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pairing: vet!alpha will smith x rookie!omega macklin celebrini

genre: omegaverse, found family, angst, fluff, smut

word count: 33.9k (chapter 3/3, finished)

Skating over, Will skids to a stop and leans over the boards as Warso flips the clipboard around. “I’m thinking of moving Celly to first C.” First C was Will’s position. He’s played center his entire life. He played it in juniors, at Worlds, in college, and he’d been first line center for the San Jose Sharks the past 10 years of his life. “It’s not a dig at you, Will,” Warso says, stupid smile on his face like he truly thinks he's concocted magic from his shiny fucking chrome dome. “In fact, look at it like a compliment! I think you’re the only one who can play off of him.” A compliment. To lose his position to the rookie. Will grinds his teeth.

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pairing: vet!alpha will smith x rookie!omega macklin celebrini

genre: omegaverse, found family, angst, fluff, smut

word count: 33.9k (chapter 3/3, finished)

Skating over, Will skids to a stop and leans over the boards as Warso flips the clipboard around. “I’m thinking of moving Celly to first C.” First C was Will’s position. He’s played center his entire life. He played it in juniors, at Worlds, in college, and he’d been first line center for the San Jose Sharks the past 10 years of his life. “It’s not a dig at you, Will,” Warso says, stupid smile on his face like he truly thinks he's concocted magic from his shiny fucking chrome dome. “In fact, look at it like a compliment! I think you’re the only one who can play off of him.” A compliment. To lose his position to the rookie. Will grinds his teeth.

NOTP: the opposite of an OTP (One True Pairing). It is a ship a fan strongly dislikes. The word is a portmanteau of ‘no’ and ‘OTP’ and thus is not a contraction of any particular phrase.

Squick: anything that is a deep-seated, visceral turn-off. Squicks may be shared by many fans or be specific to one; one person’s kink may be another person’s squick.

YKINMKATO, or kink-tomato: Your Kink Is Not My Kink, And That’s Okay: used to indicate support for fannish diversity and to distinguish between disapproval or kink shaming and simply having different taste.

DLDR: Don’t Like, Don’t Read: a phrase used to warn against complaints about an aspect of fic or meta. A “live and let live” philosophy of fandom, which places the responsability for avoiding content one doesn’t want to see on the side of the fanwork consumer, rather that on the creator’s.

SALS: Ship And Let Ship: similar to the above specifically about shipping tastes.

YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary: a phrase used to acknowledge that any given individual’s personal opinion on the topic at hand may differ due to their own tastes, standards, values, experiences, etc.

As the OP points out, all of these crucially imply no moral judgment of what they’re designing.

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pairing: platonic caregiver sidney crosby & age regressor macklin celebrini

genre: agere, angst, fluff.

word count: 5.2k

Macklin frowns, squeezing again, but Sid doesn’t stop his gentle strokes against Mack’s knuckles, scuffed by the harsh carpet. “Are you gonna be mad at me forever Mackie? Forever is a very very long time.” Macklin pauses, thinking. Sid’s eyes haven’t left him, and it makes him squirm. He doesn’t feel very capable and he doesn’t feel very strong. He feels punished. He feels replaced.  “Yes!” is all he can choke out, head going to hide back in his arms. The carpet scratches against his cheek and makes him whimper. He knows Baba is refusing to take the C because he doesn’t want to take care of little Mackie anymore.

give it to me, baby | E, 6.5k words

Will takes care of everyone. Mack takes care of Will.

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