odds and ends

[meretricula]

I did make a post about Barça Femenino over at _fcbarcelona_, if anyone would like to check it out! I want to get some more stuff translated and find more pictures before I post to my journal, though.

I don't think I ever mentioned that I was reccing Barça fic for crack_van last month, did I? well, anyway, those recs are up too under the rpf: professional athlete tag if you want to take a look. I don't think there's anything in there that I haven't recced in some capacity before, but still. (just, um, ignore any recs in that tag that aren't by me. or don't, feel free to check them out! but they're not my endorsements, so I take zero responsibility for them.)

still thinking about creating a vids section to the football rec post. I don't know. there's not that many half-decent vids out there, and I have most of them saved to my computer, so it wouldn't be hard, it's just that I can't be objective and I'm not sure if that matters. I'll read fic about people I don't know; I'll read fic about people I hate. I really can't watch vids of them. (and I will watch really terrible vids of people I love. case in point: you have no idea how many times I have watched that.)

speaking of things I hate: look, as a general rule I don't hate teams. for the most part I try not to care about teams other than my own one way or the other. I'll root for the underdog against Bayern Munich or Manchester United (and when they drop points my teams are safer, so there's that too), but I don't hate them. there are players that I like on both teams. and yes, I sure as hell hate Madrid, but not because they're Barcelona's rival and cules are supposed to blindly despise them; I hate them because they stepped on Leo and shoved Puyi in the face and tried to break Cesc's leg and point-blank accused Pep of cheating to win the Champions League and have never been the least bit sorry for any of it. (and their president is an idiot, but you can't really hold that against anyone.) but it really has reached the point where I hate Liverpool. I hate them, I hope they lose every game they play, and unless they ship Luis Suarez out to Russia I will never respect them again. I would rather they lose to Manchester United than win.

I know some of you guys are Liverpool fans, and I do get that. if you can look past the bad stuff and still love the good stuff, that's your prerogative; everybody does that to some extent or another with their team. yes, Lucas Leiva is adorable. the academy kids are cute. Steven Gerrard's life is a beautiful tragedy. but none of that will ever make up for the utter bullshit that has come out of that club this season to me, so I'm sorry, but I hope they never win again.

Comments

[mardia.livejournal.com]

I thought about whether I should respond to this, because at the end of the day, it's your journal, you have a right to post whatever you want and feel however you want about a club that isn't your own. God knows all of us have our own feelings on clubs that aren't our own, and I'm not, like, trying to deny the validity of how you feel or whatever. You have every right to your opinion, and it's an opinion that probably the majority of football fans share.

But speaking, personally, as someone who has felt really fucking shitty about what LFC have done this year, as someone who has worked very hard not to seem like she's justifying/excusing any of it, and as someone who just woke up to their club having a completely demoralizing loss just a few hours ago, and as someone who usually really looks forward to your posts on my flist, this post made me feel pretty fucking terrible all over again, and I'm not quite sure why you had to post it right this second, if that makes sense. Coming right on the heels of THIS particular loss, and I do accept that I'm pretty oversensitive at the moment, but it feels a little vindictive, and like you're trying to pour salt into the wound.

[the-beanster.livejournal.com]

Ugh, the Luis Suarez thing wasn't handled well by Liverpool at all. I mean, I have no dog in this race, so don't really care about winning or losing (I don't really care for the premiere league - I only care for Man City and that's only bc I adore Silva and Aguero lol). But looking at them not in the context of team but just as people, I don't like it. I mean, I know that if one of the Barça boys did something like that, I would hold onto the mentality of innocent until proven guilty, but I would hope that if he was guilty, that he wouldn't do anything else that was stupid and hurtful.

But at the same time, I can't say anything about the rest of the team. I get why the initially were on Suarez's side - I would expect teammates to have each other's backs - but I'm not sure how they're acting now (since I don't really follow british teams). Are they still supporting him? Even after the handshake incident? Bc then, my respect would go out the window. But I honestly can't say guilty by association bc I enjoy watching several Madrid players play, even when they're playing for Real (lol my first jersey ever was a Brazil Kaka one), so I can't act all high and mighty and say I'll turn my back on them just bc I can't stand most of the team, you know?