#lr speaks

[notlayingroses]

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

[smoothlyglacialcyclone]

Everything I read about recovering from burnout is like “it takes months or even years to fully recover” and it’s like okay…. I have a weekend before I gotta clock in on Monday

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[notlayingroses]

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!

[notlayingroses]

Rapid Fire NHL Things for New Hollanov Fans to Know When Writing Hockey Fanfic

There is no handshake line at the end of regular season games

Equipment managers are the ones managing a players gear and equipment during a season. Players aren’t taking their gear bags home from practice every day and laying out their own gear at the rink. The team handles it and does laundry

WAGs don’t ever really wear player jerseys, they would wear a custom outfit with the number (think Taylor Swift) if they do at all

Fights are a regular part of hockey culture and unless someone gets seriously injured in a fight, you’re not gonna get in serious trouble for fighting

Players actually board the private team plane on the tarmac, the show just didn’t have the budget for that

When on road trips, players take the team bus from the airport to the hotel to the rink and so on. They’re not in charge of their own transportation

Captains don’t typically run practices and set drills, the coaching staff do

Players mostly do post game media in front of their stalls in the locker room, and two teams aren’t doing media at the same time in the same room after games

The locker room is actually open wooden stalls. It’s not a physical locker you shut.

When a player is mic’ed up, both teams are made aware of who has the hot mic

Playoffs structure can be confusing, but round one and two are in your conference, round three is a conference final, round four for the cup is east vs west

They are not getting bag skated every practice please stop putting that they are getting bag skated til they puke at every practice

Other hockey fans please add things!!

[notlayingroses]

its soooo sick and upsetting that i can't go to the ottawa centaurs' youtube page and watch their playlist of mic'ed up content. I should be able to lock into several years worth of ilya screeching on the bench during games and Wyatt rambling about superheroes during practice..... we live in such a cruel world........

[notlayingroses]

honestly, if bolaire IS lying to hal, that just means we're gonna see Liam O'Brien act his heart out like the rent is due when the truth comes out and Hal deals with those emotions. So really, win-win.

[notlayingroses]

i do think that people who refuse to read or engage with the original books are losing an integral part of Shane and Ilya's characters. Even if you don't take 100% for your own vision of the characters, it's still the original text that informed Jacob's writing and Hudson and Connor's performances. All three of them read the books before making the show. It informs their choices and how they play their characters. Pretending like the books don't exist is erasing the work that Hudson, Connor, and Jacob did. Pretending like the books are godawful and the worst thing to ever exist is silly when Jacob made it very clear he was following the books as closely as he could and then the show was good. You can look at all the moving puzzle pieces together even if you don't love every single moment in the books. The books still inform the creation of the show. Be serious.

[notlayingroses]

if you write hollanov fic and aren't a hockey fan, please hear me on this one thing:

jerseys are not soft and comfortable!

They are often stiff and scratchy. The big logo on the center is physically very stiff. It's made out of a breathable athletic mesh material and meant to fit over hockey gear.

Speaking as an autistic person with sensory issues, wearing a jersey with nothing underneath it is a scratchy cold nightmare! You would not feel comfortable sleeping in nothing but a jersey!

But i get the impulse to have shane or ilya wear something that belongs to other person. So can I introduce you to the team branded hoodie with the number over the heart?

Players get a new team hoodie with their number every season that they wear around the rink and in media stuff. if you're looking for something soft and comfortable they'd have lying around the house, it's more likely to be one of these hoodies.

and yes, it is notable to fans when a player accidentally grabs their buddy's hoodie..... looking at YOU, canadian hockey freak boys McDavid and Crosby with your #29 very best friends....