#rip the bc line

[orangepeelknives]

Hear me out, for all that it looks like will left bc and the boys because he just plain wanted to move up to the big leagues, I think part of it was that he felt he had to. His team got the first overall draft pick after picking him, and they got macklin who will has known from across the ice for years.

I think will knew macklin wasn't going to wait to head to the nhl and he didn't want to get left in the dust, forgotten even as a 4th overall pick bc what's a 4th overall when your team has the 1OA?

I think will probably would have loved to stay with Gabe and Ryan another year, that freshman line hit too good, those are his best friends, but I think he knew if he was going to compete and prove he was worth the pick, he needed to leave before the world got over having him with Macklin now in the spotlight.

And it turned out better than he pictured, he's still kind of a second fiddle to mack sure, catered to playing on his wing instead of at center where he played his whole life, still kind of being shadowed when they're in public and mack gets recognized but he doesn't, but hes making the best of it, going along with it, because mack was willing to share the spotlight, talks will up any chance he gets, very clearly adores will which maybe subconsciously is what will needed to know he would have the most when he left his guys at bc.

Maybe their two personalities really did just fit so well together immediately and it did work out in the end, but I think it all started because will felt he needed to stay relevant.

yes anon i am picking up what you are putting down and i agree!!

also from a development standpoint, will could not get any better from another season in boston imho. he was already one of the best, and maybe he wouldve been THE best, but it would be a glory thing and a title thing, not the thing that's best for his dev. he needed to be challenged more and to be able to identify his weak spots.

and that BC line was magic, but its bc they knew each others games vvvv intimitely. gabe and leno could make up for wills weak spots and vice versa. another season of that and the habits would be even harder to break, its been a full nhl season and at worlds we can stillll see him fall back on bad habits that were okay in college with leno and gabe fighting his battles and being puck retrievers, but dont fly now at a higher level. will's game needs to be more quickly adaptable, more defensive, more well rounded, faster, ect, and he wouldve hit a ceiling at BC methinks.

also, completely agree w the mack stuff. now that hes spent a season developing w mack, theyre each others go to guys. future face of the franchise macklin celebrini who will likely be saddled w the burden of captaincy at some point! and his guy is WSH! theyre being looked at as a duo, and mack's game certainly elevates will's! he def does play second fiddle to mack a little, but imagine how much worse it would be coming in now, missing all that development, not being part of that narrative at all. and will is a group guy, will is a passer, and mack continuously hypes will up at every opportunity. i honestly think he isnt that bothered with the shadow, at this point in his career. or else he wouldve attempted to put some space between their images instead of gettinh more and more freakish abt eo at every given opportunity!!

[chopshajen]

Eepy time

What was intended to be a very casual doodle did not stay casual LOL

[amusingghost]

just some feral (mer)kids

unapologetically inspired from @swordsmans's fic the sea makes bones of bodies because i read it (again) and my GOD man it makes me feel so many things

[skipblebee]

Bingqiu they could never ever make me hate you

[forbiddentaako]

Fall out boy putting me in a fallenwings mood again

Lute's version:

[blacktobackmesa]

The Black Mesa Daily Commute :)

[seoulmatez]

“if this is the fate you have chosen, then i will wait for you in your next life. until then, anaxagoras.”

art commissioned by @/insaneption!

[frosting-surfeit]

You guys ever had a hc you genuinely thought was a truth to the point you didn't realize it was a hc at all...?

I imagine zims touches/cuddles would be extremely stiff/awkward and such and he doesn't do them right. Like he takes them very literally and has no idea how to do them / do them gently ...

Nor does he understand hes apparently being off with them or how

Also dib is ill or something

[cryptidmickle]

why must art take forever. why cant it go faster but keep the same quality result.

[librarydilf]

I am in SHAMBLES

[racetrackmybeloved]

i adore how quick the boys are to help crutchie when he needs it. no discussion, no pity, just support.

when morris pushes him over, it isn't jack (who is right there) who helps him up, neither is it race nor romeo, who we saw him interact with earlier in the song. it's albert who helps him up, and it's albert who carries him until he gets his crutch back. did they have a system? was it albert's job to carry crutchie when needed? was it because they're close friends, and we just never get to see it again? or was it that any of the newsies would have done it, but albert happened to be the closest?

when the nuns hand out food, kid blink and smalls don't hesitate before hoisting him onto their shoulders. jack and specs both place their hands on his back to ensure that he doesn't fall backwards. it's so smooth, so natural, like they've done it a million times before.

and note: i don't think crutchie interacts with any of those characters (albert, kid blink, smalls) at any other moment in the musical.

conclusion: crutchie is so so loved.

[myokk]

70s au

[ruegarding]

this is one of my favorite parallels. kronos repeats luke's words from tlt slightly wrong in tlo. just how he tries to achieves luke's goal slightly wrong, slightly corrupted. the same idea, but different meanings. different endings.

[soupysuki]

recently found out that soup is a real store

[bell-swamp-fitzjames]

Chad VanGaalen songs are not safe from me and my mind's eye. I really dig this one.

Poisonous Heads by Chad VanGaalen x The Terror

[modmad]

:O you're cosplaying mary poppins?!

yes! if you're going to the Manchester Con on Sunday (the one at the Gmex centre or whatever they call it now) I will be there as Mary Pawpins with my good buddy Daria, who will be dressed as the Tenth Doctor! Because, you know, they're both Timelords? Cousins, obviously. Come and find me! No handshakes or my fingers will break off, and I will be masking the whole time, but I love none rib-breaking hugs! if you see me say hello!