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[5thofficial]

Welcome to the sign-up post for Issue 9 of cornerflag! Since this is an Olympic summer, this will be a special international issue and the theme is:

citius altius fortius

You may interpret the theme any way you wish (feel free to be creative!), or you can ignore it altogether, but you do have to sign up for an international rather than club twosome, and

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[yeats]

portugal, slash, cristiano ronaldo/pepe.

(definitely rare -- i don't think i've ever seen this pairing written by itself before, but then again i'd never seen this happen

[nahco3]

this is going to be MADNESS; I am excited.

[yeats]

p.much! given that the second most illuminating element of last week's celebrations was "my lustful feelings for pepe" (second only to "xabi alonso, drunk superhero"), i had to do something with him.

[nahco3]

xabi alonso double-fisting it changed my life.

pepe shake that grove thang.

[cheryl_bites]

xabi alonso double fisting

GRACE!!!

[nahco3]

it's slang for a drink in each hand! not what you think!

[yeats]

although it could be...

[nahco3]

....yes it could be. but i think if i had seen that i would still be recovering emotionally.

[cheryl_bites]

*Wheezes* I was just scrolling through and the image... and and...

[5thofficial]

they're all yours, bro!

though just to clarify since I know this is your first time at this particular rodeo, you know international issue means you have to write about them on the NT, not club team, right? I mean, you're obvs welcome to reference their club team, esp since they're also teammates there, but the focus of the fic has to be them on international duty.

-m

[yeats]

thanks for the heads up, but don't worry....

[5thofficial]

cool cool cool, as my life idol Abed would say! just wanted to make sure. XD

oh, and this is random, but does Pepe have, like... more to his name that I can put up there? I wasn't sure if this is like Raul where he does actually have a last name that people use or like Kaka where if you said "dos Santos Leite" nobody would have a clue who you were talking about. but there are lots of people named Pepe, so... disambiguation would be awesome!

[yeats]

hahahaha good question! it's definitely more the latter -- his actual name is Képler Laveran Lima Ferreira, but literally the only place i've seen it used is on getty images or fifa.com stats.... probably anything but "pepe" would confuse people more than just leaving it.

(true story: in my head, the two pepes are "pepe reina" and "pepe raging bull." but i guess that's not really useful for your purposes.

[sashatwen]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

[yeats]

oh it's happening...

[sashatwen]

It so is!

(No worries. Scream of excitement there, not dread!)