Intro to two interesting guys!
May. 25th, 2012 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maskitheclownI want to introduce you to two guys I'm kinda starting to obsess over at the moment. They are awkward and overly serious and faily and BRILLIANT at their work. You know how I love that, and I know some of you do too, so I'm sharing it with you.
Sidney Crosby (1987)
Jonathan Toews (1988)
So the way I understand it is, when Brilliant Hockey Players turn 11 they get a Hockwarts letter and are taken from their homes and families and put into a rink where they play hockey and never socialize with anyone ever until they are 30 and then they retire. Idk, I'm new to this fandom but it seems factual enough.
Seriously though, Sidney Crosby is the Captain, youngest ever, of the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins. This is genuinely a thing he made to show people how awesome hockey is:
Here, have some tissues, I'll wait.
I could give you the numbers and names of stuff he's won, but honestly, I still have no idea what they all mean, just, he's currently the best hockey player in the world (objectively) and has won everything that can be won and Gretzky thinks he's the new Gretzky.
He also has to spend a lot of time explaining to people why he isn't happy enough when he scores which has led to people calling him a robot. Well, that and the fact that he apparently doesn't get how people function. I've heard this often but the only proof of this is one gif of Toews hugging him and him being all "what is this touching thing you're doing I've never heard of it before."
No, really, look at how incredibly comfortable he is with human contact.
Right, and they're both Canadian, but not in the same team, so they only play together in Canada.
He is freakishly superstitious. He has a cup he's been wearing since forever and they have to fix it because he doesn't want a new one. I pitty the fool who does that. .
Vidspam of him. You should probably put some creme on your face or you'll be stuck in cringe mode forever.
And this video, OMG, collection of awesome :)
Jonathan Toews is like a light version of Sidney. And by light I mean he's the third youngest Captain ever (second to win Stanley cup, guess who's the youngest ever) has also won everything there is to win and is considered mostly responsible for dragging the Chicago Blackhaws out of the pit they've been living in for 40 years with his slash buddy Patrick Kane who is a shitty human being (I'm not kidding about that part, fans will say it with love, I don't). He is called Captain Serious, because that's just how much fun he has in life.
He has a bit of a crush on Sidney.
They are both VERY competitive, but I think Toews wins this one actually. He did check a kid after all, that's some commitment.
He has no idea who Patricia Arquette is and other incredibly awkward stuff in that interview. His humor is like Sahara only even termites can't live in it. I approve.
Your main pairing there is Toews/Kane so have their seriously amazing primer but don't forget that Kane is a shitty person. Well, there's some hope for him but, idk, he did some things I'm not willing to forgive, whatever. This isn't a post about him.
Sidney gets slashed with Evgenij Malkin mostly, and that's good because Geno is apparently his only friend.
I, in a complete switch from my usual "opposites attract" preferences, am shipping these two like Voyager.
The thing is, you know how fanon is, it has a life of it's own, but with these guys, there's not much canon do disprove it. Just look at that first advert with Sidney. That's what their lives were, and are. How much social growth do you get spending your whole life basically in a frat in which you are the best and you know it but you also have all the responsibility?
(Ah, one tiny detail. NHL did a pro-LGBTQ campaign. Yep.)
And, if you find anything about Sidney even a bit interesting, I have a fic that you might love if you like domestic schmoop and can also handle the surrealism of everyone in the world (of hockey) being pro-gay-yay. Taken by the Sea is Sidney/OMC, long, wonderful and I love it with a passion of a thousand burning suns.
Sidney Crosby (1987)
Jonathan Toews (1988)
So the way I understand it is, when Brilliant Hockey Players turn 11 they get a Hockwarts letter and are taken from their homes and families and put into a rink where they play hockey and never socialize with anyone ever until they are 30 and then they retire. Idk, I'm new to this fandom but it seems factual enough.
Seriously though, Sidney Crosby is the Captain, youngest ever, of the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins. This is genuinely a thing he made to show people how awesome hockey is:
Here, have some tissues, I'll wait.
I could give you the numbers and names of stuff he's won, but honestly, I still have no idea what they all mean, just, he's currently the best hockey player in the world (objectively) and has won everything that can be won and Gretzky thinks he's the new Gretzky.
He also has to spend a lot of time explaining to people why he isn't happy enough when he scores which has led to people calling him a robot. Well, that and the fact that he apparently doesn't get how people function. I've heard this often but the only proof of this is one gif of Toews hugging him and him being all "what is this touching thing you're doing I've never heard of it before."
No, really, look at how incredibly comfortable he is with human contact.
Right, and they're both Canadian, but not in the same team, so they only play together in Canada.
He is freakishly superstitious. He has a cup he's been wearing since forever and they have to fix it because he doesn't want a new one. I pitty the fool who does that. .
Vidspam of him. You should probably put some creme on your face or you'll be stuck in cringe mode forever.
And this video, OMG, collection of awesome :)
Jonathan Toews is like a light version of Sidney. And by light I mean he's the third youngest Captain ever (second to win Stanley cup, guess who's the youngest ever) has also won everything there is to win and is considered mostly responsible for dragging the Chicago Blackhaws out of the pit they've been living in for 40 years with his slash buddy Patrick Kane who is a shitty human being (I'm not kidding about that part, fans will say it with love, I don't). He is called Captain Serious, because that's just how much fun he has in life.
He has a bit of a crush on Sidney.
They are both VERY competitive, but I think Toews wins this one actually. He did check a kid after all, that's some commitment.
He has no idea who Patricia Arquette is and other incredibly awkward stuff in that interview. His humor is like Sahara only even termites can't live in it. I approve.
Your main pairing there is Toews/Kane so have their seriously amazing primer but don't forget that Kane is a shitty person. Well, there's some hope for him but, idk, he did some things I'm not willing to forgive, whatever. This isn't a post about him.
Sidney gets slashed with Evgenij Malkin mostly, and that's good because Geno is apparently his only friend.
I, in a complete switch from my usual "opposites attract" preferences, am shipping these two like Voyager.
The thing is, you know how fanon is, it has a life of it's own, but with these guys, there's not much canon do disprove it. Just look at that first advert with Sidney. That's what their lives were, and are. How much social growth do you get spending your whole life basically in a frat in which you are the best and you know it but you also have all the responsibility?
(Ah, one tiny detail. NHL did a pro-LGBTQ campaign. Yep.)
And, if you find anything about Sidney even a bit interesting, I have a fic that you might love if you like domestic schmoop and can also handle the surrealism of everyone in the world (of hockey) being pro-gay-yay. Taken by the Sea is Sidney/OMC, long, wonderful and I love it with a passion of a thousand burning suns.
