i give you one more hug

no beloved teams only beloved players.

[workingforitallthetime]

forever too much to take

author: ferryboatpeak pairing: matty beniers/brendan brisson word count: 50K summary: “I’ll get married.” Brendan sweeps an arm down his body like he’s an expensive car on the showroom floor. “Who wants to wife this shit up?”

or: accidental marriage fic. read it on ao3.

[guiltfactory]

saying "this guy is giving me insane molested vibes" and everyone looks at me like i'm crazy because they're apparently incapable of picking up on insane molested vibes

[somewhatinvested]

via brendan brisson (6/1/26)

[aquilotti]

WooSox feeding the Will Smith and San Jose Sharks fans out there

[mack-will]

HR Derby Champ (x)

↳ for @wsh2

[workingforitallthetime]

“now it’s official, for the first time since the late 80s, canada has not won gold in any of its iihf competitions” 🥰🥰🥰🤗🤗🤗

[moondoggiestyle]

losing dogs

author: countthestars pairing(s): macklin celebrini/ryan leonard; unrequited macklin celebrini/will smith word count: ~20k tags: if the bronco's rocking don't come knocking, also sooo much sweat

Mack is absolutely dripping, sweat soaking through his t-shirt, the fabric clinging to his skin. It’s actually kind of miserable if he’s being honest, but like hell is he going to quit and let Ryan fucking Leonard beat him.

[young-core]

[0838pm]

[keelpay]

mack's parents after his goal // qf v. usa \\ 28 may

[workingforitallthetime]

"honestly! where’s the fun in making a hockey player gay and/or a girl if they’ve already unlocked those levels on their own?" what's the fun in someone being a girl???

(context for the quote in comments here)

for me, the fun in in making someone a girl is exploring how a male character's traits might express themselves differently if the character were operating within the cultural constraints of being a girl. for example, rutger mcgroarty's canonical thesis statement is "i love the game, i love the boys, i love life. what's there to be sad about?" i started to wonder what it would be like for rutger, as a girl, to deal with the realization that she was never going to be one of the boys, and that became a 60K fic with internalized misogyny as an animating theme (which i will finish eventually! perhaps even in 2026!)

here are some other fun examples of questions that r63 fic can explore:

how would owen power's canonical discomfort with physicality translate to a girl's body?

what would trevor zegras's brand of confidence look like as a girls' soccer player?

how would quinn hughes's eldest daughter traits manifest if he was an actual eldest daughter?

what if rutger's brand of irrepressible optimism collided with a guy who did not reciprocate her feelings?

how devastating would will smith's slow blink be if he was a girl?

wow wouldn't nolan moyle be an incredible slutty disaster of a girl? (the questions don't always have to be deep)

somewhat relatedly, and just because i'm always looking for takers on this one, i also think a super interesting question is how rick celebrini's parenting philosophies would affect a trans kid's relationship with their gender.

[silveredsticks]

Ryan Leonard gives the U.S. a three-goal lead! #MensWorlds

[moondoggiestyle]

scholar question: when did leno break his nose and are there rpf implications

great question. such an important day in #lenohistory. he busted that thing in the 2025 wjc quarterfinals playing against switzerland. you can watch the moment here (1:44:35ish mark), but he basically deflected a puck off his own stick directly into his face. more important than the injury itself is this clip of him jawing at the refs about it, looking all beautifully fucked up as he gripes about them not blowing the fucking whistle when he was down on the ice in agony.

here's a screenshot of the immediate aftermath (off screen: the refs not blowing the fucking whistle):

DIVA DOWN!

he also gave us this as he tried to get up. i'm sorry for his pain and suffering but now that we know he's fine it's like. well!

and of course this iconic shot when we all saw the full damage for the first time:

WHO does suffering better than him!!

by contrast, this was his nose pre-injury when he was in the box moments before disaster (grinning about the penalty he took obviously). the last time we saw her in all her straight glory:

obviously a lot of fun things you could do with rpf with this, but narratively i am sorry to report that, as always, gabe was there:

[workingforitallthetime]

question for visa: are you sure you have this charge categorized correctly?

[bigdogenergy]

NEW ADDICTION

Macklin Celebrini/Will Smith M 12k Rule 63, Alternate Universe - PWHL

Will was so pretty that Mack wanted to die.

Dada would say she was being overdramatic.

Okay. Will was so pretty that Mack wanted to strap herself onto a rocket and launch herself directly at the surface of the sun, or run the Grouse Grind five times in a row or until she threw up, whichever happened first, or pick up this two star hotel room pillow and scream directly into its allergen free fake feathers. Better?

Read it on AO3.

For @hockeytrumpshate.

[frostbeees]

( x )

[moondoggiestyle]

who are the fantilli brothers.... and are they worth investigating in an rpf way if you dont already know who they are

they are the gold star of brother [redacted] if that's your kink (but you can guess which word i'm redacting from the content of this answer.) my tag for them is here and there's a lot of content of them in italy together (they are incredibly italian) where luca looks like adam's kept boy. exhibit a:

la has a great little write-up here, but the short version is that there are some celebrini parallels with the less talented older brother and star player younger brother (adam was a third overall pick for cbj, luca went undrafted) except where aiden sort of emerged as mack's keeper/mentor, adam basically revolved around luca like he was the sun himself. they're from toronto and the expectation was that adam would play junior hockey there, but luca (who wasn't talented enough? idk) went to play hockey at some prep school in the US and adam missed him so bad that he also went to go play hockey at that same prep school. (there is family lore about this detailed here; they took adam to visit luca a month or two into the school year and adam JUMPED out of the car to run and hug luca and they were like ohhhh okay it is that serious. um maybe we can get adam into this prep school too? then he basically had to hold a press conference about it (because toronto youth hockey is so toxic lol and they were all mad he left). anyway after that they were inseparable and they played together at the chicago steel, and then both got recruited to play for umich. all you had to do to get adam was recruit luca.

here's adam looking at luca after he won the hobey baker (ignore the bald spot idk what happened there. playoff mullet mishap maybe):

adam only stayed at umich for one year but don't worry they stayed weird about each other even after that. for SOME reason luca kept the name on his jersey as L. FANTILLI even though there was no longer an A. FANTILLI to confuse him with (and if i recall right, there were new jerseys that season so like. this was a very intentional choice):

and i'm sure you're all dying to know what adam thought of this! well don't worry, he made it loud and clear:

sure, yeah. keep the reminder on your back of the brother who always played by your side, who isn't there any more in a physical sense but who never left in a much more important way.

what else. oh on Inside Michigan Hockey Radio Show from 10/3/23 (so october, the very beginning of the first season they played apart in like 4 years), luca had this to say about adam:

Q: “You’re not playing with Adam for a change. Is that easier or harder? That’s a – that’s a tough question.” Luca: “Yeah, I gotta say it’s definitely harder. I mean, he won the Hobey Baker last year so, any time that guy leaves your team it’s definitely a little harder. But I was telling the boys today I was having a ‘missing Adam day’ today. He sent me this TikTok and it said like stuff about your brother and I’m definitely missing him a little bit right now. But it’s the first time I haven’t played with him in a while but I’m just super proud of him and everything he’s doing down there.” Q: “You probably stay in big contact with him though, don’t you.” Luca: “Yeah, we Facetime every day and keep each other updated on how everything’s going. Yeah, it’s nice to see his face on Facetime, which is nice.”

A MISSING ADAM DAY. do you think mack has ever had 'a missing aiden day'?? like be for real with me right now. anyway there's a lot more in the tag (and i cannot emphasize how many more italy pics. like truly these two love nothing more than taking pics of each other in italy.) luca just graduated from umich (you know adam was there) so it'll be interesting to see what he does next with hockey.

hang on wait i'm worried someone might not check out all the italy posts and you guys NEED to know about this one. a couple of the pics adam posted in his dump, followed by luca's comment:

okay! sure!