what they dont tell you is that if you're a hockey fan for a long enough time you start feeling insane about the new wave of fans who don't know Anything. not in a hockey sense, but in a fandom sense
we used to talk about owen power and kent johnson. actually we used to talk about michael raffl and scott laughton
#IâM NOT EVEN THAT OLD#god. everyoneâs tags have me like what do you mean the kids donât know about that. help. help.#msmargaretmurry with the facts as always. i do feel like itâs a little bit like a geologic dig where the layers of sediment (lore)#get laid down on top of each other and thereâs a few index fossil ships that date the era because theyâre just so prevalent#marking the passage of extinction cycles⊠close enough welcome back trilobites#if someone reminds me iâll make a ships meme of the usgs index fossil record with the peak eras. derangement perhaps but also the kidsâŠ.#i do think within the past ten or so years i could accurately date people to the year based on their ships & how they feel about teams.#and of course. who their beloved blorbo is. like the fact that op said MICHAEL RAFFL. MICHI?? RAFFY TAFFY??? MY RAFF?? also the opkjâŠ#umich team 100 shipper i See You. i know what u are. and i know who the background characters in your fics would be. like yk? for me too.#wait actually that would be a fun game. like guess when people got into the hrpf side of things but weâd have to have a set of rules like.#because i think i could also do broader eras earlier than 10 years i just have a brain like a sieve and i donât think i could do â01 vs â02#but i could do like. 00s vs 90s you know. which is just easy because of players tbh.#and i think it would be a hard game bc i do think thereâs staying power of certain ships & cycles that drive them to come to the forefront#so you do kinda gotta parse like. whatâs the characterization of the team as you understand it. this is less a game & more a longitudinal#or no actually retrospective longitudinal because i want historical data study. like ig we could do cross-sectional if we can find gap rep#& this is mostly bc i wouldnât want to make the fake joke meme w/o actual data thatâs not biased. canât even laugh w/o footnote around here#also because i started thinking about phylogenetic trees and evolution!!! and coachspet talking about the hyggle jdtz carpool post!!#everything stems from everything else. and if you look close enough you can see the paths of diverge and convergence. something something#carcinization it all becomes old man yaoi in the end except when it doesnât. which is to say!!!!#heather at cursed underscore hockey chipped tooth patâs neard fullbodiedjet i have still never and will never forgive you for that tweet
