Hockey Holidays 2024 Letter
Hello fellow sportsball fan! Sorry that this letter took a long time to come about. If you're already envisioned or written your assignment, please don't feel like you have to work any of this in. I'm sure I'll enjoy it anyway!
General likes:
H/c, found family, polyamory, happy endings, fluff, friendship.
AUs: Mundane, sports, workplace, pack (with or without werewolviness), magic, creature (especially incubi/succubi).
Anything about scents, whether that's ABO-style scent-marking, more general scents on peoples' clothes or when near their skin, or the scents of things in the standard environment, like nature or food or fabrics.
I'd love to read the thing you've been working on but haven't had an excuse to finish.
Opt-ins: Background relationships, infidelity, first or second person POVs, A/B/O that isn't just a sex scene, identity headcanons (especially asexuality and polyamory).
General prompts:
Characters going to the gym or exercising.
Characters buying, creating, or exchanging gifts.
Characters cooking or planning meals.
Characters using recreational substances like weed or alcohol.
Someone taking care of their partner after a long day, a battle, or another physically or mentally stressful event: getting their favorite food, a massage, renewing ice packs, changing bandages, putting on music or scents they like.
Spending downtime together: a shared hobby, just laying around not getting out of bed, getting groceries.
Non-sexual intimacy
Love languages
Misunderstandings
Previous relationships (platonic or otherwise) being relevant to the characters
Cultural exchange: languages, food, music, holidays, etc
Art likes:
I like it when art uses a color palette and puts it on the side? I really like sky-like palettes, like blue-yellow-grays, or earth-like palettes like red-brown-dark green.
I don't go for wallpapers but I don't have anything as a lockscreen at the moment so if you like doing that sort of thing I'm totally here for it.
I'd love to see a new style you're working on that maybe you haven't mastered yet, or just whatever kind of materials/style you have the most fun working with.
Any sort of words or symbols in art is cool with me- speech bubbles or floaty things or sound effects are all awesome.
Any kind of AU is great! I especially like AUs of characters playing sports, or other sports than they normally play, as the case may be.
DNWs:
Nothing related to suicide, from ideation to jokes.
Themes of mourning being front and center.
Head or eye trauma, except for concussions.
Apocalypses, dystopia, mob/mafia AUs.
Ships are vaguely listed in order of convenience, but certainly not in order of preference.
Nico Hischier/Luke Hughes: Is it weird to have a thing for your best friend's younger brother? Is it weird to have a crush on your older brother's soulmate, or ex, or team-assigned Alpha? Is it weird to matchmake your best friend and your little brother? Maybe! But that's not going to stop anyone. I just think this ship has so much comedic/tragic/awkward potential with Jack being there in the middle of it and I'm open to anything!
Quinn Hughes/Matthew Tkachuk: Is it weird to have a thing for your best friend's older brother? Etc, etc. I'd also be very interested in a Team USA fic for these two, whether it's at the upcoming Four Nations Faceoff or a hypothetical Worlds or Olympics.
Mitch Marner/Connor McDavid: I tend to see Mitch as someone who would be very good at being a Normal Person, who happens to be very much in the spotlight. I feel like this ship would have an entertaining dynamic and Mitch might help Connor relax a little, or at least be able to commiserate on the blinding glare of the spotlight. I'd also be down for any sort of future trade fic, Team Canada, anything like that.
Leon Draisaitl/Mitch Marner/Matthew Tkachuk: I really dig the enemies-to-lovers aspects of Tkachuk/Draisaitl fics, but as I said above I think Mitch adds an interesting element and could help soften some things up. Or maybe he makes them worse, that would also be fun! For a specific prompt, maybe a verse where soulmate marks accumulate or fade and can mean different things, and what happens when they don't fade or don't mean what you expect or want them to mean.
Aleksander Barkov/Leon Draisaitl/Matthew Tkachuk: Now I don't expect Barkov would actively make things worse (though I could be wrong!), but I would not be surprised at all for adding him to the mix to make both of the others worse. For a specific prompt, I would like to see some sort of team- or league-mandated buddy system in place that pairs up Matthew and Sasha (bonus points if this could be avoided if Matthew had an on-the-record partner...) and how their sincere affection would play into an existing cross-continental relationship (especially once playoffs come around?).
Joey Daccord/Jared McCann:
Kyle Connor/Connor Hellebuyck:
Luke Hughes/John Marino:
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