@patrichornkissed THANK you for this WONDERFUL THOUGHT JOURNEY!!! under a cut

who came out first -- matty came out to brady first but brady came out to their parents + young sister first. matty came out to their extended family first but brady came out to all their shared friends first. it absolutely was the most headass competition after that initial fear when brady came out to matty, a couple months after matty came out to her.

not to eldest-daughter code matty but sometimes u set an example for your younger siblings and the things that brady had been wrestling with that felt too big and too much suddenly felt accessible and manageable. once she reconciled that with herself, she came out to matty, and the two of them engaged in the world's stupidest game of one-up-womanship. this caused so many problems in their personal life and they loved every minute of the chaos.

did quinn and brady get married immediately -- SORT OF. they get married when quinn graduates college. childhood sweethearts, broke up in college when quinn went to umich and brady went to a state school. and yk how it goes with teenagers going to college they're like, this CANNOT work bc now we are ADULTS in COLLEGE, we need to SEE OTHER PEOPLE because young love ISN'T REAL, and then brady makes it through one year of college and goes this SUCKS!!! academically and emotionally, drops out after one year. spends a year bouncing around trying to make her life work without quinn and having an low-stakes but meaningless fling with timmy from her beer league team. and her life DOES NOT MAKE SENSE without quinn. so in quinn's junior year she comes back to quinn and is like hello. you are the love of my life. i want to be with you forever. and quinn has been in a strange little polycule with various swedes and americans and he's like ...yeah. no. i miss you too. this is great but it's not right.

and then they're together for the rest of their lives, hanging out and doing whatever. getting married literally like two months after quinn graduates. they spent about five minutes trying to plan a wedding and get bored and annoyed and then handed it off to brady's mom, who has a blast bc she has realized that matty is at least twenty to thirty years off of being functional enough to get married and brady is going to be way less fussy.

important wedding notes because i am an incurable romantic when it comes to parties:

takes place at some random lake in michigan, no one really cares about the ceremony except parents and grandparents, the reception is in a big banquet hall but the afterparty is in a barn, matty and timmy hook up in a random shed, it's magical, everyone has a GREAT time, including matty, up until she hooks up with timmy

elias and brock and thatcher are there, deeply involved in day of wedding prep and making sure everything goes according to plan and they're so helpful and so competent, and no cishet family member realizes they're quinn's ex-polycule for a solid six hours, like until WELL into reception, at which point it's too late for anyone to say anything

the tkachuk sisters are brady's bridesmaids, the hughes bros are quinn's best men. obvi. the hughes bros are the ones crying during brady's deeply stupid vows though

quinn wears a suit and he looks so handsome. brady wears a dress but the hemline is literally mid-thigh and it has no sleeves. she is a bombshell ofc

brady and quinn's first dance is to "suga suga" by baby bash. the closing song in the afterparty (post-reception) is "moment's silence (common tongue)" by hozier which brady picked and quinn didn't look at the lyrics beforehand. and is thankfully too drunk to notice, but luke and taryn do and they're both so stressed out by their older siblings having oral sex that they leave immediately with matty beniers, and josh norris to go sober up in a denny's at like 2am lol.

sorry i know you are anti-marriage, but i love to think about queer weddings bc the only lesbian wedding i've been to was so clean and heterosexual that it makes me actively sad to think about lmao. brady and quinn's wedding is like...bro queer

does matty ever get her shit together -- like. a dozen years in the future after her final trainwreck relationship with leon. it takes a lot of therapy bc while she came out first to brady, she never really felt safe or comfortable as herself around anyone BUT brady. and obvi brady cannot be there every moment of her life. and part of the reason every relationship she's in ends up being kind of a wreck because she hates herself so much but covers it up with so much bravado and big energy and zero honesty or emotional intimacy. like u cannot be inauthentic in a relationship and expect it to work out yk?? but then she meets sasha (i changed my mind, they use any pronouns) who is like ok. i am willing to try this. i am very attracted to you and i could fall in love with you easily. but you NEED to figure your shit out if you want this to work in the long term.

and no one has ever made that kind commitment to matty, so she tries her hardest to reconcile the parts of herself that are ugly and cruel to herself, and turn it into love. and it takes like. over a decade. because she's also a corporate lawyer. but she finally gets there in the end 😭

sasha is quite happy to live in sin for several years lol he grows heirloom vegetables and works on a farm doing most of their farmstand and farmer's market stuff bc they are gentle and kind, but she's also like yeah now that i'm dating someone in corporate law, i do not have to worry that much. so he waits for matty to get right with herself, and she raises some heirloom chickens that matty does his therapy homework with. a fun (???) digression

thank you for asking!!!!! i love them 😭😭😭

Hi your “butch transfem Brady and useless self hating lesbian Matty” tag on that rule 63 post. has activated something in me. I’m having visions.

Butch transfem Brady has my whole heart!! And exists in like 4 different asks and in various tags and I do NOT remember if she ever got a tag but talahu'i patrichornkissed did clock my perfect woman as just butch and good with kids after I posted enough about butch transfem Brady. Which is true. Nevertheless we carry on. I said I didn't wish to read about heterosexuals in my hockey fanfiction but that's a lie I'd read t4t any day. Butch transfem Brady's trans boyf Quinn, obviously childhood sweethearts who were each other's first everything including coming out, broke up briefly in college, realized that sucked and got back together, will be in love forever. Rolling with the punches and hanging out with craft beer forEVER.

Useless self-hating lesbian Matty hooks up with Brady's ex-something Timmy (girl) at Brady and Quinn's wedding, suffers immediate insane guilt even Brady is like literally getting married, Timmy's like wow...you're cringe as hell...I know who you would be perfect for...introduces her to Leon (sarcastic and lonely lesbian). they proceed to have the most trainwreck lesbian relationship of all time like NEVER involve anyone in what you're doing levels of toxic but obviously everyone is involved bc they are both so magnetic and undeniable. Eventually they finally call it quits to relief of Connor (exhausted gay bestie) and Matty meets Sasha (woman) bc Matty's law firm is doing idk a service project thing where they pull out invasive grass at a county park or something (I have this deeply held secret belief that Sasha has the face of a heirloom vegetable farner you would fall catastrophically in love with at the farmer's market so everything I write with Sasha involves plants)....and HEA etc

i'm sighing (wistful) over transfem brady reading stone butch blues. oh doll. im also just sighing (lustful) over transfem brady in general shes so dreamy

Transfem Brady has my whole entire heart!!! She is so big and so loud and so full of love and so confident AND!! So hot. Refusing to wear her glasses except under duress bc she thinks they make her look like a nerd (no.) Wearing a beat up leather jacket she stole from a thrift store as a teen, not because she couldn't afford it but bc she wanted to see if she could get away with it. Boot cut jeans, huge ass. Round nose. Very very short curly hair. Love her dumbass boyfriend (Quinn) so much. About to propose outside a hockey stadium in the snow after a game to his total mortification (he says yes). She's perfect.