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YES INDEED!!!!! So Drou Bestie is my beloved home for natejo tomfoolery.

rules are that it's 18+ and no lurking (active participants only) (though if you get kicked out you can always rejoin when you're ready to participate, it's an open-door policy)

OH MY GODDDDD OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDD

I'm going to try and keep the fangirling to a minimum so as to not scare you off but holy shit you are literally one of THE fic writers of all time to me. and as I say this I'm suddenly realizing that I read all your stuff pre my writing phase, which was pre my commenting phase (egregious, I know) which means now I HAVEEEEEEEE to reread your entire contact tracing series and give you the love you deserve on that masterpiece. you are winnix jesus.

anyway. ANYWAY. Welcome to Jo Drouin nation, it is absolutely one of the best places to be (we suffer constantly on behalf of this beautiful man).

No, they don't play together anymore, but I want to direct you to one of THE moments of the season which was Nate giving jo stick tappies after his trade to the Blues. Nate literally never acknowledges his friends on the ice -- this is the first time I have seen him do something even remotely close. our collective jaw hit the foor:

Jo is utterly bewitching. I cannot not blame you for being enthralled by him enough to have your allegiances swayed; it has happened to the best of us. He had me, a bruins fan, rooting for the Islanders. Ew.

ANYWAY, if you want to continue your spiral // learn more about our beautiful man, check out:

This primer we made when he signed with the Isles, very comprehensive up through the most recent season.

THE OG Natejo primer that gets really in-depth on their early years and has some of my fav natejo interview.

In my head, tampa was just Cold. jo would take the biting and the posturing and the minor assault with the habs because despite it all, he still felt he had some sort of community there (and it also felt like proof he deserved it - meanwhile tampa, he still had hope to be crushed).

jo being so back and forth from juniors -> tampa and then syracuse -> tampa, in my head he just got no loving from...anyone.

like, montreal gave him his little human cadre that did their best. jo's never been so isolated as he was with the lighting.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84711171/chapters/223535106

have I READ billet-milf? I LOVE billet-milf. and also beta'd the last few chapters.

Oh, Jo is so convinced he's always going to be second place in that moment...hurts a little more after this season, I'm being so real. where is my baby. somebody give me proof of like NOW.

Over the break or sometime when they are separated and Nate watches a filthy porno and he just sends it to Jo like 'when you get back, this is what we're doing', or no message at all but Jo knows whats gonna happen as soon as Nate walks into his apartment.

okay honest question is like - what is the most perverted shit that natejo is dreaming up over the off-season? what, to these two freaks, is actual Special Occasion kinda shit?