#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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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)]

Oh good. Baseball is the other place I hung out until it went almost totally toes-up (though maybe Bryzzo will revive it).

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)]

It's much more slowly paced than hockey - meditative, more focused on duels between hitter and pitcher - and there's like 4 levels (AAA, AA, high A and low A, plus rookie leagues and fall leagues) of minor leagues, so busting into the majors takes longer. I also think the contrast between the minors and the majors is greater than the AHL and the NHL, but that could be bias. IDK, there's some kind of baseball nostalgia/fatalism with it that I don't find in hockey. I imagine I feel about about baseball like Canadians feel about hockey, though.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Someone last thread (maybe it was even you) said something last thread about a lot of baseball rpf writers infusing their stories with a ~mystical~ reverence for the game which I thought was a pretty good description of a lot of baseball rpf fic, especially the older ones.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

da

Baseball fic also tends to have a lot more baseball in it. I think because it's a small fandom, people tend to get into it who are already big fans of the game, versus hockey where some people don't even watch much hockey, because the guys become fandom composite creations.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, agreed. I feel like baseball fic is more about baseball, whereas hockey fic is about hockey players. I would be really surprised by, say, abo baseball fic. (Though I think there was that fic with either ARod or Jeter and tentacles ...)

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

There are a couple of ABO stories, because there's one current writer who pretty much only does fandom tropes/AUs. But yeah, on the whole, the game/sport plays a bigger part.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Who's doing fandom tropes/aus?

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Telesilla? She's been around slash fandom for decades.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, yeah. Tx.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

DA

...does she write BDSM epics like she wrote in SGA? Because I might try baseball for that. I liked her BDSM epics.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. She wrote another Establishment story, and also a vampire one. The latter one still has some baseball but the first one is basically an AU that uses the names and faces, so you don't need to know anything.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, she does, mostly about Tim Lincecum and Buster Posey AFAIK. Think Kylo Ren paired Nate from Generation Kill (in the face) but with the body of like ... a slightly skinnier Crosby. Not my pairing but I can see the appeal.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

da

Oh, Lincecum looks way more like Loki...but with none of the emo of either guy. Think Loki as a happy go lucky stoner.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Huh, he is a little Hiddleston-y in the face, but I think his coloring is closer to Driver's, and they looked more alike when he had long hair. He looks like Hiddleston and Keanu Reeve's baby.

... I accidentally posted this comment on the sin bin and not here. /o\

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

It's only when Hiddleston is dressed as Loki, not most of the time:

https://funsubstance.com/uploads/original/85/85090.jpg

Of course then Lincecum cut his hair and people said he looked like JGL:

https://duckduckgrayduck.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/lincecum-gordon-levitt.jpg

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if it has to do with many baseball teams being older than most hockey teams. Organized baseball has a significant head start on history in the States.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I always feel kind of weird being an American who enjoys sports who has zero nostalgia for baseball. I mean, I have a bit for football and for hockey, but baseball? No. None. I also don't know anyone who played it as a kid. We all played either optimist soccer or pee-wee hockey. Or both.

Though, I mean, I did grow up in the land of the Twins and the Brewers. Does anybody feel nostalgic about the Twins or the Brewers?

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I feel pretty sentimental about Byung Ho Park's ass ... But no. Not really.

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).