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    Jack’s first year in the NHL doesn’t go as well as he had hoped.

    Or: Jack is perfect, until he isn’t, and when he isn’t, he’s a disaster. He’s trying to land somewhere in the middle.

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    23 Dec 2025

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    Ch13:
    “Shut up. You’re an asshole, Kenny.”

    “Of course I’m an asshole,” says Kent, with surprising heat. “I’m 5’10 and a gay hockey player. I have to be an asshole, or else I wouldn’t be able to do this shit. You’re an asshole, too, you know. You just like to pretend you’re not.”

    “I know I’m an asshole,” says Jack.

    “Yeah, but you don’t own it. You just use it as, like, a bat to beat yourself up with. Or an excuse.”

  2. Public Bookmark 91

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    “You are moping on your couch like a sad American teenager going through a breakup. You don’t think that’s an emergency?”

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    14 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 2

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    Kent grins when his name’s called first, no edge of your seat waiting, no anxious butterflies. He grins when his mother screams in his ear, lips so close it’s almost a kiss, and when his step dad claps him on the back. He grins through handshakes and photos and as he’s pulling the Aces jersey over his head.

    By the end of it, his grin feels more like a grimace.

    (Or Kent’s first year in the NHL)

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    07 Sep 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 72

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    Tumblr Prompt fic.

    Natsume and his weak immune system, but despite his friends shaking their heads at him, he tries to power through to hold on to the tentative bonds he has made. A little treat for his friends is worth anything to him.

    or, the fic where Tanuma gave Natsume a fever and Natsume ignores it to keep his friends smiling.

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    08 Sep 2025

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    When an NHL team loses far more often than it wins, a smart general manager will trigger a rebuild, a complete overhaul of the team's roster, strategy, and personnel.

    Generally speaking, there are five steps to any rebuild.

    1. Identify the problems
    2. Excise the rot
    3. Acquire better assets
    4. Set a new foundation
    5. Start praying

    A rebuild is a brutal, necessary business decision for the survival of the team.

    Nobody knows more about surviving brutal, necessary decisions than Kent Parson.

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    07 Sep 2025