#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Olympic qualification tournaments

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the reminder! Seems a bit early to have the qualification tournament in 2016 for the 2018 Olympics...

Re: Olympic qualification tournaments

[(Anonymous)]

I would pay good money to go to a game where the least possible name variation occurs.

Re: Writer Support

[(Anonymous)]

There used to be a beta list for the fandom, but it was maintained by someone who became a bit persona non grata around here, and it's now locked or closed or something.

Re: Olympic qualification tournaments

[(Anonymous)]

In a sense it's late. Most teams have already qualified. These are just those fighting over the last few spots/not to be relegated.

Re: Olympic qualification tournaments

[(Anonymous)]

One of the guys on my team is playing in this and also the World Cup for Team Europe, and I am so worried as to what that is going to do to his season. It seems like an awful lot of hockey before the season even starts.

Re: Fic Discussion - glass half-empty

[(Anonymous)]

That's a pretty broad brush you're painting with. In my family, saying grace would be considered very ostentatiously religious. We usually only do it on big holidays.

Re: Rare Pairs

[(Anonymous)]

I just realized that #___sexRoomies can now be a thing for every team. Except the poor Wild I guess.

Re: What's up with Your Team: It's August Edition

[(Anonymous)]

So glad I'm not the only one who hates those.

Re: What's up with Your Team: It's August Edition

[(Anonymous)]

They're AWFUL and everyone was freaking out over them to the point where you couldn't say it really.

Re: Fic Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

While it is questionable that the author put this amount of thought into it, the schools in the area seem to go from late August or early September to the end of June or so, while the Bulldog's schedule has their last game of the regular season as the 19th of March. While the playoffs last longer, they still only went to late May this year, and Hamilton did not make the playoffs last year (could do a bit of digging into team quality and management group to see future prospects, but not really feeling like it right now). Weekend visits are entirely possible.

That said, I read that story and time frame wasn't really specified, and I got that impression too because I didn't actually put any thought into it at the time so you're still pretty much correct (unless you take home to mean "in the general vicinity," in which case, the Steelheads arena is apparently only like 20 minutes from the neighborhood he's from, and they play each other 2-3 times a year, but that's not really what we're talking about).

Re: Fic Discussion - glass half-empty

[(Anonymous)]

Is it just me or is this showing up as only one author now?

Anyways, I really liked this. I kind of wanted a bit of a resolution to their relationship other than Claude realizing he loves him and then not saying anything? But I usually can't read Crosby fic and I read/enjoyed this one.

Re: Writer Support

[(Anonymous)]

It was svmadelyn, but IIRC it was super outdated anyway.

Re: Olympic qualification tournaments

[(Anonymous)]

Draisaitl?

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I want v v badly to ask you questions. However I suspect you are a BC nonnie not a wolverine nonnie so you prob wouldn't have the answers.

August AO3 stats

[(Anonymous)]

ITT

Re: August AO3 stats

[(Anonymous)]

*bump*

Re: Fic Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

WTF is a mod party?? Google is not providing answers that make sense unless Austin Powers is popular again.

Re: Fic Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Lol the mods/"modular apartments" are housing for seniors on BC campus. They are disgusting, were put up as temporary housing in the 70s and have never been removed because everyone inexplicably loves them.

Re: August AO3 stats

[(Anonymous)]

This was a slow, slow month at the archive of our own. We had a total of 107 fics (vs 186 last month, 155 in August 2015). Biggest ship by far was K/T with 19 fics (out of 20 Hawks fics total). There were only 3 Sid/Geno fics, but that was out of 15 Pens fics total, so the Pens rarepair parade continues.

Top ships:
K/T (23 in July / 19 in August)
Gallys (5 / 5)
Benn/Seguin (9 / 5)
Marner/Strome (4 / 5)
Pairings with 3 each: Sid/Geno, Crosby/Giroux, Eichel/McDavid, Crosbycest

Top teams:
Hawks (35 / 20)
crossteam (24 / 16)
Pens (26 / 15 )
draft class 2015 (13 / 10)

Teams with no fic: Blues, Bolts, Canes, Ducks, Jets, Kings, Leafs, Rangers, Sens, Sharks

Usual restrictions apply: Fics completed this month, >1k. Crossteam ships count only in the crossteam category – ie, McEichel doesn’t count for Oilers or Sabres.

Re: Fic Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

Oh God, we had something similar at my school. Temporary housing from the 70s and 80s, all the seniors lived there, and they were gross as hell. But good parties when you were underage.

Re: August AO3 stats

[(Anonymous)]

And now for the monthly recs thread: What was your favorite fic completed this month?

Re: Fic Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt
The mods have the extra benefit of basically being a glorified trailer park that you pay 10k+ per year to live in- http://bcgavel.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/mods.jpg
but yeah good parties if you're underage or if your friends live there. Being Tired of the Mods is definitely a thing and I laughed a little when that popped up in that fic.

Re: Fic Discussion

[(Anonymous)]

aayrt

Thank you!! Also omg the shitty ass places you live in college/right after you're out of college. I miss many thing about that life. That's not one.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

you know, i specifically delayed this vent in an attempt to obscure my school, but now i'm incredibly insulted by that insinuation.

//this is at least half joking

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I'm too lazy to look past the first page of AO3. So nonnie. If you aren't a BC nonnie I sincerely hope you're a gopher nonnie and this is all about your life as best friends with Best Kessel. Ski-u-mah.