wip wednesday ⦠i canāt speak here (no really, i think thereās some kind of restrictions on my account for talking about NSFW shitš) but anyways new fic coming to an ao3 near you SOON ā¼ļø
many other wips (baseball auš) but this one is a shorter oneshot and will be first most likely :)
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incredibly funny things happening to will smith on twitter. will smith actor, that is. obviously. crazy that he showed up to a charity softball event in boston and no one took any pictures of him! as twt user ryanmcgee1 says āweāre a long way from men in blackā smh, the disrespect
mack, distractedly fondling the stick: they sent me this but idk itās not the right number and i probably wonāt ever use it. what do u think i should do with it, smit?
will, so drunk he canāt see straight: can yuo put that out on me
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[first off, congratulations to macklin celebrini for beating generational trauma (usa in an international tournament)! in honor of that: buckle in for this lengthy essay and enjoy.]
there are many, many things i think we moved on from too quickly this seasonānot that we didnāt speak about it, but that itās so crazy i donāt think i can ever get over itābut in my opinion, the greatest of all is the few days right after the olympics. partially because they certainly impacted everything that came after and will come after, but also because i believe that if all i knew of willmack was those scant few days, i could build cathedrals out of only that.
this is not including the shift that unfolded the rest of the season however we deem to define it. a while back, i said i wanted to delve into that more. i consider this the groundwork for that investigation: the why behind the events that followed. but here, i am only speaking about the week after the olympics.
i think itās best described as the olympic aftershocks. forgive me if someone has coined this term and i didnāt notice, but to me, mack experienced an earth-shattering event that crumbled the foundations he walked on. with earthquakes, come aftershocks. enter smith, still 20 at this point.
āWhen an earthquake occurs some of the energy released from the sudden fracturing of rock is transferred to the rocks nearby, which adds to the pushing, pulling, and twisting stresses already placed on them. When these stresses are too much for the rocks to bear, they break as well, releasing a new round of pent-up energy and creating new faults in the rock. In this way, earthquakes beget aftershocks, and aftershocks beget smaller-and-smaller aftershocks.ā
this is pulled directly from a britannica article by john p. rafterty, a science writer who kind of created poetry here for me to work off. thank you for your service john, your contributions will not go unnoticed or unnamed by me.
it begins with the earthquake itself (the focus of part 1). some can and will argue that it was a toss up between usa and canada. a true match of equals. in some ways, that is trueāin hockey debatably, not in strength of character.
i digress. iām not here to debate that. what matters is this: from what i read and saw, the canadian menās hockey team thought it was theirs to win or to lose. not in an egotistical way, but in a deep-seated belief and truth that they were better and the gold was owed to them, they just needed to reach out and take it. it was theirs if they earned it and it was theirs in a worse way if they didnāt.
and in the end, itās not really about that. this is my narrative in the willmack tag on tumblr: this is about macklin celebrini. newly crowned boyking who, for better or for worse, internally or externally, bought into this belief with his whole heart as he is often to do and placed all of the weight on his weary shoulders. thatās a lot of heavy, heavy rock that was shaken loose by a rupture in the plates.
i could link the images and videos of him in the aftermath, but the truth is weāve all seen it. the truth is he was shattered. and earthquakes beget aftershocks.
letās go back to johnās words: āthe energy released from the sudden fracturing of rock is transferred to the rocks nearbyā
the rocks nearby: well, i can think of one giant slab of carefully sculpted marble that certainly felt the energy released. wcps, his rock.
it is clearly evident in the events of just the day of the gold medal match itself, speak not of the days following (which i will in due time). i could write clever phrases about the americanness of one william smith, but itās as unnecessary to repeat as it is true. if you had to boil him down to one character trait, i believe it would be loyalty. on that day, his fealty was to mack. a repost of a memorial is all he had to show for outward celebration for his country and, even further, for the national team he belongs to, bled with, breathes.
okay maybe i did do a little poetry here because it is beautiful to me. here is a team, a brotherhood he broke himself for (LITERALLY. see: USNTDP lore here thank you to @lovethelittlerthings for putting this in the tag a few days ago, credit also to the author of the primers who iām sure put blood sweat and tears into the series, but never tagged willmack so im respecting that! your work is invaluable). and his higher priority was macklin celebrini. will, a rock nearby, was also breaking under the pressure of the uprooting and shakeup of mackās very core.
we have a few clues as to what happened to mack that day. but, to be honest, itās not hard to picture the fallout from what we know of him: a boy who wants really, really hard and has never gotten anything a la a gold medal to show for it. just add it to his fucking tab of failed accomplishments. our collective hearts parasocially broke for him, the nation grieved. but that was for just what we saw on the surface and could infer. i donāt want to imagine the devastation those who know him got to see.
but as i said, we get clues. like the interview from his father rick celebrini in which he calls mack āinconsolable.ā
āHe was upset, he was upset at himself, he was upset at the results.ā
the other clues come from macklin himself in a presser a few days later after coming back to the bay. he called the experience ābitterā and āsour.ā and he also addresses his sjs teammatesā reactions, saying that the team group chat was quiet. someone piped up and asked about will. interestingly, it was a very quiet follow up question that i had to rewind the video several times to pick up: āanything from smitty?ā (timestamp around 9 minutes)
āno uh he just saidāā a pause āāhe just asked how i was doing.ā
several things to note here:
a) āno uhā ā was it just a knee jerk reaction to an invasive question? an instinctive downplay?
b) āhe just saidāā pause. it wasnāt very long if you check out the clip, but enough for him to calibrate what an acceptable answer would be.
c) āhe just asked how i was doingā that phrase, a normal reaction to a friend going through a hard time, and the word ājustā is doing a lot of work here in my humble opinion.
āupset,ā āinconsolable,ā ābitter.ā the pause. the recalibration. the significance of him answering the aside question about will seriously after laughing off the other sharksā responses as them āgoing back to bed.ā
what can we feasibly conclude with little to no stretch of the facts we know? if we took mackās answer at full truth and willās documented actions that day, we can see that will braced for the aftershocks. showing his loyalty clearly and proving he can be a safe space for mack to land when heās ready.
on the flip side, what can we conclude if we stretch our knowledge a bit and extrapolate based on what will and mackās dynamic is known to be, especially from the load bearing rick c quote: āI think Macklināhe needs both. He needs balance ⦠His friendship with Will now, itās so good for him.ā?
itās true that we donāt know much about the relationship between the celebrini family and will smith, even going so far as i donāt think iāve ever seen a picture of any of the family members with will or willmack together. but im a perpetual tumblr lurker who canāt forget the rumor about a possible joint easter celebration, how important family is to both sides of the duo, and the stated summer break vancouver trip that has yet to happen. the only confirmed tidbit im aware of is that will is one of the only NHL players associated with mack that rick follows on instagram. is that enough to say any kind of certainty that there was some kind of phone call between rick and will? perhaps not.
but weāre extrapolating hereāexpanding on small details to suggest something bigger. with the potential connection between will and rick, the infamous āreleaseā descriptor, the āhe just asked how i was doing,ā the knowledge that they call often when not together and at least once during the olympics, itās plausible to say they had contact that day. that will was part of the inner circle experiencing the grief with mackās familyācarrying some of the āenergy released.ā
you know the idiom: donāt build a mountain out molehill? this isnāt a molehill. this is hand-delivered building material for a cathedral. and this is only one day of the week of the aftershocks.
if you read this far, thank you. i have so much more to say. this series will cover infamous events such as the joint post, whatever happened between the flames and oilers games (with an absolutely necessary question of ādid wsh sleep at all during the olympic break?ā being asked), and āheās going to come back and realize iām not mcdavid.ā looking forward to getting that out to you all soon. in the meantime, letās all hold hands and form a prayer circle for canadian gold at worlds. xoxo
[also: getting ahead of this just in case, iām aware this is dramatic :) it is real people fiction in a tumblr blog! please donāt @ me about it, i would much rather be blocked! but if you have kind things to say/want to talk about this part more or the upcoming parts, i would be more than happy to answer asks, comments, or dms <3]
and you know what i actually did come across will smith hockeyās newly rebranded tiktok account organically while i was scrolling tiktok trying to avoid tumblr discourse/tension posting!
i am going to protect my peace and not enter the hellscape that iām sure is in the comments š«¶š»
so this is a gentle reminder for anyone who needs it that this is unserious business, surely not an actual ādivorceā and you should feel free to take a deep breath and not engage in things that make you upset!!
on the flip sideāi much prefer to engage with the comedy side of things⦠so iām considering a second installment of the when in boston text fic ⦠maybe not in the same universe (because i think itās funny to redo a relationship reveal) but similar idea? many funny things happened this week that are giving me the itchš
if i had a nickel for every time this week i woke up after a night of pinot grigio and willmacking (baseball au and logan cooley, respectively) and some category 5 willmack event hit the timeline and left me scrambling to catch up, iād have two nickels. which isnāt a lot but itās weird it happened twice.
i DID make progress on my Logan Cooley Thoughtsā¢ļø something unhinged coming to you SOON. i wonāt lieāit needs a bit of editingā¦i was very passionate š
(and i will say again that iām very deep in this baseball idea of mine if anyone would like to talk about it ā¦. )
after a series of fortunate events today, i cannot stop thinking about willmack + logan cooley.
lemme ponder this with a glass of wine and get back to you. because alcohol is certainly what i need to make a webweave better (i will do this in the spirit of european macklin trust)
(yes i can juggle drinking a crisp glass of pinot grigio and thinking of willmack, im talented like connor bedardās mother thank you very much)
i was watching baseball today, and it really got me #thinking about a willmack baseball au.
walk with me for a second and imagine: new phenom pitcher macklin celebrini and veteran catcher will smith (not to be confused with actual dodgers catcher will smith, semantics!)
if youāre unfamiliar, the relationship between catcher and pitcher is arguably the most important on the field because the catcher is the one whoās responsible for calling the pitches. they are the ones who keep a pitcher grounded, know which pitches are hitting on a certain day, study the inner mechanisms of their pitcherās game, etc. thereās a reliance on each other because a) the catcher is not the flashy part of the game but b) the pitcher needs their catcher to shine.
thereās some parts of the dynamic that really work with hockey willmack as well where mack is more physical (ie the one doing the pitching) and will is more cerebral (ie the one calling the pitches, planning the game approach carefully)
itās a very underrated part of baseball, in my humble opinion, and one that would work incredibly well with the willmack dynamic: one half of the pairing that shines brighter than the other, but if you know where to look, itās only possible because of the other half.
thereās so many possibilities for angst: catchers typically get less credit than theyāre owed for their part in pitching gems, catchers work with more than one pitcher (5 day rotationāwill smith brunette harem anyone?), obvious vet/rookie tension, etc.
i can see it all so clearly itās driving me insane! star rookie mack who needs catcher will to keep him in the game, to be confident and proud of him even when heās not, to know him inside and out, and catch him when he falls. to be the duo in a larger organization thatās essential to both the team and their individual successes.
thereās so much good food here i canāt possibly type it all out in this post unfortunately! i donāt have this all planned out, but the idea is BURNING in my brain and i needed to get it out for all of you. if anyone is also a willmack baseball enjoyer, please please please come yap with me about this :)
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i am really, really struggling with the idea of a romantic trip to throw up in the bathroom together amidst a private duo birthday outing AND INVITING A STRANGER
in my mind, willmack were so drunk and falling all over each other that Good Samaritan man couldnāt in good conscience abandon them to fall into a toilet together. he has seen gay things previously unbeknownst to mankind (thatās probably why he threw up too)
they are clinging to plausible deniability with a government sanctioned Third Person everywhere they goš
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i also Saw the photo ⦠so the descriptions floating around are accurate. i didnāt even like it because i thought it was AI actually š«
this is what i commented on another post: you didnāt hear it from me but lowkey it was mack in that fuckass hat and will in the old spice tracksuit and looked like it was in that bar will was spotted in with gabe
(and mack was holding his shoulder i think? and pointing at will???? maybe i made that up i just GLANCED bc i thought it was fake news š)