August Combo Challenge

[mockturtletale]

So we're at that point in the offseason when things are slowly but surely starting to pick up speed again with camps and crazy player training combos, there seems to have been a pretty substantial rise in the number of people in and around hockey rpf fandom, and it's been a minute since we've seen a friending post. Thus;

A Friending Meme & Ficlet/

Comments

[mockturtletale]

1. bare-knuckled (Oilers OT3)

{ maybe the beginnings of a sequel to if you’re still bleeding ( you’re the lucky ones ) but shhhhhhhh

[maleyka]

Polyamory isn't even my thing and this is fucking adorable WHAT IS THIS MAGIC? "Hey, killer," ♥ (The baby Oilers need to never fight anyone, because it is both hilarious and terrifying.) I also enjoy the gratuitous reference to Ryan's naked back, because, um, yes. GET IT, JORDAN.

[mockturtletale]

When they did that one interview where both Ryan and Jordan said it was a ~goal of theirs to get into their first NHL fight, I'm pretty sure my soul pre-emptively split into the horcruxes that will come to represent however many people I have to end for hurting baby Oilers. Not EVER, children. Not on my fucking watch.

[maleyka]

Ahahahaha YES I fully support this sentiment! Just... no. A world of no. Let Ference do your fighting for you, boys. (I'm writing always-a-girl Taylor Hall, and ended up having a bizarre debate with myself about his canonical on-ice fight, the one that resulted in a fucked-up ankle, because ascribing that level of hilarious incompetence to a female hockey player felt deeply sexist, somehow, yet it's what actually happened? IDK, man. The Oilers.)

[mockturtletale]

Ference is in Edmonton to fight and to recycle. Let him be excellent at both of these things, please god and also jesus. Considering that's CANON, I think you're covered, bro. If in this AU female hockey players fight, that is, because obvs they don't in our reality. 'IDK, man. The Oilers' pretty much sums them up!

[maleyka]

FIGHT AND RECYCLE! Clearly Andrew Ference's life motto.

Female hockey players do fight in this AU, although rarely - there are no rules against it but most guys won't actually drop the gloves against a girl, which Taylor feels totally comfortable exploiting, because that's what a bullshit gentleman complex will get you, Taylor chirp-chirp-chirping away in your ear. Except Derek Dorsett is apparently not burdened with that kind of thing? And when he's like, "You actually wanna go, honey?" Taylor is definitely not backing down from that. And okay, she pretty much gets her ass beat, but she feels pretty victorious anyway; like, yeah, she'll take a punch for her team! (And she did get Dorsett in the nose, although it's apparently made of concrete, because her whole hand is throbbing.) She does, admittedly, feel slightly less enthusiastic about the whole thing when she wakes up the next morning and everything hurts, but Ebs brings her cereal in bed after only ten minutes of her loudly complaining, so.

[mockturtletale]

Wait so it's like MIXED TEAMS? You're blowing my mind / laying waste to convention, my friend, rock on! \o/

Taylor Hall is not going to stand for a 'honey', gender be damned! (You're kind of making me want to write fic where he's called 'honey' in this universe) I love that Jordan Eberle is apparently doomed to bail Taylor Hall out of the dumb scrapes he gets himself into in EVERY universe. What the fuck did you DO in your other lives, Ebs? :D

[maleyka]

Ahahaha, yes, I thought I'd contribute something to the Ladies in the NHL corner of hockey fic? I was also too amused by the idea of Taylor Hall, female bro, wearing backwards baseball caps and sparkly ballerina flats (sometimes at the same time), to pass it up.

Poor Jordan is completely doomed to this role in all universes forever and ever. Taylor's to-do list in that aforementioned Cabbie interview including take care of Ebs ("It's the third year I gotta do it!") makes me laugh and laugh. Sure, Taylor. Sure. I think we all know who's the primary caretaker in that household.

(You're kind of making me want to write fic where he's called 'honey' in this universe)

OMG PLEASE DO

[jillsjourney]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE love this.

[mockturtletale]

Thanks!!!