#butterflyintochains

[hauntedppgpaints]

Not greek, but Erik Karlsson son of Loki!

children of gods moodboards // accepting

[coffee-at-annies]

For the fic mashup, 94 and 41.

Love your stuff, Annie!!

94. Hair Brushing/Braiding + 41. First Kiss

You didn’t specify a pairing so please have some very quick aus based on what’s been knocking around my head lately.

First up, @prettyhockey and I have been talking about girl!SidGeno. Idk I’ve been in the mood for ladies and I don’t quite know any of the woho players or teams well enough to write about them.

The setup for this one is Gena promising to do Sid’s hair for idk pregame or whatever. She swears that she’s done it before, Gonch’s kids let her do it all the time. So she’s doing Sid’s hair. Sid spends the whole time chirping her about her skills and Gena chirps back about Sid fidgeting and messing up her work. Gena does know how to braid but it’s definitely wonky and not the easy basic braid Sid’s been putting her hair in since she was in mites. At the end of it Sid looks in the mirror, sees her objectively kinda terrible braid and the smug/fond look on Gena’s face and needs to kiss that look off her. Needless to say Gena ruins her hard work when Sid kisses her a second third fourth and fifth time and Gena runs her fingers through Sid’s hair in response.

Next up is SidFlowerVero cause I’m always thinking about both Sid and Flower and Flower hit a milestone tonight.

The setup for this one is Uncle Sid braiding Estelle’s hair ahead of her first big hockey game. He learned how to do it for Taylor when she was younger and used to do it for the Lemieux kids. She asked for an extra special braid from her favorite uncle and both Sid and Flower are weak to her puppy dog eyes. So here Sid is, on a rare afternoon off, helping Flower and his daughter get ready for hockey. I think the conversation to go from Flower+Vero to Flower+Vero+Sid is like a couple days old and they’re still getting a feel for what the new dynamic might mean. Idk if they’ve told the kids yet or if Sid is here in favored uncle status rather than potential new dad status.

Either way Flower comes across Sid very earnestly braiding her hair and telling her how amazing she’s going to be and after he finishes and she runs off to show her mom, Flower has to swoop in and kiss Sid. Just cause. Cause he loves him. Cause he’s so great with his kids. Cause he can now. He gets to have this. They had the adult feelings conversation and all three of them said yes. There’s something about kissing Sid for the first time that has him giddy and it’s not just the memories he’s about to make with his daughter- their daughter. It’s about the way Sid’s eyes scrunch up and how he wants to keep him forever.

Finally @podcasts-8-my-heart challenged me to do EK/Tanger and I’ve been talking about it with @carpehistoryandthepens so have some soft 6558.

The setup for this fic is both of them hanging out after a road game and drinks with the team in EK’s hotel room. They started out talking and watching tv and have migrated to sharing the same bed because it’s nice and both of them are hockey players and thus are conditioned to seek out touch. Tanger sprawls out on the bed and somehow his head ends up laying on EK’s thigh. Erik started out playing with Kris’s hair, twirling it between his fingers and lightly scratching his scalp. As the random hgtv show (because what else is on in hotel room tvs) they were half watching gets to the mid point of the episode, EK moves on from twirling it and started braiding Tanger’s hair. Little short braids the kind kids do at slumber parties or when they’re learning and messing around with their own hair. Nothing big, nothing fancy, nothing permanent, though Erik still has a stash of hair ties in his suitcase from when his hair was long that he could break out if he needed it. Kris’s hair isn’t quite long enough to warrant that and also he wouldn’t get them cause that would mean disturbing Kris. Kris of course is very content and is trying not to fall asleep on top of Erik but he skated 25 minutes tonight and while his conditioning is good, he’s adjusting to a time zone difference on top of everything else. He didn’t want to say goodnight earlier when they first went to Erik’s room but he also doesn’t want to fall asleep there.

This goes on for another twenty minutes probably. They’re not really talking or watching the tv but it’s providing just enough for plausible deniability and to keep them from falling asleep completely. After about twenty minutes one of their phones goes off or there’s noises from the hallway of other players returning that prompts them to groan and break apart. As much as neither of them want the night to end, Kris really doesn’t want to sleep in Erik’s room. He needs to do his nightly routine, change out of his jeans, and really he just needs to go. Erik walks Kris to the door of the hotel room, Kris swaying a little cause he’s tired prompting a balance/skating joke and one about old man legs. At the door Kris turns around to say goodbye, silly little braids still in his hair and Erik can’t help but smile fondly at him. Kris smiles back a little helplessly. He sways forward into Erik’s space where he’s leaning against the door and presses a gentle kiss to somewhere in the face/mouth vicinity before turning around and heading for his hotel room down the hall. It takes a moment for the kiss to register with Erik and all he does is watch Kris walk away towards his hotel room. When Kris is out of sight, he peels himself off the doorframe and goes to brush his teeth and get ready for bed.

[butterflyintochains]

Hate to be 'that girlie' but....

I'm seeing a lot of 'we're so back' type stuff and hype from Devils fans regarding Lindy Ruff being fired, and I completely get it, I really do. I am so happy you lot are finally shot of his useless self.

But, Travis Green ain't it either! He's an AHL caliber coach at best.

But, Heather, how do you know that? I hear you ask. Well, here's how...

I'm a Canucks fan, he was our head coach only two seasons ago. He was our head coach for four and a third seasons, we had losing records in all but one of them, and made the playoffs once (the bubble playoffs in 2020, so they don't count for much) and lost in the second round to Vegas. He failed us, he failed to get the Sedins into the playoffs to finish their career, he failed our city, and I suspect he'll fail yours too.

We then hired Bruce Boudreau, and got back on track, he transitioned us into a more unified team, and now we're almost certainly playoff bound with Rick Tocchet.

Long story short, your GM has sadly flung you out of the frying pan, and into the fire.

I am so, so sorry to be the bearer of bad news, and I hope his stint in the AHL has straightened him out. But he is a loser coach, refuses to acknowledge flaws in his own coaching, and made some absolutely moronic choices for us in Vancouver.

I'm not attacking the team or the fandom, I come in peace, my team's captain has brothers on the Devils, our teams are family to each other. Just thought a warning was due to you all.

Please, do not send me hate, I'm just reaching out.

Love and light - @butterflyintochains

[couthbbg]

Hey, Jem! Hope you're well. I have contributed to the KrisErik agenda! I wrote a small fic yesterday on my blog. It's a 5+1 called 'Those Small Moments' If you wanna give it a read, that's cool with me! @butterflyintochains

!!!!! LOVE to hear it !!!!!! I will definitely check it out, and all KrisErik fans thank you for your service!!! 🫡💛💛💛

[coffee-at-annies]

Sorry for being vague about the fic trope ask, Annie. I was in a rush to get to bed. Love them all. The EK/Tanger one is kinda the one I had in mind for those two tropes.

Might write something myself with that combo. Those two tropes are just so compelling together. If you don't mind, that is, don't wanna step on toes, y'know?

It’s fine. It was a fun thought exercise all around. I love playing with options but I struggle to commit so getting to think about different ships is fun. I’m glad I happened into what you were excited about. EK/Tanger is a fun ship. :)

Go ahead and write what you want. It’s a big sandbox and we’re all playing in it. I appreciate you asking. Feel free to play around and expand on what I have if you want. It’s very unlikely I’ll continue this so if you wanna take it and run feel free.