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Before I go off for the rest of this post about hockey RPF, let me just provide you a link first to my remix fic!
scoop (the twenty thousand followers remix), Yuri on Ice, outsider POV of Victor/Yuuri. This was a remix of Skin by dance_across. I had a lot of fun writing it!
One more note before the rest of this post devolves into nonsense -- I got an ask about whether or not I'm going to run the FFXV Holiday Gift Exchange this year and I don't know what to do with it. I'm not particularly motivated to do it at the moment, and last year it got to 50 participants and was a LOT of work? I feel like to cut down on the amount of work would require either particularly engaged co-mods or changing the sign-up form in some way to simplify things, but I'm not sure how to do that. I don't like getting stressed out about fic exchanges during the holidays and last year it was kind of overwhelming, mostly because people cannot follow directions. And, to be honest, I think I am moving on from FFXV, and even if I wasn't modding it I don't know that I'd even participate. So I'm not really sure what to do. I feel kind of obligated to do it? But I also didn't plan on doing it, so. What to do? I'm open to advice. I also feel kind of bad about moving on from FFXV, but honestly TWO WHOLE YEARS in a single fandom is a crazy long time for me.
Okay, moving on, now I will proceed to blab about hockey rpf for the rest of this post.
Remember when I posted that addendum to my last post about the hockey rpf about how I discovered Tyler Seguin and therefore this would eat my life?
Yeah, pretty much. I have read more hockey fanfic in the past few weeks than I ever imagined I would in my life, and spent so much time watching youtube videos of interviews with him and all sorts of random stuff and alksjdhlkjfhasldjkfh. Is it a valid life choice to decide to be a fan of a team because there's a hot guy on it? Because I totally followed the Dallas Stars twitter and google is now sending me NHL score notifications. What even is my life.
It's interesting to be into an RPF fandom again, because it's been a long time since the last time I was really into RPF and I've never been into sports RPF. It's kind of weird because on the one hand, tsegs is shirtless like all the fucking time and there's plenty of content and photos and such. He's freaking adorable in interviews and I enjoy watching them all, but at the same time, today I stumbled upon people's secret photos of him out in public? You know the kind, like, when people post on social media that they were out at a bar or something and saw a celeb? And those ones just feel super duper weird to me. Like I feel like I'm into RPF but I don't actually want to know about this actual person. I just want to consume the carefully crafted public image, just like I would with an actor or singer. If it wasn't information he wanted out there in the public, then it's not information I want to have in my RPF canon, you know? Or, more to the point, the people who are stalking him irl and harassing him on instagram and twitter freak me out because that's not acceptable behavior and I feel like it makes all RPF fans look bad. Like yeah he's hot af and I followed his instagram and want to see pictures and know things from interviews, but good lord I don't want to actually meet him or know who he may or may not be dating and I don't think anything I read in RPF is a thing he would actually do and I certainly don't want him to think that people who write and read RPF are the same people who are absolute dickwads on social media?
That was a super runon sentence, sorry. Really what I mean to say is that the dirty paparazzi and gossip side of things doesn't appeal to me and makes me feel concerned that people who know I'm into RPF will think I am one of those people who is a creep, which I'm not.
Anyway in case you need convincing this is the video that got my attention immediately, and here is the full ESPN body issue video.
Tyler Seguin being hotter than the sun aside, there is some really fucking great hockey fanfic. If you had told me six months ago I would be crying about Sidney Crosby not being able to use his safeword I would have laughed in your face, AND YET.
I'm so happy I was able to drag at least one friend into this hell with me, and she even broke a years-long writer's block to write fic!
scoop (the twenty thousand followers remix), Yuri on Ice, outsider POV of Victor/Yuuri. This was a remix of Skin by dance_across. I had a lot of fun writing it!
One more note before the rest of this post devolves into nonsense -- I got an ask about whether or not I'm going to run the FFXV Holiday Gift Exchange this year and I don't know what to do with it. I'm not particularly motivated to do it at the moment, and last year it got to 50 participants and was a LOT of work? I feel like to cut down on the amount of work would require either particularly engaged co-mods or changing the sign-up form in some way to simplify things, but I'm not sure how to do that. I don't like getting stressed out about fic exchanges during the holidays and last year it was kind of overwhelming, mostly because people cannot follow directions. And, to be honest, I think I am moving on from FFXV, and even if I wasn't modding it I don't know that I'd even participate. So I'm not really sure what to do. I feel kind of obligated to do it? But I also didn't plan on doing it, so. What to do? I'm open to advice. I also feel kind of bad about moving on from FFXV, but honestly TWO WHOLE YEARS in a single fandom is a crazy long time for me.
Okay, moving on, now I will proceed to blab about hockey rpf for the rest of this post.
Remember when I posted that addendum to my last post about the hockey rpf about how I discovered Tyler Seguin and therefore this would eat my life?
Yeah, pretty much. I have read more hockey fanfic in the past few weeks than I ever imagined I would in my life, and spent so much time watching youtube videos of interviews with him and all sorts of random stuff and alksjdhlkjfhasldjkfh. Is it a valid life choice to decide to be a fan of a team because there's a hot guy on it? Because I totally followed the Dallas Stars twitter and google is now sending me NHL score notifications. What even is my life.
It's interesting to be into an RPF fandom again, because it's been a long time since the last time I was really into RPF and I've never been into sports RPF. It's kind of weird because on the one hand, tsegs is shirtless like all the fucking time and there's plenty of content and photos and such. He's freaking adorable in interviews and I enjoy watching them all, but at the same time, today I stumbled upon people's secret photos of him out in public? You know the kind, like, when people post on social media that they were out at a bar or something and saw a celeb? And those ones just feel super duper weird to me. Like I feel like I'm into RPF but I don't actually want to know about this actual person. I just want to consume the carefully crafted public image, just like I would with an actor or singer. If it wasn't information he wanted out there in the public, then it's not information I want to have in my RPF canon, you know? Or, more to the point, the people who are stalking him irl and harassing him on instagram and twitter freak me out because that's not acceptable behavior and I feel like it makes all RPF fans look bad. Like yeah he's hot af and I followed his instagram and want to see pictures and know things from interviews, but good lord I don't want to actually meet him or know who he may or may not be dating and I don't think anything I read in RPF is a thing he would actually do and I certainly don't want him to think that people who write and read RPF are the same people who are absolute dickwads on social media?
That was a super runon sentence, sorry. Really what I mean to say is that the dirty paparazzi and gossip side of things doesn't appeal to me and makes me feel concerned that people who know I'm into RPF will think I am one of those people who is a creep, which I'm not.
Anyway in case you need convincing this is the video that got my attention immediately, and here is the full ESPN body issue video.
Tyler Seguin being hotter than the sun aside, there is some really fucking great hockey fanfic. If you had told me six months ago I would be crying about Sidney Crosby not being able to use his safeword I would have laughed in your face, AND YET.
I'm so happy I was able to drag at least one friend into this hell with me, and she even broke a years-long writer's block to write fic!