#pepteta

[xexboop]

[dinosaur-stickers]

Never getting over this

From: https://www.instagram.com/p/CyEHKWdMChw/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

[childishfirmino]

why are they like this

[mourinhomerchant]

pepteta for the shippppp thing

I don’t really ship them so idk how accurate this is, but I tried!!! ❤️

[seasalttide]

previous Artetapep arts log.

[lory-stuff]

he told me that

loving him was never enough

[cruyffista]

the arsenal/man city rivalry is very interesting to me because it's clear (especially in this season) that the players 100% despise each other and the clubs they represent BUT then you have arteta who is clearly holding back because he's known pep since he was a teenager at la masia and is clearly still attached to him (see tortured love confession after the four years comment). like i think it would be so much easier for arteta if he didn't have that history with pep but he does and i think he's genuinely torn by these two realities. i have no idea how it's going to end but i'm eating it up.

[xexboop]

pep/arteta i guess

[dinosaur-stickers]

PL insta ships pepteta

[arya-is-a-fanatic]

Pep celebrating but arteta's sad cause his gunners are loosing

pls pep not in front of the children

[pochteta]

does anyone else think about how mikel probably felt like he was betraying pep for leaving city, and was heartbroken. then fell for granit soon after and probably felt guilty for loving somoene else so soon and was unsure to start anything with granit or make anything solid cuz he knew he would end up facing pep in the prem? and was afraid he'd fall for pep all over again? no, just me? ok

[longeyelashedtragedy]

send me a character and i’ll list:

Mikel!

oooh, this is an interesting one

i once told a friend, i forget who, that Mikel is what an AI would spit out if i gave it a bunch of traits i find desirable in a man. and fitting for an AI, mikel isn't actually someone i want in that way, if that makes sense? he's kind of...uncanny valley. off-putting. not quite "inscrutable," but, hmmm. sort of like his life partner granit, he's unlike anyone else out there, but in a very different way than granit is.

favorite thing about them: the passion, the stubbornness, the slight insanity, the toothy-grinned charisma. i think he'd be a great politician, which is a compliment in a sense that i love politicians in an academic sort of way (hate them in practice, with very few exceptions). the behind the scenes machinations re: auba's departure in all or nothing were kind of terrifying and fascinating at once. also, what he did for granit literally brings me to tears. it's the disney love story that disney love stories want to be. oh, also his ass. what the fuck kind of workouts is he doing

also random fun fact: his older sister is a bougie artist who lives in mallorca year-round

least favorite thing about them: a) what he's doing to aaron ramsdale. b) that he's a native speaker of euskera but he's NEVER spoken it anywhere. it is a beautiful language and i'd love to hear him speak it. mikel, your less hot counterpart xabi has spoken it in interviews, get on it

favorite line:

brotp: xabi alonso! i don't really ship them romantically, but i do love that they've known each other for so long and their lives periodically intertwine, like right now with granit.

notp: kloppteta (i don't really ship kloppo with anyone, sry guys!)

otp: runners up: pepteta, & mikel and tim cahill back in everton (they...TRULY were a force of nature in those olde interviews)

The winner...

XHAKARTETA

maybe, in some ways, The Best OTP Of All Time (*aside from rakidrić). it's everything, everything.

i write about it a lot on here from the perspective of what Xhakarteta did for granit, and will do that again in my granit ask. i think it wasn't as obvious specifically what it did for mikel until granit left and mikel really seems to have lost his marbles a little. i have the feeling that mikel doesn't fully respect that many people, or trust that many people, and i think his utter and complete respect/trust for granit was a relief to him, and having granit around as his true equal did more for his stability than he knew.

plus they're gorgeous together physically. imagine their kids! like. damn. they'd also speak some of the coolest languages on the planet.

xhakarteta is weird because i bash on my own writing a lot, but i'm really satisfied with how i write and interpret them. i give them that little exciting something extra 😈

random headcanon: mikel probably has the most basic milquetoast liberal politics on the planet

unpopular opinion: he looked better with the Rangers-era long hair and he needs his earring back! i don't know how unpopular that is on tumblr, but i think it's unpopular with him lol

song i associate with them: i have a couple, but as with most footballers my song associations are kind of on superficial levels (franko and my movren mix being the exceptions)

bulería by david bisbal - wrong part of spain, but this song goes harder than any song should be going, and i love the DRAMA, and also that line -- "quiero ser tu calma y tu tempestad" -- i want to be your calm and your storm -- That's Xhakarteta !!!

favorite picture of them: ok, i'm sure at least one person will predict what i'm going to choose:

-2004, glasgow. so many photos i could have picked, but at the same time like...yeah!

[childishfirmino]

it’s criminal honestly

not a single fic in the kloppteta tag

[seasalttide]

gender trans.

[whitehartlane]

why sign forwards when you can just invert your backline. ange is the anti pepteta

[yudgefudge]

this fucking image I swear to god if I have to see pepteta one more time.... I am going to DESTROY SOMEONE...