#in the league. and i don't wanna downplay the pressure-cooker of superstar kid from a legacy hockey family. but like. i do not believe that
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every six to nine months i remember how check please handled the whole kent parson storyline and i get so mad i could spit
#this post has a target audience of Me i know none of y'all followed me for this but i need to get it off my chest. my boy deserved better.#like even just taken on its own as a general theme i think 'coming out Good closet Bad' is not great. i will concede omgcp was operating in#a period of time where the coming-out narrative was maybe more important than it is now. but even then? in the context of the nhl?? come on#it's 20 fucking 25. a decade out from omgcp canon and the league still can't decide whether it supports pride nights. come ON!!!#i just. augh. i get that there's only so much time and space and from a doylist standpoint there was also fan pushback against giving kent#a larger narrative role. but the way his arc ended just leaves such a sour taste in my mouth. truly i hate it so fucking much.#yeah yeah he's the toxic ex he's mean he's jealous whatever. he was a queer teenager in the exact same junior hockey hellhole as jack!!!!#he got drafted 1oa with his best friend-maybe-boyfriend in the hospital & got shipped out to the absolute worst of the bottom-feeder teams#in the league. and i don't wanna downplay the pressure-cooker of superstar kid from a legacy hockey family. but like. i do not believe that#could possibly be worse than the pressure and scrutiny on the actual first overall draft pick going straight to the show. be so serious.#so he can be a dick. ok? him and half the fucking league he ain't special. hockey culture is so fucking awful and i don't think kent is#uniquely worse because he was thrown - alone - into that instead of idk. figure skating to coed no-check hockey to liberal arts college#like i cannot stress enough that where bitty and jack had the most queer-friendly college campus in the usa. kent had an nhl team.#(famously known for their excellent approaches to mental and physical health and their standout cultures of wholesome masculinity.)#idk. frankly idk why i'm getting so heated over a silly gay webcomic that wrapped up 5 years ago. but the longer i follow actual hockey the#more i'm like. hey. if this were really what had happened in the real world. i could not in good conscience blame this guy for being fucked#up about it. everything about this is so fucked up.
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