why can't you want me and love me until the end of time

mimi. she/her. black. i read on occasion

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

gabriella papadakis and natalia zakiiako

isu allow same sex ice dance partnerships immediately so gabi papadakis can come back to competition with a woman

[lionevlmessi]

NEYMAR JR & MARTA: PELÉ'S DEAREST, FOOTBALL'S LEAST FAVOURITE CHILDREN

Neymar and Marta being interviewed after a charity match they played together in 2011 / « ‘Pele With a Skirt’: The Unequal Fortunes of Brazil's Soccer Stars » by Gwendolyn Oxenham posted on The Atlantic / Marcus Zusak, I Am the Messenger / Quote about 'Sister' by Elizabeth Fishel / Louise Glück, Descending Figure / Taylor Swift, The Best Day / The Oh Hellos, Second Child, Restless Child / Lana Del Rey, Chemtrails Over the Country Club / Alex Irvine, John Winchester's Journal / John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[hermywolf]

carlos alcaraz by jonathan liew

[freak-a-lick]

you don’t need perfect conditions to start. you just need to start. five minutes of focus is better than waiting for motivation to come.

[ppepohappy]

sports’ solitude

The Stallion, short story by sports analyst Jon Bois // Chris Terreri of the New Jersey Devils, April 16 1999, photo by Al Bello // George Kirby of the Seattle Mariners, October 15 2022, photo by Steph Chambers // Ken Griffey Sr on his son Ken Griffey Jr of the Seattle Mariners, quote published in article by the Seattle Times // Jonathan Quick of the New York Rangers, November 22 2023, photo by Justin Berl // Tyler Bass (#2) of the Buffalo Bills, January 21 2024, photo by Al Bello // Untitled, circa 1967, poem by athlete Bob Beamon, best known for his 1968 long jump world record

shamelessly inspired by @hauntedppgpaints and his great goalie web weave. additional note: the final source has several uses of the n-word, as it is focused on the junction of sports and racism in the 1960s

[piranesism]

Finally, while fans, the military and sports organizers are all complicit in promoting the sports–war intertext, it is important to recognize that athletes and sports broadcasters also perpetuate the presence of war metaphors in the sports arena.

...On a basic level, these analogies between sports and war make sense; both events are about a unit working together to best an opponent, and as Dauber (2000) has pointed out, the use of militarized language in civilian circles helps to denote a level of importance that could not be conveyed as effectively in other ways (p. 381). In the sports world, in other words, militarized language helps players and commentators convey an inflated sense of drama during games to excite fans and to endow professional sports, more broadly, with a sense of weightiness and importance...And as Ratto (2001) wrote, these metaphors were continually used in sports (pre-9/11) because they often sounded “cool . . . to the players who liked the mythology of athletes as warriors, the coaches, who liked the mythology of coaches as generals and military strategists, and to the fans, who just liked the imagery.” By comparing players to soldiers and games to high-stakes battles of life and death, militarized language also helps to justify, or at least make seem less ridiculous, the multimillion dollar salaries and hero-status American culture gives to professional athletes.

In its theatrical displays of national unity, military pageantry at sporting events also ends up proscribing such a narrow definition of patriotism that fans and athletes’ more nuanced reactions to American foreign policy decisions, as well as pacifist ideals, are often silenced, or at least punished, in the sporting arena.

The Militarization of American Professional Sports: How the Sports–War Intertext Influences Athletic Ritual and Sports Media (Tricia Jenkins)

[oedipalrivalry]

(...) We revere athletic excellence, competitive success. And it’s more than attention we pay; we vote with our wallets. We’ll spend large sums to watch a truly great athlete; we’ll reward him with celebrity and adulation and will even go so far as to buy products and services he endorses. But we prefer not to countenance the kinds of sacrifices the professional-grade athlete has made to get so good at one particular thing. Oh, we’ll pay lip service to these sacrifices—we’ll invoke lush clichés about the lonely heroism of Olympic athletes, the pain and analgesia of football, the early rising and hours of practice and restricted diets, the privations, the prefight celibacy, etc. But the actual facts of the sacrifices repel us when we see them: basketball geniuses who cannot read, sprinters who dope themselves, defensive tackles who shoot up bovine hormones until they collapse or explode. We prefer not to consider the shockingly vapid and primitive comments uttered by athletes in postcontest interviews, or to imagine what impoverishments in one’s mental life would allow people actually to think in the simplistic way great athletes seem to think. Note the way “up-close and personal profiles” of professional athletes strain so hard to find evidence of a rounded human life—outside interests and activities, charities, values beyond the sport. We ignore what’s obvious, that most of this straining is farce. It’s farce because the realities of top-level athletics today require an early and total commitment to one pursuit. An almost ascetic focus. A subsumption of almost all other features of human life to their one chosen talent and pursuit. A consent to live in a world that, like a child’s world, is very serious and very small.

David Foster Wallace, Tennis Player Michael Joyce’s Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Limitation, Joy, Grostesquerie, and Human Completeness

[psyche-edits]

Over the Limit (2017), directed by Marta Prus

[psyche-edits]

Over the Limit (2017), directed by Marta Prus

[teeth-ing]

Roberto Ferri, “L’amore, La Morte, e Il Sogno (Love, Death, and the Dream)” // Luke Rockhold smears his blood on Paulo Costa's face, UFC 278

[oedipalrivalry]

Margarita Mamun and Yana Kudryavtseva

(Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Rio Olympics, 2016, Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, 2014, Yana and Margarita embrace after Olympics, Baku, 2015, Interview with Marta Prus, Yana during Olympics, Interview with Yana, 2014, A 90s Kind of Rivalry)

[evanrsiers]

“amaranthine”

— (æm əˈræn θɪn, adjective) 1. A rare and ancient word, amaranthine is defined as an eternal, undying and immortal beauty, particularly that of a flower. 2. a purplish-red color. (via wordsnquotes)

[myonlyheroisreality]

Emirates Workers, Philippe Chancel. In Workers Emirates, Philippe Chancel focuses on the human figure of the foreign workers, modern slaves subjugated and used by a power that is almost invisible. Following the example of reportage, Philippe Chancel lays the foundations for a global reflection on this social issue, seeking to discover the implications of class relations in the near future. The appearance of a new type of mercenary certainly marks the beginning of a global economic war. With his work, Philippe Chancel questions the photographic image on its ability to still be able to say something, to still transmit the real.

[studiorida]

Hassan and Hussain fish market in Agadir, Morocco. Captured by studiorida.

[piranesism]

photography of raghubir singh

[myonlyheroisreality]

Ganges: Raghubir Singh

[evanrsiers]

[ LITERATURE EDITORIAL SERIES ] Virgil’s The Aeneid

↳ Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo. If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.