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@veilofimag
First chapter of podfic for “courage (it couldn’t come at a worse time” is up! Thank you to @veilofimag for writing this wonderful story and for letting me podfic it ❤️
https://archiveofourown.org/works/86674011
The lovely @boom-queen made a podfic of my fic — check it out!
Thank you so much for doing this! ❤️
looking at the bright side of reading ongoing fanfics is like:
"WELL IT DOESN'T SAY ABANDONED SO MAYBE IT'LL UPDATE THIS YEAR"
"IT UPDATED THIS YEAR SO STATISTICALLY THERE'S A HIGHER CHANCE OF THEM UPDATING AGAIN NEXT YEAR"
"THIS FIC HASN'T BEEN UPDATED SINCE 2018 BUT MAYBE IF I LEAVE A COMMENT THE AUTHOR WILL PICK IT BACK UP AGAIN AND WILL FINISH THE STORY FOR ME AND THEMSELVES!"
"you look tired" thanks I am
Your defense seems to be "well, the canon wrote him some shitty, therefore I can write him shitty."
I don't like the canon. I don't like The Long Game, but I also don't like that you're fic claims to be a better version of TLG that's giving them more depth and doesn't actually give that to Shane. Writing Shane without his racism is shitty writing.
Saying the only problem that Shane was facing was internalized homophobia is obviously going to make him look like an asshole compared to Ilya cuz obviously Ilya had more to lose on that front. Because Shane's not only facing internalized homophobia. He's facing a hell of a lot of racism. He's navigating life while being neurodivergent and not knowing. He's dealing with severe control issues and a probable eating disorder. And he's dealing with a mom/manager that blurs those roles constantly.
Maybe instead of rolling your eyes and saying "I don't hate Shane, why does everyone think I hate Shane?" You should sit and think 'why do so many people think I hate Shane? Why do people interpret the way I write this man to be negative?" Racism doesn't just affect the way the character moves through the story. It also massively affects the way the fandom reacts to the character. It affects the way fanfiction writers WRITE about that character. Saying you didn't want to write about the racism he faced because you're white, so you fucking hand wave it away is gross.
You flattened one character to elevate another. It's fine if Ilya is your favorite but stop pretending the people who are recognizing what you are doing are somehow the problem.
I have NEVER claimed that my fic is better than TLG. I wrote a "fix-it" (as many A03 writers have before me) in the style I wanted to reconcile some feelings I was dealing with, mostly about how I miss my family and my home even if I also resent and hate them sometimes (through Ilya's journey in Courage), as well as my own coming out story (through Shane's). Honestly, whether you choose to believe me or not, I like and relate to Shane more. I don't agree that I flattened Shane at all— and even though I didn't tackle the racism component throughly, there's parts of Courage that allude to this pressure he's facing as well, and I DEFINITELY get into the control issues.
Yes, I agree with you: I didn't tackle every single issue that RR threw at Shane in my 80K free fan-fic. I chose the themes I related to and the ones that suited the story I wanted to write to deal with my own stuff. Please link me to yours where you astutely handle all of those topics properly and thoroughly, so I can learn from you.
I know I'm not going to please everyone with my fic, but I also don't really think I deserve to basically be called both homophobic and racist and made out to be the problem in this fandom. None of those things are true.
I wrote a fic. Everyone else chose of their own free will to read it. There's a nice back button for those who didn't like the themes.
Wow, I genuinely think you hate Shane Hollander. I think you're incapable of understanding his complexity and so you watered him down as being nothing more than a man with a lot of internalized homophobia. I'm absolutely disappointed that your fic is so popular. I'm disappointed that so many people agree with your horrendous view of him. I think your fic has actually made the fandom worse. The way you've gloss over any of the racism he would face is disgusting.
I'm sorry you feel this way? My rebuttal, in order:
I don't hate Shane.
I actually think my fic gives Shane way more agency in his decisions than TLG. I don't magic away his internalized homophobia with a not-a-plane-crash/proposal moment. The point is actually allow him to work out his issues, of which internalized homophobia is clearly one.
The whole point of the ending of Courage is Shane chooses himself, not just Ilya.
Sorry it's popular. I too am surprised (but I guess not disappointed). A reminder you didn't need to read it.
I am not sure I can be credited with how bad this fandom has gotten. I'm not even on threads to contribute. I wrote a fic, which, again, you didn't need to read.
I think I actually did try to touch on the racism aspect, but I have said a few times as I'm not a POC I felt it wasn't my place to comment too much on this experience, as I can't do it justice.
Finally, with thanks to my schoolteacher friend:
I also just want to say that these comments always pop up when the fav writers in this fandom private their fics. I'm sorry your favourite toys were taken away from you because a bunch of people were mean, but don't take it out on me.
people should be glad I got kicked off Threads, otherwise I would just be ranting about how theft was committed tonight when HR won best costuming over North of North. Dumb hockey outfits and Hawaiian shirts don't deserve it over this DRESS.
CRIMINAL.
so I have been kicked off threads.
I don't plan on making another account, so if you followed me there, find me here haha.
A sweet little moment. These trauma kids need it so bad Always a sucker for Yamato's luscious locks.
Tri didn't do them justice like, at all >o<
So, Courage passed the 16K kudos mark today. This also means it cracked the top 10 pages on A03 for HR sorted by kudos.
(Mandatory disclaimer that kudos is an arbitrary marker of "success" & there's many diamonds in the rough that deserve more).
But it's noteworthy to me, because I really never expected this fic to be popular. So thank you. Truly. Every single comment, kudos, bookmark, [positive] DM, and recommendation blows my mind. I'm honoured. Humbled. Truly thankful.
Honestly, I kinda expected it to be openly reviled. I expected criticism. & maybe a handful of people reading.
Because I've been pretty open in the fic notes that I don't love the latter part of TLG. I think both Shane & Ilya deserved better. The plot devices itch. I hate the not-a-plane-crash.
All to say, when the first round of comments appeared saying I hated Shane, I wasn't surprised. It hurt but… I got it. Internalized hate is hard to read. Or understand, how it persists. & how no plane crash would magic it away.
Plus, Courage is about Ilya & Shane… but it's also not…
It's about a mountain.
When I posted the first chapter, I was sitting on my dad's couch in Calgary working out some complicated feelings about the Alberta, which I love, and the Alberta, which I hate. I'm not sure how these two things co-exist. It scares me that there's a non-zero possibility that to see my family one day, I might need a passport. That a place where my family rests might despise me.
All of this should sound familiar.
It's not simple. Life isn't. And there's no deus ex machina coming to save me, like it saved Shane. Maybe that's why TLG drives me crazy.
But when I think of Alberta, I don't first think of the politics.
I think of the mountains. Of open skies. Of long flat roads. Of chinooks. Of needing directions and looking west and being orientated again, no matter where I stood.
I think of how lost souls go west.
I miss it. I just can't reconcile it. And I don't think a not-a-plane-crash will save me.
All to say, it's crazy that this fic is popular. It blows my mind every day. Every comment (like the following one) both makes me irrationally happy and sad:
Like what's your mountain? Can you tell me? When you get the top is it worth it? I need to know. I'm glad this spoke to you because I keep looking west, but there's no fucking mountains here to help me out.
Anyway, if you made it this far in my ramble: thank you for reading this (and the fic).
It all still blows my mind.
Anyway; thank you.
Lots of AI allegations floating around the Heated Rivalry fandom and I've largely remain unscathed there. But today, the AI allegations have found me. But, Strangely, on my digimon fic which has taken me 6 years (and counting) to write, so, my second argument against this accusation (after, ugh, no) is: do you think it would have taken me six years to pump out this fic if I was using AI (also, point three: 25/34 chapters were released before chat GPT was).
I don't even understand this accusation, and what about L&WR would suggest that? ITS ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE. It's a witch hunt.
Sigh. Go Away. Might you be confusing digital monsters with AI? ✌️
Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?
Well, have I got the html for you!
Plop any of these in a comment (by copy&pasting the code) to make an author's day and show your appreciation!
Second kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/tHMjbb6/second-kudos.png" alt="second kudos">
Third kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/52bggQH/third-kudos.png" alt="third kudos">
nth kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/6y7qGtC/nth-kudos.png" alt="nth kudos">
yet another kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/wKtcj0s/yet-another-kudos.png" alt="yet another kudos">
It will look something like this (and will be transparent with white outline on dark backgrounds):
Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like! (and if you have ideas for other variations, let me know ✌️)
So happy to see people enjoying these and spreading the love 💖
UPDATE with some suggestions from the replies! And bonus: cookie kudos.
HTML codes under the cut.
let me tell you, I got a ‘kisses your forehead’ kudos and it absolutely made my day
sometimes Courage gets comments like this, and I THINK they're meant to be complimentary, but as someone's who thinks that RR's writing (especially in TLG) clears an incredibly low bar, these comments make me squint at my own writing and go: oh no.
i am choosing to decide they mean the characters sound the same. 😂
honestly, just like overwhelmed.
both of these fics started because i was a) bored, and b) annoyed at canon for one reason or another, so it's really crazy to see the response they've gotten in their respective fandoms.
thank you, kind a03 readers. ❤️🔥
excerpts
Got some comment/questions about reactions to Ilya/Shane's coming out video in Courage. So yes… I actually drafted a bunch of these scenes— NHL/PWHL players, coaches, Rose, Hayden, Scott… Originally I was going to have a "reactions chapter", but i scrapped it, and ultimately all these little scenes went unused, I still have the doc, so two of my favs here. There's still a reference to one in the fic, where one of the media tells Ilya that Hayden lost it on the Montreal media. 😅
reflektor
personally, i think this Hollanov fic is going to be fun, and mostly a Rose & Shane friendship journey to save the [alternate] world. Dont be scared of the tags. Click the picture, read the fic.
Here we go again. Chapter 35 up. We are so close to the end, and I love this chapter. Some of this has been sitting in the doc for 6 years waiting to get consumed in a full chapter. It’s here!
(Stating this so all know I had a plan from day 1)
