Deep tennis thoughts
Aug. 28th, 2008 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
louiseluxFor your listening pleasure: my deep tennis thoughts (download from Box, 3.3mb mp3)
I wanted to write a post about why I am so obsessed with tennis these days, but it seemed too dauting and would be lengthy and complicated and I have a bad head, so I put it in a voice post instead. MP3. Whatever. But oh look, I'm going to write about it anyway.
I think one of the reasons I'm drawn to this fandom is that, to me, Roger and Rafa inhabit a world that is as fantastical and strange as anything: professional sports. They are very different people: Roger Federer is super nice, enjoys shopping for designer outfits, owning jets and has one of the most successful tennis careers ever. Rafa Nadal is a simple boy who still lives with his parents, likes fishing, movies and crushing his opponents without mercy.
They have both made each other cry, in various ways. They are excruciatingly kind and thoughtful to each other in interviews. They have dinner together. They giggle. Rafa Nadal has an apparent mancrush the size of China: Roger is one of his heroes and he's happy to say as much. Rafa is having his best ever year, Roger his worst since he became number one four years ago, and now Rafa is number one instead. Whatever they say about that, there must be some awkwardness and weirdness there.
Oh, it's all so compelling! I don't know how many stories there are to tell though. When![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emungere and I talk about (constantly) it's hard to come up with story ideas beyond 'oh look! their big gay love'. But I could probably write about that over and over again.
I wanted to write a post about why I am so obsessed with tennis these days, but it seemed too dauting and would be lengthy and complicated and I have a bad head, so I put it in a voice post instead. MP3. Whatever. But oh look, I'm going to write about it anyway.
I think one of the reasons I'm drawn to this fandom is that, to me, Roger and Rafa inhabit a world that is as fantastical and strange as anything: professional sports. They are very different people: Roger Federer is super nice, enjoys shopping for designer outfits, owning jets and has one of the most successful tennis careers ever. Rafa Nadal is a simple boy who still lives with his parents, likes fishing, movies and crushing his opponents without mercy.
They have both made each other cry, in various ways. They are excruciatingly kind and thoughtful to each other in interviews. They have dinner together. They giggle. Rafa Nadal has an apparent mancrush the size of China: Roger is one of his heroes and he's happy to say as much. Rafa is having his best ever year, Roger his worst since he became number one four years ago, and now Rafa is number one instead. Whatever they say about that, there must be some awkwardness and weirdness there.
Oh, it's all so compelling! I don't know how many stories there are to tell though. When
emungere and I talk about (constantly) it's hard to come up with story ideas beyond 'oh look! their big gay love'. But I could probably write about that over and over again.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2008-08-29 10:07 am (UTC)Thanks for your thoughts on this. Actually there are a lot of stories, you're right, and I think your perspective has helped me. It's possible there is just too much to absorb for me to see that right at the moment, and all I can think about how shiny they are. Because they are very shiny. Very. Shiny.
*gets distracted*
Um. And also, those little summings up of their personality types on the poster are interesting because they are so shallow and there is so much else going on behind them.
The friendship thing fascinates me. I think men are generally more competitive than friendly at work, or perhaps they use friendship for different things. I don't know, men are strange and different.
The doubles fic, hehehe. :D I don't know, but I do love the idea of the power dynamics between them. It's one of the things that gets me about them, as well as the strange world they exist in.