#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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This is the twenty-fourth post of Deke Dangle RPF Anon, a community for all your ice hockey anon meme needs.

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Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I dipped a toe into Hamilton fandom briefly then recoiled because people are literally calling other people the KKK. I wish baseball rpf were still more of a thing. I am excited about the crossover stuff for mmrares - the Crosby/Rodgers pairing looks tempting.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

na

Oh that's disappointing about Hamilton. I had that in my back pocket for when I eventually bail out of this fandom.

People must be having fun in fandom SOMEWHERE. Geeks have totally taken over movies and tv, and I should be into it but it's all boring safe cookie cutter shit I can't get my fannish brain excited about. Maybe I'm just old and grumpy.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, this mentional of baseball RPF reminds me:

Thank you so much to all the nonnies recommending angsty baseball fic to me in the last post! I read a few and really liked them. After a while I had to take a break though, it felt a bit "when will happy endings return from the war?" lol

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

There are some happy endings in baseball! Just maybe not in the pairings you're interested in?

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Ahh, no, I meant that I asked specifically for angsty fics and then read the ones that looked angstiest lol. One or two did have happy endings, though, and I liked those, too!

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Yay, I'm glad those worked for you. Baseball rpf really is all about the unhappy ending - heck, most of the newer stuff is still bittersweet. I think it's the nature of baseball, though.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Why would it be truer of baseball than other sports? Honest question - I've never watched any baseball.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Pls link to that post, I wanna read the fic even if I don't understand anything about baseball lol.

I did go through a stage of reading baseball fic a looong, looooooooong time ago, like it feels like ten years ago. Does anyone remember a super long Andy Pettite/Roger Clemens fic (this is a clue that it was a long, long time ago lol)? Where someone got hit in the head and had a coma? And maybe someone cheated on someone else? I remember really liking it even if I had no idea who these people where and what was happening.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

There you go:

http://dekedangle-rpfanon.dreamwidth.org/2917.html?thread=12035429#cmt12035429

I don't understand anything about baseball either (like, I don't know the rules... I still don't), but I still enjoyed these (or the ones I read anyway).

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

NA I noped out of Hamilton once I realized it was literally just a transplant of Les Mis fandom writing modern AUs for American revolutionaries rather than French revolutionaries.

I am tempted to give MCU a try agan, what with Civil War and Apocalypse.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I hate modern AUs with a burning passion and avoided Les Mis despite loving the musical as a teen, so...yeah. Let me guess, Theodosia/Phillip bakery AUs?

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

As uh the former mod of the hamilton-recs tumblr, here are some recs that don't fit that mold: http://hamilton-recs.tumblr.com/.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Hopeless pedant here, but Apocalypse isn't part of the MCU. The X-Men movie franchise is all Fox.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, true. I keep thinking MCU is everything marvel in the comics, but the movies are split up.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Hamilton fandom makes me feel vaguely uncomfortable for reasons I have never been able to articulate properly.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Because they're quick to anger and cry racism and white washing at the drop of a hat. Nevermind that all the founding fathers were white, they're still upset if the show continues on with more white people cast in roles that were originally played by PoC depicting white people (Not replacing the whole cast with white people, but there's natural burnout and moving on to other projects). ??? I just typed it out and I am tired.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

na

I find Hamilton fandom uncomfortable because it depicts Hamilton as manic pixie dream nympho. Which, while I might even find that a convincing characterization for LMM, is not what I got from the musical.

Re person who thinks the fandom gets too mad about the potential of white casting "never mind that the founding fathers were white".....your comment reveals a lot about you, that's all I'm saying.

Also, you're totally missing the spirit of LMM's work, LMM in general, and what he's done (and what he wants to do) for the stage.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I still haven't even listened to Hamilton because I can't bring myself to get into a thing knowing the main character dies stupidly at the end.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

da

I read a few things, but nothing really knocked my socks off. People seemed kinda into feminizing Hamilton, and I get that RL Hamilton was described as somewhat feminine, but I didn't really get that vibe from the musical. As far as actually being an active participant in Hamilton fandom ... that seems like it could be stressful.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

SA
Wow, did I not expect this to turn into wank, but it did. The fandom is currently having issues where a small subset of fans are ship warring Lams vs. Whamilton by calling the Whamilton shippers members of the Klan, pedos, and saying they should be shot. FFA's been tracking it pretty closely. Like, regardless of the historicity of the show, casting politics, or differences in characterization interpretation, I don't really want to engage with that kind of bullshit.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

na

Not going to lie, I really didn't expect to see Hamilton wank on deke when I got back from work. I wouldn't mind if meme wanted to talk more about Hamilton or Star Wars or anything else (maybe an 'not hockey' thread?) because I love the Hamilton soundtrack (and a lot of the fics) but yeah, really wasn't expecting to see the same wank from the fandom here.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

na

I really did not expect to wake up to 100 comments of Hamilton wank, but knowing how deke works, a "not hockey" fandom thread seems like inviting that to happen more often.

(This thread has also reinforced my total lack of desire to ever know anything about either the canon or the fandom.)

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, if I want to talk about other fandoms (Hamilton included), I do that at FFA, and if I want to talk about baseball, I do that on FFA generally and about my team on tumblr, since there's someone on FFA who's an asshole about my team in particular. I do think a 'crossover rpf' thread would be interesting, give that more than one anon wants Crosby/Rodgers and I've been thinking about doing a sin bin fill that's also a crossover.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who follows multiple sports and sports rpf fandoms (like 8 or 9 different ones), I'd love for baseball and some of the other sports rpf fandoms outside of the "big" ones (eg, hockey, football, tennis) to take off and become more active.

I really wish there was some sort of sports rpf fanwork exchange (maybe something like the sports equivalent of spaceswap, which would allow sports rpf/sports-related canons/crossover sports ships), but I don't think one exists.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Is football rpf still big or do I just pretend it isn't because my OTP doesn't have much of a fic presence anymore, and that's why I tend to ignore football rpf nowadays?