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#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Hopes, wishes and dreams for 16/17

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
1) Quick is not a hot mess in goal the way he was in the playoffs and at the end of the season, and that the coaching staff decides against playing him 65+ games in the regular season

2) Dustin Brown has a rebound season where he at least does okay

3) Toffoli and Pearson get reasonable contracts

4) Gravel and maybe Mersch and Forbort get actual, legitimate shots at playing this year and that Sutter doesn't fall back into "let's blame the rookies for everything" mode

5) Brown or Gaborik get traded

6) Michael Latta decides to become best bros with someone who is not Drew Doughty

7) this one is kind of a longshot, but whatever - Anze Kopitar finishes top 10 in points

Re: Hopes, wishes and dreams for 16/17

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
PK Subban for Hart!!!

Re: Hopes, wishes and dreams for 16/17

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
This phrase "Chicago culture" just seems SO unfortunate to me given what's actually happened with the Hawks in the last year. Kane, Shaw, that one prospect's revenge porn - that's the culture you want? Really really? Then screw you, buddy.

(frozen comment) Re: Fic Discussion- puttin' on my shades (to cover up my eyes)

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
She puts McDavid/Ekblad in fic a lot, and it all feels very unearned in the writing

Re: Hopes, wishes and dreams for 16/17

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks, I just spit water laughing at the idea he's going to win anything at the NHL awards ever again.

Re: Hopes, wishes and dreams for 16/17

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
ayrt

I HAVE FAITH AND NAIVETE IN EQUAL, DANGEROUS AMOUNTS

Re: Fic Discussion - one foot in the golden life

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. This is the secret marriage fic of my dreams. I love it.

(frozen comment) Re: Fic Discussion- puttin' on my shades (to cover up my eyes)

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
This was my main problem, too. I actually like her writing style quite a bit, and I thought Hall's emotional arc was well done and kept me reading, but for Devils fic to literally not mention anyone other than Adam Henrique who was on the team before 2015 is... frustrating. Andy Greene and Patrik Elias and Cory Schneider and Travis Zajac and the rest of the team are just off somewhere being straight and functional, I guess.

Also, though the notes mention someone giving her Jersey details, her subsequent claim that she didn't listen is truth in advertising. Why do they keep going down the shore in the autumn?? No one is there! And it's an hour+ drive away from where they are! How does someone fall off the boardwalk into the ocean? THERE IS A BEACH IN THE WAY. And that's not even getting into the characterization of various north Jersey cities that made no sense. Hoboken in 2016 is a genuinely hip place full of young people where most of the younger Devils live, not a slum.

(frozen comment) Re: Fic Discussion- puttin' on my shades (to cover up my eyes)

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I think with that ship she tries to pull the same thing she did with Hall/Henrique in this fic, where they're sooooo in looooove and it's an epic romance for the ages but there's never any explanation of why they even like each other in the first place, we're just supposed to accept it as is because she said so.

(frozen comment) Re: Fic Discussion- puttin' on my shades (to cover up my eyes)

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
ayrt

I actually live in Central Jersey right now and was a little weirded out by her Jersey. Look, if you want to put a slum-esque area in your fic set in Jersey, you can use Camden, where one of my friends got stabbed a few years back. I have trouble buying the idea that any rich athlete would even be in a shitty part of Jersey, though, because there are genuinely nice places here, dammit.

Maybe Zajac, Schneider, Greene, and Elias are all just riiiight in the background of every scene, like easter eggs!

No, but the people you mentioned all seem decent enough to not just be like "oh, Hall is scoring, it's okay if he continues to destructively spiral down into depression and alcohol". I have trouble believing that none of them would try and talk to him - Schneider was traded from a Canadian team for too little! They have things in common!

(frozen comment) Re: Fic Discussion- puttin' on my shades (to cover up my eyes)

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
ayrt

Camden would probably also be a little too far away, considering the drive (though it's available for Flyers writers, if they want it!), but there are more appropriate North Jersey cities to malign than Hoboken. Just set it in the non-touristy parts of Newark.

And yeah, Andy Greene in particular feels so "team dad" that I'd like to hope he'd step in before Hall got that bad. Or, more importantly, before the poor ROOKIE got that bad.

(frozen comment) Re: Fic Discussion- puttin' on my shades (to cover up my eyes)

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
DA
I found it even more implausible that the team would allow Hall to drag a rookie with him on that spiral. Like even Henrique in the fic is just like "you have to stop!" and then doesn't do anything. Where are the authority figures???

(frozen comment) Re: Fic Discussion- puttin' on my shades (to cover up my eyes)

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
ayrt

Lol, I said Camden because I figured if she's having them drive an hour plus to the shore, she'd be fine with them going to Camden too. If I was going to make an actual, legit suggestion, I'd say Jersey City could be an option along with certain parts of Newark.

Oh, god, the rookie bits felt so unbelievable to me. Are you telling me all these people are aware that Taylor Hall is in a self-destructive spiral and that he's dragged a rookie into it and they do nothing???

I mean, with the "Everyone's Gay!" tone of the fic, maybe Greene is like, making out with Zajac in the corner and having gay angst or something. (Disclaimer: I would read this fic.)

(frozen comment) Re: Fic Discussion- puttin' on my shades (to cover up my eyes)

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
YOU CAN'T FALL OFF THE BOARDWALK INTO THE OCEAN, maybe you can fall off the boardwalk into a skeezy tattoo parlor.

(frozen comment) Re: Fic Discussion- puttin' on my shades (to cover up my eyes)

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, that seems way more likely. Or into a weird t-shirt shop. Or onto a seagull attempting to eat a pizza crust.

(frozen comment) Re: Fic Discussion- puttin' on my shades (to cover up my eyes)

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
this is my problem with the mcdavid/ekblad she writes. then again, i also feel like mcdavid/ekblad is criminally boring, and there are way more interesting people and dynamics to write for both of them.

though maybe a different writer could get me to like mcdavid/ekblad, i don't know.

(frozen comment) Re: Fic Discussion- puttin' on my shades (to cover up my eyes)

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I classify McDavid/Ekblad with McDavid/Strome as sort of the same kind of ship written by the same sort of people who are way more interested in the GTA crowd and junior hockey than I can ever stomach. I think with Ekblad the ship has a bit more potential but it remains very unrealized.

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I just learned that someone in hockey fandom that I recently became friends with is good friends with gracee and reyton. Friend, make better choices, please.

I don't want to unfollow them but I also don't want to see all that rhetoric that gracee and her crew spew on my dash. What do I do?

(frozen comment) Re: Fic Discussion- puttin' on my shades (to cover up my eyes)

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
i like mcdavid/strome, but i see your point. strome is willing to cry on camera, which helps for me.

with ekblad, part of me is like, why would you write ekblad/mcdavid when you can write ekblad with one of his more interesting teammates? trocheck, for example, given that hilarious interview they did together.

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Block them on xkit?

Re: Fandom Venting

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
You can use Mute on Xkit.

I don't know reyton (probably a good thing) but anyone being friends with gracee makes me want to run to the hills, as in unfollow, blacklist and never look back.

Re: Fic Discussion

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
So, what'd we miss?

Re: Fic Discussion

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
One line of "just testing" iirc

(frozen comment) Re: Fic Discussion- puttin' on my shades (to cover up my eyes)

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, Mikey got his intro fic to fandom earlier in the day, with a fic from Nate's POV.

(frozen comment) Re: Fic Discussion- puttin' on my shades (to cover up my eyes)

(Anonymous) 2016-07-18 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
SA

Mikey's PoV*! It starts off with Nate being drafted.