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livelovecaliforniadreams · 1 year

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#Micdrop🎤

#oh how the turntables #love this dynamic #roy x rebecca #rebecca x roy #roy kent #rebecca welton #ted lasso #tedlassoedit #2x1 #3x9 #brett goldstein #hannah waddingham #love #gif #gifs #gifset #mic drop

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samwpmarleau · 2 years

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I need to be brave enough to let someone wonderful love me, without fear of being hurt and without fear of being safe.

#friends to lovers excellence #rebecca welton #roy kent #roy x rebecca #rebecca x roy #ted lasso #tedlassoedit #tl #tledit #mine

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chainofclovers · 1 year

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Ted Lasso 3x9 Thoughts

This one might be tied for favorite episode of the season for me. While I’ve been mostly willing to vibe with the jam-packed episodes, I approached 3x9 with a bit of concern; if it felt like the story was getting bigger instead of smaller here in the final third of the season, I was going to start to lose my patience. (To translate: I am an impatient person but I'm also a pretty long-fused person, and me starting to lose my patience would be akin to someone with a short fuse going fucking ham on someone.) Luckily, I felt like each thread here spoke to the other threads really neatly, like watching a cohesive conversation take place in multiple rooms. Magically.

For this one, I'm gonna attempt some bullets that cover 3x9 itself, then I need to attempt to process this weird experience of MISSING TED (while also basically appreciating what he's doing, but missing him, but appreciating him, lawjefpawoijfapweoijafwepklajwef) that has me very :eyesemoji: about the next three weeks of my life.

Nate’s desire for connection and camaraderie didn’t overshadow his ability to recognize that Rupert was trying to manipulate him into a toxic night out! There will be consequences for pulling away, and he knows it, but he did the right thing anyway. I’ve seen some discussions and arguments re: Jade’s influence on Nate and whether we should attribute Nate’s backbone and ability to make better choices to the love of a woman, and whether that’s disappointing and belittling to both characters, but I think a lot of those positions (on either side) are too hard-and-fast. Nate has always valued the things he values, and his relationship with Jade hasn’t changed his values or the fundamental truth of who he is. At the same time, being physically and emotionally close to a person you trust feels really, really good. Why shouldn’t those good feelings have a positive impact on the reserves of strength you must draw on to do things like stand up to an evil asshole you hadn’t entirely let yourself notice is an evil asshole? Nate in all his multitudes has always been Nate; Nate who is in love is able to see himself more clearly. If we were all only allowed in our real lives to experience character growth purely independently, we wouldn’t get very far.

I’ve been thinking a lot about influence and obligation when it comes to Rebecca’s storyline, too. I was a little afraid, after 3x3 and the way she initially responds to Tish’s prophecies, that Rebecca would end up a lone actor, in a sense, tracking down clues and answers at the expense of fostering her actual existing relationships. While I’m still curious and nervous and excited about what all of it means, I really appreciate that Rebecca has shown up for people this season, especially here in the latter half. Rebecca is almost certainly being driven a little crazy by the unfinished parts of what Tish told her, but she isn’t isolating herself. In calling Roy out for his avoidant behaviors and lack of accountability for the press conference (and, of course, the way his work performance mirrors his decision to leave his relationship with Keeley), she demonstrates accountability as a boss and as a friend. I don’t need to see Rebecca conducting meetings or writing emails to know she’s working, but it felt really important to me to see her get upset with Roy, both professionally and personally, and break through his exterior. Ted, Trent, Phoebe, and even Keeley have chipped away at it this season, but the epiphany required Rebecca being Rebecca. And the energy between Rebecca and Roy is very !!!

I loved the way the Nate-Rupert-Jade, Rebecca-Roy, and Roy-Isaac(-Will!) interactions all reinforce the idea that no one has the full picture of what is happening in another person’s brain, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t act on truths as they are revealed, as difficult as it may be.

As a queer person who is thankfully many years removed from the most stressful coming-out experiences I’ve had (although of course there are still plenty of moments of having to explain or identify oneself to another person—it never really ends—I consider myself “out” in that everyone in my life who I care about knowing knows I’m queer, and, so long as general safety is established, I feel able to explain it to additional people in most contexts without much or any stress), I really loved and appreciated Colin’s storyline here. Very little about my identity or place in the world resembles Colins, but so much of this episode resonated. We’ve already seen Colin describe his relationship to his sexual identity to Trent, and within that same conversation he spoke about not wanting to be a spokesperson with the pressure of publicly representing gay men. I absolutely love that the framing of the locker room scene respected those desires; he tells his teammates and coaches he’s gay, but we the public aren’t part of the several seconds that the literal announcement occurs. We get to see the freedom and relief the truth brings him, but the lessons of this episode are for the people around him.

The downside of writing this a couple days after the episode airs means I’ve read a lot of discourse, but I don’t think this episode did a disservice to Isaac or Colin. The writers room in s3 included writers specifically experientially equipped to tell this story, and to me, it shows. It shows in the realism of Isaac’s well-meaning questions (which Colin wouldn’t have answered so graciously if Isaac wasn’t so genuinely curious and caring!), and the tiring ways that queer people are burdened with conversational “obligations” and explanations that are just different than what straight people deal with. Ignorance and awareness exist on an incredibly long spectrum, and for me this story was affirming, not traumatizing, beautiful, and yet it also included the exhausting imperfections that cloak even the most positive coming-out experiences.

I’ve also been thinking a lot about Ted’s speech. Basically ever since Colin said the thing about Grindr in s2, I’ve been certain Colin would come out as gay to the team and reckon with being closeted in the context of the men’s Premier League. And literally since he made that little comment, I’ve been nervous about how Ted would react. I already knew he was a politically progressive person who identified himself as an ally, so I wasn’t afraid he’d have some kind of bigoted rejection reaction. But I did worry that his reaction would be sooooo cringe and try-hard and awkward that I’d legitimately run into issues writing and posting fiction about his obvious latent bisexuality on our home away from home, Archive of Our Own. And while Ted’s seven-layer-dip Denver Broncos analogy WAS cringe and try-hard and off-base, I absolutely loved how unflinchingly imperfect it was and how, despite those imperfections, his instinct re: the point he actually wanted to make was spot on and extremely valuable. If a white, middle-aged, (past-tense-ish hahahahahahaha I’m so normal about the word “was”) straight man who’s worked in sports his whole life had figured out the perfect thing to say, I’d have rolled my eyes at the screen. It felt realistic to me that he desperately wanted to find an analogy or connection point, immediately regretted it, and still—because of who he is when the din of his thoughts gives way actual clarity—managed to articulate that it’s very, very important that Colin’s community actually cares about who Colin is and that he was able to share this information with them. It’s the difference, in many ways, between being doomed to continue to feel like you have two lives (because you’re surrounded every day by people who look past something important to you or pretend not to see the differences) vs. knowing that even if you never come out to the entire world, you aren’t splintering yourself because you’re able to be your whole self around the people who actually matter. Anyway, the speech was imperfect and unwieldy, and that was the point, and his actual message was essential for everyone in that room to hear, and that was the point, and I will be capable of continuing to write fic in which Ted is attracted to men without his reaction to Colin haunting me. (I actually already have an idea for a future fic in which he reflects more, but that’s literally a story for another time.)

At this point in the season, I feel so curious about, um. What is happening. With Ted Lasso. The guy. In both s1 and s2, I felt about a millimeter away from him at all times, even when he wasn’t onscreen. This season, he’s so intentionally obscured. Getting to go to that museum in Amsterdam with him—and, perhaps even more importantly, the Yankee Doodle Burger Barn, and perhaps even more importantly than that, the back of that bus—was a relief and a reconnection point that was much needed, but I am absolutely FASCINATED and MYSTIFIED at this point in time at just how effective and maddening it is that I’m having a lot of trouble understanding how he truly feels about himself and the people around him. Like, I would obviously love to watch him be in love with Rebecca. But I would also love to watch him be in love with a place, or with two places, or with coaching, or with his partially-lost Beard, or with the words and images that have come to him in visions, or even with the unhealthy things that pull at him, like booze and stewing and obsession. Basically every episode—at least for me—contains some glimmer of connection, to his self or to one of his friends, and it’s always fleeting, and I’m holding onto the almost certainty of the fact that the decisions he has to make are going to require some kind of visible reckoning. Most of my nerves about the final three episodes of this show as we know it are related to these questions.

As for this episode, I don’t think I’ve quite captured the FEELINGS I felt while watching it. (I also completely failed to go into Ted sharing his biscuits with Keeley and continuing his perfect streak of making it super weird whenever he shares biscuits with a non-Rebecca person. I LOVED IT.) This was the episode that made me the most audibly squeal-y this season. And the most curious about how Ted has managed to get so far into his own brain that I actually miss him on his own show! Very curious stuff. What are the next three Tuesdays going to do to my brain and heart?

#ted lasso #ted lasso s3 spoilers #ted lasso 3x9 #hot dork club #meta by me #ted lasso meta #ted x rebecca #rebecca x roy #ted x men x allyship x cringe x but not too cringe x lol #queer things

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trentcrimmisgay · 1 year

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where is the parallel gifset from s1 Make Rebecca Great Again when get together, and Roy and Rebecca salute & then tonight in International Break after Roy comes in so Rebecca knows they’re back together

#roykeeley #rebecca x roy #rebecca x keeley #pleeeease

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romansroys · 1 year

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they're so important to me 😭

#they're the male version of rebecca x keely #the fond eye roll roy gives trent abt ted after this im so emo #cant wait for someone who is not me to gif this lmao #ted lasso #roy kent #ted lasso spoilers

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laughy-sapphy-blog · 1 year

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Ted Lasso Polycule Explained

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weclassybouquetfun · 11 months

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The call.

The response:

We support ship's rights, but we also support their wrongs!

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captainmoofy · 11 months

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I don’t think I’ll ever be able to recover from just how physically affectionate jamie is with his mom??? Like he hugs her SO TIGHT and carries her into the living room?? The juxtaposition between how physically uncomfortable he looks when he’s around his dad and how relaxed and cuddly he is with his mom???

literally euthanize me I will not rest until phil dunster gets his emmy

#jamie tartt #roy kent #roy x jamie x keeley #keeley jones #ted lasso #jamie x roy #jamie tartt x reader #jamie tartt x roy kent #phil dunster #brett goldstein #rebecca welton #tedbecca #ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso 3x11 #3x11

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caslutz · 3 months

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Ted Lasso Text Posts: Part #2

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#i added more characters yay!#jamie is such a mood i could make so many of him #i’ll do more royjamie with the next one #jamie tartt #roy kent #ted lasso #keeley jones #coach beard #rebecca welton #isaac mcadoo #colin hughes #royjamie #roy x jamie #tedbeard

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ghostvibesonly · 1 year

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something something nate quietly quitting his high profile job because his line of work (rupert) wanted him to hurt the person he loves (jade) in the episode prior something something trent crimm quietly blowing up his life and getting himself fired from his high profile job because his line of work (journalism) wanted him to hurt the person he loves (ted) in the episode prior

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elloras · 6 months

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chainofclovers · 5 months

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AO3 ask meme: 💜🌻

17 . Your favorite character to write this year?

20 . Which work of yours have you reread the most?

29 . Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

Thanks, friend!

17 . Your favorite character to write this year?

I think I still loved writing Rebecca and Ted and Beard and Roy as much as ever (and how could I ever choose okay but it's Ted, obviously [to me] [probably obvious based on my fics])! But I think I get to add Keeley to this list after this year (although I loved writing her in 2021 and 2022 too, but I wasn't as driven to, maybe, and it wasn't something I found as fun?). I think my favorite most fun moment of writing any TL character was writing Keeley's drunken thought processes in "anticipate" (Keeley/Rebecca/Ted). Yeah! Keeley!

20 . Which work of yours have you reread the most?

This year it's got to be "Last night in town," (Ted/Rebecca) because I posted it as a WIP over about 6 weeks. Even though the whole thing is well under 15k, I was really anxious not to introduce any continuity errors or mix up the details, so I kept rereading the whole thing. (Fun fact that I'm sure you know since you're a multichapter queen: you can procrastinate on writing new chapters by reading your old chapters as research!) I gave myself some timeline grace (I mean the source material is from Jason Sudeikis et al. and I absolutely share in their belief that time isn't necessarily """real"""), but I did want the general timeline and trajectory of all the visits to make sense. I knew exactly how many times they visited each other or traveled to be together and in which months!

In terms of just reading something for sheer fun and/or sheer thinkin' about writing, I think the story I reread the most from this year might be "days in love" (Rebecca/Roy, Keeley/Ted, future love square). It was a gift for a friend and I wrote specifically to her wonderful prompts, but a lot of elements of that story ended up being things that are specifically very comforting/appealing to me and so rereading it makes me feel a kinda dumb/calm happiness even if I'm the one who wrote it. :)

29 . Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

This is a silly one, but there's a passage from "days in love" that I had so much fun writing, not least because it was a bunch of characters from Apple TV+ having an experience that is distinctly Netflix:

It was Monday, February 13. They’d returned home the night before. The four of them—that’s how she thought of them—were at Keeley’s, ostensibly selecting something to watch from Netflix’s endless and overwhelming personalized categories. Keeley’s Netflix account was subject to some fascinating algorithms. Every category she scrolled through seemed to get more surreal and specific: ADORABLE ANIMALS THAT DON’T DIE AT THE END and COMING OF AGE IN LATE-STAGE CAPITALISM and WHAT TO EAT ON THE AMALFI COAST. It all started to look the same after a while, but Ted kept saying his Netflix liked to suggest this or that category too.

From the ao3 wrapped ask meme.

#ao3 wrapped ask meme 2023 #asks #meme #broadwayfreak5357 #hot dork club #rebecca x roy #roy x rebecca

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ortofosforico · 1 year

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Third batch of Ted Lasso memes coming right up!

This is a big one.