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#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Fic Discussion - When The Morning Comes.

(Anonymous) 2016-09-17 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
AYRT

IMO, "I can't date you even secretly because hockey" is very hockeybot-ish. It's a classic Sid trope. And then at the end he says the closest he ever got to a relationship was Nate and that's just so pathetic and spacetoaster. The narrative repeated that it was more about hockey than just being closeted, too.

Re: Fic Discussion - When The Morning Comes.

(Anonymous) 2016-09-17 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
AYRT

I can see what you mean, but it didn't come across that way to me. Between his absent-minded mention of "maybe one day with the right person" and the "I can't" it seemed more like he just wasn't in a place emotionally where he could date anyone. Of course his reasons for being closeted and a lot of that whole emotional state stemmed from hockey, but that seems different to me than the more direct "can't date because hockey." But I think what's there supports either reading.

Re: Fic Discussion - When The Morning Comes.

(Anonymous) 2016-09-17 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
AYRT

I can admit I'm sensitive to it because it just comes up so much in other fics. And I'm inclined to think the author would be following that trend.

Re: Fic Discussion - When The Morning Comes.

(Anonymous) 2016-09-17 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Usually when people say "hockeybot" I understand them to mean Sid is bad at feelings, at interpreting other people and their feelings, that kind of thing. Same as "spacetoaster," basically. Putting hockey first is a classic Sid trope, yes, but IMO it really isn't the same thing at all.

Re: Fic Discussion - When The Morning Comes.

(Anonymous) 2016-09-17 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
NA

My understanding of the tropes is that "spacetoaster" refers to Sid's discomfort w/ normal human interaction and/or most social situations (a.k.a. a mechanical space case), whereas "hockeybot" referred to the conception that he has no life outside of hockey (a.k.a. a robot built for hockey and put away in a storage unit when not on the rink). But maybe it's just me?

Re: Fic Discussion - When The Morning Comes.

(Anonymous) 2016-09-17 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
They seem related to me. He doesn't have a relationship because he can't have a life outside of hockey, because hockey comes first.

Re: Fic Discussion - When The Morning Comes.

(Anonymous) 2016-09-17 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh definitely, there's a lot of overlap. I'm just pointing out in this case it's not spacetoaster, in that Sid can't interpret other people/bad at feelings, but does seem to be hockeybot, in that he can't have a life outside of hockey.