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Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

From: (Anonymous)
The amount of interest I have (or would have had) in Paul Martin just went up significantly with that last bit of information. What I wouldn't give for fics where the professional male athletes acted like actual professional male athletes. That was one thing I really enjoyed during my brief visit with baseball RPF.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

From: (Anonymous)
AYRT

I actually agree with you; I would love it if Martin were actually portrayed that way, it would be really interesting. Even combining the team mom/playboy archetypes could be fun; he makes breakfast for last night's hookup and pitiful teammates who can't feed themselves!

But everyone who writes Paul Martin either sanitizes him or uses him as a service top for poor woobified sub Beau Bennett/James Neal, and it especially goes hand in hand with a sweet, innocent portrayal of Beau that makes no sense taken with how he acts on social media. So no thanks, fandom.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

From: (Anonymous)
I feel like I agree with you but would also like to hear more of your thoughts. This fandom writes a fair bit about pro male athletes as bros, but that's mostly the younger players.

And it doesn't seem to deal with extravagant wealth hardly at all, which I can understand, since I think it'd be harder to make characters sympathetic in that context, and also most of us have no experience of what that'd be like. (See: someone writing Geno renting a Camry.)

I'm not sure what the balance is between acknowledging that these guys are hugely talented, hugely competitive, and all have egos the size of the moon, and keeping them sympathetic as characters. It's a tough line to walk.