Hope is a force of nature.

Stef (she/they). Multifandom blog — but let’s be real, this is mostly Sports RPF. Fangirl and unapologetic slash shipper. No side-blogs, but a good tagging system!

[sinnerism]

“Crazy dreams take crazy effort”.

[valchhi]

favourite position personally

madrid 2026 c. david ramos // atp finals 2025 c. valerio pennicino // wimbledon 2025 c. julian finney // roland garros 2025 c. adam pretty // australian open 2025 c. graham denholm // miami 2023 c. al bello

[sinnersnote]

Rome Open 2026, R2: J. Sinner def. S. Ofner 6-3, 6-4

[zingaplanet]

I realised the best thing about the Rafa documentary isn't just about seeing the behind the scenes footage, it's a 4 episode long tennis nostalgia for the golden age of tennis.

The early 2000s tennis in all its intensity, physicality, rawness, and glory. It's all a bit crude, a whole lot less unpolished, no VAR nor fancy tech. Where Davis Cup still feels like the world cup and 5 set matches are regularly played in blinding heat.

It's a chance to remember the tennis we grew up with.

And boy have I missed it.

[twolanguages]

just how fast the night changes

based off of this post

[cactusringed]

It's ok if you don't like rpf. You can get better. I can help you. Come here

[json-derulo]

I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.

"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!

The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.

Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup

[vaspider]

"Meet people where they are" is Activism 101, and people seem to be allergic to seeing that this is exactly that.

"Bean Soup Rhetoric" is a very good concept.

[origamicrow]

take a break while watching this little bunny cross your dash

[ghostisredacted]

just saw someone say "a fandom is small, so like only 1-3 fics posted per day" . you wouldnt survive a day in the place where im from

[1snowpatrolfan]

"Look who I found in Madrid!"

Who's gonna tell them they're not subtle. FEDAL IS SO BACK THE DROUGHT IS OVER

[beardedmrbean]

this sounds like a party to me

[thirdset]

JANNIK SINNER ROLAND GARROS 2026 · R1

[anxietyproblem]

[idontgettechnology]

Sometimes I get too in my head with my writing. Especially about my smut. I reread every last word with the most critical of eyes and think, Ooh is that cringe? Will that be too graphic? Will this word or phrase take people out of the scene?

And then I read a book. A published, hardcover, NYT bestsellers list book and...

Did you get that?

Someone looked at this sentence (likely more than one someone, tbh) and was like, 'Yeah. We'll print that.'

So the moral of the story, my fellow heathen smut writers, is that we're fine.

As a matter of fact, we're actually fucking amazing.

[grimeysociety]

[ladamedusoif]

I…

Please continue on to read the bit about his heart liquefying and shooting into her through his dick.

[wildemaven]

[rose-fics]

Now may be a good time to introduce folks to The Bad Sex awards, which is an annual award (not contest) given to some of the worst sex fiction currently in publishing

Here are the absolute worst 'Bad Sex Awards' entries ever

The nights are drawing in, Christmas is on its way…which means only one thing: time for the Literary Review’s Bad Sex Awards! From Morriss

Including entries such as:

“He began thrusting wildly in the general direction of her chrysanthemum, but missing — his paunchy frame shuddering with the effort of remaining rigid and upside down.”

“She had on no knickers, and my heart went crash-bang-wallop and my eyes popped out. She hadn’t shaved, and her fanny looked like a tropical fish or a bit of old carpet.”

And the one that will make me howl every time I see it:

“And he came hard in her mouth and his dick jumped around and rattled on her teeth and he blacked out and she took his dick out of her mouth and lifted herself from his face and whipped the pillow away and he gasped and glugged at the air, and he came again so hard that his dick wrenched out of her hand and a shot of it hit him straight in the eye and stung like nothing he’d ever had in there, and he yelled with the pain, but the yell could have been anything, and as she grabbed at his dick, which was leaping around like a shower dropped in an empty bath, she scratched his back deeply with the nails of both hands and he shot three more times, in thick stripes on her chest. Like Zorro.”

Like Zorro

[grabyourpillow]

I've seen this post like seven hundred times but it's the first time I've checked out the actual link

And

What the fuck did I just read

[hunnydeuce]

Roland Garros 2026 Round 1: Casper Ruud

[soronya]

Chapters: 1/2 Fandom: Golf RPF Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bryson DeChambeau/Rory McIlroy Characters: Bryson DeChambeau, Rory McIlroy, Brian Rolapp, Original Characters, Scottie Scheffler, Viktor Hovland (mentioned), Ludvig Åberg (mentioned) Additional Tags: Internalized Homophobia, based on recent events, Future Fic, mentioning of Ludvig/Viktor, Downfall of LIV, Character Development, First time with a man, Homophobic Language Summary:

With LIV on the verge of collapsing, Bryson doesn’t know how to shape his future. He’s stuck between a rock and a hard place and on top of it, his golf game sucks. The worst part about it, though, is his crush on Rory fucking McIlroy

[annabelle0709]

Jordan and Rory in bkub style

(bonus point if you know which players Rory is between in p2)