Growing the Love

.... shit he thought it would take Sid a bit longer than this

i struggle to have any sympathy for people who use ai for fanwork. i also think these witch hunts are giving people an “ethical” excuse to be mean. i think we’ve let consumerism and capitalism infect fandom, and this is the inevitable result. i think the erosion of fandom as a community opened the door for this, but these people made the deliberate choice to step through it. i think the why matters and should be the focus of the conversation, but i also think it's equally important that we don't let the reasons excuse or normalize the actions.

i think the relentless call outs and the immediate memeification of everything, the fics and authors who use ai becoming running mean girl jokes, is only furthering the degradation of fandom, and creates a space that feels unsafe for someone new to create without the crutch of ai. i can empathize with people not being sure how to form connections other than through producing content people will talk about. the root problem is that everyone is hungry for community, but we've lost sight of what that means and how to build it.

i don't think i can find any sympathy for the people who loudly professed to be against AI and used it anyway, or those who doubled down after being called out months ago and wrote treatises about being victimized. that's deliberate deception and manipulation and cannot be excused or enabled.

wellll not to be the friend that's too woke and also not to reiterate stuff ive already yapped about on discord but the whole framework of hockey mom -> billet mom -> older teammate's wife -> getting ur own wag -> she has ur kids and becomes their hockey mom.... chilling. its own form of time being a flat circle. anndddd it's an almost seamless pipeline that can be stitched together such that these dudes feasibly never really have to go without domestic labor from the women in their lives

also as much as we talk about the reinforcement and performance of masculinity in (m)hrpf, mens hockey is also very very much about a certain kind of female role and a certain brand of femininity for the women in their lives. the uniformity of physical appearance in their partners with very few exceptions... a real madonna-whore complex of Wife vs roadie hookups or Girlfriend Material vs puck bunnies. tate mccrae being the amy dunne Cool Girl who likes Sports so she became a safe acceptable answer for celebrity crush for all of them. et ceteraaa ad nauseammmm

things could be worse. a player you like could be traded for a used team bus

hypothetically, if ottawa gave robo an offer sheet, dallas wouldn’t get to decide whether to accept. if robo decided to accept ottawa’s offer, the stars would have the option to either match the offer or take compensatory draft picks from ottawa. restricted free agents under 27 are eligible for offer sheets, so this may also happen with mavrik bourque this year.

given that the stars don’t have a lot of cap space to work with, they could potentially be forced to make a trade to free up cap space in order to match an rfa offer sheet.

If you tl;dw the video, a thing to note about Offer Sheets is it is not a trade. Based on the salary on the sheet, there is specific predetermined return. It also has to be your own picks. Those first and second rounders ottawa just picked up from florida? They can’t be used in an offer sheet.

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