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[conuly]

So, you got my opinion on Heated Rivalry, but I gotta say, I will never not read fanfics structured like ongoing internet sagas.

Also, gotta love the one dude, BostonSportsBro69, who posts in both /r/relationship_advice and /r/hockey going around in /r/hockey saying "Uh, no, it's just normal sportsbro rival stuff, you're all reading way too much into this" when because he absolutely knows better. (I don't think he's supposed to be one of Ilya's teammates, just a fan.)

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Love the comments to this xkcd

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Comments

[movingfinger]

I am not following the show, but my impression from the memes and references I have seen is that Ilia is 1000% the guy who will pore obsessively over the comments arguing with them.

[conuly]

While also pretending he totally isn't the sort to do that, he's not that invested.

[minoanmiss]

Would you like a Star Wars Internet Saga rec?

[conuly]

Sure!

[minoanmiss]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79464551

The formatting! The usernames! The likes totals!

Also, how are you? I'm glad you survived yesterday.

[conuly]

I'm good. Manager straight up told me I had to sleep as soon as all the girls were in bed and I said "Yes, I do" and went right down to the basement for a solid six hours.

But everybody was okay yesterday. It wasn't great, because they all prefer if the day goes the way they expected, but usually you can ask them to try super hard on an exceptional day and they'll try extra hard not to cause trouble.

You can't overdo it - it's one of those things where they can do it for short bursts, but over the long haul you just can't expect it. If they could live independently, they would.

I'd brought cookies in case I needed to bribe them, and that didn't happen, so I left the cookies for after dinner today.

[minoanmiss]

You are made of awesome.

[rmc28]

I utterly adored that fic, and BostonSportsBro69 was a delight: "Are you TRYING to get recognised?"

[conuly]

There needs to be more of him in that fic.