Feels Villeneuve

saying "i want spain/france/england/argentina to lose because they beat my team 7263837 months/years ago and mama loves to hold a grudge" is a good enough reason to not want a team to win. you don't even need that much of a reason. "rancid vibes" is good enough. "[player name] is my personal enemy" is good enough. go back to the core of being a football fan - hating for the love of the game.

dangling a freebie bank holiday carrot when the country's already on its dying breath after weeks of fuck all sleep and baked organs on the condition of doing a thing that is realistically impossible is the most evil parent move imaginable so it stands to reason evil parent.gov is right on it

dogshane and ilya being the hand that lets him bite and still feeds him

thinking about this still 10hrs later bc like. this isnt meant to be like 'ilya lets shane walk all over him' but more like this is where shane can make mistakes. this is where shane can fumble and say the wrong things and make the wrong choices and be scared and angry and sad and anything else he feels, and ilya will keep loving him. they will keep working together to make sure they figure things out. there are so few spaces in shanes life where he can genuinely Fuck Up and entirely recover from that, and ilya is maybe the only place in his life where he doesnt feel that he has to reach that unobtainable level of perfection. he can bite ilyas hand, and ilya will still feed him.

wishing all my followers unexpected good news and something that restores their faith a little