I watch hockey for the characters

Jay / he/him / 25 / Edmonton Oilers sideblog. Follows from @enarratives. pfp by @junmielle

[ryan-nugenthopkins]

STOP:

Reading and sharing Substack articles as though they're intellectual (anyone can make a Substack it's basically a blog)

Reblogging decontextualised quotes from sources we don't read (I know Globe and Mail's Cathal Kelly has some banger quotes but you HAVE to read his actual articles to understand what I'm getting at there)

Attempting to create a functionally consistent and comfortable worldview through social media posting and media consumption (I'm being driven to historical materialism)

IF YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY ARTICULATE A MEANINGFUL AND PRODUCTIVE PERSPECTIVE ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SPORT AND SPORT MEDIA CONSIDER

READING SOME BOOKS

TURNS OUT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CRITICALLY EXAMINING THESE TOPICS YOU ARE ATTEMPTING TO TALK ABOUT FOR DECADES USING THINGS LIKE THEORY AND CRITICAL ANALYSIS AND OCCASIONALLY STATISTICS AND RESEARCH

Recommendations under the read more.

Book recommendations:

No Slam Dunk: Gender, Sport, and the Unevenness of Social Change by Cheryl Cooker and Michael A. Messner

Playing While White: Privilege and Power On and Off the Field by David J. Leonard

Red Mitten Nationalism: Sport, Commercialism, and Settler Colonialism in Canada by Estée Fresco

Changing on the Fly: Hockey through the Voices of South Asian Canadians by Courtney Szto

Bodies of Discourse: Sport Stars, Mass Media and the Global Public edited by Cornel Sandvoss, Michael Real, Alina Bernstein, and Lee Becker

Life Story Research in Sport: Understanding the Experiences of Elite and Professional Athletes through Narrative by Kitrina Douglas and David Carless

For the people with institutional access, here are some papers:

Gold Medal Storytelling: NBC's Hegemonic Use of Olympic Athlete Narratives by M.E. Burns in Journal of the Communication, Speech & Theatre Association of North Dakota

Can they represent the nation? Nationalism, national identity, and naturalized athletes in Chinese football by Peizi Han in National Identities

Media discourse, sport and the nation: narratives and counter-narratives in the digital age by Max Mauro for Media, Culture, & Society

[ryan-nugenthopkins]

ignore that i accidentally unfollowed you. oops 🌻

Guy who is tired: so if you think about it, technically a sport season is basically a teambuilding roguelite rpg. And I could build an edit out of this somehow, which will resonate with an audience of, maybe two,

[officialrung-deactivated2020010]

new ask game send me a 🌻 and ill just tell you whatever the fuck i want

[museaway]

✍️ more fic writer asks!

reblog & your followers can send asks with the questions they’d like you to answer!

the last sentence you wrote

a character whose POV you’re currently exploring

how you feel about your current WIP

a story idea you haven’t written yet

first sentence of the fifth paragraph of an unpublished WIP

the word that appears the most in your current draft (wordcounter.net can tell you)

your preferred writing fonts

if you had to write a sequel to a fic, you’d write one for…

start to finish, how long did it take you to write the last fic you posted?

what is the longest amount of time you’ve let a draft rest before you finished it?

a WIP you’d like to finish someday

a trope you’re really into right now

a fandom you’re thinking about writing for

where do you get your inspiration?

favorite weather for writing

favorite place to write

talk about your writing and editing process

if you keep them, share a deleted sentence or paragraph from a published fic

the most interesting topic you’ve researched for a fic

in what year did you publish your first fic?

when did you publish your most recent fic?

do you ever worry about public reaction to what you’re writing? how do you get past that?

pick three keywords that describe your writing

how do you recharge when you’re not feeling creative?

besides writing, what are your other hobbies?

are you able to write with other people around?

your favorite part of the writing process

your least favorite part of the writing process

how easy is it for you to come up with titles?

share a fic you’re especially proud of

[foegoal]

matt savoie during warmups (march 31st, 2026)

[ryan-nugenthopkins]

it's not a good book lads

[ryan-nugenthopkins]

Good morning!

Reid's absolute refusal to critically examine her worldview stops being funny by the second time she writes something racist towards Asians and starts getting grating every time she attempts to bring up Russia and immigration. Her vision of the world - of geopolitics, of hockey, of immigrants and race - is so narrowly focused on her perspective of a White cis woman in Canada as some neutral default that I genuinely started to believe that I was playing a joke on myself and somehow found a fake copy.

Her attempts to write anything outside of her purview only demonstrate how little she understands of the world and her own place in it. Whether it's an immigrant from a geopolitical threat, a racialised minority, or queerness in a space of violent homophobia, the way these complex topics are written only belies how mainstream her perspective really is - how easily and unquestionably she's accepted the system of power that exists around her.

For someone who thinks she's a radical or offering any critique, she sure as hell doesn't seem to know what the system she's trying to criticise.

Reading this book pissed me off. Can you tell?

[ryan-nugenthopkins]

it's not a good book lads

[ryan-nugenthopkins]

Not to be "that guy" but there's something about the social media manager/athlete they're paid to cover trope that pisses me right the fuck off. What are you doing. You have partnership deliverables. Your paid marketing campaigns on Google Ad Centre are becoming dust. Lock in and finish that shortform video campaign and pitch deck.

[sirfuckhead]

i don’t bet on losing dogs i bet on winning dogs. they’re just having a bad day. i’m sure they’ll win next time

[ryan-nugenthopkins]

Magnesium Manganese - Paul Coffey Evan Bouchard

Not to be confused with magnesium.

As inspired by @simmyfrobby

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[ryan-nugenthopkins]

The worms will devour you Your soul cannot be saved

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[ryan-nugenthopkins]

The worms will devour you Your soul cannot be saved

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[petey-cubed]

I’m a big believer that hockey belongs on the west coast but ngl the idea of a Californian pwhl team after no takeover tour games in the state and no team in the Canadian Prairies, which have hosted multiple takeover tour games and have communities that live and breathe hockey, does infuriate me a bit

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

penis isn't real. pussy isn't even real. the only thing that is real, is the pleasure of combat

[ryan-nugenthopkins]

I'm impatient, a rock in the mud Truth is change isn't change 'til the damage is done

Evan Bouchard x Cursive by Matt Maeson and Manchester Orchestra

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[gursevraq]

shipping the popular yaoi pairing but shaking my head while i do to indicate that i also care about the work's themes and other characters

[brakvrack]

FINALLY I GET TO SHARE THIS PICTURE

[tyrian-red]

my erotic fanfiction is more historically accurate than yours. here it claims that shes moaning 'yes,' however classical latin didn't have a word that corresponds to Modern English 'yes,' i.e. an affirmative answer to an interrogative. You could have easily avoided this glaring implausibility by allowing her to moan plus, 'more'—as exemplified in my critically acclaimed fic with an unprecedented number of kudos (eleven). I recommend that you log out of AO3 and return only after acquiring satisfactory knowledge of the subject matter.