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Pros of watching the gay hockey show:

The sex scenes are meticulously choreographed to not only be hot, but also so that each one tells you something about these characters and how they relate to each other.

The show is literally invested in telling a story of queer joy. They don’t get hate crimed, no one gets HIV, no one dies from being too gay. For the most part the antagonist is hyper macho sports culture, not overt violent homophobia.

Both the leads went to the Patrick Stewart school of “fuck you for thinking my show is silly” and act their arcs with the gravitas of a production of Angels in America

The supporting women are so, so important. This is a romance where most of the main characters actually have people they love outside of each other (RIP Scott Hunter you are a lonely old man) and it is beautiful.

Whoever did the cinematography on this Canadian tax-funded hockey yaoi thinks that every frame of film is an audition for the fucking louvre and you can look at it all the time.

The soundtrack slaps.

It’s only 6 episodes and they’re all less than an hour so it’s not like you have to commit fully to six seasons and a movie. But there will be a season two, so the longer you wait the more catching up you’ll need to do.

Connor Storrie’s accent work and Hudson Williams’ microexpressions will crawl into your soul and you will never escape them, nor will you want to.

The characters make me feel like I did walking out of The Avengers (2012) but now I’m 41 and have a mortgage alongside my silly little smut hobby.

The fandom is unhinged and active.

Cons of watching the gay hockey show:

Jacob Tierney clearly paid an Etsy witch to cast a spell on his show and I live in constant fear of being compelled to join a gay mob and do gay crimes.

You will need to wait for the kid to go to sleep or be otherwise occupied because if they walk in while Shane is riding Ilya like he’s trying to get a gold medal in dressage, you’re going to have to explain some things.

You’re not going to want to write your thesis unless you can change your topic to “Tender Glances and Yearning: An Exploration of Masculinity, Hockey, and Gay Sex in Heated Rivalry through an Aristotelian Lens”.

Rachel Reid cut her teeth on fanfic and it shows at times, but this could also go in the pros column because the tropey lines are weirdly comforting at the same time as you’re giggling to yourself about a man actually telling someone to “fucking make me” come.

No matter what you do, none of these young, hot people are going to want to fuck you and you just have to live with that.

If you’re not into Alpha/Omega shit, you may have to do some fanfic filtering because the fandom has decided that it is a moral imperative to put these men into pregnancy situations. There is other good stuff! Lots of it! But reading tags is more important than ever.

Which on of them looks like they just came back from Ralph's?

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