“One of the things you realize fairly quickly in this job is that there is a character people see out there called Barack Obama. That’s not you. Whether it is good or bad, it is not you. I learned that on the campaign.” --President Obama, hereThis is why I find it hard to understand people who think RPF is inherently creepy and wrong. Because ( Read more... )

People who don't read slashfic seem to be fond of telling those of us who do why we do it. I think my favorite example of this is Ogi Ogas, of SurveyFail fame, wisely informing Time magazine that women like to read about gay men because it "doubles" the "psychological cues of a man's characture, stature, passion and emotional communication." Yep. ( Read more... )

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Hey guys! Remember last summer when
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Someone over at Primerfest wanted a primer on NHL rivalries. This is... not exactly that primer ( Read more... )

I've used Tumblr very minimally for a couple of months--I haven't followed anyone or done much with it, I've just been posting cool examples of hockey-centric transformative creation. Today I posted my first thing that actually got any attention, which resulted in me actually engaging with Tumblr a bit, and now I am side-eyeing the site's design ( Read more... )

This post is for S, whose username I won't mention without permission because I'm not sure how fandom-associated it is. S is a Red Wings fan and enjoys watching hockey, and is also involved in non-RPF fandoms, but the expression on her face when I mentioned reading and writing hockey fic indicated that she hadn't really considered the idea of ( Read more... )

me: On my way to the council meeting omg omg what if I accidentally swear or trip somebody or or or my pants fall down that would be terrible D ( Read more... )

I haven't read this fic yet. I plan to, because it looks interesting and the author has written other fics I've enjoyed, but I'm in one of those too-busy-to-read-longfic phases of life. But I heard that people objected to it because it's based on real-life events and they felt it was exploitative to use this sort of thing as fic fodder, and I just ( Read more... )