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“I’m definitely most like Remus” —me, wearing my red Converse, fiddling with my constantly messy short hair, as my glasses fall off so I can’t see anything with my terrible vision

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Ted Lasso ending the same week I finish high school just makes sense dramaturgically

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Me: Hey, look, a show about politics! Not my usual found family vice!

Jed Bartlet: What was Josh Lyman? A warning shot? That was my son!

Me: …well shit

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I think the key difference between the It movies and the book is that if you really wanted to, you could make a decent argument that the movies are not actually horror and the clown is a metaphor. It’s just traumatized kids leaning on each other to face their fears, and then growing up and realizing they have to face their past.

In the book, there’s a fucking scary clown.

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If the day ever comes that I don’t get full body chills at the end of IT Chapter 2, you know there’s something wrong with me. “Be true. Be proud. Stand. Believe.” in the young Losers’ voices will never not get me. That shit hurts.

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WAIT A MINUTE, THIS IS WHY I LOVED IT (2017) SO MUCH, ISN’T IT???

I’m realizing that my favorite genre of media is just deeply sad young adults becoming family as they go on dangerous, epic adventures. I don’t know what this says about me.

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I’m procrastinating on writing my speech by reading a book…in which the author is describing his experience with high school speech and debate. If that’s not irony, I don’t know what is.

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Ya know, maybe it’s silly, but I take a lot of comfort in the fact that Ted Lasso has panic attacks too. Like, I know he’s fictional, but I have laid on my bedroom floor, hyperventilating, thinking I’m dying, and have moments later found solace in the fact that he has those too, and he’s still someone who I admire. So. There’s one more reason why I love that goddamned show.

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Y’all ever had your youth pastor says something to you during band rehearsal that sounds like it should have come from Ted Lasso himself, so you immediately write it down to use in a fic later? No? …yeah, no, me neither.

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At some point, Ted Lasso has started training or a meeting by saying “let’s get down to business”, and the entirety of AFC Richmond responded by yelling “to defeat…THE HUNS”. You can’t tell me that hasn’t happened. It probably ended with a complete sing-along.

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Found family really said “Imma let these jaded adults take sad kids under their broken wings and maybe everyone will be better off with a little love and support in their lives.” And I personally find that very hopeful

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There’s this quote I have on my wall that goes something like “I cannot do all the good the world needs, but the world needs all the good I can do” and I think that summarizes Ted Lasso pretty well. His kindness and optimism isn’t gonna make the world stop being harsh and unfair, but because the world is harsh and unfair, the people in it desperately needs his kindness and optimism. He can’t single-handedly rid the world of its darkness, but he can make the lives of everyone at Richmond just a bit brighter.

That’s why all that “Ted Lasso Can’t Save Us” stuff is BS to me. Of course a silly little TV show isn’t going to get rid of all divides between humans, cure depression, bolster the economy, and save the environment or whatever. But for forty minutes, people get to laugh and smile together and believe that they might be okay. So hell yeah, I believe in the power of Ted Lasso.

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I’m realizing that my favorite genre of media is just deeply sad young adults becoming family as they go on dangerous, epic adventures. I don’t know what this says about me.

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Ya know, lots of cool famous people are queer like me. And lots of famous people struggle with anxiety like me. But only one celebrity has the same exact messed-up knee thing as me. This is a shout-out to Dylan O’Brien because you know what—cool people have Osgood Schlatter’s in their right knee. Yes, the fact that I know this means that I have watched far too many Maze Runner cast interviews. That is all.

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There was not only a motorcycle, but a blue Jeep in my school parking lot this morning. If I see glowing eyes, I’m running out of this building.

Yes, I know that was incredibly nerdy, but I got here early to study Calculus with my friend and am running solely off of coffee. Let me have my fun.

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I didn’t think I’d be able to get into the Kill Order after the trilogy, because I loved Thomas and Newt and the gang so much, but I’ll tell you what—it lives up to the previous books very well! Mark has a similar relatability to Thomas, and asks significantly less questions. The dynamic between him and Alec is nice, too. It’s nice to see an adult actually helping for once. But I do miss the vibes of all the kids messing around from the first book.

I’m excited to see what the early Flare was like! We’ll see how Kill Order progresses.

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I tried to convince my dad that Ted from Ted Lasso and Taylor from Friday Night Lights are very similar characters, and I don’t think I’ve ever disappointed him more in all of my seventeen years on this planet. But I’m RIGHT.

Football man is newly put in charge of a team in a town that very much cares about this team and its success. There is a player who seems central to the team who is soon injured. There is also a very good player with an ego problem. They have a loyal assistant coach who doesn’t talk much. As they struggle with their coaching, they also face problems with their family. They do not communicate their emotions very well (fight me on this—Taylor doesn’t discuss his emotions, Ted suppresses negative emotions until he panics). They have some sort of catchphrase used to motivate their players that doubles as an inspirational tagline for life in general. At their core, they are both coaches who above all want to see their players become good human beings, and end up bringing hope and unity to their communities. One is angry and one is Midwestern.

TELL ME I’M WRONG, PEOPLE!! You can’t!