#THIS MAKES ME MISERABLE

[shitapril]

I remember the summer of 2018, when everyday before going to school I would pick up the newspaper after my father was done with it and idly flip through the pages until i hit the sports section in the end. those months though, there was one name I saw many times on the front page itself - about his exploits, his antics, and his sheer brilliance. one day, I decided to see what this man's deal was. that was the day i got into football, thanks to antoine griezmann.

i progressed from reading about his plays and games to watching the quarterfinals onwards on tv. i would wake up at absurd hours to watch these and go to school with no sleep. it was absolutely worth it. watching him play was a true delight. the energy he had, the spirit he brought to his team, the little dance he would do after a goal, the way he never faltered under pressure - he singlehandedly showed me why football is revered by so many.

when he lead his team to win the world cup that year - he truly seemed invincible to me. when i saw his decision to retire today, that was the first thing i thought of - that world cup that opened the world of football to me, the door griezmann held open, when i thought i'd watch him play, watch him win, for the rest of my life.

but that's the funny thing about this sport - you can dream for a forever, but the moment you've played your part, given your share, you step aside for the next person with a dream. very few get the timing right, but i trust he did.

merci, antoine griezmann, for all that you've given and done for this sport. you will forever be my favourite.

merci.

[monkesupreme]

ref

a satisfactory answer for Selina

[kath-trashh]

there is a hole in my heart

full version

[nipuni]

Alec 🌊

[mangozic]

michael shelley I would die for you

[hinamie]

new official illust of them with puppies healed something in me

[vmkhoneyy]

I think if I could be the kind stranger in someone’s memory, that’d be enough.

[noornight]

Long distance besties. This definitely happened after the third movie (source: trust me bro)

Based on this

[mwagneto]

no!!!!!! 8 episodes will kill patient!!!!!!!! he needs 12-24 episodes some of which is light-hearted filler to live!!!!!!!!!!!!

[potatosaresweet]

can we talk about how feng xin and mu qing ascended at 25+ but xie lian did at 17. can we talk about how when they next saw each other 800 years later after their fallout feng xin and mu qing looked older, more mature, more grown up than xie lian remembered but when they looked at him he still looked exactly as they remembered. he still looked so young compared to them. they had changed so much. he hadn't. can we talk about that.

[orionshounds]

he cares so much about them, but he has never known how to show it

and now, it’s too late.

[sweet-shut-eye]

“ Our Divine Violinist ”

[redfirefox-55]

Please guys go read Software Entropy by @clubsheartsspades (I hope you don’t mind the tag!)

It literally destroyed me. I forced my sister to read it and it destroyed her too. I just had to draw something for it because I couldn’t get this quote out of my head, but I couldn’t possibly do the scene justice in the same way as in the fanfiction so you need to go read it yourself

[verflares]

i thought i felt your shape, but i was wrong. really all i felt was falsely strong, i held on tight and closed my eyes. it was dumb, i had no sense of your size. it was dumb to hold so tight.

also on inprnt :]

[katabay]

some other fake byzantine empire ocs! completely unrelated to the other ones, these guys are for a story focusing on the viscera of the imperial household

[rated-r-for-grantaire]

Javert is NOT a rich white cop, he's a poor Romani man born inside a jail. When I first joined the Les Mis fandom about a decade ago I remember there were a lot of people who made Javert a rich white policeman. Which, hey, I do kinda get it, especially when you're contrasting Javert to characters like Valjean or Les Amis. I totally get why people would want that story to exist within Les Mis fanworks. But also, that is not Javert whatsoever. He's canonically half Romani, born in a prison.

Javert being a class traitor actually means so much more to the story than Javert being some random privileged asshole pig.