exactphoify

Ilya takes fate into his own hands to normalize gay hockey. Thus begins his part-time side hustle as community organizer, mastermind, and Commander-in-Chief of the Gay Hockey Army.

If you’ve ever read a crack fic and thought “needs more discussion of logistics,” or “there aren’t enough people for me to keep track of,” or “I wish someone would form a violent rebel militia right now,” this is probably for you.

the green on the numbers or the light vs dark orange were to do with who knew about hollanov, but past a certain point that was an open secret in the group anyway. uh. V is vegas meetups, A is allstar meetups, C was cup box/afterparty, S was the secret meeting, R was the rip roger rager. I think everything else is pretty self-explanatory?

I said a lot of this in my comment on the final chapter, but making a spreadsheet over something is my highest possible expression of love, this has been so fun to follow along, updating with every new chapter. Thank you for creating something so endlessly engaging!!

I love you almost too much! This made my day!

This is far more aesthetically pleasing than mine!

I made mine more palatable for public consumption so I did away with columns for: when they knew about hollanov, east/west (got tired of double checking every time lol), what group chat(s) they might have been in, plus some personality traits (I started a document with who I think said all of the listed asides/texts when there are a bunch of them in a row, but it’s very incomplete) including why I picked those names (some of them mean things lol like #16 is just John MeanJohn). For a while I was keeping track of which chapters each one was mentioned in, but abandoned that, so I just took it out for this version.

Also, since Troy had a fraught relationship with lots of the vets/people who knew him BC, I would like to think he got really close with the other union guys and helped sherpa them through their fears ? I just want him to ALSO have found community.

Thanks!

DEEP cut!!! Hank!!! (for everyone besides this one anon, I’ll remind you that one time in the leaked audio, Crowell was talking to a Hank. We can infer he’s another higher up at the league, some speculated he was the deputy commissioner)

I think Hank’s testimony actually was the turning point for the case against Crowell, and he made a deal in exchange for his cooperation. Hank turned over his emails, which contained 15-20 additional crimes, so they let him walk with a fine and a criminal record, but no jail time (he’s a bajillionaire, they all are, he’s ok).

Then, I think Troy gets a community of all the rookies that came in after 2022. They freaking idolize Troy because he’s the cool badass with all the immoral plans (because Ilya left lol) and they don’t know him as an asshole. Remember in this, Harris knew him when he was an asshole and kind of liked it a little, so he’s not really changing that about himself as much as he did in canon. But Harris loves that Troy is becoming the fourth (fifth?) Daddy of the group and loves seeing him interact with the baby ducklings.

I’ve had so much fun with this fic, I’m both glad to see everything work out and sad that it’s over. Seeing the update emails has been such a treat for months now. Thank you for writing such an amazing labor of love!!!

(Also there’s no way you could have known this, but you posted chapter 42 the day after my 30th birthday. So thank you for the surprise birthday present!!)

Since last time you wrote to me I heard two additional people reference Leverage, so I think there are actually a few people who would like a Leverage AU ( @providing-leverage ?). Unfortunately, my brain hasn’t been accepting any new media that isn’t Ilya and Shane, but I’m still going to try to watch it for you guys!