I'm a sheep

[meretricula]

oblig tennis comment: YAYYYYY RAFA ILU FOREVER and NOOOOOO FERRU BITCH YOU BETTER NOT RETIRE I'M NOT DONE WITH LOVING YOU

ganked from various but originally willowcabin

Comment with a pairing and I will tell you:

who is the big spoon/little spoon
what is their favorite non-sexual activity
who uses all the hot water in the morning
what they order from take out
what is the most trivial thing they fight over
who does most of the cleaning
what has a season pass in their DVR
who controls the netflix queue
who calls up the super/landlord when the heat’s not working
who steals the blankets
who leaves their stuff around
who remembers to buy the milk
who remembers anniversaries

any pairing from any fandom I've been in, however long ago!

Comments

[justkisa.livejournal.com]

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?

[ladytelemachus.livejournal.com]

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

[justkisa.livejournal.com]

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.

[ladytelemachus.livejournal.com]

...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.

[justkisa.livejournal.com]

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...

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

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

[justkisa.livejournal.com]

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

[krisseems.livejournal.com]

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.

[justkisa.livejournal.com]

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).

[krisseems.livejournal.com]

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.

[justkisa.livejournal.com]

huh, wow, it's certainly not something I'd ever heard before (though, like I said, I wasn't really paying attention!). And I never would have guessed watching him play, though, admittedly, I only ever watched him play every once and a while when he played for Valencia.

I do think the thing with Joe/Adam/Barry (and maybe Shay Given?) last year was on a break and I believe it became a big deal because a) they got caught on video and b) Mancini made a really big deal about it - I'd have to look back at the articles from that time to be sure though

[ladytelemachus.livejournal.com]

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

[justkisa.livejournal.com]

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...

[ladytelemachus.livejournal.com]

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!

[justkisa.livejournal.com]

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....

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

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

HAVE LOST THE ABILITY TO CAN.

[ladytelemachus.livejournal.com]

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.

[krisseems.livejournal.com]

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.