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That night, Beard slept on the couch — or maybe didn’t sleep at all, the way the shadows carved dark under his eyes the next day. He struck up a monologue, more words in a row than Ted had heard from him in all their years of friendship. Made breakfast and lunch and dinner; didn’t say a word about the team, or the string of ties, or their duty to the boys.

In the evening he opened the window wide and dragged a pair of kitchen chairs over to face it, settled in one and waited for Ted to haul himself over to the other. Night in London was glowing yellow and rushing with traffic, but the coool breeze eased something inside him all the same.

“Remember the Great American Twinetrip?” Ted asked. It’d been not long after Beard got out of prison, back when he was still living in his and Michelle’s guest room and skittish as a newborn deer. Come summer and with it the end of the coaching season, Ted had packed them both into his car and spent two and a half weeks driving them around the country to see every record-breaking ball of twine in the country. “We camped in that field out by…”

“Lake Nebagamon,” Beard supplied.

“Yeah.” They’d gotten lost on some deserted road, ended up sleeping there in some field getting eaten by mosquitos. “Remember the stars? Can’t see nothing like it out here.”

“Light pollution.”

They went quiet again. The curtains fluttered. In the field outside Lake Nebagamon, Ted had told him, just ‘cause you used to be a certain way don’t mean you’ll be that way forever. He’d closed his eyes when Ted stored the car keys for the night and Ted had torn a piece of paper from the back of his notebook and scrawled CAR KEYS HERE-> in neon pink highlighter and pressed Beard’s wallet back into his hands when he tried to hand it over as collateral Crunched there together in the folded-down back seat Beard had met Ted’s eyes in the dark and said—

“Think I might be cursed.”

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HOW DID I MISS CHAPTER TWO BEING POSTED?

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people telling you they reread your fic is the biggest compliment you could ever receive. there are thousands of stories out there begging to be found, to be explored, but your story meant so much to someone that they came back to it eagerly, they went over every word again. to love is to return and loving a fic is rereading it. thank you to all readers and rereaders <3333

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Writing an "Oh. Oh." moment, except instead of "Oh shit, I am in love" it's "Oh shit, I am traumatized."

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I would love to hear more about your thoughts on Jamie’s loan being terminated

You do not know the box you have opened my friend. I've been talking about this a lot today as fic may be coming but the one word summary is that it is all about the ✨optics✨

Because if we step outside of the AFC Richmond bubble and just look at the sequence of events that goes on, it looks so bad for our boy.

He fights with his teammate on the pitch over his treatment of another teammate. They are both booked for this fight. Jamie is then yanked in the first half of the game very close to half time. This looks like disciplinary action. It looks like the blame is being placed at Jamie's feet and he is being pulled off the pitch as 'punishment'. Because if it is a tactical change, if it is a problem with the play on the pitch then you wait until half time so it can be a more thought out decision. And looking at the quality of Jamie's play during the match, he's not playing badly so it can't be because of that. So it must be disciplinary.

Then, in the press conference post match Ted makes the comment "Jamie knows what he needs to do". Which is just so Ted but I'm not going to get into the Jamie side of that now because that's not relavent to this argument. SO from a press POV, that sounds an awful lot like this being a recurring problem, internal disciplinary action had been threatened and Jamie continued with this behaviour and so it would be taken further. It also places the blame for problems squarely on Jamie's shoulders.

Next couple of days, Dani Rojas. Dani would be plastered all over social media about his return. Running around training, scoring goals, being hugged by his teammates. And who's missing from these scenes ... Jamie Tartt. The striker brought in when Dani got injured who has been walking a fine line. Whispers will start proper now, where is Tartt? He wasn't injured at the game, Kent didn't even touch him. Is this disciplinary as in being barred from training in which case that is ten times worse than anyone thought or is he choosing to miss training in which case that shows a major break down and potential breach of contract. Bad news.

Then ... Jamie's loan is terminated. Now from all the vagueness about Ted not being told, no one knowing if it was City that called him back or Richmond that terminated it that likely means there was a vague as fuck statement likely just saying "Jamie Tartt's loan has been terminated, all of us at Richmond wish him well". Which screams (say it with me now) disciplinary issues. The rumour mill would be going a mile a minute but what conclusions do we expect them to draw with that being the image that was painted in the lead up.

Jamie then barely plays for City the rest of the season which doesn't fill anyone with confidence that Jamie has been 'forgiven' for his transgressions.

SO - the point being, if any other team looks at Jamie during the summer loan/transfer window after S1, his record screams DISCIPLINARY ISSUES which for basically every team out there is a deal killer. Why would you want to spend premier league salary and transfer fees for a player that might come into your team and be hostile, refuse to train, fight within the team ... you just wouldn't.

Being returned from a loan for disciplinary issues is a career killer and it adds so much to beginning of S2 Jamie because what if he had looked for a footballing way out of Manchester but no one wanted anything to do with him for the money that Man City were asking and so ... what else was he to do? But then in running away to LCA ... he just proved all of those issues right and gave Man City a real opportunity to void his contract

... for ... disciplinary issues

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Eight weeks and eight draws into his second season at Richmond, Ted meets with Jamie at the Crown & Anchor and tells him he can't come back to the team; it's not a good fit. The next day, he changes his mind. The day after that, he wakes up in the past.

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I LOVE IT WHEN ENDINGS CIRCLE BACK TO THE BEGINNING!!!

I LOVE IT WHEN CHARACTERS MIRROR EACH OTHER!!!!!

I LOVE IT WHEN CHARACTERS SEAL THEIR FATES IN THEIR FIRST SCENES!!!!

I LOVE IT WHEN CHARACTERS' GREATEST TRAITS ARE ALSO WHAT DOOM THEM IN THE END!!!!!

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utilising the gift of imagination to hallucinate moments of tenderness between fictional people

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i am. so sorry if i have ever used the phrase “i have an au where—” and led you to believe that there is an actual fic out there for you to read rather than, at best, a post where i explain the concept, and at worst it is simply something that lives in my brain

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my most unpopular stranger things related but not stranger things exclusive opinion is that i am very bored with how almost every story that has paranormal or scifi elements eventually evolves into a story about stopping the end of the world. and i do know that apocalypse media has its enjoyers however i am not one of them and i very rarely choose to consume it so you see why it would exhaust me that so often all my horror shows and podcasts turn into an apocalypse thing

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I finally decided that I'm going to post Wrong Answers Only as chapters rather than a long one-shot, and that I'm about 2.5 out of 8 chapters in.

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When I read a fanfic I like, the author becomes a mini celebrity to me. So when an author with a work I like kudos’ or comments on my own fanfic I just-

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i'm procrastinating so: if you had to rewrite one of your fics from a different pov, which one would you choose and why? (the original version of the fic still exists in this scenario, you're just making it into a rashomon)

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hold on sorry you're telling me the name of the boat was "the terror"?? i always assumed that was a retroactive name! did they WANT things to go horrifically awry???

obsessed with the implication that nominative determinism could have saved them

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I’m unsure how specific it is, but your writing tells me how intelligent and caring you are and also confident in yourself and your place in this world 🤍

Thank you, that's so sweet??

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attention this is your captain speaking chag sameach pesach to all celebrating and a reminder do not open the airlock to greet elijah the vulcan rabbinic council ruled that opening the door to the room where the seder is occurring is sufficient elijah can get on a starship just fine himself he just likes to be personally invited in to your seder we dont need another incident like last year thank you