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it's a slippery slope before i start making like... graphs and visuals. but ty's sphere of ppl he talks to is: vanya, his bestie (kyle.. perhaps his name is kyle..), his little sister, his work bestie (his linemate), his captain, kyle's mom, and very last is his own parents.

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ty family/childhood lore dump under the cut bc it came to me last night in a vision

so I think fundamentally ty had affectionate, distracted parents. so they were supportive but uninvolved (for what reason.. I don't know yet.. maybe they had him too young and were busy growing as people themselves). and I think they were willing/able to pay for his hockey but just weren't prepared for the insane time and effort and energy commitment. so ty was like. a little kid taking taxis by himself with all his hockey gear to games and practice. and the mom of his childhood hockey best friend noticed this and took it upon herself to speak with his parents and then take over that commitment. so half of his childhood until he went off to play in the OHL and live with a billet family was spent with this other family. (and I think there's some tension there bc his best friend actually wasn't that good at hockey and didn't have a path to the NHL and actually didn't care all that much but he secretly stayed in hockey just so his mom would keep driving ty around bc TY had a clear path) (also of course ty was in love with his best friend and of course this was a big part of his I had a gay phase haha but im ooooover that nowwwwww)

and I think a lot of ty's playstyle stems from. saying "I got three goals today!!" gets a lot more positive reaction from his well-meaning parents than trying to explain a complicated play. and being like a tag along to his best friend+mom means he doesn't feel the sort of. "I have to play hard and do good to pay back all the effort my hockey parents put into me". so he grew up without expectations (not true: his best friend had expectations for him. his best friends mom practically sees him as her son and is proud of him the same way) and now lives in this weird mindset where he's good but no one has ever pushed him to get better, and he's on a good team that can cover for his mistakes and is satisfied with what he's bringing them...

all this until vanya (drowning in expectations) is like "I don't give a shit that you got three goals of course you got three goals. clean up your fucking turn overs you could be the best why are you settling for GOOD." ty being good as a given rather than a pleasant surprise. someone who believes in u so much they know u can do more. of course you're good but put the fucking work in...

(also he has a little sister with a ten year age gap and she complains all the time abt how overbearing their parents are and ty is like... uh...... sure.....?)

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I just finished reading all your 9-1-1 fics again (gear shift harmony is GOATED as is friends like these and really everything you’ve written) and I was wondering if you had any 9-1-1 fic/author recs? Love love love your work

this is so so sweet! thank you so much. i’ve been out of the fandom for a while so i’m not at all up to date. really i recommend just looking through my ao3 bookmarks (i don’t do private bookmarks) and i recommend everything @pikapitou has written, also xylodemon ummm i can’t remember any others currently. so sorry if i am forgetting you dear mutuals i do love and cherish your work

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i like tagging posts with my ocs and then never actually posting about them. i wonder what my followers think their deals are

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working names are.. émile st. martin and casey augustine

I......am going ... to attempt to draw my other hockey guys . this is hellish bc I only have 10 days left of june and I'm supposed to be reading a BOOK

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I......am going ... to attempt to draw my other hockey guys . this is hellish bc I only have 10 days left of june and I'm supposed to be reading a BOOK

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hello. please meet. my guys :)

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ivan volkov... vanya.. wolfy... my stressed as hell baby

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whoaaaaaa my sinners fic hit 500 kudos ... crazy

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i waaaaant to go home and make fake tweets abt my hockey guys

wildfan37273: watching volkov play on both the powerplay and the powerkill feels like this

wildfan37273: volkov liked my tweet?!??!??!

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absolutely useless point to make but if you are fr gonna do the thought exercise of changing your characters' genders then acting like. oh they can dress the same and act the same and all the same things happened to them but now they're a girl! that's dumb as hell. women can do anything and women can have any traits but acting as if something as influential as a change in GENDER won't affect a character's storyline is. well let's just say. fucking insane

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when people like your OCs it is truly one of the best feelings ever. but when they also UNDERSTAND your OCs??? When they say or do something that just makes you go "oh they get it." UNBEATABLE.

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on a more serious note I feel like saying characters are stupid or dumb or whatever specifically in the context of not figuring out their sexuality feels like. kinda reductive and cruel. like oh okay so we're gonna ignore societal pressures of homophobia?

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yesterday I told my friend "I don't like when characters are........... stupid" and they were like HUH? so anyway I'm coming out as someone who cannot stand things like idiots in love or whatever. when ppl tag my stuff like that I'm irrationally like you do not GET it

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my team lost Soooo bad so now my fake hockey players are gonna win the stanley cup

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terrified beyond belief that I'm copying this one person's hockey oc designs but also there is only two kinds of hockey players 1. blonde canadian boys 2. Russians . my options are limited !!!!!!