#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't read it, I just want to know why. Why this. Where is the audience for this?

http://archiveofourown.org/works/7541947

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

I assume the audience is the author and the five people in fandom who care about the Wild. I'm just impressed by how long it is.

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

DA

As the meme's resident Wild anon, I'd only be reading it out of morbid curiosity. (But then, I'm a Wild fan who generally doesn't like bestliars' writing, let alone when it's apparently about the damn beat writer.)

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

*sigh*

I will read it because I love the Wild and there's such a dearth of content for them as a team. Also I enjoy Russo - though I also enjoy imagining his absolutely stank face if he knew how he featured in some Wild fic.

So maybe the answer is - who will read it, all of us who don't have anything else to read. She's not a bad writer, I'd say she's very self-indulgent, but why the fuck would you be anything but self-indulgent in this situation.

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

Her writing style doesn't work for me sometimes so I've only read some of her stuff, but I admire anyone who keeps on keeping on with writing less popular teams and ships. I wish I could buckle down and do the same for my team.

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I read it. And have returned to provide meme with a review.

To quote the eternal Randy Jackson. It was just OK for me dawg. I didn't hate it, but it wasn't my favorite either. Her Russo voice isn't as biting as I wanted it to be - but I did enjoy the kind of Wild retrospective that it provided.

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

I just read the first half of it and found it okay but dull. Are there any other player/journalist stories out there? The only one I can think of is WeagleRock's one where Crosby becomes a journalist and covers Ovechkin, but that's obviously au.

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

Why wouldn't there be audience for it? Just because it has a reporter. One of the popular fics in this fandom is about a trainer. Are you new?

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

You're right, people in fandom are just lining up to read fics about Josh Yohe and Mark Lazerus. My mistake.

I must be new because I have no idea what you mean by "one of the popular fics".

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

I know you're being sarcastic. But I stopped watching the Hawks long ago and I still adore Mark Lazerus and wish he was on my teams beat. His brand of snark is 100% my jam.

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

I still follow Lazerus on Twitter because I find him entertaining, even though I don't follow the Hawks anymore. Agreed with wishing he would come over to my team.

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

Welcome to the fandom then!

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

FWIW, I've been in fandom for... three years? and I have no clue what fic they're talking about. I don't remember any fics about trainers, let alone anything "popular".

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

na

The only one I remember with a trainer is Evgeni Malkin/Mike Kadar. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1012374

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

na

I love that fic. And yeah, it gets recced around pretty regularly, I think, at least in Pens fandom.

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

that was a good read iirc. i wish they would have at least kissed or something at the end though.

planning to read the koivu/russo for shits and giggles. i read fast so it's not like a huge investment of my time if it *doesn't* work for me.

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

This really did not work for me at all. The "on the record / off the record" shtick could have been fun if the ratio of the latter to the former had been like 5 to 1, but was it was, I could never get rolling with the narrative because the pieces were so short and switched back and forth between modes so often. They mostly weren't even dramatized scenes, just a summary of what happened.

Re: Fic Discussion - looking for a good story

[(Anonymous)]

NA

They mostly weren't even dramatized scenes, just a summary of what happened.

Yeah I think I mostly didn't mind the fic but this is probably what I disliked the most.