ok yeah this wasn't even going to be an intro post and now it's my position on everyone in hockey

[guingel]

Hellooooo livejournal! As is my annual tradition now, I'm posting right after I went to the US Open. XDD But I don't have pictures yet so I'll post ABOUT the US Open some other time.

I've recently made a bunch of new friends through the friending meme/prompt challenge post at home-ice. I kind of got the impression that a lot of people like me came out of

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[liroa15]

You're a twin too? And your twin is also into fandom or more into the sports side of everything? I ask because I'm a twin, and my sister and I are both in fandom, and I think it means that I look at fandom differently than I might if she weren't. If that makes any sense at all.

I actually don't read as much fic about the Oilers, though - they're my third team.

I am... confused. Also, fair warning, if you are not overly invested in the Oilers, I may very well be v annoying. (If you don't care about Junior hockey, I can promise you I will be.) If I get too annoying for you, feel free to unfollow me.

[guingel]

haha I root for the Oilers and I care about the players, but I (1) don't identify with them as heavily as with the Pens and Islanders - at the moment, my emotional well-being is a little bit more divorced from their successes/failures, and (2) just happen not to read a lot of fic about their most popular ship, eve though I adore both players involved and totes think they're in love. Does that clear it up at all

[liroa15]

lolol. Fair enough. And (1) is probably the best coping mechanism around for dealing with their recent form tbh. I personally find it impossible to engage in any sort of sports fandom outside of my specific areas of interest. For example, with football, I find it impossible to engage with anything that doesn't directly involve either Real Madrid or the Spanish national team. I know a lot of people who can separate fandom in a sort of fic writing/reading sense from the actual sport, which is a skill I greatly admire because I cannot do it

[guingel]

I'm not a good sports fan when I don't care about the team or player, but I'm a great fangirl - that is, I don't get that much out of watching games or matches that I'm not invested in, but you can definitely get me to care about a player who isn't on my team - or in some cases, on a rival team. (Less so in football, though. Maybe in MLS.) I'm finding that my player interests are even more diverse in hockey than usual, which is probably a reflection on the more laid-back approach of fandom as a whole? It could just be the different ways I've approached the fandoms, but I feel like in football, fans of each time are a little more insular - in hockey I've found more quality blogs that just post a lot of cute player pics from a variety of teams, instead of having to follow team-specific blogs (although I do that too). It could also be, actually, just that the scope is less intimidating. Hockey fandom is almost entirely NHL players whereas football fandom for me includes about 4-5 leagues, publishing PR materials in several languages I

[biggersandwich]

It is SO NICE to have all of these new lj posts to read! :D I've been blissful for days about it in a very silly way.

ALL THE TEAMS is the most fun way to read hockeyfic! Or at least ALL THE GUYS because I thoroughly support not getting too down when the Oilers are failing HARD, even if I do want the fic about them in all possible combinations. I need a lot of Nuge fic because he is so pretty, except that he is inconveniently quiet, and it's difficult to find plot in things like Sam saying he's "too nice".

There should absolutely be a lot more Johnny fic! If you ever need a beta or someone to chat ideas with, let me know. I loooooove doing that kind of thing, and I really need there to be more fic about him. His team just loves him soooooooo much. :D

[guingel]

I've barely been checking LJ for the past couple years, it's so nostalgic! Although it keeps telling me to update the style for my friends page, which is from the dawn of time, but I'm afraid to

[biggersandwich]

I've been grimly checking it, but I have to admit, there's usually only one or two posts a day, even though I'm still a member of a bunch of comms that used to have posts every 10 minutes. :P

[guingel]

I am soooo much less stressed about rivalries in hockey! Of course I root against the Rangers, but I love half that team. And I have stronger feelings about Philadelphia, and a couple other teams that I tend to root against, but I still have crushes on various players on all of them. XD In soccer I have a whole bunch of teams that I just despise - the lack of salary cap and authoritative league structure don't help, either - there are serious imbalances of power and resources

[littlestclouds]

Anyway, these days I spend a lot of time crushing on John Tavares.

Who doesn't, really?

[guingel]

Only cruel or disturbed individuals ;)

Now the next thing is to turn everyone's crush on JT into them caring about the Islanders, haha!

[thebeamiestface]

It's one of my goals in life to increase Tavares fic in fandom :) if I could only stop writing Sid and Geno.

[guingel]

It's basically the primary reason I write any fic. XD "Maybe if I can write good enough JT fic, other people will realize that they should too!!"

Of course, Sid & Geno are always a good use of your time! :)

[thebeamiestface]

The wonderful Sam/John stuff recently has made me such a happy girl. I can't lie, either, the increase in press for Johnny is a great thing. The Islanders can't hide him anymore :D

[guingel]

Johnny had BETTER be heading to Vail so people get more Sam/John inspiration!!

I knooooooooooowwww on the one hand, it makes me randomly really happy that the Islanders shielded him a bit, and kind of looked after him and set him up with Doug and protected him like the precious darling he is. But on the other hand, even though he's laboring away in obscurity, tucked off on Long Island, he deserves to have all the attention and accolades!!

[kegom]

Heeeeyyyyyy, it's so great to hear from you again! ^______________^ I'm not on tumblr or twitter (... they look confusing! D:), so I kind of miss most of the fandom interaction nowaday. (I kind of feel like my own grandma, who's like "yes, yes, by all means do your internet thing! ...And then you can give me a digest, yes

[guingel]

Hiiiiiiiiii!! Yayyy, so great to hear from you! I've been meaning to leave a comment on an old entry of yours or something, just to see how you were doing! (but I see you've updated now :D) I'm going to try to be on LJ more, but it'll probably be quite fannish. There's quite a lot of stability in my life right now, I guess. I keep starting to write super duper serious entries pondering various social issues, but they're such delicate subjects that I'm usually satisfied by getting my thoughts out, and I publish them as private. Hopefully I can get back into the habit of writing stuff that isn't monstrously long

[kegom]

I'm totally fine with other people being fannish on LJ! Actually, I like it, because it means I get to participate in fannish stuff in proxy, without having to do any of the work. XD And if I'm not interested in it (truthfully, while I know several people in football fandom, I never really got into it), I can always ignore it

[guingel]

Yes, stability is good! Hopefully I'll have some roommate stability now - so far so good, but I feel like every time I've LJ'ed about my roomies, something has gone awry. XDD We're staying out of each other's way a lot so nothing to report, anyway.

I'm way too much of a squeamish wimp to watch Hannibal, but I love the fandom - the goofy jokes and stuff that people make to offset the intensity of the show (like so - the lame joke series has been cracking me up!!) and I've read some detailed summaries and stuff