#jamie finding it weird to devote to something other than football

[fallenangelontheceiling]

someone write jamie tartt kid fic for me

[protect-daniel-james]

Hi!

For the ask game, 11 and 12?

11. Who is your favorite character(s) to write about and why?

I have lots of favorites tbh. Currently:

Frank Lampard - he's a sad jobless lump of issues. I'm not his biggest fan irl, but it's fun to explore all the fucked-up ways he might have been affected by the things that happened in his childhood and while growing up... Also, the "setting" of his life, his career, his jobs, it all makes a great setup for some in-depth explorations of... things. Family relationships, thatcherist England, gender roles and expectations, The Lads and their banter, homophobia in football... Honestly, I wouldn't be shocked if he came out one day, and admitted that he did all these things to be one of the lads, and to not disappoint his parents (mostly Dad), and to fit the role of a "perfect English player".

Unai Emery - obviously. I love him, I respect him, I wish him all the best. He's perfect for all the dorky, weird, strange, mysterious stuff. I want to write about him having wet dreams and nightmares about football, getting withdrawal symptoms when unemployed, thirsting for football desperately, fucking a real football /the object/, seeing formations in colors and shapes even when he just writes the names of players on the whiteboard, feeling unbearable pain when a part of a stadium is being demolished/rebuild... He's one with football, he belongs to it, and the Enfermo... stories with him are ultimately odes to football and places of football practice.

i love the ships of Barnes/Westwood, and Thomas Frank/Graham Potter because they are always an opportunity to write a tender hurt/comfort fic without the messed up toxicity that very often comes up in the other fics.

Diego Simeone - oh, I love him. And he's so hot. And he's passionate and obsessive... Tough guy who would kill, you know? But he has one weakness - Antoine. And I love it. I always try to make him not sappy/pathetic (like Frank is with Mason in the end), but truly El Cholo, the manager, in his dark suit, unbreakable spirit, devoted until the end to making his sweet French prince happy.

I love the Eddie/Jason dynamic, and hope to explore more the backstory, I think with @milfcaptainpike we figured out an interesting dynamic and reasons behind Jason's behavior and devotion... Let me say this. Jason the scruffed beaten up dog that never knew love and was used to "dog eat dog" mentality of the bad crowd in Mile End finding a protector in Eddie, and Eddie finding a fierce, loyal, growling dog that won't hesitate to bite if neccessary in JT...

I love exploring different personalities/behaviors with different characters, all while making them hopefully believable but also distinct? So that nobody could just "swap" the characters from Frank/Mason story for Cholo/Antoine for example, nah. The characters and personalities make stories.

12. What is your favorite theme/subject matter/trope/ship to write about? Why?

incest and breeding and stuffing and pissing

aahhhhh... Longing, jealousy, desperation? Wanting something you can't have, and either succombing to the desire, or struggling.... I've been told recently that I'm good at writing "the desperate, miserable, uncomfortable little wanks these men tend to indulge themselves with", thank you, and I think you're right? I can't tell if I'm good at it, but I certainly enjoy writing those! I feel like most of the smut I wrote recently has been pathetic rather than "hot" (although, well, Unai is not really pathetic in his love and horniness for football? it's just... that it's an inanimate thing). And sometimes, them being pathetic is hot.

Recently I found out about objectophilia and it's fascinating to me because I see some of the behavior/thinking in myself, so it's fun to explore with Unai in extreme - he's perfect for it.

I love when a fic touches...a deeper subject. Or is well done for a historical context/background, etc. I would love to do this with the Jamie in Liverpool fic - I think I said I want it to be a "love letter to Liverpool" (I've been there twice in the past year, wrote my thesis about it, and fell in love with it), even if it's in the sad Lampard context. Similarly, I'd love to include some academic stuff, experiences, and even works in the potential academic!au with Mikel and Unai. I brought home three books about ETA and Basque nationalism to have real life info for Txoria txori... And I could go on. I just love when there's a depth behind a story. I also enjoy a smutty PWP, of course, but the stories I love the most have a depth and references and "lore" and "-verse" I guess?