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Alternate Reality V-J Day celebration in Times Square with Cap and Peggy!
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Isaiah 52: Beautiful Are The Feet
God knows every story, and God’s timing is perfect for every person. You and I are too finite to fully grasp the magnitude of this truth. But we are able to at least trust God with it. #Isaiah52 #BeautifulAreTheFeet
God knew God’s people had suffered terribly. God knew they had drunk to the dregs God’s purifying wrath over their sin, and it had been intensely painful. The consequences of the people’s sin were a terrible thing. And the cup God had given them was to last seventy long years. But, Isaiah prophesied, the time of their suffering would come to an end. God would now pass that cup of wrath to the…
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Sailor George Mendonsa was photographed kissing nurse Greta Friedman by Alfred Eisenstadt at Times Square on VJ Day (August 14, 1945). Mendonsa and Friedman returned to Times Square in 1980 to recreate the photograph.
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Like V-J Day
Or the lads kiss each other to cover for Colin kissing Michael after West Ham and a new Richmond tradition is born. 5.9k [Ao3]
Never did Sam Obisanya think he’d be clutching and screaming with Jamie Tartt after scoring the winning goal in a premier league trophy match.
For several reasons, really. He’d always believed the team could do well and he’d believed he could do himself and his family proud in this sport he loved but after everything they’d gone through and with Jamie Tartt of all people…
He was having a little trouble trying to believe he wasn’t dreaming.
That feeling only increased when Jamie stopped screaming, his eyes on something past Sam’s shoulder and going wide with panic.
“Sam!” Jamie yelled. “Kiss me! Kiss me on the mouth!”
Sam blinked at him, unsure he’d heard right. “What!?”
Jamie shook his head, his eyes still wide, and moved his hands from Sams’s shoulders to his face. “I’m gonna kiss you now.”
There wasn’t really time to think so Sam just said “Oh. Okay!” and Jamie leaned in and kissed him.
It was quick – nothing fancy. Jamie pulled away and patted Sam on the cheek. “Good lad.”
Sam just nodded, not sure how to respond to the situation. Was this another trick? Like winning an Oscar at the Espys?
Sam got distracted by Isaac and Bumbercatch colliding with him, dogpiling and screaming about his goal.
He wasn’t sure anyone else saw Jamie kiss Dani and then Jan Maas. Was this something they did now? Were they kissing each other?
Just in case, Sam pressed his lips to Moe’s temple and kissed Isaac on his nose. Isaac’s face scrunched up rather adorably but he was still screaming so Sam didn’t think he’d actually overstepped.
The rest of the team joined their huddle and with Coach Lasso’s victory dance, Sam's thoughts of kissing were quickly abandoned.
Until the following press conference.
It was a rare triple-coach event with both Sam and Jamie representing the players.
The reporters lobbed them easy questions about how excited they were for their win and how disappointing it was that Man City also won their match. But it was Marcus Adebayo, The Independent, who really brought the heat.
“Mr. Tartt, any comment on why you kissed three of your teammates on the pitch after the match?”
The coaches turned slowly to look at Jamie – Ted, surprised and delighted, Roy, surprised but trying very hard not to look it, and Beard, extremely unsurprised but pleased.
Jamie shrugged, his arms folded in front of him on the table, the picture of smugness. “Celebration, innit? We’d just won a really big match the season after we’d been promoted. ‘S like that old picture from America. After the war or summat.”
“‘V-J Day in Times Square’?”
“No, the kissin’ one,” Jamie told him. “Not sure what a VJ is but I don’t think you can do that in public.”
A couple people laughed. Sam heard Roy growl. He leaned forward to speak into his mic.
“We kiss people on the pitch after a victory all the time,” Sam said. “I don’t know why a victory this great would be different.”
“Well, you don’t often kiss each other,” Marcus offered.
“Well, never has a team been as close as this team has gotten,” Roy interjected, leaning toward his own mic. “We encourage our players to express themselves however they like. If kissing on the pitch is something they want to do after they play some good fucking football, we’ll fucking support them.” He grunted, slouching back a little. “It’s the Lasso way.”
“Aw, come on now, Coach,” Ted said, smiling softly at him. “It’s the Richmond way.”
Roy rolled his eyes but he offered a soft smile back. Sam beamed at them and Jamie’s smile was as bright as Trafalgar Square.
Jamie offered Roy a cheeky wink. “Nothing wrong with kissin’ the lads, yeah?”
“Oh fuck you,” Roy said back and everyone laughed.
They moved onto the next question.
On the way back to the dressing room, Sam hung back to walk with Jamie. “What was the kiss really about?”
Jamie grinned at him. “I’m supposed to be playing decoy, aren’t I? So I saw Colin kissin’ Michael on the pitch and I knew I had to distract everyone, yeah? Make it normal.” Jamie shrugged. “Knew Colin didn’t want to come out yet. Now he doesn’t have to.”
Sam melted a bit, taking a moment to appreciate the Jamie they have compared to the one they started with. He wrapped an arm around Jamie’s shoulders, clapping him on the arm. “Jamie, that is so sweet. I’m sure Colin will be so grateful.”
“Weren’t planning on telling him, to be honest.” Jamie frowned. “Don’t want to put him on the spot or whatever.”
“Jamie,” He shook him a bit and Jamie dropped his head, pleased. “That really is wonderful. But we should at least talk to the team. See who else might like to get in on it. The more teammates kissing, the more normal it gets.”
“Yeah, alright,” Jamie said, smiling up at him. “And I’m sorry for kind of ambushing you. Shoulda probably explained meself better first.”
“No, it was fine, I understand.” Sam told him, letting go of his shoulders as they entered the room, almost everyone else in the shower already. “And it was a nice kiss.”
“Oi, mate,” Jamie grinned. “You haven’t seen a good kiss yet.”
The transition through the off season and then back into pre-season training without Coach Lasso had everyone noticeably glum. They’d kept Coach Beard, and Nate had been promoted back to assistant coach again, but Roy as manager didn’t quite have the same charm as their American friend.
Not that Roy was bad. And not that he didn’t try.
He actually did a phenomenal job of bringing his own unique perspective of the game into coaching them on the pitch while keeping up with some of Coach Lasso’s open and compassionate policies. It was quite the environment.
An environment that spurred them to win their first game of the season for the first time since Sam started at Richmond.
Everyone was on the pitch screaming and celebrating when Jamie locked eyes with him. His eyes churned, a kind of slow illumination of feral joy, and he pointed at Sam, his grin a vicious challenge.
He stalked up to Sam, his grin growing more manic, and Sam ran to meet him, wanting to share in whatever primal joy Jamie was feeling.
Jamie, of course, gripped the back of Sam’s head and brought him into a leg melting kiss.
Oh yeah. Sam had forgotten about that.
They hadn’t yet gotten around to bringing anyone else on Jamie’s kissing scheme – except for Dani and Jan Maas, who were, themselves, kissing across the pitch – but Jamie had promised Sam he hadn’t seen a good kiss yet and well..
Wow . Yeah, okay. Sam understood why the ladies on Lust Conquers All let Jamie get away with so much now.
HIs knees actually buckled and he had to grip Jamie’s shoulders tightly to keep himself from going down. He felt Jamie smile against his mouth, laughing as they broke away. “Did I actually make you go weak in the knees?”
“Fuck off,” Sam laughed, still a little dizzy. “I wasn’t ready.”
“I warned you!”
“Not recently!”
Jamie laughed again, putting an arm around Sam’s waist to hold him up. He used his other arm to reach into the cluster of teammates celebrating next to them.
“Oi, Richard!” Jamie pulled at the Frenchman, dislodging him from the group. “Kiss me!”
Richard smirked and said something in French that was probably very dirty but Sam couldn’t understand it.
He pushed up against Jamie, his side brushing Sam as Jamie still hadn’t let him go, and pulled Jamie into a kiss without any hesitation.
He immediately shoved his tongue in Jamie’s mouth, which Sam could have told Jamie was to be expected. For all Sam knew, that might have been what he’d warned in French.
Jamie laughed as he shoved Richard away. “You prick.”
Richard just winked and moved to jump on Zorro as he passed.
“Wow,” Sam said, bringing his arm up around Jamie’s shoulders. Now they were doubly linked. “Did you tell him already? About the kissing thing?”
“Nah,” Jamie said, grinning as they walked toward the dressing room. “But he’s French, inhe? Knew he’d be up for it.”
Sam groaned. “I’d call you out for stereotyping but I also know Richard.”
Jamie laughed.
“Think Cockburn might be my next target,” Jamie mused, his lips pouting out in a thinking face. “He could probably loop in Winchester and Roberts.”
“I can talk to Moe and Babutende,” Sam offered. “I already sort of kissed Moe at the last game.”
“Yeah?” Jamie grinned. “Was it as magical as I imagine?”
Sam shrugged. “Kiss him yourself.”
Jamie winked. “You know I will.”
Watching Jamie cut a path through all their teammates over the following weeks erased any doubt Sam might have had that he was 100% serious about his role as a distraction.
He did end up kissing Cockburn, then Bumbercatch, then Zorro, and also Sam and Jan Maas and Dani every chance he could get. A couple of them cornered Sam later to ask him what Jamie was up to but were more than happy to play along once they knew it was for Colin. Meaning Sam himself had kissed Richard and Dani and Winchester and O’Brien and he even got to kiss Moe properly. Jamie was right: it really was magical.
They somehow got all the way to November before they actually had to talk about it. And, unfortunately, only because they’d hurt Colin’s feelings.
He approached Sam in the dressing room, the training after their win against Crystal Palace, when Sam had actually hopped up to wrap his legs around Jamie to kiss him at a better angle. Sam had a rotation of which teammates he’d kiss after a match but he definitely always made sure to kiss Jamie.
Sam and Colin weren’t the first two in the locker room but they were early enough to be among the first, and no one was really awake yet.
Colin was already in his training kit, looking sleepy and unobtrusive. He plopped down on the bench next to Sam’s cubby with a deep sigh.
Sam chuckled, hanging his shirt up and grabbing his own kit. “Fun night?”
“What? Nah.” Colin sighed again, reaching up to rub his forehead. “Not hungover. Just couldn’t sleep. Something botherin’ me.”
“Oh,” Sam answered, startled. He was always happy to help a teammate and friend with their problems, but Colin had never come to him before, “Would you… like to talk about it?”
“Yeah, actually.” Colin turned to look up at Sam, his wide brown eyes looking tired and sad. “Do you think Jamie’s avoiding me because I’m gay?”
“What?” Sam jerked, his head shaking in an automatic denial. “Colin, of course not. Has he been avoiding you? I thought you played FIFA with him yesterday.”
“We did! I did, he’s not I guess–” Colin huffed a breath, his brow furrowed in frustration. “‘Avoid’ might not be the best word. I just, you know, I feel left out. I feel like the team’s excluding me because I’m gay.”
Sam frowned. As far as he knew, Colin had been there for all team dinners, team movie nights, the casual FIFA with the boys. If Colin was being left out, Sam wasn’t seeing it. “Excluding you how?”
“You know…” Sam screwed up his face in question and Colin sighed. “With the kissing. The after win kissing you all do on the pitch. I know Jamie started it, and he’s kissed just about everyone – even Shannon! – but he hasn’t kissed me. Is he being weird about me being gay?”
Sam blinked and immediately had to suck his lips into his mouth to keep from laughing. Laughter would not unhurt Colin’s feelings.
They really should have seen this coming. Or, if nothing else, Jamie should have just kissed Colin. Not kissing him has singled him out the same way Colin being the only one to kiss a man would have.
“Colin, I promise you, Jamie isn’t avoiding kissing you because you’re gay.” Sam stopped and frowned. “Or, he might be, but not in the way you think.”
Colin frowned back, his shoulders slumping.
“No, hey, listen.” Sam reached forward and gripped Colin’s shoulders. “I promise, just let Jamie explain. Oh, Jamie! JAMIE!”
The locker room had been filling up while they’d been talking, the boys getting gradually livelier as their coffee kicked in. Jamie had just sauntered in, dressed in peak form in his floral track suit and orange tinted sunglasses.
He grinned over at Sam and Colin and trotted up to them. “Yeah, mate?”
“Tell Colin you haven’t been avoiding kissing him because he’s gay.”
“What?” Jamie jerked, pulling off his sunglasses so they could see his blue eyes wide in shock. “Mate, definitely not! I’ll kiss you now if you like, make everything square.”
Colin put his hand out as if to stop Jamie from kissing him. “No. No, don’t do that.”
Sam wasn’t quite as successful with stopping a laugh. He choked on it a bit. “Jamie, Colin has noticed that you’ve been kissing everyone else on the team and would like to know why you haven’t kissed him.”
Jamie frowned. “Oh. yeah, I guess that would look homophobic. You were probably right and we should have told him.”
“No good deed goes unpunished,” Sam agreed, clapping Jamie on the back.
“Sorry,” Colin said, his frown looking more perplexed now than unhappy so at least that was good. “How is Jamie kissing the whole team a good deed?”
“I’m playin’ decoy!” Jamie tells him with an undercurrent of pride you would have never seen from Jamie Tartt three years ago. “Distractin’ the press like so you and Michael can kiss after matches if you want.”
“Kiss Michael…” Colin started before his eyes widened in understanding. “Oh! After West Ham last season!”
“Yeah, mate,” Jamie said, bouncing a little on his feet. “Saw you snogging on the pitch so I quick kissed Sam and some of the other lads so at the conference, they asked me about that instead of what was happening with you.”
Colin looked at Jamie, awed and a little impressed. “I’d just thought no one had seen us. Thought I got lucky.”
Sam chuckled. “You’d have to be very lucky. There were thousands of people watching.”
Colin shrugged.
Jamie scoffed. “Nah, mate. It was me! And then Sam thought the rest of the team might want in on it, so we’ve been, like, creatin’ this culture of kissin’ the lads after a win. So if you ever wanted to do it again, you’d be sorted.”
Colin smiled. “That’s real sweet, boyo.” He punched Jamie in the arm. “But you still should have told me!”
“He was trying to be humble,” Sam told him, rolling his eyes.
“Well now that he knows–” Jamie grinned, stepping up on the bench and shouting. “Oi!”
Everyone was in the locker room by now, the stragglers still changing while everyone else chatted. They all looked up at Jamie.
“Oi! Tartt!” Roy yelled back. “Why aren’t you changed?”
“One minute, Coach.” Jamie grinned. He turned back to the team. “Everyone knows about the after-win kisses, yeah?”
Everyone muttered in affirmation, some of the boys elbowing each other cheekily.
“Well Colin knows now!”
“Was it a secret?” Zorro, asked, confused.
“It would have been hard for him not to notice,” Jan Maas added.
“Weren’t a secret, just didn’t want to make it a big deal,” Jamie answered. “But now it is. So I figured we should have, like, an open discussion of boundaries or whatever. Now that we all know what’s happening.”
More muttering of agreement but then Bumbercatch asked, “What was wrong with how we were doing it?”
“Nothing,” Jamie asked, over yet more muttering. “I fucking loved it. But I do want to make sure we’re all on the same page, yeah?”
Everyone started nodding, throwing in their agreement. The coaches were all hanging by the door of their office, passively observing, until Nate piped in, “That’s very mature, Jamie.”
Jamie scoffed. “Fuck right it is. I’m a legend at open communication.”
Nate visibly sighed. Sam smirked.
“I do want to thank you all for doing this, by the way,” Colin interjected. “I did like being able to kiss my fella after a game like that. I was worried I wouldn’t be allowed to do it again.”
“Well first of all,” Roy started, commanding the room. “It’s not a matter of ‘allowed’. We’re never gonna stop you from doing whatever the fuck you wanna do with whoever the fuck you wanna do it with.”
Colin smiled. “Thanks coach.”
Roy nodded. “On this team, we all have each other’s backs. And if that means snogging on the pitch so one of our own doesn’t have to hide, have at it.”
Jamie grinned. “Was there a second of all, Coach?”
Roy grunted, scowling at Jamie. Sam fought not to giggle.
“ Second of all,” Roy started. “Show of hands. Who’s in on this shit?”
Jamie’s hand was the first in the air, Dani and Sam’s coming up almost as quickly. Most of the rest of the starters raised their hands, as well as half of the reserves. Isaac’s hands were folded against his chest.
Sam watched Roy nod at him and Isaac nod back. He would leave that one alone. It wasn’t his business.
“What about you, Coach?” Jamie asked.
“What, me?” Roy snorted. “Fuck no, I can’t be kissing players.”
Jamie shrugged. “Don’t see why not. Same as a bum pat, innit? Besides: we need to kiss some people who aren’t teammates so Colin kissing Michael in’t suspicious.”
Roy’s eyebrows seem reluctantly swayed by Jamie’s logic but his frown didn’t move.
“I’m up for it,” Beard offered, his hand raised. “I’m always down to kiss beautiful men.”
Richard yelled something in French that sounded like agreement.
“I’m free for some smooching as well,” Will said, awkward but grinning. “I’m small so you can definitely pick me up and spin me around.”
Jamie scoffed. “‘Small’. You’re taller than me, man.”
Winchester leered at the kit man. “Been thinking about that, Will?”
Will went red and ducked his head but his lips were pulled into his mouth like he was trying not to smile.
“Anyone picks me up,” Bumbercatch added. “And I’ll kick your balls into your stomach.”
“Great boundary, Moe,” Sam told him. Moe nodded. “I myself have been fine with the level of kissing so far.”
“Bet you have,” muttered Jamie, and winked when Sam shot him a look.
Sam would try not to look at that too closely.
Colin raised his hand. “I saw Richard fully snog Jamie with tongue and everything so I’d like to ask for no tongue, please. I’ll also need to clear all this with Michael, obviously.”
“I have spoken with my girlfriends about this already,” Dani said. “They have both said that it’s wonderful. So I am free to kiss all my amigos!”
Sam smiled. Dani lived such a beautiful and loving existence.
“Jane’s good,” Beard says, waving his phone redundantly.
“It’s a no for me, oh rats,” Nate said, unconvincingly. Sam couldn’t imagine his girlfriend would have been bothered by, well, anything. But if Nate wanted an out that was fine.
“My girlfriend and I actually had a conversation about this exact situation,” Will offered, smiling dreamily.
“Will, you’re a freak and I love it,” Jamie told him, pointing at him approvingly. Will grinned up at him.
“I mean I’ve kind of had that conversation,” Colin said. “But it’s more of the hall pass thing. Like ‘which five people could I hook up with and it’s not cheating.’”
“Oh, yeah, I’ve done that,” Zorro said. “Rachel McAdams and Zendaya.”
Everyone nodded at that. “Solid choices,” Roberts added.
“But wait Colin saying that means…” Jamie grinned over at him. “Which ones of us are on your hall pass list?”
Colin went red. “No. Nope. Not doing that.”
“Well I am, obviously,” Jamie said, smirking.
“And probably Bumbercatch,” Isaac added, speaking up for the first time. His face was alight with teasing his best friend.
Bumbercatch puts a hand to his naked chest in humble thanks.
“I’m not doing this!” Colin said again, louder, his face impossibly redder.
“It’s not fair that you can only have five,” Dani said, sadly. “Since there are more than five of us.”
“I don’t want to sleep with all of you!”
“Oh, so you’re out on the kissing, then?” Sam asked, grinning.
Colin sighed, crossing his arms. “No.”
“Good lad.” Jamie winked at him.
Sam grinned, climbing up on the bench next to Jamie. "And can we all tell Colin that none of us feel weird kissing him because he's gay?"
Everyone talked over each other, rushing to comfort him.
"Don't know why it should matter," Jan Maas piped in, shrugging. "I'm not straight."
Sam jerked. “Oh.”
“Oui, nor me,” Richard added.
Sam frowned. “I thought you were just French.”
“Well I mean I’m not straight either,” Jamie said, raising his hand. “But you all kind of already guessed that, right?”
“Wait,” said Colin, eyes wide. “So I’m not the only gay one?”
“Well, I mean I still like girls so–” Jamie shrugged. “I didn’t wanna steal valor or summat.”
“That’s not what that means,” Beard sighed.
“Oh, yes!” Dani said “I also love men but do not only love men. So I did not know how to respond.”
“Right and like gender and sexuality are constructs, so why should I give in to the colonialist idea of labeling my sexuality,” Bumbercatch shrugged. “I have sucked dicks before, though.”
“Oh, yeah, same,” Jamie grinned, a dreamy look in his eye. “It’s fuckin’ great.”
Roy choked, quietly. Sam knew how he was feeling.
“Okay,” Colin said, looking as thunderstruck as Sam felt. “Show of hands. Who’s not straight?”
Colin raised his hand, obviously, and so did Jamie, Dani, Jan Maas, and Richard. Also Zorro, Bumbercatch, Winchester, Reynolds, Cockburn, Shannon, and O’Brien. And Will. And Beard.
Sam raised an eyebrow at Roy whose arms were conspicuously crossed. Roy grunted at him. “You little pricks don’t need to know my business.”
“Interesting reaction,” Beard noted.
Roy growled.
Still, all totalled up, it was most of the team.
Colin’s eyes were saucers. “Oh my God, I wish Trent were here. This is almost my Oprah fantasy.”
“Ooh, I’ll raise another hand in Trent’s honor.” Beard volunteered, lifting his other hand. “We actually had a Diamond Dogs discussion about this so I’ll let him know he was right.”
“Okay…” Sam said, shaking his head. “So wait: I’m the only straight guy who’s been kissing other men for months? It’s not just something we were all doing, secure in our heterosexuality?”
“I mean, it was still all friendly, yeah?” Jamie said. “I’m not trying to fuck all me teammates. The kisses were super platonic. I just wasn’t straight while I was doin’ em.”
General agreement goes up as people lower their hands.
“This is confusing,” Sam confessed.
“Ay, don’t worry about it,” Jamie elbowed him, grinning. “We’ll just keep on, right? Nothing to panic about.”
Sam wasn’t panicking about it, but it wouldn’t let him rest either.
The team kept on the same: they lost some matches, they won others. They always kissed. They’d even started kissing the ties sometimes, just because they all liked doing it so much.
Keeley had been annoyed they hadn’t spoken to her about it first but was actually having a marvelous time managing their statements about everything. And the fan reception had been indulgent to downright elated, fans going as far as tweeting pictures of them kissing their friends after matches.
No matter which way you looked at it, Jamie’s impulsive decision to kiss Sam was an overwhelming success.
Sam just struggled a bit to figure out what this meant for him .
He was straight. He was pretty positive he was straight.
But by this point, he had kissed everyone on the team and some coaches and he had notes.
Dani’s kisses were always sloppy and enthusiastic - Dani always smiling too much to maintain a proper kiss.
Richard would grip the back of his neck which was super nice but he always worked too hard with his lips.
Jan Maas was no nonsense, moving Sam where he wanted and capturing his mouth for just long enough to wind him up. And he would bring Sam in for a hug after so his tall body swallowed him.
Zorro would start with a hug – also large and safe feeling – before giving a polite kiss and a friendly clap on the shoulder.
Colin was way too timid to kiss the rest of them like he kissed Michael but he still gave the sweetest little pecks.
Bumbercatch had a way of growling into his mouth which was quite thrilling.
Winchester loved to be dipped.
Beard always put both hands on the side of his neck and pulled away from the kiss with a loud “MUAH!”
Sam always made sure to pick up Will and spin him around.
And Jamie was definitely the best kisser. But that went without saying.
Sam didn’t know what it meant that he had all of these opinions about kissing men. He knew he didn’t want to sleep with them – he didn’t feel the same spark, the same drive, the same fire that consumed him when he was pursuing Rebecca – but he did love them and he did like kissing them and apparently none of the rest of them were straight.
Which was fine! Sam wasn’t being homophobic!
His feelings were just a little complicated.
“It’s simple, right?” Jamie said as Sam spotted him in the weight room on one of their off days. “Men want to kiss you. You want to kiss them. What’s the problem?”
“There isn’t one, I suppose,” Sam answered reluctantly, his hands hovering next to Jamie’s face. “I just kind of feel like everyone’s waiting for me to have sudden gay realization or something. Like I’m a bisexual bomb counting down to detonation.”
“Have you thought about doing some gay shit? Just to see how you feel about it?” Jamie asked, a little breathlessly. “Now that all the lads are gay, I’m sure someone’ll give you a handy. Just so you can know for sure.”
Sam’s face screwed up. “I’m not entirely comfortable with using our teammates for sexual experimentation. I hope you understand.”
“Yeah, fair.” Jamie frowned, grunting slightly at the weight. “I do feel like you’d know by now. You’re around fit footballers all the time. You’re around me all the time. If you don’t want to fuck me , I don’t think you’re queer, mate.”
Sam rolled his eyes. “Jamie, not every queer man wants to sleep with you.”
Jamie scoffed. “Yeah they do. They might not like me, but they do want to fuck me. Hate fucking is still fucking.”
Sam laughed. “I wish they could bottle your confidence, Jamie.”
“They bottle Lynx. It’s basically the same thing.” Jamie set the bar back on the stand and pulled himself to sitting, turning to grin at Sam. “Anyway, wish I could help you more. My bomb popped early.” He shrugged. “Fit footballers, like I said.”
Sam grinned, taking the plates off the bar to bring it to his own weight. “Like that poster of Roy in your room?”
Jamie groaned. “Why does everyone know about that?” He ran a hand down his face and sighed. “I will get him.”
“Get him?”
“Kiss him, like,” Jamie answered. “Been dreaming about it since I was a lad, haven’t I? Never had a chance like this.”
“You don’t have a chance now ,” Sam reminded him. “He’s not in on this.”
“We got Captain!” Jamie answered back. “We can get Coach.”
That was half true. They hadn’t ‘got’ Isaac. He was looped in on their kissing now, though.
Isaac was straight and, unlike Sam, refused to be kissed. Sam hadn’t gotten the whole story because apparently Isaac wasn’t talking but Sam knew enough about being black, being an athlete, and being in England to guess what the problem was. But it still felt weird to leave their captain out of something that had become such a sacred ritual for the team.
They had all found a compromise. After their win against Tottenham, Colin had kissed Isaac on the forehead in celebration. Isaac had looked so touched, so profoundly loved, that all of the rest of the team started doing it, too.
Sam kept kissing him on the nose. He really loved the face Isaac made when he did it. It was important to cherish your captain.
So, they’d kind of gotten Isaac.
“You can try and kiss the coach on the cheek,” Sam offered. “He might headbutt you, though.”
“Nah, he won’t.” Jamie told him, patting the bench and getting up to replace Sam behind the weights. “Not if I make a pretty enough goal.”
Sam was laying on the bench. He looked up to see Jamie’s smirk from below.
“I got it all worked out,” Jamie continued, hiking his shorts further up his thighs as Sam starts his presses. “We’ve just been kissing after matches, yeah? And Coach always runs off and leaves us to it. But if we’re in the middle of a game and I make a sexy goal – like proper beautiful, they’d write songs about it and shit – while we’re all celebratin’ I can trot right up to the sidelines and give him a proper snog.”
Sam grunted, holding the bar at his chest. “Kissing by ambush doesn’t sound very ethical, Jamie.”
Jamie snorts. “I’m not just gonna maul him. I bet I can get him to kiss me . All caught up in the moment like.”
Sam snorts back. “You’re mad.”
“I gotta try . Gotta make teenage Jamie proud.”
Sam shook his head, setting the bar back on the rest as he finished his set. “Bet you a hundred pounds.”
“Nah, fuck that. If I can get this done, I want a free meal at Ola’s.”
Sam blew out a breath, reaching out his hand to shake. “Done. And if I win – if he doesn’t kiss you by the end of the season – you’re bringing in the whole team and paying for everyone.”
“Definitely,” Jamie clasped his hand and shook it. “Because I’m not gonna lose. And now you’re gonna be financin’ mine and Roy’s first date.”
Sam held up his hands “If you say so. It’s already unlikely he’ll kiss you but date you?”
“Man, fuck off.” Jamie laughed, shoving him.
Sam laughed and shoved back.
“What are we laughing about,” Colin asked, smiling already.
“Hey, Colin, between us: you do want to fuck me, right?” Jamie asked. “Sam’s trying to tell me that not all queer lads want to fuck me but I know that’s wrong.”
“Well I can’t speak for everyone but me, yeah.” Colin shrugged as Jamie grinned and gestured at Sam like ‘see?’. “You are actually on my hall pass list.”
“See, I knew it!” Jamie huffed a breath like he was glad to have that settled. “We won’t be fucking, Colin, sorry to say. I’ve got bigger fish, you get it.”
“What, like Roy?” Colin grinned and Sam laughed at Jamie’s expression. “No offense taken. He’s a bit scary for me but certainly a big fish.”
“Right, fuck you both.” But Jamie still helped Sam finish his weights.
When it did happen, it happened almost exactly as Jamie said.
Jamie made an absolutely filthy goal. And it was a hat trick. And it won them the match.
And Sam had to watch as Jamie charged the sidelines and stopped directly in front of the manager, arms spread and head cocked. He couldn’t see Jamie’s face but he could see Roy’s. He saw how Roy rolled his eyes, his mouth set in that annoyed smile Sam had only ever seen him use when Jamie was being a prick. He reached one hand into Jamie’s hair, his fingers clutching at it, and the other moved up to cup his jaw as he moved in to kiss Jamie.
Sam swore, loudly and enthusiastically, as the rest of the team hooted and hollered, hats raining down on the pitch.
Jamie ran back on the pitch, cheeks high with color and hair an absolute tragedy. His grin was nothing short of euphoric.
“How’s teenage Jamie doing?” Sam asked him.
“He’s fuckin’ great!” Jamie told him. “Let’s finish this fucking match.”
They ran down the clock, playing very silly but very strong for the final twenty seconds of added time.
Jamie all but tackled Sam when the buzzer sounded, lifting him up by his collar and kissing him soundly. Sam laughed and gripped Jamie’s shoulder to steady himself as he kissed back.
“So Ola’s at 6 tomorrow, yeah?” Jamie asked him after he pulled away.
Sam laughed, shoving at his face.
Other players descended on them, yanking them to their feet and into kisses.
They were lucky this was a match at home so they could all pour into their dressing room and scream their heads off without having to worry about catching the bus home. Cries of Richmond Til We Die permeated the air, inside and still out in the stands.
When everything had calmed down and people were making plans for how to celebrate, Jan Maas called across the locker room. “So, Coach, do we need to get a hat trick for you to kiss us or is that just for Jamie?”
The surrounding players ‘Ooohed’ and laughed as Jamie went red, elated smile still spread.
“That was a special exception,” Roy told them, not quite masking his own smile. “Tartt was asking for it.”
Louder ‘ooh’s’ and a couple wolf whistles went up.
“No! Fuck off!” Roy yelled at them. “I’m not kissing any more players. Stay the fuck out of my business.”
He turned to Sam. “And I want those fried plantain things tomorrow, alright? Cheers.” And then he turned and walked into his office, closing the door behind him.
Sam turned to Jamie, flabbergasted. “Did you tell him already?”
“Maybe,” Jamie grinned, shrugging. “Had to try.”
“You are a miracle, Jamie Tartt.”
Jamie shoved at him as they continued changing.
They all agreed to meet at Colin’s for a boy’s night of beer and Fifa to celebrate their win. Sam walked out to the car park with Jamie, the two of them riding over in Zorro’s jeep.
Sam turned to Jamie as they reached the car, waiting for the rest of the team to join them.
“If you and Roy start dating seriously – which I would support you in, of course – would that mean we’d have to stop kissing after games?”
“Mate, never ,” Jamie told him, looking horrified that Sam had even suggested it. “Roy knows that the lads come first.”
“Good,” Sam said, releasing a sigh of relief bigger than he thought it would be. “I think I’m definitely still straight. But to have to stop kissing you would break my heart I think.”
“Aw, Sammy boy,” Jamie slung an arm around Sam’s shoulders, pulling his head down to press their foreheads together. “I told you, didn’t I? A good kiss can change your life.”
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theres an episode of doctor who the first one when it came back of rose researching the doctor and she finds badly photoshopped pictures of the doctor at various historical events and i think it'd be so funny with hob
his students find pictures in history of him but they're such bad quality they think they are fake or students who research folklore and find the picture of hob and dream and how they look like professor gadling and that weirs goth guy he hangs out with and hob is just annoyed because they don't look alike at all!
God I love Doctor Who (I stopped watching when Peter Capaldi took over)
But yes local cryptid Hob Gadling just keeps somehow getting caught in moments of history even though he tries his hardest to avoid cameras. You know the picture of Lincoln’s second inauguration, the one that John Wilkes Booth is captured in?
This one? Yeah Hob is two rows behind him.
The coronation of Napoleon and Josephine?
Hob saved Napoleon’s life (on accident) during a battle, so he unfortunately got invited, and one can’t not turn down an invitation from the emperor.
He’s in pictures from suffragette rallies (because obviously he supports women’s rights, Eleanor would haunt him if he didn’t), paintings of audiences at the Globe (he was curious, okay?), he’s almost out of frame in the famous VJ Day in Times Square picture, he’s one of the men in that picture of workers sitting on a beam above a skyscraper.
He is the unluckiest immortal in history; though he tries so hard to stay on the down low and out of historical events, he somehow gets caught up in them all the time. Really, the only reason he hasn’t been caught is because the photos are bad quality or the artist took just enough liberty (thanks to him basically being a pedestrian passing through) that his facial features are vague in portraits.
(I have an idea that’s been rumbling around in my noggin where you’re Hob’s TA and, since he’s a history professor, you start seeing this patterns during research for his lectures or fact-checking. Cue a very awkward confrontation where you simultaneously need to know answers/want to assure him that his secret is safe with you.)
#chat with claire#hob Gadling#the sandman#the sandman imagine#dream of the endless#Morpheus#if I had my laptop and some time I’d photoshop hob in to these pictures#wait endnote Hob’s on the Zapruder film too he just happened to be in Dallas and wanted to see JFK
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It's VJ Day (Victory over Japan Day), the anniversary of the end of WWII-sort of. While Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945, the surrender documents were not signed until Sept 2nd aboard USS Missouri. A famous photo was taken of the celebrations in Time Square on August 14th when Truman announced to the nation that the war was over. In the photo, a sailor kisses a nurse. Here I've drawn myself and my lovely bride-to-be @temper-temper replicating this.
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SnK modern au writing prompts/fic ideas...
...that I may or may never get to but if someone else wants to use these for inspo please do and then let me read it :')
Eren and Porco Pizza Shop AU 🍕 They're coworkers who absolutely hate each other's guts and constantly clap back at one another and talk shit throughout the duration of their shifts lmao. But eventually, over time, they develop camaraderie because their personalities are actually pretty similar, they like the same music, and they both hate their boss (can be Levi or Zeke). Slow burn enemies to friends with all sorts of shenanigans. (Bonus: they fight over Pieck, who's a regular at the shop)
Zeke x Frieda, hookup/fake dating au. They initially start hooking up to piss off their dads, Grisha and Rod, who hate each other. But then oops, they catch feels. "We're only doing this to piss off my dad." "Wait... I thought we were doing this to piss off my dad??"
ANY SURFING AU OF ANY KIND!!! 🏄♂️🏄♀️ I feel like Ymir would best fit this au tho. Ymir's a pro surfer and kicks ass. Or; the Warriors take surfing lessons. Annie and Pieck get it right the first try. Porco and Marcel need more practice. Bertolt struggles but gets it eventually. Reiner is too beefy to balance all that muscle lmao.
Eren and Historia ballroom competition. (I have this planned for Silhouettes!)
Dance competition. Can be any pairs, shippy or non-ship. But I like ere/hisu for this one. Along with Porco paired with Pieck. Bertolt and Ymir partner up because they both got rhythm 🎶 Reiner is one of the best dancers (such grace) and he opts for Annie. Mikasa and Armin pair up. Levi and Zeke hate each other but they dance so well together lol. Go wild with this one!
World War II AU. You know that one VJ Day Kiss in Times Square photo that's famous? Yeah that. Imagine your otp.
Gym drama AU: Porco and Pieck work out at the same gym as Eren and Mikasa. (Couples gotta stay fit together ayyy) One fateful day, Eren takes a break between sets and heads to the water fountain, where he thinks Mikasa is taking a sip. All he sees is her black hair pulled back from behind and he's like 'damn is she shorter somehow?' but thinks nothing of it (he's a little loopy from his intense workout) and smacks her on the ass. BUT it's Pieck! Mistaken identity oops! Pieck jolts up and turns around, utterly shocked and Porco hurries over there like 'WTF! Hands off my girl!' Then Mikasa emerges and is like 'Eren, what are you doing???' But Eren, cornered, doubles down despite being in the wrong and is like 'so what? who's gonna stop me?? Fight me!' ^^^this au also works if you replace Eren with Jean, but I feel like Jean would apologize profusely, whereas Eren and Porco would immediately start brawling lmao
Any Zeke x Lara or Zeke x Frieda AU tbh. These ships need more love and are so aesthetically pleasing.
Top Gun AU! Or Air Force, Navy Pilots AU! I prefer the warriors for this one. Reiner as a squad leader. Porco is Pieck's wingman. Etc...
Spy/Assassin AU. Pieck is tasked with taking Eren out but falls in love with him instead. They embark on an epic romantic adventure.
'80s AU!
'90s AU! Anyway, here's Wonderwall!🎶
Kingsman AU: I like Porco and/or Eren for this one.
Bachelorette party AU! Ooohh I have too many ideas for this one!
Birthing class AU. Eren and Historia take a class, accompanied by Zeke and Frieda (the jaeger bros and the reiss sisters ayyyy). I like the idea of porco/pieck taking this class too, and Pieck is just a major goofball throughout the whole thing.
Annie teaches a martial arts class. That's a versatile one. But I was flirting with mik/annie for this one ~~~~
Summer vacation AU: Pieck/Porco plan a couple's getaway, but then Marcel invites himself along, and that means Reiner is going, and then Bert and Annie crash the vacay too.
Dating game show AU: Pieck is a contestant, and her suitors are Porco, Bertolt, Eren, Zeke, and let's throw Levi in there for the lols. Okay, that's a lot. If I think of anything else, I may expand on it. Obviously, I've plugged my own ships in here but feel free to mix it up however you like! Maybe I'll do a holiday edition lol 'tis the season!⛄
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Alfred Eisenstaedt (German active in the United States, 1898-1995) Contact sheet w. frames from photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famed set of the sailor kissing the nurse and other images of the Times Square VJ‑Day celebrations (detail) 1945
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Never been much of a flag waver, but goddamn it when he croaks i will be decked out in head to toe American flag wear, saluting the flag every chance i get and, fuck it, even soldiers and cops on that day… it’ll be a day to celebrate being an American like no other! A day we can all come together. I’ll have to find a cute guy to make out with in Times Square like the famous VJ Day photo lol
Just a heads up right now: on the day when Trump dies, I’m going to be extremely tasteless about it. It’s going to get ugly. You are going to see a side of me I am not proud of. I don’t want any call-outs in my inbox, I’m stating right now that lines will be crossed.
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TV Guidance Counselor Episode 602: Greg Johnson
December 26, 1992
This week Ken welcomes old friend, now NYC based comedian Greg Johnson.
Ken and Greg discuss 20 years ago, Comedy Doyles, Kenny Z, Ken's first time doing stand up in Massachusetts, Eugene Mirman, Tim McIntire's Thursday Night Fights at The Comedy Studio, growing up in Wellesley, white suburban towns, being a notable alum from your town's High School, Greg's album Greg Johnson 1, how Mass and NY really aren't all that different, listening to episodes from ten years ago, Danny Tamberelli, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, getting to meet your heroes, Cheers, how Ken books guests, TV stars who should have been movie stars, Angela Lansbury, Madonna: Just a Peeler, clean and dirty covers, The Real World, Barney the Dinosaur, 1992, how football is a stupid fun waste of time, how the love of True Crime isn't new, Amy Fischer the Long Island Lolita, Ryder Strong, favorite VJs, the mystery of John Norris, SNICK, Roundhouse, In Living Color, The Simpsons, Sexy Dana Carvey, Chris Rock, live TV fights, insane Oscar moments, streaking, Father Dowling Mysteries, growing up Catholic, The "dead kid" in Three Men and a Baby, the "dead munchin" in The Wizard of Oz, being in the theater for only one day, 1990s re-releases, Can't Hardly Wait, Jerry O'Connell, the reason we have home taping today, when Greg was actually on TV, THIS VERY WEEK as a kid, Phylicia Rashad hosting a Kids Guide to Parenting, the lost show, Nik Carter, WFXN, Rap Around!, Ready to Go, Tom Bergeron, Home Improvement, We the Jury, Ken's love of Massachusetts businesses, Ken and Greg's plans to visit dead malls, The Square One Mall, Waylu's, Ken finding a nearly dead woman at B. Dalton Books in the Meadow Glen Mall, smoking joksters, local weathermen, The Wonder Years, Sully Erna, New Year's Eve, Evening at the Improv, WSKB's big Stooges New Year, Dana Hersey, House of Blues, Chiz Rider, and the major of trumpet based ministries.
Check out this episode!
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Blog Week 4
Reflection
This week we focused on a lot of experiencing immersive experiences ourselves and discovering what we valued in performances.
In Tuesday's class, I presented the progress presentation of my project. This allowed me to get valuable feedback including inspirations to look into, including past RMIT student Kit Webster and RMIT lecturer Brendan Harwood. I looked into some of his academic research in the academic area of my blog this week.
In Thursday's class, we continue with the rest of my classmate's presentations which were helpful to see what creative directions others around me were taking and hearing feedback on their progress presentation, with a lot of feedback I could carry into my own practice.
Research
Academic
I read Brendan Harwood’s Volumetric light sculptures: occupying the Space between the Apparatus and the image dissertation. Volumetric lighting was a new concept to me and this piece helped me to establish the importance of how it helped enhance a sense of space. The feeling of lighting and space working in unison that is discussed is a feeling I want to evoke within my project. The comment describing projection mapping as “display appears chameleon-like “ reminded me of why I wanted to projection mapping to assist with my adjective of exhilaration. I associate exhilaration with a feeling of excitement above a base level of excitement. That there has to be a level of adrenaline that does not occur day to day as it would every day. Projection mapping being a not as common art practice as regular cinematic or video screening shows how this could almost surprise and excite the viewer beyond ways they are familiar with. I also delved into Shota Murayama’s work *Development of Projection Mapping with Utility of Digital Signage which goes into more of the technical parts of projecting mapping specifically within Resolume. They specify that he projection “*needs empty space between the projector and the object”. This was an important point that was also brought up within my own presentation in class as I thought of the idea of having the audience sitting on stage to have them be more encapsulated by the projection mapping occurring. Although this was ruled out having the users on the stage would block out of the projection from reaching the screen, ruining the final result.
Creative Practice
Kit Webster's light sculptures were something I took major inspiration from this week. Their ability in some of their works to create seamless three-dimensional spaces within two-dimensional shapes through the use of light and video was magnificent. A lot of their work is able to utilise simple shapes such as squares or even organic 'blob' shapes and through the use of movement and space turn them into engaging images. Their work Enigmatica Mars creates these square shapes that grow within each other creating a three-dimensional atmosphere. Additionally to this, the squares turn grey and create white strobe-like white lines that light up parts of the squares. I was inspired by their sense of smooth movement within their pieces which engaged me thoroughly.
Technical
This week involved a technical shift within the software I will be using for my project. I shifted over from using Qlab to using Resolume as within the non-paid Qlab software I was not able to export media and utilise a lot of the projection mapping features. After this hurdle in the road, I look into other projection mapping software and decided on Resolume Arena. Additionally, I have been finding the layout of Arena easier to navigate than Qlab as you can visually see all the different videos imported in columns and also layer multiple video clips easily together. This week since I was switching over from Qlab I spent a lot of time watching youtube tutorials to familiarise myself with how to navigate and operate the software. I mostly watched videos from the Resolume VJ Software channel as they have a large resource of video projection mapping in Resolume.
It was important I could export the project as a compatible file that could be opened in the Capitol’s QLab so it could be synced up to the projector. Through discussions in class, it was discovered that if Resolume exports the project as an OSC file this could be opened in Qlab. I plan to try this transition between an OSC file and the two different platforms in the Capitol soon.
In terms of physical material for the constructed shape, I was leaning towards styrofoam originally as it was easily accessible, and soft making it easy to cut into the desired shape and not extremely expensive. The issue I found with this was that styrofoam can absorb light instead of reflecting it with the texture. My first solution to this was to put a paper of the top layer of the styrofoam facing the projector to create a ‘projection safe layer’. Although after feedback the material of Corfule was brought up. Cornflute provides all the positives of styrofoam I was looking for without absorbing light and being an even thinner and more malleable material
Cornflute at Bunnings is currently being sold for $19 for 1200 x 900mm. I am currently looking into cheaper options on gumtree, facebook market place and through art studios. I intend to get the material at quickly as possible so I can construct the desired shape before the midsemester break (25th August).
Progress
This week included my own personal presentation of the progress of my project while engaging in others’ presentations. The feedback from my presentation helped me gain further clarity on the steps I will need to take to create an effective project. The importance of sound once again was highlighted this week and cemented the goal that I will have to pick my music this next week to be on track for my final due date of the project. Viewing other workers and creative directions assisted in how different concepts and techniques I should consider while working on my own project.
Bibliography
Resolume VJ software (no date) YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/@ResolumeVJSoftware (Accessed: 9 August 2023).
Murayama, S., Torii, I. and Ishii, N., 2014, August. Development of projection mapping with utility of digital signage. In 2014 IIAI 3rd International Conference on Advanced Applied Informatics (pp. 895-900). IEEE. ( Accessed: 9 August 2023)
Projection mapping Melbourne Sydney Brisbane Australia building projections light art (no date) KIT WEBSTER. Available at: https://www.kitwebster.com/ (Accessed: 10 August 2023).
(No date) Researchrepository.rmit.edu.au. Available at: https://researchrepository.rmit.edu.au/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Volumetric-light-sculptures-occupying-the-space/9922107056701341#file-0 (Accessed: 10 August 2023).
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"Kissing on VJ Day - Times Square," Alfred Eisenstadt (August 14, 1945)
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Couple Kissing In Times Square On Vj Day (1945)
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VJ Day Kiss in Times Square, Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945
#photography#vintage photography#vintage#alfred eisenstaedt#1940s#1945#vj day#world war 2#times square#new york#new york city#black and white photography#german#american
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V-J Day in Times Square photo “The kiss that was seen around the world”
George Mendonsa was a uniformed sailor in the US navy when he was photographed kissing a woman in a nurse’s uniform on August 14, 1945, the day Japan surrendered. The nurse was Greta Zimmer and she was actually a dental assistant.
The photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt was published in Life magazine and became one of the most famous images of the 20th century. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
George Mendonsa was born February 19, 1923 in Newport, Rhode Island and died on February 17, 2019 in Middletown, Rhode Island
Greta Zimmer (Friedman) was born June 5, 1924 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria and died September 8, 2016, Richmond, Virginia
#vj day#navy#august#1940s#japan#greta zimmer#george mendonsa#times square#new york#rhode island#austria#virginia#love#peace
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