LMFAO honestly i still laugh thinking back to the spits & suds gaglardi episode because they were trying so hard not to call heika a pathetic little homer......... like it really is a consequence of the market but why can't we accommodate that while also baiting them into giving better answers!!! idk though i should be more grateful because sometimes i watch postgame media for other teams and i'm like damn it's rough out there
and yes totally agree re: guri! pdb veteran experience is partially what i meant wrt the ~culture fit~ for dadonov so it'll be interesting to see how things unfold over the next few games as they acclimate to new lineups..... lol i watched the latest habs win vs. the sharks where he was on suzuki's wing and he was ALL over that game but tbf what kind of player doesn't have a big showing immediately after they get traded... it kills me that montreal is so decimated he can get slotted into the top line like it's nothing but i do hope he figures it out.
honestly sabres fandom is SO strange imo because most of the time i feel like it doesn't exist LKDSFHDFH even though people like owen and stuff but i don't know... stars fans are actually so spoiled because buf only have 2 gifmakers and i forget that not every fandom has someone who gifs every single goal and celly their team scores in an entire season like i'll go into the tag hoping to reblog some random moment and the last time someone made a proper edit was 5 days ago 😩 but then i also feel like the sabres have so much potential and their team media is/could be so effective?!??? individual fandom loyalty is also too strong because sometimes i swear mfing tyson jost is already the most popular player on this team and like......... is this it. Truly is this it. tage's reception is such an enigma to me too because i know that being married and having children literally does not impact hrpf shippability at all and like... honestly is he that much uglier than eric staal??? To me they're both the same generic brand of white man so i just don't know what it is about this roster that seems to be resonating with people at a shallow level ("oh no the sabres have Vibes") but doesn't really interest them in a shippy/fandom sphere.... like miss jeffrey has ex-fandom darling status but i guess the twink death is too strong? but i don't even think he looks that noticeably "old" so (bangs fist) what is stopping people from shipping him with tage or SOMETHING.... or any of the kid permutations... i know the sabres team is like Super cuffed normie wifeguys but i feel like tumblr girls make do with that all the time so maybe i'm just missing something. like perhaps they have Too Many weird ~ironic~ "online enough to see the memes you made about me" vibes for people to be able to project their usual hockey ship narratives... rasmus is actually so underratedly funny in that online way to me LMFAO
but yeah thinking about how quickly they've turned around from the eichel situation is really wild... Honestly i feel like u could do work fic-narrative-wise with jskinner escaping noted hockey terrorist ralph krueger and having the worst contract ever so the material IS there! but i don't know... yeah they're at this weird kind of inflection point and lagging behind new jersey (honestly njd is such an interesting experience because while 1386 is pretty much established fanon at this point people still don't write them that often anymore? maybe hockey fandom really can't be salvaged) and whether they make the playoffs this year is a fairly big question mark but they feel sooo close to breaking through with just a bit more development/upcoming pieces, and having that archive locked and loaded is definitely beneficial in enticing newfans to the pipeline. i just hope it doesn't end up like the avs who have nerfed like 1382404 different databases of all their old videos for whatever reason i truly don't know why they used to do so much personality stuff that they then decided could no longer grace the face of this earth but lmfao. how can we get the stars to pretend to know one another in inane variety content on camera every week 😔
no subject
and yes totally agree re: guri! pdb veteran experience is partially what i meant wrt the ~culture fit~ for dadonov so it'll be interesting to see how things unfold over the next few games as they acclimate to new lineups..... lol i watched the latest habs win vs. the sharks where he was on suzuki's wing and he was ALL over that game but tbf what kind of player doesn't have a big showing immediately after they get traded... it kills me that montreal is so decimated he can get slotted into the top line like it's nothing but i do hope he figures it out.
honestly sabres fandom is SO strange imo because most of the time i feel like it doesn't exist LKDSFHDFH even though people like owen and stuff but i don't know... stars fans are actually so spoiled because buf only have 2 gifmakers and i forget that not every fandom has someone who gifs every single goal and celly their team scores in an entire season like i'll go into the tag hoping to reblog some random moment and the last time someone made a proper edit was 5 days ago 😩 but then i also feel like the sabres have so much potential and their team media is/could be so effective?!??? individual fandom loyalty is also too strong because sometimes i swear mfing tyson jost is already the most popular player on this team and like......... is this it. Truly is this it. tage's reception is such an enigma to me too because i know that being married and having children literally does not impact hrpf shippability at all and like... honestly is he that much uglier than eric staal??? To me they're both the same generic brand of white man so i just don't know what it is about this roster that seems to be resonating with people at a shallow level ("oh no the sabres have Vibes") but doesn't really interest them in a shippy/fandom sphere.... like miss jeffrey has ex-fandom darling status but i guess the twink death is too strong? but i don't even think he looks that noticeably "old" so (bangs fist) what is stopping people from shipping him with tage or SOMETHING.... or any of the kid permutations... i know the sabres team is like Super cuffed normie wifeguys but i feel like tumblr girls make do with that all the time so maybe i'm just missing something. like perhaps they have Too Many weird ~ironic~ "online enough to see the memes you made about me" vibes for people to be able to project their usual hockey ship narratives... rasmus is actually so underratedly funny in that online way to me LMFAO
but yeah thinking about how quickly they've turned around from the eichel situation is really wild... Honestly i feel like u could do work fic-narrative-wise with jskinner escaping noted hockey terrorist ralph krueger and having the worst contract ever so the material IS there! but i don't know... yeah they're at this weird kind of inflection point and lagging behind new jersey (honestly njd is such an interesting experience because while 1386 is pretty much established fanon at this point people still don't write them that often anymore? maybe hockey fandom really can't be salvaged) and whether they make the playoffs this year is a fairly big question mark but they feel sooo close to breaking through with just a bit more development/upcoming pieces, and having that archive locked and loaded is definitely beneficial in enticing newfans to the pipeline. i just hope it doesn't end up like the avs who have nerfed like 1382404 different databases of all their old videos for whatever reason i truly don't know why they used to do so much personality stuff that they then decided could no longer grace the face of this earth but lmfao. how can we get the stars to pretend to know one another in inane variety content on camera every week 😔