#ask oetter

[starscelly]

it's that time of year again... new fans! old fans! general inquiring minds!!! i present to you this year's dallas stars primer!! as always, based more on Vibes and Personality than the cold hard facts (but there are cold hard facts). slides last updated as of April 3rd, 2024 (:

huge huge huge thank you to @oetter @saltandpepperbox and @stickypucky for constantly reading over my work and helping add to this <3 <3

as always if there's any further questions do not hesitate to send me an ask or message!! enjoy!!!! slides below + small blurb about starsblr community for those curious/interested

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AS OF APRIL 5th 2024: MAVRIK BOURQUE HAS BEEN CALLED UP FROM THE AHL, LIKELY DUE TO AN ON-AND-OFF INJURY SUSTAINED BY TYLER SEGUIN. CURRENT AHL LEADING SCORER (SINCE STANK HAS BEEN CALLED UP) AND VERY FUN AND FRENCH CANADIAN (:

If after reading all of this, you're interested in becoming more involved with the stars and stars community, please know on starsblr we are sooo insanely welcoming!!!! the lb tag is extremely active and has some of the funniest, nicest people you'll ever meet. we also have such a blessedly large gifmaking community, some great artists, and of course phenomenal fic writers, so there's no shortage of silliness and vibes. I really encourage you to scroll the tags and consume all of this work because it is truly SUCH a fun, lively place here!!

and again, as always, my dms and inbox are always open <3

[unknown-jewel]

What if instead of cluck the shipname was chair

Ur missing a oetter but aesthetically it's just better

I love Claire and Chuck 🤓☝🏽

Oh yeah! That would be a fun ship name! They both sound equally funny, though. At least to me.

I love them too! They're so underrated! <3

This was a good ask. I want more Cluck asks. Talking to me about Cluck is a really cool and awesome thing to do and more people should do that.

[kitnita]

wip title game!!!! thank you to @sadmoooose for tagging me 🥰

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs

some of these are documents for a wip & some are notes/outline docs. though a lot of the outline docs also have actual writing. actually i think at least one outline has more written than at least one of the wips in a big boy document. also! this is excluding the current-current wip because that's for hockey holidays so it's staying Secret

mirobotter girl talk

nickjake

🤖💕🦦 (do you believe in star signs? )

🐿️💕👔 (take a piece of me)

bubble

goalussy

bachelor au

🦦💕👔 (if the stars ain't showing)

wingman delly

nhl fuck month sequel?

🤖💕🦦 (possessive)

i cannot think of eleven people to tag!! idk who's already done something like this recently and/or who's got stuff that they'd be willing to share!!! so extremely low pressure, do not feel obligated, etc etc etc BUT just tagging @moregraceful @oetter @stickypucky @winningmachine @ice-ice-lizzie

[hintzy]

shuffle your 'on repeat' playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people. tagged by @oetter

UMMM im tagging @mathewbaldzal @jakeoetter @eliooliver83 @stickypucky and anyone else who wants to… *kisses you on the cheek and runs away*

i also added my favorite lyrics from each song 😫 because im extra

1. Caroline, Please Kill Me — Coma Cinema

“Caroline, your eyes are dead like outer space

And I know that I am boring, I can read it on your face”

2. Racehorse: Get Married! — Jordaan Mason and The Horse Museum

“Memorize your casket, your mother patterns

The space between your legs, I grab what's good of you”

3. Cutting My Fingers Off — Turnover

“You always said that every thought I had was geometric

I couldn't think outside my own lines”

4. Hypnotize — System Of A Down

“Why don't you ask the kids at Tienanmen Square

Was fashion the reason why they were there?”

5. I Would Hate You If I Could — Turnover

“Forget the days we'd waste in bed, tangled

The smoke still on your breath”

6. Us Ones In Between — Sunset Rubdown

“And I heard of creatures

Who eat their babies

And I wonder if they stop

To think about the taste”

7. Sleepyhead — The Scary Jokes

“i have never been the type to go to church

and i have never prayed for anyone but her”

8. White Trashing — Nicole Dollanganger

“Inherited your dad's crazy eyes

History repeats our whole damn lives”

9. Your Ex-Lover Is Dead — Stars

“We drove in silence across Pont Champlain

And all of that time you thought I was sad

I was trying to remember your name”

10. Never Meant — American Football

“And the autumn night when we realized

We were falling out of love”

[calumthoodshands]

pls you do know i'm kidding right💌

[kalofi]

Saw that letter and it lowkey made me cry and I had to go and hug my mama lmao

HSHSNBSJSJ oh thats so sweet 🥺 writing that made me sob a lil i had to lock myself in tge bathroom so no one would see my cry hhsjsj thanks for taking the time to read it!

[alwaysracheljoyscott]

Born September 1, John Robert Tomlin was a young man with a broad smile and bright eyes. He and his family moved to Littleton from Wisconsin when his father accepted a job as a sales representative at Johnson Controls, a heating firm. As a kid he loved cars, baseball, family and God. As a teen he added Chevy trucks and the Green Bay Packers to that list, and his love for Jesus developed in him a strong set of Christian morals.

He enjoyed driving off-road in the nearby Rocky Mountains in his beat-up Chevy pickup, and listened to country music. He attended Foothills Bible Church and was a member of the Youth group at Riverside Baptist Church South in Parker.  John may have been shy, but he was quick to laugh, his mom recalled. "He had such a sense of humor. He was always making goofy faces," she said, smiling.

John loved trucks, but not just any trucks. He had a passion for Chevy trucks, particularly his rust-spotted, gold-colored Chevy four-wheel-drive that he paid for with his own money. He had worked 30 hours a week for the last year-and-a-half loading trees, making deliveries and driving tractors after school and on weekends at Arapahoe Acres Nursery and Garden Center where he held a steady job after school and during vacations for the last two years. John's job was loading and unloading trees and plants onto the lot and into customers' cars. He always wore the same thing to work, his friends said: a blue cap, carpenter-style pants, big, mud-caked boots and a Green Bay Packers jacket, in honor of his favorite sports team. ‘’He worked hard but he made the job fun,’’ said his friend, Youngblood.

 And he finally realize his dream and bough a truck. "It wasn't pretty, but he was always talking about what he was going to do to it next. He really loved it.'' Michelle Oetter, said.

John and Michelle met at youth group and had been dating for the past seven months. Tthey were nearly inseparable. "He was really nice," said his sister, Ashley. "But, he was gone most of the time because he was with Michelle."  The two would have attended the prom on May 1. “I remember the day he picked out his tux and how excited he was, how excited he was to get all dressed up,” Sokol said. “He didn’t want to dance. He just wanted to have dinner with Michelle.”  Michelle agreed that John hated dancing.“He hated it. He hated it so much,” she said, breaking her sadness with a smile. 

John had a gentle disposition that parents and girlfriends dream of; the kind that didn't need a heavy hand of discipline and that made him an old-fashioned gentleman on dates. “He treated me like the queen of the world,” she said. “He spent so much money trotting back and forth to my house, but he always said I was worth it.”

In 1998, he went on a missionary trip to Mexico with his family and built a house for poor people. "John recommitted his life after that trip", said the Rev. Bill Oudemolen. "He said he wanted to be used by God to serve him."  . Seven months before his death he reconnected with God and rediscovered the joy of his faith.

John lost his life in the library grandfather said that the victim "was in the library where he spent every lunch hour studying.'’  His truck sits where he left it Tuesday. Parked in Clement Park near the high school, the vehicle was covered with floral tributes and notes from mourning friends.

"In September, maybe God put it into my heart, or maybe it was when he got his driver's license, but I asked him, ‘John, where do you want to be buried if you die?' "He said, ‘Wisconsin, Mom,’ "  Doreen, his mom, she recalled softly, the glass of water trembling in her hand. 

The family returned in Waterford Wis., for John's funeral and burial. Before the service began, Tomlin’s grandmother, Elizabeth, placed her hands on the coffin and cried silently. ‘’He is a kid that every parent and grandparent wishes they had,″ she said. ‘’He was always there for you.″  Tomlin was buried in a casket of green and gold, colors of his beloved Green Bay Packers.

Early on, the Tomlins said, John found the move to Colorado difficult. He was rather shy and felt a bit lonely. But, eventually, he made good friends with Brandon Sokol and Jacob Youngblood, both of whom spoke at his service. "John was one of the best human beings I've ever met,'' said Amanda Murphy, who had worked with Tomlin at the nursery for the last year. After moving to Littleton from Wisconsin just over four years ago. Tomlin made some good friends and was well-liked, Murphy said. "He was real shy at first, but he was always a gentleman to the T,''  Murphy said. "He was the most adult 16-year-old you could ever meet.''  Murphy said Tomlin's faith was evident, even at work. "He'd always come in later on Sundays after church,''  she said. "He'd always try to talk a bunch of us into going to youth group with him.''

Friend Jacob Youngblood spoke about how Tomlin loved to drive his Chevy pickup. Jacob said that when he met John a year ago, “the first thing he asked me was, ‘Ford or Chevy?'”  “I said ‘Ford,’ and immediately got on his wrong side and that got me on his bad side for the whole summer,” Jacob said. Courteney Lockwood who also worked with John at Arapahoe said, "Every day he would always come in and shake your hand or give you a hug. No matter what kind of day I was having, he made it better," she said. For Brandon Sokol, John was just like "a brother." He and his girlfriend, Lauren, often double-dated with John and Michelle.  

After graduation in two years, John planned to enlist in the army. "He was a great kid, really happy, going to school, getting good grades", said his father, John Tomlin. "He knew what he wanted to do. He had everything planned."

 "He was as close to a perfect son as you can have," Tomlin said.

   Happy birthday John! You’re so missed. 🎈💚

[racheljoyscott]

John Tomlin's passion was trucks, but not just any trucks. He had a passion for Chevy trucks, particularly his rust-spotted, gold-colored Chevy four-wheel-drive that he paid for with his own money.

"It wasn't pretty, but he was always talking about what he was going to do to it next,” Michelle Oetter [Tomlin’s girlfriend] said. "He really loved it.''

To help pay for the truck, Tomlin had worked as many as 30 hours a week for the last year-and-a-half loading trees, making deliveries and driving tractors after school and on weekends at Arapahoe Acres Nursery and Garden Center. He always wore the same thing to work, his friends said: a blue cap, carpenter-style pants, big, mud-caked boots and a Green Bay Packers jacket, in honor of his favorite sports team.

Youngblood, a tall, lanky teenager, met John about a year ago at the job. "The first thing John asked me was: Ford or Chevy? I said Ford and immediately got on his wrong side," he said, drawing knowing laughs from the congregation.

[lionskullproject-blog]

Born September 1, 1982 16 years old John Tomlin was a native of Wisconsin, he worked after school at a local nursery hauling trees and belonged to a church youth group, where he met his girlfriend of seven months, Michelle Oetter. Family and friends remember his energy and the warmth of his smile. He loved church and Chevrolet trucks. He had recently got his driver's license and had just bought an old Chevy pickup that he had been working for since he was 14. He once drove all the way to Mexico to help build a house for a poor family. He enjoyed four-wheeling in his truck and lifting weights. His truck, like Rachel Scott's car, became a standing memorial in the parking lot. Thursday following the shootings his family gathered around the truck despite the fact that it was raining. His bible was still sitting on the dashboard, where he always left it in the hope that someone would see something there that would bring them closer to God. "He was a perfect son," his father, John Michael Tomlin, said. "He was just good. You'd ask him to wash a car, and he'd wash both cars." John spent his lunch hour in the library daily, studying. He was there the day the gunmen stormed the school. Hiding under a table, he welcomed a girl he didn't know (victim Nicole Nowlen) into his hiding place when she grew scared where she was hiding and he held her hand to comfort her when the killers started shooting people in the library. Then the shooters came to their table. Without bending to see who was under the table, Eric Harris opened fire on John and Nicole, injuring them both with a blast from his shotgun. Then Dylan Klebold came around the table and shot John at point-blank range in the head, killing him almost instantly. The first of the funerals for the victims killed at Columbine, his was held at Foothills Bible Church where he had attended church. He was buried in his hometown of Waterford, Wisconsin, in Saint Peters Cemetery. He was buried in a satin-lined coffin embroidered with Chevy trucks.

Links:

http://www.acolumbinesite.com/victim/john.php

[starscelly]

1, 2, 5, and 25 for the artist asks, lots of questions bc i wanna know everything about youuuuuu <33

-xo oetter

from The hockey fashion microinfluencer??? im honored <3

1. Do you prefer traditional drawing, or digital?

i honestly dont know fjkdsfkjs i think traditional? ive always been a traditional artist almost exclusively until like. this year. but i really enjoy both, im just more comfortable with traditional i think even tho im on a digital kick.

2. How long have you been drawing?

i mean. Technically my whole life. but i think ive been like Actively an artist since around like early middle school so i guess around a decade, give or take a few years

5. What’s your favorite thing to draw?

beyond just. mmm hockey (: . i also in General like drawing myself or for a rlly long time i was huuge into drawing hands. i dont think i rlly have favorites beyond hockeys rn tho lol it changes everyday

25. Do you like to draw in silence, or with music?

oh for Sure music (f. follow me on spotify for impeccable taste). i used to listen to a lot more podcasts and still do sometimes but i get distracted so ive. stopped that mostly lol. Never silence though.

artist asks!

[oetter]

thank u my dearest @starscelly for the tag mwah mwah mwah

Favorite Color: green if u can believe it Last Song: "Man" by Neko Case, bangerrrrrrr Currently Reading: Rosewater by Tade Thompson and i highly highly recommend it. it's a scifi set in Nigeria and i absolutely cannot put it down Currently Watching: Taskmaster series 17. again. Currently Craving: getting sushi with my dad later so probably that? Coffee or Tea: tea! iced or hot, doesn't matter. will occasionally get a coffee when i forget how detrimental it is to the steadiness of my hands Hobby to Try: been meaning to get back into video editing but my school has not renewed its contract for cheap adobe software so i am in limbo atm Current AU: dallas stars gbbo fusion! not really "current" tho as i haven't brought myself to look at it since we lost our dearly departed delly

tagging @waggle100 @kitnita @renchanters and anybody else who wants to do it :)))

[kitnita]

Does Otter have any superstitions/rituals?

(Need to know for a throwaway line in a fic I'm writing, so thought I'd call upon your expertise 🙏)

yeah!!! so jake’s always been pretty vocal about not being That Superstitious. he likes to talk about how he’s the most normal goalie most of his other teammates have ever played with & not having a ton of crazy superstitions is part of that for him.

‘ "I'm pretty laid back, in general," Oettinger said. "I like to hang out with the guys and be amongst the group. I don't isolate myself on the road or on game days with superstitions. I have a couple of things I do, but it's nothing out of the ordinary that you wouldn't see from a forward or a defenseman." (x)’

honestly i’d say that’s a pretty accurate read on himself. he’s self aware!!! jake doesn’t have no superstitions — he stopped using his blackout mask with the blackout jerseys when they won with a different mask in the blackout jerseys, has worn his skates for years, uses the same glove he used in college, is weird about new pads, etc etc etc. but gear stuff definitely falls in line w normal hockey player/general athlete level superstition.

all that said he does definitely have at least one Big Ritual he’s publicly talked about — he taps whatever period it is on the boards with his stick during stoppages, and then again on the net with his water bottle during shorter stoppages. this goes into ot & the shootout too. iirc @oetter keeps track of this so if you want better details i’d go ask her! you can find the footage of him Revealing this ritual in this video the nhl put out & in the specific quote in the caption of the gifset i made from it.

so if you want to reference one i’d use that!! or else talk about his rabid avoidance of seeming too superstitious as a superstition in & of itself.

i hope this helps!!!

[oetter]

🎵 💎 🌸 :3 :3

🎵 Last song you listened to?

pats žinai by kedrostuburas, a lithuanian jazz fusion band ive recently become so obsessed with

💎 What’s your most prized possession?

hard to pick just one! it’s between my wyatt-given puck and my kindle

🌸 Best compliment you ever received?

the looks people give me when im owning them at trivia with my obscure fact knowledge. “how did you know that??” u mean u dont know what the mary celeste was? (<- real example. played trivial pursuit w my grandparents yesterday)

[oetter]

☕️ pls yap about robo <3

MY BEST FRIEND MY BUG MY BOBA EYED BEAUT

he was quieter this season than the last couple of years but i honestly think hes still just getting started! robo is such a fun guy and so so funny, a cornerstone scorer for the stars, one of the hardest working guys youll find. and he’s weird too. the perfect man

[oetter]

☕️ wyjo

the future of hockey. im so so proud of him and so glad he’s finally getting some recognition (at least from the nhl and sportsnet instagram pages, ive seen more than a couple posts). people are catching on finally!! hes got suuuuuch a bright future it makes me feel emotional

freal tho he’s my baby. he’s my lockscreen, i have pictures of him in my wallet and my car, i think about him 24/7, hes the nhler im closest in age to. hes my little bug hes my mouse hes my best friend hes my guy forever ever ever

[oetter]

22 and 16 for hockey questions!!

22: Who do you think the best player in the NHL is?

um. nils lundqvist. dont fact check that

16: NHL crush:

lukas dostal my real life boyfriend in real life (for real!!)