May, I love this! All of it. I wish I could write individual comments for each piece, but this was just a delight to read. And the art! I'm already a fan dotdot, but now I love Becks' work as well.
I'll just leave one specific comment . . . @Tom Jones - this was really well-done. I am completely NOT you (I am a cishet female, probably a good deal older), and one thing that I love about following tennis is that the fandom is very inclusive of all genders. I say that as an American, a huge baseball fan, and I spent most of my younger life trying to get people to realize that I knew what I was talking about. But I really resonated with your commentary about Kyrgios - I still can't stop thinking about his "soft" comment. Reaction when I've told others (non-tennis fans) about it - "yeah, that's exactly what a bully would say". One thought about his locker room comment - I wonder if it's actually true that he's so "popular" (I mean, is he in high school?) or does no one want to stand up to him. But the entire way he is promoted completely makes me crazy - even if you don't know about the off-court stuff, he is such an enormous bully on court that I find him painful to watch.
May, I had communicated with you last year on Twitter about my feelings about NK, and how I sold my tickets for the last few days of the Citi Open because of him. I am getting all worked up thinking about it again anyway, so I'll stop here :)
I am Patricia (2nd-to-last piece), completely in admiration of all of the contributors here, with their gifts of beautiful writing and art. I am going to have to search out some substacks!!
May, I love this! All of it. I wish I could write individual comments for each piece, but this was just a delight to read. And the art! I'm already a fan dotdot, but now I love Becks' work as well.
I'll just leave one specific comment . . . @Tom Jones - this was really well-done. I am completely NOT you (I am a cishet female, probably a good deal older), and one thing that I love about following tennis is that the fandom is very inclusive of all genders. I say that as an American, a huge baseball fan, and I spent most of my younger life trying to get people to realize that I knew what I was talking about. But I really resonated with your commentary about Kyrgios - I still can't stop thinking about his "soft" comment. Reaction when I've told others (non-tennis fans) about it - "yeah, that's exactly what a bully would say". One thought about his locker room comment - I wonder if it's actually true that he's so "popular" (I mean, is he in high school?) or does no one want to stand up to him. But the entire way he is promoted completely makes me crazy - even if you don't know about the off-court stuff, he is such an enormous bully on court that I find him painful to watch.
May, I had communicated with you last year on Twitter about my feelings about NK, and how I sold my tickets for the last few days of the Citi Open because of him. I am getting all worked up thinking about it again anyway, so I'll stop here :)
I am Patricia (2nd-to-last piece), completely in admiration of all of the contributors here, with their gifts of beautiful writing and art. I am going to have to search out some substacks!!
I am so so glad you enjoyed and I adored your contribution! Thank you so much for contributing to this project and for supporting it and me <3
Fucking ugly dyke retard, you look like you have DOWN'S. They should sterilize mongs like you so you don't pollute the gene pool. "Pick me"-ass bitch.
Good work! Just a nit: 2nd para 2nd line: people...WHO, not people...THAT - my longer note keeps getting lost when I move to check on something!