#england v china

[glimmerofawesome]

[pierregaslays]

A RACHEL DALY GOAL !!! THAT WAS FOR ME

[narilwrites]

UNEXPECTED FREE DAY TODAY

Naturally I made me a cuppa and am watching the England v China match the way the gods intended

[awfcrusso]

Also Keira is on the bench 😍😍

[abattoirstars]

convinced lucy bronze must've fucked this ref's mum because why else would she have it out for her this badly

[chelscait]

OOOOOH THIS REF IS A CUNT

[moths-in-hats]

okay she might not have gotten a hatrick but lauren james has been involved (scoring/assisting) in all 5 england goals which is pretty fucking impressive

[bibliophilicstranger]

Thank you England for so far playing a less stressful game to watch than the U.S match.

[thevalicemultiverse]

But as beautiful and popular as I am, I bet there are some people who've never even heard of me: people in countries like Paris or Toronto, or in cities like Africa.

Alice: . . .well, that's a new one. Now I have to know -- what continents do you think might not know who you are?

[fanficfish]

explaining characters in hetalia badly: family member archtype edition

an incomplete list for funsies

just imagine they're all at a big family reunion lol

Germany: The closeted cousin who still hasn't figured it out.

Prussia: The cool older cousin who's jacked up on the remnants of the energy drinks he chugged during finals week trying to study for his med school exams. Probably specialized in kids medicine, but he's too jittery to confirm.

Italy V: The cousin who's a cousin because someone married someone a couple months ago and has no idea about all the ettiquette rules ye and what not to discuss in front of Great Aunt Sarah.

China: Great Aunt Sarah

Italy R: The cousin who's just hit his highschool years, and has decided MHA and Valorant is his whole personality.

England: The one manning the grill.

France: The one actually manning the grill.

America: The guy who's young enough to be your older brother but old enough that he's a dad. Don't worry, he's cool- he won't make you babysit, but he's gonna show up with those kids in biker jackets and they'll do a fun dance to entertain everyone halfway through dinner.

Russia: The uncle that apparently is a war vet. Definitely saw things he shouldn't have seen and you don't leave your kids with him. Tells the wildest stories over dinner though.

Canada: The cousin who you forget exists because he's actually normal. Actuality has probably spiked something.

Japan: The one hiding in a room playing video games. He might share if you ask nicely.

Lithuania: Someone's spouse. Not sure whose, but he made a nice caserole.

Sweden: That one distant relative who you almost forgot to invite.

Finland: The guy who showed up and you're not sure where he came from, but he's kinda fun so no one questions it.

Norway: The one who was forced to tag along with the rest of the family.

Iceland: The one who pretends he doesn't want to be there but he'd show up even if he wasn't invited because the food is kinda good.

Denmark: The one bringing the alcohol and manning the bar you didn't kow you had.

Latvia: The one trying to sneak underage drinks.

Estonia: The one pretending to be a normal person with his "honor student" and "full ride scholarship next year" but is secretly helping Latvia sneak a drink.

Spain: The uncle who's been married ten times.

Switzerland: The one who only showed up because he was begged to. Either ends up in the corner watching the game or in the middle of the table retelling some grand tale.

Liechtenstein: The one bringing all the delicious deserts and a fruit tray and forced Switzerland to socialize.

Austria: The one insisting on putting on the radio the moment the "go ahead" for the food is said. Might have even called up everyone to remind them to bring their instruments.

Hungary: The one who gets everyone dancing the moment Austria whips out the fiddle tunes.

Seychelles: The one who innocently suggested a board game after the dance-off winds down.

Hong Kong: The cousin who sticks around long enough to say hello to the aunts and uncles and grandparents and get some food before hiding in the room with Japan.

Belarus: The cousin who's a movie-cutter highschool "popular girl" and spends the whole time on her phone texting her boyfriend.

Ukraine: The aunt that break up the board game fights and bans it from future events.

Luxenberg: You don't know what he does for a living, but he brings cool stuff for everyone.

Netherlands: The globetrotting uncle who you're pretty sure knows everyone and everything.

Belgium: The cool aunt who's single and living life.

Phillipines and Thailand: The fresh-out-of-collegers cousin who keeps taking photos of everything.

Malaysia: The fresh-out-of-colleger cousin also taking photos but only aesthetic ones.

Taiwan: The aunt that starts making smoothies unprompted.

Monaco: The cousin who brings a book to read in the corenr.

Cameron: The uncle you don't want to get into an argument about sports with. Switzerland does not head this warning.

Greece: The uncle who drove all day and night to get here with a full car, and is now knocked out on the couch.

Turkey: The funny wine grandpa.

Cyprus: The college dropout who now works at a seven-eleven.

Egypt: The cousin who's studying history and is pretty average except you have photographic evidence that he sat next to a pond and talked to ducks for half an hour and was very serious about it.

[glimmerofawesome]

[pierregaslays]

it’s not a penalty because lucy can do no wrong in my eyes

[allthingsrusso]

post-match interview after england v china

via itvfootball on twitter

[lucawrites11]

After today’s match and the kind of weird vibe in the camp, it’s good that this is the break that Evie went to the Spanish camp 😂.

obviously in the fic, ona isn't injured and they win the match but there's an alternate universe out there where evie watched the match at home in barcelona with ona

and by watched the match, they watched all the matches. three laptops were in rotation so spain v denmark (that got tv privileges before england did), austria v iceland, norway v italy, germany v poland, portugal v northern ireland, ireland v sweden, netherlands v finland could all be watched

evie also watched australia v china earlier on in the day and she's besties with the women's football streams on youtube. currently, she's trying to persuade ona that she can stay up until eleven to watch the usa match that'll be on until almost one in the morning

when england lost, evie was like "thank god i'm not there". ona asked why and evie was like "mum's the worst loser ever and she gets really depressed and sometimes gets clingy and then other times she's like weirdly intense but most of the time she's clingy"

ona laughs and looks down at evie who is cuddling up against her. she doesn't mind (she loves it - it's also the perfect position to play with evie's hair) but the clinginess is definitely a bronze thing (and being a sore loser)

evie also steals ona's phone later on and ona finds a text to mary earps listing everywhere the team went wrong, needed more speed: grace and aggie or jess naz should've come on, needed earlier subs for fresh legs, injury to the keeper through them off, solid defense pairing but keating would've been the better goalkeeper for set pieces. when ona asks evie about it the next morning she says it's because mary's one of the captains so she can pass it on to sarina, normally she tells sarina but ona didn't have sarina's number. ona figures that at least evie was kind of to check mary was okay and send her best wishes in the same message and mary found it hilarious

[abattoirstars]

Dame Rachel Daly making a convincing case for the Lionesses being queens of the volley and therefore already Vibes World Cup champions

[chelscait]

right LJ and Less you’ve got to get both your hat tricks now.