dekedangle_rpfanon | #26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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You cut it off when you don't enjoy it and you have something you enjoy more, like leaving any fandom.

That is a good point.

That Animorphs fic did have Eichel stuck as a bird, but none of it was from his POV so we didn't really get him mourning the loss of his thumbs.

I don't read fic about guys who live within a ten mile radius of me because I dislike the thought of, lile, eating pancakes or getting groceries in the same place as dudes I've read about. If I ever got past acquaintanceship anybody in the hockey world I'd probably peace out completely, because of how (figuratively) incestuous the hockey world is and using fic as a form of vicarious living wouldn't be necessary anymore.

This is always my problem, too! What about conservation of mass?! I'm not sure why this bothers me so much, but it does.

Alright, I've done all the research, I know when and where everything needs to happen, the title and summary are down, I am pumped to write this thing!

*opens word doc*

... how the hell do people put words together good? Where was I going with this? What year is it?

You and me both, nonnie. I've been writing and rewriting this first damn sentence all evening!

I don't know if I'd necessarily stop reading all fic if I got to know a player, particularly if they were just a prospect, but it would depend. I certainly wouldn't be able to read about that person. But every time I've tried to set boundaries for myself because of what I thought were too few degrees of separation (geographic proximity to them or their relatives), I inevitably wind up breaking them, so. *shrug* I just make sure I'm not looking at anything incriminating if I'm in a place where they or someone they know is likely to be and my screen is visible to others.

Isn't that the worst?

What works for me is just writing anyway. The first hundred words are always garbage, but the stuff after that is usually usable.

ayrt

Hah, I couldn't even read that fic because I couldn't get over how ill-fitting Eichel was as a Tobias analogue.

ayrt

Part of the problem is that I started writing it awhile ago (and it's all garbáge, oops) before I realized that I actually need to do research, but now that I have all the necessary knowledge, it's like I've lost the pulse of the story. I know writing is the best way to remind myself why I wanted to write it in the first place, but whining is so much easier.

This was so good.

The whining is an important first step!

Yay!

Pretty much. I have a ton of built-up annoyance over this fandom's stupid diet crap, so it's really easy for even the slightest mention to become backbutton-worthy for me either on its own, or because it's early in a fic (since there could very well be a ton more to come), or because I'm already irritated by the fic anyway, or whatever. And it being a joke or a thing where they're like "tee hee, not on my diet plan but imma eat it anyway" doesn't really ameliorate it for me, because it still counts as bringing up diet crap. Also, I know this is super petty, but the "lobster salad with bread" thing was a bit annoying anyway you slice it and ultimately became the straw the broke the camel's back.

NA I agree. I hate any kind of 'oh, aren't I so naughty eating this' shit IRL too so it just annoys me even more to see fic about it.

Thoughts:

1. As always, the author's note is hilarious. "It's not quite an epic", yeah like not at all, but way to overestimate your own writing ability, bruh.
2. The non-linearity kept taking me out of the story. Unnecessary.
3. I do like her characterization of Sid in this more than I usually like her characterization of Sid, so I kudosed. Though the flip side of that is the whininess that annoys me in her writing of him appears to have transferred to Mackinnon.
4. Pure conjecture but "15 minutes late with Sid/Nate" made me think she's annoyed Sid/Claude won out as the inter-Team Canada ship of choice after Worlds 2015.

I know it's like your schtick to do this whenever oflights posts a fic, but this is truly a level of pettiness that I can only aspire to. Bravo. I could never read the fic of an author I hate this much and for so long. Especially 24k words (even though that's not an epic)!

Huh, I never could put up geo-barriers (...because I live in an NHL city and take the rail to games).

Don't get bitter, nonnie, just get better.

I think my favorite bit is #2. "Unnecessary." Calm down, A.O. Scott.

Mine is the bruh. It's a fine bit of dramatic emphasis.

This entire thread including the ensuing sa-ing is ridiculous.

I liked this a lot. Usually nonlinearity bothers me, but as this one was only two narratives spliced together fairly evenly, it worked for me. I liked how mutually nervous they were in the pre-get-together, though some of the stuff with Nate and his family seemed kind of weird. (It kind of reminded me of the stereotypical prom date teasing, if that makes sense?) And the story itself was cute. One of my problems with fandom in general (and this one in particular) is that there are a lot of get-together stories and very few stories that show what it's like when they're actually together, but this one did a good job of illustrating how it all worked once they got there.

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