#mens hockey rpf
So,@rimouskis proposed a 20-years-of-hockey-slash-on-AO3 event based on the post date of this fic, and then I spent a truly atrocious amount of time on the Wayback Machine trying to find content from earlier than that. Enjoy the fruits of my labor thus far.
One of the hubs for the fandom seems to have been thehockey-dreams yahoo group, started November 28th, 2000. An archive was hostedhere, and the group appears to have dissolved somewhere between 2005 and 2005. There was also a hockey fanfiction webring established on May 15th, 2003. I’ve found mentions of a few different message boards, none of them archived - one belonged to Tammy.
Fanfiction.net had a category for sports before they removed RPF from the site, and the earliest archived version of the page shows nearly a dozen hockey fics. Notably, there are several fics from Julie H., who also wrote baseball slash - it’s very possible she wrote hockey slash prior to December 2001 that was lost in the RPF purge. I haven’t been able to find a personal site or someone else hosting her fics (yet !).
The page description for a personal site “Two Minutes for Slashing*” implies that the fandom on FF.net had been fairly robust prior to the September 2002 ban. They also link to the multi-fandom sportsslash group as a substitute for the FF.net community. Sportsslash had their own yahoo groupandarchive, which hosted some hockey fic.
So, what’s the oldest intact fic I’ve been able to find? It’s a bit hard to tell, considering the nature of the Wayback Machine, archives, and the lack of dating on personal sites. That said, here are a few things I’ve managed to definitively date to “earlier than New Years Eve 2001.”
- TwoRed Wings fics by almightychrissy that were posted prior to December 18th, 2001.
- The Toughest Year, a Red Wings fic by fedzgurl, is marked as being written in June 2001.
Less definitively, there is:
- At least one fic from SDQ that was written in 2001. None of the fics are dated, but the disclaimer on the site claims the stories are © 2001, 2002, and 2003.
- The site Valley of the Goons has a number of slash fics and essays uploaded already as of the earliest Wayback capture in March 2002. Since none of them are dated, I have no way of confirming which ones were written when. It seems likely, however, that at least a few were written in 2001 or earlier, considering the site author Kitkat had a hockey webring as far back as February 1999.
- Kitkat’s second site, Starry Starry Night, focuses on the Dallas Stars and hosts two fics written prior to February 2002. The fics in question are Listen to What the Fuzzy SaysandBirthday Tales.
- The author’s note for Life In A Nutshell, posted prior to December 18th 2001, mentions a previous fic written by “Alex,” presumably of the Half Truths and Gorilla Dust site. There is only one fic that isn’t archived on Alex’s slash page (Pride), but I have no way of confirming if it was the fic in question.
* Not to be confused with the Livejournal user 2min4slashing or the community 2mins4slashing.
This was actually really fun to compile - I love going through old personal sites on the Wayback Machine and seeing how fandom used to interact. I’ll likely make more posts like this in the future ! Also, if you had first-hand experience with the hockey slash fandom prior to 2004 or know someone who does, please hit up my ask box!
Bonus:have some vintage “goalies are fuckin weird” fic.
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She sat in one of the chairs in front of the counter in Seth’s kitchen. Seth was at the sink washing vegetables with his back turned to her as she watched his superior backside move as he tossed greens in a strainer. She was happy that she currently didn’t have any sharp object in her hand before getting up out of her seat and walked over to stand next to Seth.
“So are you going to criticize the way I wash vegetables?” He playfully asked.
“More like tell you that it’s rude to have your back turned to someone.” She fired back.
There was a knock on the front door interrupting what she was going to say next, “I’ll get that.” He said putting the bowl in the sink, his heavy footsteps against the hardwood almost sounded like her heart rate rising.
Once Seth opened the door it was like there was a small crowd of people. There were several guys who all had brown to dark brown hair and one guy was blonde as well as a short woman with dark brown hair who was hanging off the arm of the oldest looking guy in the group.
All of the guys looked athletic, as athletic as Seth.
Once everyone was inside they were all giving her a thorough up and down look, but not in a judgmental way.
“Guys this is Y/N,” Seth said before moving to stand next to her.
The woman in the group was the first one to move over to talk to her, she dressed like any other woman who was in her late 20’s, flowing pastel pink skirt and a floral print top that wasn’t an outrageous pattern with nude open toe heels.
She had introduced herself, she was Nick’s wife Janelle. It was kind of strange because she had introduced herself as his wife like she didn’t have a job, she was just a Hockey wife, strange.
Then it went down the line of Seth’s Teammates, there was Zack who was Seth’s D-partner (not that she knew what that was.), Cam the only blonde in the group, Boone and Josh who were kind of attached at the hip and as the night went on she could tell were the closest to Seth, and then Nick who was their team’s captain.
As they sat down to eat, and Seth cooked as the night went on. She had started the evening sitting next to Seth and ended up sitting next to Boone by the time the night was coming to an end at the round dining room table.
“So, Y/N What do you do?” Here we go with the third degree.
“I’m a corporate lawyer at Baker & Hostetler, I’ve been there for about two years.” The mention of her job caused the room to go silent for a moment before Boone moved to put his arm around her chair looking into her eyes.
“So if I’m ever in any kind of trouble I can always count on Seth to give me your number to get me out of a jam.” He said with a flirtatious tone to his voice before feeling his fingers against her shoulder.
She could feel that people were looking at her, she wasn’t sure who so she just looked at Boone before getting up out of her chair and taking her wine glass with her.
“Look here pretty boy, I’m a lot of things but easy isn’t on that list.” She fired at Boone, she widened her own eyes getting up from her chair.
“I’ll be back.” She said with utter panic in her voice. She looked up to see Seth looking at her, his face looked tense as if he were uncomfortable. She turned away from the group making her way to the kitchen that looked out onto the living room. She heard footsteps behind her before reaching for an open bottle of wine.
“Tough crowd,” A voice said.Y/N turned around to see Seth standing there. She let out a deep breath before reaching for the open bottle of wine.
“I’m sorry, I should just go home.” She said setting it down ready to make her escape.
“You don’t need to leave, Boone’s just giving you a hard time. It’s kinda what he does,” Seth said with a shrug to his shoulders.
“And the fact that umm, Josh? Is it, keeps staring at me every time I turn to talk to you.” She said, looking into his amber eyes.
Seth turned out away from the kitchen slightly as she brought up Josh.
“Yeah, umm. Josh and I have been friends since I got here. He’s just looking out for me.” He said.
“Look, I’ll talk to them, tell them to lighten up. I mean the only people who knew you were going to be here were Nick and his wife.” Seth let slip out. That was all he could get out before her mind started going out of control.
“So you just invited me without telling any of your other teammates.” She didn’t make a move to leave but she did look at him. It was one thing for Boone to make her feel uncomfortable in a room of people that she didn’t really know but she could tell that she wasn’t reacting to all of this well.
Seth walked closer to her lightly pushing her up against the counter, pushing himself into her space not caring what it would lead to. He slotted his nose with hers before feeling her breath against his lips.
Part of her wanted to lean in and press her lips to his so much so that she could hear her heart beating in her ears. She just didn’t want to push him into anything, and Seth just stood there. He didn’t move in any closer. He just let his eyes close pressing his forehead against hers.
Part 7
A/N: Sorry for the super long wait, I haven’t had much inspiration for this story since I’ve been in school and the whole COVID things has kind of messed with my writing mojo. Please take this long chapter as an apology!
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Why had she agreed to this? Going to dinner with some guy she didn’t know and showing up early like the overachiever that others at her law firm called her.
When she ran into Seth at the market it was a bit of a shock, she thought she wouldn’t see him again. Columbus wasn’t small by any means but just being in downtown made it seem like it was a small world.
He invited her to dinner with his friends, he must really know how to turn on the charm for girls. Maybe life has some unknown plan for her, yeah her ass-hole of an ex can sure go shove it at this point.
There were more important things than this dinner, like the case files sitting on her kitchen counter. But she couldn’t avoid human interaction just to take more responsibility at work. Money sure wasn’t everything, but that didn’t mean it was worthless as well.
Yet here she was sitting outside of Seth’s apartment building 45 minutes early, he was going to think that she was crazy.
She took in a breath before getting out of the car taking her bag and the bottle of wine, she bought with her. As she walked closer to the front door of the building it was like she couldn’t breathe.
She walked into the building up to the front desk, there was a man sitting there in a black suit with a white dress shirt underneath.
“Can I help you miss?” The guy asked.
“Yes, I’m a friend of Seth Jones’ I’m supposed to be visiting him.”
“Yes, Mr. Jones told me that he would be having a few guests over today. Can I get your name?”
“Y/N Y/L/N,” she replied.
“I’ll call Mr. Jones and then let you right up.” The guy said after checking a piece of paper.
She watched as the guy put the phone up to his ear talking into the receiver.
“First elevator on the right, floor 12.” He said.
“Thank you,” She said.
Walking to the elevator was a short journey, too short, but the ride up to Seth’s apartment seemed that it went on forever.
She got out of the elevator, god even a courtroom wasn’t this stressful, compared to this it was calming.
She got off the elevator to see him standing in the doorway of his apartment, he gave her a smile before saying, “So is there some reason that you’re here early?” causing her to lose her train of thought.
“I just wanted to make sure that you didn’t burn down your kitchen.” Again, with the banter, although this is way more fun than swapping jabs with another lawyer.
“Since when are you concerned about my safety.” He said as he stood in the doorway of his apartment.
“I’m more concerned about your kitchen cabinets, I’ve heard most athletes can’t cook well.”
“Well, let’s hope I can prove you wrong,” he said, extending his hand out silently telling her to come in.
A/N: So a bit of a shorter chapter this time, I already have the next two finished up, I just need to get a beta reader to check them over. I appreciate you all being patient with me as I write this story.
