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will's intermission interview | 3.13.25 chi @ sjs

please don't repost these gifs!

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fascinated by him and his big ol teeth. Boy get under the microscope

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a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

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frat boy will and his bitchy wife mack

pathetic husband Trevor and his goddess wife jamie

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danny briere's rpf think tank

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why is mack such a funny little guy?

or, the case of aiden celebrini.

an introduction

currently a prospect for the canucks, will be going into his junior year at bu, and about a year and a half older than mack. entered the draft in 2023 and was picked in round 6 (overall 171st pick).

he is also taller than mack which is incredibly funny to me bc i know mack crashes out about this

growing up (the eldest child version)

aiden has much more fleshed out memories of rick working for the canucks (justifiably, he's older) and recalls

"so many morning spent there [rogers arena] working out, skating on that ice, i've been so blessed to grow up around that organization. the memories that were made there, playing on the blue line just passing the puck with dan hamhuis and zach cassian coming out and betting me that i wouldn't shoot the puck in the far net when i was just 10, 12 years old. so many good memories growing up there..."

mack interestingly, talks about how the move to california was hard because he was leaving his friends and family behind, and then going to shattuck was an adjustment to living alone. aiden himself describes the experience of moving around as:

"going to shattuck...our respective careers have taken us to the far ends of the north america... hopefully coming to vancouver it will be closer to mom and dad

when we talk about mack going to shattuck, we often forget that aiden went with him (they breifly played in the same age group as well!) and i do think that they are the best friends aiden claims them to be

the dynamic seen through podcast

mack and aiden were together on the sekeres & price podcast, one of the few instances where we get to see them interact with each other

when you see baby brother take a hit like that, does every blood cell in your body boil?

aiden: i think i screamed every profanity i know at the kid, too bad i wasn't on the ice for it, especially at this level with the size and strength of these players, it's always in the back of your mind. you know, he's the top prospect, he's gonna be every team's target and that's always in the back of my mind making sure he's staying safe.

(i think it's so funny how they look at each other after this comment)

who's the cook?

aiden: it's unfortunate that the freshman doors don't have a kitchen or i'd be cooking world class meals for this kid every night mack: yeah sure you would, sure you would aiden: you love it (?) s&p: so what we're hearing is that you're going to go number one overall when it comes to the chef drafts mack: he talks about how he's a great chef, but i don't know, sometimes he just doesn't want to put in the work to get there aiden: i haven't seen him hate a single meal i've made before that's all i'm saying

"i always like to joke that i'm the least talented of the celebrini kids"

this is an unfortunate real quote from eldest celebrini here.

when asked about being the eldest, he explains:

aiden: we've got a special, special [family], especially charlie, she's turning into a freak tennis player, one of the best in the country. i'm biased obviously, but she's up there with the tougher age group in north ameria. and rj is a rising star in the making, hopefully he'll be having success when he gets to the stage.

what i hear is little rj is tearing up delta? (mack and aiden's genuine proud reaction is so funny - recommend the watch!)

aiden: i was talking to my dad last night and i couldn't get a word out because everytime i tried saying a sentence rj scored another one, think he had a five goal, six point night last night s&p: this is their 11 year old younger brother and we've also talked about their younger sister charlie who is a fantastic junior tennis player. the similarities between him and you, macklin is just uncanny...everything seems to be a carbon copy of what he's seen of his older brother mack: yeah it's fair, i think he has a little more talent than i do but we'll see

and in many ways, this little slip up by rick where he says "we've obviously never been through this before - to this level" regarding the draft, represents a lot of what aiden is portrayed as by the media at least

i just love this photo as a metaphor: yep, there's aiden, sitting behind his nhl rising superstar younger brother, in the stands watching

so what's next?

aiden celebrini is NOT guaranteed an nhl spot, and it's actually quite rare that 6th rounders make it (about 8% in this study). he will probably not have a hall of fame career, or be an elite defenseman, or even have a long nhl career.

all that being said, if anybody is to make it, aiden celebrini probably will. for all we joke about rich kid wsh2, the celebrini's are truly nepo babies. they grew up PLAYING with canucks players, had elite level coaching, development, sports health, and facilities, parents willing to pay private boarding school, etc.

aiden has the genes for it, the support (financially and emotionally), the connections (his media is ridiculous bc of mack and rick for being a 6th rounder), plus on a hockey level his skating is pretty solid.

rick himself has expressed that aiden is still developing, and that he's only getting better, so we shall see, we shall see!

but i also think aiden is fully aware that it could go wrong:

he seems well adjusted: he's got college buddies, a girlfriend in vancouver, and overall seems a little more there than mack

this is true speculation (but more fully fleshed out in my celebrini academics analysis coming soon) but i have a feeling he is working towards an actual meaningful degree that has a career at the end of it, and as a result will take 4 years at BU.

this has deep web weaving implications. what does it mean to be the older brother whose dreams may be coming to an end while watching your younger brother achieve everything the two of you dreamed of?

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come home with me (reprise) - hadestown

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frostbee joint trade. jdtz reunited on mike jeff trade anniv. let us also not forget that danny b sent ej back to his dear gabe landeskog the man IS running his own yaoi restoration project out of the philadelphia flyers organization

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obsessed with how he has not publicly acknowledged the trade except for 1) unfollowing the ducks 2) posting a romantic photo with Jamie. priorities

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trevor zegras I should never have doubted you ever a true yearner would never disappoint

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trevor zegras yearning on main for his man that he just got back with a day ago. truly one of the girlies.

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there's jonny toews, spending over a decade with the very team that drafted him, captaining his team to three cups, beloved so far from home, and yet having to leave, only to return to the ice with his hometown team, and likely be able to retire having full-filled his childhood dream. and then there's mitch marner, drafted by his childhood team, spent close to a decade with them only to lose in the first round almost every year, booed by his own homecrowd, forced to leave behind what was likely his childhood dream. that's hockey.

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aspen, summer 2022

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tz tap tap tapping the mic on main: and for all of you bitches who thought this trade wasn’t JUST about jamie read it AGAIN