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fuck it, nolan patrick fancam

majorpenalty

the bitch is back so i’m bringing this back too

#nolan patrick #listen ....

logged in for the first time in years and got jump scared by the age in bio

#i was 21 a lifetime ago idk who that bitch is anymore #anyways for anyone who sees this #i am alive and well!#i finished grad school and got a job #i have a career that i’m very good at and a 401k and everything #i have a partner that i love and may move in with in the medium future #doing pretty good :)

zalimaaa

rb with why you couldn’t be a wag

#see all my real answers are things i can’t say bc privacy or whatever #but mostly bc i am a nosy bitch so i would simply have to find out **** *** ***** ** ** ** ******* ****** ****#also so many nhl players are just. exhausting.#you ever try to date a man who can barely spell his own name ??#the overwhelming majority of them are not hot enough for me to put up with all of the baggage #also im not bleaching my hair hashtag rules and tips

survey wrap-up

hi y’all! here’s the promised summary of that study i was collecting data for a month or two ago- (again, huge thank you to @tavaresfucker for helping distribute it and to everyone who took it!) if you want to read the full study you can find that here. if you don’t want to read 40+ pages, here’s the highlights:

research goal: documenting the existence of what we call “multi-team fans” (aka fans who follow multiple teams within the same league). we wanted to do this by comparing them to more traditional “single-team fans” in terms of consumption, age, and gender. we also wanted to see how level of loyalty changes or remains the same between teams for multi-team fans.

methods: we used the sports spectator identification scale, which has a cronbach’s alpha of .915 and has been relatively widely used in the field. we also had a variety of questions about how people consumed sports media and products over the past 24 months, plus demographics questions.

results:

multi-team fans (m = 6.06) have a significantly higher level of loyalty to their “team A” as compared to single-team fans (m = 5.27), t (148) = -3.12, p < .001.

for consumption, the only statistically significant finding was that single-team (m = 4.64) fans bough more miscellaneous merchandise than multi-team fans (m = 1.53), t (148) = 1.14, p < .05. there were no significant differences in number of games streamed or attended, of jerseys purchased, of branded clothing items purchased, or of number of season ticket holders.

there were no significant differences in gender. 88.5% of single-team fans were female, 6.5% were male, 3.3% were nonbinary, and 1.6% self-reported another identity. multi-team fans were 76.4% female, 6.7% male, 12.2% nonbinary, and 4.5% reported another identity, X2 (N = 150, df = 4) = 6.64, p < .16.

there were no significant differences in age. 90.1% of single-team fans were 18 - 34. 87.7% of multi-team fans were 18 - 34, X2 (N = 150, df = 5) = 5.44, p < .36.

for multi-team fans, level of loyalty to team A (m = 6.86, sd = .82) is statistically significantly higher than teams B - E. loyalty to teams B (m = 4.99, sd = 1.8) and C (m = 4.34, sd = 1.5)are not significantly different from each other, but are from teams A, D, and E. similarly, teams D (m = 3.56, sd = 1.61) and E (m = 3.26, sd = 1.46) are not significantly different from each other, but are from teams A, B, and C, wilks’ 𝜆 = .11, F (4, 10) = 20, p < .001.

limitations:

we may have just measured how millennial/gen z women consume sports

covid may have impacted consumption

people may not accurately recall their consumption

imperfect survey

overall: this was such a cool project to get to do, and i’m really grateful for everyone who participated! the fact that we found any statistically significant findings was so exciting and i’d love to refine and redo this to try to get it published. i read tens (if not hundreds) of studies for this project and didn’t find anything quite like it, so it was so, so cool to get to do such a unique project. i hope the concept of multi-team fans gets further explored in the near future (check out the future research section for some of my favorite ideas lol) because i really think it can add more breadth and depth to our understanding of sports fans and fandom

#me ? concise ? never <3 #again thank u james for sharing ily #however #does feel weird as fuck to tag tavaresfucker on the like Serious Academic Study that was my baby for months lmfao #also can't believe i put wilk's lambda in a fucking tumblr post

jamesvanriemsdyk

the people counting down the days until prospects turn 18 so they can "ethically" ship them are just as weird as the men who count down the days until female celebs turn 18. literally jail lmao

majorpenalty

if youre mad about this … what went wrong in your life that you want to talk about real teenagers (kids) having pretend sex SO bad? and if you’re saying that shit where they can see it ??? again, literally jail

#WEIRDOS #tell me to delete and i will james #idek what happened this time but i’ve seen some folks acting a fool before and it’s Bad #god forbid the day a kid walks into my office to talk about this stuff

yellowhoothoot

jamesvanriemsdyk

yall arent gonna like this one but if youre in the hrpf community/fandom you actually do have an obligation to lock your fics and your social media accounts. you do have an obligation to star out/censor names, and you do have an obligation to build up a rock solid fourth wall. you are not on an island alone by yourself. there are other people in this community with you, we are doing something that involves real fucking people, and you have an obligation to respect your community, the norms and guidelines that have always existed in this fandom, and the real people we write about.

#if you think your fave and/or their loved ones don’t know this sort of thing exists #i’m sorry but you’re wrong #they absolutely do #so do kids coming up in tier 2/3 junior leagues #if barely online guys in the nahl knows this stuff goes down #the people who are being namedropped and tagged absolutetly do #side note #i once found out a player’s mom and i searched the exact same thing on twitter on the same day to find a clip #and i’m Extremely worried she saw the same stuff that i did #namely 30+ year olds openly thirsting over and sexualizing her teenage son #like maybe it’s just bc the players i know who’ve had this happen on a relatively microscopic scale were So Fucking Uncomfortable #but yeah #also maybe let’s not write fanfic about kids in the nahl #they aren’t fucking famous #they’re teenagers player tier 2 american junior hockey #they’re literally just ur average 16-20 year old leave them Alone #sorry this is an essay but fuck #feel free to tell me to delete and shut up james lmao

idk about u but i’m feeling 22

#happy birthday 2 me

not to be emo on main but my dad died a year ago (not entirely sure of the exact date. but a year ago yesterday was when we saw him in the icu). a little while after, i was trying to find a reference photo of some stuff from the 2002 bc he was a torch bearer and that’s my first memory and i was thinking of getting a tattoo. i went to the wikipedia page and found this:

i’d never seen this photo before. neither had anyone else in my family. it just felt... really special and still does. sports were always something we connected over and just- idk. i miss my dad.

#i have cried so many times today #i’d like to think he’d be proud of me

on the one hand i make a conscious choice not to joke about my father, his death, etc

on the other hand it was a little funny to realize 1 it is father’s day and 2 this is my to-do list rn

#that is my dads widow for reference

if the predators win this series ... right around when the anniversary of when my ex sent me back to therapy ? i will simply die.

#nashville was her team #and if they win i will die #idk how #but it’ll happen #also sent me back to therapy in thay #she did smth thay finally made me go “ok i need a therapist for this one actually”#canes lb #i suppose

himbeaux-on-ice

look not to stick up for a 23-year-old white millionaire but if you think the failures of the Oilers can be placed solely on “McDavid isn’t a good enough leader” when the coach didn’t trust half the roster to even be played more than a handful of minutes last night, I just think you’re being a bit silly.

a successful hockey team is not six people. a successful hockey team is not two people and a goalie. a successful hockey team that goes somewhere in the playoffs has DEPTH and has a whole roster the coach trusts to get the job done.

the idea that a certain amount of “Leadership XP” points held by one person could have somehow overcome things like the fact that Darnell Nurse had to play over an HOUR of ice time last night while some other dmen only played 10 min (nevermind the two previous OT’s) really just stacks up to dumb macho “push through it/play harder” philosophy in my eyes. you can have all the “force of will” and “desire to win” you want. I watched Vegas have both of those and lose the president’s trophy in one game this year because they simply could not dress enough skaters to keep up with Colorado for cap reasons, and got worn out as the game went on (maybe Colorado still would have won the game if Vegas had a full roster, but that discrepancy made certain of it).

hockey is a team sport and you need a properly constructed team, with depth and flexibility, who are trusted by your coach, to do it and to win. the perpetual failure of the Oilers is a management problem

himbeaux-on-ice

no seriously look at this

Jets defence time on ice from last night’s 3OT game:

Oilers defence TOI:

That is a problem!! Your last three games went to OT, this one went to triple OT, and you’re trying to play that long loooong chess match of endurance and defence with essentially one less D-pair than the other team because you won’t play guys? (And I haven’t even compared the forwards!) NO amount of being “a team player” or “wanting to win” was going to get you a win out of that unless the other team just laid down and died (the Jets, obviously, had no intent in doing so).

Look I don’t even CARE about Connor McDavid that much but saying “well clearly the guy who just got 105 points (72 of them assists, by the way) in 56 games, and other guy who’s the winner of last year’s Hart and Art Ross trophies, are not pulling their weight around here. that’s obviously the main problem” is just silly!! That is not what the problem is! The problem is that while having a handful of high-talent players might win you well in the regular season, the playoffs. need. depth. The Oilers do not have that, or at the very least they do not have a coach who trusts the players they’ve got to provide that depth. Until they actually properly fix this, they will go nowhere. No matter how hard Connor McDavid tries.