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I’m thinking so many thoughts after that episode, which was wonderful and hilarious, but something I’m very much thinking about is where someone on twitter pointed out the contrast between Rupert going to the club every single day for six weeks to wear Rebecca down vs Ted coming to her office every day for biscuits and genuinely wanting to get to know her. I’m especially thinking about how this adds some more context to Rebecca’s point of view on that as well. We see her disparagingly calling him ‘relentless, and nice’, and her desire for her love of the biscuits to not make her dependent on him providing her with something.

The moment I’m thinking about most is the one at the end of episode 5, where Ted storms in after finding out she sent Jamie away. The biscuit reveal at the end has always felt crucial in this way, but even more so in this context. Her experience has been with the relentless interest and charm until the other person pulled back the layer of charm and showed that this charming nature wasn’t genuine, and in a way I think here, as Ted yells at her, it lets her feel a bit vindicated, or at least secure, in her belief, or lack of belief, in the nature of other people. But then Ted continues the biscuits, and the extension of kindness they represent, no matter how angry he is, and not only that but reveals he has been (without having told her) baking the biscuits himself. His only deceit was hiding an extra kindness he didn't even seek self serving credit for, despite knowing how much she liked the biscuits. Obviously this works so interestingly as another anti-Rupert parallel in a Ted/Rebecca sense, but I love it even just generally in the context of how it’s visible that this is what shakes Rebecca in that scene, because it shakes the view she has of how people treat people after her abusive marriage and isolation, which is allowing her to go on with the plan that will hurt so many of them. It disarms her because even when she has done something bad, and Ted is expressing legitimate annoyance about it, he will not stop extending this relentless kindness and generosity to her, even when he has not got what he wanted, the way she experienced Rupert doing once he had got what he wanted. Ted’s not only relentless, not only nice, he’s also sincere.

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we were actually right and they were wrong

Every vision is connected with a man in her life. So, the last one is obvious, right? RIGHT??

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this is what SHOULD'VE HAPPENED

I swear to god if those men in the Ted Lasso writers room pull out a sense and sensibility themed plot.

The older more emotionally reserved leading lady who conceals her emotions but desperately wants love.

The younger hopeless romantic who wants to be swept off her feet.

The hopless romantic enters into an exciting world wind romance with a rich attractive partner who showers her with attention and gifts. Unfortunately, they have a public scandal which they had already done once before and they choose their reputation over our leading lady.

Eventually, the hopeless romantic realizes that the grumpy old man who’s been looking out for her and allows her to be herself while grounding her is the one for her and they end up happily together.

Back to our other leading lady.

She ends up with the kind man who does not appear to be agreat romantic lead but boasts a quiet intimacy that makes people attach to him, including a previous relationship that is still prominent in his life. Everyone notes how good of friends they are because no one suspects there could be anything but friendship - they continuly miss chances and hold emotions close to their chests. Both putting others needs before their own happiness. Our leading lady eventually lets her guard down and allows herself to express her emotions to him instead of keeping them to herself. They too end up happily together.

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My Roman Empire

Honorable mention:

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great first chapter, can't wait for more 🥰

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, The Hunger Games (Movies), Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Haymitch Abernathy/Effie Trinket, Katniss Everdeen/Peeta Mellark, Haymitch Abernathy & Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark & Effie Trinket Characters: Haymitch Abernathy, Effie Trinket, Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Plutarch Heavensbee Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Character Death, Memory Loss, Repressed Memories, Drama, Drama & Romance, Heavy Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hayffie, everlark Summary:

“So you are drinking again.” Katniss stated flatly.

His silence acted as confirmation enough for Katniss.

“Is this because of what happened to Effie?” she pushed.

Still he had nothing to say. He hoped the subject would be dropped if he just kept on walking and refused to acknowledge her.

“If she were here, she would be disappointed to know–”

He stopped dead in his tracks, unable to hold his tongue any longer.

“Well that’s the goddamn point! She’s not here!” he shouted.

His hands clenched into fists so tight he was sure blood had been drawn.

“She should be nagging me to clean the house, or to paint the bedroom her favorite shade of purple, or make room in my closet for all of her ridiculous outfits!”

He looked up for a moment at the clouds overhead, still grey, still threatening to pour down upon them at any moment without mercy.

“It’s supposed to be her job to go out in the rain and talk about boy problems. She should be here. She should have survived, not me! But just like every woman I ever…“

He hesitated.

"Like every woman I ever loved, she had to go and die. So yeah I reached for the bottle again… I let everyone down… again..”

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I like them a normal amount.

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ogfoofodoxx thinking about how the most defining character trait of haymitch is how protective he is. not in the sense it's the most obvious, but how all of his actions are fueled by this desire to protect. how hard he works at keeping katniss alive in the first games, him fighting to keep them from augmenting katniss's body, him yelling at plutarch to keep finnick from having to share his trauma, him being so involved in peeta's recovery and being the one to bring katniss home. him holding mayslee's hand as she died, fighting for plutarch to stay and rescue peeta, being the one to find katniss and finnick when johanna had an episode, begging coin to believe peeta's warning. it being heavily implied or either outright stated that he was one of the people who fought to protect effie.

makes me physically ill because no one does that for him. everyone who would of, died.

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Chapter 26, The Hunger Games

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One step, not much

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He'll be fine

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“You’re insufferable”

“I was about to say the same thing”

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What do you mean the team didn't go to Four and visited Annie, Jo, and little Finn? I saw it with my own eyes 👀

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marvelously written hayffie au where effie is from district 12 and gets reaped.

a bloodbath for birds.

— AU where effie's from district twelve, and gets reaped as its female tribute for the 60th hunger games.

read here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50712313/chapters/128105986

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cissamione aesthetic

gold rush by Taylor Swift

at dinner parties, I call you out on your contrarian shit

and the coastal town we wandered 'round had never seen a love as pure as it

and then it fades into the gray of my day-old tea

'cause it could never be

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Ted Lasso x Rebecca Welton 💜

The Joy Was Worth the Pain

Mutual Pining, Friends to Lovers, Idiots in Love, etc? I got you, boo!

~37k words (it's just a silly little one-shot)

Read it over on AO3

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JASON SUDEIKIS & HANNAH WADDINGHAM || Ted Lasso Season 2 Premiere 07.15.2021

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Throughout the whole movie, I kept forgetting she was married….