#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

TBH since the Pens got into the finals I've been rereading all the old S/G fic I first read in 2012, when I was getting into the fandom. Lots of tropes, concussion angst, lockout angst, Sid's dad is an ass angst, etc but it's just nice to reread old faves and get nostalgic lol. The old thehoyden/oflights/HK/etc days. It's been fun.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I've been rereading old stuff from my bookmarks, too. The Suck Fairy has visited some of it (like I'm a lot pickier about how Geno's written now, and some of the dialogue in early Sid/Geno is unreadable to me), but there's a whole lot in there I loved and have enjoyed revisiting.

I've even read some of the things that I didn't like well enough to bookmark the first time, only to go yep, there was a reason I didn't bookmark this before!

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

yep, there was a reason I didn't bookmark this before!

lol that happens to me quite a lot when I'm rereading. I'm like "why did I bookmark so few x/y fics?!" and then go to the tag, read them and remember.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Did the fandom always have problems with non-endings? I feel like it did, but I don't want to take the time to go back and see.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't noticed that as a problem with the older stuff I've been reading, but a) I've mostly been reading the good stuff, so not a representative sample, and b) I've tended more towards the high concept stuff with an actual plot or a clear emotional arc, and those are probably easier to write endings for.

Going off my extremely shaky memory, though, I don't feel like I've ever run across the non-ending issue as much with Sid/Geno as with other pairings I've read. Like maybe it's not a habit Sid/Geno people picked up on as much? Or it could just be that I don't remember, which is also very possible.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that makes sense re: sample and perhaps pairing-specific quirks. Like, I don't think the pairing has as much of 'broning' as a trope, which is rapidly becoming my least favorite thing in hockey fic. It's like two dudes punching each other in the arm and then making out, which, for whatever reason is really starting to grate, like, give me emotional arc and vulnerability and show me why they're friends/in love. FWIW, I really liked the Shattenkirk/Tarasenko fic for this reason.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's the pairing or the trope, tbh. K/T fic was et up with broning back when I used to read it, but it also benefitted from the same influx of migratory slash fan (semi-)BNFs and decent-to-good writers that S/G had, and even the fics where the vast majority of the point was punching and making out managed to also have some kind of relationship progression and a conflict that got resolved.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

da

Actually I was going to say I remembered non-endings being a lot more of a problem with K/T than with S/G, but maybe it was a more recent development?

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if it always plagued this fandom, but I definitely feel like this isn't the only one right now. In general there tends to be this trend towards happy fic which lacks conflict and then the authors don't know how to resolve what's basically nothing so it just ends. Like, at least I've come across this in mcu and sw fic, too.