The Yates Archive

29. Rpf focused cycling blog, expect dead dove content. Yates bros are everything to me I make and delete lots of text posts

[yatesyoucan]

What. A. Career. Take a bow, Simon Philip Yates 🇬🇧

2013 Points Race Winner

2018 Vuelta a España Winner

2019 Tour de France Stages 12 & 15 Winner

2025 Giro d’Italia Winner

2025 Tour de France Stage 10 Winner

[yatesyoucan]

really need to learn how to recolor gifs so when adam retires I can make sure his retirement post is way better than the one I made for simon

[sea-mists]

literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.

[queriesntheories]

Reblogging this with these tags because oh my goodness

To the person I reblogged this from THANK YOU i am now going to stick this on my pinboard where I’m gonna see it every single day

“Life is long and beautiful if you make it so”

[yatesyoucan]

“Pop pop” -Adam’s interpretation of him and Simon being born

[yatesyoucan]

Missing Simon a lot more than usual lately and I guess maybe it’s because the tour is right around the corner. In which case I am not ready for it 😩

[yatesyoucan]

it’s been a while but I wanna try and revive the server so if anyone wants to be a part of a chat about taboo/less-conventional rpf you can join here! https://discord.gg/WNCb7gnrU

[luna-azzurra]

Some writing advice I will never give up:

Your characters are allowed to be bad people. Your story is allowed to have no moral lesson.yyour ending is allowed to be sad. The villain can win. The good person can do something unforgivable. The lovers can destroy each other. You are allowed to write the thing that no one asked for and everything that everyone told you doesn’t work and you are allowed to not explain yourself.

It’s your story. Burn it down if you want to.

[imjunebitch]

"can mutuals dm" "can mutuals ask for your discord" girl, mutuals have an implied invitation to my wedding

[yatesyoucan]

The Jelly Belly team (2000-2018) jersey went so hard

[yatesyoucan]

just did my first race on Zwift 🙌🏼

[yatesyoucan]

“Pop pop” -Adam’s interpretation of him and Simon being born

[yatesyoucan]

they should do a relay type race with 4 riders who each do a certain profile. Like one leg would be hilly, then a climb, then a technical section, and then end on a flat sprint.

[scumashling]

Really obsessed with a Guilty Whumper who breaks down crying after SAing Whumpee, possibly apologizing, possibly lamenting about how they can't control their urges and calling themselves sick, possibly asking Whumpee why they had to go and make them angry, and Whumpee being forced to comfort them and assure them it's okay ♥️

[yatesyoucan]

doing a double take every time I see the pink jersey and the trophy on my feed then realizing it isn’t simon anymore. I don’t like this :/

[writingdose]

as a writer, it’s very important that you know this: whenever you tell yourself “this will only be one-chapter-long” that is a lie. your brain is lying to you. it won’t, in fact, be just a short one-shot

[cavsthighs]

whenever something happens in a year that something cycling happened in like when someone is like "i graduated in 2018" i will just automatically silently be like thats the year g won the tour.........

[ao3-anonymous]

I just saw an anon come into a gif-maker’s ask box and start with the phrase: “I’m trying not to spam your inbox with reblogs, but” and then go on to say how much they love the gifs.

But I’m still stuck on that opening phrase because…what? I am so confused by how people view interactions on tumblr & AO3 these days. Let me make it very clear for anyone who is unsure:

CREATORS WANT YOU TO INTERACT WITH THEIR WORK.

The limit does not exist on how many of their works you can interact with in a certain period.

If you like every fic they’ve ever written? Then feel free to give them all kudos and even leave a comment on every single one if you feel inclined! If you’re going through someone’s blog and you vibe with every post, like/reblog to your heart’s content!

As long as you’re not expecting something back from them or adding a ton of irrelevant comments, it’s not spam! It’s what this is all about!! I’m not even much of a creator and I still feel a huge sense of pride when I see a ton of notifications in a row from a person, as it clearly shows they thought my blog was worth spending time on.

And if for some reason a creator is annoyed by this (unlikely), they can manage their own experience (turn off notifs, not look at their notes, delete the fic, etc) -- so don’t deprive the majority of creators because of some imagined annoyed person. Fandom is a collaborative effort and we all must participate!