She Looks At Me With

my dad likes to call the stretches of time where you’re not creating “dreaming periods” and says that they’re meant to allow you to absorb all of the beauty, life, and inspiration from the things around you so that when you’re able to create again, you will have fanned your spark back into a flame. sometimes its hard to see those moments as anything but stagnation, but he always says that they’re natural and healthy and needed—things that should be embraced rather than feared.

As someone who watched Preath unfold over YEARS, you have to be delusional to think Paige and Azzi aren't together 😂 What more do they have to do

long train rides with the one you love (for @supercorpzine)

ONCE AGAIN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN KATIE MCGRATH IS THE TOP FEMALE TUMBLR CELEBRITY LETS HEAR IT FOR THE QUEEN

Thank you Vlatko for personally making sure that anyone with Jill Ellis trauma is now once again freaking out for no reason.

I've seen a lot of discussion around Tobin and which team she might end up in and let me share my opinion on it.

First off, none of us know what Tobin wants so any discussion around why a specific team did not happen should take that into account. Maybe she did not want it as well.

Secondly, she is nearing the end of her career and she might have dreams that none of us considered. Maybe that is playing with Arsenal maybe that is playing in CL again and maybe it is as simple as wanting to give FAWSL another go. I don't know about everyone but the pandemic really changed my views on how I viewed my future so it could be the case for her as well especially after an almost career ending injury.

Thirdly, for those focused on the couple I think they can both realize their dreams in the next couple of years whatever those dreams might be and that is good they have a whole lifetime together after that.

Lastly, I will repeat we don't know what Tobin really wants. Does she really want San Diego or Europe? It is impossible to say so no need to get frustrated about the developments maybe they are working out just as she wanted.

I lost my best friend 3 years ago- not lost as in dead but lost as in we only text each other on our birthdays now. Movies and books don't tell you that a friendship dying is like the sinking of a ship, you try to get higher and higher and hold onto the rails and unanswered texts, the captain tries to steer it to safety and salvage pieces of two broken hearts until you're left with memories of what once was. We were friends for a decade and knew each other's diaries by heart, I still remember her phone number and the way she took her coffee. Seeing her in streets is like breathing in a scent you forgot you knew but it immediately takes you back to a summer in '07.

Movies and books also don't tell you that friendships don't just end after one fight or incident, it's like the rusting of a bridge, the slow decay of flesh and bones and secrets. It took weeks, months- until one day I woke up and I realized I hadn't thought of her in a while. And I wrote a poem that day and I titled it 'The dying of a best friend' and I put all my love for her in a tiny box with my half of the matching pendant of a dolphin we had and stored them in a corner of my heart under the heading Grief. Where else can one hide unspent love?

It's been 3 years since I lost my best friend, lost as in I still carry our secrets in a tiny box but we only text each other on our birthdays.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

I just want to say that it has been an honor and a privilege to have had this generation be the generation of USWNT players that “raised” me. ❤️