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Tim is feeling good. At least, he's trying pretty hard.
(Or: the magical story of Tim Lincecum and Hector Sanchez's friendship.)
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26 Nov 2025
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Before you get to the future, you gotta relive the past.
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25 Nov 2025
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You're not cheating until you get caught.
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One of the players involved in a gay sex scandal is a five-tool player having a breakout year. The other is Chris Stewart.
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Just a (Brave) Scout by AlacrityAbound
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
09 Oct 2025
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The Battle of Tyger Pax made Bumblebee (in)famous. Everyone knew the story: Optimus Prime's personal scout endured torture at the hands of Megatron and paid the price.
But the story didn't start that way. B-127 was part of Special Operations, specializing in infiltration and sabotage. He was part of the Autobots' misinformation campaign, drawing attention away from Tyger Pax. He was never supposed to know about the Allspark. He was never supposed to be at Tyger Pax.
Above all else, Bumblebee was never supposed to be Optimus Prime's scout.
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- Part 6 of Autobot Scout Z-B7: Bumblebee
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13 Oct 2025
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Jannik Sinner is a beta. But, with his height, he could've been an alpha. There's strength in him, and sometimes, when he scores a good point, when Carlos knows Jannik feels in control, he'll shake the racket in his hand – as close to a celebration as he will usually allow himself to give –, and his eyes will look just dark enough. Threatening. Dominating.
Carlos doesn't let himself think about the other possibility. About the wide hips and the legs that go on for fucking miles, and the shyness and the awkwardness in interviews and the hard-won smiles. Because if Jannik were an omega – well, that would be a dangerous thought, wouldn't it?
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18 Sep 2025
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“Can you not stretch my t-shirt?”
Carlos’ response is muffled from where he’s stretching out Jannik’s t-shirt.
“I’m not.”
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08 Sep 2025
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What had begun as an idle observation among the tour players had transformed with time into an unspoken rule, and then a spoken rule, then a generally incontrovertible fact.
It didn’t start out as an active decision, for Jannik. At first, of course, he wasn’t playing in any finals. Sure, he won a few matches, but the sixth set isn’t for winners. It’s for tournament winners. Champions. And their runners up.Later, when he won, he declined. When he lost, he was declined. No one desired him in that way. Long and lanky. Too quiet. Too cold. Too alien. An outlier. By the time that changed, helped along by a grand slam title and a gucci sponsorship, it was too late.
By that time, Jannik was untouchable.
Poised and professional, pious in his dedication to the game. Aloof, ascendant, and apparently all too alluring as a result.The fact remains. Jannik Sinner doesn't play the sixth set. Because he doesn’t lose.
Of course, there’s one exception.Bookmarked by Cloud4
08 Sep 2025
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the one where carlos gets a boyfriend and jannik is so normal about it by alacant
Fandoms: Tennis RPF
11 Jan 2025
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chatfic where carlos gets a boyfriend and jannik is so normal about it, feat. a ski trip to the italian alps, juan carlos ferrero out for blood, and matteo berrettini's early-30s queer awakening.
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22 Jun 2025
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hardcourtspecialist
AFTER MONTE-CARLO 2026????hardcourtspecialist reblogged hardcourtspecialist
AFTER AO 2027???????????????????
#ARE WE IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE
29 notesjakubmensiksbackhand
Who among us hasn’t once tried to decapitate our future coach with a second serve?
#wimbledon 2027 what a time
17 notes[Just a few weeks before the 2029 season, Holger Rune shocks the tennis world by announcing a new head coach: recently-retired Jannik Sinner.]
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17 Jun 2025
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"But yeah, you and Jannik. That's surprising. I wouldn't have thought you had a lot in common. What do you two even talk about?"
"Oh, well, you know." Carlos gestures vaguely, fumbling for the words. "We don't really talk— Sometimes we practice together. Or we used to. Not so much lately. But we, uh, sometimes we just talk. About life."
Roger's eyebrows go up. He glances at Novak with what's probably supposed to be a meaningful look: are you seeing what I'm seeing? Novak can't even summon the energy to remind Roger that one of them has actually been around, and therefore might know a little more about what's up with what on tour these days. Not that it takes a lot of effort to see that Carlos and Jannik are equally obsessed with one another. Jannik doesn't like to advertise it, but Carlos has always worn his heart on his sleeve. Novak thinks there are probably subterranean species of fungus that have picked up what Carlos is putting down when it comes to his rival.
That said, Carlos clearly didn't expect to be grilled on his little crush by Roger Federer of all people.
After the Shanghai final.
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14 Jun 2025
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"Andy loves watching you play, you know. I was telling him, I gotta get to another final against Carlos just so he'll watch my matches again."
"I'm sure he does."
"Are you?" Novak gives him a little smile. "You watch all of Sinner's finals, after you lose to him?"
The day after the gold medal match, Carlos and Novak have an unexpected conversation about tennis, rivalry, and the ways people cope with heartbreak.
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14 Jun 2025
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They sit there for a while without talking.
It’s strange, the absolute silence.
They’ve never drifted, they will never drift.- Language:
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12 Jun 2025
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Jannik’s not sure how they ended up here. Five minutes ago, he’d been coming back from the awkward post-victory photoshoot in the Center Court lounge, stopping by the deserted cafeteria for a coffee and to massage his aching quads. He hadn’t expected anyone else to join him except maybe Darren and Simone, though they’d said their goodbyes already. If anyone, it certainly would not have been Ben Shelton, who by all logic should have skipped town after Jannik avenged his Shanghai loss.
But here they are. And what’s he supposed to say—no?
Schlutzkrapfen, sambuca, and the seventeen hours between Vienna and Paris.
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10 Jun 2025
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Five percent. Nothing, really. But when you’re teetotal, when two fingers of anything knock you loose, five percent feels like free fall. Like forgetting—until it isn’t. Until thoughts shove back in. Loud. Too loud.
"Do you like it?" Jack’s voice is close. Too close.
Or Jack and Jannik get drunk in London.
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10 Jun 2025
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The CAS bans Jannik Sinner for two years. He does not come back.
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The first person who calls him after the news breaks isn't Mark or Matteo or Jack or—don't think about him—anybody else he might have suspected of harboring feelings of friendship and protectiveness towards him still.
The first call that lights up his phone when he drops his bags in his dark, silent living room—is Anna.
Jannik finds his way back, with a little help from the people who love him.
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09 Jun 2025
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Tears pricked his eyes as he realized just how foolish he was. The face on the screens, the one he didn’t recognize, burned at the back of his mind. Who would give a shit about that scrap-metal boy from District Six? He was not the District One golden boy, Roger Federer, born with a face worth more than a diamond mine and showered with so many sponsor gifts during his Games that the Gamemakers had to impose a daily limit. He was not Novak Djokovic, forged, sharpened, and steeled in the training academies of District Two, the crown fitted for his head before the canon of his first kill. He was not even in the league of last year’s victor, Iga Świątek, who disguised her genius with nervous, flittering smiles, as dangerous and unassuming as a live wire.
Who was he compared to Carlos Alcaraz, wunderkind? Nobody. He, Jannik Sinner, was going to die.
[Jannik Sinner, before and after The 71st Hunger Games.]
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- Part 1 of addendums to a pyrrhic victory
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09 Jun 2025
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"I know what a breakup looks like," Daniel says. "The better question is, why are you coming to me about it? I'm the one who broke up your little sham."
"This is what humans do, don't they?" Armand asks, letting his voice drop. "Crashing on their friends' couches when there's a blip in their romances?"
"Except we're not friends. We're actually very much not friends." Daniel shrugs, as if it's all the same to him. "And I can't imagine the great vampire Armand deigning himself to sleep on my fucked-up sofa. That thing's been here since the nineties."
"Well," Armand only says. "I saw you have a guest bedroom."
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09 Jun 2025