Thank you England NT's media team for giving me the last World Cup crumbs of these boyfriends
How could I move on from this? 😭 Just enjoying this gay and wholesome moment in 240p ig
They still have 4 matches as teammates for Nations League before playing at the opposite side of the pitch at the end of October for the 1st time ever.
Always believed in AO3 when it came to small ships but this is just... so sad 😭 This is the reason why I thought there's less than 10 members on the ship at first.
We need to get more writers to get on board please I'm manifesting so hard right now.
4 works but only 1 fic is truly for them, others are M/M/M and multi-pairings type of fic. And this is the fanfic that was the beginning of it all.
Even tho the author didn't write more JudeAnt fic for a long time and this one above is written 2 years ago, they're still the author I appreciate the most right now, I literally read the fic 2 times every days ever since I've started loving this ship too much. Also the fact that the author still replied to recent comments makes me hope they will write again for Jude and Ant in the future 🥹
It will be so good if there's a fic about how Jude reacted after knowing his beloved teammate bf Anthony will become his biggest rival in the next season of La Liga.
Being the new member of this ship and wasting too much times on x where you can't find good shit like this these days, then suddenly remembered i still have tumblr, soooooo grateful for this 😭
Hot and Cold - An Analysis of Shinya Suzuki's Two Leather Jackets in 10DANCE
On my first watch, I jokingly noted that it seemed like Suzuki had two of the same jacket (one in green and one in brown/maroon). After watching the movie a couple more times (it's just so good 😭) I began to notice something interesting about when Suzuki wears the different jackets. Which spurred another couple of watches focused on gathering screenshots to track the jackets. Which has led to this very long meta post 😅
Word Count: 1,996
In short:
The green/cool-toned jacket = Suzuki's cool and casual persona, admittedly even when Suzuki is running "cold" he's running hot, but this the personality he puts forward to protect himself from caring too much, he says he likes being a big fish in a small pond, but underneath the flippant attitude there is a vulnerable heart, Suzuki is a passionate dancer and a passionate person, but I think he is unwilling (at the start) to open himself up to the risk of potential failure or heartbreak
The brown/maroon/warm-toned jacket = Suzuki is ready to care deeply and openly, he is vulnerable, he has recognized his feelings of love and desire and is ready to act on them
Sugiki cracks Suzuki open, he breaks through the cool exterior, he can see the depth of Suzuki's passion from the start. Suzuki cares deeply about Sugiki, but it takes time for him to recognize these feelings.
In long, with screenshots:
1. The Proposal and the First Appearance of the Cool-Toned Jacket
"Like I give a damn." - Suzuki
The first time we see Suzuki in his green/cool-toned jacket is immediately following Sugiki's proposal for them to train for the 10Dance together. There is animosity between the two Shinyas in these scenes. Suzuki gives an icy response to Sugiki's offer. He is nonchalant and flippant when dismissing Sugiki. It is only when Sugiki continues to bait him that Suzuki agrees. (An intentional move on Sugiki's part, I think, to take advantage of Suzuki's passion, temper, and pride.)
Does Suzuki see them as rivals at this point? I think Sugiki does (and is hoping that feeling is reciprocated), but I don't think Suzuki sees Sugiki as a rival just yet. Suzuki claims that he doesn't give a damn about Sugiki (which we know is false, he's been watching Sugiki dance and definitely feels A Way about him). Later he'll also claim he doesn't give a damn about being a world champion.
I think the Suzuki we meet at the beginning of the movie is afraid of taking the risk of feeling those emotions and having those dreams. He doesn't want to fail, so he pretends that he's happy where he is, that he doesn't care about going further. I don't think he fully understands exactly what he wants either. Does he want to be a world class dancer? To be like Sugiki? Or, maybe, does he want something else? <.<
2. First Practice Together - Off to a Rocky Start?
Suzuki is also wearing the green jacket when he goes to their first practice session, which... doesn't go so smoothly. To dance with Sugiki is to apply himself earnestly in the pursuit of the 10Dance championship. And, to dance with Sugiki is to make himself vulnerable to another man, to open himself to feelings he didn't know he could have (or at least didn't want to acknowledge he could have). Suzuki isn't ready to let go of his persona of an unbothered, free-spirited maverick.
The green jacket is also visible on screen after Sugiki says that Suzuki doesn't try. When asked to explain, Sugiki says that Suzuki already knows the answer. Sugiki can see through Suzuki's persona. He knows that Suzuki actually cares very deeply and does have desires to go further. Suzuki just needs a little push...
3. The Cool-Toned Jacket Fades Away
"It was like a rousing wind. Brushing my cheek, stirring my soul..." - Suzuki
As we watch Suzuki dance alone, he starts off wearing his green jacket. The shots fade in and out, and the green jacket disappears. I think this marks the start of a turning point for Suzuki. Training with Sugiki is lighting the fire in Suzuki to pursue becoming a world champion. He's slowly shucking off the casual exterior and is beginning to try. He's getting serious. He meets Sugiki's challenges. And there is a connection forming between the two of them, whether he knows it or not.
4. The First Appearance of the Warm-Toned Jacket
"How was it? Do you feel like a princess?" - Sugiki
As far as I can tell, the first time we see the brown/maroon/warm-toned jacket is at the practice session that, shall we say, awakened something in Suzuki. He is used to being in charge, of being in the lead. To fully give control of his body over to Sugiki is a new experience for him. And I think he likes it. And also that he doesn't quite know what to do with this information.
Suzuki's warm-toned jacket is visible at the start of this session, and afterward it rests on the chair behind him as he recovers from Sugiki literally and figuratively sweeping him off his feet. Perhaps this is the moment where Suzuki's budding feelings for Sugiki are beginning to make themselves known?
Things heat up and then they cool down. As Suzuki sits and processes, the lighting changes. Suzuki and the warm-toned jacket are now both washed in cool lighting (making the jacket look green), before Sugiki invites him out to dinner. At this dinner, a bit of Suzuki's uncaring facade makes a reappearance (perhaps defensively after feeling so vulnerable with Sugiki just before). Suzuki says he doesn't see a point in Sugiki's lessons in table manners, but if Suzuki were serious about becoming a world champion, he should care about this stuff. Perhaps in this moment he is falling back on familiar patterns after a world-shaking moment of self-discovery.
5. Sugiki's Trip to the UK
"Come back soon, okay?" - Suzuki
Suzuki and Aki discuss his feelings about Sugiki. Aki says that he sounds like someone in love, which Suzuki dismisses outright. (Aki and Fusako both 100% know that the Shinyas are down bad for each other, they have the patience of saints dealing with these two idiot lovebirds.) When Sugiki calls from the UK, a leather jacket is briefly visible on the chair in Suzuki's studio. The color of the jacket is unclear, but I don't think it's the green jacket, the color looks too muted. Instead I think it's the warm-toned jacket tinted by the cool green lighting of the scene. Either way, the ambiguity works. Suzuki's feelings are in flux. He hasn't figured it out yet.
When Sugiki returns from the UK, Suzuki wears the warm-toned jacket to Sugiki's studio, where things are heating up. The warm-toned jacket is visible in the background a few times, including while they discuss their pasts. They dance together and it feels charged, intimate. ("How blue is the Cuban sky? So blue.")
Then something changes and the spell is broken. Sugiki is barking orders at Suzuki while they dance and they eventually break apart.
6. Suzuki in the Bar - Questioning
Oh, the lighting in the bar scene!
Despite wearing the warm-toned jacket, the jacket looks almost green when Suzuki first enters the bar. (Emotional fallout from the previous practice session?) Once he sits and starts discussing how he feels about Sugiki with the bartender, the jacket now has rim lighting in both green and red. From the back, the jacket looks undeniably red, but as we watch Suzuki at the bar, the jacket continues to be lit in the two opposing colors - indicative of Suzuki's inner turmoil. Sometimes what is obvious to those around us, is the least obvious to ourselves.
Will Suzuki finally recognize that he cares about Sugiki? That he wants something more than to be dance partners and rivals with him?
7. Suzuki Finds Sugiki Dancing Outside
To me, in this scene, Suzuki's warm-toned jacket looks deeply maroon, almost purple. In contrast to its chameleon performance in previous scenes, it has definitively settled into its warm-toned hue. The lighting of the scene leaves no ambiguity about which jacket he's wearing. I think this may be the moment where Suzuki's feelings for Sugiki coalesce into something identifiable to Suzuki himself (feelings of love, lust, longing, and desire).
Now we queue up Sugiki's Grim Reaper confession, Suzuki's disappointment in learning of Sugiki's struggle to accept his Grim Reaper persona (Sugiki!! Suzuki wants to match your freak!), and of course, The Train Scene - with Suzuki in the warm-toned jacket all the while.
Suzuki wants Sugiki.
Sugiki may chase him down and make the first move, but Suzuki is the one who lunges forward to seal the deal with a kiss.
Suzuki is ready to admit that he cares, his heart is open. He wants.
8. An Aside - Angel Wings
"I'll be the angel who defeats the Grim Reaper of Blackpool." - Suzuki
I simply had to include this with my jacket analysis even though this is less to do with the color of the jacket and more to do with the pattern. After Suzuki declares that he'll be the angel to Sugiki's devil (grim reaper), we see very clear shots of the back of Suzuki's jacket. And the pattern on the back of his jacket, well, it puts me in mind of wings...
9. Blackpool
There is a jacket on the chair in Suzuki's room in Blackpool when Sugiki comes over after the competition. It is briefly visible and it's honestly hard to tell if it's one of the leather jackets or a different jacket entirely. If it is one of the leather jackets, I would say it's the warm-toned one. But, this all may be wishful thinking on my part, to have the warm-toned jacket appear in this scene in the moments before Suzuki makes a move on Sugiki. Suzuki is ready for the two of them to become one.
10. Post-Blackpool - The Jacket Swap
"We can never become one." - Sugiki
I missed some of this until my most recent rewatch and I am so glad I caught it. After "We can never become one" and before "Will you dance with me?," the green jacket makes a couple of appearances.
Aki finds Suzuki sprawled in the back of his car and asks him why he's giving up. She thinks they can try harder and go further together as dancers. Suzuki hugs her and there's a determination in his eyes. He tells her "let's go," and as he walks away, he grabs the warm-toned jacket.
However! The warm-toned jacket isn't visible when they arrive at their destination. I believe this is meant to be the same day, it looks like Aki's outfit and Suzuki's blue shirt are the same as in the previous scene. There is then a montage of them picking out dance outfits, getting styled, etc. and by the end of it, lo and behold, Suzuki is wearing the green jacket again! The first definite appearance of the green jacket since before Suzuki felt like a princess in Sugiki's arms.
Suzuki is back in his green jacket. He's closing himself off again. Protecting himself from Sugiki's rejection at Blackpool. Pretending he isn't hurt and trying to put on a stoic, confident front. Trying to regain his cool, uncaring persona.
11. 2026 Asian Cup Dance Championship
"We're just rivals now." - Suzuki
And the green jacket is visible one more time, amidst Suzuki's belongings as he and Aki prepare for their performance at the Asian Cup. Suzuki says that he and Sugiki are only rivals now. Again, he doesn't want to acknowledge the pain he feels at being rejected by Sugiki, or to admit that he still does care deeply about Sugiki.
But in the end, all it takes is for Sugiki to extend his hand and ask.
being manipulated into place against the trembling strain of your body and fighting to maintain that position under the appraising eyes of the man who put you there. unbearably sexy rope bottoming scene without any of the rope. just eyes and hands.
Isn't “love” a ridiculously big word? When I tried to explain that, I felt like I was moving a little away from the feeling we had experienced. It's both love and passion, but at that moment, there was something like an explosion inside me saying, “I need this person” or “I want this person right now.” Through dance, there was a mutual explosion and recognition at a very high level. I think you can express it with words like love or affection, but the feeling that resonates most with me is that “I needed him.”
Keita Machida:
(There are moments when the body reacts before words can be spoken. Machida also describes their relationship as being akin to “longing for what one does not have.”)
Humans are greedy and inevitably desire what they do not have. Because we end up at completely opposite points, we envy and want what we do not possess. I think it was a relationship where we exchanged various things while battling each other.
Ryoma on Keita and vice versa :
"It's truly amazing to enjoy things head-on. He has the ability to find joy," Machida praised again. Amidst such conversations, Takeuchi brought up something he suddenly remembered.
"Machida-kun, I'm not sure if this will make you happy, but there's someone who comes to mind," (Takeuchi)
"Someone? Who?" (Machida)
"An overseas actor, someone I thought resembled you a bit," (Takeuchi)
"Who?" (Machida)
"Sean Penn. Machida-kun, you look kind of like Sean Penn." (Takeuchi)
"(Laughs) That's a bit too much. Too much! It's not that I'm not happy, but that's clearly an exaggeration." (Machida)
While denying with a laugh, Machida listened as Takeuchi shared a scene he was particularly eager to talk about. “In practice, there's a scene where Sugiki-sensei and Shinya are dancing the tango, and at that moment Sugiki-sensei says, 'Let's take a break.' That scene is truly amazing. I’ve watched it over and over, and I don’t really know why, but every time I see it, it makes me want to cry. I think it’s because I feel it’s so good. It's so good that I end up laughing while crying."
With those words, Machida laughed and said, "Takeuchi-kun is really a strange person."
Through their roles, their understanding and trust in each other deepened. "I trust Machida-kun as one of the top-class fellow actors. That's why I could entrust various things to him," (Takeuchi) said.
"Without trust, you can't dance," responded Machida.
Takeuchi unhesitatingly explained why he was able to master ballroom dancing. "I trusted the dance teachers, trusted the director, trusted my partner Doi (Shiori), trusted Machida-kun, and in the end, I was able to trust myself. That's all there is. You couldn't dance this dance without complete trust." Even after filming ended, that experience remains deeply ingrained in both of them. "Even now, sometimes I go to see the teacher and dance. I feel shocked when I can't dance like I did then, but I still love it because it's fun," (Takeuchi) said.
"That's amazing. For me, when I remember that sense of being pushed to the limit, I start to tremble, so I'm too scared to go. But because I had that experience, there's also a sense of longing. Looking back now, I feel like 'I could have gone further,' and there's a part of me that yearns for it. It lingers with me," (Machida) said.
Excerpts from this interview, which methinks is more fun than the others. Maybe because it was conducted a day before the premiere, on the 18th, and the two actors had long established their camaraderie.
Suzuki has the most perfect character design ever his hair is FRIED, his bracelet is CUNTY, his hip TATTED and his shirts DISSAPEAR every two minutes of screen time
this alongside all the lines in the movie that went something like "your stance is beautiful. without me, just standing is hard, isn't it?" and "do you feel like a princess?" and "that's the kind of man i am, i suppose. not a gentleman. more of a grim reaper." and "hang onto that persona of yours. you can be the grim reaper. i'll be the angel who defeats that grim reaper of blackpool." and "i can feel his emotions. that smug superiority. possessiveness. the urge to dominate." and .... something something .... how suzuki lets sugiki lead him and lets sugiki choke him and lets sugiki be this more uglier version of himself with him and ....... yeah man. 😮💨.
More than half IT'S MORE THAN HALF OF THE MOVIE omg why was he so slutty and serving cunt non stop 😭 I really have to count all the scenes where he was nakey naked when I binge-watched it later
Also, Ryoma said in his solo interview that the "After Blackpool" scene is the most memorable to him. He said that when their desire became to unbearable and when they were too closed, they were so scared to have each other completely.
Just IMAGINE MY FACE WHEN I READ THAT. So they will give us kisses like in the manga and even more than that??
SaxLock and Jafe are my two longest hyperfixations this year no doubt about it. The 3rd couple I love them sm but they look a bit out of place lol. And brocest is the obsession not really just a hyperfixation for a long times now, you can see that in all four stats lol.
Almost 900 fanfics in a span of 1 year is it too much idk lol. Also the third stat 🙈 I have 2 kinds of reader in me, 1 that hate smut in novel and 2 that only read smut so spicy in fanfiction.
NEW 10DANCE INTERVIEW SHOTS OF TAKEUCHI RYOMA AND MACHIDA KEITA | ELLE JAPAN
They focused a lot on practicing their posture since that is key, and they really had to start from the basics and learn everything
Machida Keita had to focus a lot on elongating his neck??? His entire physique/posture did change after the training he had to do - and it was quite challenging because he had to make himself look way more elegant/regal by focusing on building up chest/back muscles BUT without adding bulk to his arms and shoulders
Takeuchi Ryoma was asked to let go more since his is Latin dance and he was truly like ??? please I can't — BUT the part where he sticks out his tongue in the trailer?!?!?! HE ADDED THAT HIMSELF and at the response he's gotten, the interviewer asked what he was thinking and he was like it just felt natural to do that
HE SAID HE PREFERS BEING THE "BOTTOM" ??????? IN DANCE AND BEING LED BY MACHIKEI EXCUSE ME?!?!?!
"WHEN MACHIDA-SAN SPINS ME AROUND I FEEL LIKE I'M IN HEAVEN"
MACHIKEI: "I THINK THEY LOVED EACH OTHER'S TALENT"
