hockeysocks

Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.

they took a moment to giggle together, then belted out the rest of I Want It That Way in will’s car

(Walk-in video, enhanced by @aquilotti so we can sort of hear the singing.)

Do I think Mack is a little embarrassed to be singing and thus has his hands in his pockets? Yes. Do I think Mack is also the kind of funny who would adopt a persona while singing a Wham! song to make his boybestie laugh? Also yes.

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it did, actually! i was always kind of skeptical about people speculating crazy scenarios about what would happen if will got hit at some point because mack's just not a fighter and has even gone on main to say he very deliberately avoids getting too physical with the other team so as to 'not get murdered', but they were onto something clearly... it's the lack of hesitation that i find the most interesting. you'd think someone who was taught to be so careful with his body would at least wait to see if will was badly hurt enough to make a scene out of, and i keep repeating this, a completely legal hit, but he was on it the second will smacked into the boards. full red rag to a bull... i didn't think it was that serious to mack. the way he was seething from beginning to end, even shoving wotherspoon's head back into the ice after the fight was already done and only then looking around to see where will even was. he was so angry. and i wonder why? i mean i get that it's will, and i suppose it's proof more than ever just how important will is to mack, but why did he get so angry? will getting hurt, the possibility of will not being there the next couple of games, the glimpse into the future of this happening a lot more often to will and mack channeling all his worry into fury? a combination of all of that? it's also the plain vulnerability of it. i was talking to lita about this but like, how do you even look each other in the eye after one of you puked up your heart directly onto wotherspoon's face? mack put it all out there, everyone knows now how serious will is to him, and again for a hit that shouldn't be that big of a deal... where do you go from there? does it scare will a little, the way mack's feelings for him are so huge and overwhelming? does it make him wonder sometimes, i don't know if i can carry all of that? it's crazy. crazy.

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