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I'm not sure why I keep watching So You Think You Can Dance. Some of the dancing is beautiful and yet I am so tired of them saying things like "this is the most diverse season yet!" while cutting POC dancers in favour of white girls who could be twins, and lumping the stepper and this guy:

(Cyrus, who is amazing and one of the few reasons left to watch the show even if I don't actually know the name for his style of hip-hop) into "hip-hop" (which is accurate, but does not describe the massive differences between their styles), while making sure we know that the remaining contemporary, jazz and "classically trained" dancers are all doing TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS, REALLY. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth, though I will probably carry on watching, whining throughout.

More cheerfully, I am loving the pictures from the hockey players' bargaining meeting. They just remind me so hard of my experiences with union meetings, even if their stakes are much higher so they're probably paying marginally more attention than we all were, and ours never involved shirtless glamour shots posted to facebook. There's just something about a bunch of people eying their copies of the collective bargaining equipment and taking advantage of the catering, that is instantly familiar to me, and makes me want all the terrible fic about sitting through terrible powerpoint presentations, and hating that one person who keeps asking questions that make it clear they don't understand any of the issues, or possibly even what unions are. It would be super boring to read so I don't think it's going to exist, but I'm enjoying the hell out of it in my head.

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those pictures are great! thanks for sharing - it's cool to see them all hanging out and honestly being casual (not the 'fake' casual of fan interaction) and brings back memories of my own union days long ago. I think I'll imagine that fic as well *g*

I'd read it! I mean, you'd have to balance between explaining what Unions are actually all about, since this seems to get obscured in current culture (My BF is anti-union in vague way, which is very confusing to me,) and not getting preachy about the boons of collective bargaining, but the politics there could be incredibly involving.

Well, so would I, if someone else wrote it, haha. I'm just not prepared to do all the work of researching precisely who is doing what where at what time in order to make the politics properly involving, and I suspect that the people doing 90% of the negotiating aren't exactly public figures anyway (which a) drops my audience to nil and b)kind of weirds ME out in writing rpf), so my version would probably end up being all jokes about which player would be that person (there's always one) who makes that comment (someone always says that) at the meeting, and it would be entirely self-indulgent. XD

It would be so hard not to get preachy too; an awful lot of my amusement at unions is based on hearing people of about the same age and background as a lot of hockey players just be totally baffled by ideas like union workers having good wages only because the union negotiated them, or the function of a strike being to inconvenience everyone until they do what you want, not to magically annoy management without depriving anyone of a service or good.

tl;dr, I have too many union feelings to want to do a bad job, and doing a good job would be haaaaaaard. /whining

*pets* Aw, poor thing, I wasn't trying (too hard) to incept you into writing hockey union shenanigans. Honestly, I think I'd read orig. fic (despite what they does to the audience numbers in general) by anyone about union negotiations, just because the potential is so amazing. Hell, I ought to be writing this myself. :P

XD I did get pretty defensive there, pretty damn fast, eh? I mostly just have to keep reminding myself that it's such a bad idea because I'd really like to read it, after all. Orig. fic about unions would be interesting, most of the existing fiction I know of about unions seems to be guys writing litfic about the ultra-manliness of the lumberjacks/steelworkers/whatever, which I find a touch dreary, even if I do support their right to a real wage and better working conditions. If you're interested in the NHLPA specifically, I have heard good things on the nonfiction side of things about Bruce Dowbiggin's Money Players, but I haven't read it myself.

Though hey, if you want to write it, I certainly wouldn't complain. ;D

Nah, don't worry. I understand the whole NO, I CAN'T WRITE THIS thing. Thanks for the rec!