dekedangle_rpfanon | #24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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I agree and can I add another pretty common trope I really hate? This whole "it was so obvious that you two should be hooking up/are made for each other that we bet on it" thing. No. It's tired in romcom stuff and in more dramatic writing it just cheapens any struggle that was had.

lol, sorry to hijack your thread, OP! But I just hate both of these so much and they often seem to come in pairs, idk. Some romcom tropes need to be retired.

iirc Shea Weber basically came to camp one year, said "I'm a dad yay" and at least some people's reaction went something like "Who the hell is the *mom*?"

Yah but it's Nashville.

Also, he was the mom. Suter's baby duh.

ayrt

I have to agree on the Nashville thing.

Totally here for mpregnant Shea Weber. And now I want Fisherwoods/Weber where it starts out as parenting help and goes ot3 eventually. I can't remember if that matches up to their RL kids' ages, though.

Bonus points for Suter maintaining some kind of relationship with the kid (skype dates, summer visitation, whatever possible).

Now I think that should be a drinking game (pick a fairly random selection of short fics that look tropey, drink whenever either betting pools or shovel talks happen. Extra drink required if they co-exist in the same story. Or something, idk.)

I feel like you'd get very drunk, especially if you picked stories from around 2013 onward lol!

Right there with you.

And to piggyback, the thing where the character's friends decide they need to get out / need to date more, and so they take the character out and set them up on dates against their will. No. If I had friends that tried that on me more than once, they would not be my friends anymore.

Well, in hockey that kind of relationship is more convincing than it is in a lot of fandoms, as they have very... hothouse lives, I guess, constantly in each other's space, as well as being on the whole pretty rowdy. I could well believe that hockey players would be aggressive in hooking up a friend, or that they'd run a betting pool. (Although with the whole Fine Master thing it seems more likely the new couple would have to pay out.)

ayrt

That is fair. I think it's one of those things where I just never am going to enjoy reading it, however realistic it is, because I find it stressful. :\

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/nhl/red-wings/2015/12/12/detroit-red-wings-dylan-larkin/77238366/

Not really new "news", but I remember an anon saying in this post or the last that they wished they knew more about Dylan Larkin, and I think this gives a pretty comprehensive view of his development track. Highlights include a picture of small child!Larkin and an anecdote about toddler!Larkin crying until his father got some real skates on his feet because he wanted to join his brother for some road hockey.

Did I find this article because something in a fic clashed with what I thought I knew about Dylan? ... Possibly.

I was right.

Now I want to read this in a scenario where the other players just think they're being good buddies hooking up a bro right up until the guy literally screams at them. Or hits them in actual anger. Or starts actively refusing to go out with the boys. Or all of this in escalation, possibly ending in the dude coming out as gay or asexual in a fit of anger. And the hockey bros still not butting out and offering to hook him up with this gay guy they know instead.

ayrt

Well, I guess it's also true that many authors who write this kind of thing aren't thinking "Hm, these characters are forced together a lot of the time and highly physical, perhaps it might be appropriate for one of them to be a bit aggressive here?" They're just writing the trope without much thought.

I'd be interested in a fic with a lot of betting rings, maybe played for farce, with characters all trying to manipulate events. It would work fine as gen, too.

Part of why it sounds more plausible to me in hockey is because you can't just find new friends - at least, you can cut down on team interaction, but cutting them out entirely is going to get you labeled locker room cancer and could very well damage your career. Someone probably isn't going to do that for the relatively minor issue of "helpful" teammates, even if it's irritating as fuck.

Hey, I really think there's more than one of us here. Two! Possibly even 2.5, when you consider people who have the Nats as their NL team and are more AL fans.

The offense, Harper excepted, was pretty dead that whole series, despite being much better on paper. I think some of it had to do with the scheduling - both WC teams made it to the World Series, and a lot of teams that clenched early were eliminated early because they basically iced the teams for several days prior to the playoffs starting, which after clenching early meant they hadn't played any real baseball in a couple of weeks, and had had a scrimmage the day before where it was clear they were already rusty. I think a lot of other teams fell to a similar fate.

Some of it was the Giants knowing how to play in the post-season, whereas the Nats had one pretty spectacularly bad post season series (oh, let's not talk about Game 5 of NLDS 2015) in their (non-Expos) franchise history, and some of it was poor bullpen management from a manager who was, surprise, fired the next year for ludicrously bad bullpen management.

So, a mix of shitty things and the only thing I can remember other than that 19-inning game was Harper trying to hit it out of the park in SF. Oh, and taking creep shots of Tim Lincecum sitting in the visitors' bullpen for a friend. He spits constantly even for a ball player.

DA

...I'd read this

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I think I know who that friend was, and also I think I am meme's only Giants fan. ;)

/nonny from fantasy last winter

I ... didn't do fantasy last winter, so I'm not sure who you're thinking of. The friend is no longer in hockey (or any AFAIK) fandom, so maybe we're thinking of the same person. I can code their user name in baseball stats if that helps, lol.

Lol, sorry! There really are multiple Nats fans on meme. :D

That reminds me, didn't he hit it out of the park? At least, it feels like he hit approx. 50+ homeruns off Strickland. Maybe that wasn't at SF though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5DQvctE4m0
That he did. He kept trying (and not succeeding, but at least trying) after that.

+1
It's going to be my new explanation for Carter's CBJ sulk. They were just trying to help!

SA

It probably is the same person, though, if she has a new superstar fave in hockey who you likely hate.

It was a good article. I guess baby Larkin really wanted to skate.

I wonder if Geno is a little sad that he wasn't born in Russia. I'm sure he likes the reason he had to be born here but still.

Someone else can chime in but I think there was an article that said no matter what the baby was going to be born here.

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