Hanging With the Unloved Kids - Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin, others - NC-17

[chibirhm]

Title: Hanging With the Unloved Kids
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Pairing(s): Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin, Patrick Kane/Jonathan Toews, Taylor Hall/Jordan Eberle, mentions of Mike Richards/Jeff Carter and various people with their actualfax significant others
Summary: Sidney Crosby has known a few things for most of his life: he knows that he loves hockey

Comments

[empathapathique]

I just clicked on your fic on AO3, and wanted to check out the soundtrack. But: I Am Not A Robot, by Marina & the Diamonds: I feel like there's no way I can't like it now, because that song and Sidney Crosby=magic. And I will gladly listen to it for forever while I read.

Okay, okay. off to do that.

[chibirhm]

Thanks! Has there ever been a more apt Sidney Crosby song, really? Now comes the nervewracking part where I have to wait, like, a day for people to actually read it.

[empathapathique]

Pfft. Give me another hour and a half to continue to read/flail and come up with something coherent to say. But, right now: I'm super in love. Oh, Sidney. Oh, damn.

[empathapathique]

Also, I am right here at this line:

“Work on Toews,” Geno says, and Sid has to bite his cheek to keep from blurting out how true that actually is. “They are best friends, yes? Like us.”

OMG Geno, who said you could say things like that??? My heart.

[chibirhm]

YESSSSSS. I hope it doesn't disappoint!

[chibirhm]

Isn't he? He's just so... I want to say "dumb", but really the problem is he just over-thinks everything, which makes him just kind of a failure. And ngl, I worried endlessly that Geno was too perfect and nice and I kept e-mailing Puckling like "is he a Mary Sue? Is he too saintly?" and she was like "you know that's what he's actually like, though, like, you probably wrote him meaner than he really is" and I was like "ugh, accurate". He really does rescue kittens and orphans and puppies! He teaches blind children about hockey!!!! Who does he think he is!?!? Rude.

YAY I'm glad it worked. Ovie's both a delight and extremely difficult to write.

[chickenpumpkin]

Hi. I've been seeing "Hanging with the Unloved Kids" on rec lists all over fandom and back, but it seems to be missing from A03 and I haven't been able to find it anywhere else. I've heard nothing but wonderful things about it--any chance it'll be reposted on A03 so I can read it? I've gone through pretty much everything Sid/Geno out there and I need more, and I've really enjoyed your other fics ;D