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#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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Re: All Access - Quest for the Stanley Cup

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
If I hear "fucking right" one more time I'll lose my mind.

Re: Eyebrow Bracket - Round 1!

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Same here. I had to go search some other pics to get to a decision.

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
http://theladyscribe.dreamwidth.org/386360.html

I like the format for this - screened prompts for a week, then three weeks to write and post fills. And then everything revealed at once.

Re: All Access - Quest for the Stanley Cup

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
The fact that the Lightning give a camo vest to their player of the game is amusing me. I guess for a team loaded with Europeans they sure have learned to embrace Florida redneck culture.

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
DA the format sounds a good idea and it could be fun in that respect.

I'm not such a fan of the prompting rules. I think it's going to end up mostly with Sid fic.

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Why do you think the prompting rules are going to result in mostly Sid fic?

Hockey Media

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
In the news

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
My reaction to that also

Re: Hockey Media

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
https://twitter.com/NHL/status/734037373701459968

NHL fueling werehorse Nyquist theories.

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it will mostly result in Sid fic because it's a Pens exchange where you can write Sid fic. Pens fandom is kinda into Sid. News at 11.

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
So what "not a fan of the prompting rules" really means is "I wish the mods would have banned Sid-related prompts."

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Ayrt- I think it's cutting out a lot of interesting stuff like Hagelin/Zuckerello or Geno/Ovi play-off angst, and I think once you cut out those kinds of stories you end up with a more limited range of options. Sid is probably already the most ficced Penguin so I think you are going to end up with Sid/Sullivan Sid/Sheary Sid/A N Other.

I think an exchange that excludes Sid altogether would get more varied prompts.

But I'm not that much of a Pens person, perhaps there are loads of story ideas for the people I know nothing about.

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
ayrt

I was a na and have no opinion on the rules, will not be participating as a writer or reader, etc. I think the original person complaining about the rules leading to a lot of Sid fic was being silly, because it's a given that there will be a lot of Sid fic in any hockey rpf fic event allowing Sid fic.

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Just looking at what's been posted in the tag in the last month, less than half of the Pens fics have Sid in the main pairing, I think.

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
there are loads of story ideas for the people I know nothing about

That seems like the point of the fest, and the target audience is people who know and care about these people. Not to say that there won't be a lot of Sid-related stuff, but it sounds like your issue is just that the fest's interests are fundamentally different from yours. Prompt rules that allow pairings like Hagelin/Zuccarello and Geno/Ovi -- i.e., rarepairs with non-Pens players -- seem like they would be more likely to result in a glut of Sid fic, because people would prompt a ton of Sid rarepairs like Sid/Nate, Sid/Claude (does that qualify as rare anymore), a million other Sid-pairings that people have occasionally made noise about..

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
ayrt

Sorry, I didn't realize you were a NA. I totally agree with you about finding the complaint silly, and I responded like I did because I thought you were doubling down on that. So I stand by my comment, but it's not directed at you. I'm with you, as someone who also won't be participating as a writer or reader and with no opinion on the rules.

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
da

Agreed. It seems pretty clear that the point of the fest is for the Pens specifically, not fic about players in other contexts who happen to have played for the Pens at some point. It's fine to want those things, just not in this particular event.

Game Day Thread May 21, 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
NHL
7:15 pm EDT St. Louis @ San Jose, game 4, St. Louis up 2-1

AHL
7 pm EDT Toronto @ Hershey, game 2, Hershey up 1-0
8 pm PDT Lake Erie @ Ontario, game 1

ECHL
7:35 pm EDT South Carolina @ Wheeling, game 5, series tied
7:05 pm CDT Fort Wayne @ Allen, game 4, Allen up 2-1

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
ayrt

Yeah, I mean, I, too, would ~love if all fests had rules that people couldn't prompt or write things that I don't care for, but alas, for some reason people tend to organize fests around the interests of their communities/fanbases and not my particular preferences!

(I think the rules do actually allow for any former Pens players, but Zuccarello and Ovi are not those.)

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
AYRT - Yes, I do understand it being set up that way to cut out the Sid related cross team fic, and I get why they would want to do that to keep a tighter Pens focus.

But you could prompt Taylor Crosby/Amanda Kessel under those rules though,(which would be interesting) and it just seems a bit odd that you can do that but not some of the other ships that would result in interesting stories.

I guess we see what comes out when the prompts are revealed, and then what gets filled.

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
ayrt

it just seems a bit odd that you can do that but not some of the other ships that would result in interesting stories.

Why? It's a Pens fest created by a Pens fan for Pens fans. Why should such a fest ban the Pens' most popular player and allow non-Pens player just so the fic will be more interesting to someone who is self-described as not much of a Pens person? I bet theladyscribe would love to see Taylor Crosby/Amanda Kessel fic.

Re: Game Day Thread May 21, 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
That should be San Jose up 2-1.

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
SA and I do actually like Sid.

Re: Game Day Thread May 21, 2016

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I saw this comment on flatmeme and for some reason I thought you were talking about today's game rather than the series, and I almost had a heart attack -- like, what, already?!

Re: Bangs, fests, exchanges etc - Pens Rarepair Fest

(Anonymous) 2016-05-21 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
da

I don't know why you think it's odd that their preferences are not your preferences or that they would choose a tighter focus rather than a looser focus. There's an entire exchange just for Sid/Geno - do you think it's odd that the exchange excludes Hagelin/Kessel, even though Hagelin/Kessel could result in interesting stories? "Would result in interesting stories" is not the only metric for choosing how to set up a fest.