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

#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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There's a gifset floating around tumblr that says Martin Jones had pride tape on his gloves for game 6 when, in fact, those colors are just Sharks teal and orange. His gloves ALWAYS look like that.

It has 500+ notes. Why has no one fact checked this.

I think I saw someone mention it on meme? I haven't seen the gifset so I just assumed I hadn't noticed.

David Pagnotta said it first so it's got a good source. It's just wrong.

Take a look at @TheFourthPeriod's Tweet: https://twitter.com/TheFourthPeriod/status/742152031041789952?s=09

The person who originally posted that gif set deleted it when she realized, but you can't do anything about reblogs. Do you fact check every gif you post?

I really wish people wouldn't use real life tragedy as fic fodder.

The OP went into coloring those gifs with a pretty heavy bias, too. Like, even after finding a picture of Jones' glove normally, I had to squint pretty hard to unsee the rainbow. And even then it was less unsee and more make out the uncovered Vaughn. It didn't look as obviously fake as, like, a melanistic lion or something.

http://somethingnerdythiswaycomes.tumblr.com/post/145903218113/glovesdropped-angel-martin-jones-with-pride

Yeah, there was something wonky going on with the coloring.

No, I don't fact check everything, but as a Kings fan I do see the Sharks a lot. Without the coloring it doesn't really LOOK like pride tape, either. It's the easiest thing in the world to go "hey, this sounds kind of dubious let me do a cursory search", especially if you're making a gifset/editing something and looking at the source video for a long time.

I don't like the idea that a bunch of people are going to get false hope/ become falsely inspired by something, because then real life can actively let them down and that feeling sucks so much.

For reference, pride tape: http://www.dallasvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/IMG5561.jpg

And Jones' glove: http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/content/kgo/images/cms/1116967_1280x720.jpg

That was the 4th google images result for 'martin jones glove', btw.

I don't know who posted what first but I saw a text post about it too, I think from someone just watching the game (they also took it back) so I would believe that people saw that post or the tweet, and then the altered gifs, and just took them at face value. I had never watched the Sharks before these playoffs and had no idea what his glove looks like normally and I'm sure I wasn't alone. I didn't like or reblog the post becayse I didn't think it looked like pride tape but I'm not faulting east coast or non sharks fans who chose to believe it.

AYRT

Thanks! Thank you Flames TV.

Dave Strader (Stars play by play guy) has cancer. They're not saying anything about what type or the prognosis.

You know you spend too much time in fandom when you read the first two words of this and think, does she mean Dave Strider??

You spend too much time in fandom when you think this is an appropriate response to make to real person having actual cancer.

You spend too much time on fandom if you think some shitty comment on some shitty anon meme matters one iota to a real person out there in the world with cancer.

I'm not sure if Sportsnet geoblocks anything, but the stuff promoted via their twitter worked for me yesterday morning

https://twitter.com/Sportsnet/status/742207701346816000

✧・ﾟ: *✧ being online doesn't mean you're incapable of saying shitty things and free from being judged for it ✧・ﾟ: *✧

It's not even a fandom thing! :)

You clearly forget what fandom this anon space is for, since Strader is one of the most common announcers we talk about here.

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Jesus Fucking Christ, what got put in this place's water last night? Everybody, stop being little dickweeds.

OP who originally vented

Yep, this is what I mean. Certain players are famous for being health nuts (Toews dragging Brad Richards to a smoothie place in Tampa) or junk food addicts (Gaudreau, Neal who can't cook?) but what I really hate is when any of the zillion guys between those extremes are finishing up dinner and doing the want-to-but-I-shouldn't dance about dessert, or similar scenes. It's shitty cultural programming anyway, but specifically feminine in the west, and I feel like I'm watching a yogurt ad or reading a mainstream romance novel, because female guilt over wanting to eat "decadent" food is often subtly tied to guilt over wanting sex but being a good girl. So it doesn't just bug me because it's factually inaccurate, but because it brings in all that baggage.

http://theladyscribe.tumblr.com/post/145870028642/theladyscribe-the-pens-rarepairs-comment-fest

UPDATE: DEADLINE EXTENSION.

Fills deadline has been extended to JUNE 30TH to allow people to come down from the high of WINNING THE STANLEY FUCKING CUP and also the inevitable Sid/Geno meltdown when that exchange goes live later this week.

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Yeah, I'm not a fan of when fic spends a lot of time on what they ate or when they ate it even when there isn't guilty feelings attached, but I especially don't like when having a piece of cake is presented as some huge internal struggle, or they talk about how hard it is to stay on the meal plan or whatever. I don't consider myself somebody with major issues around food but I've realized I don't enjoy it being a big deal in my fandom spaces, and that's probably because of the media pressure stuff you're talking about. It sucks when you feel like you can't escape it.

I see the Sharks a lot. Without the coloring it doesn't really LOOK like pride tape, either. It's the easiest thing in the world to go "hey, this sounds kind of dubious let me do a cursory search", especially if you're making a gifset/editing something and looking at the source video for a long time.

There's your problem. Most people aren't Kings (or Sharks) fans and don't see the Sharks a lot. Most people haven't looked closely at Jones' gloves except in the colored gif set. It's absolutely unsurprising people would think it's true.

It's here on the Pens/NHL website too. He's so happy!!

https://www.nhl.com/penguins/video/malkin-discusses-stanley-cup-win/t-277437428/c-44204703

The west country by Rocky. You?

AYRT

Fair enough, but not fact-checking is so pervasive within the tumblr community that at this point it just annoys the hell out of me. Also, I know the OP deleted it, but I can not for the life of me figure out why they would just take a statement at face value when they had to look at the source video for a prolonged period of time. I mean, it struck me as weird only because pride tape looks nothing like Jones' glove does - it's much brighter and much more colorful.

But whatever, I guess. Tumblr gonna tumblr.

/goes back to agonizing over the Lucic contract drama

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Most guys I know who are really health conscious will give themselves a day where they're like, fuck it, I want ice cream, so they get ice cream. As much ice cream as they want. And they eat it that day. But anything that's left over the next day gets given to their significant other or thrown out, so they don't have two days where they eat a ton of junk. None of that splitting dessert bullshit, unless the dessert in question is an entire cake.

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