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Team • 22 • she/her • 🇨🇦 • main: 4thbrighteststar - ao3

[twosskates]

no reposts anywhere ever or die by my fucking sword

[zostapchuks]

they floofed my dog bro

[scuderlia]

[finding-the-nextnextnext-one]

If you like this Willmack -> Read this McStrome

Significant lover by linearity / @drivestraight (E, 110k) -> try Otters for life by hannah_baker (E, 21k) Have you ever looked for a fic where a guy named Chris gets cheated on by a hockey player with another hockey player? Well I have two. You can even imagine that it’s the same guy. Rip Chris but his sacrifice gave us these two bangers that both share the idea of “can’t stay away from my hockey person bff guess I'm cheating now" so if you like significant lover thennnn -> Otters for life?

Aphasia by moncuries / @moncuries (E, 52k) -> try burn the straw house down by theundiagnosable (E, 39k) Recommending classic for classic! As the willmacks prolly know, aphasia is the fic where mack comes out nationally and then hides away with his boy bestfriend wsh. As the mcstromes know, btshd is a archetypal mcstrome where Connor suffers a career ending injury and retreats to his ex boy best friend Dylan Strome. Similar mid range long fic classics of their community - angst (with a happy ending). If you like the relational struggle/ make up aspects of aphasia and the hard work of addressing your dysfunction for your generational talent boy bestie then maybe give btshd a look!

my four leaf clover by alltimecharlo / @alltimecharlo (G, 11k) -> try for your eyes only by lilcrickee / @lilcrickee (M, 11k) my four leaf clover is my favorite feel good willmack. They just love each other and are classically codependent. Willmack go to worlds and Toff bets that they can’t spend the whole time apart and they fail in spectacular fashion and it’s so sweet and it made me scream in bed. If you like that low stakes best friends they just love each other and eventually realize it and get together dynamic then try for your eyes only! It’s a bit sadder because the mcstrome narrative inherently has inbuilt separation but oh my god they care about each other so much and Connor's the only guy Dylan lets see him draw and I need more ppl to be obsessed with mcstrome.

best guess by litaf1101 (E, 55k) -> This year by hannah_baker (E, 48k) In best guess WSH and Mack go to BC/BU respectively and meet each other earlier than canon timeline. Will kinda becomes Mack’s keeper and Mack becomes Will’s safe space where he goes to be happy instead of a toxic hockey jock. In this year Dylan becomes Connor’s live-in house babysitter(not age regression) and Dylan becomes Connor’s safe space where he goes to be slightly less depressed instead of fully depressed. If you like that best guess dynamic where them dysfunctional boys find comfort in each other then who knows could try this year?

your boy by bluecanvastotebag (M, 32k) -> try The Next Next One by yourblues (M, 71k) And you know we had to rec the next next one. Also your boy. First similarity? Goated. Second similarity? Future fic with communication problems and non linear narrative where one of the guys is trying to move on from their generational talent ex bestie who wants them to do a documentary. Pining. Angst. Moving on but being haunted. Resolving the unresolved. You just gotta read both of them. #goat4goat

[wllmckln]

staring at each other through the screen but can’t bear to look at each other’s eyes lmao mack has to physically turn away LOL

what is the heterosexual explanation…

[cinnnnnnamon]

If you never seen wsh’s four goals against Macklin Celebrini here you go. This is also the jersey that Mack wears for the jersey bet.

[glovesdown]

hello my handsome ned

[boysharkmack]

he has the hardest life in the world

[nosurprisetome]

in the sense that

[heuhehhohot]

i get so bricked up every time i watch this video and i watch this video every day so i am bricked up all day every day

[brini71]

The Future is Teal

[intovertebral]

Unserious as fuck

[share-somelove]

<3

[maenisusume]

SJS vs. STL (3.30.26)

of bench talks and quick smiles — before the 2nd

[loganes]

Ryan Leonard - 09.29.25

[movelociraptor]

its shark day!

[fleursmit]

you should be proud you should be proud you should be proud you should be proud you should be proud you should be proud you should be proud you should be proud