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[olivermoss]

* A Heated Rivalry, an m/m romance about rival hockey players is becoming a TV show. It's going to be on Crave, so IDK if it'll be available in the US. Hockey based romance is huge, but not something I've read at all. I am kinda curious to check out the book since it's getting a show, but I am also drowning under my TBR list.

* The reveal trailer for Resident Evil 9 looks amazing.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Wow, that is hilarious about the hockey show! I wonder which RPF it was originally, lol.

[olivermoss]

That is a very good question!

[przed]

Thank you for the PSA! I've now got a hold on the book in Libby and will be keeping an eye on Crave. :D

[olivermoss]

I've added it to my TBR and hope there's a way to watch it in the US at some point.

[mistressofmuses]

It seems so weird that hockey romance (both the fully fictional and the RPF fandom types) is SO big! It feels like it should be super niche, but it's such a popular subgenre! Not one I've ever really explored, but periodically a mutual somewhere becomes devoted entirely to it, and I wind up with some proximal knowledge, ha. Interesting to have a TV adaptation!

(And the trailer does look real good!)

[olivermoss]

Hockey RPF is huge. It shared an honor with Untamed fandom in that it's drama created changes in how Ao3 works and why you can toggle accepting gifts. I am aware that it's massive and what some of the dramas are. I have no interest in getting into it, but I am going to read the book

[mistressofmuses]

Hockey RPF really does have that juggernaut presence. (Though I was not aware that it was the culprit behind the toggle for gift fics! I'm not surprised, though.) I feel like it's absorbed at least four or five people I'd followed for wildly different fandoms. I can't say it holds much appeal for me (other than, I guess, the whole "if I *was* into this, I'd basically have infinite stuff to read,) but I may also have to give the book a read!

[olivermoss]

Used to be you could turn off comments, but people could always 'gift' you stuff. Some people even wrote stories that seemed to be gift, and then turned on a dime to try to trigger / upset the author in question. This was before AI, these fics were artisanally crafted abuse deployment systems. Imagine doing all that work! It was effective because people get caught up in stories and that was really messing with people.

Heated Rivalry was really good. I am probably not going to read hockey fic outside of this series, tho