I'm just, doin' what I'm doin'

Enjoyer of many things sci-fi & fantasy related including: Lost, Arcane, Bulgasal, Teen Wolf, Foundation, Snowpiercer, LOTR (etc). I'm W0LFS0NG on AO3 & Palomita (Popcorn_Pigeons) on Letterboxd. Also, anthropology can be really cool sometimes.

[w1ng3dw01f]

When watching Hadestown, Shane and Ilya would not be able to sit through the entire musical without bawling their eyes out, holding hands, or partially embracing, at least five times.

[miscellaneousbullshit]

I see a lot of HR fans who hate Hayden Pike and I get it but I think what some people don't realise is the caricature that Hayden is supposed to represent. Hayden has a really important role in both the book AND the show and it goes beyond being Shane's best friend.

Hayden is the 'good guy' hockey player.

I don't mean that in a Hayden is The Best Guy ever kind of way-I like Hayden and even I can see he has some huge character flaws to work on. I mean it in the sense that Hayden in the real world everyman of hockey that Shane and Ilya and Scot Hunter aren't.

Hayden Pike has a good heart and he loves his wife and his kids while simultaneously good naturedly joking about Jackie being 'the ol' ball and chain' to his friends and not doing a lot of the heavy lifting of parenting. He'd punch anyone who dared talk about Jackie the way he talked about girls before Jackie. He goes out with boys and leaves her to do bedtime. He buys her flowers and takes her on dates. He never forgets an anniversary, but still forgets her college major. He's charming. He cares deeply for his friends. He can only do so in the broiest most macho hypermasculine way possible. He supports gay people but the worst thing you could accuse him of is being gay. He thinks rape is only when a girl gets attacked in some dark alley and not when one of his teammates gets a girl shitfaced and brings her back to his room. He's gonna put his daughters in figure skating and his sons in hockey. He'll shovel talk every boyfriend Ruby or Jade every have. He's gonna tell his sons to 'man up'. Sometimes he does the dishes to 'help out' around the house. Everyone likes him. He's a good husband. He loves his kids. He's a nice guy.

I grew up around hockey players and Hayden Pike is real. He's real in a way the main characters in the books aren't. Hayden Pike is what hockey culture twists decent guys into. He's not evil by any means. He loves deeply. His team and his friends and his family all mean the world to him and they're all one and the same. He's entirely a product of his toxic environment which he will never admit was toxic. His verbally abusive coach was just 'old school', his friends hazing and bullying of the new guy, or the black guy, or the gay guy was just 'teasing' or 'shop talk', don't you know boys will be boys? When one of his teammates gets arrested for a fight or a rape he never saw it coming, despite years worth of warning signs.

Hayden Pike is important to the story because he's real. He's what happens to the average guy who grows up a hockey player. He's what hockey really is, to offer contrast to Shane and Ilya and Scott who represent what hockey could be.

Hayden Pike is hockey. Love him or hate him that's just the truth.

[w1ng3dw01f]

Wow, finishing writing a long form fanfiction is wild. Because what do you mean the happy but anxious feeling I get when I normally post things has just been amplified by 10?

[eponine119]

Announcing Lost Summer 2026!

The Fifth annual summer prompt challenge for Lost (TV 2004) is happening now! Submit prompts through September 22, 2026. Claim and fill prompts any time. All characters, relationships, spice level, etc. are welcome! (as long as it's related to Lost)

No obligation - feel free to add prompts but not claim any, or claim but not prompt. Anonymous prompts are also accepted.

Please add works to the Lost Summer 2026 collection at A03.

If you run into any issues or have questions, feel free to message me. Please share/cross post for visibility.

[itsays]

no i dont think women starving themselves and reconstructing their entire faces with makeup and plastic surgery is feminism and female empowerment

[lassie-farce]

the artemis ii mission reminds me why i love humanity so much. they play pink pony club for the astronauts. they have issues with microsoft outlook. one of the astronauts named a moon crater after his late wife. a jar of nutella just flew by. they make 67 memes because they’re big nerds with huge hearts who say that we look beautiful from there. they call dibs on sleeping arrangements and the mission specialist likes sleeping like a bat. the pilot’s daughter shows her dad off on her social media.

dunno just sometimes helps to think that we can do things like that.

[richardgrays0n]

Spidey and Hawkeye discussing burgers at Five Guys while in combat.

[w1ng3dw01f]

Inside my house, there are two wolves:

Me wanting my friends to watch Heated Rivalry.

And

My friends wanting wanting me to watch Challengers

[w1ng3dw01f]

Hey, people should start writing Hanahaki Disease AUs, and Flower Shop / Coffee Shop AUs again, or I fear we may lose the ancient texts.

[w1ng3dw01f]

Sometimes, I look at Cliff Marleau or even just think about him, and all I can see (and sometimes hear) is Rafael McCall. I’m so sorry.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[w1ng3dw01f]

Big thank you to the people making ao3 badges. I have collected a few:

This has been a lot of fun.

I also made two of my own for people to use because why not:

[starlitmyre]

"what if they fucked" WRONG. what if they ruined each other's lives irreparably. what if there was nothing left but a smoldering heap. what if everything that brought them together twisted and corroded and ripped them apart. and then they fucked.

[transformativeworks]

Spambot Comments on AO3

As spam continues to be a problem on AO3, here's an update on the types of spambot comments you may see, what we're doing to combat them, and how you can help! Read more at https://otw-news.org/mr42w8j9

[w1ng3dw01f]

Actually, I need the last episode of The Pitt season 2 to come out, like, YESTERDAY

[w1ng3dw01f]

Rose: staring at Ilya.

Ilya: What?

Rose: Huh? Oh, nothing, sorry. I just think you’d look good in eye makeup, like, something subtle. Maybe Hayden Christensen in Life As A House.

Ilya: … I have no idea what this means.

Svetlana: No, she’s right.

Ilya, skeptically looking between them: Is that… good?

Rose: Yes.

Ilya: Why would that be good?

Svetlana: just trust us.

Later…

Ilya: appearing with eye liner and light smokey eye shadow on.

Shane: blushes.

[ao3screenshots]

anything can be a missing scene if you open your mind enough

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