#Out of Our League

[andiree]

New cover of mine featuring COOL AWESOME STRONG GORGEOUS SPORTY SPICY GALS!!! Actually titled Out of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports, this anthology is a powerhouse of athleticism and good vibes. Happy and thrilled to take part in this!

Art Directed by L. Whitt

#my art #book covers #book cover design #girls in sports #Out of Our League #dahlia adler #jennifer iacopelli #macmillan

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 217

Babies can die if they don’t have enough physical contact. This is something that is known, but Talia does not have time to spend with her twins, and it’s not like she carried them thanks to the false Lazarus womb, so she didn’t even have that excuse to use. 

What she did have, was a near braindead teen who could be taught things through muscle memory. 

Which is how Jason ended up caring for a pair of toddlers between any training, even after his dip in the Pit. Well, he cared for them until he left for Gotham, to enact his plans, even if he continued to call them every week. 

But that wasn’t enough for little Damian and Danyal.

Where had their caretaker gone? Away from them? Where is Baba? Across the sea? Unacceptable. They will not stand for this! 

Which in turn, is how Jason discovers his the twins outside his safehouse window, having somehow made it to Gotham on their own- what the fuck, kids!?

#DCxDP #DPxDC #Prompts #Dad Hood #Jason can’t even go to a meeting without the kids clinging to him & are willing to cut off a hand or two #They’re even more ecto contaminated then the rest of the League of Assassins #Danny might not have all the powers he has in canon but he’s still Liminal as Fuck #The bats when investigating Red Hood after the Duffle Bag Incident find out he has a pair of small children #Who are very clingy & who he is very protective of #Also who he speaks to in League Dialect- TALIA ANSWER YOUR PHONE #It’d be hilarious if Talia refers to Jason/Hood as OUR son & now Bruce is spiraling because WHAT DO U MEAN TALIA- DON’T HANG UP- #WHAT DO YOU MEAN OUR SON-

[hedgehog-moss]

French TV journalist having a hard time trying to get woman in the street to comment on Macron's latest speech yesterday

Protesters organised casserolades (aka banging on pots and pans) in front of city halls across the country at 8pm, when Macron was speaking, to symbolically drown out his voice. Later that evening, Macron was filmed singing a song with some 'random people' in a street in Paris, trying to show he can go out and meet people and have fun because protesters don't exist. The people he was singing with (members of a choir, some of whom are 'alt-right-leaning') were using a folk song app created by far-right activists that was criticised a few months ago for hosting a Spanish fascist anthem & Third Reich military marches.

The government's response was that the President "couldn't know the background of the people he met that night." Maybe if he wants to avoid being associated with the far-right (that's a big if, I know), Macron should keep in mind that with the kinds of strategies and positioning his government has adopted lately, people in the street who welcome him with open arms and are proud to be filmed with him have a higher than average likelihood of supporting fascism.

#genre hier darmanin qui dit qu'il faut sanctionner les gens au RSA et aujourd'hui le maire pour qui fraudeur = maghrébin... #also the far-right ppl who made that song lyric app got 40K€ of public funding from the ministry of culture #our government is 'questioning' public funding for the human rights league but not this #so yeah this is just 1 thing out of the avalanche of bullshit the government keeps unleashing these days #i could have made a post about the minister of the interior; a known rapist; saying #that french people are angry about the reform but ''they swallowed it'' #that was yesterday; this week is going well so far #cool thing that happened last week is that the film director who won the césar des lycéens award #made a speech in the presence of the minister of education in which he said #''it must be hard to be minister of education for a president whose words and actions reflect the opposite #of the values school is supposed to teach the youth: contempt rather than respect; dictating rather than dialoguing'' (etc) #also last week when macron went to notre-dame and of course forbade protests in the area #so protesters hopped on a boat and protested on the seine next to notre-dame #frpol

[wheresmulder]

Charlie Shaw: IS THIS WHY YOU WANTED TO PLAY BASEBALL?

#a league of their own #arrested development #greta gill #gretson #carson shaw #youre welcome yall i havent laughed this hard in days #i spit my fucking drink out #the memes of our own

[libertyeveningsun]

This has been a really tough year & a half for me as a lover of queer shows. First, it was the cancellations: First Kill, ALOTO, Willow, and ROTPL. Then it was Willow and ROTPL being erased. Now, it's what the writers did with OFMD (spoilers ahead)

OFMD season 2 was such a good season, it was perfect, and we had the most incredible scene with Calypso's birthday. They gave me the perfect Izzy Hands. And then, 2 episodes later they rip him away from me and then have the other character's just move on like it was nothing? I know they're pirates but that's not the pirates I've come to love

Obviously some ppl applaud the writing but it's left me feeling dead inside. The pure queer joy they gave us with episode 6 Izzy Hands meant so much to me and then they just killed him and forgot about him. I'm not sure yet if I'll watch season 3 without Izzy but I for sure will never forgive the writers for what they did to him

At least I got Bottoms, but it doesn't even come close to filling the hole in my heart. I feel like I can't afford to watch queer shows anymore and risk falling in love with characters that inevitably get taken away from me

I know there's plenty of shows out there with queer content that I can watch, but the problem is I want to watch my comfort shows. Especially when a show like Willow so fundamentally changed my brain chemistry, everything else pales in comparison to it. I just want my silly little queers back, but I guess that's too much to ask

#ofmd s2 spoilers #first kill #a league of their own #willow 2022 #grease rise of the pink ladies #ofmd #our flag means death #its been a wild month ofmd fans but i think i'll be showing myself out soon #this fandom is too large and i cant find comfort in it with people expressing their (valid) opinions on how izzy's death was a good thing #its back to willow for me

[pkmn-smashorpass]

I would love to smash sableye, but I'm worried they'd be too expensive as a date 😔

If you can’t wine and dine Sableye then you don’t deserve Sableye

#she knows her standards #you’d best live up to them #ask #anon #Sableye #pkmn smash or pass #pokemon smash or pass #smash or pass #pokemon #pkmn #some women are just out of our league and we have to accept that #shiny

[zingaplanet]

Can you explain the carraville ship to me please (like context and the steps of the relation and so on? If it isn't too much)?

I see your posts and I grow curious.

R U KIDDING?? IT'D BE MY PLEASURE!! I feel a huge responsibility to represent the carraville fandom lol, so my dear carraville mutuals pls do help fill the blanks n lol hope you don't regret this ask cause as you know, I have a slight tendency to go on a maniacal j-stor length rant hahaha

So basic's basic first, who are they? They're football pundits! They work for sky sports (the major broadcaster of premier league football in the UK), and their work encompass commentating on matches, giving their analysis on tactics, players etc, we'll go into details later. But there's an incredible background story to how they came to work together and here's where the fun begins!

Righto so, if you know my blog, I'm always most fascinated with enemies or rivals who came together in the end despite their differences (or actually BECAUSE of their differences like fedal!). I just thought that this is one of the most uniquely special and incredibly powerful bonds that represents how amazing human relationships can be, it is often our opposites who understand us the most!

Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville encapsulates this relationship perfectly but also perhaps most comically. They are an example of how ironically funny life can be as they are technically THE SAME PERSON but from opposite sides (hey WE LOVE MIRROR OPPOSITES!)

How, you ask? So football pundits don't just get plucked out of journalism school, they are mostly former players, and very specific ones: Those that have strong characters (that ppl actually found interesting to watch on telly), and those that have brilliant tactical minds. So both of them are incredibly witty and funny, and they're great readers of the game!

And this actually comes from their playing days. So both Neville and Carragher were defenders. Carragher especially played centre back (Neville played right back) and were leaders of their team for a long time, which meant they had to organise everyone while reading the game at the same time. But here's the catch:

They played for 2 different clubs who have the oldest, fiercest longstanding rivalry in the premier league (UK football) and perhaps even in the world: Carragher played for Liverpool FC and Neville played for Manchester United. In here they call this the Northwest Derby, as they are both clubs from cities of Northern England who are historically most successful both achiement-wise and size-wise.

So... they used to LOATHE each other, and this isn't just the passive-agressive détente Messi and Ronaldo used to have during el clasico matches, oh no, English football in the early 2000s was quite violent, and both Neville and Carragher were amongst the staunchest characters in their teams. There are reasons for this, which comically prove that they are actually the same person!

Aside from playing in the same position as each other (though on opposite sides of the field), they also have similar backgrounds/relations to their clubs. They are ONE-CLUB MEN. Now this is very rare in football and have gone quite extinct nowadays, but basically, they are LOCAL boys who were born in their cities (i.e., Liverpool and Manchester), grew up supporting their clubs, and their club identity became their identity so much so that they only ever played in that club for their whole professional career (i.e., they were never transferred nor loaned). They also came from working-class backgrounds in Northern England (Liverpool and Manchester are basically only separated by the M62 highway).

Being local lads means they were the most LOYAL of the bunch, and are also rare breed leaders since they've been with Manchester United and Liverpool FC from their youth academies. They've never left the city and usually have quite an important leadership roles within the team.

But Carragher and Neville were never star players (nothing of the Virgil Van Dijk defenders type you found nowadays). They didn't have amazing skills etc yet they have the most caps (number of appearances) in their club games, and they were still playing matches even close to their 40s. Make no mistake they were actually really good players, both with significant england caps (even during the golden generation of Rooney, Ferdinand, Becks, Lampard, etc!) This is because even tho managers can buy star players, they could never buy loyalty nor replaced the way these two know their club and led their peers. They were sort of the emotional backbone of the clubs so to say.

This also means that their roles have always been as supporting characters and with them it's quite literally. So Carragher (or Carra as we call him) is best mates with non other than Liverpool former captain and forever supertstar, Steven Gerrard. Meanwhile Neville grew up and is still best mate with the global superstar, spice-girl married David Beckham. Carraville were often vice-caps for a long time, taking a sidelined but important role.

Even more mirror symbolisms (it's all a bit poetic really): both LFC and Manchester United have red as their club colours! (Everton and Man City are the blue side of their cities). Neville was part of the Man United team that won EVERYTHING in english football (including the unrepeated treble), but they never really dominated Europe (as Carragher likes to point out). Carragher was part of an underestimated LFC team who didn't win much of local cups but did one insane miracle and beat Paolo Maldini's superstar AC Milan team after being 3-0 down IN THE SECOND HALF in the 2005 Champions League final in Turkey. That night was called one of the greatest comebacks in football, dubbed "the miracle of Istanbul!"

NOW on to the crazy bits:

After they retired, both of them were invited to do this programme on SkySports called Monday Night Football. It's actually one of the most prestigious and highly difficult punditry programmes to do in football, since it's hours of LIVE analysis, dissecting the game one by one using statistics, and reacting live to the teams' tactics as they watched the match.

Safe to say the sky producers must have had the biggest balls on the planet when they decided to put those two together in one studio. The first few shows were quite patchy, but LO BEHOLD the strangest things happened: Gradually the animosity of rivalry turned into something more of a friendly banter (AKA what the english calls a very passive aggressive curmudgeon way of saying they're becoming awfully fond of each other but are too 😤 stupidly 😤 manly 😤 to admit it 😤). Once they realised they're not on opposite teams anymore, their walls came down and people called them two peas in a pod as they started noticing how similar they are to each other!

But this old rivalry makes for a hilariously fun relationship! They hold no barrels and take every. single. opportunity. to slander and make fun of each other. This includes turning each other into memes and petty saving all of each other's past football analysis lest the opportunity arrives when the moment proves them absolutely wrong to make fun of each other on social media.

Fact is: Even though they'd rather be shot dead than get caught saying it in public, they've actually become best mates lol. They still argue endlessly over football, and as the English call it, the season's never officially begun before a Neville-Carragher high-pitched argument on live TV. They even left their former teammates speechless, as they were known to be one of the most aggressive loyalists to their clubs. Neville used to not even be able to walk through Liverpool without getting mangled lol once he had to have a police escort just to get to the stadium, yet nowadays they get greeted by everyone in their respective cities 🥲

So in a nutshell: They are basically the definition of school scoundrels who used to beat the shit out of each other every week being put together in detention (by skysports) and ended up becoming besties lol. I have to say they are probably the most hilarious relationship development you could ever witness lol:

Ok so if you've made it this far (I AM IMPRESSED) and by some crazy reason decided that you still want some more, here are some starter packs for you:

This ad they did for fifa perfectly encapsulates the disgruntled fond and hilarious nature of their relationship!

Here is a compilation of them turning into 5 year olds in front of each other, and debating until only dogs can hear them!

Here is Carragher hilariously tackling Neville on a charity football match after they retired cause they ARE that petty lol

P.s. carraville mutuals lmk if i missed anything!

#yes the cat is out of the bag i am maniacally obsessive over enemies to lovers lol #they are just such a fluffy feel good corner of sporting relationships tho! #also they work in media that means NEW CONTENT every week #tell me honestly did we convert you or scared you away by our obsessions? #carraville mutuals fill me in! #some sports cross-over! #i love when my mutuals overlap #football rpf #sports rpf #tennis #premier league #liverpool fc #manchester united #jamie carragher #gary neville #football pundits #enemies to lovers #fedal

[araneitela]

Me staring at test results: It makes so much sense for her, but if I don't specify or elaborate, then we end up with the fanon take. Ugh, how do I easily explain that if you look at the word 'sex' through a much more old-fashioned lens instead of the modern one, that you'll get a vastly different picture of it?

/takes angycat.png typing to my tags

#[ ooc. ] don't try to make it logical or edit your soul according to the fashion. rather; follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. #[ post-it. ] in a way; you are poetry material. you are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. #[ i'm so tired. i need to write a post on this or something. and somehow add it to my pinned. in some way. ] #[ 'sex' and 'seduction' are /not/ wrong in my opinion. HOWEVER-- they are /very wrong/ if we go by modern labels and perception. ] #[ god the horror of writing a muse that is so interlaced in a modern world; setting and culture but seems to /ooze/ something archaic. ] #[ this level of refinement isn't of our times in my opinion. these things that she loves aren't commonly loved nowadays. ] #[ there's so much about her that is old-fashioned to me and it's so in my face. and yet fanon doesn't see it. ] #[ i can't believe i'm an old millennial who's screaming boomer or older things. ] #[ but like can we acknowledge that sex in today's age isn't the same as it used to be? not /always/ but more generally so. ] #[ can we acknowledge that /seduction/ didn't always mean what people see it to mean now? ] #[ can we acknowledge that the FEMME FETALE TROPE HAS CHANGED /LEAGUES/ since the 2000s? ] #[ which is my biggest beef actually. and maybe all of my frustration plays into this most. it's that the femme fatale now is sexualized. ] #[ while that is /not/ what the femme fatale used to be. kafka plays into the old school femme fatale so well. film noir days. ] #[ i had this same struggle on yelan where they make VERY OBVIOUS draws to it by her music in her trailer. god; the jazz. ] #[ but kafka suffers from this so very much as well to a point where i don't dare to call her a femme fatale because then it's fanon. ] #[ the fanon i hate so much. ] #[ but just uuuughhhh. UGHHH. it's so much to explain. ]

[granitxhka]

"we have 4 finals left to play guys focus" "real arsenal fans aren't celebrating until the season is over" for the love of everything that is beautiful in the world, shut up

#if I see this take again I'm genuinely going to start crying lmao ahhhhh #and if you get to the end of the season and you never celebrated anything then what?? they're not bringing a trophy out for you mate #did anything matter last season? if the only way you measure success is with a trophy then no maybe not #but when I put on last season's kits I don't remember the games we lost I don't even remember losing the league #I remember Martin officially being named captain and both nld games and the last minute winners and farewell Granit #even beyond last season of all the games I've seen in my life I remember maybe 6-7 losses #more than that I remember how fast hector was and when nelli debuted and mikel off the bench in his last game #I remember arshavin's 4 goals and that mf who broke aaron ramsey's leg and how watching cesc made me fall in love with football #how on the weekends it was arsene wenger who raised me #no one lets our players live and now you're not going to let your fellow fans live .... literally what are you doing here #it’s not your job to be calm it’s your job to support the club! you’re supposed to bring the passion wdym no celebrating until the end ???

[moregraceful]

Did anyone else opt into Patio on Tumblr and now the desktop version of Tumblr just straight up doesn't work. Anyway m just told me there are rumors that Chubba Purdy might rescind his transfer to SJSU and I'm inconsolable. the single thread my sanity was hanging on all week was me and m deciding Chubba Purdy is going to meetcute Ethan Cardwell by hitting him with his car in the SJSU parking structure shared by the SJSU football stadium and Sharks Ice. Preston I have known who you are for ummm I think five days but I need you to stay the course. You want to be a Spartan. You want to be a Spartan sooooo bad. You want to hit Ethan Cardwell with your car...

#I DON'T LIKE MY HAIRCUT I GOT TODAY AND I'M ABOUT TO ACT OUT!!! #AND I SWITCHED DATING APPS BC I WAS TIRED OF CHASERS ON TINDER BUT SOMEHOW THIS NEW ONE IS EVEN WORSE #like i can handle chasers tf do i do with cishet christian women being like i need a christ-like babydaddy to build a family #dating based on an algorithm is insane i hate it here #BUT THATS NOT IMPORTANT RN!!!! CHUBBA!!!! LISTEN TO ME!!!!!! #PLAYING TIME AT THE NCAA LEVEL IS NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN MAKING A FOOL OF YOURSELF AT DENNYS IN FRONT OF ETHAN!!!!!! #CHUBBA YOU COULD BE IN THE GREATEST MINOR LEAGUES/NCAA LOVE STORY OF ALL TIMEEEEEEEEE #DON'T YOU WANT TO FALL IN LOVE PRESTON!! #(ethan cardwell is just standing there) #our narrative..... #fresno oilers.txt #i'm fine. i'm not afraid to keep on living

[cant-get-no-worse]

Your writing is always great, I need you to write something to either making us optimistic about the future of the club or to make us realize how much in deep shit we actually are please 😭

Babe, just browse through my La Liga 2022/2023 tag and mourn with me. 💕

#funnily enough I’d say this: we’ve been in deep shit since FOREVER. #the way Barcelona works (ie deep issues within structure and management) goes back DECADES. #we are spectacularly mismanaged and unprofessional on top of having a victim hood complex. #the environment - whether mediatic or politic - surrounding the club is an utter and disfunctional nightmare. #in every club’s environnement there has existed corruption and favouring friends in positions you want them in #but it is especially the case for this club. #needless to say I am not saying all of fcb’s issues stem solely from itself and no exterior factors have ever influenced it. #a historically left wing club / figure head for a region/independentism movement / opposing centralism which controls the league/refs etc. #however as culers we tend to majorly - and rightfully - highlight the latest part without ever daring to question our precious multimil club #both factors (internal and external) have to be taken into account to understand ‘the deep shit’. #that said now. as I’ve said this *is not new*. we’ve had those issues for DECADES and yet this club became what it is today. #we’ve reached highest of highs and lowest of lows while dealing with aforementioned factors. #so my very tired take this evening is to chill out; nothing we can do but watch unfold. #perhaps once again La Masia youngsters and lucky choices of coach will drag us up. perhaps new political president conflict still battling #over cruyff’s heritage or against it will bring forth a good one; perhaps not. #overall a very Chill to us all. #we’re facing greatness and decadence and been on both sides of the coin; and there’s reassurance in knowing in both case we still did great. #this club has been rotting since mid 50s and you just have to roll with it and wait for the cycles to come and go. #anon ask #sorry it doesn’t make much sense rn I’ll talk about it more later. or NOT

[dailykafka]

Not to start some drama but Mary Shelly is not the ultimate historical figure of tumblr for the very simple reason - she is cool. And we are on a site where a bug's race was the hot topic of the town for weeks…

#read the room my friends she is out of our league #'she invented the genre of science fiction' #exactly! she is extremely cool #other

[siriuslynephilim]

babe this song god i can't get it out of my mind

the commerce student in me is RAVING "get your waist insured with the highest policy you can get" dksjsjsjssj

#i love this song so much omg #this feels like boy version of dump your loser boyfriend and have lesbian sex with me instead I LOVE IT SO MUCH #also this is me singing to you about your seven wives fifteen gfs etc etc #dw troye we're in this together crushing for ultra popular and lovable out of our league people😔✊ #vio love

[vaugarde]

this is gonna sound so backhanded but after 3 letdowns in a row from pokemon (followed by a game which isnt terrible but i dislike because of how much it fucked up the plot of sm), then a game that i genuinely really love and want more in the style of and largely because of how it deviates from the main series, im genuinely so shocked that i love scarlet and violet as much as i do. like when i was going through that tutorial i was just cautious and waiting for the other show to drop and be bored at best, but like, graphic glitches aside, it never came. it stayed really fun and charming

#like is it acceptable that it came out so glitchy when its a $60 console release? absolutely not #i think the game has a lot of issues and i dont blame people for not being happy with it #but i think what makes this better than swsh to me is like. swsh sorta feels like it was made out of obligation sometimes #like. tpci and gamefreak treated galar like a kid would treat an art project in a medium they werent interested in #but they were being harassed for that good grade so they powered through and hated the result #and sorta just tried to hide it when they got home from school that day #not that there isn’t anything to like about galar or it has no substance whatsoever but when i played it i couldnt shake the feeling #that gamefreak was embarassed of it. like they did not want to linger too much on this game #i think the anime switching format was a good idea in the end cause just putting ash in another gauntlet after he won the alola league would #would have been weird but its veryyyy telling to me that they changed the format so drastically #that we didnt even spend all our time in galar. their home base wasnt even in galar #and in the game they emphasize that kantos got better pokemon and everyone loves them better and theres not a whole lot to do #and there was always just this feeling of insecurity and dissatisfaction with it #and for all its faults- i cant say the same thing about scvi. this game oozes with charm and care #the writing feels like someone genuinely cared about these characters and wanted the best for them and the story #the gameplay feels more involved and confident. they got more experimental with the format #idk it feels like people LIKED working on this game to a degree and wanted the player to have fun #echoed voice

[probayern]

proper rotation in the bundesliga god bless 🙏 and thomas 400th start <3

#unfortunately i will not be able to watch #but i will follow it #i honestly don't care if we lose. i'd rather finish 3rd in the league and go to a ucl final #than finish 2nd in the league and tire our players out #bayern lb

[chirpsythismorning]

The way they framed surfer boy pizza with Mike in s4 makes me optimistic about the prospects of smalltown boy agenda actually

#byler #stranger things #mike wheeler #something about the van scene is so visceral… #the way the shadow of boy passes behind him #the back window is blurry but then boy becomes clear after Mike sees the painting until will says it was from el then blurs again #the way he’s sitting directly in front of it after rink o mania bc his mind was on Will (boy) and not El (girl)… #also the two snack (bar) references in s4 with byler looking incriminating in the frame… #idk smalltown boy agenda is low key still in the running I feel like #in general it's going to be crazy being a byler and seeing the duffers hint about stuff that only we understand #like with that Dawsons creek reference recently #Redditors are out of our league atp #like if smalltown boy was even referenced at all subtly in an obscure ass way… #we would be hyperventilating like okay it’s happening #and everyone else would just be like what?... #same with the milkvan break up in early s5… like we know from a story standpoint it’s guaranteed.. #but no one else is ready for that… #s5 fandom experience is gonna be really satisfying for bylers that’s all I’m gonna say! #also the promo has to really ramp up positively for byler if they expect to pushback all the criticism successfully #there’s going to be a lot of homophobia and claims byler only happened bc of fan service #that’s why I do think they’re going to have no choice but to change their tune #bc it would be weird to go from not considering byler a possibility at all to surprise they're canon #they definitely want people to root for them while watching the last season! #s5 promo is most likely going to be like s4 but a little more intense #it’ll be HILARIOUS seeing people try to downplay obvious evidence #like if hypothetically they dropped a character teaser with all the characters and mike got one with smalltown boy in the background... #we would be on the floor #and all the redditors would be downplaying it like it means nothing!! #tbh I think byler would have to literally kiss for those still convinced there is zero evidence to actually consider it a possiblity #like they are 100% convinced there is zero evidence... and I just can't take that seriously..