#wimbledon '19

[partybarty]

curious to see what everyone's is....

[mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora]

I’m rewatching the 2008 Wimbledon final and my god Roger was so young and beautiful and he had this aura all around him idk how to describe it

[watchingtennis]

I cried like a baby during Andy’s retirement ceremony. Just openly wept on the couch. Andy Murray I love you always and forever you brought me happiness and heartbreak in equal measure and I would do it all again

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

Arw you really the author John Green? The same person who wrote The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska?

Yes, but I published one of those books 19 (?!?!?!) years ago and the other 12 (!?!?!?!?) years ago. What have I been up to since then?

My brother Hank and I started Good.store, which delivers high-quality socks, coffee, and soap to your home and donates 100% of its profit to charity. Through good store, we've raised over $7,500,000 to support efforts to radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, where as recently as 2019, one in seventeen women could expect to die in pregnancy or childbirth.

(In fact, technically I am here on tumblr as an unpaid intern for the awesome coffee club, which you should really sign up for if you like ethically sourced coffee that tastes delicious and doesn't enrich billionaires.)

I wrote the novel Turtles All the Way Down and then had a little existential crisis and wrote a nonfiction book called The Anthropocene Reviewed, the latter of which is my first book for adults and my first attempt to write as myself.

I helped produce made a movie adaptation (streaming now on Max!) of Turtles all the Way Down.

I helped raise my kids and supported my spouse as she wrote her book You Are An Artist and created a PBS show about art called The Art Assignment.

I ran the educational media company Complexly and the merch company dftba.com while my brother had cancer.

I bought around 2% of a fourth-tier English football team called AFC Wimbledon. Wimbledon are different from most football clubs because they are owned by their fans, each of whom gets one vote in the club's leadership regardless of how much money they put into the club.

I became obsessed with tuberculosis, the world's deadliest infectious disease (it will kill over a million people this year despite being curable), and how TB both exemplifies and reinforces human-built structures of injustice, which is the subject of a book I'm writing that will come out next year.

[lovers-rck]

https://twitter.com/kill8az/status/1751805434996916414?t=Fqeyr9xU9qZTZE9LhQjQCw&s=19

- something like this with ellie *doesn't have to be at Wimbledon just want you to ask her to fuck you and for her to have a comeback like this

link

im so sorry for taking so long omg im embarrassed but i hope you like it....

i kind of hate this but is better than nothing.

☆

the bathroom is tiny. your back crashes against the cold mirror behind you as ellie cups your head intensifying the kiss.

the bathroom is tiny and suddenly too hot. you can see various objects belonging to the owner of the house scattered around the sink and shelves, bumping and tumbling as your body rocks in ellie's arms.

her touch and grip are hungry, her fingers famished for a body she can't get enough of. her hands navigate between your neck and jaw, restless and unsure of where to position themselves at all.

"ellie" you murmur, your hands caressing the expanse of her tattooed arms.

the party was downstairs. from the bathroom you could hear the screams of people celebrating and having a good time to the music; but you and ellie had a different way of having a good time.

her mouth left wet kisses on your glowing skin and turned it on in a way that only ellie could do. she felt a little like a wild animal that had been released from its cage after many years in captivity; too hungry for your touch.

she couldn't tell the exact moment you and her left the dance floor and appeared in that bathroom. her memory throws up blurry memories of their hands intertwined with yours as they walked up the stairs, giggling.

but what ellie does know is the way your skin feels against her hands; she tries to touch you carefully, avoiding getting carried away with her lust and being too rough, but something about the idea of her fingers etched into your skin is appealing to her.

she feels your fingers slipping away until they find her belt buckle and tug on it "ellie" you murmur, slurring the final letter "e" in her name, a moan so dramatic that ellie wants to smile.

"what do you want?" she says, her fingers arranging the unruly strands of hair that intrude between your features, depriving her of admiring you.

and you look at her "fuck me"

suddenly the bathroom feels too hot.

"well" ellie grunts "let's go home then"

and you feel ellie's hand intertwine with yours, opening the bathroom door and pulling you in to complete her mission: get home as soon as possible.

[lesmissocials-fuckedup]

Les Mis socials - official 2023 ranking

Here they are - The results of the "Worst post of 2023" competition and overall an archive for the worst posts the Les Mis social media teams have cursed us with this year.

1- "Who should Marius choose ?" - January 29

That one can be crowned "Worst post of the year" by far - The musical seems to once again have misunderstood three of its most important characters, reducing them to being mere love interests and defining Eponine and Cosette's relationship by a rivalry over Marius.

2 - Cosette at Thanksgiving - November 23

The US competitor also took a very strong stand here - not only because it shows a deep misunderstanding of what the character of Cosette fundamentaly stands for, but also because it can be seen as offensive by many. Putting an abused and starved french child in front of a Thanksgiving meal, really ?

3 - Mother's day - March 19

A picture of Madame Thénardier ? For Mother's day instead of Fantine ? It's more likely than you think. Although on this one the team gets extra credit for acknowledging that Madame Thénardier is not a good mother, which shows an unusual level of understanding when it comes to their own musical.

4 - The Wimbledon post - July 15

Also known as That One Post Where Everything Is Wrong - and for sure not their best use of this promotional picture. From the tennis racket to the editing of Cosette's arms to make her look muscular, it is the proof we never needed that there should not, in fact, be a Cosette for every occasion.Not to mention they somehow messed up the colors of the French flag... not a good look for them.

5 - Christmas Eve - December 24

Just a very disappointing post all around as an adequate way to wrap up this year. On the 200th anniversary of Valjean meeting Cosette in the woods, we got a quality pun and an edited picture that we could, at the very best, consider as inappropriate - would it only be because they added snowflakes to a barricade that was build in June.

Honorable mentions for this year go to :

The Fourth of July post - that surprisingly did not make it in top 5. The US team might win the battle for "Most incorrect use of this Cosette picture" with this one - and it is made even worse by the fact they did not post anything for July 14, the national french holiday.

The World cup one - similar to the Wimbledon post in that it just gets everything wrong overall, from the awful pun to putting Cosette in front of an english flag.

Easter Cosette - not surprising, but still extremely disappointing.

Christmas Cosette - in the same way, it is the exact same post as last year and never fails to disappoint.

Any time they felt the need to put sunglasses on Cosette - which, honestly, was a lot.

A very uncanny use of emojis in every single post, that never gets less disturbing.

Overall a very good year to archive their fuck ups - but they still did not manage to beat the record set last year by the Queen's Jubilee post ! Maybe they will do even better in 2024 ?

[elennemigo]

2

★ Eric´s set photographer, Ludovic Roberts, added to his website new unit and behind-the-scenes stills from the show.

14

★ Benedict and Sophie Hunter attended Wimbledon.

Gallery / Clips: x x x

19

★ Benedict turned 48!! 🎈🎆🎇

24

★ Benedict shared stories of his Manchester days with the 2024 Manchester magazine.

✧ ── ⋅ FIN ⋅ ── ✧

[neocatharsis]

240716 MARK IG Update

"Ralph Lauren has been continuing its partnership as the official outfitter of the Wimbledon championship for 19 years. It was truly an honor to have my very first experience of the Wimbledon finals and to meet so many good people #PoloRalphLauren #PoloRLStyle #Wimbledon #RLTennis @ poloralphlauren @ wimbledon"

[mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora]

If he wins this one I’ll be dead inside forever

[seeminglyranch87]

Taylor & Travis Timeline

June 2024 - Part 3

June 25 - Travis Kelce is a guest on "Bussin with the Boys" Podcast and talks about his relationship with Taylor (x 1:14:18). Podcast recorded 19 June 2024

Travis is asked how his team mates handled the news that he was dating Taylor...

"no nobody really gave me [a hard time] no, really nobody knew what was going on really all over the place, we kind of kept it between us as much as we could but once she came to a game obviously it was all popping from there"

"you want to keep things private but at the same time I'm not here to hide anything, that's my girl you know what I mean that's my lady, I'm proud of that so it's like I'm not sitting here trying to juggle 'how can I keep this under wraps'. You just don't want to let everybody into your personal life and be able to comment on it knowing that everything she does is getting a headline."

When asked about what has been crazy as a result of dating Taylor Travis replies

"it's been cool, it's a different demographic than the NFL really so it's been cool to dabble in that and see her following, it's been fun.

"The Chiefs fans have turned into a lot of her fans or her fans have turned into Chiefs fans so I've had fun with just about every aspect of it. It's just when you're at home you want privacy and you don't always get that"

On supporting each other and Taylor going on to the field at the Super Bowl:

"she's very self-aware she understands situations and that's why I really started to really fall for her was how genuine she is around friends & family, it can get crazy for somebody with that much attention and she just keeps it so chill and so cool and because you know everyone's watching what hey what move

"The first game she came to against the Bears I was like 'hey yeah so I could probably set you up with everything' and she just walked right through the front door. There's no going down talking to security making sure that she gets to her [box seat] she just wants to be around the family and friends and experience this with everybody. She got Buu points for that. She's in the madness, she wants to be a part of it, she wants to support me and do things like that. She really won me over with that one though."

How's it been going to the concerts?

"dude the concerts are electric yeah they're electric and she just switched it up, she just came out with the new album so she Incorporated that into the new show, she's having fun up there so it's like I can enjoy seeing her in her element killing it on stage and I love the show man she's got bangers."

Travis is asked to name his top tier songs of Taylor's...

"I really started listening to Taylor's music when she came out with 1989 like I knew who she was before that, we were the same age we so through high school I knew who Taylor was as she was getting her career started. 1989 was where it really started to go crazy so I'm going to say Blank Space because that was the first one great song so I'm put that one at number one. "Number two; Cruel Summer is one of the ones she opens with at her show and when she comes out and it's just Electric in the stadium and then she goes into an absolute banger like that, I was fired up when that happened the first show I was ever at" "What would be my third? I'll say So High School, it's got a little bit of a sentimental meaning". "You know how to ball, I know Aristotle"

June 26 - New Heights - The London Episode airs (recorded Sat 22nd June in London). Jason and Travis Kelce talk about Jason and Kylie's first experience of the Eras Tour in London UK.

“13+87 i’m just saying it works”

Calm Down with Erin & Charissa podcast. Erin Andrews & Charissa Thompson share their experience of attending the Eras Tour at Wimbledon Night 1 and chatting with Travis in the VIP tent... (x)

Charissa: “you must be so proud of her.” Travis: “you have no idea.”

June 28 - The Eras Tour, Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland

State of Grace x You’re on Your Own Kid (guitar) x Sweet Nothing x Hoax (piano)

June 29 - The Eras Tour, Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland

The Albatross x Dancing With Our Hands Tied (guitar) & Ours x This Love (piano)

June 30 - The Eras Tour, Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland

Travis flew in from LA and arrived part way through the Folklore/Evermore era, this is the moment Taylor saw him arrive (x)

Stevie Nicks & Julia Roberts are in attendance.

Clara Bow x The Lucky One (guitar) x You're On Your Own Kid (piano)

Trav let her bejeweled 🥰😭🤩 (x)

Taylor, Travis, Stevie Nicks, Paramore, band and dancers enjoyed a post show celebration at Hacienda Bar in Dublin (x)

Go to previous update -> June part 2

Go to next update -> July part 1

Return to the timeline

[the-jewel-catalogue]

Kate + Wimbledon 19/?

Duchess of Cambridge - 2022

In2Design Pearl Earrings

Kate + Wimbledon 20/?

Duchess of Cambridge - 2022

 Kiki McDonough Eden Citrine Earrings

Kate + Wimbledon 21/?

Duchess of Cambridge - 2022

Cartier Watch

Sapphire and Diamond Cluster Earrings

Mystery Sapphire necklace

[oswincoleman]

2023 Year in Review: Jenna Coleman public appearances

1. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons press night

2. Finch and Chanel pre-BAFTA party

3. Royal Horticultural Society gala

4. Chanel dinner

5. Nuclear Children premiere

6. Veronica Beard summer party

7. Chanel show at the Paris fashion week

8. Wimbledon

9. Armani dinner in Venice

10. Armani fashion show in Venice

11. Miu Miu Women's Tales in Venice

12. BGC charity day

13. V&A museum dinner

14. ATG summer party

15. Vogue World

16. JW Anderson fashion show at the London fashion week

17. Vanya premiere

18. Evening Standard theatre awards

19. Chanel party in Manchester

20. Chanel fashion show in Manchester

Which one was your favourite?

[rwrbmovie]

BTS of #RWRBMovie: costuming for the Royal ladies

From Newsweek:

Another royal wedding nod is there in the movie with the choice of tiara the fictional Princess Martha wore for her nuptials. The diamond headdress, styled by costume designer Keith Madden, was a replica of the art-deco diamond tiara worn by Meghan Markle on her 2018 wedding day. Queen Mary's bandeau tiara (as it is officially known) was made for Queen Elizabeth II's grandmother in 1932 and was loaned by Elizabeth to Meghan for the duchess' walk down the aisle of St George's Chapel, Berkshire, England, on May 19, 2018.

A stylistic Easter egg hidden by Red, White & Royal Blue's creative team was an item of costume, which has taken on legendary status within the royal fashion sphere as the must-have "princess dress." Designed by British fashion brand, Beulah London, the "Ahana" mid-length dress with statement pleated details, covered buttons and a matching covered belt has been worn by a number of major world royals including Kate, the Princess of Wales. Kate first wore a pale pink version of the dress at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London in 2021, and she rewore it in July 2023 to attend the opening of a new museum. In the movie, the dress is worn by Prince Henry's sister, Princess Beatrice (Ellie Bamber).

>> post on costuming for the Royal men

[newtonsheffield]

hi molly! don’t know if you’ve seen this already but it gives me serious tennis kanthony vibes 😭 they look so proud

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM2Xu2Vj3/

Okay but imagine Anthony bursting into tears with their son on his hip when Kate wins her first tournament back. There’s been a lot of talk as to whether or not Kate Sharma will still have the edge after becoming a mother which made Kate laugh in pre-tournament pressers.

“If my position with Anthony was reversed, and I was retired and we’d just had our son: Would you still be asking him that question?”

“Well, I-”

“I didn’t think so.” Kate chuckled leaning in to the microphone, “I think I’ll answer that question on the court. I have an incredibly supportive husband, who’s made a lot of sacrifices for us to have a family and for me to continue my career. I wouldn’t still be here if I didn’t think I could win tournaments.”

“A lot of people had a lot to say about you taking time off during what was arguably the peak of your game to have a child.”

“I don’t think we can decide if that was the peak of my career.” Kate sighed, leaning back, “I don’t owe anyone an explanation for why I decided to have a child now. I love tennis, but I love my husband more and I love our son and I decided that I wanted that even if it cost me my career. And I don’t think that’s something to be looked down upon. If I want everything why shouldn’t I try to have it? Again, if I was a man I wouldn’t have to sit here and answer these questions.”

“Not gone soft then, Kate?” A reporter chuckled.

“Oh I’d never do that.”

She went out the first day of competition and her match is over in 22 minutes and Kate’s annoyed because 2 minutes quicker would have been a Wimbledon record.

“She dithered about at the baseline because she knew I wouldn’t get the record!” Kate called out from the shower

“Well, I don’t think anyone can accuse you of having lost your edge,” Anthony muttered, bouncing Neddy on his lap.

“What was that?”

“Nothing, Babe!” Anthony waved Neddy’s hand as Kate stepped out of the shower, “Amma gets so cranky when she plays tennis, boyo.”

“I want that record!” Kate rolled her eyes as she slipped into Anthony’s shirt and boxers before kissing the top of Anthony’s head and taking Neddy from him. “Don’t listen to Daddy, Mummy’s just trying to prove a point, little prince.”

She gets it in the final. 19 minutes and 37 seconds and the Wimbledon final is over and no one ever questions whether she’s lost her edge again.

[ladyluscinia]

The implications of Art's career on the Challenger's universe tennis scene are absolutely bonkers, btw

Like he's won six Grand Slams??? With a career spanning between roughly 2010 & 2019????? That's absolutely insane.

Out of the 39 Grand Slams during that time period (not counting the 2019 USO since it hasn't happened in Challengers-verse) only seven were not won by either Federer, Nadal, or Djokovic. Like the career rankings for Grand Slam winners in 2019 look like this craziness:

Federer - 103 Titles, 20 Grand Slams

Nadal - 84 Titles, 19 Grand Slams (including 2019 USO)

Djokovic - 77 Titles, 16 Grand Slams

Andy Murray - 46 Titles, 3 Grand Slams

Stan Wawrinka - 16 Titles, 3 Grand Slams

Marin Cilic - 18 Titles, 1 Grand Slam

You want to stick an American in there with SIX??? An American who has never won the USO? He could push Murray and Wawrinka nearly off the board (leaving only their USO wins) and still would have beat one of the Big 3 at a Slam twice. Technically more than that because Murray and Wawrinka's finals were against them too except Wimbledon 2016. He probably would have beat Djokovic or Nadal in either a final or semi-final around five times??? (Federer seems less likely just due to less career overlap.)

And the fact that Art is still considered competitive enough that a 2019 Career Grand Slam is on the table is wild. He could literally have singlehandedly prevented Djokovic from beating Nadal's record if he won the right games. The level of skill he'd need to have to be at six (and not even focused on one surface!) and yet only six and yet people still think he could manage seven must drive tennis fans nuts. How many times has he beaten them for other titles?

Is Art tennis's most famous inconsistent king??? Do the three most untouchable players have to worry just a little bit every time they face him that he's going to wipe the floor with them even though most days he can't manage it?

Fucking wild.

[leiflitter]

Some of my favourite Felix quotes from the early chapters of YAH! because I love that idiot so much.

“It was two thousand and six. I wasn't about to start batting my eyes at the rugger lads, Ollie. And I'm lazy. Girls were easy.” - Chapter 4

“I won't be alone, I'll have Oliver with me. Gives us a chance to do some middle-aged man stuff- sit around and watch 1917 or Das Boot-” - Chapter 10

“So you do want to kiss me?” - Chapter 12

“Not to ruin the moment, Olls, but my knees are killing me. Reckon we could wriggle about a bit?” - Chapter 14

“He should be thanking you. Don't get me wrong, Olls, I'm not angry- but you should have crept into my room. I'd have tossed him out on his ear if you'd woken me up, gave me an impromptu handy and asked me nicely.” - Chapter 15

“Christ alive, if I had a monster like that I'd sack off the degree and go into adult entertainment.” - Chapter 16

“Oh, yeah. Firstly, I've learned- from much experience- that if you cum in hot water it gets a bit… sticky. Googled it once- something about the protein- it's just rather grim. It's why I try to float about a bit- not to ruin the mood, though, I know how you felt about runny eggs- tell me to shut up if I'm cockblocking myself, yeah?” - Chapter 17

“Well- you touch me, I touch you. Take positions, count down from three and off we go. One hand only, first to get their, erm, horse to the finish wins.” - Chapter 18

“Then at breakfast you can go oh, how's Sir Catton today? And I can go oh, ha-ha, raring to go- but do call me Felix. And nobody'd be any the wiser… Ooh, and I can send Fredders to come find you, and if he goes Sir Catton would appreciate your presence you know I'm up for it, eh?” - Chapter 19

“I was fed up with everyone going on about Wimbledon- Federer was everywhere in those shorts, Venetia and mum kept going on about his legs, and I just thought the whole look was pretty awful. So…Formal Tennis.” - Chapter 20

“You're driving me absolutely bonkers. I had to lie to Lu- told her I couldn't get off because I was sad about Venetia.” - Chapter 21

"It's you, Professor. I'm hopelessly in love with you and I just can't do anything except think about you.” - Chapter 22

“Christ on a bike. Runny eggs at mach fucking five." / “Olls? Your cock's out, mate.” - Chapter 23

“But indulge me a little- this sex with men business, Ollie, how do I hold up in the rankings? Top ten- top three- oh no, don't tell me-” - Chapter 24

“We can always do with another hand about the place- and you're already settled in at the house. You can cuddle Dozie in the Mornings, tutor Harry in the afternoons and we can be boring old men in the evenings. Sounds perfect to me.” - Chapter 25