quinine's bitter, sugar's sweet

original posts are tagged #ashtext, things i find and upload are tagged #ashuploads, responses to asks are tagged #askash, my edits are tagged #ashedit, my writing is tagged #ashwrites.

my hockey/baseball blog is @lovethygoalie. rpf/shoot name friendly provided you know how to keep it to fandom spaces only, although for the most part things here will be primarily kayfabe based.

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blood, staplers, choking, light tubes, barbed wire, needles (this includes darts), syringes, skewers, open injury (this includes things that are scabbed over but still pretty gnarly) racism (and specifics therein, e.g. antiblack racism, antisemitism), misogyny, homophobia, transphobia

wrestlers are tagged with "w:[ring name]". i do my best to tag with correct spelling, which means diacritics. if you're filtering someone, make sure to use that spelling or it tumblr might not catch it. separate gimmicks have separate tags.

promotions are tagged with "p:[acronym]" or "p:[name]" if there's no good acronym.

stables/cults/tag teams/etc are tagged with "g:[group name]".

all relationships (feuds/alliances/friendships/whatever those two have going on) are tagged with "r:[name & name]". not always Shippy in nature, but i generally dont care if you rb stuff from me that way.

media type is separated out with "m:[media type]", if you're looking just for art/videos/translations.

pretty things i'd like to see various wrestlers in are tagged #wrestler dresses.

i only have a few snips from this, partially bc i havent decided how i want to do the teams. the g☆l beats are generally:

kenny was an undrafted goalie who signed with an echl team with the specific intention of playing his way into a tandem spot with ibushi. he managed this (kinda unrealistically) quickly

they played as a tandem (not hugely common) for several years until they were both traded away from team A to different teams. they both have the capability to be a starter, they didnt have to be playing tandem.

rumors fly for years that kenny's wings are getting more and more ragged while ibushi's dont seem to change. this is semi-confirmed when pictures of kenny's wings get leaked after the 2018 olympics :3

the sasaki beats are generally:

he was a third string/bubble goalie on the g☆l team, so he occasionally backed up or even started when one or the other was on IR

crucially: sasaki is very small for a goalie in the modern nhl. he's very good, though, and is generally fairly fuck-you-i-can-outplay-you about it when his size gets brought up

after the big trade, he got the starter spot and endo became his backup

this went okay for a few seasons until endo tried to push for a proper tandem during training camp and sasaki was like ??? no i'm the starter. i worked really hard for this.

endo ends up orchestrating an environment where sasaki has a fucking terrible start to the game. he's jittery, his d are playing horribly in front of him, it's BAD. endo convinces the coach to let sasaki start the second period and sasaki immediately lets in another soft one. endo then plays out of his mind and the team wins but sasaki is relegated to the backup side of the tandem for the next season and a half.

eventually endo is traded to a contender and sasaki kiiiiind of gets his starter spot back. i'm not sure who his backup is yet but kanon joins the team as a rookie dman that year

kanon is ridiculously solicitous of sasaki, he's always last in line (usually the backup's spot) for head taps bc he always picks sasaki up in a hug when they win. he brings sasaki things when sasaki's nesting, he's always ready to crosscheck the shit out of an opposing player in sasa's crease, he helps groom sasa's sad greasy wings

however. he's not a goalie. he will never be endo.

i think sasaki eventually uses his pull as a veteran goaltender with the org to get kanon traded at the deadline when he had told kanon he was going to try and do the opposite - make sure kanon was going to stay on the team

he still keeps some of kanon's feathers in his bower though :3