Please help me out guys- where can I buy decent football shirt dupes online? OkayJersey does not deliver to my town and we also don't have a post office.
Im looking for some retro Chelsea and Bayern shirts.
We're only a week and some change away from our first competitive game of the 26/27 season and I am worried about our CB situation.
On paper, we have 4 solid options, probably the best 4 in the league in terms of depth, talent and profile. However, Buchanan is back from an ACL, Bjorn returned from a long spell out and reinjured herself in the same game and Girma looks to be very injury prone, 18 months at Chelsea and she's picked up so many injuries not to mention the reoccurring calf worry.
Buurman seems to be the only one who's not injury prone, but she's also the youngest of the 4 and shouldn't be the only one we rely on.
Bronze, McCabe and Nusken can all cover there, but if put McCabe out there we're losing all her good qualities like crossing the ball into the box on attack. If we put Nusken there we lose her as a box to box mid. And Bronze shouldn't even be at the club, but let's not even get into that. She can't play RB anymore and with no recovery pace she shouldn't be trusted at CB either.
I really do hope the club sign another CB. This is going to be a long season and if we are to compete on all fronts, we'll need healthy and in form defenders, too. We should look to sign a left-footed centerback or potentially someone who could also cover at RB.
Without any more injuries, I would go
Hampton
McCabe
Girma
Buurman
Carpenter
Walsh
Nusken
James
Thompson
ABJ
Malard
I don't know about you, but college was the happiest time of my life. Being away from my parents, my responsibilities as an oldest daughter -- I could just study, make new friends and discover myself. Excuse me for wanting to relive that through writing College AU stories.
This isn't a vent post, because of course you can write what you want, but I think some AU's are just overhated. College-based stories are a way to write your characters as a little younger, a little messier and you could even use bits and bobs from canon to retroactively have them experience things that could've potentially influenced them as their older versions in canon. And I think that's just a fun writing exercise.
One of my readers/friends recently told me that she would hate if my next story was a college or uni AU because she hates that specifically.
If you're someone who doesn't like the AU, what are your reasons? And if you're like me, and you like it, what are some of your favourite tropes of the AU? Also, what are some other overhated AUs in your opinion.
I think there is a strong belief with WSL fans that Arsenal are favourites to win the league next season. Quite a few, myself included, think it will be an Arsenal and City title race.
With that in mind, I have to ask this to other Chelsea fans: who has the best squad of players (currently) between Arsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea?
I think it's Arsenal.
I would love to hear others' opinions.
Hello! I'm trying to figure out what's hot when writing smut so I need your recommendations please
Preferably F/F or M/F (or basically anything with a woman involved)
Please no underage or non-con as those just aren't my vibes.
I am pretty unfamiliar with most fandoms, so I would appreciate PWP fics only where I can go in fandom blind x
Thanks so much!
I am not the most knowledgeable person when it comes to the transfer market, but since we're being linked to very interesting names, I just wanted to ask this: is there no one better than Melvine Malard & Romee Leuchter available in this window?
I don't know about other players' contract situations at other clubs, but is there really no better names CWFC could be going after? After being linked with Shaw and Schroder, these other two names are extremely underwhelming.
After last season, one thing is evident -- Chelsea needs goals. Malard hasn't scored more than 9 goals in her three WSL seasons. Chelsea also doesn't have goalscoring wingers.
Are players like Pajor, Banda, Pina really outside the realms of possibility for a supposed big club like Chelsea? Our rivals Man City and Arsenal have world-class strikers and them scoring a lot of goals and killing off games is what made them finish ahead of Chelsea last season. 26/27 will be a repeat of that if we don't up our goals tally. But the names we're being linked with don't inspire a lot of confidence.
Is there really no prolific striker or right wing option in the world of football? Is this genuinely the best the club can do in this market?
My cat just broke my favourite coffee mug, the chapter I'm working on right now is a mess and I just need to read cute shit right now so I can get my mind of the iffy day I'm having.
So, what's the most romantic scene you've ever written? Or what's the most romantic things one of your characters have ever done?
Thanks for writing femslash. Thank you for writing women. Thanks for writing transwomen, ciswomen, femme, butch, stud, lipstick women.
Thanks for writing morally grey women, thanks for writing idiot women and Mary Sue's and awful, brilliant, murderous, affectionate, powerful, complex women.
Thanks for writing Black women, and Asian women. Middle Eastern women. Fat and skinny women.
Thanks for writing alien, vampire, zombie, ghostly women.
Thanks for writing lesbian and wlw relationships that are complex, romantic, emotional, real, magical, troubled and wish fulfilled.
Thank you for doing your part and writing queer women in a media landscape that rarely sees us, or acknowledges us.
Thanks to the men who write femslash. The straight girlies who write femslash. The non-binary people who write femslash. The aro aces who write the best wlw smut. Thank you to the proshippers, the dark romance writers for telling wlw stories.
Hey everyone! I'm kind of awkward and suck at social interactions irl, and I also live in a fairly small town with no way of meeting new people.
I'm looking for online friends from all over the world. It would just be really nice to chat to people, share cute pictures of cats, music and film recommendations.
So here's some info about me:
I enjoy reality TV. My favourite show is RuPaul's Drag Race and that's also my favourite thing to talk and meme about LOL.
I love The Real Housewives franchise as well as 90 Day Fiance.
My favourite artists are Lana Del Rey, Frank Ocean, Miguel, JADE, Lady Gaga
I love football (or soccer) and I support Chelsea FC.
I have left-leaning views so I would prefer to chat to people who share those views, just because I'm super passionate about social justice yada yada
If you are interested in being my online friend, please message me!
No minors and no creeps pls. I am not looking for a relationship or looking to exchange fics or anything weird. Over 18s, though preferably over 21s ONLY
So I don't have many friends and I would having someone to WhatsApp with, share memes and music with.
I like reality TV (RuPaul's Drag Race & Real Housewives). I am a lifelong Chelsea FC. I listen to Lana Del Rey, Frank Ocean, Harry Styles and 00s bangers.
HMU 🤙
Just got done with my annual Drag Race binge (seasons 1 to 18) and it's my hyper fixation again. I love (almost) all the queens, their perspectives and their talent.
So, in the grand tradition of being obsessed with RPDR and the queens, everyone please reply with a GIF or picture of your favourite Drag Race queen and I'll rate them outta 10 on how much I personally live for them, too.
It's been quite a difficult few weeks for me, as I've gone through some real life things that meant I had to take a break from writing and posting to AO3. During that time I've been pretty active in this sub because I still wanted to feel close to the world of being an AO3 author and the ups and downs that go along with being part of the larger reddit AO3 community.
And of course we see the same kinds of posts over and over again about hate bots, spam, comment discourse, stats bragging, but I wanted to celebrate the authors who don't get a lot of love.
It's such a fun hobby -- writing and posting and existing in a fandom space with other fans. Unfortunately, sometimes we don't always get what we desire from posting our fics. Whether that be in the form of getting comments or kudos or just an acknowledgment that someone out there enjoys our stories and appreciate the time and effort we've put into our stories.
I hope that your stories reach the intended audience, even if right now it might feel like you're just yelling into the void. Someone out there loves your fic, they just haven't read it yet! Or they just haven't watched the media it's inspired by. Wait until they watch that show or movie or manga or whatever it may be, and immediately hop onto AO3 to look for that one fic that's gonna be exactly what they need and want. And they're gonna love it, they're gonna tell you how much they love it and it will all be worth it in the end. And I can't wait for the day that happens for you (and for me, damn lol).
Don't get discouraged by the lack of engagement. Don't be discouraged by seeing other authors thrive with stats you wish you had. Even those with hundreds and thousands of kudos and comments wishes that they had more. The quality of your fic is not dependent on the meaningless numbers people attach to fics.
Write for you. Write because it's fun. Write because no one else is gonna write it. Never stop writing because your readers are out there and they can't wait to read your story and love it just as much as you do.
I really want to write a Stalker fic, like where A is stalking B and maybe B is the problematic one because through stalking B, A discovers some interesting and dark things about the object of their desires.
So, what are some dos and don'ts and pitfalls I should avoid in writing something like this?
Hey everyone, so I'm not on Twitter or threads, out of the loop ito transfers. What's the latest news/speculation?
Do you say Pepsi/Coca-Cola or whatever or do you just say “they drank soda”? Or do you mention that the shoes are Nike or Louboutin?
Cos in tv series and movies it's all just ads, but if you're writing a fan fic there's no need for ads, so do you keep it generic? Or do you add brand names for specificity?
Pretty self-explanatory: which signings would you love CFCW to make? Personally, I think we need two strikers and a technical midfielder. In a perfect world we sign Banda and Schroder as well as go all out and try to someone technically gifted like Patri. I know that's crazy, but if we're talking dream signings, those would be my three.
Yours?
Alright so let me preface by saying that I am by no means a good writer neither do I have any other writing capabilities other than the simple fan fics I've written over the years.
I saw two or three post over the weekend where people were asking how to get longer chapters or how to get the word count up. And my advice is, if your chapters are only a thousand words or two thousand, that's fine. Don't force yourself to write longer chapters just because you think that's what people want. If your story is good, people will read it and love it.
I've read amazing fics that have less than two thousand words per chapter, but the author was so incredibly talented and it flowed perfectly. I also have a fic that's sort of unconventionally structured and there are chapters that have 20 to 40 words and it's one of my best stories and my readers love it because it made sense for it to be shorter and punchier.
Of course you can write what you want and if you are set on writing longer chapters, go for it. But you don't have to make a certain word count for you to feel like your story is good enough or that readers will gravitate towards it more.
Anyway, that's just my random psa. As a fan fic author's fan fic author, I felt like I needed to remind y'all that it's not about the size of the chapter, but the content in it.
Please please please discourage your kids from studying law!
I graduated in 2021 and other than doing my candidate attorney stint at a local law firm, it's been crickets. I have a degree and absolutely no job prospects.
I thought I was doing something that would change mine and the people around me's lives. And I went into studying law with the best of intentions - because I care about my community, I care about the most vulnerable people im society, and I truly believed in our judicial system and the values our law has. I love South Africa and I love our Constitution and what it represents, unfortunately, studying for an LLB and obtaining it has meant nothing for me.
So please, don't let your kids study law unless you have a law firm of your own. Nepotism always works.
... because it got you so heated and riled up that you had to take care of business? And by that, yes I do mean jacking it to a fic
There's this one work, with this particular chapter, that is definitely wank-bank material. I've revisited it several times.