1. “Jeez Louise. Bad Joe, Bad Bob--how many hockey players just stick ‘Bad’ in front of their names and call it a nickname? Y’all quit callin’ me Bitty, you hear, I’m Bad Bittle now.” (Check Please! fic about hockey history)
2. “Sir,” Jake says, offended hand on his heart. “I assure you, I am not and have never been active in sex work. I am active in sex fun. Compensated sex fun.” (Brooklyn Nine-Nine hookerfic)
3. So off he goes to a hot city in a strange country, armed with his hockey gear and a phrasebook from his father that proves entirely useless. He doesn’t need to know how to ask for directions or order coffee. He needs to know how to laugh at people companionably, how to invite himself along when everyone is heading out for drinks, how to keep going after making a mistake instead of freezing up--things he never knew in Russian either. (Junior League fic about Bakin making the NHL)
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