please indulge me for a moment:
I’m not one for world building in fics (I hate exposition!) but in sports dates world there would definitely be heated debates over who the greatest football couples of all time are. on a footballing level and power couple level.
on the footballing side people would argue that it’s about how strong the two players were together how did they elevate the team/country while others would value how they elevated each other’s play more. The synergy the two had. Basically pound-for-pound who were the strongest vs the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
To illustrate this let’s take two well known football couples in this universe: Kane & Son and Reus & Gotze.
Kane & Son: this one is easy. Kane is very good. Son is very good. Together they are very very good. Club or country together or apart they can deliver. Definitely one of football’s more recent power couples. That’s not even going into the brand power. Voted Football’s Most Marketable Couple for four years in a row now by a panel of industry experts. Currently there’s a bill on the floor of the South Korean National Assembly that would make July 18th national KaneSon day. Support is picking up steam!
Reus & Gotze: at dortmund they were unstoppable. And such a lovely couple too. But apart they never seemed to reach the highs they had together. But fans would say that isn’t the point. They argue it’s what the couple does *together* for each other how they mesh synergize etc that matters. What it means to be footballing *couple*. A bit like the peak vs longevity argument in actual football (lol).
Obviously Xavi and Iniesta are undisputedly number one on any list. They are the crowning achievement in Barcelona’s long and storied history of football couples: Cruyff and Neeskens, Figo and Guardiola (also one of football’s most dramatic divorces), Xavi and Iniesta… Some might argue it’s a part of Barca’s footballing philosophy, ingrained in their DNA as much as tiki-taka or free flowing football is La Masia? More like La Marriage Registry! (Real Madrid, not so much. If there were any couples they happened in spite of Florentino Perez.)
There are experts on football couples. Possible relationship synergy is Definitely a factor in transfer strategies. Not the main one, since modern football tactics have devalued pure partnerships but. It’s still considered. There’s an algorithm that shows a likelihood of love between two players. Highly important for CB duos, Midfields, etc. xK (expected kisses) and all that.
Which makes the Joaos a mystery! The algorithms had them at a whopping 15.1%. Yet somehow here they are… there are conspiracy theories but only on the most madridista of forums.
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feel bad bc my writing isnt as good as it could be like 80% of the time bc i dont put the time & effort into it that i should but i know if i strive for perfection ill just never post anything & id rather post a bunch of mediocre little things than not post at all. i do wanna try & actually plan out a decent story again one of these days but part of the thing that makes it hard is coming up with scenarios i like that i havent already written 20 times😭😭😭😭😭
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people will see a character that was created to be a certain way from the very beginning before everything was even set in stone, then actually written that same way even before The Plot happens in the final product, watch their core personality remain constant all throughout a show's lifespan from beginning to end, and even watch it be highlighted as a Good and True thing to be proud of and that is inspiring to others and sorely needed and not something to ever change or belittle in one of the most emotional scenes of a season that doubles as a high point & character defining moment, and instead of thinking Hm Maybe This Character Just Is This Way And We're Being Told That They Should Love Themselves For It The Same Way Everyone Else Does And How They Once Did Too Before Their Insecurity Got The Best Of Them And Told Them They Should Change, they will instead call it repression and not his true self and something to be changed even though it literally just is who he is. and all of this happens in the show where we are repeatedly hit over the head with the "you should stay true to yourself and love yourself no matter what other people think or tell you you should be". where the motto is literally "never change" nd conformity is killing the kids. like. Okay ❤️
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hi jason! sorry if youve answered this before, but what does aaoc stand for? i love the posts that you tag as such so im curious :]
its my tag for posts that remind me of my wip fic(s) !! i havent 100% settled on what to name the series yet but pretty early on in development i stumbled upon that passage by julian k jarboe (from the book everyone on the moon is essential personnel) that goes
Why does God create grapes and wheat, but not wine and bread? God does this because God wants us to share in the act of creation. To be how you made me, to become how God made me, though you, I can remake myself. You and I: we are already only whole, and shifting towards the divine.
and the author also has a tweet relating this concept to transsexuality and youve probably already seen one or both of these floating around on tumblr already but whatever i just wanted to center my t4t hannigram fic around these quotes cause theyre just. so good.
so yeah it stands for "an act of creation" except it should probably be "#taoc" if i wanted it to match the original quote but i cba to go and change it now which is probably not how placeholder tags are meant to work !! oh well . fic playlist <3
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I think the covid puppy Tim Drake story is finally kind of done! I think I've finished the second draft. Hopefully a third draft does not involve cutting 40 pages of material.
I really, really, really didn't mean for the story to get this long...I think it might be the second-longest thing I've ever written? I think I started like March 10, so it took about 1.5 months. So obviously the story is...very vibe based...if you were here for Hope Etc or Listen 2 Ur Heart think that, only 120k. It's a deconstruction of 90s Batman, takes ridiculous plotlines to the extreme, features the most dysfunctional family I've ever written in my life, and is about how we protect ourselves from suffering. It's not terribly funny.
I'll start posting it after Steph's adventures are wrapped up. Stay tuned I guess!
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i dont think any online friends know it about me a lot of people who know me irl do but i really like looking at people's handwriting & seeing how they like to write. like if people write big or small or how they space it or where they start certain letters & how many lines they use for them (ie do they add the lines on an uppercase i & if they do is it 3 or less total lines) do they mix cursive & print or do they mix uppercase & lowercase in the middle of words & is there a pattern in it or do they loop the bottoms of letters like y & g & j & is it consistent or only sometimes etc etc
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