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[kwebtv]

Press Photo set issued by PBS for the series "Game, Set and Match" featuring Ian Holm, Mel Martin and Michael Degen.

[dinosaurwithablog]

Spectacular return!!

[firewalksbymyside]

"Sei angelica, lo sai? Però quelle così angeliche prima o poi te lo mettono in quel posto."

[alexsfictionaddiction]

Review: Game, Set, Match by Heidi Stephens

I am a sucker for a cute rom-com and I think Carrie Soto Is Back is the only other book I’ve read that centres around tennis, so I was really happy to be sent a copy of this by the lovely people at Headline and I loved soaking up the sun with it! 

Hannah has been married to Graham for 14 years and he’s the only man that she has ever been with. Now they’re separated and she is looking for a new start to focus on. So she jumps at the chance to accompany three ladies from her tennis club on a Spanish tennis retreat and she’ll probably throw in a solo road trip while she’s there too. Enter handsome tennis coach Rob, who has had his fair share of casual girlfriends but never anything serious. Neither of them are looking for love -just tennis in the sun!

I definitely giggled at various points in the book, usually during the conversations between Hannah’s holiday pals. I can totally believe that these horny 30-something mums exist and although some of their chat was super cringey, it was amusing! I will tiptoe around spoilers and say that I definitely thought that something would happen to at least one of these women that didn’t. So, that’s a huge thumbs up to Heidi Stephens for not being predictable!

I had no idea that tennis coaches have a reputation for being promiscuous. It is a bit awkward to think about as my younger brother is one but I’ve also never heard of it before, despite knowing of several of them? This idea was mentioned several times, so it’s clearly an opinion that the author holds!

I loved how the lull before the finale got a bit philosophical while still being about tennis. The parallels between tennis, a game where you don’t have to win every time to still win overall, and Hannah and Rob’s romance felt really profound and it was lovely how the sport that brought them together was there throughout. It’s unlikely we’ll get something as complex as love right on our first try, so of course we all deserve a second serve.

Game, Set, Match is a warm, sunny rom-com with many likeable characters, an easy to root for romance and a beautiful setting. It actually made me want to properly get into Wimbledon this year for the first time, so I may actually do that with endless bowls of strawberries and cream! 

Game, Set, Match by Heidi Stephens will be published by Headline Accent on 22nd June 2023.

[thebibliosphere]

I feel like I've complained about Tim's email situation in Gotham Knights before (edit: I have), but the truth of it is just so funny.

He's signed up for so many podcasts, video game streamers, and random news alerts; it's just a constant barrage of data going straight into his constantly whirring brain. Hell, he even floats the idea of the Batfamily having their own podcast as a way to correct misinformation about them (which Jason shoots down instantly), and it's made me realize something.

Timothy Drake would be a YouTuber.

In this universe specifically, Timothy Jackson Drake, the heir to Drake Industries and the foster son of the late Bruce Wayne would be a YouTuber.

Think about it. It'd be the perfect cover. Who would ever suspect that some 16-year-old nepo baby with a YouTube channel could ever be Red Robin? You'd have to be mad. I mean, look at him.

Red Robin just dropped out of literal thin air and garotted someone four times his size, and you expect anyone to believe that's the same kid who does 24-hour Minecraft charity streams and occasionally drops 6-hour video essays (his last one was on Lex Luthor's illegal bit mining operation on the moon)?

That kid?

You think that kid is Red Robin?

Ch'yah, okay, sure. And the Joker is funny 🤡.

[nichmeddar]

oscar piastri

⋆ ˚｡⋆౨ৎ˚ Game Set Match

♥ masterlist | request rules

♥ pairing: oscar piastri x olympic!tennisplayer!reader

♥ synopsis: with the help of carlos sainz and your brother carlos alcaraz, you were able to score a date with your favorite f1 driver

♥ smau - fc: women on pinterest - as always none of the pictures are mine <3

♥ warnings: swearing !!!

♥ a/n: here's some super late olympic fics

-July 28 2024-

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ynalcaraz photo dump

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user7 the f1 in the second pic is so real

carlitosalcarazz she’s obsessed with that one mclaren driver

carlossainz55 @/carlitosalcarazz LANDO?!

carlitosalcarazz no the other one

carlossainz55 oh oscar

user1 PLS 😭

user2 THE DIFFERENCE LMAO

user4 new carcar lore

user10 y/n is just like me fr fr

user3 carlos sainz and the alcaraz siblings being friends was not on my 2024 bingo card

user8 I <3 them

user11 the collab we in fact knew we needed

user12 not carlos casually telling the whole world that y/n has a crush on oscar

user6 the fact that we got an oscar p2 today too

user5 SO hyped to see the both of them at the olympics

uer13 same !!!

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-left: your phone- -right: carlos a's phone-

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f1gossip Oscar Piastri taking promotional pictures in Paris in time for the 2024 Olympics

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user1 y/n is shaking in her boots rn

user2 miss rabbit has fainted

user7 NAH HE SAW THE POSTS

user6 was he invited by a certain someone

ynalcaraz @/carlitosalcarazz YOU DIDN'T.

carlitosalcarazz I did

ynalcaraz blocked.

carlossainz55 I was expecting a thank you

ynalcaraz stop roping other carlos into this 😩

carlossainz55 you call me other carlos?

landonorris 🤣🫵

user3 ynoscar crumbs

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oscarpiastri thanks for inviting me @/carlitosalcarazz and congrats on yours and @/ynalcaraz’s gold 🥇

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ynalcaraz @/carlitosalcarazz i fucking knew it

ynalcaraz anyway thanks tho osc 🥰

user1 the nickname.

carlitosalcarazz great to see you again

landonorris me wondering where my invite was

oscarpiastri me wondering where I asked

user12 PLSS

user14 the girls are fighting

landonorris its all good fun

user7 my pookies met

user3 the second picture is going down in sports history tbh

user5 congrats to them !!!

user6 am I fucking crazy or did he get those roses for y/n

user11 you're crazy

user8 @/user11 NAH NAH let them cook

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oscarpiastri de nada

user6 I HATE ❌ TO SAY 🗣️ I TOLD YOU 🫵 SO

user2 AHHH

user4 the fact he got her flowers...

user3 just get married already

user10 I love them

user7 I'm so proud of her for winning gold today !!!

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mclaren life rn

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ynalcaraz why that picture of me 😕

mclaren sorry yn!!

ynalcaraz you’re forgiven admin 😚🫶

user1 THE FACT THAT LANDO AND OSCAR WERE FLIRTING WITH HER THE WHOLE VIDEO 💀

user2 it's mr steal your girl

user9 why was oscar actually so good tho

ynalcaraz he should sign up for aussie's team

user10 @/ynalcaraz I think he was trying to impress you

lilymhe golf next

ynalcaraz i second that

user8 @/mclaren admin were you the ballboy? 😭

mclaren I was and I'm proud

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ynalcaraz can someone tell @/carlossainz55 to stay out of my love life

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carlossainz55 I'm the one who got you the date ???

carlitosalcarazz I did all the heavy lifting

user1 c2 but not in the way you think

user7 @/user1 carlos got y/n in the charlos divorce

user3 I'd recognize those shorts anywhere lol

user4 bro made it SOOO obvious that it was him

user8 oscar we know its you open up

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ynalcaraz "thank you carlos" we all say in unison

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carlossainz55 you're welcome.

carlitosalcaraz it was about time

oscarpiastri I love you carino

ynalcaraz I love you too <3

lilymhe you and oscar too cute

ynalcaraz 🥹🫶

user3 thank you carlos

user1 thank you carlos

oscarpiastri thank you carlos 🫡

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end notes: hi loves <3 I know this was a short fic but I hope you still enjoyed it! I'll hopefully be releasing some longer ones soon but I've been pretty busy recently.

[suckishima]

furudate watching that amazingly fun and gut wrenching match between italy and japan and then immediately dropping a new drawing to express just how fun volleyball can be?? furudate we don't deserve you 😭😭😭

[ratmans-notebooks]

u know what i love forcemasc and im not even gonna try to Validate it for the masses with "i want to be allowed to explore my identity" i like taking away peoples autonomy and i think men are hot. there will be no cis girls left when im through with them. i am maliciously injecting every girl i see with testosterone and u cant stop me. i am the evil trans boy turning innocent young girls into fat hairy men. and me and my army of sweaty tboys are going to topple society. together

[agoddamnrayofsunshine]

Hey just to ruin your day I want you guys to remember that before Drake in the second book Andrew had been making genuine steps towards recovery even if we didn’t get to see it very closely

Andrew being on his meds for the first and second book make it hard to see, especially since we didn’t meet him before he was on his meds but it can be inferred that he was making real progress on reclaiming his autonomy

He went to therapy regularly in which he actually talked to and got along with his therapist. He was able to have an ongoing relationship with Roland, and even though he insisted on using handcuffs that’s actually a healthy coping mechanism (he was able to recognise a problem which caused him distress aka people touching him without permission and applied a non-harmful solution which allowed him to continue without running away that’s the definition of learning to cope), he was not actively self-harming which we know by the fact that he has scars, not wounds, scratches or anything else, just healed scars. He was also able to accept and embrace his sexuality despite his history. He still has suicidal ideation but he is no longer practicing suicidal tendencies, which is genuinely huge progress

His biggest issues during the book are his meds (which seem to make it harder for him to regulate his emotions and his reactions and therefore causes him to the extreme measures which are familiar to him aka violence) and his relationship with Aaron/Kevin caused by an unhealthy desire to protect people. He was making an actual recovery, albeit a slow one, which just makes what happens to him all the more horrible

During the second book it had been seven years since he experienced that kind of abuse, seven years in which he clearly was slowly getting better only to be retraumatised again

Just

I think about this all the time I need to inflict this onto someone else

[nyoink]

yeah, bless my fanfictuon heart and soul this means something to me

good lord i came back from the dead to talk about his hair GOOD LORD YOU HAVE REVIVED ME SINGLEHANDEDLY OSCAR PIASTRI also hello wrinkled white shirt you are back from the dead too

[kwebtv]

Game, Set and Match - ITV - October 3, 1988 - December 19, 1988 / PBS - March 23, 1989 - June 8, 1989

Drama (13 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Ian Holm as Bernard Samson

Mel Martin as Fiona Samson

Michael Culver as Dicky Cruyer

Michael Degen as Werner Volkmann

Gottfried John as Eric Stinnes

Anthony Bate as Bret Renssalaer

Frederick Treves as Frank Harrington

Amanda Donohoe as Gloria Kent

Hugh Fraser as Giles Trent

Gail Harrison as Tessa Kozinski

Gary Whelan as George Kozinski

Brigitte Karner as Zena Volkmann

Alan MacNaughtan as Sir Henry Clevemore DG

Michael Aldridge as Silas Gaunt

Peter Vaughan as David Kimber-Hutchinson

Eva Ebner as Frau Lisl Hennig

Jeremy Child as Henry Tiptree

Ralf Wolter as Juri Rostov

[kasterarts]

Moving Forward. (Spoilers for YTTD up through 3-1b)

[c6jpg]

GAMING & MAN CHAI ❖ dancing beasts and soaring kites

[chippedcupwrites]

Sandor Clegane & Arya Stark + emoji kitchen