François Arnaud Birthday Bash 2026 | Day 3: Free Choice
↳ François + talking about Scott Hunter/Heated Rivalry
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François Arnaud Birthday Bash 2026 | Day 3: Free Choice
↳ François + talking about Scott Hunter/Heated Rivalry
You know Scott Hunter came out with The Kiss™️ in 2017. You know what was popular in 2017? The trend of those ‘thank you’ poster videos set to sad/happy/inspiring music. People would post videos of many people’s videos clipped together, with people holding up signs thanking someone. (probably started earlier but still popular in 2017)
I distinctly remember a bunch for teachers/professors, for authors, directors, and various public figures.
I just know queer 2017 youtube would absolutely have made a video of hundreds of hockey fans holding up posters thanking Scott Hunter for: being brave / being you / showing us everyone belongs in hockey / etc. Posters with notes, drawings of Scott, of the kiss, most of it shaded in rainbow colours.
(I imagine the song is a slow version of freedom by george michael but honestly take your pick, there’s so many good choices)
Kip sees it first on his feed and shows it to Scott while they’re cuddling on the couch. “I know it’s cheesy, but it’s sweet, right?”
Kip looks up halfway through, expecting to see Scott smiling but is instead met with tears on his boyfriend’s cheeks. Kip asks if he’s okay and Scott just huffs a breath and wraps an arm around Kip, adjusting the phone so they can both watch better.
It ends with an amateur hockey team in various pride merch (hats, scarves, etc.) that yells at the camera, “thank you, Scott Hunter!”
We Love A Challenge
Pairing: Scott/Kip
Rating: Explicit
Summary: All the same, Kip asks, “Never? There’s never been some secret fantasy you’ve acted out with someone? Locker room, Olympic stadium…”
Kip is uniquely positioned to make Scott’s fantasy come true. Backwards cap and all.
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Scott Hunter & Kip Grady | Heated Rivalry 1x03: Hunter
This hug is what gets me. Look at how Scott holds Kip here, pulling him in so close (almost like he's afraid Kip will slip away) but also so freaking happy and free. Pure, unfiltered joy, and I am 1000% here for it.
Scott's going to thrive in the sunshine--this hug proves it.
Tagged by the lovely @groggygrady for my current writing project.
Fanfic or Original? Title?
Original! No title as of yet. It’s a short story.
First two sentences of your current project
Eloise sits on the LIRR as it barrels through Queens. It’s late, and outside, raindrops chase each other down the length of the windows: catch, kiss, release.
Most recently written sentence of your project
She picks up her knife: hack, hack at the salmon. “But what’s a life without a couple of bruises to show for it?”
Favorite line(s) in your current project
I don’t know, this is hard to choose! Maybe this, for the metaphor at the end:
Here in the morning light her eyes trace a hairline crack that runs from the ensuite doorframe across the wall. A shift in the bricks; an old building rolling its shoulders.
How close is your project to the end?
About halfway done, maybe sixty percent. Excited to see where it goes next.
Tagging @lonestarzz & @fringe-problems @desscard & @prosopopeya
grumpy scott gets kicked out the play offs but miku is there
what the discord wants the discord gets
Beer League
Pairing: Kip Grady/Scott Hunter
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Scott doesn’t often get stopped in his tracks by guys he sees. He doesn’t really ever get that birds-dancing-round-his-head, sweet-chorus-of-angels, crepuscular-rays-alighting-on-the-earth knockabout, or hasn’t really since Mike Johansson transferred into St Thomas in senior year of high school and he had, for the first time in his life, fallen in love. Unrequited, but still. That was fifteen years ago. He’s been in love since then, but he hasn’t been blindsided in a while. He’d forgotten how it feels.
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And now it’s complete! Chapter 12 out now.
Beer League
Pairing: Kip Grady/Scott Hunter
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Scott doesn’t often get stopped in his tracks by guys he sees. He doesn’t really ever get that birds-dancing-round-his-head, sweet-chorus-of-angels, crepuscular-rays-alighting-on-the-earth knockabout, or hasn’t really since Mike Johansson transferred into St Thomas in senior year of high school and he had, for the first time in his life, fallen in love. Unrequited, but still. That was fifteen years ago. He’s been in love since then, but he hasn’t been blindsided in a while. He’d forgotten how it feels.
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This fic is finally earning its rating, hahah
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Heated Rivalry ll S01EP05
Heated Rivalry ll S01EP05
Beer League
Pairing: Kip Grady/Scott Hunter
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Scott doesn’t often get stopped in his tracks by guys he sees. He doesn’t really ever get that birds-dancing-round-his-head, sweet-chorus-of-angels, crepuscular-rays-alighting-on-the-earth knockabout, or hasn’t really since Mike Johansson transferred into St Thomas in senior year of high school and he had, for the first time in his life, fallen in love. Unrequited, but still. That was fifteen years ago. He’s been in love since then, but he hasn’t been blindsided in a while. He’d forgotten how it feels.
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This fic is finally earning its rating, hahah
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Beer League
Pairing: Kip Grady/Scott Hunter
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Scott doesn’t often get stopped in his tracks by guys he sees. He doesn’t really ever get that birds-dancing-round-his-head, sweet-chorus-of-angels, crepuscular-rays-alighting-on-the-earth knockabout, or hasn’t really since Mike Johansson transferred into St Thomas in senior year of high school and he had, for the first time in his life, fallen in love. Unrequited, but still. That was fifteen years ago. He’s been in love since then, but he hasn’t been blindsided in a while. He’d forgotten how it feels.
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This fic is finally earning its rating, hahah
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"But I really, really like you, and I want you to stay. So I'm asking for what I want. I want you to be here when I get back from practice later and I want you to be here when I come home from my game tonight. I want you more than I've wanted anything in a long time."
Day sixteen ship two is Scott Hunter and Kip Grady, aka, Skip! 🏳️🌈
Sorry, actually thinking about Scott being so nervous to ask for tickets for Kip for the first time. He canonically has only hockey as his family, and his friends are all other players. He might have given tickets to a donor once or twice, maybe a child and a parent for a charity thing. In the best world he knows people will assume he’s with Elena, but he doesn’t say i can get you tickets, bring a girl, he just gives them.
I guess what I’m saying is of course he kissed Kip just out of order at the Stanley Cup. In a small way he’d already been public with Kip the whole time.
And Lee from the front office just won $600 on a bet no one should have taken.
Beer League
Pairing: Kip Grady/Scott Hunter
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Scott doesn’t often get stopped in his tracks by guys he sees. He doesn’t really ever get that birds-dancing-round-his-head, sweet-chorus-of-angels, crepuscular-rays-alighting-on-the-earth knockabout, or hasn’t really since Mike Johansson transferred into St Thomas in senior year of high school and he had, for the first time in his life, fallen in love. Unrequited, but still. That was fifteen years ago. He’s been in love since then, but he hasn’t been blindsided in a while. He’d forgotten how it feels.
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This fic is finally earning its rating, hahah
Beer League
Pairing: Kip Grady/Scott Hunter
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Scott doesn’t often get stopped in his tracks by guys he sees. He doesn’t really ever get that birds-dancing-round-his-head, sweet-chorus-of-angels, crepuscular-rays-alighting-on-the-earth knockabout, or hasn’t really since Mike Johansson transferred into St Thomas in senior year of high school and he had, for the first time in his life, fallen in love. Unrequited, but still. That was fifteen years ago. He’s been in love since then, but he hasn’t been blindsided in a while. He’d forgotten how it feels.
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