because he’s nothing if not efficient. he thinks on his sexual orientation for a night, maybe two. he thinks about will. he thinks about will. he thinks about will. he thinks about will. then decides. he texts see ya to will after dev camp, and signs his elc right after.

and then. months from now, when mack inevitably backs will up against a hotel wall, and sees will’s eyes drop to his lips, all mack can think of is how it’s been a long time coming.

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i just think it’s so funny how some of the best willmack edits i see on a daily basis are the ones where the tiktok caption’s like: NOT A SHIP EDIT. I DO NOT SHIP WILL AND MACK. SHIP COMMENTS WILL BE BLOCKED. and the song they use is futile devices from call me by your name. or e85

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will is so mamma mia coded in the sense that he would totally go behind his mom’s back to secretly invite all three of her exes to try and figure out which one is his biological father in hopes that one of them can walk him down the aisle that same week. he would also absolutely eat a performance of honey honey

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hiya!! this is a bit random lol but if i remember correctly (i could be wrong) your Australian? i see a lot of people (accidentally i’m sure) use a/b/o without the slashes, which is rlly jarring and upsetting to see. i was just asking if it’s worth correcting these people and if you do or if it’s usually normal for people to use a/b/o without the slashes. im fairly knew to it all.

sorry if your not aussie and have no idea what i’m talking abt 😭

hi anon!! thank you for this ask - i’ve been planning to bring this up for a while so you’ve just given me the opportunity to talk about this

a/b/o without the slashes is a slur against australia’s Indigenous Peoples — also known as Aboriginal Peoples. it’s not super widely used today, but it’s prevalent enough that it’s still harmful, especially alongside the historical and current social/political implications of it.

a brief history lesson but it’s important to understand how harmful using these words can be!! there were hundreds of different communities in australia prior to british colonisation, which was mass genocide, assault, r*pe, and murder. it even got to the point where the australian government was trying to implement charles darwin’s theory of evolution. there were literal laws in the 1900s (mostly prevalent in the 30s) that allowed police to take First Nations Children from their communities and place them in white families to attempt to assimilate them to “white culture”. it even ended up forcing First Nations Peoples marry white people and would r*pe women to try and “breed out” Indigenous cultures. Aboriginal Peoples were also considered “flora and fauna” (plants and animals) until a referendum in 1967. to this day, they are often still marginalised in the same way.

while a lot of these laws aren’t in act today, there’s still a lot of prejudice towards our First Nations Peoples and Communities. there’s still far too many disproportionate arrests, police control over higher-population areas of First Nations Peoples, and still so much police brutality including deaths in custody (more than 650 since a government inquiry in 1991).

i understand a lot of people not from australia will not know about this (tbh i didn’t until i was like 17 and learning about it in a sociology class at school!) but i think it’s important to use my knowledge and attempt to educate where i can, especially as a white australian.

for future, please consider using a/b/o when talking about omegaverse! but i highly suggest bypassing the letters altogether and using the word “omegaverse” instead!!!

if anyone wants more info pls let me know i’m happy to explain more stuff/educate people where needed!! also please reblog/share so more people can learn and understand why it’s harmful too!!!

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god, a willmack wedding would be like our royal wedding, could you imagine?

knowing how much will and mack lovee gatekeeping each other, the wedding itself would most likely be kept in such tight wraps from social media that the Only tidbits we’d have would just be

1. rick celebrini sharing a snippet of mack’s vows and continued commentary on how he “always knew” will would be his son’s “release”

2. a leaked 144p quality video of the inside of the venue before it mysteriously gets taken down

3. one (1) singular photo of grace, cat, and charlie in different shades of coastal blue wedding attire in one of grace’s insta summer dumps

4. another tiktok edit of will and mack’s game highlights posted the day of their wedding by sharksmedia that user wmack271 reposted

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hiii!! i just wanted to let you know that typing “a/b/o” without the / in the middle is actually a slur. it’s a slur against Indigenous australians (Aboriginal People) and is unfortunately used very regularly. the australian government essentially tried to “breed out” (exact terminology they used coming from charles darwin) First Nations Cultures and would kidnap children from their communities, force them to integrate with white children and families, and end up forcing them to have children with white people. a lot of australia’s First Nations Peoples are actually very white presenting because of this. this only ended in the 80s but tbh it’s still ongoing in different forms today.

apologies for the history lesson but i think it’s important to understand the context behind why it is so bad. this is just one of the thousands of horrific things that happened to Aboriginal australians.

no need to post this on ur acc i completely understand!! just wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt that you didn’t know, try to help educate you, and hopefully impact you to change your wording moving forward. i personally do a/b/o or use omegaverse instead — i highly encourage you do the same.

genuinely not trying to spread hate, just to educate!!! i love ur acc and seeing the things you post are great but just wanted to make sure you knew the implications of what you were saying <3

hello!! i’m so sorry and thank you so much for letting me know!! i really appreciate it so much, i truly didn’t mean any malicious intent; i’ve edited the post, and will for sure improve my wording with my posts moving forward !! 🩵

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it’s honestly such a shame omegaverse isn’t real bc i know will would’ve loved omegaverse courting rituals and mack would’ve loooved nesting and mating bites and they both would’ve looooved the possibility of baby trapping each other

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I also feel like both would be bridezillas but in different ways I feel like Will would start hyperventilating a year out from the wedding when the venue he wants is unavailable until like the middle of the nhl season or 2+ years away etc etc because I most definitely believe anyone raised by Colleen would have a very clear idea of what they want

But like on the day Mack would probably have like 15+ panic attacks over the small things that inevitable goes wrong partially for wills sake but partially because he needs to be the best at everything, including weddings. Like Mack would defo start snapping at like Leno or Aiden or whatever if they’re mucking around instead of seriously getting ready.

But by the wedding day Will is just grateful they got there in one piece and too damn excited to care about the minuscule things not going to plan because he’s marrying his favourite person ever

oh anon this ask has me going crazy. i am nodding so hard that the force of my head is giving me whiplash!!!!! my #secrettruth is that they’re both bridezillas in diff ways. will is such a meticulous planner it isn’t even funny. by the time either of them said yes (who knows who proposes first) will’s already calling colleen to let her know to get the wedding binder ready. he’s def someone that’s already had visions of what he wanted his dream wedding to look like before mack, but since an actual groom is in the picture the binder’s going to have go through some revisions. i’d also like to think despite how he loves to manage every detail, he also asks mack as much as possible what he’d want in their wedding. other than a few select things, mack is more than happy to give will full rein—just let him know when to hand over his card.

by the time the day COMES? mack is the one that’s a mess. will is in a suite on the opposite side and mack is pacing his own suite trying to just calm Down. i don’t think he’d bode well with the natural chaos that comes with a wedding day and it’s worse because he isn’t even getting ready with will. instead he’s stuck in a stuffy suite with his collar buttoned and tie tied too tight and hes sweating in places he doesn’t even know he can sweat from and he needs to go he needs to see will and he doesn’t even care about stupid superstitions and traditions but will does and mack cares about will so if will wants mack to stay in this room until the ceremony then thats what mack will do.

i think from the celleno standpoint they are totally texting each other updates on the grooms half for their amusement and the other half for… well, blackmail material tbh. leno says that will’s nerves have mostly calmed down, rn he’s happily drinking aperol spritzes and getting gifted his something blues from grace while aiden’s texting back that dada had to cut mack off from the open bar after he started whining too loud about missing will. and the ceremony hasn’t even started yet.

now i’m super curious as to who you’d think is walking first?? i could see either of them to be totally honest but i think there’s something special about mack, at the front, looking like he’s preparing for the most important face off of his life, then finally seeing will walk down the aisle and all his nerves just.. disappear. because of course they do, it’s just will.

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does willmack know they’re the second coming of larry stylinson or do they just have blue and green eyes for the fun of it

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willmack wedding posting is so fun bc the narrys just write themselves. YES will is a bridezilla. YES mack paid for almost the entire wedding. YES they both tried to propose before the other did. YES they had a joint bachelor party. YES gabe and leno tried to get will to have a separate one. NO it did not work. YES grace is will’s maid of honour. YES colleen is actively sabotaging the wedding. YES rick is aware and YES he is, in fact, upping security for any last minute ceremony objections.

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Ok Ryan Leonard definitely took Will’s v-card and Colleen knows and let it go down.

in colleen’s mind-palace leno and will would’ve had their childhood friends to lovers 100k fluff hurt/comfort slow burn by now except when it came for asking the smith hockeys blessings leno found out that will’s bride price was at least 18 mill and leno just doesn’t have that kind of money :/

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a willmack proposal is so intriguing to me because they would totally make it into a competition, like racing each other to propose first. mack’s got colleen and bill on speed-dial to ask for their blessing meanwhile will’s smug as hell bc he’s on the jeweller’s priority list to make the engagement ring . and it doesn’t even matter in the end because they end up proposing at the same time anyway

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https://www.tumblr.com/rpfluvr/824685143584358400/the-bridezilla-in-question-is-colleen

rick finds out colleen knows and is immediately asking will to send him her contact so he can start calling her and making sure he can come to all the appointments and also check in on her spreadsheets (not because he thinks she’s incompetent or he wants input on what she’s choosing for them but instead because he needs to see the entire process for his baby boy)

oh i just know rick is ruling the wedding catering with an iron fist . making sure that each caterer they interview is aware and adheres to mack’s dietary plan . colleen has… thoughts… about the dietary plan at first, but she manages to convince rick to give some leeway when it comes to the wedding cake thank God . (they settle for carrot cake with cream cheese buttercream… and yes okay fine it is also packed with rick’s approved amount of protein)

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https://www.tumblr.com/rpfluvr/824685143584358400/the-bridezilla-in-question-is-colleen

and when none of them do, she’s in their honeymoon suite boy-momming out while will pops mack’s cherry (not really, but it’s just more romantic to pretend that they’re both virgins so will makes them roleplay)

despite colleen’s best efforts to keep her son’s purity intact he def got around during his bc era. that hasn’t stopped will’s virginity kink though. ESPECIALLY during their wedding night bc ur telling me the roses on the bed and the champagne in the ice bucket and the two origami-ed swan towels isn’t gonna do it for him ?!?! he’s carrying mack into that honeymoon suite bridal style and taking mack’s virtue in missionary ONLY . because he’s #traditional like that

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the super secret answer is that their both bridezillas but are paying everyone involved so much money that they can get away with it

oh anon i AGREE ☝️ that 18.8 mill a year is purely bribe money . mack enables will’s bridezilla tendencies by stuffing disagreeing planners mouths with $100 bands so they can’t argue back . because he’s a freak