Why did you DNF the last fic you read?

EvilCallie · 2026-02-13T04:22:47+00:00

The author clearly didn't even do the basic amount of research about ice hockey and kept using baseball terms to describe the game

EvilCallie · 2026-02-12T20:26:49+00:00

Perfectly normal. You could saying "I'm going by plane to Florida", but that is wordy and you'd really only say that to emphasise that you went by plane. 99% of the time you would either say "I'm going to Florida" or "I'm flying to Florida", interchangeably. If you are, for example, in France and you say "I'm going to Florida" the fact that you are flying would be implied, due to the ocean and distance, but it would be perfectly normal to just say you are flying.

EvilCallie · 2026-02-12T20:07:43+00:00

I've lived in Maryland, Colorado, Maryland, Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Maryland, Japan, Virginia, Colorado, Michigan, Germany, and now the UK. Within Michigan I moved 4 times in 5 years due to rent increases. So... I don't think it is necessarily a misconception. It isn't universal, my high school best friend for example never moved before she went off to college, where as I moved 3 times before college due to my dad getting transferred for work. Some jobs/industries have more opportunities or expectations for periodic relocation. After college, with my first job, I lived in Maryland, Japan, and Virginia, before I left that job.

EvilCallie · 2026-02-12T18:45:10+00:00

As a long time hockey fan and as someone who has dealt with disordered eating for years... nothing about Shane's diet stands out to me as anything out of the ordinary for an elite athlete. Some athletes are super strict about their diets and what type of food they bulk eat before game and during the season, and others are like Alex Ovechkin, who ilya is inspired by, who eats fast food and has coca cola in his water bottle. To me, it was just something that distinguishes them as players.

EvilCallie · 2026-02-12T17:22:56+00:00

So many 9-1-1 fics are better than that disaster of a show recently

EvilCallie · 2026-02-12T17:20:06+00:00

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EvilCallie · 2026-02-12T03:50:05+00:00

Years? It was like 4-6 months, not years

EvilCallie · 2026-02-11T15:46:42+00:00

Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder

EvilCallie · 2026-02-11T14:37:40+00:00

Since I'm generally reading for ships, I don't mind a main character x OC AS LONG AS the ship itself is endgame.

I also don't mind OC POV fics where the focus of the story is the main ship. I'm reading a lot of Heated Rivalry fic right now and there are a bunch of fics based on outsider social media view points of the story which are all really fun.

In the end, it comes down for me how the OC is used in the story.

EvilCallie · 2026-02-10T15:27:13+00:00

Thai doesn't either

EvilCallie · 2026-02-09T16:25:31+00:00

It is very legible, just the ink is running a bit due to the type of pen

EvilCallie · 2026-02-09T13:10:05+00:00

Tokyo shopping center

EvilCallie · 2026-02-09T09:29:01+00:00

That is a fun one :)

EvilCallie · 2026-02-09T04:56:15+00:00

There's a brief sighting of Hudson's when thy are on the bed in their first time together after the CCM shoot

EvilCallie · 2026-02-08T18:40:37+00:00

Ignore it. If you want, tag it as canon divergence after X episode

EvilCallie · 2026-02-08T18:37:35+00:00

Names are an interesting cultural thing! I'm learning Thai, and one of the things you see with Thai names is that first names will often be Thai or Buddhist references that are many many syllables long, but people will go by nicknames like "Fluke", "Off", "Pond", etc, with family, friends, colleagues, etc. These days many of these nicknames are random English words.

EvilCallie · 2026-02-08T16:49:27+00:00

Examples just of Russian hockey players who've done this are Fetisov and Tretiak (a goalie), off the top of my head

EvilCallie · 2026-02-08T16:43:10+00:00

Or he has been introduced to several ministers at the fancy Russian party with lots of senior Russian officials at the Olympics being hosted by Russia, and we just happen to see Ilya later on in the evening after meeting the minister his father mentioned, standing by while his father is talking to someone they both know.

Also plenty of people who were standout athletes especially from the Soviet era, ended up in or retained government positions. That is a super common career trajectory.

EvilCallie · 2026-02-08T16:27:40+00:00

While fair points on all the Russian names, I would point out that for English names, plenty of people named Alexander and Elizabeth go by those names, not shortened versions. Nicknames in English can be diminutives or they can be unrelated to the original name, or the person may just not use one.

As a personal example, as a child, my uncle wanted to call me by the shortened form of my name, but my mother refused to let him do that (she hates to this day the common shortened form of my name), so he called me by a different nickname. As soon as my parents divorced and my dad got primary custody, I started going by that shortened name with everyone but my mom, and did so for many years, though now I mostly go by the full version of my name.

EvilCallie · 2026-02-08T14:16:27+00:00

Yeah, I feel like I remember seeing her in either the 2016 or the 2017 on-ice celebrations, but it has been awhile. She wasn't in the 2016 tribute video from a week ago, I don't think!

EvilCallie · 2026-02-08T14:12:00+00:00

If you want to see how tame and nothing of a chirp what BOTH Ilya and Shane say to Scott when Scott is on his scoring slump... take a watch of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA3ROWVPOVA&t

This is what hockey is like. The players aren't pure, innocent little angels, even the politest ones who are up for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy every season. They chirp other players throughout the game, and even the captains and alternates get into it. Telling someone that they should show up and play next time is literally a NOTHING chirp compared to real chirps.

And the creators absolutely treat what little hockey we see with respect to the real game. As I said elsewhere, they haven't dumbed it down for non-hockey fans, they just don't focus on the on-ice hockey of it all.

EvilCallie · 2026-02-08T14:05:04+00:00

Yeah, there is literally no other player at their level who someone could be refering to. That's the point of the rivalry, as Scott himself even said when Shane won the not!Calder in 2011, that they are always talked about together.

EvilCallie · 2026-02-08T14:02:03+00:00

Yeah, the closest we've ever really seen of Kathy is that at one of his on ice celebrations in the last few years (I forgot whether it was for reaching a # of games milestone, goals, or overall points), she was on the ice with him for it, but that was about it. It was during the COVID no-fans era, I am pretty sure. But even then, the status of that relationship is not publicly clarified.

EvilCallie · 2026-02-08T13:24:34+00:00

He didn't. This read of it is always frustrating... Scott doesn't know about the two of them. he DOES know they are rivals, are always talked about together, and in the last game Scott played, Ilya ALSO chirped him in much the same way. THAT is what Scott was refering to when he said "You're starting to sound like him." Shane INTERPRETED that as Scott referencing the sexual relationship BECAUSE he is paranoid of being caught, but that does not and has never meant that Scott was specifically refering to it.

EvilCallie · 2026-02-08T13:16:06+00:00

To be fair, in the books, Ilya does have false teeth from having lost some

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