Niche hear me out, Nick Watson of Hawthorn and Cole Caufield of the Canadiens. Short chaos kings in slightly homoerotic, hyper-masculine sports. All 3 people who get me agree pls.
29k words, Explicit, Sam Dickinson/Michael Misa, Michael Misa & Tyler Toffoli, Michael Misa & Sam Dickinson & Tyler Toffoli
Heâs missing something here. Sam and him arenât dating. They cuddle sometimes, hang out all the time, and Sam pays for their lunches a lot but thatâs still pretty far off a whole relationship. Misa would have to be aware of something like that. Samâs just joking around, except thereâs no real reason for him to be saying that he and Misa are dating unless they are. Itâs not completely out of the world for Misa to have missed a big conversation of the what-are-we variety, unlikely but not impossible. Sam does have a tendency to not be straight forward with his emotions, even if heâs been better at it recently, or maybe Misaâs just getting better at reading him.
Michaelâs trying not to freak out as he blinks at the TV, how the fuck did he miss this? Misa didnât even think Sam was gay. Heâs never talked about guys before, only the women he hooks up with on occasionâ which he hasnât been doing as of recent.
Shit.
Or
Misa tries his best to get on board with a relationship he previously didn't know he was in.
in my opinion, the question isn't "Is RPF ethical?" but rather "Are you engaging with RPF ethically?" and even more importantly, "Are you being stupid about it?"
I personally hate any kind morality thought policing. I'm not Catholic or religious and I do not feel guilty over my thoughts. You are not an inherently evil person because you saw two athletes in an interview and went "Hmmm...... what if...." The Feds are not going to come banging down your door because you wrote about one band member dicking down the other and sent it to your friend.
Wondering about other people's lives is very human. Being nosy about their personal lives is very normal. People have been writing fiction about other people's lives since the dawn of time. Some people even manage to write New York Times Bestselling Books that are "historical fiction" or "alternate reality." It does not make you inherently bad to be curious about the details of someone's personal life. That's being human. Being nosy is kind of fun.
The problem, however, comes with the ways in which people engage with it, and involve the real people in this. Harassing an musician's real girlfriend because it doesn't fit into the RPF ship. Showing up at real sporting events holding signs about how certain teammates should kiss. Trying to get actors to sign art of them fucking their coworker. Flooding social media with comments using the celebrity's full name and speculation. There's a line, there's a fourth wall, and there's fandom etiquette.
I hate the question of "Is RPF ethical" because it feels like morality thought policing. Post your fics on locked accounts, censor someone's name when you tweet about it, blow up your groupchat with hundreds of "DID YOU SEE THE WAY THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER??" texts. It's not inherently evil to wonder what other people are doing when they're out of the spotlight. Kill the cop in your mind.
But just have some basic decency and do not involve the real people. Don't cross the line without caring how it affects them. This is basic fandom 101 and lately we have been flying too close to the damn sun! Everyone get more normal about RPF so major news outlets and magazines stop posting articles about "Is RPF ethical?" and blowing up our spot!
You've heard about the Edmonton polycule but have you heard about the Gaydettes?
Warning to everyone that this is parasocial and if you are uncomfortable RPFing about two women who are not technically public figures, feel free to stop here. From what I can see of their social media they would eat it up â but fair warning and don't put this speculation anywhere off tumblr.
So it is very important to understand Adam is the least important part of the polycule. Well. That's not true. He's more important than the second husband (added today! Mazel tov!) but less important than the wives. Micaela and Madison are very hot women who look like sisters and have been best friends for over a decade (sound familiar?). I can only presume from their social media comments that they've been fucking each other and their conquests together for just as long. I'm actually gonna start with today's posts because I need you to understand the seriousness of the situation
Do we see? Do we understand!?? Good. I know very little but I will take you on a gay tour of their most incriminating moments, doing my best to ignore the typical straight girl comments so you too comprehend the truth of the polycule. Take my hand as I weave lies (THEY'RE FUCKING).
Vertex one: Adam
Adam has liked every single one of Micaela and Madison's posts. Boy is dedicated. He's commented at a near equal level as well. A sampling:
And of course it is mutual:
Now at this point I was like. Well surely this is one of those terrible straight jokes. Where they pretend to be gay to show how woke and comfortable in their sexuality they are. But then there is the Gaudette wedding itself, at which they three committed to each other and Adam was caught sending heart-eyes at them:
I am truly lost for words. I'm just gonna be pointing at things and making noises the rest of this post basically. Next, Micaela has a baby! Madison is beside herself ("my best friend is making me a new best friend"). Naturally they make her the godmother as her birthday present.
It's genuinely very sweet. Let's move on to the sex toy Madison's husband.
Vertex Two: Dalton
This guy is a football player for the AFL Texans and he has no idea he just entered what will inevitably end as a fourway polycule. But Micaela's testing the fences:
Yeah they're gonna turn that boy into a couch. And by the recent wedding photo, Adam's on board.
Vertices 3-4: Micaela & Madison
The MEAT of the thing. I apologize deeply for the weird way these will look but I am up to the tumblr photo limit and had to get creative because they're vital inclusions:
The first photo is part of a 'how it's going vs how it started' carousel of the two of them posted by Madisonâ this is 'how it started'. Micaela commented something uncouth about the hot dog. The 'how it's going' picture is a sweet couples photo of them sitting in an arena, Micaela's hand on Madison's knee in an air of comfortable ownership.
The second photo is a headless bikini shot of Micaela's tan which has clearly made Madison feral. Moving on! To more gay degeneracy.
2 for 1 wives??? Can't wait to smooch LESBIAN EMOJI and reenact these LESBIAN EMOJI????
It's also important to note that Micaela referred to Adam as #breedingmaterial. Clearly these dastardly women have been planning how to have a kid together for years and are using Adam to facilitate. He seems pleased as punch to be involved. Poor Dalton is gonna have a hell of an initiation.
On an rpfing note: the wacklins should go to Micaela for their big queer questions. Cat is great but she lacks experience.
Okey doke I need to get this out to the newsboys hot off the presses so just leaving you with this picture of the lesbian wives and their son:
Okay so like this is real cringe but I couldnât stop thinking about a big red string map to connect all the hrpf craziness so here you go
If you know of ways to connect these together or build on it please let me know, this is oddly amusing to me and itâs fun to see what other pairings are floating around for teams I donât follow.
My only ârulesâ are that they need to be decently established/recognized ships, not just rarepairs that are âidk I like it.â Like Trevor and Sid get shipped with everyone under the sun but lm not including every single pairing. (I also will not be adding in a certain pair of brothers no matter how much they have been shipped with people)
Green strings are for certain players being shipped but usually only if another person is involved (Beckett and Misa only really being shipped together if Sam is also there, Mack being shipped with Leno if Will is also there, etc.)
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