Nothing Like The Author's Note Curse

one thing about sports rpf that sets it apart is that these aren't about supernaturally beautiful people like actors and musicians and kpop idols are which is practically a criteria for any media facing job; made to be aesthetically beautiful and trained to be charismatic. athletes are often charisma vacuums because they start so young and are hyperfixated on their sport and have no personality beyond it. most of them are actually quite plain looking. there's some notable exceptions of genuinely stunning face cards but most are pretty average and the ones that are considered hot are actually hot for An Athlete. now I know some of you are disagreeing vehemently, blorbo from sportsball is the prettiest of them all, but really it's cause sports fans have so much exposure therapy to them, seeing the same faces all the time over a year and engaging in media about them, that they start finding beauty in the mundane where when you get to know someone you realise they're actually beautiful to you. now there is a notable scale where the more popular a sport/team/athlete is, the more they have entire hair and makeup departments for magazine shoots and interviews where they are styled or at least aware of what hairstyle or way to carry themselves looks good on them, and that adds to their overall attractiveness. scale down and you'll see someone calling a male cyclist with fucked up teeth who looks like a product of balkan incest a gorgeous girl. and that's how you get novel length and often better quality written rpf about dudes who look like in every other life were destined to the local town's convenience store cashier bored out of his mind at a gas stop in between your road trip you'd never spare a second thought of again. and I think that's beautiful <3

in this ecobomy, the lack of fanfic writing as become the equivalent of losing ancient scripts

dear lord, please take all life problems and responsibilities away from fanfic writers but also make them financially stable and happy with nothing to worry about so they can happily focus on writing and posting fanfiction. amen

sincaraz tennis || roland garros 24-25 || match point

ben shelton's reaction to beating flavio cobolli for the first time

you know what? hell yeah!

you know it's a good match when jonathan liew comes through with the goods

at least sports reminds you that youre alive. the miserable emptiness of a loss is still a feeling

that one post abt tashi having beef with ostapenko has rlly got me thinking abt how the challengers trio would interact w the irl tennis tour and like. now i need to know all the details especially about art’s career as a top player in the big 3 era... do we think rafa had beef with him for stealing 2 french opens. did he play random exhibitions with roger and djoko. was there angsty livejournal slash fanfic written abt him and andy roddick or something IDKK

can't today. busy.

SINNERPAUSE - Week 5/12

written in the stars 🌌🦊