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sam | late 20s | @samaelstoker on AO3 | i love blue, books, comics, videogames – and hockey, i guess

[whenyoulosesmallmind]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

(like a figure of speech) in a maze of white lies

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Men's Hockey RPF Collection: ALLCAPS24 (@allcaps-fest24) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Nicklas Backstrom (b. 1987 Sweden)/Alexander Ovechkin Characters: Nicklas Backstrom (b. 1987 Sweden), Alexander Ovechkin Additional Tags: 2023-2024 NHL Season, Character Study, Internalized Homophobia, Angst, Mutual Pining, Morning After, hopeful. ish

Summary: In late January, Nicklas Bäckström joined the team for a four-game road trip in which he wouldn't play. “Nicke licked his teeth like he was going to fix his mouthguard one last time before jumping on the ice, considering how he should recover the interrupted play. The anticipation was just the same, a subtle line between panic and adrenaline with no output if not spasmodic waiting; his mouth still tasted like come, not plastic.”

[masochism101]

amazing porn gif. unfortunately the caption u paired with it has made it entirely unsharable

[manny-jacinto]

dunk: 😧 lyonel baratheon: something lgbt just happened to me

[left-reminders]

[freedominthedarkmp3]

Oggi e sempre ✊

[chongoblog]

ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

[chongoblog]

[chongoblog]

HAPPY BIG TWENTY NEIL

[bigandlong]

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

[jae-felidae]

Oh hey! Haven’t seen this in forever! Didn’t reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.

[blorbocedes]

an athlete's body not being their own... now that's a rich thesis statement I need to ponder on

[werewolfetone]

It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider

[werewolfetone]

Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal

[angel-derangement]

I hate it too tbh

[ad6ration-deactivated20260219]

"i don't wanna burden you" i would literally bathe you if you were too tired to bathe yourself what are you talking about

[rpfwasfine]

kay ryan

[fa660t]

likes your suicidal post and your horny post to let you know you don’t have to do either of those alone

[bambina-daydreamer]

we got Italians in the nhl??

[jakegardiner]

Two I think? But @whenyoulosesmallmind would know for sure

[whenyoulosesmallmind]

there aren't italians actively playing in the league, but damian clara (italy's (and! brynäs'!) goalie) was drafted by the ducks. he signed an elc with them but then was loaned back to brynäs and is currently playing in the shl ✨️

[6irlpet]

i dont want a childproofed internet i am almost 30 fucking years old. give your kid an internet safety talk and stop making it the problem of every adult on the planet every time some cryptkeeper legislator gets the brilliant idea (via conservative lobbying) to push through yet another bill gutting our access to free expression + increasing the powers of the surveillance state + lining the pockets of Big Data in the name of Protecting The Kids they wont even feed. this shit is exhausting i can’t believe we’re going to be fighting about it for the rest of my life

[flythesail]

Growing up on the internet it was drilled into us to not give our real name, age, etc. only for all these social platforms to turn around and be like 😦☝️ um actually, we really need your social security number, credit card, and full government ID.

[brzaski]

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

I encourage all of the EU citizens to sign this petition calling for cutting ties with Israel! It has to reach 1 million signatures (there are over 230k so far) and reach minimal thresholds in at least 7 countries. So far only France reached the required threshold, but other countries that are at least 50% there are Belgium, Italy, Spain and Sweden. But no matter in which EU country you live it's worth signing and sharing! Thanks!

[nocylipcowa]

Belgium, Finland, France, Spain and Ireland have passed the threshold, Italy and Sweden are almost there! Still over 500 000 signatures are needed!

[formulahs]

the most fascinating aspect of athletes to me is how ugly their want to win is