#Mikel

[bellerintwo]

"Edison invented the light bulb. Today I want to see a team that is connected because a bulb by itself is nothing. I want to see a team that is connected with each other and that shines. And you want to transmit to him light and energy and passion and how you play football. And each of us plays the game connected, because what happens when we play connected? We connect with 60 000 people that creates more energy, because at the end it is electricity that through heat creates light, and life. Because if not, it would be fucking dark."

happy birthday MIKEL ARTETA (b. 26 march, 1982) !

#mikel arteta #arsenal #arsenal fc #long post #HIIII !!!!!!! my first ever gifs!!!! i spent a week learning how to do this specifically for today gfdjhglfkdsjgdfgl 😭😭😭 #they're terrible i'm so sorry they're so bad and i'm sure it's all already been giffed by someone else but i really wanted to do something #anyways :) happy mikel birthday to all who celebrate :) #light of my life very glad to be able to exist at the same time :) #mikel

[arcadebroke]

#Mikel #Sanctuary #wangxiaolangman #music #video #edit #my edit

[longeyelashedtragedy]

send me a character and i’ll list:

Mikel!

oooh, this is an interesting one

i once told a friend, i forget who, that Mikel is what an AI would spit out if i gave it a bunch of traits i find desirable in a man. and fitting for an AI, mikel isn't actually someone i want in that way, if that makes sense? he's kind of...uncanny valley. off-putting. not quite "inscrutable," but, hmmm. sort of like his life partner granit, he's unlike anyone else out there, but in a very different way than granit is.

favorite thing about them: the passion, the stubbornness, the slight insanity, the toothy-grinned charisma. i think he'd be a great politician, which is a compliment in a sense that i love politicians in an academic sort of way (hate them in practice, with very few exceptions). the behind the scenes machinations re: auba's departure in all or nothing were kind of terrifying and fascinating at once. also, what he did for granit literally brings me to tears. it's the disney love story that disney love stories want to be. oh, also his ass. what the fuck kind of workouts is he doing

also random fun fact: his older sister is a bougie artist who lives in mallorca year-round

least favorite thing about them: a) what he's doing to aaron ramsdale. b) that he's a native speaker of euskera but he's NEVER spoken it anywhere. it is a beautiful language and i'd love to hear him speak it. mikel, your less hot counterpart xabi has spoken it in interviews, get on it

favorite line:

brotp: xabi alonso! i don't really ship them romantically, but i do love that they've known each other for so long and their lives periodically intertwine, like right now with granit.

notp: kloppteta (i don't really ship kloppo with anyone, sry guys!)

otp: runners up: pepteta, & mikel and tim cahill back in everton (they...TRULY were a force of nature in those olde interviews)

The winner...

XHAKARTETA

maybe, in some ways, The Best OTP Of All Time (*aside from rakidrić). it's everything, everything.

i write about it a lot on here from the perspective of what Xhakarteta did for granit, and will do that again in my granit ask. i think it wasn't as obvious specifically what it did for mikel until granit left and mikel really seems to have lost his marbles a little. i have the feeling that mikel doesn't fully respect that many people, or trust that many people, and i think his utter and complete respect/trust for granit was a relief to him, and having granit around as his true equal did more for his stability than he knew.

plus they're gorgeous together physically. imagine their kids! like. damn. they'd also speak some of the coolest languages on the planet.

xhakarteta is weird because i bash on my own writing a lot, but i'm really satisfied with how i write and interpret them. i give them that little exciting something extra 😈

random headcanon: mikel probably has the most basic milquetoast liberal politics on the planet

unpopular opinion: he looked better with the Rangers-era long hair and he needs his earring back! i don't know how unpopular that is on tumblr, but i think it's unpopular with him lol

song i associate with them: i have a couple, but as with most footballers my song associations are kind of on superficial levels (franko and my movren mix being the exceptions)

bulería by david bisbal - wrong part of spain, but this song goes harder than any song should be going, and i love the DRAMA, and also that line -- "quiero ser tu calma y tu tempestad" -- i want to be your calm and your storm -- That's Xhakarteta !!!

favorite picture of them: ok, i'm sure at least one person will predict what i'm going to choose:

-2004, glasgow. so many photos i could have picked, but at the same time like...yeah!

#new-berry #answered #thank u...this was an interesting one #mikel

[roughridingrednecks]

Mikel

#mikel #white trash #inmate #prsion #torso tats #glasses #redneck #tats #goatee

[vivstenius]

realising mikel arteta played and captained during wenger and arsenals downfall just to return to be the architect of our rising. he truly endured the worst we've seen from this football club and decided to put his entire heart into it.

#MIKEL #I LOVE U #AND I WILL DIE FOR U KING #okay NO YK EHAY I WILL #arsenal #mikel arteta #RATHER EMOSH ABOUT THIS YK

[banana-sims]

Bea met up with a bunch of friends from high school for a few drinks!

#ts4 #sims 4 #sims 4 gameplay #the sims 4 #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #maxis match #simblr #bennett #bea #nani #kyle #mikel #owen #gen 3

[lunar-rotation]

20 Nov 2023

This is another scatter shot of songs by some great artists.

This week’s playlist:

the kids aren't alright by Pinkshift

Lay Low by New Atlas

California Mountain Shake by Death Valley Girls

Children's Work by Dessa

Wild by Eleventyseven

Poison & Antidote by Brenda Sue & Mikel

Shattered by Bad Cop/Bad Cop

The Night Starts Here by Stars

A Bullet Through the Heart by People Soup & I Monster

Parsonz Curse by Royal Thunder

Lunar Rotation Weekly by Winifred Yost

the kids aren't alright is probably my favorite song from 2022. California Mountain Shake would make some trippy intro credits to a southern gothic horror show. Parsonz Curse really has the feel of an old school hard rock song, including it being 7 min long. Which is why it's at the end. 7 min is long. Children's Work is a song of bond and memory and sacrifice. Shattered is a song about living and hope and sticking through the hard shit. Very different than the Trucks song of the same name that was here two weeks ago. my brains a bit fuzzy as I'm writing this, so just check the songs out and form your own opinion, but for different reasons I really like them all.

#discover music #discovery #lunar rotation #music #music monday #song #songs #new music #dessa #pinkshift #new atlas #death valley girls #eleventy7 #Brenda sue #Mikel #bad cop/bad cop #people soup #i monster #royal thunder

[hectortheportrayer]

Mikel | Pedrezuela, Madrid | Agosto 2023

#Photography #Portrait #Mikel

[robottocs]

Mikel ¿Cuáles son tus colores favoritos para pintar?

Mikel: (aunque parece que le costó decidirse a hablar) Hmm,... supongo que... hay muchos colores que me gustan en mi paleta... pero... creo que los que más utilizo son el azul, el amarillo y el morado, pueden hacer un cielo muy bonito... ¿Cuales son los tuyos...?

#mine #my art #ask #mikel

[bellerintwo]

I know it’s just his 100th win and there’s still a title race to win but for him to come back and manage his old club, go through everything he went though in his first couple seasons and now to find this kind of success with this incredible group of players, to do what he set out to do and reunite the team with the fans. no one else will ever be able to understand how much this means, his 100th win is everything

#that’s without me going into my personal hell aka 2012-2016 like I will never be able to explain to anyone #he was there for me when he was a player at this club and he’s there for me now as the manager 🥺 #he is everything #I’m sorry for being emosh I’m just fjshfjfkgkfn #me.txt #mikel

[arcadebroke]

link

#Mikel #Sanctuary #Floating #2023 #lofi #lofi beats #break beats #drums #breaks #trip hop #electronic #music #check out all his work it's great

[paladin-n-cleric]

mikhail x el is the true otp here

so true !!! i’ve actually been considering this one

#mikel

[fancypantsrecords]

Mikel & Jokabi - The Ghibli Tapes | Self-released | 2022 | "Ivory" White

#mikel #jokabi #the ghibli tapes #self-released #vinyl #colored vinyl #lp #music #records #record collection #electronic #lo-fi hip hop #anime #soundtrack #studio ghibli #joe hisaishi #howl's moving castle #kiki's delivery service #princess mononoke #nausicaä of the valley of the wind #laputa: castle in the sky #my neighbor totoro

[sucka99]

#Arsenal #ArsenalFC #Gabriel #Mikel #dropped #tactical reasons #Uno

[rodoboo]

hold da baby

#i like to emotionally wreck myself #my ocs #jeyh #jenia #cathalda #mikel

[king-tower]

solo date with Farah

Aster took Farah to an expensive restaurant with a great view where she could visualize her girlboss empire. they think she's the hottest woman to grace this fine earth, so they very much enjoyed finally getting to sit down and get to know her...but then she spotted the hostess working at the restaurant and developed a mad crush on her, henceforth chasing her around the restaurant for the remainder of the date. c'est la vie.

also Mikel was there looking very very sad the whole time. hi Mikel!

#harlow:rubybc #aster harlow #farah by ashharjo #mikel #francis im sorry but i dont think your girls like aster at all HJNAHNGJDFG #i mean to be fair aster Could have had the decency to take a shower in between dates...............