when you deep it, the very real feeling outrage about will not going to the olympics, which was always a scenario made up entirely by fandom and would not in a million years ever happen in a real life hockey context, at least not in the way it was imagined, shows the deeper underlying problem right now, which is that people are demanding certain real life behavior and narratives from real life actual people, then getting mad and stressed when it doesn't happen exactly like they wanted and imagined it and taking it personal, instead of letting the narrative happen to them, observing it as an impartial audience and doing something fun with whatever they're presented with because in the end it doesn't actually matter what happens in real life, it never did, it never does, because rpf is never about real life anyway, just about getting some outlines to fill in with you own creativity