#jamies bad posts

[hermitcraftx]

grian: if you mess it up you can fail- be sure to think through everything carefully

joel: i'm not- i'm not worried

gem: do you hear that joel? we need to think things through

joel: i HATE thinking, guys

[jopzer]

Jamie stays put, exactly where he stands, and looks up at Roy with soft, half-lidded eyes.

“Fuck do you think you're doing?”

Jamie doesn't even blink; his cocky, crooked smile spreads across his face like he knows the answer before he even asks the question. “D’you want me to stop?”

little drawing to go along with my fic and i will fuck you (like nothing matters)

[cwritesfiction]

Which OC would look directly into the sun to see a solar eclipse after explicitly being told not to?

[melmov]

A quiet afternoon

[jamiesfootball]

Good news: [redacted title] post season three fic word count has passed 34k words and is finally. fucking. outlined. Start to finish, scene by scene. Roy Kent in therapy. Roy Kent turning therapy into a competitive sport. Roy Kent grappling with what it means to be a coach. Touched starved Roy Kent making excuses for Jamie to live on his couch all summer. Jamie Tartt hiding his fucking problems while simultaneously trying to live on Roy’s sofa. Keeley running Colin’s Gay PR Crisis.The Richmond lads going undercover to spy on the rival Nigerian restaurant (poorly). It’s all drafted. It’s plotted. Entire scenes have been written. Ive done all the bits I usually struggle with. I just have to flesh it out - which is the part I like and am actually good at!

Bad news: it’s going to be so long. Jesus fucking Christ it’s going to be so long. I am not a brief person, and I really, specifically, critically need to articulate every reason the Jamie forgiving his dad storyline felt like a slap in the face. If this doesn’t balloon x3 past it’s current size I’ll eat my sandals.

Worse news: I can’t write chronologically to save my life so the odds of this seeing the light of day before it’s 95% done are basically non-existent, leaving me at the mercy of my own self-motivation.

The WORST MOST AWFUL NEWS: I HAVE A FULL TIME REAL ADULT FUCKING JOB AND SOMEHOW, WHEN I’D RATHER BE WRITING, I HAVE TO GO TO MEETINGS INSTEAD. FUCK. WHY.

[motheringbird]

[revelingrexan]

an assignment from last semester! it was a "style emulation" project, where you pick three shows from a list the professor provides, as well as two from a list of:

objects (one handheld size, one person-sized); animals (one small, one large); and celebrities (one male-presenting, one female-presenting)

i'm happy with how these turned out!! 😄

[coachbeards]

ted lasso really needed to let ted be like. wrong. lmao

[thelassoway]

Ted Lasso S02E08 Man City || Ted Lasso S03E06 Sunflowers

[ohmerricat]

this may be my worst take and get me blocked by people but i have to speak my truth… i love bill i truly do she’s funny she’s energetic pearl mackie can pull a great unimpressed face and she has some character development (particularly in the monk trilogy) but i feel like it’s just … not enough. which isn’t down to her series length either, i mean martha only had a series and a half; donna only had 1 series (barring the specials), look how 3-dimensional and fleshed out both of them ended up being. i feel like bill never really progressed from being the inquisitive young lesbian who asks a lot of questions and misses her mum, and not much else. she’s nice. she’s sweet. i’d love to have her as a best friend if she was real. you’ve barely had time to figure out what her deal is and then before you know it she’s already been cyberconverted and you’re like oh okay . maybe it’s because she has to share her time on the TARDIS with nardole but there’s none of that weird psychosexual tension present that makes the other TARDIS-trio dynamics so appealing (see: ninerosejack, amyrory+11, tenjackmartha) because. because bill likes women and nardole’s nardole

[hermitcraftx]

grian: do you want to be able to see me?

impulse: i see enough of you, honestly

[crossbackpoke-check]

Dysprosium, Mary Soon Lee

dysprosium, AN 66, is a silvery-white rare earth metal. its name is derived from the greek dysprositos, meaning “hard to get at”, owing to the difficulty in separating and isolating this rare earth element. dysprosium is used to measure neutron flux, to fuel reactors, and to activate phosphors. terfenol-d is a magnetorestrictive alloy, meaning that it changes shape when a magnetic field is applied, and is used to manufacture underwater acoustic systems.

jason “robo” robertson, dallas stars #21 for @simmyfrobby’s nhl periodic table poems <3

[samwpmarleau]

Thinking about the dynamic between Keeley and Jamie throughout episode 8, and while much has been made of the accountability aspect, what I also find really interesting and compelling is the level of trust. We’ve seen that often from Jamie’s side in the series but not as often from Keeley’s, and it’s the latter that’s most on display throughout this episode.

Putting this under a cut for length (aka the result of overthinking and insomnia) and gifs:

Gonna start from the beginning.

It’s not like Keeley doesn’t know who she sent the video to. Of course she knows. Yet, she doesn’t jump to anger or betrayal, both of which would be perfectly understandable. “Shit. How did that get on the internet? A private video that —” is what she asks to herself (she’s then cut off by Jack).

She’s upset, but what she is most is baffled. She’s wracking her brain to think of a reason it would be out there. The idea that Jamie would leak it of his own accord is so improbable as to not even cross her mind, or else confusion as to how it got out wouldn’t be the salient emotion.

Then we get her odd order of priorities as to who would see the video. Family and friends first — then the team. Not the office, of which she’s the boss, that comes last.

Some of that is likely embarrassment/reputation, especially because the team is all men, but not the entirety. Personally, I think there’s another element of realizing that even though people may not put it together that it came from Jamie’s email, he was a victim in all of this as well. Not to mention the Roy of it all, which, as we found out, did not go well.

Speaking of which, her reaction right before this is quite reminiscent of her reaction in 1x03 regarding the photos of her and Ted:

Whether that’s intentional or not I don’t know, but nevertheless, both instances are intricately tied to Jamie. In 1x03, she says, “Jamie would have been so pissed off with reporters poking around in our love life.” While in this case it was hackers who leaked the material (though reporters wrote about it), the concept is the same: people poked around in their love life.

Then we get to Jamie finding out about it.

At first, he’s just got the same sort of sympathy/confusion that the rest of the team has. However, it’s quickly followed by dawning horror as he has the realization of, “Oh fuck. The emails.” Fabulous acting by Phil there, both with the face journey as well as the nervous fidgeting that manifests with the aforementioned realization.

As a side note, I also find the framing of that shot interesting.

Sure, it’s the furthest thing from a secret that Jamie and Keeley dated. But that was two years ago. Will wasn’t even there. I’d think they’d look at Roy long before they looked at Jamie, particularly because the video doesn’t appear to be timestamped. For all they know, Keeley sent the video to Roy, or even Jack. Jamie had just gotten done telling everyone his policy of deleting exes’ photos and videos and here is a leak of a video from one of his exes, so it might be that they find it a strange coincidence. But they’re not looking at him accusingly; they’re concerned, almost wary, checking for his reaction. Idk, it’s just a curious directorial choice to have his teammates focus on him.

(Unrelated, the fact that Keeley’s method of distracting herself from the situation being making designs out of sprinkles I think is so cute.)

Something I also like about all of this, and which no doubt contributes to Keeley’s confidence in Jamie, is that while we have to take him at his word that he deleted stuff from his phone since we’re not privy to it, it’s believable — he’s walked the walk for the public stuff, so it would track that he’d do so for the private stuff, too. This is his locker while they were together:

Full of photos of her (and only her), photos that from her conversation with Rebecca we know she gives the green light for. Those photos were her choice, they were in magazines anyone could find. They weren’t personal photos, even though it’s safe to assume she sent Jamie plenty of those. Is it the classiest of displays to have in one’s locker? Obviously not. He could have put up pictures where she’s more clothed, or pictures of the two of them. But there’s nonetheless a level of respect there in that those are photos she signed off on. And more importantly:

This is the very next episode after she breaks up with him. There are no photos of her at all; he’s taken every one of them down because she’s no longer his girlfriend and so it would be inappropriate to keep them up. (Yes, that’s like the bare minimum of decency, but Jamie was at peak asshole at that point. I don’t think anyone would’ve been surprised if he kept them up.)

Moving on to the ending. Here she is right before he shows up:

A mix of anger, frustration, and sadness. Between the video itself, Roy’s shitty response, and the presumed breakup with Jack, she’s had a really rough time of it. She definitely doesn’t look to be in the mood for visitors. Yet this is her response to seeing Jamie on her doorstep:

(And his in return, which I’m including for no other reason than that it’s adorable.)

After all that emotional turmoil and the knowledge that the video came from Jamie, that’s how she looks at him. She’s delighted. Why? Because, again, there is no doubt in her mind that he didn’t do it voluntarily. She may not know why he still had the video available to be hacked, not until he explains it to her, but ultimately that part doesn’t matter. What matters is that not only did he not leak it on purpose, but he hasn’t watched it since (or shortly after) they broke up. She trusts him unconditionally. Even when he tells her that his email password was “password,” she’s not pissed off or devastated. At worst, she’s exasperated.

Should he have had a better password? Of course. But it’s still not his fault. He was hacked, alongside a bunch of other people. There may even be explicit photos or videos of Jamie himself that got leaked.

Lastly, most poignantly of all, is her reaction after he gets done apologizing.

Roy and Jack both said they were sorry she’s in this situation, that it sucks, etc., but they both subsequently dropped the ball. Jack wanted her to apologize for something Keeley shouldn’t have to apologize for, and Roy’s insecurities and jealousy made the situation about himself when he asked her who she sent it to (which I don’t think was OOC or makes him a bad person, for the record, as I talked about here). Jamie was the only one of her past significant others who handled things correctly.

(I’d also like to point out that instead of deciding not to have the conversation at all due to him being too nervous to text her, he comes to her house to have the conversation in person.)

He acknowledged the shittiness of the situation, asked her how she was holding up, apologized for something that wasn’t even his fault, didn’t allow her to let him off the hook, overexplained why he still had the video, and if anything expected a negative reaction. So, although this may not have happened if Jamie had had a stronger password or remembered to delete the emails, he’s the only one of the three who gets a smile and a hug that they both needed.

And it is exactly that — what they needed. Even in her conversation with Rebecca (who was certainly a great friend), Keeley was feeling unsure. She didn’t know whether she should feel ashamed and regretful or not. Which makes sense, of course; not just because of the video itself, but because of the person it was sent to. Her and Jamie’s relationship crashed and burned, Keeley was a different person then, someone she wasn’t proud of, and she thought she’d put all that behind her. To have it all dredged up, be reminded that once upon a time he was the one she wanted to send videos to must have made her feel incredibly conflicted.

So to have not only anyone but Jamie in particular shoulder the “blame” and validate her without any qualifying of it, who understands because even though it was her video, he was the one who was hacked and thus would have a similar feeling of violation, well, the relief would’ve been — and, as we saw, was — overwhelming. Not only that, but Jamie is the only one in her life who knew her before the series began. Before Ted came into the picture, before she was friends with Rebecca, before she dated Roy, before she became the boss. Jamie’s been there through it all, for better or worse. And he’s gone through a parallel pattern of growth. Seeing him on her doorstep contrite and commiserating? It provided her a sort of grounding post amidst the chaos.

I just love the way all of this played out. That Jamie feels the gravity of what happened and his inadvertent role in it, and that at no point does Keeley think he did it on purpose.

She’s always had unwavering faith in him, and this is a beautiful example as to why.

[thesaintofnevergettingitright]

ok no wait I'm so sorry I'm gonna be a party pooper, but this??? Kinda pissed me off??

Now don't get me wrong, I'm a firm bi!Jamie truther. 100% no doubt about it.

BUT

Jamie is not canonically bi. There was absolutely no indication of him being any flavor of queer on the show. But you know who is?? You know who ACTUALLY deserved a shoutout from Apple TV as the ~Ted Lasso Bisexual~

FUCKING KEELEY!

Like the *wink wink nudge nudge* about Jamie is cute in a Queer-baity way, but why the hell are they not making some noise for the actual bisexual on bisexual visibility day???

Give Keeley her flowers!! Now!!!

Maybe I'm being unreasonable, but I just feel like this is annoying at best, and erasure at worst.

[justsomefunshit]

I’m really curious to see how the show will deal with Roy’s aggression (and aggression in general). Like, just two episodes ago we saw Jamie flinch and recoil away from him, because he slapped a fork out of Jamie’s hand.

Last episode he (and beard) encouraged the rage inside the himbos against the west ham players. I know intention is more important than causation, but you cannot tell be that if Roy was still a player he would have head butted every single one of those west ham players (who did nothing wrong).

This episode he was just so fucking psychopathic that Trent dropped his mug and even beard looked freaked out. He’s scaring grown men in they’re workplace. That’s just fucking harassment. Trent doesn’t know him. They’re not close.

It’s been really disconcerting to me how much more aggressive this season is. How haven’t we seen the aftermath of the last game? What the fuck did ted say to the himbos? What will be the breaking point? WHAT happens to make it inexcusable anymore?

[jamietarttsnorthernattitude]

Making a post to keep all my @badthingshappenbingo fics together.

Dislocated joint - Post Dubai Air boycott, Jamie is just beginning to find his place back at Richmond. When he's hurt during a match, Sam takes it upon himself to show Jamie how much he means to both him and the team.

Common Cold - Jamie gets a cold, Roy and the team take care of him.

Confidence Shattered - Jamie suffers a concussion during the Zava era.

Home Invasion - what it says on the tin (this will eventually be continued)

Outnumbered in a fight - Jamie jumped after leaving Ted at the Crown & Anchor (tinkering with the idea of continuing this)

Bloodied knuckles - Jamie and his Dad get into a fight, Roy rushes over in the middle of the night and they both try to support each other and get through it.

Arm in sling - the prick signal goes wrong followed by accidental weed brownie consumption followed by Roy having to take care of Jamie and his stuffed shark.

Accidentally hurt by a friend - Roy falls off his bike and what are friends for if not to break your fall? Unfortunately for Jamie, Roy’s fall isn’t the only thing that’s broken.

Crutches - Drunk and lonely while Keeley and Jamie are in Brazil, Roy makes a wish in a moment of weakness that he never trained Jamie. He wakes up the next morning the day of the press conference in Mom City in a world where his wish came true. The team is struggling, things with Keeley are a disaster, he’s on his sister’s shit list after yelling at Phoebe. And Jamie? Jamie’s worse than ever. Roy’s left picking up the pieces.

Headache/migraine - When Roy Kent gets a migraine before his first Champions League match as manager he does his best to pretend he’s fine. The rest of AFC Richmond does their best to take care of him.

Handstomp - After Wembley, James makes sure Jamie understands the consequences of his actions.

I have ideas for most of these but if you have any or there's anything you want to see, feel free to drop it in my inbox!