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ki (asian, sports rpf connoisseur.) ao3 here, sports journalism substack here!

i make a living saying evil crazy things about athletes. currently plagued by arsenal and tennis but the nba and f1 return from time to time. talk to me about any and all sports yaoi foucaultian or otherwise ❤️

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i feel ill

#martin odegaard #declan rice #literally the only time they’ve interacted on camera post-winning the league btw…..#something something real person FACTS.#oderice

me too but for a very different reason

#i might actually combust #ki.txt #they started like some absurdly low number of games together this season lol #one of them being the fucking cl final btw……

semifinaldraw

grund genug

#happy pride month to all but especially wusiala #i don’t even go here (germany) and i still fw them #fanart

do you have any thoughts rpf-istically about martin zubimendi......... i feel like it took me the whole season to begin to understand him as a player and i haven't even started piecing together what the #dynamics are

LET’S TALK ABOUT IT. i have loved the concept of martin zubimendi ever since i read this guardian article about him way back in 2022 about his connection with xabi and thought wow….wouldn’t it be so crazy if he came to arsenal given mikel’s connection with xabi….well well well look where we are now

most of my thoughts are from the first half or so of the season because after that i got a bit busy lol but i remember v clearly a reporter asking some absurd question about odezubirice midfield clicking because they were all born within 2 months of each other and then going hmm. rpfistically i think he is far easier to pin down than the rest, he has a real consistency of character about him primarily because it takes a certain sort of person to play a 6. most articles describe him as clearheaded, calm, cheerful - there was one that called him “subtle and selfless” - and i really do agree with that! there’s a steady confidence about him but also very clearly a shyness (see recent gifs of declan shoving him towards the crowd).

in practice that means the relationship i’m most interested in exploring is zubirice lol, in some cases with martin as the distant third point. they’re fun to me because zubi has absolutely no interest in making a bid for authority i.e captaincy and therefore declan’s posturing makes 0 difference to him because he’s not interested in the power play bs. he knows he’s good, he knows he plays a midfield role that’s indispensable, he cheerfully lets himself be manhandled by declan because it’s not threatening in any way. plus the language barrier i think that removes the more substantial reasons for declan to affect a persona and actually clears the way for some authenticity and a friendly coworkers w chemistry vibe. tbh i’ve written some lighthearted hetbending stuff for them as a way to destress from the rest of my wips, girl!declan zubirice is so fun

#girldeclan zubirice has the same appeal as girldeclan deckai to me….#like please imagine deckai if everything was the same but declan was a transfer to awfc instead. i almost exploded writing it #the zubirice stuff is mostly them as high school tennis mixed doubles players lol #i am really quite fond of him i like him so much :) just a guy who is easier to read #ki.ask #martin zubimendi

odericevertz

they’ll scream your name until the lights go out / then they’ll feed you to the wolves

#rbing for the night crowd #martin odegaard

caledonianroad

herrelandslaget The captain is in the building🫡

#HES SO FUCKING EXCITEDDDDDDDD AND SO AM I #i can’t believe it i genuinely can’t believe he’s captaining norway nt to the world cup after 28 YEARS #my guy of all time #genuinely rooting for norway above all else this wc……my captain you are going to SHAKE THE WORLD #martin odegaard

he’s just like me fr

#sorry i have really been on an oderice kick lately #i keep thinking about it as like. remembering all the uncomplicated affection they seemed to have in 23/24 #and obviously due to various reasons the relationship has soured and deepened and gotten terribly tangled #and if you are martin odegaard it’s like…..doesn’t it get exhausting having to outrun someone who has the force of the narrative behind him #i’m walking backwards into my own myth i was trying to walk out core #you’ve been trying to outrun the story being pushed on you for years and for a little while you did! but it seems to have caught up again #come on do it once again just for a few years more #sorry these tags got in the way of what was supposed to be a lighthearted post #but it’s crazy because you can tell declan also wishes he (martin) was performing better - would make everything so much simpler #oderice #martin odegaard #declan rice

holdinghistorsogently

Havertz beckoning over Odegaard and Rice during training.

Source: HaytersTV

#what would we do without you to notice these things!!!!#this is crazy i can’t believe you picked it out #always some variation of you’re a dog and i’m your man w these 3 #really conspicuous lack of oderice here is also so compelling lol…..kai as insistent peacemaker #odericevertz

they’ll scream your name until the lights go out / then they’ll feed you to the wolves

#martin odegaard #arsenal #edits #ki.vid #martin x noah kahan edit……my pride and joy…..please ask me about my clip selection!!!!#i love him so bad

lyliesinthevallies

fav trio

#this is perfect ….. captures their features so well #the eyes especially #odericevertz #fanart

about the captaincy debate going on right now, about the calls of dec being performative, about kai scoring in the ucl final, about the whispers about martin not contributing to the club at all....

there has never been a better time to be user odericevertz

#i’m having an absolute field day #it’s like. say what you will about kai but goal in a cl final + all the equalisers and winners he’s scored in the run in makes him #genuinely untouchable in the eyes of the fans manager etc etc #then declan of course is declan i’ve talked about him and his performativity/arrogance a million times #but obviously taking to the celebrations like a duck to water and reveling in them because he just has That Kind Of Personality #then ode not having a great game and getting subbed off but obv as captain still getting The Moments (trophy lift etc)#does he deserve them (in the eyes of the fans)?#then obviously the triangulation: odekai celebrations after the goal #captain armband going from ode to saka to declan and declan being the one to wear it and score a successful pen during the shootout #online discourse being like We have moved past the need for odegaard….arteta must find some way to make rice captain next season….#people are even saying SELL ODEGAARD which is crazy to me. that is lowkey never happening #then factor in conspicuous lack of oderice interactions post-win vs odekai being glued at the hip #actually i do want to talk about this for a bit. the only oderice interaction since sealing the prem has been them #GRABBING each other’s hands in the crowd as they jump for joy at the city-bournemouth hatewatch #absolutely nothing else. which is so crazy to me #like even declan starting martin’s chant during the parade has like 10 million layers of power play to it. i hate them #odericevertz #ki.ask

i NEED to write rpf

#ki.txt #not writing it is driving me crazy i have so many feelings #need to read some good stuff also………rec if you have them

hincapiero

#laughed out loud #martin odegaard #the genre of declan comments that are like my skipper ❤️ my captain ❤️ skip ❤️ never fail to fucking send me

iamnotgeekbut

#my eye just twitched so violently #the hand on the face and the watch….#SPEAK TO ME. SPEAK TO ME IN THE DMS #martin & mikel

#if you think they’re not aware on some level that at every moment a camera is trained on them then you’re deluding yourself

man, i'm so glad you said this because it feels so obvious but i also think people genuinely don't acknowledge it. i was writing fic earlier and this exact sentiment came up and reading your tags made me realize how often i include this topic in fics alkshglk but how can you not if you're writing modern day footie rpf!!

HOW CAN YOU NOT!!!!!! no you’re so right, i feel like a great deal of footyrpf reads like it was written without that consideration in mind and it just puts me off so badly. the public aspect of this profession is so interesting to me because going by rpf logic sports are actually a seemingly more authentic realm (i.e pandering to fans / fanservice etc isn’t a part of the job like it is with idols, pretending to have better chemistry isn’t contractually obligated like it is with actors who are co-stars.) combine that with the hypermasculine nature of Sports and it is much easier to interpret homoerotic sports behaviour as ‘realer’. but i just don’t see how in the modern day when every single one of their interactions is being dissected by pundits or twitter users or us here on tumblr dot com you can write these guys without the knowledge of surveillance hanging over their head like a guillotine

#i think this is a bit of a hangover from my kpoprpf days the public/private/real/performative divides are the most compelling parts to me #especially and even with stuff like goal celebrations! how much of that is really authentic intimacy and how much of it is regulated #by the knowledge that sixty thousand people are watching!#endlessly fascinating #ki.ask

caledonianroad

martin ødegaard 25/26 premier league champion

black jam, matthew haigh

#there is nothing in the world that can take this away from me #martin odegaard #web weaving

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