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hockey holidays 2021 dear author letter
Nov. 13th, 2021 09:12 pm(emerging from the void to post a dear author letter, yet again almost the same as last year's letter)
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Jan. 19th, 2020 10:36 amHi dreamwidth, it's been a while because I am terrible at keeping up with literally anything if it's not the thing I'm immediately hyperfixated on. Which is to say, my fandom right now is hockey and anything else jockeying for attention with it is unlikely to win for a few months. My interest has expanded out past just Tyler Seguin (though he's still my #1 hottie) and now I'm following the Stars, Avalanche, AND Hurricanes, so.
In other news, I should do some kind of holiday exchange roundup but I'm lazy af and even though I have literally nothing else I need to be doing right now I don't feel like it. Suffice to say that someone wrote me orig fic for consent issues exchange, I somehow received 3 gifts for yuletide even though I defaulted and have never gotten more than one in the past (and two of them were for MS Office anthropomorfic!), and I got two for hockey holidays! So I guess I scored there. I wrote an enemies to lovers soulmark fic for hockey hols that's Crosby/Giroux. Here is the orig fic I wrote for consent issues (heed the warnings)! Female Witch/Male Werewolf who owes her a life debt.
I've got a handful of hockey fics published at this point and more in the works and I'm currently stuck on all of them because I got thrown by Dougie Hamilton breaking his leg and now all I want is Dougie/Svech hurt/comfort despite never having cared about hurt/comfort before in my life (except for like, hurt/no comfort). And I wrote knotting, for the first time ever, so there's that. I don't know if it's the nature of the fandoms or if it's just like as I get older I no longer give a shit about, like, anything.
I really want to write a fic about Sebastian Aho being magic but I haven't figured out what exactly it will be yet. I've also got a Tyler/everyone omegaverse pwp half written that needs some attention. And, I had started a Dougie/Svech five times but idk what to do now that Dougie broke his leg, hmm.
Speaking of different fandoms changing the bar for me on the will write/won't write and trope list, there's also definitely an aspect in hockey fandom I'm finding about the threshold for what constitutes a hot guy. There are legit hot guys, like Tyler Seguin. Then there are guys who are kinda good-looking and also awesome at hockey, which makes them hot. Then there are guys who are okay-looking but awesome at hockey and/or have attractive personalities, so they're like, hockey-hot. Of course as always there is the category of "hot from the neck down" which probably applies to almost everyone in the NHL tbh because they gotta be pretty ripped to play professional hockey.
Okay that's enough rambling for now I think. Now to convince myself to do something useful today since I have the house to myself for a while.
In other news, I should do some kind of holiday exchange roundup but I'm lazy af and even though I have literally nothing else I need to be doing right now I don't feel like it. Suffice to say that someone wrote me orig fic for consent issues exchange, I somehow received 3 gifts for yuletide even though I defaulted and have never gotten more than one in the past (and two of them were for MS Office anthropomorfic!), and I got two for hockey holidays! So I guess I scored there. I wrote an enemies to lovers soulmark fic for hockey hols that's Crosby/Giroux. Here is the orig fic I wrote for consent issues (heed the warnings)! Female Witch/Male Werewolf who owes her a life debt.
I've got a handful of hockey fics published at this point and more in the works and I'm currently stuck on all of them because I got thrown by Dougie Hamilton breaking his leg and now all I want is Dougie/Svech hurt/comfort despite never having cared about hurt/comfort before in my life (except for like, hurt/no comfort). And I wrote knotting, for the first time ever, so there's that. I don't know if it's the nature of the fandoms or if it's just like as I get older I no longer give a shit about, like, anything.
I really want to write a fic about Sebastian Aho being magic but I haven't figured out what exactly it will be yet. I've also got a Tyler/everyone omegaverse pwp half written that needs some attention. And, I had started a Dougie/Svech five times but idk what to do now that Dougie broke his leg, hmm.
Speaking of different fandoms changing the bar for me on the will write/won't write and trope list, there's also definitely an aspect in hockey fandom I'm finding about the threshold for what constitutes a hot guy. There are legit hot guys, like Tyler Seguin. Then there are guys who are kinda good-looking and also awesome at hockey, which makes them hot. Then there are guys who are okay-looking but awesome at hockey and/or have attractive personalities, so they're like, hockey-hot. Of course as always there is the category of "hot from the neck down" which probably applies to almost everyone in the NHL tbh because they gotta be pretty ripped to play professional hockey.
Okay that's enough rambling for now I think. Now to convince myself to do something useful today since I have the house to myself for a while.
what new hell have I fallen into
Nov. 10th, 2019 08:41 pmjust kidding it's not hell, but it does involve double hockey sticks (/groaning at my own bad joke)
Seriously though, I don't post here often but I have definitely crossed over from "I don't care about hockey but Tyler Seguin is hot" to having an NHL.TV subscription and watching hockey games several times a week. And I went to the local minor league hockey team's game last night!
It occurred to me that the appeal of hockey RPF is actually the SAME as the appeal of FFXV. Basically: a group of bros, working together to accomplish a goal that involves a lot of masculine activities (like fighting), who are not afraid to show how much they love each other and rely on each other's support, but also give each other shit all the time. Manly men with feelings is apparently my kryptonite.
Also, hockey rpf fandom has GOOD FIC, like, wow, the quality level is way higher than most fandoms. There's so much less badfic, and all the people I've talked to are really nice? I joined a discord server about it which has been surprisingly great, because every FFXV discord I joined had so much traffic it was overwhelming and I couldn't deal. This one has a decent amount of chatter, but not constantly, so it's not like I open it up after a couple hours and find so much stuff I would never be able to catch up.
In other news, I defaulted on Yuletide for the first time ever. I should have remembered the guidance that you always match on the fandom you least want to write, but even so, I just had zero motivation to write the assignment I was given. I figured it would be better to default now than later, but I will keep an eye on the pinch hits list. But I signed up for Hockey Holidays instead, and my consent issues exchange fic is done barring some editing, so I think I'm in good shape generally. I'm co-modding the FFXV exchange again this year but I didn't sign up for it, and my co-mod is handling a lot of the work.
Anyway if anyone wants to talk hockey with me hit me up because I always go hard when I end up in a new fandom.
Seriously though, I don't post here often but I have definitely crossed over from "I don't care about hockey but Tyler Seguin is hot" to having an NHL.TV subscription and watching hockey games several times a week. And I went to the local minor league hockey team's game last night!
It occurred to me that the appeal of hockey RPF is actually the SAME as the appeal of FFXV. Basically: a group of bros, working together to accomplish a goal that involves a lot of masculine activities (like fighting), who are not afraid to show how much they love each other and rely on each other's support, but also give each other shit all the time. Manly men with feelings is apparently my kryptonite.
Also, hockey rpf fandom has GOOD FIC, like, wow, the quality level is way higher than most fandoms. There's so much less badfic, and all the people I've talked to are really nice? I joined a discord server about it which has been surprisingly great, because every FFXV discord I joined had so much traffic it was overwhelming and I couldn't deal. This one has a decent amount of chatter, but not constantly, so it's not like I open it up after a couple hours and find so much stuff I would never be able to catch up.
In other news, I defaulted on Yuletide for the first time ever. I should have remembered the guidance that you always match on the fandom you least want to write, but even so, I just had zero motivation to write the assignment I was given. I figured it would be better to default now than later, but I will keep an eye on the pinch hits list. But I signed up for Hockey Holidays instead, and my consent issues exchange fic is done barring some editing, so I think I'm in good shape generally. I'm co-modding the FFXV exchange again this year but I didn't sign up for it, and my co-mod is handling a lot of the work.
Anyway if anyone wants to talk hockey with me hit me up because I always go hard when I end up in a new fandom.
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Sep. 24th, 2019 08:07 pmBefore 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.
( the blabbing about hockey rpf )
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.
( the blabbing about hockey rpf )
