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#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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

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Re: Women's Hockey

(Anonymous) 2016-08-02 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
SA, posted mid-train of thought. The CWHL YCP partnership was also before anyone 'major' had come out, iirc. Since then both Labonte and Hefford have, to varying levels of fanfare/publicity, which I do really think helps things along. We'll see, but like I said, I'm cautiously optimistic that some of the 'big name' LGBT players in the NWHL will speak up for YCP video, regardless of whether they actually come out in doing so.

Re: Women's Hockey

(Anonymous) 2016-08-02 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
AYRT

Thanks for the info! It's interesting/strange that things have changed so fast - 2013 wasn't so long ago, but having some "major" people out definitely changes things to a certain extent. I'm not sure that's enough to combat the pressure to be "feminine" enough in women's pro sports, especially wrt sexuality, but I guess we'll see how this project develops.

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-08-02 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Jamie Benn has a lisp? ... Now that I think about it, he kinda does. (/Used to have a really bad one. Doesn't notice.)

Re: Women's Hockey

(Anonymous) 2016-08-02 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I think having a handful of people be out creates a big sea change; it happened with women's soccer - it was huge news when Megan Rapinoe came out in 2012, and now it's like 'grass is green, sky is blue, you're gay, moving on' in a good way. I'd like to think the same thing can happen for hockey, but it'll take a big name player coming out mid-career. So far we've only had league players being out, or players at the ends of their careers (Hefford, Labonte, Cahow).

Re: Women's Hockey

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Considering Ashley Johnson's proposal video is public on youtube, I hope they can find a few players to speak out!

Re: Fic Recs

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Any current WIPs people are enjoying? I'm already reading the Latta/Wilson Bachelor one.

Re: Ask Meme

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
ayrt

hot damn, thank you so much, nonny! I haven't had time to look at all of these, but I'm very much enjoying the ones I've gotten to so far. I had no idea about his first NHL goal! That poor dude, that's an amazing story.

Re: Fic Recs

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
It's not my favoritest thing (not a fan of The Bachelor, and I don't read a lot of Wilson/Latta), but I'm enjoying it more than I expected to, and I really appreciate that that one has pretty regular updates.

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
One day I will stop clicking on James Neal fics out of morbid curiosity.

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Meh. It wasn't bad. Just boring as hell.

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
boring is bad tho

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
If that was true thehoyden wouldn't be as popular as she is.

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably says something about fandom that boring is pretty far down on the bad scale as far as I'm concerned

Re: Fic Discussion - an island entire of itself

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
http://archiveofourown.org/works/7218550
Daemon-having hockey players, written for S/G exchange in June but I only got to it this week. Summary, tags, and premise weren't inspiring, but I gave it a go and enjoyed it.
I liked
- References to penguins history while also including this year's team
- Writing style - not unique but a bit unusual for the pairing's fandom
- Just enough Greek mythology references to rule out coincidence
I didn't like
- Lumpy pacing and inconsistent tone, some awkward words
- Wanted to see more of the main relationship - sort of got why they liked each other, but reader left to suspend disbelief and fill in the blanks
- Geno having a bear. Always with the bear!!

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
It's good for people like me who hate so much drama.

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Especially manufactured drama caused by inexplicable stupidity.

Re: Fic Discussion - an island entire of itself

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww, I like the bear-Geno connection. Bears are so big and inconvenient, I like the complication, and I like that it's different from the usual Fandom-popular animals.

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Nonnie if this were shorter I would use it as the title of my unwritten book. With credit to you obviously :)

Re: Fic Discussion - an island entire of itself

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Except it's so common for Geno! It might be the only animal I've ever seen him connected to. And nobody ever does anything interesting with it - what about hibernation? Does Sid (or somebody) ever have kinky sex with Geno's bear self?

To be fair, I get frustrated with the limits of this fandom's imagination with regards to animal transformation and companion animals anyway. I always things to be weirder and have more actual effect on the character, rather than just "Yay, an animal!"

Re: Fic Recs

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
ayrt

Yeah, same for me - not into Wilson/Latta usually, and I have read a lot of dating show AUs and not liked any of them. I think it helps a lot that the fic is from the POV of the person not on the show, so we get to skip a lot of the day-to-day show stuff. And also I like that it's a canon divergence AU, so there's still hockey.

Re: Fic Discussion - an island entire of itself

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Wasn't there an article or interview or something where someone called him "the Russian Bear?" I've always thought that was where it came from.

Re: Fic Discussion - an island entire of itself

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's not forget his website: http://71malkin.com/

The bear thing isn't a lack of creativity (though I can see being frustrated that it isn't used in interesting ways). It's just kind of a... basic canon fact about Geno.

Re: Fic Discussion - an island entire of itself

(Anonymous) 2016-08-03 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, look at his website. http://www.71malkin.com/

And then when you click the top plus sign, it talks about how he has the "strength of a bear".

Re: Fic Discussion - an island entire of itself

(Anonymous) 2016-08-04 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
The lack of kinky bear sex is always disappointing.


Re: Fic Discussion - an island entire of itself

(Anonymous) 2016-08-04 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Though, it's kind of... Russians and Russia is always characterized as a bear. Much like the US is always characterized as an eagle. So it does have some weird undertones to it.