#sid extra

[hunterrrs]

"Hey Nate, just want to congratulate you on your jersey being retired. I know how much that time meant to you. I'm sure it meant a lot to everyone who's had the opportunity to watch you play, and everyone you got to share it with. What better way to represent that than to see your jersey go to the rafters. You deserve it. Hope you have a great night celebrating it with everyone and congratulations." - Sidney Crosby, hometown friend

…and historians will call them hometown friends

[rebouks]

Things are tough in the Finch household right now, Cookie's too sick to go to work and Oscar's too busy & tired to get anything done properly. He's tryna scrape enough money together to get the bills paid and the heating system fixed, but it's not going so well! Sid and Ally have been helping here and there but Alton's a bit rubbish and although Sidney's much better with the kids she's pretty strict, which Oscar isn't a fan of. Still, beggars can't be choosers!

[malk1ns]

sidgeno, 32, things you said right after hello

thanks for this one! prompts are here :)

“Wow, you’re huge,” Sid blurts out, Malkin's hand still clasped in his. “You must have grown, what, two inches since I saw you in May?”

Immediately, his face goes hot. For a brief minute, he clings to the hope that maybe he hadn’t actually said that, but over Malkin’s shoulder he can see Mario wince and Sarge bite back a laugh, so no—he really just said that out loud, and oh god, he’s still holding Malkin’s hand.

He drops it quickly and takes a large step back, mustering up the most normal-feeling smile he can manage. Based on Malkin’s quizzical, slightly amused gaze, he’s not quite managing.

Sid hadn’t told anyone what happened in Latvia.

He’d made a point to seek Malkin out—Zhenya, he’d asked to be called, but Sid’s been trying to get back to something slightly less incriminating whenever he thought about Malkin this summer—wanting to actually meet him, now that they were going to be teammates. He’d heard Mario talking about the situation with Metallurg, the pressure they were putting on Malkin to re-sign and stay in Russia, and Sid thought that if he could just talk to him, get to know him a little off-ice, he could convince him to come to Pittsburgh in the fall after all.

They’d gotten to know each other more than just a little.

Before Sarge even opens his mouth to translate, Malkin steps forward, closing the distance between him and Sid, and claps him lightly on the shoulder. “Yes, now you’re even shorter,” he says, poking his tongue between his teeth.

Sid remembers that, how Malkin—oh, hell, how Zhenya—always made that face when he was pretty sure his joke was going to land. He’s doing better now than he had at Worlds; Sid remembers how hard they’d struggled at first to talk.

It got easier later on.

Sarge makes a surprised noise, and Sid starts. He’d almost forgotten they weren’t alone. “You didn’t tell me you’ve been practicing,” he says to Zhenya, continuing on in amused-sounding Russian. Whatever he’s saying, it’s making Zhenya blush.

Mario’s eyebrows are so high they’re practically in his hairline, but once Sarge stops his teasing diatribe, he clears his throat. “Dinner’s ready,” he says, gesturing to the hallway that leads to the dining room. “We can keep talking there, Nathalie won’t be happy if the food goes cold while we’re all standing around by the door.”

Sid cringes a little and moves to fall in line behind Mario and Sarge, but Zhenya grabs his arm, holding him in place as the other two exit the foyer.

“Sid,” Zhenya murmurs, reeling him in. “I miss. Four months, it’s a long time.”

Against his better judgment and everything he’d sternly told himself all summer when he caught his mind wandering, Sid melts in Zhenya’s grasp. “Yeah,” he says, putting a hand on Zhenya’s waist. “It was too long. I wanted to call, but the long-distance charge…”

“Same for me. I think, maybe I ask JP to call for me, but then it’s problems with the contract, and…” Zhenya shrugs, frowning a little before refocusing on Sid. “But now I’m here.”

“Yeah,” Sid says again, breathless this time, pressing them closer together, until he can feel the heat from Zhenya’s body. “I thought—well, I saw the news, and I wasn’t sure, but I hoped you’d come. I thought about you so much.”

The corners of Zhenya’s eyes crinkle. He looks exhausted, and his suit is wrinkled, but Sid’s never seen anything better. “I tell you I come for you,” he says, and his voice goes sly, even as he widens his eyes in feigned innocence. “You tell me to, I do. You forget?”

Sid swallows. He didn’t forget a single second of it—the tentative first conversation, the beers they snuck into Sid’s hotel room when his roommate was out and they both had a day off the next day, which turned into Zhenya’s mouth on his, Zhenya’s dick in his hand. Every single stolen moment for the entire tournament had found them tangled up together, and Sid couldn’t forget it if he tried.

Zhenya’s still watching him, and his eyes have softened. He reaches for Sid’s face, ghosting his fingers over Sid’s cheekbone before thumbing over Sid’s mouth, tugging his lower lip down.

Sid lets him. He’s standing in Mario Lemieux’s front foyer, and his newest teammate and god willing the missing piece that will bring the Penguins success, God willing, is practically groping him where anyone could see, and Sid lets him.

“You should stay,” he says, darting a glance at the hallway and stepping back. “After dinner. I know you’re tired, but we…maybe we could say you want to see my Playstation. It’s in my room upstairs, we’d be alone. I can drive you back to Sarge’s later.”

“Yes,” Zhenya says, practically before Sid’s finished speaking. “Yes, I want to stay with you.”

[maggot-collective]

since we're on the topic of cds i you know i gotta flex my complete main slipknot discography collection

(no mfkr cuz my mom doesn't wanna buy it for me 🖕)

[sighonaraa]

my main problem is that i want my friends to scream at me about my writing but in order for that to happen i must Actually Write

[dogpixie]

[hidingoutbackstage]

Okay it’s official my bf is the best man in the universe

[goaliekisses]

mouth open, booty popped… hockey’s back

[broocksz]

HELLO BROOCKS USER BROOCKSZ it's me. eski eskinox. Just here to alert you to the fact that YOU ARE THE SILLIEST EVER just incase u didn't know. This might be shocking to u. I understand if u need time to process this infomation. Also please look at this guy. Thanks

This is INSANE information. I might need a moment maybe even 7. you really put everything in place, makes you think real hard y'know

The guy is easing the processesing big help tell the guy he's the best and give him extra treats next time you train him

[rymurrsneckbeard]

Pretty sure we can all agree that holy shit never let McDavid 'redesign' anything ever again.

[arttheclown]

i think.... there’s definitely something to be said in the original / sub version of tamers with impmon beginning to have moments of lucidity and self-realization & the role that played in his overall character, which is something i feel the dub is severely lacking.

i believe it starts in episode 15, when impmon decides to warn takato that his friends are in danger. after takato goes off to help the others, impmon is left alone with his thoughts & asks himself why he felt the need to help. in the dub, he simply scoffs & calls takato ungrateful for not thanking him. then comes episode 17, where he attacks janyu in the park & terriermon puts himself between them. in the dub, impmon’s discomfort arises from terriermon’s loyalty to humans. in the sub, terriermon angrily informs him that he’s attacked jian’s father, to which impmon recoils & flees after asking himself why he’d do such a terrible thing.

& then we have episode 24, where the screencaps from this photoset come from. impmon is starting to realize that maybe his quest for power is a fruitless one, given how miserable it’s making him. but he doesn’t know what a digimon is supposed to do if not fight, which sends him into an existential crisis - which is exactly how caturamon is able to take advantage of him. i firmly believe that if impmon had been taken under the wing of someone with good intentions, like renamon, they likely would’ve been able to get through to him.

it really disappoints me that the dub left this key aspect of his personality out, because it’s not only a a consistent trait, but also makes his downfall that much more tragic. he knows better than to do bad things & he does them anyway, which is yet another reason why he tries so hard to rectify his mistakes later. manipulation aside, there was little excuse for them and he’s fully aware of that.

[rebouks]

Sidney got bored in her semi-retirement and convinced Alton the house needed renovating, she promised him they'd get a TV if he let her aaha 📺 Luckily for Al, before she had chance to get restless again, Oscar bought that wreck of a house.. so she has something to keep her occupied for now lmao He'll help too, but he needs a week long nap in front of the new TV first 😴

Fun fact.. you can just about see Oscar's house from Salton's place 🤭

[sandymybeloved]

[id-element0]

On the way to Meet & Greet at the Student Union. For the last term I made sure that the term is only one week and that filled all of their days with classes.

[2headed-disaster]

Sidney must’ve taught a class on playing dead in a scrum

[guillotineman]

On the set of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)