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tired: trading gauthier for drysdale sets back the flyers' rebuild because they need elite scoring talent
wired: trading gauthier for drysdale makes no inherent difference to the rebuild timeline because the flyers needed a good rightshot defenceman too
inspired: trading gauthier for drysdale speeds up the rebuild timeline because when trevor zegras forces his way to philly in two years it will not only bring elite scoring talent to the team but also finally stitch up the cosmic wound ripped in reality by the 2011 richards-carter trade, allowing the flyers to at last win another stanley cup
"if he's bothered about getting blasted in the ass he can check his bank account and cheer up" only really works if you think the worst thing about rpf in the wild is the object of it finding out. and they already know. they're media trained adults with a computer, a brand team, and better things to do with their day. johnny misogynist homophobic doxxer on X with an axe to grind against 'disgusting freak females' ruining his precious sport is the problem and it's about protecting creators from them
I understand that the show is elevating the source material but I think Heated Rivalry started at a deficit with me, interest-wise, for being based on Sid x Ovi as if Claude Giroux wasn’t Right There providing the kind of narratives that haunt me to this day. Like where was Rachel Reid when the “Sidney Crosby didn’t mean to break Claude giroux’s wrists but if he did, good” article dropped. Rachel Reid name your top 5 homoerotic grilled cheesby iihf moments and then we can talk
Ok I need to hijack Molly’s post because I’ve been stewing on what a rivalry MEANS in this context. Like Heated Rivalry the show is totally fun and functional as a romance and the title is mainly there to be a sexy little sports pun but it’s been illuminating to hear multiple irl friends say “ok but why didn’t they just pretend they’re friends?”
Sports RPF is more durable than most fanfiction when it comes to filing off the serial numbers to sell because we’ve already internalized the key character types and narrative tropes in a Sports Narrative, but for non-Canadian/non-hockey viewers all the reasons for them to be Heated Rivals in the first place are missing. Like I’m not blaming Tierney & Co because their primary audience has been steeped in the culture whether or not they wanted to be, but no I don’t think the average global viewer knows how 100% Deadly Serious it is for Canada’s next great one to lose the top draft spot to not just a European but a Russian (the only sport so retrograde they’re still racist against Slavs) or how Canadian sports media and fans treat a bunch of teenagers when they don’t win gold at World Juniors or even how deep the Habs/Bruins feud runs. You eventually see some of that pressure on Ilya, but only through the lens of Russia being Evil and Bad.
All this is to say Sid/Ovi was never a major fandom juggernaut in large part because their rivalry wasn’t that personal, meanwhile extremely funny niche pairing Sid and Claude really did just fucking hate each other for petty stupid reasons on top of the intra-Pennsylvania beef.
this is extremely good analysis and one i have no commentary on besides articulating further for anyone who was Not Present at the time the specifics of the intra-Pennsylvania Sid/Claude beef, which I think have delicious narrative implications, mainly:
the way that the Penguins, as a franchise, are regarded (by some)/like to think of themselves as a Classic Franchise maintaining the Purity of Hockey, led by the Goodest Most Serious No Fun Boy in the Entire World Sidney Crosby--except oops, the Goodest Boy has a temper but refuses to acknowledge it and insists, no, he (don draper voice) doesn't think about Them At All, and if they're mad, perhaps it's a Them Thing;
the way that the Flyers embody (to some) the worst (or best) things Philadelphia sports have to offer, including: unchecked and cheerful aggression, refusal to take anything seriously (except when it is Dead Serious), and a general "haha i'm not touching youuuuuu" dirtbag energy, not to mention, of course, the worst (or best) fans in the world, depending on who you ask;
quebecois claude giroux refusing to engage with the narrative that all of canada has been thrusting upon him/the world/the sport since the year 2003(ish), that sidney crosby is the second coming of christ (wayne gretzky) and there's something Noble and Beautifully Canadian in his Bearing that makes him Great, because if you ask claude (which no one is at first, and then they can't stop asking him about it) sid really just Isn't That Great anyway;
the politics of pennsylvania which i do not feel like getting into as much as i could, but the headline of which is: both cities have a chip on their shoulders about their places in Federal Politics (philly being a holdout Blue Hub that makes an otherwise red state purple; pittsburgh as an Appalachian [or appalachian-adjacent, depending on your definition] working-class town where Labor Still Means Something; both being disregarded by much of the rest of the country until it comes time to #GetOutTheVote);
the fact that they fluctuated between vocally talking about hating each other (both on-ice and to the press) only to immediately turn around and insist no, it's Nothing Personal It's Just Sports, then to insist No Actually We Do Hate Each Other, then to show up at the IIHF World Championships both on Team Canada cheerfully chirping each other and blushing in interviews about it, only to finally go back to their respective pennsylvanian and canadian cities and start the whole thing over again. and they did this for like. years.
anyway i guess i hijacked your hijack by having a lot of thoughts about this stupid rpf ship which doesn't matter ANYWAY because claude's not even a flyer anymore even if his GHOST HAUNTS THE XFINITY MOBILE CENTER (u will always be Wells Fargo Center in my heart, queen) AS IF DANNY BRIERE HAS A PORTRAIT OF HIM IN THE ATTIC THAT CONTAINS A LOCK OF HIS HAIR

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honestly you gotta appreciate how nice and compact the hockey plotline was for the beginning of this year like
heated rivalry has tons of people (especially women and queer people) getting into watching hockey. forshadowing his later plot relevance, quinn hughes makes major hockey headlines in december with his trade to the wild. the olympics are happening so it provides a great entry point for people who don't know where to start. a lot of focus is placed on the hughes brothers because they're young and attractive and inside jokes about quinn seeing ghosts become more mainstream.
usa men's and women's teams BOTH win gold medals in overtime against canada. it's triumphant, it's a great story, the men's team even built up a narrative that they're doing this to honor a dearly departed friend.
the men's team immediately goes mask-off with the conservatism and misogyny heated rivalry used as the main antagonistic force to drive the plot. pwhl teams are now selling out arenas and setting attendance records and partying with flava flav. the men's team gets served cold mcdonalds with no soda by the president.
i feel like we don't get compact little plotlines like this very often. gotta really appreciate it
okay i am making this post because i want to continue to enjoy willmack but this particular subset of hprf has grown so uncomfortably large that so many fandom norms are out the window (or perhaps more accurately, the sheer size of it has invited the particular norms that go along with a larger fandom, like tinhatting, which is unusual for more niche fandoms like hrpf).
i am mostly preaching to the choir here, as i have cultivated my own smaller circle of like-minded people, but assuming i have any reach whatsoever, that whoever might be reading this is new to fandom in general, new to hockey specifically, or maybe this is your first (or just most intense) rpf ship; please, please understand rpf is short for real person fiction. it is SO much fun treating public figures like a text we can analyze, building up characterization notes and headcanons, losing our collective minds at the things they do. and willmack specifically do some crazy shit!
but we can never forget that foundational pillar: our interpretations are fiction. we do not have any personal insight into what they are truly thinking or feeling. when we start to think that we do, that is when things get dangerous. that is when people start to get parasocial to a toxic degree, start to interpret things as "signs" from the objects of rpf, start to create these echo chambers where logic no longer exists. it eventually breeds harassment when one or both ship members stop following the "script," which destroys their private life (or god forbid, the life of their future partner). this happened in 1D fandom (and others too i know; i'm just speaking from my particular experience) and the real life friendship it impacted has never been the same to this day.
so i'm just posting this as a general PSA. a moment to check yourself and ask how invested you are in an rpf ship comprised of two straight hockey players, and if you're here to have fun and play with the paper dolls we've constructed with the understanding that the real people they're fashioned after are out there living their lives completely disconnected from fandom, or if you've started to think, "well, but maybe..." because if you have: stop right now. bring yourself back to reality. don't be the person who ruins fandom for the rest of us, who encourages and enables tinhatting, who contributes to all the awful things that always follow: the gross invasions of privacy, the whittling away of the fourth wall, the harassment that eventually leads to less publicly available content as the objects of said tinhatting try to put out the flames before they get burned. are you hearing me?
@virginmoon thanks for asking! i purposefully used the phrase "straight hockey players" here, and it is evident from your reply that this post that it has reached the intended audience. it's true that none of us can claim to know how they identify, i will give you that. however.
will and mack are hockey players in the nhl who are saturated in a heteronormative environment. they have grown up in misogynistic, homophobic locker rooms where being straight is the default. the norms and rules they follow as hockey players, insulated by the rigid conformity of hockey culture, is not at all what we have been exposed to in fandom or other queer-friendly spaces. you cannot apply the same interpretations of their behavior as you would to a peer. it's not the same. their lived experiences are incredibly different.
because of this, they know that everyone around them assumes that they are straight, and they have chosen not to challenge that presumption by saying otherwise. have we forgotten what a big deal it was when luke prokop came out? that he is still the only out professional (male) hockey player at any level? will and mack can act the way they do - physically affectionate with one another, intense and codependent - because of that presumption of heterosexuality, because that's the only way hockey culture allows for men to behave that way. i suspect if serious rumors about them being gay, especially with one another, reached the locker room, we would see a negative impact on their behavior.
which leaves two options: either they are straight hockey players following the established script that they can act in what we're interpreting as "gay" ways because their heterosexuality gives them a pass, which again, is the norm for hockey players, OR they are secretly gay/bi/whatever but choosing not to out themselves, in which case, everyone trying to use their behavior as evidence to out them is being invasive and doing this for their own agenda, not because it's in will or mack's best interest.
does this answer your question?
If the New York Sirens sell out Madison Square Garden, I’m going to need every single person who has ever made a snide comment about Sirens attendance to take a seat forever.
But not in Madison Square Garden. Because it’ll be sold out.
WE DID THIS BTW
It turns out that when you have a game in a city with millions of people, in an arena easily accessible by transit, that people will buy tickets to the game! Whoda thunk.
New York R*ngers you have six months to vacate. It's ours now.
This is so validating because it goes to show that it isn't even based on New York's performance; who despite losing their last 6/10 games (by one goal), are doing reasonably well. Seattle for example, are still at the bottom of the standings, having lost 8 of their last 10 games, and are still packing Climate Pledge and just broke the US attendance record. Location. Matters.
The Sirens will thrive off this crowd, go on a tear and everyone who ever doubted them can shut right up.
when u just moved to moscow and now ur at a party and have no idea what is going on and ur man won’t translate for u and then he gives u a sideways look like YOU’RE the one who’s embarrassing for not clapping
@splitstuura respectfully. reblogging this post with these tags. in t he year of our lord 2025. is a criminal act
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#i know we like to say that sid saw geno in latvia and decided he would have this man for himself for eternity#but ovi really actually did that with nicke#he really was like#i saw you for the first time on a stage in vancouver in 2006 when i was scared to mispronounce your name#from that moment i knew that you were mine#and i don’t care if you’re awkward and swedish#i will take you everywhere with me#and we will be mama and papa to a team of horrible children#and we will win it all together (tags by @ultravioletlightwaves)
great tags but i don’t want anyone to forget it did not start for alex ovechkin onstage in vancouver in 2006, it started a month earlier at the world championships in Latvia during the group f russia-sweden game when a dead-eyed teenage mack truck hit him so hard in the first period it literally changed his life
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i think my least favorite trend in regards to how people talk abt hockey players is them acting like theyre socially inept. "all they think about is hockey they dont have any other hobbies--" they are spending countless hours a year on a plane. do you think theyre all just sitting there playing cards. do you think none of them are watching a movie or a tv show or read a book. do you think theyre just in gyms and rinks all summer and do nothing else. do you think that they are personality-less and stupid.
and its even funnier when it goes in the other direction. like "sid has to be lying about not seeing lord of the rings--" ? like that's something all human beings experience? its so shocking, so unbelievable that a man at 38 has not yet seen lord of the rings? is it truly that hard to believe that its just not something theyre interested in. why are we acting like sidcros not having seen lord of the rings is the most shocking thing about him when he has a disintegrating jock. is anyone listening.

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I understand that the show is elevating the source material but I think Heated Rivalry started at a deficit with me, interest-wise, for being based on Sid x Ovi as if Claude Giroux wasn’t Right There providing the kind of narratives that haunt me to this day. Like where was Rachel Reid when the “Sidney Crosby didn’t mean to break Claude giroux’s wrists but if he did, good” article dropped. Rachel Reid name your top 5 homoerotic grilled cheesby iihf moments and then we can talk
Ok I need to hijack Molly’s post because I’ve been stewing on what a rivalry MEANS in this context. Like Heated Rivalry the show is totally fun and functional as a romance and the title is mainly there to be a sexy little sports pun but it’s been illuminating to hear multiple irl friends say “ok but why didn’t they just pretend they’re friends?”
Sports RPF is more durable than most fanfiction when it comes to filing off the serial numbers to sell because we’ve already internalized the key character types and narrative tropes in a Sports Narrative, but for non-Canadian/non-hockey viewers all the reasons for them to be Heated Rivals in the first place are missing. Like I’m not blaming Tierney & Co because their primary audience has been steeped in the culture whether or not they wanted to be, but no I don’t think the average global viewer knows how 100% Deadly Serious it is for Canada’s next great one to lose the top draft spot to not just a European but a Russian (the only sport so retrograde they’re still racist against Slavs) or how Canadian sports media and fans treat a bunch of teenagers when they don’t win gold at World Juniors or even how deep the Habs/Bruins feud runs. You eventually see some of that pressure on Ilya, but only through the lens of Russia being Evil and Bad.
All this is to say Sid/Ovi was never a major fandom juggernaut in large part because their rivalry wasn’t that personal, meanwhile extremely funny niche pairing Sid and Claude really did just fucking hate each other for petty stupid reasons on top of the intra-Pennsylvania beef.
this is extremely good analysis and one i have no commentary on besides articulating further for anyone who was Not Present at the time the specifics of the intra-Pennsylvania Sid/Claude beef, which I think have delicious narrative implications, mainly:
the way that the Penguins, as a franchise, are regarded (by some)/like to think of themselves as a Classic Franchise maintaining the Purity of Hockey, led by the Goodest Most Serious No Fun Boy in the Entire World Sidney Crosby--except oops, the Goodest Boy has a temper but refuses to acknowledge it and insists, no, he (don draper voice) doesn't think about Them At All, and if they're mad, perhaps it's a Them Thing;
the way that the Flyers embody (to some) the worst (or best) things Philadelphia sports have to offer, including: unchecked and cheerful aggression, refusal to take anything seriously (except when it is Dead Serious), and a general "haha i'm not touching youuuuuu" dirtbag energy, not to mention, of course, the worst (or best) fans in the world, depending on who you ask;
quebecois claude giroux refusing to engage with the narrative that all of canada has been thrusting upon him/the world/the sport since the year 2003(ish), that sidney crosby is the second coming of christ (wayne gretzky) and there's something Noble and Beautifully Canadian in his Bearing that makes him Great, because if you ask claude (which no one is at first, and then they can't stop asking him about it) sid really just Isn't That Great anyway;
the politics of pennsylvania which i do not feel like getting into as much as i could, but the headline of which is: both cities have a chip on their shoulders about their places in Federal Politics (philly being a holdout Blue Hub that makes an otherwise red state purple; pittsburgh as an Appalachian [or appalachian-adjacent, depending on your definition] working-class town where Labor Still Means Something; both being disregarded by much of the rest of the country until it comes time to #GetOutTheVote);
the fact that they fluctuated between vocally talking about hating each other (both on-ice and to the press) only to immediately turn around and insist no, it's Nothing Personal It's Just Sports, then to insist No Actually We Do Hate Each Other, then to show up at the IIHF World Championships both on Team Canada cheerfully chirping each other and blushing in interviews about it, only to finally go back to their respective pennsylvanian and canadian cities and start the whole thing over again. and they did this for like. years.
anyway i guess i hijacked your hijack by having a lot of thoughts about this stupid rpf ship which doesn't matter ANYWAY because claude's not even a flyer anymore even if his GHOST HAUNTS THE XFINITY MOBILE CENTER (u will always be Wells Fargo Center in my heart, queen) AS IF DANNY BRIERE HAS A PORTRAIT OF HIM IN THE ATTIC THAT CONTAINS A LOCK OF HIS HAIR
#all of this is sooooooooo good and none of this even mentions when tyler seguin posted a naked claude giroux on his fb#after winning gold at iihf worlds prague 2015#like somehow all of this is soo good and that doesnt even need to get mentioned [via urie]
lmfaoooooo i had to take these tags and put them on the post because MAN, THAT WAS ALSO SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED . HUH
don't EVER let softcore gay porn convince you that it's okay to play sports. It's not okay to play sports
For realism in your fanfiction, an important cultural element to know about hockey twitter circa 2010-2020 is only fringe weirdos were fighting about if their ship was REAL or DELUSIONAL.... true hostile engagements were granular analysis of whose guy is the most unforgivably #problematic. Here are some helpful ideas to get you started on in-universe cancelations:
Ilya liking bisexual pegging porn on main (real event)
Ilya getting caught saying a slur on mic leading to additional discourse about how it's actually xenophobic to assume he knew what it meant in the first place
Ilya shaking putin's hand at the olympics
Scott hunter being noncommittal about You Can Play on multiple occasions
Scott hunter being a registered republican in 2012
Pervasive 10 year old rumor about Scott hunter having a threesome with his linemate during his rookie year (this person is the real winner)
Hayden pike going to a megachurch
Hayden pike thanking Jesus before his wife in post-game press when he scored a hat trick more than once
Shane promoting eating disorders by talking about his weird diet
Shane being controlling and a bad captain for forcing his weird diet on his team (this is reddit discourse though)
Shane tweeting #stopasianhate but not #blacklivesmatter
Shane catching amulet and antivaxxer strays due to his wacko nutrition/lifestyle coach
I know this doesn’t pertain to any specific character but I do want to add:
Someone slapping a cop’s ass on Canada Day (discourse about if this is sexual harassment or anti cop praxis)
rumors about ilya trying to exchange a gucci purse for anal
this might a little post 2020 but let me add: someone leaking that a hockey captain kept a spreadsheet of women he'd slept with and often hooked up with several women in the same night and hockey twitter trying to figure out who it was
man I love the what chaos podcast for finally getting through to people and informing the general public that what shane did in looking behind him in the neutral zone was like the number one thing you Do Not Do If You Want To Live™️ in hockey because it just makes the orpheus/eurydice comparison THAT MUCH BETTER
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rpf fandoms should exist like speakeasies. you gotta know a guy who knows a guy to find where everyone is talking about it and then be sworn to keeping it secret and safe
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