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arkangelee · 1 year

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BABY I’M NOT SO COLD (anymore)

character — akaashi keiji

pairings — akaashi keiji x gn!reader

premise — your next-door neighbor doesn’t really get into the christmas spirit… except this time you’re doing anything and everything to try and get him to crack a santa pun

genre — flufffff

warnings — none

a/n — i haven’t written in so loooong this is getting me back into the mood <33 plus i recommend the song hot & cold by smtown (i love jeno) this is my piece for @sintomii ‘s ‘baby it’s cold outside’ collab event! ps i hate the pacing in this too trust me i know

AKAASHI KEIJI isn’t all that surprised when he opens his front door on christmas eve and finds himself staring at a pretty big basket full of bright, christmas-esque stuff he doesn’t have knowledge on. it’s practically tradition now for you to send out baskets or boxes or packets filled with christmas goodies every december 24th. ever since you moved in the house right next to his own, his life has been a bit more.... colorful might be the right word.

anyway, he picks the basket up and turns around to head back inside his abode, when a lively voice picks up his attention.

you wave at him, smiling widely, “howdy neighbour!”

but as soon as those two words came out of your mouth, your expression contorted into a grimace. “i’m never trying that again.”

but you soon perk up again, remembering the conversation you’d just started. “happy christmas eve, akaashi!”

he nods at you. “happy christmas eve.”

“so flat,” you sigh. quickly sending a wink down his way, you add, “it’s part of your charm though.”

akaashi chuckles lightly. “you think i’m flat? as in–”

“yeah, yeah.”

come to think of it, it’s been a while since you’ve had a proper conversation with the dark-haired man. the last time that had happened was maybe two weeks ago, during the early days of the month of december. the situation had been similar to this, the two of you standing in front of your doors, talking about plans for the holidays.

“oh, how was your visit back home?” you ask him, placing both your hands inside the pockets of the fleece jacket you were wearing.

he shrugs, repositioning the basket he’d been holding for the past minute or so. “it was fine. i hung out with my friends and family,” akaashi smiles. “what about you, did you end up going anywhere?”

you shake your head. “nope, i pretty much stayed inside the house all month long.”

he laughs. “damn. if i’d known that, i would have come back a day early to take you out.”

“i know, right? it was–” huh. what did he say?

“yeah. do you prefer baking cookies over marathoning movies? or is it the other way around?” he says, so casually.

you gawk. “huh?”

somehow, akaashi keiji, the akaashi keiji, is now only inches away from you, and you don’t know how that happened.

he reaches under your chin and gently moves your jaw shut with his hand. “you better not leave your mouth open, the flies may come in.”

he grimaces. “i can’t believe i just said that.”

you blink and shake your head. “i can’t believe anything you said just now.”

“believe it or not, i’m expecting a text later tonight.” he grins. “or maybe a rejection.”

“now why would i reject you on christmas eve? out of the goodness of my own heart i humbly accept your offer.” you smile widely. “favorite movie’s the grinch, by the way.”

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#i am not a fan of this #akaashi keiji #akaashi keiji x you #akaashi keiji x reader #haikyuu akaashi #akaashi x you #akaashi #keiji akaashi #haikyuu!!#haikyuu x reader #haikyuu imagines #haikyuu scenarios #haikyu x reader #res.com #authored by res #res.hq

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turndecassette2 · 3 months

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#watercolour #art #tolkien #elf #feanor #or it was meant to be feanor but I was too lazy to google what hair colour he was supposed to have & I know some ppl care deeply about #those sorts of things #I need to re-read this book #just remember it being good tragedy #& the author cares about trees in a way I find strangely moving & sweet

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frownyalfred · 1 month

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“Why are you bullying Hal Jordan so much in this fic?” Because it’s funny. Because it’s funny and he’s not a real person.

#I have deleted like three asks calling me a bully #it’s a fic #it’s made up #I promise I would not say/do any of this to a real person #in the meantime please enjoy my author note #which is hilarious after a re read #I was iffy about including it but now no regrets #bruce wayne #batman #dc #myfic #theresurrectionist #Hal jordan #I just love when Bruce takes care of Clark you know 💜#superbat #clark kent #superman

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demigod-of-the-agni · 1 year

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some memes to help me cope because i am god's strongest soldier

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aroaceleovaldez · 2 months

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Something something Jason feeling like he doesn't quite fit as "Greek" or "Roman" as a metaphor for bisexuality, particularly the semi-canonical bi-coding in his half of experiences during the Cupid scene and how Favonius and Cupid speak to him in parallel to the scenes confirming Nico is gay.

Something something the camps as metaphors for traditionally acceptable forms of relationships and Nico living as a rogue outside of them, rejecting expectation (ergo in himself representing a metaphor of queer identity and living outside of boxes and defined/usually hetero-allonormative/binary ideas of what love/relationships should look like) versus Jason struggling with the expectation to conform to a label and even discussing with Nico both of them remaining at CHB together.

Something something the inverse of Jason shifting away from the camps after he breaks up with Piper, feeling lost and unable to find a place between the camps as he begins to explore his queer identity properly for the first time versus Nico only remaining at CHB because he has entered a relationship. In this essay I will-

#pjo #riordanverse #jason grace #nico di angelo #analysis #i know ive semi-rambled about this before here #but i was thinking about it on the discord the other day #for those in the discord forgive it being mostly copy/pasted from my rambling lol #i say ''semi-canonical bi-coding'' re: the Cupid Scene because. well. it's in the text! it's pretty overt!#which means it's pretty canon but nobody ever really discusses it and Rick has never acknowledged it #but also he never acknowledged Reyna's aspec-coding until a rare instance of him responding to q's on twitter #(that chain was also specifically sparked by me in that instance - due to him replying to my open letter about aspec coding in the series #- which i still find amusing cause it is SO obvious he didnt read it)#and he only like once acknowledged his mostly unintentional aspec-coding of the Hunt on goodreads #and very frequently goes ''death of the author - whatever i say outside the books is irrelevant and doesnt matter. read it how you want.''#''if you can get it out of the text then there's your canon.'' which i respect. reject ''word of god'' canon embrace analysis

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saradika · 2 months

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bleed for me

I’ve been working on a new hobby for a while (and it’s far from perfect!!) but it’s cool to think I made this from start to finish!

#also trying to get comfortable sharing the process of learning!#parts I liked: typesetting!!!! and the designing and weeding the htv #parts I did not like: the actual construction haha - I pressed too hard with my heat press and glue seeped out on the cover & back #AND painting the edges - I think I did the wrong method #but! I think the next one will be even better #and for clarity re: some binding discourse #I’m binding for personal use only and with authors permission 💖#graphics are from Canva but edited by me #fan fic binding #fic binding #jess binds

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lbhslefttiddie · 7 days

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youve heard of sex flowers get ready for the flower that makes you into a celestial shoujo herione complete with particle effects you cannot turn the fuck off and creates a wifebeam so powerful it can incapacitate and maim and keeps making you burst into tears and fall on your ass which makes the wifebeam More Powerful and you also cannot turn this off either. and is also still, sort of, a sex flower

from one of my favorite fanfictions, Celestial Afterglow by elanor_pam, a fic that defies description in the best possible way

#arts #shen qingqiu #svsss #listen im not saying that ive spent a cumulative half a year reading this fic and then trying to make an arts for it #and then getting frustrated and stopping because i couldn't figure out how to make sqq shimmery enough #but like. im not NOT saying that #this is the FOURTH time ive started something for this bitch it haunts my fucking dreams and yet the opalescent glittery sqq evades me #perhaps you o unlearned fool look at this and say hmm that's too many colour layers and glowy effects but oh how wrong you are #if it doesnt make you literally fall over yourself at how otherworldly and radiant he is then there is room for improvement yet #perhaps you look at this and you think Wow!!! this gives me literally NO ideas what this fic is about #well Let Me Tell You. i have no fucking idea how to summarize this fic #its not often the tags in a fic give me pause but i saw this and as i read the tags i was increasingly just like What #but i have no idea how to describe it. the tags arent NOT accurate but i was SO unprepared for what happened in like an extremely pos way #if i were tagging this i think i would give it the no archive warnings apply label if that matters to you #the author seemed they wanted to leaned towards over caution rather than risk missing anything re tags because This Is A Weird Fic #but oh my fucking god #i am gripping you by the shoulders i cannot stress enough how charming it is #brilliant characterization especially with airplane in the first scene #and also so much fucking funnier than i thought possible for the general setting summary tags and buildup #its just. ough. its good

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padfootastic · 11 months

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i just want to put it out there that sirius black is scary as fuck from a purely physical point of view.

he’s tall as shit, has been since fifth year when he got his growth spurt, and he has tendency to loom over most people.

there’s also the matter of his poker face—it’s impeccable, untouchable. can make anyone feel like him stuck to the bottom of his shoe. he learnt it from the best in house black and it’s his default. there’s a reason people are afraid of approaching him, and are slightly awed by james’ ability to unconditionally do so at all times.

his magic is ridiculously sentient. it swirls around him at all times, often feeling suffocating to those near him. he doesn’t even notice how it swells with his emotions, rising in his defence without him having to call it. at times, it can feel like a brick wall, that’s how powerful it is. and it’s cold. people have been known to shiver and turn into metaphorical icicles around him.

and he’s also just intimidating in a—social capital way ykno? so much money, training, and status. it shows. he could be dressed in a potato sack and he’d still reek of royalty. which is essentially what the blacks are.

and this is it u don’t take padfoot into account. this fuckoff huge Grim who’s literally an omen of death, easily twice the size of any human around him, just bounding around with sharp canines on display and malice in his eyes. it’s the easiest thing to piss ur pants when u come into contact w him.

#sirius black #james potter #goes without saying most of these are hcs #not the height thing tho that’s just canon #(and what inspired this too lol)#i was just thinking of how sirius is physically imposing #and how u don’t need to be built like a truck for it #bc james is. but he’s not threatening. he is slightly intimidating in that he commands authority #but people aren’t *scared* of him #sirius tho?#people cross the road to avoid him #and this is just him as is #when he actually starts dressing up and shit #it’s worse #some of my fav sirius descriptions in fics are just when they’re describing his power lol #pura khada ho jaata hai ngl #bc he just??? has so much?!? of it??#and that’s not to even touch the political or economic part of it #idk man he’s just hot all around bc of how powerful and this scary he is #also re sirius’ height; one of my fav posts on this hellsite will forever be the nba player sirius one lmao #v v accurate i think #pen’s notes

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thelaurenshippen · 6 months

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cw: harry potter, jk rowling, transphobia

I occasionally see posts/get messages about the various harry potter references in the bright sessions, etc. and I've gotten a bunch of new followers recently so just so any new/younger listeners of my shows know:

jk rowling is a terrible transphobe whom I hold zero respect for and I haven't given a dime of my money to her since she revealed who she truly is. I want the whole bright universe to be a safe space for trans people (including the trans folks in our cast and crew!) and if I could go back and remove those references, I would. but I can't! harry potter was an extremely significant part of my life until...well, until it became very clear who she really was. it makes me so sad to think that folks might be finding TBS now and get thrown out of the story by these references, but just know that the people who made the show do not stand by jk, and that in many ways, the show is a product of its time.

#the bright sessions #harry potter #jk rowling #transphobia #I know there's PLENTY to say about the bigotry in the actual books and I think there's a lot of merit to those criticisms #and I'll own to choosing not to see some of that stuff before all this went down bc the books were meaningful to me #(this is not HP specific - another beloved childhood book series that was EVEN more formative to me growing up)#(is also something I've grappled with in recent years bc I think the author is actually probably wildly misogynistic)#(even though he's never behaved badly (far as I know) in his public life - there's stuff in the text)#BUT ANYWAY #it can be so hard to remember that we didn't have ANY inkling of her bigotry in this regard until 2018 #all of the original run of TBS was written before that #and I'll admit I gave jk the benefit of the doubt in 2018 re: her liking that tweet! I wanted to give her a chance to learn and grow #and she did....not do that #but TAMA was written in that little grace period #and then a few references in TCT were taken out during recording bc june of 2020 was when she really started to go mask off #and so we were making changes in real time #we didn't know what to do about quidditch #bc we were like 'this is a sport that people play in college and it's just called that?'#'and it's already canon that caleb plays?'#and it wasn't called quadball yet #anyway not trying to make excuses!#just know that none of those references were put in with any malice #and I guess I *could* go back and rerecord all those lines and replace them #but I know enough about my original audio engineering to know that it woudl be VERY hard to make it sound natural #and idk I do think there's something to be said for not covering up errors in old work #I'm not going to try to pretend HP wasn't important to me #EDIT: I've turned off reblogs for this post #also this is not me trying to tell other people how to approach their own HP fandom #fanworks especially - there's no benefiting jo in that - and I think it's totally legit for ppl to want to take HP as their own!

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arkangelee · 2 years

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CHANGE

character — fushiguro megumi

pairing — fushiguro megumi x gn!reader

premise — it’s not the same anymore

genre — angst yay

warnings — no mentions of cheating (but implied) just angst and arguments

a/n — i have never in my life written angst before so yes — for @okkatsudon’s collab!!

i. fushiguro megumi

change is gradual.

most of the time.

it doesn’t feel noticeable.

but why is it that the more you look, the more it hurts?

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the increasing rain checks.

maybe it’s true that he really was tired, and that he really did oversleep or had a change of plans, but it doesn’t sting any less. maybe he just really was tired. (you want to say ‘tired of you’, but for some reason, it doesn’t come out.)

it’s the second time this month. he’s… less punctual than he would be. before, at least. before… whatever’s going on with him. you think maybe it’s the training? or the curses? whichever it is, you hope everything’s okay with him.

it’s the second time you’re left hanging outside your front door, eventually getting inside and slumping on the couch, enthusiasm dissapearing away. ‘it’s fine,’ you think. he’ll come next time.

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the missed phone calls.

sometimes you fall asleep with your phone angled towards your ear, not on the nightstand where it would usually be. you wonder if he wakes up in the morning, seeing your calls that he missed and panics. or does he brush it off and go about his day, sending you an apology text in his spare time sometime in the day.

“hey, stop scrolling through your phone at night.” your mom reminds you. it’s the third time she’s found you in your room with your cellphone inches away from your head, laid on the same pillow. “i will.”

it’s the third time the ‘goodnight’s and the ‘i miss you’s were missed. ‘it’s okay.’ you think.

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fast forward

the fourth time.

the sixth.

and the ninth.

and the thirteenth.

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the argument.

“i was always two steps away from you.” you breathe out shakily. “whenever- whenever you needed something, mundane or not, all you had to do was take two steps toward me. and i would have bent like water for you. i still would.”

you sigh. “i wish i could say i hated you.”

“i-“ megumi cuts himself off, and the mere fact that you thought he didn’t have anything to say to that speaks volumes to you.

“you- you would only take one. you always, always take one step and you wouldn’t take the other.” by now, you were sure that you looked like a mess.

megumi stepped closer to you, tipping your chin toward him and used his free hand to cup your face and wipe away the tears staining your cheeks. and you let him. god knows why you let him. a moment passed, and then another.

“you’re doing it again.” you say softly.

he didn’t seem to want an explanation. you don’t wonder why.

“go. go to them.”

you think that it hurts the most when he doesn’t look back.

change is gradual.

it’s permanent too, most of the time.

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blinkpen · 2 months

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i can't handle drawing baby lamarr he is too moomin shaped look at him

#mog art #artists on tumblr #lamarr #dragon #anthro #its funny bc i loved/love moomin but this was not intentional? its just the natural result of sanding off all of lamarr's pointy angles #and making him ever so small #and i guess putting him next to a good but antisocial gadfly buddy with a big nose and utter contempt for authority #fun fact i saw moomin anime on tv bc i was in japan for a bit as baby toddler #and it left a strong if vague Imprint in my mind but i never remembered it clearly or what exactly it was till i re-discovered it #through creepy ass art of the groke? and was like Yay Moomins Again about... 3 years too soon for the viral era lmao #eye injury cw #blood cw

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masterkeynobi · 1 year

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is there anything better in the world than Aabria Iyengar Wizard Arrogance. is there ANYTHING BETTER IN THE WORLD than aabria iyengar wizard arrogance!!! i don't fucking think so!

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Aabria Iyengar I slam my staff on the ground, revealing it to be that tall, jagged glass spire of the citadel. [A sound of crashing glass] She's at her full 6ft tall, and pulled back a sleeve enough to see that, like, ring. This is a big enough city that they should know how to respond to this energy. Brennan Lee Mulligan Amazing. Go ahead and give me intimidate with advantage Aabria Iyengar Thirteen! Brennan Lee Mulligan What do you say to Oscar as he's standing in front of you? Suvi [Aabria] Move.

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#sree.txt #SHRIMP EMOTIONS RE: THIS WEEK'S EPISODE BTW EURSULON... BABY BOY...#but like. god suvi's in this for so little relatively speaking but the VIBES the VIBESSSSS #i love you babygirl i love you!!!!! and i know the word most often applicable to aabria wizards is of course Hubris. but i dont know #if we know suvi well enough to be able to apply that yet #it's still arrogance though! hiding in her mother's cloak and told not to look at the danger but she peeks her head out and looks anyway #blue-coated prodigy complaining about boring work when she's on track to be the greatest already #always demanding more! so so certain that she's capable of more!#& here now throwing her goddamn weight around -- righteous anger and authority and an expectation that she will be obeyed (and she will!)#god. suvi i want to know everything about you let me into your brain #the wizard the witch and the wild one #wwwo spoilers #<- will start tagging that i've been negligent about it #suvirin kedberiket #aabria iyengar #paragraph tags

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sergle · 6 months

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I had breast reduction surgery like two weeks ago and I've been having some small yellow leaking with no pain or odor, and I've read it's supposed to be like liquified fat, but it's still kinda scary (Dr knows this happened but didn't really say anything about it—)

Did you experience anything similar?

Nope!! But it IS normal. Tons of the ppl in the breast surgery group I'm in have had the exact same thing! It's just drainage. I don't know if it's fat, or lymphatic fluid, but this is exactly what would be siphoning out of your boobs if you had drains put in! I didn't have drains, and I was sewn together pretty tight / I closed up fast, so I didn't have anyplace for it to drain, lol, my boobs just FILLED UP for like the first week before my body processed it all internally. anyway. you're all good!! it's not infected, if that's what you're worried about. You'll be going through a lot of gauze while this sorts itself out. EDIT: also congrats on your reduction!!!!! 🎉🎉 EDIT EDIT: If your doc didn't already give you Goo instructions, I was given a lot of goos to put on my incisions, and this is the one they gave me to use for the first 5 weeks. It might help you Close Up a little quicker!

#me talking like I'm an authority figure or educated HA but no--- I just have anecdotes from other ppl #+ what my surgeon told me and what came on my informed consent paperwork re: recovery expectations #sergle answers #The Goo thing is anecdotal because I can't prove that I wouldn't have healed the same without it #but like it did make me feel like the incisions were very Protected. and that's what I was instructed to use!#they more or less just told me that my incisions should be Protected at all times by something. for like the first 2 months #first 5 weeks it was That Goo. first hot minute the goo was accompanied by gauze bc I hated my incisions touching my bra #now I'm onto Scar Goo and silicone tape #I did mention the goo just bc leakage WHILE NORMAL and not a cause for concern can be keeping you open for longer.

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takami-takami · 6 months

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It makes me so sad how disconnected Keigo looks from his baby self in this picture. He's literally leaning away. The way his baby self stands so politely and keeps his arms in on himself (learned behavior).

#when I saw this page i wailed #wailed i say #🐇 rambles #the translation is the author talking about a mistake they made re: dialects im pretty sure #i didnt buy the book but i saw this manga issue at target a while back

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liesmyth · 6 months

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@takiki16 tags on my post are too good not to be shared! The context is wild shit that legit happened in IRL football ⚽ that I need the Ted Lasso fandom to be aware of, because it'd make for excellent fic material:

the MANAGERS #the PERSONAL DRAMA#I KNOW that ted lasso is not designed to be an actual realistic show #I KNOW that this whole thing did in fact begin as a way to soft trap Americans into watching the Prem #to the point that JOSE FUCKING MOURINHO ACTUALLY HAD A PART IN THE ORIGINAL NBC AD #I do NOT want to change the vibe of the show at all #(but like…a dramedy about the EPL that REALLY wanted to roast some fuckers would perhaps…NOT look like ted lasso #if they wanted to start with the managers it would just be two middle aged idiots with BOILING beef #who had to be physically restrained from throwing hands every other game and have personally destroyed each others’ marriages

Okay WHO would Roy have managerial beef with. I vote Arteta. Actually as @elizabear suggests, it's funnier if it's one sided

He would also instinctively dislike Rob Edwards of Luton because Jamie once said he's the hottest manager in the EPL. Roy's annoyed and he doesn't know why. (Rob Edwards is very hot)

For an example of managers throwing hands... the Tuchel/Conte handshake

In fact here's a whole compilation of managers throwing hands.

Thank you for bringing up Mourinho! This is his ad, btw. "What do you WANT Ted?" lives in my mind rent-free

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After much soul-searching I've decided Roy likes Mou a lot among all the managers he's played for. YES, he is a total cunt BUT

he's really fucking funny about it. Like, really.

he's never met a referee he didn't have beef with but most of all Anthony Taylor (as a Roma fan I have to agree with him on that)

the entire 2005 Chelsea team would've died for him. I've said this before, but there can't be a Frank Lampard in TL if Roy plays the box-to-box midfielder role, so this quote about Mourinho walking into Lampard naked in the shower to give him a pep talk? That's Roy. To me.

I can't even pick a quote among all the shit he's said about all the managers he's played against, but I especially enjoy when he used to be a bitch about Pep and Pep was like "I don't know her." It was like a one-sided crush dating back from their Barca days

#if they wanted it to be about the players the literal sky is the limit. WHATEVER the writers room can come up with#it cannot come CLOSE to the batshit drama that real Sockckckckcer Playahs have amongst each other#also intricate rituals. NOT ENOUGH INTRICATE RITUALS#when Jamie scored that free kick after getting permission to be a prick Dani should have kissed him with tongue

Here's some homoeroticism:

#but TO COME BACK TO OP’S POINT ABOUT ACTUAL GAMEPLAY#I want to see Coach Roy get red carded and have to sit in the stands for the next game cursing and swearing

He'd get, like, 3 red cards a season MINIMUM. Mourinho who. Here's Klopp losing it a bit. Here's Pep being passive aggressive as fuck. Pochettino from 2 days ago. Also from last weekend: De Zerbi's "I don't like 80% of referees in England" he's so right for this.

Manager Roy would get himself red carded the week before Richmond play Chelsea away. Totally accidental. So he doesn't have to have a lil cry about it.

#I want to see what it would take to get Zoreaux sent off#and then they have to stick Bumbercatch in goal and it turns out he has some Hyper Specific Phobia about the situation#he manages to save the team but his coping mechanisms for dealing with Forcible Keeper Phobia make up the comedy B-plot of the episode#

I want CLUB RIVALRY. dunno where Richmond actually physically is but imagine if they had derbies#Ted has to be made to understand that no coach - for THIS game we will not stop till we see BLOOD#Richmond wins but bc they are playing away the home fans actively are tossing crap at them as they celebrate on the pitch#also the sprinklers come on and it’s a bus full of soaked greyhounds on the ride home

They're in West London! Maybe they just fucking hate Fulham. Or Brentford.

Actually, I've thought long and hard about Richmond's derby rivalries. Semi-canon sources say they have a bit of a West London rivalry with Brentford BUT to me it doesn't make much sense because Richmond are supposed to have been mid-table in the Prem for years, top-flight but mediocre. Brentford only made it to the Prem in 2021.

Actually, I've decided that Richmond kind of take the place of QPR for most of their history, except they didn't get relegated when QPR did. This is because 1) it'd be too many London-based clubs otherwise but, more importantly, 2) when Man City won their first title in 2012 with Agueeeeeero!!! that was against Richmond. It's funny, To Me.

Also you know Roy still fucking hates Newcastle from his Sunderland academy days. If his pundit career had lasted longer he'd be having top tier shithousery with Alan Shearer every week about it.

Anyway here's a whole youtube playlist about WILD derbies.

#ALSO BC SUAREZ IS COMING TO MIAMI - BITING INCIDENTS CAN THEY DO THAT

As an Italian I am legally obliged to SAY that if Suarez hadn't bitten Chiellini at the World Cup we would have gone past the group stage because Uruguay scored off a corner they won while Italy were all busy telling the ref that there was a fucking cannibal on the pitch. I don't forgive and I don't forget.

Anyway for context: cannibal Luis Suarez. He's a repeat offender. Someone at Richmond would think it was very funny

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#once again sticking this footie post in the tag #ted lasso #FIC AUTHORS I HOPE THIS INSPIRES YOU #tumblr user taakiki16 you're SO valid for those tags I love them #sports #i'm sorry re roy & mourinho it's just true. roy in his prime playing days wouldn't have cared about the cuntery #as a manager he wouldn't be shit to his physio but as a player? sorry it wasn't a deal breaker. he likes mou more than ancelotti. to me #ted lasso meta #i mean. sort of lmao #long post #afc richmond #roy kent #various irl footie people #futbol

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queen-mabs-revenge · 7 months

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there is something so exceptional about the audio form and the kind of...meta-narrative (?) of horror it creates that really leapt out at the end of this re: dracula episode (25 Sept).

seeing the runtime of each episode sets the scene - 27:06? ok, i'm in for something here -- we have a few, uhhhhh, long-winded characters in rotation so it might not be an eventful something, but at this point in the story, we've already been gutted by episodes with longer runtimes so just glimpsing the runtime already sets the scene for heightened dread. you might set aside time to experience the dread instead of maybe quickly listening to a minute long episode wherever/whenever you are.

i luckily got to listen through without interruption and so i was only vaguely aware of the passing time in that approximate way one's body clock ever is. so as this episode came to a close, and mina asks van helsing to not reply if he agrees to meet for breakfast, the dread spiked

i didn't know how long was left in the episode -- the music was still lingering. how much time has it been? 27 minutes? it feels like it could be 27 minutes, but it also feels much shorter? can't be sure. and even if the runtime is nearly elapsed, we know from previous episodes that a telegram can take mere seconds, a journal entry just a few words. is van helsing going to be called away? is he going to cancel the meeting? is mina going to be left alone again with no answers and no friends? with the count and the 'bloofer lady' closing in? how long has the music been playing? holding my breath for the morse code. holding my breath for van helsing's voice. holding my breath for 'letter by hand'. holding my breath for 'letter unopened'...

"this episode featured..."

relief

when reading, you have the unread pages in your hand constantly telling you the story of the progress of the narrative's shape. unless every piece of ephemera of an epistolary story is set on its own separate page, you can see the next item in your eyesight. sure, even if they are on separate new pages, you can see through the printed page the shadows of the text on the next, giving you a subconscious hint of expectation.

with a film, you lose the tangibility of the physical object informing the narrative, but you have other sensory cues - something like a fade to black over the lingering music can manipulate your expectations of narrative completion (and either follow through or subvert them). if you're watching on a device, an accidental activation of the screen or cursor might give you a glimpse of the progression bar, again changing your narrative perception.

with an audio drama you're left with just the one sense as your guide. unless you're actively watching the progression bar as you're listening or actively watching a clock, you just don't know beyond your own imperfect perception of time what you're in for and fuck me the added anxiety because of that is just

whew

#re: dracula #i have a deep obsession with the inescapable narration of the material art form on the art itself #and man oh man this was a treat for me today #thinking of how other things can shape your narrative experience #if you're listening while walking on a familiar route and know how long it takes you to walk from point a to point b #passing a physical landmark might spike dread because you suddenly are aware of time passed and remaining #literally a fire hydrant. a weird tree. a crack in the sidewalk could be a meta-narrative device #something that the author has no control over can shape the perception of their story #going feral about it actually?

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