brooke

im gonna make so many oddly sad but happy edits when paige plays her first wnba game
LIKE im so happy for her, but i miss my uconn people

6 hours ago | [YT] | 2

brooke

arike and paige are gonna go insane trust
BECAUSE arike is gonna be able to take a step back when it comes to the offence because paige can pick up and get those shots when needed. and they’ll both be a force on defense

7 hours ago | [YT] | 2

brooke

i love making new friends
i swear it’s such an amazing feeling

3 days ago | [YT] | 1

brooke

i fear we’re THE uconn editors of yt
‪@f1lmsbycams.‬

5 days ago | [YT] | 2

brooke

matt sturniolo you are in your prime
(he never left his prime)

5 days ago | [YT] | 1

brooke

‪@f1lmsbycams.‬ WAIT do u wanna be friends?? (im in desperate need of paige/wbb moots)
ur so talented and like idkkkk

5 days ago | [YT] | 1

brooke

GUYS IM TWEAKING
i posted an edit of one of my fav basketball players and her gf on tiktok
AND HER GF (her name is jane, she is the cutest dude) LIKED IT AND THEN HER AND AUBREY POSTED A VIDEO TGHR WHICH MEANS SHE PROBABLY SHOWED AUBREY MY EDIT.
im fan girling

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 1

brooke

here’s my really long/corny yap abt UConn and paige 😔💔

as you probably know, when i find new things to obsess over or i get re-interested in something I used to be so interested in, it’s always very intense lmfao, so here’s my uconn/paige bueckers yap!!

so i first started watching women’s college basketball last year since my grandparents live in Iowa and one of the best players in the league was playing there, and i remember during one of the playoff games it was Iowa and UConn and i remember the corner of my eye always ALWAYS catching on the girl with the braids in her hair who was making all of these threes. and now here I am, about a year later after I finally got back into wbb by tiktok and even just flicking through channels on my tv.


i’m assuming almost everyone has seen edits of paige. i mean she's so popular.

this year i rediscovered my love for sports journalism and news media by stumbling across edits of her and then deciding to do some extra credit reporting on the ucla vs uconn game. i wish i could tell her how much of an inspiration she has been to me even as someone who doesn’t play sports, she helped me start to know what i want to do with my life and i’d give anything to tell her that. 
this marks her final year at uconn and just recently was her final game. she has accomplished so much and has finally won the national championship that she deserved. as much as i would like to say that as a fan, I'm happy and overjoyed, but i can’t deny the fact that it’s the most bittersweet ending that UConn fans could ever wished for.
on one hand, one of my favourite players will be in the wnba which is so amazing and is a dream for any basketball player, and on the other hand we won’t get anymore fit checks with her and azzi, i won’t get to finally experience being on a kk and paige live at like 4am. 
and as much as i’m grateful to have found paige and this team at this point, the little voice in the back of my head really wishes that i would have been able to experience everything in real time and not through replays and old tiktoks. 
and tho i’ve only been this obsessed for a couple months or so, ive felt this odd sense of calm and connection through my screen, the laughs and smiles, and the energy that people through my screen could make me have is so insane to me. 

another thing that I didn’t expect would come along with liking this team is how they have impacted my relationship with God and how even just kk and azzi talking about their before game devotionals, it’s been such an inspiration.

i wish i could travel back in time and watch the past years and seasons with this team, just to say i did, because now my team is splitting and going separate ways. i'm so happy for paige and her career, and every other senior that is leaving but i wish just for one more year, i could experience the team. 
and i know that im dramatic and corny and i know i can always watching her on whatever amazing team drafts her and still watch uconn but i don’t think it’ll ever be the same. i didn’t think that this could be so painful but here i am lmfao. i can’t imagine what kk and azzi and everyone else on the team are feeling, since what im feeling as just a fan. and i know that some of yall are just thinking “just be happy” and i am, i really am. im so happy and excited to see where paige’s career goes but what some people don’t understand is i don’t like her just because of her game play or how she’s a good player, i liked her because of all of the extra things she and her team did, all the late night lives, tiktoks, videos etc. and i’ll probably be re-watching them for quite awhile because they have given me such comfort. 

so here’s my thank you to uconn and paige this year,

you guys have sparked my love for sports journalism and have made me felt seen through so many ways, i wish that i could somehow tell every person on uconn that they are my biggest inspirations.
maybe next year i’ll see yall live

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 1

brooke

hey here’s my drew starkey yap


feb. 1st.
SO i can’t even begin to put my love for him into words, i guess my love for him started with obx as it did for most people and then i watched the other zoey with my bsf. and then this year i saw queer on an illegal movie website (shhh) but he portrayed how my sexuality feels so perfectly which made me sob my eyes out for hours after. it’s the first time ive ever felt seen through a character and because eugene was played by drew, it added to the comfort that i felt and the love and emotion that was brought on screen and in my heart. his roles have all taught me stuff about myself as a person and how to be me.
drew has honestly made my past year and a bit amazing, ive stayed up and watched his interviews for hours. it’s so corny to write this but i wanted too because why not, even just his fan interactions are so incredibly sweet, he actually cares and doesn’t put on that fake mask that some actors do.
he is so talented and so sweet and he’s so cute it makes me want to sob my eyes out, ive spent hours yapping about him and how he’s helped me with anxiety and all sorts of things to almost every close friend i have (if you’ve experienced a drew yap, you’re a real one) he makes me smile more than any celebrity ever has, it’s so corny i know, but i think that finding him and finding a celeb and public person that you can see yourself in is so important and has helped me maneuver my way through these past years, and advice i see him talk about during interviews will always stay with me until the end.
ive watched almost every interview that you can find on here, ive spent hours talking about him to my mom, dad, brother and all of my friends irl and online. he is my comfort and it’s so corny to say but I couldn’t care less.
he has saved my life, without even knowing and I would give anything to tell him that. i think that people tend to only see the one side of actors they find attractive and i think that after i took time to look past the edits and the movie roles, i could fully see myself in drew starkey, he makes me feel seen and makes me feel loved, yk?
so too anyone to sees this and took time to read this, i love you.
okay so it’s been like 20 minutes and im back to talk more, he’s also so incredibly sweet to all of the obx cast and ive never seen a cast member that he’s worked with or a fan ever say that he’s treated them wrong, he genuinely brings a smile to my face and so many others faces, i wish that i could some how tell him how much he means me, but I probably never will, so here i am writing it all down even tho I’ll probably never be able to even write how much he means to me all down but I’ll try.

10:39 - feb 1st 2025
im back again, adding to this post. I think it’s so crazy how it’s always “respect people’s boundaries” until it’s celebrities. i saw a video of drew and he looked genuinely exhausted and was trying to politely decline photos but he kept doing them anyway and kept being so sweet and so caring to everyone, even tho they were crowding him and he was obviously so tired. like idk maybe im just very emotional but i think that we take certain celebrities for granted and we forget that their humans too, and drew means everything to me and so many others but he also is just like the rest of us. idk I’ll add to this page tomorrow

feb 2. 2:15 pm 2025
just had a little girl tell me that she wants to marry a girl, and her sister told her that she cant, and of course after i thought about, my mind went back to drew. and during times that ive found myself questioning my sexuality, the movie queer has been there for me recently, and eugene is played by drew and that character perfectly describes how i feel with my sexuality and how being bisexual feels in my eyes. so i just wanted to say thank you to drew for added to my comfort and helping me even through a role with my sexuality and me as a person

feb. 4th 6:33pm
hey this is from my other post and i wanted to add it too this
"im not queer. im disembodied"
eugene is the only character that ive ever been able to see my sexuality through, he is the only one who makes me feel seen, and makes me feel understood.

so tho i havent even finished the movie, its a luca guadagnino movie so of course its gonna have some insanely relatable queer character. ANYWAYS on a deep note, eugene doesnt see himself as "queer" like lee is and he believes that hes honestly disembodied. and ive always personally struggled with the fact of liking men and women because ive always felt like an attention seeker, like im doing it because i need to defy my parents. so ive always had this guilt on me that was rlly hard to notice until i started thinking about it, its almost like i have to PROVE that i am who i am yk? and thats why i see a lot of myself in eugene and how he acts throughout the entire movie. and i physically wont be able to finish the movie because it might kill me. anyways and hes played by drew starkey who is my favorite actor, and seeing him act like that, added to the comfort i find.

feb. 10 2025 - 7:24

i also just wanna thank him for introducing me to so many other actors and people that i wouldnt know before. like for example without drew i probably wouldnt know odessa and i love odessa with my ENTIRE heart and soul, ill yap more later.


feb. 28th 2025
i just saw him on my tv at an award show and i almost sobbed because hes came so far and ughhh, he looked so cute and the little smile he had on and OJMYGOSHHH my shayla. i love this man more than anyone ever

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