esportsyaoi archive

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about

a fossil with too many feelings about lolesporps boys. i sometimes write about them but am usually just yelling about my messy feelings on twi. 

will post photos/links/translations of shippable moments for my own archiving purposes. tags on this blog are usually in the format of player: player ID and pairing: player a/player b

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ships i like

deft edition

part 1 (everyone but deft)

part 2 (everyone but deft)

my ship primers

bang/deft (posted on ao3, covers up to 2017)

369/knight (ongoing)

notes

please do not distribute or share anything on this blog with those outside the rpf/rps fandom and especially not with the players mentioned or any of their friends/family (the 4th wall is sacred)

my enjoyment of these ships is primarily based on the players’ public personas and not on the actual players themselves (meaning i don’t believe any of the players mentioned are actually involved with each other romantically IRL, i.e. my interpretations are merely of their personas)

i am not fluent in korean and only semi-fluent in chinese so there may be errors in translation/interpretation. please dm me if you spot any errors, thanks!

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old marrieds

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rent free

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it's been 5 days since finals and i'm still going insane at how touchy ruler and missing were after they won

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the happy hug from another angle

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ruler running forward and throwing his arm around missing ;-;

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happy smiles ;-;

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knight & 369 from the lpl players conference (2023-04-17)

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a super cute ruler/missing moment in the 2023 spring finals trashtalk video

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ruler and missing's pose synergy (2023 spring finals behind the scenes)

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[fanvid] 一个简单的双人视频，被JDG昨天发的视频触动了

source: https://b23.tv/7DHg2rl

highlights/translations

[0:40] 369: k-huang, hurry and thank me for my gift [donation] knight: what? i didn't see it. damn, what did you send? thank you to 369 for the 7 lucky bags. 369's fcking awesome! 369: go look! i just sent 8 likes! knight: 8 likes! awesome! thank you to 369! i'll send you 6 likes! hurry! it's 6 likes! and 9 kisses! and 10 glowsticks 369: thank you knight for the glowsticks. i'll send you 7 glowsticks too! did you see it?! knight: yeah, thanks for the 7 glowsticks!

(this was the first 9x9 fanvid i stumbled across so it's singlehandedly responsible for pushing me down this rabbit hole...)

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[fanvid] knight & 369（k宝9宝）未来一起加油~！

source: https://b23.tv/kT8Zd3N

highlights/translations

[0:37] question: if your socks all disappeared, which teammate would you borrow some from? knight: probably 369, because we share a room 369: knight of course. we share a room so if my socks disappear, he probably took them

[1:56] interviewer: do you think you yourself are the team pet? 369: no, i think it’s knight interviewer: who are you closest to on the team? 369: probably mid interviewer: so that’s why you spoil him the most? 369: uh huh, *points to himself* it’s Me that spoils him

[2:23] knight: [the enemy] kept bullying our 369 and he was a bit upset so i had to take revenge [3:19] photo of handholding followed by 369′s chatlog saying ‘holding hands: success’ [3:26] my dream is to defeat knight, i have to surpass him. including for matches, i have to get more mvp’s than him

(there are so so many cute photos of them as babies in this vid! really recommend~)

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[stream] 369′s stream highlights ft. knight and rice cakes (2023-04-01)

source:  b23.tv/jqESCRP

highlights: 

knight (white sweatshirt) watching from behind as 369 scrolls through baidu photos of himself when he was younger

369 enjoying the fried rice cake so much that he called out to knight to fetch him another one

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interviewer: what names do you usually like to call each other?

369: it can’t be disclosed

(me, screaming internally: what kind of embarassing and ridiculous nicknames are you calling each other??)

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on 9x9′s 双子星 (binary star) nickname

idk how cn fans come up with such incredible nicknames but the metaphor behind this one is just...beautiful ;A; both 369 and knight are (super)stars of their lanes in their own right, and from their interactions, they absolutely do orbit around each other constantly. 

a mutual who is more knowledgeable the subject also mentioned that it’s considered rare if the stars are both visible on the orbit, and that ‘for a binary star system to form, the two stars must have compatible gravitational spectrum; one of them becomes the central star, generally the brighter one, and they orbit each other interchangeably despite the assumption of one star being ‘more valuable’. 

to me, 369′s outgoing personality does make him seem like the brighter star but from the way he interacts with knight, it’s so clear that they are on equal ground and 369 truly values knight as both a teammate and friend TAT