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Shane is like if a particularly neurotic cat made a wish to be a real boy and Ilya is what would happen if a Siberian Husky learned how to play hockey and have depression

2009 draft was insane for fictional hockey

do you or do you not like that I am a silly goose. be honest

aanya's post really nails part of why the h/ated r/valry mania has been so frustrating. people who don't care about hockey coming into hockey spaces and insisting that they're representative of the fanbase! it has nothing to do with fandoms or with rpf or whether or not the show is good! it's girl math, it's bimbo movements, it's i'm just a girl, it's divine feminine, it's tradwife, it's giving up! like, no, you don't have to care about hockey to like the show. you don't have to like the show if you care about hockey. but it's so endlessly frustrating to see people assuming that all women and gay people interested in the sport, regardless of how long they've been here, are in that first group, because hashtag the girls and gay only care about hot guys and kissing. it's frustrating to see members of that first group responding to that by agreeing with the basic premise. stand up for each other. stand up for yourselves. girls only like football because of taylor swift. girls only like reading because of twilight and fifty shades. girls only like music because of boybands. girls only like hockey because of cute boys kissing. girls are stupid and can't do math and only like pink. you get that these are misogynist stereotypes, right? you get that, even if you do like taylor swift and twilight and boybands and boys kissing and pink? you understand that agreeing with and confirming those stereotypes out loud and directed at the people making them isn't a sneaky little 'win.' it's an insult. people are going to be insulted. i don't care if you like rpf more than hockey. that's fine! i'm not good at math! some things are bigger than your personal circumstances!

my final heated rivalry thought of the night is i do genuinely think it exists in this weird space of requiring you to both be a hockey fan and not know anything about hockey. schrodinger's hockey fan. you need to know about hockey because half the stakes aren't really explained to you at all. see: hockey culture/homophobia. see: the montreal-boston rivalry's unique significance. etc. but you also need to not know anything about hockey because if you do then you look at the long game and go: montreal would not do that. ottawa would also not do that. also why are the 1oa and 2oa going to world juniors twice. why is no one throwing hands at ilya for being that close to their injured captain on the ice.

Crazy that sports RPF is becoming mainstream now…my culture is not your costume.

Tumblr is such a magical place. The mature content filter is shielding me from photos of ballgowns, but you better believe I've seen the entire uncensored ass of those hockey guys every day this week.

no but when the families come out onto the ice and it's so clear that scott has absolutely no one and it's been YEARS NOW since sochi and kip is there for him like of course he brings him down of course of course scott hunter you are a character of all time

shane hollander leaving the 2014 olympics figure skating men's short to go be gay is driving me crazy. hollander noooo you're going to miss yuzuru hanyu skate parisienne walkways and break a world record homosexuality can WAIT you're missing HISTORY

heated rivalry has been like the reintroduction of wolves in yellowstone for this website