#zero/sports

[dielukedie-subaru]

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[k-wame]

Jude + Zero HIT THE FLOOR | Drama, Basketball, LGBTQ+

[collophora]

Hi there !!! I wanted to let you know your bad batch art is BEAUTIFUL I'm always happy to see it cross my dash!! Your art style is so pretty and I love the way you draw Tech!!

Do you have anymore sketches of Tech we haven't seen yet? No pressure <3!!! Have a lovely day :DD

Oh my that's so sweet thank you! éAè <3 <3 <3 Hughhhhh well since you ask nicely I dug into my wip folder and found a sketch ^^

[theninth09]

its basically canon that liam uses lacrosse as a coping mechanism for his IED, right? and hes very passionate about it in general, considering that he stopped taking his meds in order to continue playing, wants to be captain, how good he is at it, etc.

so when he gets bitten and suddenly has super strength and speed and agility, etc. he probably has more stamina as well. and in general, thats obviously cool and hes probably excited about trying out his new abilities on the field.

but also: lacrosse doesnt work as well as his coping mechanism anymore. he doesnt get tired as fast, it doesnt take the same toll on him anymore. there isnt the same kind of rush- aching limbs, heavy breathing, whatever else -as before and the following satisfying exhaustion doesnt happen anymore. hes a werewolf now, he could keep going without a sweat for abnormally long.

and that must be frustrating, right? the activity that helped him, that his dad introduced him to and they could bond over, that helped him deal with and distract himself from all the messy feelings and issues he has. the exact aspect of why he liked it, suddenly being gone. obviously he still likes playing it: hes good at it, hes become Even Better at it and its still his passion.

but i do sometimes think about him getting frustrated over it not feeling the same anymore.

and to make it even worse: some of his teammates possibly undermining his effort. claiming that hes only so good at lacrosse Because hes a werewolf. as if he wasnt a prodigy long before he got bitten. all his hard work getting dismissed, as if him being a good player wasnt literally the reason he got turned in the first place.

[ura-niia]

Chat... this is so stupid... (Context under cut)

My experiment:

The results:

You are all the WORST

[overtake]

red bull: daniel’s bad habits from mclaren are fixed, he did well in the sim, and his tire test was so good that we immediately knew he was ready to be in a car.

alpha tauri & yuki: daniel’s feedback on the car has been instrumental, and he performed so well in difficult race conditions even though he didn’t have any upgrades and had some bad luck.

rando twitter user who doesn’t have the data, didn’t know liam lawson’s name three weeks ago, and constantly insults the way red bull quickly drops drivers who don’t perform: they’re only letting him drive for pr even though he’s a washed up failure.

[batsplat]

pecco rant please please

*spins wheel on possible topics* absurdly underrated but in a dumb way. you'd think you can stumble your way into two premier class titles. I don't care he's on the best bike - let's be honest, how often this century have the title winners not been on the best bike? 2004 and to a lesser extent 2005 you can say clearly weaker bike, 2007 late 2010s 2021 there's a clear enough disparity with anyone else riding the bike that you can say clearly the rider is making the difference/it's an unrideable wreck one guy is making respectable, then there's a few seasons where it's at least very close whose machinery is best or they're fighting with people on equal equipment, which pecco has done! but generally speaking, good/promising riders end up on good bikes and then they win. that's how the game works!

the thing about 2022 is that it had such a massive mid-season swing that overhauling a ninety something point margin cannot come down to any single factor. is it fair to say fabio lost that title? on balance, it's a bit harsh - yes, there were a few too many errors post-sachsenring, yes, some were driven by desperation, but also you can't really expect anyone to ride a flawless season. but pecco did win that title as much as yamaha lost it. I don't care if you're riding a literal rocketship with two wheels, you can't win four races in a row if you're not extremely good at what you do! if we're saying that title was worth less because the yamaha turned to shit in the second half of the season, then let's keep going. let's put an asterisk next to 2013 because jorge and dani both got injured (let's not even get into the 'if marc hadn't been injured' asterisks because that's where you get into truly silly territory). is 2006 not a legit title because of all the bad luck valentino faced that year? let's say all titles between 2007 to 2015 were worth less because at any one time only 4-6 bikes had a realistic chance of winning races. throw out any title before 2009 because they were constantly fucking about with the tyres and there wasn't a level playing field. if you're motivated enough, you can play this game with basically anything, but it's dumb and pointless because that's not how sports works! you can only win against whoever you're facing. it has always been thus and it will always be thus

it's narratively fun and juicy that pecco has these insecurities himself - but within the context of everyone else doing discourse over it, the whole thing is massively overblown! linked to some of the worst sports discourse about how much people love to disparage late bloomers, because they need every single successful athlete to fit the same mould of the ultra-talented wunderkind, apparently. it's more interesting when it's not always the most 'talented' (whatever tf that means), naturally gifted, *fast the second he touches a bike* bloke who wins. sometimes they have to work hard for it, sometimes they have to improve themselves year on year and be smart about how they do it, sometimes they have to be in the right place and right time, sometimes they have to be very lucky. sports is all about competition, and competition is all about contrast. it's a contrast that can be generated in a whole lot of ways, and in fairness to motogp they have come up with a bunch of interesting narratively tense contests that don't rely on a massive fundamental 'talent' differential - but at the end of the day, that's one of the best ones you can have! the more ways you can have to win in any given sport, the better, both in the literal sense of how you go about the actual process of winning and how you even become a winner. none of this means that pecco isn't very very good, it means he got there in a different way than every other multiple champ this century has. it fundamentally flattens the sport if you want every top-level competitor to be an alien-level talent... one of the best things about this current era is that it has given us something new and exciting in that regard, where you well and truly believe some very different blokes might have what it takes to eventually be champion

anyway, pecco is absurdly adept at digging himself into holes and absurdly adept at digging himself out of them. he's one of the worst frontrunners imaginable in every sense, biologically incapable of dominating without at least a perpetual hint of jeopardy, both in the context of a race and a season. but when his back is against the wall, somehow he keeps finding performances you never imagined he was capable of. his mixed up and slightly odd skillset, his strengths and weaknesses, how he's better and worse than he has any right to be... all of it lends itself to perpetual momentum shifts and thrilling seasons - because you never quite know what you're going to get. love him or hate him, he's a gift to the overall competitive landscape! god knows the racing hasn't been much to write home about these last few years (though, yes, we did have a good little run this season), but somehow he's managed to get himself involved in two out of the six title deciders this century back-to-back. is that not the dream for the viewer, to have a bloke at the top of the sport with a little self-combust chip in his head every time he builds too much of an advantage? build a hundred of those guys! throw a marc marquez at him and see what he does! I can't wait to see what he'll come up with next

[stellar-haikyuu]

haikyuu characters as messages i've sent/received in group chats (pt. 1)

Daichi: welcome to the chaos

Suga: i think coach is gonna lecture them, wanna watch?

Asahi: i hate waiting in the hallway THE ANXIETY IS KILLING ME

Kiyoko: i want to be more participative... but i also don't want to be perceived all the time

Tanaka: what if i don’t want to follow the call time

Ennoshita: I literally show up to all of my classes Nishinoya: what about physical education? Narita & Kinoshita: shhh that’s not included

Kageyama (and literally all of Hinata’s rivals): god, the chokehold that tiny ass things have on us

Hinata: i was fighting for my life trying to remember the english word for rice

Tsukishima: so apparently, i have a spotify niche mix called Murder Ballad

Yamaguchi (on his friendship with Tsukishima): nothing bonds people more than talking shit about someone you both dislike

Yachi: my inner graphic designer has AWAKENED

Takeda: they're coach ukai antis? i will change their minds.

Ukai Keishin: there’s a crazy old man next to me. he literally just told his buddy on the phone “fuck him, i want to punch him so bad”

Saeko: GUYS you will not believe this... i ran into all our coaches hanging out

masterlist || part 2 →

[dielukedie-subaru]

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[k-wame]

me & who

[kalys-404]

She loves rock climbing and uses it as her morning workout (morning swims are too basic), and the Texan desert is her perfect playground. However, she never uses any safety equipment, usually forgets to tie her hair, blasts her playlist in her ears (the one I posted), and sometimes (often) fails to tell anyone where she is going, especially if it's 5am. The shadows just wake up and slowly realize that their Captain is gone. They can't call her because OF COURSE she's in a spot without any service so they either send a team out to do a little searching or just wait and hope she didn't fall to her death from some 400 meters high orange rock.

As a treat:

[tj-crochets]

Next baby quilt top is done!

Not my usual color scheme or pattern or…anything, really, but it’s Georgia Bulldog colors for a charity fundraiser rally thing run by a relative of a relative and that’s what they wanted so it’s what I’m making

[revacholianpizzaagenda]

(on a five-year mission to reverse-psychology the universe into dropping us a Nilsen faceclaim. With some Dobreva on the side, please and thank you!)

[boanerges20]

SR-X by Huge Moto+Zero Motorcycles

[thepipedream]

Girl be sooo fucking fr rn, that's a SOCCER-SIZED court!!!!!

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

So the drivers are being told to watch their language (even though its the broadcasters' who literally pick and choose the radio snippets, and have the ability to 1 listen to a radio message in its entirety and 2 censor the quote unquote offensive language BEFORE adding it to the live broadcast), yet a sky sports commentator literally called one of the drivers a slur during a live broadcast, never apologised for it and was never called out for it by officials, but swearing is where F1 draws the line. Swearing has got more backlash from officials than the use of a slur. Cool, cool, cool...