maine

Mature, 1450 words

Pyotr Kochetkov/Andrei Svechnikov

Tags: Body Shots, Post-Stanley Cup Celebrations, Post-Stanley Cup Win, 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Demiromantic/Demisexual Character, The Mortifying Ideal of Realizing You're In Love With Your Childhood Best Friend While He Takes A Body Shot Off You, Reclaiming the Em-Dash

His hair is a mess, normally slicked back, and now falling into his eyes. Andrei wants to look away, but he can't. He can't stop staring.

mature, 766 words

leon draisaitl/matthew tkachuk

tags: Keith Tkachuk's A+ Parenting, Character Study, Internalized Homophobia, Assimilationism, Culture Shock, Ficlet

Of course, he wouldn’t; he could never understand. No matter how much Matthew tried to show him, tried to explain, there is still a fundamental difference between them that can never be mended.

but it is really fucking funny to think that its because they had a psychosexual rivals with benefits situationship where feelings were caught and then he experienced such an immense amount of catholic guilt that he moved from calgary to south florida and has been trying to get over leon for years. and then marrying a woman in which no one knew about before their engagement (and there are rumors that it was set up by his parents)