dekedangle_rpfanon | #26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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AYRT

I think it is somewhat true. I know that a lot of the people I used to talk to just don't seem to be around as much anymore, but it doesn't feel like natural fannish migration to me. I guess because (outside of people who get jobs with teams or something) I don't understand why people can't maintain an interest in both the RPF fandom and the sports one. I think they go together very synergistically.

da

Outside of the rl/fandom divide that's particularly relevant to me, there's just a lot more hockey and a lot less fandom, if that makes sense. Especially given what feels like a slowdown (stats nonnie disproving it or no), I have one or two fics a week that grab my attention, but there's neverending content and discussion elsewhere. And just simultaneously navigating hockey twitter and hockey rpf twitter is realy freaking difficult. It's easier for me to just unfollow the people spamming tweet porn since there are so many other people to talk to who may or may not understand if they see you interact with the fandom people. There's enough of a difference in communal norms to stomp out what may seem pretty synergistic at a glance.

There's not a slowdown in fic; there's a slowdown in good fic.

There just doesn't seem to be the kind of buzz around fic necessary to inspire people. I noticed even the Hockey BB mod is screening comments this year, so I don't have a good sense of who's signed up or how many.

As someone forever salty about how lackadaisical hockeybb mod is about pretty much everything, I don't think they're a good indicator of fannish trends.

It's one less thing to talk about and to get people interested in signing up themselves, though.

The comments on the check in post aren't screened http://hockeybigbang.livejournal.com/52621.html

Ooh, there's quite a number of Pens fics. I can't say any of the summaries super excite me, but I am ready to be persuaded!

Did they just get unscreened? I'm pretty sure they were screened when I checked in.

They unscreened people looking for betas/cheerleaders.

Ah, thanks! That makes sense.

It says they would unscreen posts of everyone looking for a beta/cheerleader, so I assume everything was posted screened and then they went through and unscreened the relevant posts.

So there are presumably more summaries we can't see yet.

AYRT - IDK I just saw there were comments on the post.

I feel like there's definitely been a slowdown in goodfic, even if that isn't really quantifiable. A lot of the Good authors in this fandom primarily write rarepair porn, the long(er) fic they write is also porn. And it's good! I enjoy it. But there's not a whole lot of new feelsy, plotty fic to get people into the players.

Outside of K/T, anyway. No idea how that side is operating nowadays. Probably fine.

There is occasionally new feelsy, plotty fic in K/T (linsky would fit this definition, imo) more so than the rest of fandom, but I think the crap fic is also way crappier on that side of things.

I want to write, but I also want someone to hold my hand and encourage me while I do it, and that doesn't seem very practical or available in this fandom. I wish we had some kind of weekly writer's group or soemthing.

I would be down. I feel like fandom authors were a lot more chatty back when I was just lurking. It's like an entirely different scene now (or lack thereof).

A writer's group like in namespace? That'd be cool. It seems like something you could set up on imzy if you wanted (or DW, but imzy is the cool new toy these days).

AYRT

There's enough of a difference in communal norms to stomp out what may seem pretty synergistic at a glance.

That's not really what I meant. I mean synergistic in the sense that it's half as much reading online and research a person needs to do for twice the use. I get the real life/fandom divide. It just seems like Game of Thrones fans can be really super into Game of Thrones *and* follow basketball or whatever outside fandom interests they have. I'm not sure why hockey rpf and hockey would be more difficult to combine, except, I suppose in a situation like yours where someone is trying to simultaenously do it with the same account.

na

This is how I feel, too. I follow a lot of RL hockey now, but my RPF feels for my team and my RL interests go together, and the RL happenings are what fuels the RPF. RL hockey is the canon, you know?

na

There hasn't been much hockey news, so I'm not talking to people about hockey as much in general. And I'm certainly not deeply involved in non-rpf fandom, but honestly talking to those people (or people who do both) is generally a nicer and less fraught experience, at least off reddit. Also, I've had some bad experiences and there are now people I avoid in rpf (not petty bullshit, and not much to do with hockey, but actually bad; also not anything involving forbidden topics), which also plays into overall fraught-ness.

I feel like it'll be hard to make me not love hockey anymore, so that's there to stay. But my enthusiasm for writing fic is ... much less.

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