tim stützle? more like tim süßle

one thing i enjoy about ridly is that he seems like he would have nothing going on if the hockey thing didn't work out

and another, meaner thing. maybe hrpf's rep for having high quality writing and its rep for having good fourth wall etiquette weren't a coincidence. maybe those things are at least a little correlated

SEPARATE CHURCH (AO3) AND STATE (TRADPUB)

i fall somewhere in between "this is the end of hrpf as we know it we must delete our accounts and salt the earth" and "its fine that hrpf is getting a spotlight shone on it" but i will say when you have white will smith doing hrpf fanservice on tiktok after months of the sharks doing hrpf bait its already an open secret and we have to just accept that. and you cant even blame the willmacks either when the second result on google for crosby and malkin is literally their fanlore page. i think at this point its willfully obtuse to cling onto the hope that hockey players, especially younger ones who are more online, dont have some general understanding that hrpf exists. i think the majority of them just decide its weird and beyond their understanding and choose not to look like anyways i got a lululemon date with ashlyghn later so idrc about that right now

publishing a book through random house with the main plot point basically being seguin lockgate. wasn’t the whole point of lockgate , aka the reason it’s called lockGATE - a suffix used to indicate a major event that causes changes in a community - is because everyone in fandom was so horrified he found those fics it led to more diligent locking and maintaining the fourth wall.. and so now to use it as the plot of a book for a major publisher that is also being promoted on tumblr and referencing ao3 by name .. LOL. it’s just wacky. people are allowed to get their bag and chase success, but that also opens up a larger floor for criticism and boy am i criticizing !