#shey sucks

[tobeyandkirstendunstfan4life]

Spider-Man facts and truth

Gwen Stacy, Silk, and Carlie Cooper are shit and toxic!

I love USM but I miss the old-school Spidey stores, they were the birth of a legend, a GOAT, and a hero.

I hate Zeb Wells, Nick Lowe, Joe Q, and Tom Holland for ruining our beloved wall-crawler Spider-Man. I hate Zeb Wells, Nick Lowe, Joe Q, and Tom Holland so much for it!

People who are Mary Jane haters and say that "Spider-Man should cheat on Mary Jane with Black Cat" are misogynistic pedophilic rapist pigs and phony Spider-Man fans, Black Cat is an awful character (Well, Black Cat is now because Black Cat is overrated and overhyped),

Mary Jane Watson is an awesome and underrated character.

Wells has gone too fucking far, I hate Zeb Wells for this! Fuck you, Zeb Wells!

I hate HOW Peter and Mary Jane are hated these days, I blame Joe Q, Wells, Lowe, Marvel, and all the people in the Spidey office.

Leave Peter and Mary Jane the FUCK alone!

[misha-moose-dean-burger-lover]

when i was a kid i read something on the internet saying something like "whatever you're going through, remember that someone out there is going through the same exact thing" so yada yada "you're not alone" and i was at the age where you just believed things you read so for a bunch of time i was convinced that there was someone out there that i somehow didn't know of living the same exact life as me, going through the same exact set of situations with the same exact problems, and feeling the same exact way as me at all times

until i realised that's not exactly what that meant and i was so relieved

[custarcake]

hes just like me fr

[formule-alex]

♥️ SEND THIS TO OTHER BLOGGERS YOU THINK ARE WONDERFUL. KEEP THE GAME GOING ♥️

Are you sure this was for me!? 🥺♥️♥️ Shey 🥰

[tommy-288]

New Atun-Shei video!! I love this man so much, he’s a big inspiration ✨✨

(The ending scene is the best.)

[im-just-kinda-here-k]

Cover is blown, all bets are off. Fuck, im gonna feel this tommorow.

GUESS WHO FINALLY GOT THE BRAIN JUICE NEEDED TO ACTUALLY DRAW SOMETHING, THIS MOTHERFUCKER RIGHT HERE.

I wouldve draw Shei more... formless? but making a nonhuman form and still keeping the shapes coherent is not quite on the table yet. (yeah yeah bad art is the key to good art but the brain and i cannot see eye to eye on that unfortunately)

btw the thing on his left arm is an acid cannon :3

[daydreamerwonderkid]

Gotten a few asks about this so let me clarify:

Atlantis the Lost Empire is NOT Nazi propaganda nor is it an endorsement of Nazi beliefs.

It's another example of a piece of media that has taken inspiration from a conspiracy theory which unfortunately has ties to the Nazis' obsession with proving their bonkers Aryan race theory.

The Nazis were obsessed with finding and creating ANY sort of historical/traditional link to validate their agenda, no matter how utterly ridiculous or entirely separate from reality that link was. They were obsessed with the mystical and the occult. Pseudo-science and pseudo-archaeology were their literal bread and butter.

In this instance, Plato's story of a sunken ancient city is not special for being co-opted for the Nazi's purposes. What has lead Atlantis to becoming a popular conspiracy theory in modern times is due in part to the steady popularization of pseudo-science as well as bad faith actors promoting a racist conspiracy theory as genuine fact.

The majority of conspiracy theories you hear about today actually have roots in fiction. For example, the Hollow Earth conspiracy theory finds it's origins from science fiction novels dating back to the 1800s. The Philadelphia Project can also trace its origins to a UFO writer who claims he was receiving secret confidential intel from a former US mariner. And yet there are are people who genuinely believe there is a secret world hidden in the center of the earth and that the US government was experimenting with and succeeded in creating a portal to another dimension.

So is the case with Atlantis. Atlantis: The Antediluvian World was written by Ignatius Donnelly in 1882 as a means to express his desires for a populist government and world. He was extremely misguided in his belief that Plato's story was factual and he employed the use of hyperdiffusion-a popular method used in countless conspiracy theories-to argue that all ancient societies were basically all descended from one even more ancient people.

Or in the Nazi's own terms: "An ancient master race."

Bad actors like Graham Hancock and Ancient Aliens further popularized the Nazi's conspiracy theory (as well as many others) and Donnelly's books by spreading mass disinformation across a global scale and we are all suffering for it.

As I've already stated before, Atlantis the Lost Empire takes superficial inspiration from the conspiracy theory in the same way that Stranger Things takes inspiration from the Montauk Project. Many popular sci-fi films, tv shows, books, and video games are littered with references and nods to conspiracy theories. Everything from Men in Black to The X Files to the SCP Foundation.

If you are interested in seeing how convincing conspiracy theories can get and their very real ability to destroy actual lives, I recommend watching American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders. It perfectly showcases how conspiracy theories can suck you in and how people can easily take advantage of you once they break down your ability to distinguish fiction from reality.

My only caveat with the documentary is that I really wish the creators had emphasized even more plainly to the audience that the Octopus Murders is an actual conspiracy theory instead of leaving the question somewhat open ended. Especially in regards to Danny Casolaro's death.

I would also highly recommend watching Milo Rossi aka miniminuteman's videos as his channel is dedicated solely to debunking various archaeological conspiracy theories as well as providing fascinating education on a variety of historical topics. I really cannot overstate how wonderful his Awful Archaeology series is.

I'm going to link a few of my favorites here:

This is the first of a multiseries debunking Graham Hancock's Ancient Apocalypse series.

This is Part 1 of 2 of him debunking one of the most notorious TikTokers who makes a living off of spreading mass disinformation.

I would be remiss not to mention Atun-Shei Film's amazing channel as well as Lady of the Library.

I would also recommend Kaz Rowe's channel as they provide stellar information on a wide variery of historical topics.

Tldr; Atlantis the Lost Empire and the films creators' did not set out to promote Nazi beliefs. They simply took inspiration from a popular conspiracy theory and made it something entirely unique and separate from the Aryan race agenda.

[kineticpenguin]

What other things can you say about InRange and Forgotten Weapons that are recent

Lessee... Karl at InRange has been collabing with more people on a variety of topics, like Annette Evans specializing in women's self-defense, for example. He was a guest on Behind the Bastards for the Hiram Maxim episodes, he had a discussion video with Atun-Shei about John Brown, and he and SinistralRifleman are still working on Brutality stuff. I don't know much of anything about his personal life, and frankly do not care. If that's relevant to anyone, I think it's worth remembering that the reason Brownells dropped him and Ian parted ways with him was because he committed the crime of saying trans people are people with rights on arfcom, not because he does things you might consider cringe on his own time.

I think Ian has realized that he might've fucked up by not standing by his onetime friend, as his channel has kinda struggled for new content and he's started trying to create his own Brutality spin-offs and rip-offs. There are only so many Forgotten Weapons worth talking about, after all, and so a lot of his videos lately have been more like Modern Garbage, stuff that was "forgotten" not because it was old, but because it sucked and/or had no market niche like the Coonan and COP .357. The VHS-2/Springfield Hellion getting a new variant is just bog standard "hey guys new version of a gun" video that TFBTV handles. It'd explain part of why he's copyright striking old videos with InRange, if he can publish new videos about the same topics, that'll keep him afloat. The Royal Armouries have kinda started to eat his lunch, not only having constant access to all kinds of old and interesting firearms, but also regularly talking about them in a way relevant to a wider audience by comparing them to their video game representation. They're doing some collaboration videos now, but we'll see how long that lasts if they catch a whiff of that Leviathan Group stink on him.

Also it was a little embarrassing when he tried to fact-check Siege of Jadotville and the Chieftain made a response video that rightly pointed out that sometimes, troops just do things that don't actually make sense because they believe they make sense.

[jorjmush]

breaking news: idiot with a fish hits 255 and kills god heres the part where i do a personal review all parts of the arcane river story

dont take these seriously

the adversary as a character 0/10: words dont describe how bad he is "...Oh!" "...Ah!" shut up youre an insult to every maplestory class

lost temple keeper + vanishing journey: 7/10

i did this in 2017 but most of the content is fetch quests and an introduction to completely new things you have no attachment to maybe i should give it a little more credit as the kao twist being revealed for the first time was kinda cool and the talk amongst the fandom

reverse city: 7/10 apparently i did this in 2021? i guess that makes sense because this didnt exist in 2017 why is earth real and called friends world still not invested in the story by this point but i liked t-boy

chu chu island: 6/10 this is when i came back so i actually think this story is quite fun and i liked the characters involved but in the grand scheme of things, its not good

feels like filler, wasnt truly important until yum yum was added YEARS LATER, feels like a waste of 5 levels when i still feel like you should fight the black mage at 250 instead of 255

yum yum island: 9/10 cooooooooool cooooooooooooooooooool has the same fun and and loveable whimsy of chu chu but this time it sets up something sinister and adds to the plot

the afrien fusion, the kaling reveal, chefs kiss

lachelein + crack of subconscious: 8/10 honestly i wasnt very invested in this lucid just makes this interesting

plus im a shade so i get extra dialogue

also this town name sucks gms hates non-english words

arcana: 7/10

rock spirits and i love the spirit of harmony was this just setup for tana

morass: 10/10

alright we getting into PLOT jean deserved better, tana deserved better, arkarium deserved what he got, shey deserved better, kritias deserved better

the flying fish TALKS and the moment where he takes the form of jean and shows himself to tana is so AMAZING i love this TRAGIC STORY

the maps are awful though especially if youre low on arcane force which i was

esfera: 8/10

why dont i actually remember much of what happened here i guess the information of tana has been so stuck in my head it doesnt feel like it was presented as new information to me anymore lots of nice exclusive dialogue here though and we get to meet ollie sellas: 11/10 i will cry right here right now this is such a good story with good atmosphere and pacing i CARE for both ollie and shubert greatly

moonbridge: 8/10

this is when the pacing and structure becomes spotty because it was part of the event i chose not to participate in which means i didnt get the full experience theres just so much dread in this questline so many losses from not being ready to fight the black mage the pacing towards the second half is bad though the cutoff is so strange because it feels like you have another 30 minutes to go when really you have 5 labyrinth of suffering: 8/10

hillas beats the shit out of your morale for an hour the dread continues and continues it shall tons of exclusive dialogue, always a favorite limina: 5/10 i feel like im supposed to feel more i feel like im supposed to do more all of the bosses are very weak which is very unsatisfying, orchid is tsundere and says the adversary hasnt lost anything which ranges from maybe true to absurdly false depending on who you are the claudine vs cygnus scene is legitimately pointless, nothing can describe in words how pointless it truly is the flying fish DIES and then suddenly you have to fight the black mage the black mage whos phases last 4 seconds in story mode i only ever got hit once

the adversary dying did make me actually sad though because everyone else thinks youre truly dead the flying fish comes back (yay) and then its revealed NO ONE DIES? and most of the soldiers get UNSNAPPED? the story finishes with orchid being tsundere again and your idiot of a character sitting on the flying fish leaving the scene

i feel like im in a cartoon

kaos memory: 8/10 a tragedy of a character destined to die kao deserved better shade aftermath: 10/10 thank god he gained a reason to live conclusion: why did i even type this out im just ready to move on to the grandis story

[dnofsunshine]

omg I feel like we are the same person. I'm also suffering from terrible chronic back pain. I've already have 5 surgeries this year alone to help rectify the problem with my spine. It's hell and I can't work because of it. Your writing made my days happier while I've been going through all of this. I've been secretly hoping you will finish sleepwalkers at some point because I adore that fanfic. I just hope we both recover from our chronic pain disabilities soon! Just know you're not alone.

omg i'm so sorry to hear abt your chronic back pain and all those surgeries, i can't imagine how that must feel 🥺🥺 i'm super late in answering this, please forgive me, but i hope that things improve for you!! 5 surgeries?!?! you're totally incredible!! gosh i can't imagine how that feels, fren 😭 i've only had the one so far but i may have another soon 🥲 back pain totally sucks 😭 i just got back from an appt with a neurologist today and theyre gonna look for a place where i can get an MRI that is hopefully affordable cos i don't have insurance... again, i'm so sorry you're in so much pain, i'm right there with you fren 💛💛🥺 it's awful. and not being able to work is stressful as well, i wonder how you're doing these days ;_;

as for sleepwalkers, i'm so thrilled to hear i can do something to help you in these hellish times. i miss the digimon fandom, i'm hoping to work on ch 19 soon!! it's been hard to write lately cos of chronic pain and depression but it encourages me knowing that my fics help others!!! i'll try working on it tomorrow morning 😊

i hope that we both recover too!!! thank you for all the kind words 😭

stay safe,

shey 💛

[sheizara]

Truthful Thursday: What’s one thing that they’ve had to face reality with? Was it a hard lesson to learn? Has it made them wiser? Stronger? Or do they still dwell on it?

Some people just suck. Some people are just thieves of joy and don't want to see anyone else be happy or successful. Some people will just actively hate that you were born, something you had no control over!, and will hold it against you.

Shei spent a lot of time growing up trying to fit into a mold of someone who wouldn't get yelled at or looked down on, and what that mold looked like was constantly changing because it never mattered how she acted or what she looked like.

When she got out of Quel'thalas she was really able to kind of decide who she wanted to be and the kind of people she wanted to be around. Life is extremely unfair and surprisingly short at times, and she's learned that she doesn't really owe anyone a version of herself that they might like.

You either vibe with her, or you don't.

But of course she still dwells on it, it's hard to easily get past that kind of treatment. It just doesn't control her life anymore.

Thanks @chothulu!

[anoldstoryteller]

56 BBY The Great Tragedy of Torka

I awoke with joy. My parents were taking me with them on a business trip. It was my first time in space and I was very excited. I had my trusty droid with me as I approached the ship. I remember how big I thought it was. My father was in deep conversation with a crew member while my mother helped me get settled in. I smiled as I thought how lucky I was to be able to enjoy this trip while my brother couldn't since he had gotten in trouble. A server droid hovered over with a tray of snacks and drinks. I helped myself before my father shoo it away. "The location was changed." My father said as he sat down. My mother rubbed his shoulder in comfort. "It'll be alright." she said with the warmest smile. It wasn't long until the ship slipped into hyperspace. I remember the suddenness of it. One second I was chewing on a sweet bread and before I had the time to swallow, I was thrown from my seat. I looked up to see the other passengers, the aids that work for my parents on the floor too. One was missing the top of her head from where a tray had gone through. My mother scooped me up. My father was yelling at his security officer. His deep voice cut through the screaming of the aids and the sirens "We were ambushed Sir. The pilot is trying to avoid them but it doesn't look good. Let's get your family to the lifeboat." He said as he pointed to the rear of the ship. I called out for E3 but i couldn't see them. The aids followed behind us. An explosion from behind caused a vacuum to open up, taking the aids into the vacuum of space before the haulbreach was sealed. We rounded the corner to the lifeboats and was met with blaster fire. My Father's bodyguard was hit five times. "Sorry sir, There appears to be infiltrators in our ranks." He said before firing down the hall. My father picked up a blaster and started firing too. My father's bodyguard went forward, followed by my father. My mother led me behind them. My Father was preparing the lifeboat when more traitors appeared firing. My father's bodyguard turned around and opened fire but he fell quickly from his wounds. The last of the traitors fell from my father's blaster. The last sounds of my old life will stick with me forever. The burning flames and sirens drowned out the sound of heavy breathing of my father. My mother crying over his dying body and the bits of sparks from the electrical systems. The argument between my mother and father was not something I remember however. The next thing I knew my mother was putting me in the lifeboat alone. I watched in confusion and horror as I propelled away from the exploding ship.

The lifeboat floated on for weeks, adrift and out of fuel. The supplies and rations were long gone. An anger started to grow from the gnawing questions. Why were we targeted? Who were the traitors? When will I get my vengeance? I amused myself of slaughtering their entire house. One day, as I was about to sleep, I noticed lights searching the wreckage. I was filled with hope until I realized it could be the traitors. I grabbed a makeshift weapon and prepared myself. Then all of a sudden I felt an overwhelming sense of calm wash over myself as I laid my eyes on an angel. She laid her hand on the door and opened the hatch. I fully expected to be sucked out into the emptiness of space, but was surprised when instead my breathing was better. The angel reached out a hand with food. "Eat child." It was a simple order to listen to. I grab it and eat gluttonously. She informed me that she was a Mandalorian and if I wanted, she would train me. I welcomed her offer with glee.

I rode with Shei Wei on a thing of myth, a basilisk war droid. I was quickly introduced to her clan. Her seer, Xan'rra Liava took a special interest in me. Something about the Will of the Force. She didn't make any sense. Why would the Force kill my parents? I questioned her about this and she would only say that it will be apparent when the time comes.

[fulltimecatwitch]

where the fuck in my post did i say the other options were good? to be clear : they all suck, i'm just clarifying that this isn't the progressive win international media is claiming it is

The tren maya is not a complicated project it was literally built by taking land from indigenous people and committing ecocide on the mayan jungle. It doesn't matter how much the goverment claims it will provide economic growth, the people there do not want it

Tren Maya amenaza la identidad y derechos de las infancias

https://corrientealterna.unam.mx/otras-historias/infancias-tren-maya/

Bacalar: los olvidados que va dejando el despojo del Tren Maya | Radio Zapatista

https://radiozapatista.org/?p=45750

Pueblos denuncian despojo y militarización con “tren maya” - Avispa Midia

https://avispa.org/pueblos-denuncian-despojo-y-militarizacion-con-tren-maya/

Felix Salgado Macedonio ( acussed of SA was literally at her side during her campaign closure ceremony and it is likely that she will give him a new position of power despite

Claudia has publicly spoken about supporting the military during her campaign https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.eleconomista.com.mx/amp/politica/Claudia-Sheinbaum-defiende-las-labores-de-las-Fuerzas-Armadas-ajenas-a-la-seguridad-20240416-0087.html

She was also the one who placed thousands of soldiers at the subway claiming it was for our own security

The military ( which btw is also trained by Isr*el ) in Mexico has a history of abuse of power and now has taken more than a hundred civilian duties, which gives them even more power and impunity to use excessive force against civilians and get away with violating basic human rights

ironic for someone who claims they are not like their predecessors

•During her campaign she claimed her party had managed to lower femicides and violence against women, which is true if you look at their "official numbers" but a lot of people have been omitted from this official records. Here is Jose Luis Castillo talking about how her daughter, who went missing in 2009, is no longer part of the official list of missing people

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMrd1DwLF/

•Claudia never had a solid position regarding abortion during her campaign and during one of the preseidential debates, when asked about violence against women, she literally said she'd rather talk about something else.

• If we have legalized federal abortion is thanks to the collectives who have organized and protested not thanks to Morena or any other party

if we have legal change of gender, recognition of non binary identity trans specialized clinics and legal equal marriage it is thanks to activists, thanks to people like Maria Elizabeth Montaño and Ociel Baena ( whose murders were covered up by the state) not thanks to Claudia or Morena

https://animalpolitico.com/2020/06/doctora-maria-elizabeth-derechos-poblacion-trans-desaparecida

• I agree that a lot of Morena's social programs have helped and i'm glad they're staying. It's also true that minimum wage increased, but i don't know how much it really helps when literally everything is getting more and more expensive. My family and I are all working class and each month we can afford less and less of our basic pantry essentials. My grandmother receives money from these social programs and she's barely getting by as well. Also, just because the money is now going directly to the people doesn't mean there is no corruption present

I'm glad as well that the the righ wing is not on power, everything you say about them is correct and I do not in any form support PRIAN or Xochitl, but Claudia is no better or less corrupt than any of them and she is not for the people

As someone from Mexico I feel deeply obligated to let the US left know that Claudia Sheinbaum is neither of these things and while having a women rule the country for the first time is a historic achievement it is not the win you think it is

She is of jewish descent and made one statement for Palestine but never pressured the mexican goverment to break ties with Israel and one of her proposals as a president is to give the military here ( that btw is trained by the Isr*eli army) more power

As the mayor of Mexico City she constantly used the riot police against protestors and allowed the use of tear gas ( which she later claimed wasn't true)

She calls herself a feminist but always refused to acknowledge the wave of violence Mexico faces against women ( 11 women dissapear every day in Mexico) She has also knowingly made men accused of SA part of her campaign team

She also supports "Tren Maya", a project that caused massive ecological devastation in the mayan jungle and facilitated military violence against indigenous communities

You don't live here, you don't know shit so please don't push this kind of narrative idolizing these people

this is not a win for us

[mojolaoluwa-oyedeji]

A Nation of Unreliable Fortune

The sun streamed down on the dead, green, not grassy turf. Well, there was grass, but not enough grass. Repeated kicks and days of rain had upended the surface and it still hadn’t been fixed, to no-one’s shock.

The coach shouted into the still silence of the air while they ran dribbling drills. He hated training when the weather was like this.

What was the point of building a training facility near the water when they would never get a breeze? All they got was the humidity and mosquitoes hungry to suck their blood like they were children rushing to down a cold pack of ribena.

The coach’s words didn’t help either, slamming into his skin like tiny little sharp knives, calling each of them talentless, useless and worthless (even though those were the same thing, but you couldn’t tell him that or else he would cut your head off).

Telling them they had no future, even though he was the one stuck yelling at children for meager pay at the ripe old age of 60. He had to be 60, otherwise that big pot hanging off his midsection was just sad.

There was a man sitting to the side, on one of the recently repainted benches that went unloved for years until about two days before his expected arrival. He had a national team jersey from 1996 on, fitted very snugly, as his narrowed eyes scanned over the group of young, shirtless boys running around.

He was a scout. For the national team.

Not the first time his little, haphazard football academy would have one, and probably not the last.

In the reception of the facility, there were pictures of Nnamdi Anozie, member of a glittering and surprisingly successful Nigerian squad that won at the 1996 Olympics. Every boy that attended that academy, as they walked through, wanted to be the next Anozie. Including Dami.

And those hopes rested on the man sitting in the jersey Anozie wore.

Dami was one of two boys that got on the wrong side of Coach Onuoha less. The other was Uche Eze.

Dami had been attending the academy for years–his parents did a lot to pay for him to attend, realizing the boy just wasn’t going to focus on his school books no matter how hard they tried to beat it into him.

Uche, on the other hand, just appeared one day. Whispers spread of him being related to Anozie, as his arrival predated a hefty donation by the academy’s alumnus, making it the Anozie Football Academy.

There was a change of hands, a change of staff, and Uche kept getting things a bit too easy.

But Dami couldn’t think too much about Uche. Not when the scout was looking for fresh blood for the U-17 side. The Golden Eaglets wanted to add another U-17 World Cup to their trophy cabinet and Dami wanted some of that glory. He needed it.

The ball seemed magnetic at his feet, obeying every nudge and every tap from his cleats, weaving around the beat up plastic cones and rolling on the uneven ground. Nothing flashy, though. That wasn’t his strong suit.

Pace yourself, he thought. Getting tired or getting a muscle out of sorts before reaching goal wasn’t in aid of anyone.

As he ended his circuit, Dami lifted his head slightly. Still no wind. No goalkeeper. Mid-power shot, to the right.

Top bins. Too easy.

Even Coach had to stop, the spit from his mouth ceasing.

“Dami, good job eh? Now don’t get lazy. Again.”

A small smirk quirked up at the corners of his mouth.

“Yes sir.”

He jogged to retrieve the ball. On his way back, he narrowly avoided an absolute missile of a ball rocketing off the crossbar right above his head.

Of course it was from Uche. Dami had seen his movement from the corner of his eye. A lot of fanfare just to move a ball up the pitch. The crossbar was the closest Uche had gotten to all day. For a striker he was pretty shit at being on target.

“Shey you dey craze?” Dami shouted. “Can’t you see someone is here?”

“Who asked you to be there?” Uche shouted back. “Blind bat.”

Anger flared red-hot beneath Dami’s skin. He began rushing towards Uche, ready for a fight, but a stern look from Coach stopped him dead in his tracks, forcing him to turn around and go back to the start.

He heard Uche kiss his teeth somewhere behind him, sending a fresh wave of anger surging through his body, but then he remembered the scout was watching. And he could imagine he didn’t want players with anger issues on his team.

After about two more goals, the shrill scream of the Coach’s whistle pierced the air. Dami’s sweat had sweat. But now he had to wear a smelly, faded, coloured bib. Coach was putting them into two teams for a mock match.

There weren’t enough players for a proper 11-a-side game, so it was 5-a-side. Coach said after this test game only one of the boys may receive any form of acknowledgment from the scout. They were to refer to him as Mr. Ben, nothing else. Dami wondered if Mr. Ben had watched a single match since the Olympic finals thirty years before.

Dami and Uche played the same position. Dami and Uche were at the top. Naturally, they were the captains of each side. Dami’s team got the red bibs and Uche’s team got the yellow ones.

Dami and Uche shook hands, both grips unyielding.

“Good luck,” Dami said.

Uche nodded. He didn’t look like he believed he’d need it.

Uche’s team would kick off first. Two halves, seven minutes each. Dami could feel Mr. Ben’s eyes boring into the side of his head as he in turn glared at Uche’s back. He needed that call up. If Uche was really related to Anozie, he would be just fine without it.

The whistle blew. Uche kicked the ball towards his teammate, Dipo. The game was on.

Dami threw himself at the ball any chance he got. Pace yourself, he would think, when it was at his feet.

Pacing yourself opened you up to more tackles, so you had to be strong on the ball. You had to be determined. You had to keep your eyes open. Pockets of space, gaps in the defense. You either take it yourself or square it off and hope they get your vision. If they don’t you win the ball. You pace yourself. You go again.

Dami knew his parents wished he could focus on his books the way he focused on the ball. But the ball moved. It moved with him, it listened to him, better than his books did. His books were always trying to tell him something, never listening to what he had to say.

Every once in a while, Dami would glance at Mr. Ben, see the way his posture changed whenever Uche was on the ball. Uche would make the ball bounce in a million directions, hoping to distract the defender.

And he would promptly lose it. Mr. Ben’s face would fall.

The game wore on. Neither side had scored a single goal, too many saves, crossbar challenges and wide shots. First half goalless. But the second half…

Uche’s teammate, Dipo, had the ball. Dipo had been killing himself over the ball like how Dami did. They were usually in the same team. Always in the same team. All of Uche’s team was really Dami’s team. Dami wondered what made the coach change his mind.

The defenders were closing in on Dipo. Dami shouted instructions, instructions that put Dipo in a tight spot. No gaps, no pockets. But then the unthinkable happened.

Dipo hit the ball. It went to Uche. Uche hit the ball as well. It soared in the air, seemingly gunning for another crossbar challenge, until it hit the back of the net. Coach blew the whistle. Uche’s team had won.

One lucky hit.

Dami could practically see his dream crumbling before his eyes. His spirits were lifted a little when Coach gave him and Dipo a nod of approval or something a shade close to it, and realized that even if Dipo got the spot ahead of him, it wouldn’t be so bad.

He would probably punch the walls and shed a few unmanly tears, but it would be fine. The world cup was every two years. Maybe the scout would come back.

But Mr. Ben called Uche. Uche who barely touched the ball. Uche who lost the ball whenever he touched it. Uche who sent it wide every time he had a shot at goal. Uche who–

Uche whose uncle was a legend. Mr. Ben said Uche’s uncle would be proud. Two generations from the same academy. A natural talent. So beautiful with the ball at his feet, but for the beauty to lead to nowhere.

Dami would have been fine if Dipo got the spot. If Kelechi or Obinna or Tunde or Chima got the spot. But Uche?

Dami wished he could take all the good luck he wished for Uche back. Maybe the ball would have landed at his feet and he would have gotten the one hit, the one lucky hit. Maybe he would have the luck of having a famous uncle on his side.

But he felt stupid for wishing it to a guy that didn’t even need it.

[taintedlxve]

Send me your pathetic women so Shey can suck their dicks

[balaclavacharles]

shey, I miss you on my dashboard  😿

Jay baby, hi!! I miss shitposting on here too, it sucks :(

I just really hope I get my account back soon and then I'll be back to annoying everyone hehehe 😋