For me, a big part of it is the nostalgia of it, because I spent a great deal of time in high school and college marching and spending time at football games. So those stories feel real to me, or even when ridiculous, touch a place that was very important to me for a long, long time. (And still is, really. Nephew is marching with my high school band and I still go to watch his halftime shows and to some of his competitions, my siblings marched with me and so sometimes we still go do band stuff, I would march with an adult marching band in a heartbeat.)
Plus I like high school and college football, so I find stories about it interesting. (And sometimes terrible, when it accurately addresses the shit that goes with the sport.)
I think there are interesting stories being told. Drumline 2, for example, deals with a main story about sexism on the drumline and a black woman trying to find her place, with a side story about gay black men (including a football player) trying to find love and also protect themselves in a world that sometimes hates them for many, many reasons.
And I really, really enjoy writing marching band stories (I would not have figured that out without writing Glee fic, weirdly enough), so I like breaking down the stories to see how I can do something different.
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For me, a big part of it is the nostalgia of it, because I spent a great deal of time in high school and college marching and spending time at football games. So those stories feel real to me, or even when ridiculous, touch a place that was very important to me for a long, long time. (And still is, really. Nephew is marching with my high school band and I still go to watch his halftime shows and to some of his competitions, my siblings marched with me and so sometimes we still go do band stuff, I would march with an adult marching band in a heartbeat.)
Plus I like high school and college football, so I find stories about it interesting. (And sometimes terrible, when it accurately addresses the shit that goes with the sport.)
I think there are interesting stories being told. Drumline 2, for example, deals with a main story about sexism on the drumline and a black woman trying to find her place, with a side story about gay black men (including a football player) trying to find love and also protect themselves in a world that sometimes hates them for many, many reasons.
And I really, really enjoy writing marching band stories (I would not have figured that out without writing Glee fic, weirdly enough), so I like breaking down the stories to see how I can do something different.
But a ton of it is nostalgia.