Wreck My Plans, That’s My Man

🚪 showing up at the other's door, needing comfort

🍯 friends to lovers

🛏 only one bed

When you had caught your boyfriend cheating on you, you had gone to the one person who you knew would have your back, no matter what. You had at least sent a text you were on your way, so when you showed up crying on Nick’s doorstep, he was expecting you.

“Hey, what happened?” Nick asked, ushering you into the house. “Talk to me.”

Not beta’d, all mistakes are mine (I wrote it at like 11 PM last night and gave it a review this morning). Totally fiction…you know the drill/rules regarding that.

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Bug and Bords, maybe bords is babysitting or smth and bug is asking him about all of his tattoos, so he tells her about them all and then she gets upset when he says she can't have any (at least not yet anyway)

And then, to make it up to her, Bords letting Bug colour in his tattoos

And then when reader and Quinn get home she's passed out with pen on her cheek and Bords is just like

"I felt bad, I'm weak, look at that face"

It was finally date night and Bordy had told you both he would babysit bug.

She was so excited about the idea and you had no worries they’d be great together.

“Can we watch a movie Bordy?” “Sure, go pick out which one you want I’ll get snacks!”

He came back to find her already up on the couch with the intro to the mighty ducks came on.

“Don’t you get tired of Hockey bug?” She looked appalled “Never Tommy”

They lay up on the couch, Bug’s head rested on Thomas’ bicep until he removed her to take off his hoodie.

Bug stared in amazement at his tattoos “You have drawings on your arm Tommy!”

He laughs “Yeah bug they’re called tattoos”

“What are they?” She cocks her head to the side in confusion. Bords starts listing off all the tattoos and what they mean, what they are.

“Can I have one?” “No bug”

Thomas watches her bottom lip quiver “Why not?”

“They’re for adults bug” she starts to get quite emotional and Thomas doesn’t know what to do so in quick thinking he grabs her colouring pens off the table and holds them out to her “You can’t get one yet but you can colour mine in if you want”

Her little eyes light up. She’s grabbing all the pens, colouring in the lines and explaining to him why she’s doing the colours she is.

It’s later whenever you both get home, stumbling in the door to find your daughter not in bed bud instead passed out on Thomas’ chest while his arm is bright blue and pink.

Bugs got green pen right across her cheek and still holding the open pen in her hands while she softly snores.

You raised an eyebrow at the boy “Pen?”

“She asked if she could get a tattoo! Started crying! I’m a weak man! I couldn’t say no!” The two of you just laugh, Quinn picking bug up to take her to bed while you bid Bords a goodnight.

It’s a few weeks later and Thomas has come to see Bug again “I’ve got something to show you”

“What is it Tommy?!”

He pulls up his sleeve to show her a new tattoo, a ladybug.

“What’s that?”

owen power earns his first pro win

matty beniers earns his first nhl point via assist

nick blankenburg earns his first nhl point via assist, first pro win and 3rd star of the game

kent johnson earns his first pro win

brendan brisson earns his first ahl goal

thomas bordeleau earns 3 ahl points via assists and 1st star of the game

I’ve read all kinds of posts both from writers and readers lamenting about comments on fic. Authors are upset when they don’t get any, readers don’t know what kinds of comments to leave, etc. And it finally clicked in my brain why I think a lot of people don’t bother writing comments. 

And this is what it boils down to:

Writers do not want praise.  We just want to talk about our story. 

I can’t speak for everyone obviously - but I think the majority of writers don’t care so much for the “omg you’re a brilliant writer!!” comments as much as we just want to hear your thoughts on the story. Even if it’s just your thoughts as you’re reading of “oooh x happened! I can’t believe y said this! What’s going to happen now that z has happened?!” We literally just want to talk about what we’ve written like you would with a friend about a tv show. We’re not out here demanding praise like some entitled narcissist. 

While praising our writing skills or writing style is appreciated, it doesn’t need to be said on every fic and every chapter that you read. If you regularly comment on someone’s work that’s telling enough that you like our technique. Readers shouldn’t feel pressured to have to praise a writer’s abilities every time they want to comment. 

In the grand scheme of things, talking about the fic/chapter is actually more helpful to us writers instead of spewing praise. It’s the same with artwork. As nice as it is that people tell me “wow your art is so pretty!” it’s a LOT more useful to me to get comments like “I love their expressions!” or “the lighting on this is gorgeous!” because then I know WHAT people are liking about it. If no one ever comments on my backgrounds, I now know what to improve. If most people comment on liking the expressions, I now know the strong points of my art and can use it to my advantage to make even better art in the future. 

The same goes for fic. If multiple people tell me they liked a certain part of the story I now know that things similar to that are a hit. It’s feedback I can use to improve the story and give my readers more of what they want. Without that I have no idea what they like about the fic.

Talking with a writer about their story also gives them inspiration!! Nothing gets us more in the mood to work on a fic than to have people wanting to talk about it. A lot of times just talking about one of my fics with someone will give me that push to continue working on it. Getting a comment that just says “great chapter” or “you’re a great writer” doesn’t do much to motivate us to continue that particular fic. But if you talk about the story and the characters it gives us motivation to continue working on it, may even give us ideas for future chapters. I would hope that those of you with “comment anxiety” find this approach so much easier than trying to praise the writer every time you read.

So that fic the author hasn’t updated in forever that you’re dying to read? Talk to them about the fic and the elements of the story! It will make the writer want to talk to you about it and will get their mind thinking about it, hopefully inspiring them to continue where they left off. Fics that are left in silence are more likely to be abandoned or even deleted because nothing feels worse than putting your heart into a story to have no one say anything about it.