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mars-mystic · 4 days

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Hiii Glance is something I hadn't considered before at all, wanna share some of the appeal?

I am very confused but intrigued

I’m gonna let you in on a little secret nonny, follow me. *takes you by the hand and leads you through many well lit corridors, ending with a final door. It is simple, but welcoming, already propped open for you.*

This is where the magic happens. *you step into a room. It is brightly lit, and filled with animate conversation. However, neither George nor Lance is anywhere to be found*

What’s this, you say. I thought you were gonna show me the appeal of glance. *I nod, cryptically*

I am. *as we walk around the room you begin to notice a large group forming around one corner. As we walk by, a massive cheer goes up, turning everybody’s heads*

What was that, you ask.

They did a thing, I say, grinning. We’ll come back once you’ve finished your tour. *we walk around the room in companionable silence, a few eyes on us, watching me, watching you.*

Do you get it now?

It’s just a bunch of people in a room, you say, confused. I wanted the appeal. Tell me about their history, their canon events. Do they even interact at all?

Oh that doesn’t matter, I say with a smile. It’s all about the people. The community. We built this place for ourselves, for our stories. So that we could share them with each other, and you. That’s the appeal. Glance is whatever you want to make of it.

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Ok but listen up. They do have history. The raced together all the time as kids. They have a rivalry. They were somehow always around each other. They share a birth year. They never talk to each other anymore. Doesn’t it make you curious? Don’t you wonder what happened? What’s going on?

That’s the beauty of glance, how little we know about them. We don’t know their full history, but we know enough to be compelled. The rest is all guesswork babeyy, and it’s FUN. (I’m sure there are people out there who could give you a better idea of their history, but that’s not me. I’m not the historian, I’m the propaganda department).

Their capacity for rivals to lovers is unMATCHED. One sided hatred, one sided rivalries. They are opposites. They are the same. Uptight vs laidback. Cares sooooooo much vs doesn’t give a shit. It shouldn’t work but it DOES.

They are both insane, but in different ways. Insane4Insane. It’s about balance.

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Shall we peruse the bookshelf? When I got here we only had one (maybe two) pages on ao3. Now we’re at five and counting (let’s go squad!). List is obviously abridged and also woefully incomplete. (I’m not saying this is y’all’s BEST fic (i mean it might be), I’m saying I’m just a girl. Also don’t ask what the categories mean. They are based vaguely on publishing dates but also vibes.

Early works

1. Parallel Players by crimandclove (@parallelplayers). This TOME was my first intro to glance and let me just say… it was convincing. Compelling. Some would say life changing (I would). This is THE glance bible. Pretty sure all of us have drawn at least a little bit of inspo from it for our own fics (I know I have).

2. cheque please by weegreenbean (@weegreenbean)

I would be remiss in talking about glance without mentioning my beloved. Doing god’s work over in strollonso but also over here in glance nation. Shoutout to this one because I read it last night, and it is textbook Early Glance™️. And because you couldn’t pay me to pick a favourite, there are too many to choose from.

3. Kamikaze by pitconfirm (@pitconfirm). Now with sequel. And both make me want to scream. One of the first fics I read when I got here.

4. The Worst Way to Love Somebody is Quietly by LilShiro (@lil-shiro). Ok I also read this one last night. But it’s soooooooooo them.

Post-modern Reformation (or whatever)

1. off-schedule by Anonymous. Always worth a reread. Always making me insane

2. good luck, babe! by Anonymous. Another fic I read last night. This might just be a list of fics I read last night, now that I think of it.

3. Superposition by girlcowboy3 (@girlcowboy3)

4. I tried so hard to remember where, when, why, how- by abovecalamity (@abovecalamity)

Special Notes

- There is an abundance of girl!george and/or girl!lance fics around. I mean… it is rule 63. Only fair. They are ALL amazing, go check them out

- glance is where I first found out about the soulmate goose trope. That was an… odd but fun period in my life.

- some of you guys have a lot to say (which I love), but you only get ONE mention. HOWEVER I would highly recommend clicking on the little author name button and seeing where that gets you.

Thank you for the ask nonny, hope to see you around (whoever you may be). My inbox is open if you ever wanna chat <3

#glance #glance nation #maple scone #1863 #i am a glance propagandist that’s my job #so here you go nonny <3 #hope this helps :)

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moregraceful · 2 years

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Here's some pairings as requested

Kaapo/ Vitali

Dougie Hamilton/ Andrei svechnikov

Crosby/ konecny

Jeff Carter/ Mike richards

Jonathan drouin/ Nathan MacKinnon

Carter Hart/ Kevin hayes

Eichel / mcdavid

Tim stutzle/ Brady tkachuk

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omg ok i am catsitting and waiting for the cats to finish eating lets go

edited to add: tumblr ate half this reply. hold pls

edited again: ok we good

insane4insane. messy4messy. ranger4ranger. it's soooo good, also i hope vitali comes back to the nhl!! i think about kaapo often....i think he needs a boyfriend and i think vitali perfectly suits him. rangers rarepairs are SO underrated.

i'm ngl i do not know much of their story and would be willing to learn!! maggie says they were weird abt each other and u know i love people being fucking freaks. frankly svech is so funny to me bc clearly everyone (jordan martinook) want to top him so bad but he's some kind of unclimbable fucking mountain or smthg bc he remains as ever untopped. i think dougie, being enormous and handsome, would be great at it. but yeah i'd love to know more from any caniac scholars following me!!

also read the bottom right - i would like to kiss dougie specifically. big handsome 🤩

like it in theory, but perhaps not in reality? i would need to be sold on it, i think. i can only really see tk going for it in either a team canada or self-hating canadian thirst way. the former appeals very much, the latter is not really my jam (i'm soft and weak sorry.) would be willing to read fic abt them though, if i was in the right mood!!

perhaps i have not read the right fic abt them but i just have not read anything that lives up to their reality. this is not a knock on the fic!! the fic is great!! however their story is so gently and irrevocably devastating that i find myself more compelled by their reality than by the fic. will ofc keep reading, but for me this is one of those pairings that just knocks my socks off irl

will obvs take recs tho!!

whatever is wrong with them i hope they never get well. WHAT a ship. tho it is not my preferred nate mac pairing of choice (nate/andré nation lemme see you rise), i will happily enjoy fic of them. freaks <3

got a little burnt out on the flyers by flyers fans on hockey twt so i find it difficult to get excited abt any intra-team ships. (will read nick suzuki/chart or khayes/johnny hockey until the cows come home, however just the team itself, hard for me to get real into it.) however i find their narrative VERY compelling and would happily take recs to get back into flyers fic!!

the 1st/2nd overall dynamic is always so juicy bc theyre either besties (2017) or hate each other (2015). i'm soft, so i prefer the former. i also find it a little difficult to get excited abt jack eichel so this is not my draft pairing of choice. i do hope it's canon tho, i hope they angrily made out several times over the years

perfect pairing created for me in a lab. what if we took a big loud guy and made him captain of a team of teenagers and gave him a smaller guy to love so much? yeah sign me the fuck up

i will say that the fic tends to be a little too sweet for me. you know me, i love tender fic but these boys are GROSS these boys are WEIRD these boys are SENS these boys were COHABITATING DURING A PANDEMIC. they are yuckydisgusting yet domestic and i wish more people would lean into yuckydisgusting.

i would be remiss however if i did not rec one of the all time hottest fics i've ever read "coming in hot" and one of the funniest fics i've ever received in a gift exchange "glass houses". those two fics got me so good in the brady/timmy id and i highly recommend them.

thank you for giving me so many pairings to chew on!!!

#WHERE THE FUCK DID THE SECOND HALF OF MY ASK GO #NOBODY READ IT I'M NOT DONE!!!#eta: ok we're good #i'm gonna kill tumblr for eating this ask tho my first draft took me like an hour and a half smh #as always i am taking recs for any of these pairings even the ones i said i'm not sold on!!#i prefer recs to wayfinding as i like hearing why people got excited about a fic #thanks for playing along everyone!!#ship ask game #cages replies #💖 anon

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