yes, I watched hockey instead of the Superbowl

[athenejen]

Yesterday I decided that researching and writing a whole 1500-word fic in less than 24 hours was enough of a happy thing to go with for the little informal meme I'm doing this month. Today, I give you a recent example of one of my favorite things, defense pairs being Weird About Each Other

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[just_katarin]

I feel bad for how much I want/need Suter to leave Nashville after this year, because I really do ship it really hard. There's an adorable Christmas video of Weber and Suter with one of the charities the Preds partner with. They're messing around with some kids, handing out presents and teaching them how to skate. They look super adorable while surrounded by kids and kinda like a married couple that's adopted. I'll dig it up for you when i'm not on my phone.

Sometimes I will randomly go on and on about how I bet they have the mostly dudely, manly make-outs ever. Cause they're both super dudely and would probs score high on the beerability scale.

So yes, while I need Suter to leave so Weber is like 40% less effective while having to shoulder the load on his own, I wouldn't turn down fic about American Hero, Ryan Suter comforting Shea Weber when Canada is horribly embarrassed by America in the Socchi Olympics, sexually.

[just_katarin]

Also! Weber's response to Suter announcing he wouldn't extend before the trade deadline had me losing my mind in a car between Chicago and Champaign-Urbana. Because Weber being all "we've talked about that and I'm happy for him that he got that off his chest" had me absolutely terrified that they'd talked about going somewhere together and when I looked only Edmonton had the roster/cap space and the idea of Edmonton w/the Weber and Suter infuriated me.

[athenejen]

Okay, the idea of the two of them talking about going somewhere else together is almost unbearably cute, but seriously, seriously scary. If they went somewhere with consistently lethal offense (or potentially so, like Edmonton)? Jesus.

I kind of enjoy the fic possibilities of all the potential pining that could come from them being split up, but I have a feeling that I'd be super sad for them if it were to happen. They just seem so HAPPY together! And so matter-of-fact about how happy they are together, like, no big deal, we're just two dudes who hang out all the time and have great chemistry and support each other and talk things through and complement each other well.

So, what kinds of scenarios are you thinking? Maybe slightly drunken post-Call-of-Duty frottage...? 'Cause they're super dudely, I agree, but more the low-key, decent, secret-squishy-center type than the fratboys who jerk off to porn together type.

Oh man, that video sounds AMAZING. Hockey players w/ kids is just unfair.

[just_katarin]

They talked and decided to throw a party for disadvantaged youth. HORRIFICALLY UNFAIR.

Yeah, no, they're not Carts and Ritchie, no way they jerk off to porn together. I can totes see Weber overworking himself in practice and his shoulders feeling super tight as a result and they're hanging out to watch a movie or play video games or something, after grilling or something and Suter offers to rub it down, to loosen him up. Only it sort of turns into them groping each other and making out on the couch and them being all "whoa" but not in a way where they want to stop.

IF WEBER AND SUTER HAVE TALKED AND DECIDE TO GO SOMEWHERE TOGETHER AND THAT PLACE IS IN THE WESTERN CONFERENCE I WILL SCREAM. BECAUSE IT ISN'T FAIR FOR SOMETHING I'VE BEEN SHIPPING ON THE BACKBURNER FOR THIS LONG TO DO SOMETHING THAT AMAZINGLY SHIPPY AND FOR IT TO COMPLETELY FUCK MY TEAM. It's why I want them to be broken up. I want them out of the fucking Central Division.

[solidland]

I've seen that video dozens of times and yet I just watched it like three times more anyway. GUH why are they so wonderful.

I started writing a Weber/Suter thing a few weeks ago and it was really weird - I started it with the intention of it being like a one-off/casual thing but they're just so freaking domestic in it. At first I was like, "no, boys, this is not supposed to be an established relationship thing!!!", but the more I think about it the more I think they're just like that with each other always, even when they're just casually fucking.

/rambles

[athenejen]

AWWWWWWWWWW, that sounds ADORABLE! Domestic boys FTW! I would read so much of that.

[just_katarin]

They really do look like a married couple that's adopted or looking into adoption in that video. Like, it's uncanny.

I'd imagine Weber and Suter would have the same problem that Duncs and Seabs have, where, even when they're not fucking, they're kinda married, so all the fic about them ends up feeling like an established relationship. Like, sure, make eggs the morning after and grin at each other while arguing over the sports page. WHY NOT?

[just_katarin]

Shea Weber is so boring and square-jawed. WHY AM I INTO IT? /o\

[just_katarin]

whatever, ima spam your comments.

The Preds did an anto-bullying PSA? well done boys! (warning, contains Wade Belak)

[athenejen]

BEST KIND OF SPAM. ♥

My heart, my heart, omg. SKATING ALL THOSE KIDS AROUND, BEING AWKWARDLY ADORABLE, TALKING TO EACH OTHER, omgomgomg.

I have no idea why you're into it! He seems so... relatively functional! I'm pretty sure I'm into it because he's so square-jawed and manly and whatever, but something about his smile is super sweet and sincere somehow. You've seen that picture where he's dressed up as Tigger, right? Pretty sure that's when he got to me.

Awww, Preds. Anti-bullying! Why do they have to be in the Central Division. :(

They could go to the Eastern Conference? It would be easier to love them then. Maybe they want a change of scenery. *probably futile hope*

I could definitely see that scenario (oh the potential for h/c, one of the best things about hockey fandom). But how do they handle it afterwards?

[just_katarin]

RIGHT? Like, everything about that Christmas video, from skating around with tiny children to Suter awkwardly pretending to fight to get those older kids to smile was basically flawless

[athenejen]

PICTURES! (Tigger is at the end of the post. Sorry about the incidental Canuck but he was a Pred at the time...)

I love the idea of Shea being all comfy in his own skin and with that part of himself. He definitely strikes as fairly laid-back and well-adjusted in his off-ice life, the kind of guy who takes things as they come.

Awww, Suter, so Midwestern! So does he try to pretend it didn't happen but then find himself obsessing about it?

Central Division, why so ridiculous? I'd been hoping the Blues would just keep failing to get things together, but no luck, argh. (Though I do harbor a certain fondness for Backes. Things I would totally read: Tazer/Backes pushy hatesex.)

[athenejen]

(Thank you for the links, btw. YOU ARE GREAT. :D)