meretricula | I'm a sheep

I'm glad you liked it! (hee, my personal headcanon is that Silva is just... kind of a sneakily competitive asshole about everything, no further background required, but I'm also not much into Silva/Villa. XD)

oh man, I totally forgot that interview! XD I was just basing it off the difference between "punctual" in England and "punctual" in Spain. which is, ummm. significant. and kind of annoying if you're not used to continental european time, haha.

I think he's also innately cutthroat in a way that Adam just isn't, and that sometimes makes it hard for him to understand this whole "love" thing. (but it makes him a better footballer! you know how Mancini is all "I am hard on Adam because I am trying to teach him something"? Silva didn't need lessons. Silva already knew.

just butting in to say, yes, yes, exactly this - I may or may not have spent some (too much) time writing little scenes in my head where Adam complains about what Mancini's said and Silva just doesn't get it and like just stares at him and says he's right and Adam gets mad and Silva like doesn't get that either, and then they fight about it, well Adam does and Silva just sort of blanks him out completely, right okay shutting up now and slinking away...

YESSSS. And Adam is sort of a bit disturbed by how freakishly similar Silva is to Mancini in many respects. And it sort of upsets him how hard Silva is on himself all the time. Cause Silva's brilliant, obviously, and he beats himself up for the stupidest little things. Adam knows he should be just as hard on himself, should always be striving and driving and aspiring, but sometimes...sometimes he just wants to play FIFA and work his way through a 6-pack of Stella. Sometimes he just prefers sulking and moping to actually doing something about the criticism.

IDK. Maybe.

Adam knows he should be just as hard on himself, should always be striving and driving and aspiring, but sometimes...sometimes he just wants to play FIFA and work his way through a 6-pack of Stella.

this is actually why I think they go well together, because could you imagine the horror if Silva was involved with someone just like him, good lord...

...Silva needs some fun in his life, you know?

I think it's interesting the way that, of all his teammates at City, he seems most drawn to Adam, Joe et al all of whom enjoy a good time (if you know what I mean!). It's not really what I would have guessed would happen when he transferred, you know? But I like it, he always seems to be having so much fun with them. It's nice.

Sometimes he just prefers sulking and moping to actually doing something about the criticism.

and this is why, sometimes, I think they'd be doomed to failure (or at least some really vicious fights where Silva tells Adam things Adam really, really doesn't want to hear, especially not from his boyfriend) because Silva sulks (I will never be convinced he doesn't) but he's always, always trying to improve. And I'm not sure how much he would put up with someone who wasn't prepared to do that but hey, what do I know?

doomed to failure

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO never!!!!! :)

I think it's interesting the way that, of all his teammates at City, he seems most drawn to Adam, Joe et al all of whom enjoy a good time

I know! I think to start with he was probably sort of intrigued by them...like, who are these strange boys who goof around and randomly break into song and treat football, aka their jobs, their lives as something other than deathly serious. And then somewhere along the way he realised that actually, that's a pretty fun way to go about living your life, even if he can't quite shake the feeling that football is the most important thing ever.

In my head, they sulk in different ways...Silva sulks at himself, gets angry at himself. And Adam sulks at other people, blames other people (mainly Roberto Mancini and Stewart Downing and yes, on occasion, Silva) for his many and various woes. And maybe that has to do with his age and lack of experience and the fact that for quite a few years now he's been hearing about how he's the next big thing and he's a star and a prodigy and he's just getting a bit impatient waiting for all these predictions to come to pass.

It's weird...I sort of think the person who's most like Silva at City (other than Mancini, obvs) is maybe Milner. Except Milner's smile is a little less ready and he seems to be completely and utterly impervious to the cold. But he's another one, I think, who just cannot actually comprehend anything but a ruthless, cutthroat, life or death attitude to football.

/conjecture and bullshitting

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO never!!!!! :)

i take it back, i take it back! failure is not an option...

And then somewhere along the way he realised that actually, that's a pretty fun way to go about living your life, even if he can't quite shake the feeling that football is the most important thing ever.

exactly! though, obviously, football is still the most important thing ever but maybe a little fun is okay too...

Silva sulks at himself, gets angry at himself. And Adam sulks at other people, blames other people (mainly Roberto Mancini and Stewart Downing and yes, on occasion, Silva) for his many and various woes.

on this you and I agree and I really think Adam has to get over that before he can become a really great player

It's weird...I sort of think the person who's most like Silva at City (other than Mancini, obvs) is maybe Milner. Except Milner's smile is a little less ready and he seems to be completely and utterly impervious to the cold. But he's another one, I think, who just cannot actually comprehend anything but a ruthless, cutthroat, life or death attitude to football.

YES! Milner=totally professional, totally focused at all times on football. Did you read this? He is one driven guy. And in the #askjames thing he's all like I wouldn't even have a glass of champagne if we won the title. He kind of makes Silva look relaxed about football...

...and now I'm back to wanting read Silva/Milner.

...and now I'm back to wanting read Silva/Milner.

Yep. Especially after watching them deep in conversation on the trusty Tunnel Cam this weekend...even if the conversation did seem to revolve around how Gael's a scruffy so-and-so who doesn't tuck his shirt in properly or something.

Man, one day I'll polish this '5 times' piece I started literally months ago at the height of my Adam Johnson rage. A rage which continues to simmer but abated somewhat with all the contract-signing and goal-scoring and wonderful interviews etc.

Yep. Especially after watching them deep in conversation on the trusty Tunnel Cam this weekend...even if the conversation did seem to revolve around how Gael's a scruffy so-and-so who doesn't tuck his shirt in properly or something.

it made me giggle, they just looked so serious about it, and then Silva went and actually fixed Gael's shirt, too cute!

Man, one day I'll polish this '5 times' piece I started literally months ago

i'm just, you know, going to wait quietly and patiently for that day...

Also like, all true. The sushi, and the cooking impairments, are well-documented facts. And you know that the only time any cleaning or actual cooking gets done is when Javi's mother comes to visit and whips his house into some semblance of order. (I suspect she pretends not to know about the real reason Iker's stuff is everywhere. There's just some things that a good Catholic mother doesn't want to think about.)

When you say Ander and Amore "try to remind Iker", you mean that they occasionally like to give him panic attacks by making up random anniversaries, right? Because that is totally something they would do.

P.S.: Javi, you'd probably be less cold if you would put on some goddamn clothes. Just saying. (Although I suppose Iker wouldn't really approve of that solution...)

(Also I shall endeavor to better stalk Neka and Irune for you. But the t-shirts omg. I just can't with those girls.)

Everything about this is amazing, but SO MUCH LOVE for the last answer. Oh, boys ;___;

Haha, I was mostly being a troll with the OT3 (mostly ;D), and Ferrer/Ferrero, eee, so cute!

Juanqui likes to watch golf, too. Ferru secretly thinks that this is the most boring sport imaginable.
FERRU IS RIGHT.

haha, I almost said "any fandom I've ever been in, even Prince of Tennis!" but then I thought that would sound like fishing. :P

who is the big spoon/little spoon
They mostly stay on their own sides of the bed while they're awake--Kaidoh gives off heat like a mini-furnace and it gets uncomfortably hot really fast. But he's also an unconscious cuddler, so Inui wakes up a lot of the time in the middle of the night with Kaidoh pressed up against his back and wrapped all around him. Sometimes he untangles himself and goes back to sleep. Sometimes he kicks off the blanket and just deals with the overheating.

what is their favorite non-sexual activity
Long, long runs. It's the only activity they're guaranteed to be alone together for the whole time. Nobody else can keep up.

who uses all the hot water in the morning
Kaidoh Kaoru, secret hedonist. Everyone assumes he bathes in ice water, and Inui never disabuses them, but he always makes sure he gets in the shower first.

what they order from take out
They don't. Kaidoh is suspicious of secret ingredients and chemical additives after all the Inui juice, so he cooks. Inui is banned from entering the kitchen.

what is the most trivial thing they fight over
Kaidoh wants a puppy. Inui thinks that maybe they should start with a pet that comes with a slightly lower degree of responsibility, like a kitten.

who does most of the cleaning
Kaidoh. Left to his own devices, Inui would probably accidentally wall himself into his room with his own clutter and starve to death.

what has a season pass in their DVR
Cuddly animal specials on the Nature Channel for Kaidoh, science shows for Inui. And the Tennis Channel, for "research", by which they both mean ogling Rafael Nadal's ass.

who controls the netflix queue
Kaidoh. Inui lost his netflix privileges after he ordered a horror movie one time and lied about it being scary. (He was hoping for frightened cuddles, and getting the wrong end of a nightmare-induced flailing fit instead was probably punishment enough, but Kaidoh wasn't going to risk it.)

who calls up the super/landlord when the heat’s not working
Kaidoh. He's the more immediately intimidating of the two of them; when Kaidoh calls up, things tend to get taken care of faster. It's only people who stick around that realize Kaidoh is actually a marshmallow and Inui is really terrifying.

who steals the blankets
Kaidoh, if he's having a particularly restless night. And then he kicks them off the bed because he's too hot.

who leaves their stuff around
Inui takes "absent-minded genius" to an entirely new level.

who remembers to buy the milk
Kaidoh. He does all the grocery shopping. He doesn't trust Inui around food at any stage of the preparation.

who remembers anniversaries
Inui programs the dates into his computer and phone, and Kaidoh puts them on the physical calendar in the kitchen, so neither of them forgets. They have two anniversaries currently, the first time they went out together and the first time they played doubles. Inui's going to ask Kaidoh to marry him when he graduates from college, and then they'll have three.

random belated interjection, but given who he used to pal around with at Valencia (Raul Albiol, Alexis Ruano) I'd say Silva's always had a type. and that type was doofus goofballs. XD

this is definitely true, I was more thinking about the fact that Adam, Joe etc have all gotten into a bit of trouble (mostly with Mancini, (though not exclusively) because of this (well mostly because of drinking) and Silva might like fun but is still really really serious about football and so avoids trouble like that (and is, you know, basically his manager's pet player) but yeah, Silva certainly does seem to have a soft spot for goofballs

PIQUIRA!

who is the big spoon/little spoon
Predictably, Pique is the big spoon. He's a fantastic cuddler. Just bundles her up and snuggles in. The only downside is that given his, ahem, excitable nature, this leads to a lot of... well. Let's say Shakira gets poked awake in the middle of the night from time to time. But she doesn't need as much sleep as he does anyway, so usually she just takes that as an offer to get things started before he's fully conscious. Boners whenever you want them are half the fun of having a toyboy!

what is their favorite non-sexual activity
...does making out without actually having sex afterward count? Okay, okay. They both really like shopping and the beach. Gerard is including both of these facts in his formal presentation on why Shakira should officially live in Barcelona. There's tons of shops! And beaches! (And he lives there! Just, you know, a reminder.)

who uses all the hot water in the morning
Pique. It is absolutely ridiculous how much time he spends in the bathroom getting ready, and he won't even let Shakira come in until he's done putting himself together. She's pretty sure he's trying to maintain the illusion that he's naturally smooth in certain areas, which is obviously ridiculous. He's watched her shave her legs before and she has been up close and personal with his genitalia many, many times, so why he needs total privacy to shave his balls is beyond her.

what they order from take out
Pique's diet is a lot stricter than Shakira's, so she usually lets him get whatever kind of food he wants; she's not picky. They both like to eat out in nice restaurants when they can, and he's trying to teach her some really basic Catalan cooking, but neither of them is very good at it.

what is the most trivial thing they fight over
Shakira teases Pique sometimes about being a kept man. This usually ends in a tickle war and him carrying her off to bed to "earn his keep".

who does most of the cleaning
Pique. He still doesn't clean a lot, but it's his house and he likes to keep it reasonably neat in case his mother comes by. He would never, ever ask his girlfriend to clean up after him; if his mom ever found out she'd kill him. He won't even let Shakira wash dishes.

what has a season pass in their DVR
Football. Stereotypes aside, Shakira really does like snuggling on the couch and letting Geri explain what's happening to her. He watches her Colombian telenovelas with her, too, even though he can never follow what's going on, even when she tries to catch him up. Moral of the story: telenovelas are way more complicated than the offside rule.

who controls the netflix queue
Pique. His house, his DVDs. He mostly watches action films with his friends while she's gone; if she's home, they've got better things to do with their evenings than watch a movie.

who calls up the super/landlord when the heat’s not working
Pique. Again, it's his house. If it were Shakira's she would take care of the maintenance, but when she's staying at Geri's he wants to make sure she's comfortable and doesn't have to lift a finger, and she doesn't exactly mind.

who steals the blankets
Pique is about twice Shakira's size, so he takes up more blanket than she does, but he's pretty much a human blanket himself, and he doesn't move once he's asleep.

who leaves their stuff around
It's pretty much even, but they're both so used to packing and unpacking all the time that nothing really gets misplaced. Pique kind of wishes Shakira would leave more stuff lying around his house, to be honest. It feels weirdly empty when she's on tour.

who remembers to buy the milk
Pique. His mother's training on the subject of not making his girlfriends keep house for him extends to grocery shopping.

who remembers anniversaries
Pique. It's only his second really serious relationship, and it's still all shiny and new and he's scared he's going to fuck it up somehow, so he's careful to do all the things like anniversaries right. Shakira thinks it's cute, but she's not really hung up on details the way he seems to think she is. She just wants to spend as much time with him as she can.

It's so funny that he is a model professional at City, because in his last couple of seasons with Valencia there were a lot of rumors around that he spent a lot of time in the bars with Alexis and a few of the other party guys, sometimes staying out really late before training. I don't know if the rumors are true because the media in Valencia was pretty protective of their players.

oh really? interesting.

I'll confess that I only really paid attention to him as a player (in the sense that I admired him as a player but didn't really pay any attention to his personal life etc) until he came to City.

And they (meaning the british press and the club to a certain extent) really do try to emphasize that he's a model professional, I remember reading an article towards the beginning of last season (I wish I had bookmarked it!) about City's youth set up where the guy in charge basically said something to the effect that he told them to be like Silva in their approach because he was so professional, didn't go out and party/drink/etc (the strong implication in the article being - be like Silva not like Joe/Adam/etc - the article was written around the time they all went to Scotland and got really trashed with a bunch of students - and got caught on video).

I...don't know how I feel about these pictures...makes me feel a bit voyeuristic etc. BUT, moral qualms aside, my image of deadly serious super professional Silva is utterly, utterly destroyed.

I am SO INTRIGUED about all these veiled references to fancy dress designers visiting Carrington. I suspect someone will be going as Super Mario. I just...I can't...

/babbling

looking at those pictures made me want to squirm a bit (like where did they come from? how did they make it onto the wider internet?)

I don't think it should be destroyed. I really do think Silva takes football very, very seriously. But, um, it's possible he also takes fun very, very seriously. (and also, apparently wrestling--wrestling while drunk....).

I know, what is up with the costumes? Inquiring minds want to know...

...what. the fuck. are these pictures.

HAVE LOST THE ABILITY TO CAN.

I know. Really, really uncomfortable... I think there may be some seriously in-depth Facebook stalking involved, which just makes me embarrassed for fandom in general. And then I feel like a hypocrite, because obviously I looked at them...

Based on the Fashion Kicks no-show, I will be very surprised if Silva gets dressed up too outlandishly (unless someone plies him with tequila or something...look on it as a public service, Joe Hart...)... city TV are teasing us most cruelly lately!

I KNOW. I am feeling a weird cocktail of embarrassment, shame, arousal, and hysteria. Mainly CRINGE though. Dear God. Sometimes I wish the internet had never been invented.

yeah, uncomfortable and vaguely embarrassed but I cannot look away (fandom, oh, fandom, what have you done to me, God...)

unless someone plies him with tequila or something...look on it as a public service, Joe Hart...)

that is pretty much the only way I imagine Silva getting dressed up in something crazy. someone should send Joe Hart tequila, or, um, something like that, ahem....

I'm guessing it's for the Christmas party. Didn't they do fancy dress for last years? (I can't tell you how long it took to realize fancy dress meant costumes.) I remember the players in bright clothes with big dots. I can't remember what the theme was.

I didn't really know about it but I am part of an online Valencia group and when his sale came around some of them weren't that sad to see him go. Some were based in Valencia and they had seen him out in bars til 4 or 5 am supposedly. IF it was true, whenever I watched Valencia I didn't think it had any effect on his playing, but to each their own I guess. And I thought that whole thing was weird to me. Wasn't it during a break or some sort. Like they had a couple of days before they had to report to England training? I can't remember for sure.

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THIS IS FLAWLESS. <3

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