Tragic....

[olivermoss]

* I realized that the fictional hockey team name in this original fic would not work. Klickitat Cats is an amazing sounding name, a Portland reference and a cryptid reference. But the street/region name comes from a local tribe and no way would a Portland team would overlook that and use the name that way unless they were themselves Klickitat.

Poly-b-us would be an amazing pun name for a local team, but the amount of Portland brain rot you'd need to fully get it is too much. Like, a team would use the name but the layers would be lost on readers. (Could use it as a one-off background joke, though. Also, Oregon is the Beaver State so I'm surprised none of our IRL recc league teams haven't snagged Beaver Skate)

* Guess who walked 2.6 miles for a PDXWLF exhibit that turned out to not be there? Yup, that's our PDXWLF. I think I am going to hit one more location, one that I am hopeful for, and call it good for this year.

* Heated Rivalry related link - This is a really good breakdown as to how Shane and Ilya being in the same division effects them and the story.

Comments

[mistressofmuses]

Oh, that name rolls off the tongue so perfectly! But boo, yeah, I can see why it wouldn't work, alas.

Poly-b-us has LAYERS. But yeah... not sure how many people would catch them.

Bummer about having to walk to a nonexistent exhibit! Sounds par for the course, but...

[olivermoss]

I have eventually come up with new names. It took forever, but placeholders weren't working. I needed the flavor of the team names. And honestly, what I came up with has some interesting thematic stuff.

[mistressofmuses]

I'm glad you found names that work!