#i love talking abt sports

[gu3ntzel]

baseball violence ask: 4 + 9 + 10 and nhl violence ask: 14 + 16 + 25

baseball:

4. what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?

i dont think ive blocked anyone in baseball community??? baseball's so small on tumblr that its pretty easy to ignore/avoid ppl. i think ive only blocked one person on the nhl side bc they were legitimately insane.

9. worst part of canon

rob manfred that the owner of the cards and our head of BO are completely fucking spineless and wont pay the money for good pitchers and are effectively wasting goldy/nolan. i mean, ffs, you signed two starting pitchers that are both 35+???? ffs. if the money doesnt go to signing yoshinobu yamamoto them im kms

10. worst part of fanon

listening to other cards fans during the season if things arent going our way.

astros fans.

dodgers fans thinking theyre going to get nolan arenado

theres soooo fucking much im so irritated with and 100% of it has to do with other cardinals fans

nhl:

14. that one thing you see in fics all the time

that sid is some?? sad little uwu socially anxious boy?? even when he was young i dont think he was ever like that, like hockey is a highly social sport and he may be an intense hockey freak but hes not sad lil uwu

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

literally any ship with tyson barrie. what is your guys' obsession with him

25. common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

honestly im sick of ppl talking about ppl like patrick kane and jonathan toews and other shitty players like them, just stop fucking talking about them and theyll fade from the memory of social consciousness like they should

#!!!!!ty!!!! #i love talking abt sports

[skitskatdacat63]

And here is the bull himself >:)

+ lore notes

I was like, ah I should make the shadow something interesting, and then I'm like GIVE HIM BULL HORNS???? OKAY SURE !!!!! I'm glad such thoughts can strike at 7 in the morning....thanks brain. But hehehe I'm glad bcs now this matches up super well with the Nando one!

New ship dynamic: who's the bull and who's the matador :)

I think, in this AU, Fernando is generally pretty fond of Seb when he first meets him. Like "ah yes my very own protégé, very nice, I shall mold him in my image." But then Seb starts veering off that course. Bullfighting is all about being dramatic, but Seb maybe has a bit too much(🤏) flair for the dramatic. This escalation starts while he's still Fernando's assistant but he keeps it generally at bay. But god when he becomes a matador himself, he's just off the rails insane.

Bullfighting, to me, is a sport about reckless endangerment of one's self in the pursuit of drama and performance(its literally described as a tragedy in three acts.) But Fernando thinks Seb endangers himself *too* much, not because he cares or anything, but he's making a mockery of the sport!! Especially when Seb starts doing that bull hand symbol(seen above), Fernando just keeps become more enraged with him, not anything to do with the fact that Seb is threatening his records and threatening his own wellbeing, nah of course not.

Seb's gesture is making a mockery of the sport, he's disrespecting the culture, the very nature of it, blah blah blah. Jenson once asks Fernando, after noticing him seething while watching Seb do his gesture, "Which bull are you really trying to defeat?" One could also describe Fernando and Seb's relationship as a "tragedy with three acts."

Anyways Fernando gets very tied up with this rivalry. Even after suffering a severe injury(I have yet to decide, but y'know mchonda electrocution core), he quickly returns to the sport, loath to let Seb get any more headway. And then Seb gets injured, poor little sweet Seb, and neither of them can handle it. Though I already covered this in my prev lore post 🤭 and I think I put it pretty viscerally there so!! I digress.

They're both matadors, but the bull itself is not the only bull Fernando wants to conquer. Conquer as in death? Hm.

#i love matador au all my homies love matador au #<- its a lot of fun for me to draw and easy to have ref for :) so its like my little comfort drawings #even tho i want to sob every time i write any of the lore down bcs it is so </3 #ah i just like how visceral it is ig #f1 is a dangerous sport but bullfighting is just. such another level of maniacs 😭 #ive talked abt this a lot w cofi lmao its just super interesting to me. just the whole mentality and display and culture of it #also just: trajes de luces go brrrrrrr #ah one day ill draw both of them in green suits 🤭🤭 #i had a chibi art of this au i was working on bcs i didnt have mental energy for a full thing #or at least i THOUGHT so #ive had the refs for this since 2 wks and im like YOU WILL FINISH THIS bcs i rly liked the pose 😭 #so then i just drew for like 5 hours straight. yknow as one does #and wrote this post at uh. 8 am. normal time for one to be drawing and writing. as one does. #WELL ANYWAYS PLEASE ENJOY MATADOR SEB #this au grips me the throat 😭 i rly enjoy it 😭 #i have a lot of thoughts ab the au lore itself but also drawing these is very no thoughts head empty <3 #also god side note. pink stockinks. i hated the idea of them at first. but now im like hehe hot pink time 🥰🥰 #its crazy how it doesnt clash that much??? i thought it would ruin the outfit but ah they suit everything p well #f1 #formula 1 #sebastian vettel #catie.art. #matador au

[wantbytaemin]

bday weekend day 3 success 😌💖

#just abt got back home from dinner w mom & her friends #they always treat me so nice they call me doll & talk abt how smart and beautiful i am and how my hair is so pretty etc etc like. i love #these women sm 😭💗 #btw i got a mini umbrella w DETECTIVE SNOOPY print 😭 literally perfect #& flowers.. roses ofc 🌹❣️ #and it was such a nice time and i drove home in sport mode as a treat 😇 but let me tell you im sooooo fawking WIPED idt ill even stay up #until midnight aka my actual bday kfhskdk #great great beautiful weekend i love being miss bday princess i get as many compliments during bday weekend as i do in like a full month #usually. so 🥰 good for the soul!

[plusultraetc]

Saw the tags on the Toshinori post and do you have more to share?? Any insights? If so I’d welcome hearing them 😭 He really is so self-sacrificial and it hurts but it’s truly at the core of who he is

This has been sitting in my inbox for almost a week because I needed to make a futile effort at organizing my thoughts into something coherent--but this is as organized as they're going to get for now! Thank you so so much for the ask though bc I do love to yell about MHA <3

(Obligatory reminder that I'm watching this show in such a confusing order so if what I'm about to rant about has been addressed before and I'm harping on it unnecessarily I Am Sorry.)

(For anyone curious, this is the post btw)

SO. It feels relevant to mention that my sister and I were talking about All Might in the first place because we were talking about MHA Moments That Haunt Us. For me, it's the 'I am not here' sign hanging around the neck of the All Might statue in Kamino Ward after the Paranormal Liberation War. It literally lives in my brain rent-free 24/7 365 days a year, especially with the AM vs AFO fight being relatively fresh in my mind. The reversal of All Might's catchphrase and all it represents hurts, but to display it at the site of his 'last stand' in Kamino? That's brutal.

All Might vs All For One and how that rematch plays out is so so important to the story for so many reasons, but one of them is that the fight itself is a sacrifice. Toshinori gives everything he has, short of his life, to defeat All For One. He gives up his physical strength, his public image as the unbeatable Symbol of Peace, and, effectively his Quirk ("Goodbye, All For One. Goodbye, One For All" haunts my every waking moment, still!)

This battle is also the culmination of years of All Might's life and heroic philosophy (because Toshinori has been both practicing AND preaching self-sacrifice in the name of the greater good since we met him. It's what he thinks a hero does). Kamino is the sacrifice to end all sacrifices, if you will. Yes, he does get to walk away from the fight with AFO, but he walks away irrevocably different, almost unrecognizable. He's forced to totally change his focus and his mindset and his life. Everything he has given up is made literally visible in the deterioration of his body.

But most most importantly, All Might's sacrifice at Kamino was... all for nothing. Even if AM defeated him in that moment, All For One is free less than a year later. The world is in shambles. People are afraid, and their faith in heroes is crumbling. Heroes are afraid, and this time, they have no idealized symbol to rally behind. When Dostoevsky wrote "Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing," he was talking about All Might btw.

Toshinori gave this fight (and his career, and being All Might) everything he had, and it still wasn't enough. He sacrificed so much of himself, and so much of how he perceived himself and his purpose, and he didn't even save the world. He just bought them time--and not much of it. I think that's why he's so desperate to keep fighting, no matter the cost, no matter what condition he's in--even 'quite literally half-dead.' He can't let Kamino be the Symbol of Peace's final stand, because Kamino was ultimately for nothing. Instead of saving the world, it has been reframed through the sign on the statue as All Might abandoning the world. And ever since then, he's been scrambling to prove that he is still here.

(There's also probably something here about Sir Nighteye telling him that he was going to die. Since Nighteye used his Quirk on him, Toshinori has been anticipating sacrificing his life for good. Knowing that his entire hero career is effectively a fight to the death has probably maximized his self-sacrificial tendencies.)

#ask #yagi toshinori #bnha all might #mha all might #love of my LIFE #i had more bullet points to include about all might's philosophy of self-sacrifice as both a hero and a teacher #but then i was writing random notes about all might as a product of hero society as opposed to a pillar of it and i felt like that one vide #of the old man going '90% of the time i have no idea what the hell i'm talking about' #it wasn't strictly relevant to this ask but maybe one day it will be it's own post bc toshinori messes me up when i think about him #for longer than 0.5 seconds #this is so word vomit i'm so sorry #liza blather #AND ANOTHER THING. a lot of the pros are self-sacrificial to an extreme (i made a web weave abt it) but all might is one of the few #who actually makes it his PHILOSOPHY. like he passes on the idea of setting yourself on fire to keep others warm as a Good Plan #which is NOT a criticism of him OR his fault it's what he LEARNED to do just like #i can't really blame the ua faculty for the sports fest as messed up as it was bc like. half of them are probably ua alumni. they #probably had their own sports festival. this is just like. not registering as abnormal to them. #okay now i will stop #one thing about me is if i'm not talking about kamino i'm talking about the sports festival #and on the off chance i'm not talking about either i'm talking about the joint training arc

[skylilac]

this book is acruakly soooo disappointing

#i was thinking like oh religion and queer angels and culty stuff that sounds fun but its actually SO BORING #every fifteen pages he started talking abt his ex like i still love him and also hes ENGAGED???? but he keeps saying betrothed like a weirdo #and like hes literally still in love w his ex but i KNOW thats not the real li but hes talked to the real li like six times maybe #like why put a love triangle if everythings lame and boring #and like the workd building fucking sucks its so bad all i know is global warming made it rlly rlly hot #and ok i get this kinda dystopian setting is hard to pull off but why is it SO fucking jarring i keep forgetting its dystopia #and like listen i get queer rep being important but this is SO BAD. #its like modern queerness + future dystopian apocalypse and it fucking sucks #like nothing abt queerness evolved over the last few decades?? are you fr?? we’re still having the exact same queer discourse?? #if youre gonna write a love letter to queer survival at least be fucking CREATIVE #im not buying that human culture stayed totally static except for global warming and a religious apocalypse #what abt race what abt sports what abt food what abt jewelry and clothes and ughhhh this is so boring #ok and the li also has no personality traits bc every time hes there alk the mc says is #wow! he has floppy hair! that he pushes back w bobby pins! #oh my i dont know how to use the bobby pins he gave me so im gonna dramatically throw them on the floor when we have our only fight! #ALL I KNOW IS. he has floppy hair it might be black #this book fucking sucksssss im so upset i hate gr reviews #avery rambles

[thecheesyboi1315]

I've only known mateo for one(1) episode yet he is already going on my kin list

#HE'S AN ART KID WHO GOT A TALK ABT BEING WASTED POTENTIAL AND HE'S ALSO SHIT AT SPORTS #HE'S JUST LIKE ME FR #I LOVE HIM #AAGH I'M DRAWING HIM IMMEDIATELY #lego dreamzzz #dreamzzz spoilers

[moregraceful]

often i catch myself at the tail end of using some coping mechanism i learned in therapy and it's working and i go, dammit, how i've grown. i really did remove myself from a situation (doomscrolling hockey hot takes) that was making me a worse version of myself (thinking about throwing a brick at mike grier's car) and engage in something stimulating (a podcast about aew wrestling) that was completely unrelated to what was making me upset while moving my body (scrubbing various surfaces) for an hour and it did make me feel better. and i didn't even think about it! i just did it. obviously it took a solid 13 years and three different therapists to really get that very simple behavior ingrained in me, but it did take eventually. incredible. growth is possible even for the most broken of us

#anyway i highly recommend tunnel talk to sports fans who need to listen to something wholly removed from traditional team sports #first of all bc i love lea second of all bc the hosts are SO FUNNY AND CREATIVE third of all bc they have such good chemistry #but also bc it is SO removed from any of my usual interests that i fully disengage with fandom for an hour while i do various tasks #it's a nice break from the noise. i have no clue who chris jericho is and everything i know abt him is from this podcast #and i hope i never find out anything about him from anywhere else #favorite podcast for real #also bc they are just. SO fucking funny. do i know what they are talking about any given time? NO unless they're talking abt matt jackson #and i love that and i want to live that way #fresno oilers.txt

[hairydykecunt]

i love weed okay. i’m never gonna stop smoking it rver. but sometimes i wonder if it fucked up my intelligence. and i can’t remember if i was like this pre smoking but i feel like i’m just really really stupid in like an annoying way 😭 like i know thiughts and i have opinions and i know facts but if my friends ever engaged in an active conversation that isn’t about weed i can’t follow or understand. horrified one day someone will try to argue with me and i’m gonna be too fried to reply coherently and just mumble a bunch of ‘what? what are you talking about? what does that even mean?’

#kitty talks #sometimes i feel really really fucjing self conscious abt it. unfortunately im also not like. musically/artistcally taleneyed #im just kind of here. idrk if theres anythung im Really good at but whatever #if only i got more art/guitar hobby support as a kid instead of . sports? snd then nothing else #could u imagine how good id be. i’ve played guitar for 6 years and im just Sooo bad and lame on it #ive been trying to learn but the intelligence thing is getting in the way cause. ur telling me i have to listen to some stranger on my + #phone talk abt guitar terms and teach me snd its. avideo snd im irl and its somehow supposed to make sense to me??? kys omg i cant do it #i cant do reading or video instructions and etc i need someone to be by my side who can see everythubg im doing snd tell me . god #i wish i had money fir guitar lessons or somethung waaaa or a friend who really wanted me to learn guitar snd taught me cause they love me <

[rubberbandballqueen]

About your tags: is there more that you can share about the OW fandom and fics? This was a phenomenon I wonder about too. It was one of the most popular fandoms around 2017-2018, but the way the fandom stopped on its tracks around 2019 was hard not to notice. Especially from people who didn't play the game but were aware of it's fandom.

oh! overwatch is one of about 50-ish fandoms i track for this one spreadsheet project i do as a hobby (which i Technically blog about @fandom-data-scientist, but i've been too lazy to do a proper writeup to explain what the hell it is i do), wherein i try to answer the age-old question: when did the weebs move to ao3?

(the answer is late 2015/early 2016. most likely this was in large part a result of undertale and sports anime, but that's currently just my own conjecture)

According To My Research(tm), the overwatch fandom peaked in late 2016/early 2017 when it comes to the number of new fics posted per month. after this, it declined quite rapidly, as it didn't even get to enjoy a plateau period.

(there's a reason why the plots are really wonky towards the end of this graph-- it's bc i found the past dates for number of fics archived to a particular site via the wayback machine. since those snapshots are typically bot crawls, the number of fics shown on the fandoms listings will not include fics that have been archive-locked. although i technically started this project in august 2022, i did not add overwatch to my tracking list until this june/july or so. my current guess for the small uptick in the rate of ow fics published to ao3 in october 2022 is that the sequel came out? and then the rate plunged for january 2023 bc of the ai scraping scare that happened at around that time-- nearly every single fandom i track had a significant drop right then bc everyone was archive-locking their fics. the rate shooting up in like july 2023 on this chart is bc like i said, that's when i added ow to my list of tracked fandoms; because i'm logged into my own ao3 acct when checking these numbers live, i get access to the archive-locked fics and so the display number goes up.)

in my experience, fandoms will generally kind of plateau in their fic production after their peak, which will ofc normally gradually taper off. games that receive regular lore or story updates probably have fairly long or stable plateaus, although i haven't made scatterplots or made any comparing analyses to prove this rigorously. this plateau period generally represents a time of fandom stability as the fair-weather, casual, or migratory slash fans run off to the next big thing.

if we ignore the fact the plague and quarantine happened, we can see a nice, steady, and very consistent plateau period for the danganronpa fandom from about 2018-2020!

let's look at an older fandom, like my archnemesis final fantasy:

granted, the ao3 numbers are kind of all over the place these days, but you kind of get my point by now, right? that healthy fandoms tend to plateau as the wind carries away the faintly-interested and leaves the long-haulers behind to form their communities.

overwatch struck me as unusual when i was on one of my long wayback machine trips because of the way there was a net increase of only two fics published from 1 july 2021 to 1 october 2021, when before then it had usually been in the hundreds or so. i then went on a work tangent n googled around n more or less concluded it had Something to do with some kind of scandal with the development company, but otherwise i don't really have any more comments on it hahaha.

#asks #Anonymous #long post #i was too lazy to open my other spreadsheets in the project but i probably could've gotten clearer/longer plateaus #out of some of the western tv shows i've been tracking. like glee. or spn. #glee is INCREDIBLY funny to me bc of the way it just DIES right after the finale. like a bubble POPPING #although frankly maybe naruto would've been a better example for a peak n a plateau bc of how steady its fandom is #anyway this felt kind of like an odd ask to answer on this blog bc i keep it Very Separate from my fandom blog(s) hahaha #anyway i also looked at the rate of fic postage for the kingdom hearts fandom n although i didn't talk abt it here in this reply #i thought it interesting how it seemed to plummet on ffn around when ao3 n tumblr started getting a foothold #and then after the weebs moved to ao3 post-undertale/sports anime boom it had a nice steady 300-ish fics/month there #ANYWAY the reason final fantasy is my archnemesis for this project is bc ffn has each game split into its own category #and so i have to count them all up every single time n when doing that for every single fucking date i have marked in the wbm #for 20 YEARS' WORTH OF DATES. well. it upsets a man just a little bit. #BUT I'M DONE I DID MY TIME ON THE FINAL FANTASY BACKLOG I'M FREE NOW I JUST HAVE TO DO IT EVERY THREE MONTHS WHEN I RECORD LIVE DATA #i talk abt this shit at parties btw. people love to hear me talk abt my fandom spreadsheets at parties.

[punk-pins]

i hope every man in my workplace kills himself when taylor swift wins the super bowl

#i don’t care about football or taylor swift but I am sick of listening to men in the workplace #getting performatively mad over the idea that one of thee most famous women in the entire world #is getting attention at their Manly Man Sports Game for Masculine Men #they don’t care abt Her individually AND they don’t care that it’s not even HER it’s the media circus and the nfl ITSELF #that’s choosing to use her image for publicity #they are just mad abt the fact that A woman. that ANY woman. is getting attention in the boys club. #when it’s 2 minutes of a 2 hour game #and I am so tiredddddd of being called a swiftie for saying Hey maybe we should not vocally hate women. who did not even ask #for the announcers to talk abt them. when they are trying to support their loved one’s passion and career #you hate women just say you hate women. famous men go to these games all the time and get pointed out and you don’t care #so why is it SUCH a big deal. when it’s a woman. it’s bc you fucking hate women !

[skitskatdacat63]

Watching the Brawn docu has me wanting to reach through the screen to choke out Christian and Montezemolo

#like i feel like obv theyre probably being dramatic for the sake of the docu #but at the same point it rly feels like they still hold a grudge #and im not one of those people who decrys the rb19 as being illegal or whatever #but my god for someone's car who gets accused of being illegal a lot christian youre sure talking a load of shit #like ik hes talking abt his standpoint from back then but atp in his career after all hes been thru #should he not be admiring them????? #as i said in my other tags: #wah wah angry bcs another team found a loophole in the loophole sport??? #i love tho brundle is like talking abt how he loves how teams exploit and bypass the rulebook #like to be the rulebook is like...you read it in depth so you can see what you can get away with #and obv the other teams will be annoyed but at the same time i feel like id be lowkey congratulatory like wow nice loophole!! #and also the rb5 was pretty good imo and just needed time and got bludgeoned by the brawn #meanwhile the ferrari of this ssn is basically like the ferrari of well this season #like ferrari and mclaren in 2009 basically had thw same situation as this yr #start out shit and then developed enough along the season to get podiums and wins #like rbr somewhat has a point bcs imo theyd def be the top team if not for brawn's double diffuser #so i get that yknow. but ferrari was just straight up trash and cant put up w the fact that they made a shit car #also 2009 KERS is SOOOOOOO much more broken and unfair than the DD imo!!! #like ex. Fisi totally should have won Spa but Kimi got him literally just bcs of KERS #but god yeah anyways these fucking politics ny god....the one thing max moseley did right was to accept the Brawn hahaha #why am i getting pissed at 14 year old drama LMFAO #fuck i am so happy for Brawn i think it would truly be the most unfair thing in the entire sport if they had screwed them over #i reallt just think the other teams were eternally salty because they voted to get Brawn into the sport #and then get pissy when Brawn is actually fucking fantastic #like they just expected them to be trash and then got pissed when they werent backmarkers its so dumb #ANYWAYS THEYRE NOW TALKING ABOUT CHINA 2009 MY FUCKING BELOVED SEBMARKSON!!!!!!!! #^ but speaking of that. so funny that christian was a total whiny bitch at the FIA meeting btwn Malaysia and China #talking abt how unfsir the decision was and then WENT ON TO WIN THE VERY NEXT RACE LIKE BRUH STFFUUUUUU #catie.rambling.txt

[reckless-rider]

TELL ME ABT A RANDOM THING U KNOW :D

OK OK SO THE LIGHTS AT FORT NIAGARA (I went there recently on vacation)

So there's a lighthouse there but it's too far away from the water to actually see something, it was added later. It's more for observation than as a lighthouse, it doesn't even have a light in it (I wished to see an actual functioning lighthouse bc I have recently become very interested in them blame the fic Silver Soul)

Anyway they had some stuff abt the lights there. So, the first light was put on a building called French Castle

But after a few years they took it down. Now they didn't have a light for a long while. But around 1703 they put in another light that lasted till abt 1723, only a decade. I don't think they added another light for another decade or so.

That's as far as my knowledge goes rn im sorry :(

But where gonna talk abt more lights actually!!

So Niagara falls operates around 50-75% during the day (I've heard a ton of different numbers). While at night I've been told abt 20-40%. Now during that time they turn on the lights to light up the falls, they do that so no one can tell the difference (at least according to the worker at the Power Station, which was so cool omg!! They had such a cool light show!!!!)

Anyway here's some fun facts :D

#ngl i was gonna give you a choice between lights and a sport i love #but i didnt rhink youd enjoy my like 4hr ted talk lmao #especially since it was abt sports and ik that bores a ton of people #but the lights were so cool omg #autistic-ranpo #ask #answered #anyway sorry i dont have the full story on the lighthouse yet :(

[lolexjpg]

"sebastian vettel can name every world champion" thats because sebastian vettel is WIERD

#this is referencing wendy williams talking abt taylor swift i love seb no one come after me #but bringing this up to be like ~max doesnt care abt the sport~ like seb is just a huge fucking nerd its so fucking irrellevant #ALSO FOR THE FUCKING RECORD . in that gril the grid max was second. he could name a LOT. in conclusion stfu #f1dump #she speaks

[dialux]

Hello! And welcome to the second blog post I'll be making re: badminton! Not going to keep updating abt this on tumblr forever, but my thoughts on sports are going in this archive so anyone interested should head on over there xxx

#badminton #sports tag #i am sooooooooo tired of the asian conservatives having shit analysis #they're the only ones talking abt this in english and i want!! to!! have!! fun!! w/out a language barrier!!! fml #anyway anyway yes pls go ahead and do whatever it's called on substack if you're interested in badminton #to interact w me! would love to chat xxx

[lewisbian]

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#lewis talking about how it was one of his lowest points and his friends describing actual shock and saying he was in a dark place after AD #reminded me of how i kept saying every other idiot in the sport was on fraud watch for watching this happen and not saying shit #and how i legitimately will NEVER forgive those who were popping champagne with christian horner #there is absolutely nothing lewis or any of you can say to make me feel any type of positive emotions for most of these men #and it's sick to me how lovely and kind lewis is to many of the men who publicly didn't gaf #one of the LOWEST MOMENTS OF HIS LIFE and what were these friends doing #i actually made myself irate abt this. bye