#that being said: i am know i am missing a lot of sidgeno rpf history bc of the purges later those years

[larryleeds]

for the last like 4 months, ive been reading exclusively sidgeno fics on ao3 in order of upload date, starting with the oldest* fics in the tag. as of 10/7 i am at the end of the 2014-2015 season where it feels like the fic writers came to an agreement on what sid and geno’s personalities would be like. and that’s definitely bc of the growth in hockey as a fandom at the time, but also it’s like someone pulled sidney crosby up by the scruff and went “you can fit so many complexities in this one” and decided that he wouldn’t just be hockey robot anymore. not that fic writers before then weren’t doing that, but so many concussion era material was written before then that fic!sidney was so sad all of the time. all that to say: watching fandoms come to agreements to build the personalities and relationships between characters is very cool. fanfic writers are truly the wielders of the history of fandom