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For my very lovely wife @ninewesternstars for the Roy/Jamie Big Bang 2024, please check out her fic!

building me a fence, (building me a home)

(summary below the cut)

His grandad used to say, lightning never strikes twice. He would give Roy a sly grin when he did, eyes twinkling and accent thick. Even then, Roy knew it held more meaning than the obvious.

(Roy slowly begins to realize what love is. -- Written for the Roy/Jamie Big Bang 2024.)

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for dap's soon to be revealed royjamie big bang fic

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Reveals Announcement

Hey y'all, quick note about reveals -- the fic that would have been posted yesterday (Sunday) will be revealed tomorrow (Tuesday)!

Week 4 and Week 5 Round-Up will be posted together next Tuesday October 1. The final Round-Up post reviewing all of the works will be posted the next day, Wednesday October 2.

Additionally, the upcoming reveals schedule has been updated to reflect some minor changes. As a reminder, you can view that here.

Thanks for your patience y’all ❤️

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The Most Dangerous Thing

Written as part of the 2024 @rjbigbang

With artwork by: @nashapixie

“In penance for their uprising, each district shall offer up a male and a female between the ages of 12 and 18 at a public "Reaping." These Tributes shall be delivered to the custody of the Capitol. And then transferred into a public arena where they will Fight to the Death, until a lone victor remains. Henceforth and forevermore this pageant shall be known as

The Hunger Games.”

-- Suzanne Collins, The Treaty of Treason, The Hunger Games

Jamie Tartt, youngest ever victor, District Four. Roy Kent, victor of the 50th Hunger Games and the second Quarter Quell, District Twelve

In the 75th Hunger Games, the tributes will be reaped from the existing pool of victors, forcing Jamie Tartt and Roy Kent to meet. To meet in the games, to fight in the games, perhaps to die in the games.

41k Words

Tags:

Roy Kent/Jamie Tartt, Hunger Games AU, Canon Typical Violence, Violence, Injury, Angst, Like HEAVY on the angst, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, James Tartt Sr is a bad dad, Emotional Abuse, Referenced Sexual Abuse, There’s A Happy Ending I Promise,

Betaed by Izzy

Cheered on by Dap, Belle, Rosie, and Leah

Playlist:

Achilles Come Down, Gang of Youths

Man Made Lake, Barenaked Ladies

my tears ricochet, Taylor Swift

Fool, DJO

Rocketman (It's Gonna be a long long time), Elton John

The Fall, Imagine Dragons

Safe and Sound, Taylor Swift ft. Joy Willaims and John Paul White

In the Woods Somewhere, Hozier

Next to Me, Imagine Dragons

Francesca, Hozier

In a Week, Hozier ft. Karen Cowley

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Last Pitch Effort

Artwork collaboration for the RoyJamie Big Bang 2024 in collaboration with slagathor99’s incredible fic

Roy Kent's career is, frankly, going down the tubes. He's on a Championship side, he's benched, and whenever he does play, he's shit. Thankfully, his ex-girlfriend, Keeley, is a PR wizard and has an idea to get Roy enough media attention that fans demand Roy gets minutes: a fake relationship with someone famous and beautiful, i.e. recent Lust Conquers All-reject Jamie Tartt. The only problem is that, all too soon, Roy's trapped in a fake relationship with perhaps the only person he's ever truly wanted something real with.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Ted Lasso (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Roy Kent/Jamie Tartt, Roy Kent & Phoebe, Keeley Jones & Roy Kent, Keeley Jones & Jamie Tartt, AFC Richmond Players & Jamie Tartt, AFC Richmond Players & Roy Kent, Roy Kent & Dr. O'Sullivan | Roy Kent’s Sister, Roy Kent & Isaac McAdoo, Phoebe & Jamie Tartt, Colin Hughes & Jamie Tartt, Will Kitman & Jamie Tartt, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Roy Kent, Jamie Tartt, Keeley Jones, Dr. O'Sullivan | Roy Kent’s Sister, Isaac McAdoo, Phoebe (Ted Lasso), Colin Hughes, Will Kitman, Nathan Shelley, James Tartt Sr., Jan Maas, Richard Montlaur, AFC Richmond Players (Ted Lasso) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Regency, Arranged Marriage, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Eventual Smut, Mpreg, Canon-Typical Violence, Bad Parent James Tartt Sr., Warning: James Tartt Sr., Flirting, Falling In Love, Idiots in Love, Coma, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Jamie Tartt is Good With Kids, Knotting, Oral Sex, Breeding Kink, Frottage, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Biting, Podfic, Bridgerton means bodice ripper, Podfic & Podficced Works

Summary:

Podfic of bizarrebedtimestories’ fic - at first blush (this is fate)

“Are you going to tell me what in god’s name that was about?”

Jamie rests his cheek on his fist, staring out the carriage window.

“I suppose they let anyone be a duke these days.”

Keeley’s face is the picture of disappointment. “That is unfair.”

“Is it?” Jamie looks at her with all his unbridled fury. “He is nothing like the man you described. He is vulgar, and heartless, and an utter cad.” He turns back to the window. “And I am to be bound to him forever.”

Or basically, our favorite idiot Footballers, if Ted Lasso had been a shondaland™ period drama, and Keeley had been the only (mostly) sane one.

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Branching out and this is one hell of a way to do it. Get ready for Candle voice reveal and over 5.5 hrs of it 😂

This fic is so so wonderful and Brenna is amazing!! Run to go read it or hopefully to go listen to it too 🙈

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the vastness between - by nellie for royjamie big bang - edits by me - part one: part two & three here

You should wait a bit longer. You should ask him about next season. You should know it won’t be that simple. You shouldn’t get your hopes up. You should be careful. You should have figured your shit out sooner, because now you’re too fucking late. Well. It’d be nicer, in that Keeley Jones way of hers, but the gist of it is there. Either way, however the sentence would have ended, she tried. He just didn’t listen.   Almost immediately, three dots appear on his screen, and her response comes moments later.

Roy sighs, passes a hand over his face. He honestly doesn’t know if it helps, knowing that Jamie almost didn’t go, or if it hurts, knowing that he decided to go after all. But it doesn’t matter, because it’s what Jamie wants, and it’s what he deserves, and it’s what will make him happy. He doesn’t need Roy having all these… Feelings about it. Besides, Roy would never forgive himself if Jamie decided to back out because of him, or the way he feels. In that moment, he promises to himself that he’s not going to mention anything about it to Jamie. His feelings, his fears, how much he’s going to miss him… None of it. But to Keeley—

He laughs to himself. Keeley fucking Jones, indeed. He’s lucky to have her.

While they’re doing that, the official statement— which had been carefully crafted by Keeley and Jamie— goes out on Jamie and Richmond’s official social media accounts. By the time the party wraps up, the entire football world knows Jamie Tartt has played his last game at Richmond.

So Roy shoves it down. He stands in the corner of the room and puts on a brave face the way he’s supposed to. He can’t quite help it, though, if his stomach turns while he watches Jamie sign the contract with a wide smile. If the cracks in his heart grow.Stay, he wants to say, cameras and press and Ajax be damned. Stay with me.Instead, he hugs Jamie when it’s done, and ignores how his heart shatters.He and Jamie leave together and there’s only one thought in his head, echoing with every step.Sixteen.Sixteen, sixteen, sixteen.

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ROY/JAMIE BIG BANG REVEALS: WEEK 3

Reveals Schedule | AO3 Collection | gif credit: @billy-crudup

Tuesday, September 10: Team #4

📝 Fic: Everybody Wants to Be on TV by ABubblingCandle (ao3) 58k words | gen, celebrity hunted AU, friendship, reality tv 🎨 Art: Everybody Wants to Be on TV by poshxtotty (tumblr) 3 illustrations + 2 edits | scenes from fic, also embedded in the fic

Thursday, September 12: Team #18

📝 Fic: the vastness between by SmileHoney (ao3) 48k words | post-canon, angst with a happy ending, hurt/comfort, mutual pining, long-distance relationship 🎨 Art: edits (part 1 / part 2 / part 3) by kentstartt (tumblr) 9 in-universe docs | texts, social media, and a video chat edit

Saturday, September 14: Team #16

📝 Fic: Make my World by brainwashpapi (ao3) 25k words | omegaverse, university/college AU, omega!jamie, alpha!roy, mating bites, heats 🎨 Art: ART for Make my World by armadillo1976 (ao3) 3 illustrations | scenes from fic, shared alongside quotes

Sunday, September 15: Team #14

📝 Fic: old aches become new again by moonlight_litany (ao3) 14k words | hurt jamie tartt, major character injury, angst, hurt/comfort 🎨 Art: Embedded in fic by nashapixie (tumblr) 1 banner + 2 edits | collage of moments + motifs

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the vastness between

"You’re fucking incredible, babe, you’ve got no idea. I love you so fucking much.”

Roy never thought a love confession could rip his heart out and yet here he is, crying because Jamie is crying while saying he loves Roy, and he doesn’t fucking understand what’s going on. He doesn’t understand why Jamie sounds so anguished, why he’s on the other side of the room saying this instead of in Roy’s arms, why there’s a sick feeling of dread in his stomach, why why why—

“Jamie, what’s going on? I love you too, why are you—”

“I’m leaving Richmond, Roy.”

or,

roy, jamie, and finding the right person at the wrong time

48.8k || 3 chapters, complete || angst with a happy ending, mutual pining || for @rjbigbang || beta by @beachytablecloth and art by @kentstartt

playlist available here!

Chapter 1: TIME || Chapter 2: ACHE || Chapter 3: YEARN

Art 1 || Art 2 || Art 3

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Everybody Wants to Be on TV

Artwork created for the RoyJamie Big Bang 2024 in collaboration with @abubblingcandle’s amazing fic

Jamie's agent suggests an off season charity revival of Jamie Tartt's reality TV career to get him back into the general public's consciousness. Celebrity Hunted seemed like the best fit but for that he needed a partner. There was only one person he could choose.

Roy for some reason says yes which leads then on a journey of self realisation up and down the UK while being pursued by bounty hunters

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ROY/JAMIE BIG BANG REVEALS: WEEK 2

Reveals Schedule | AO3 Collection | gif credit: @billy-crudup

Tuesday, September 3: Team #17

📝 Fic: The Almost Times by CallieB (ao3) 68k words | canon divergent AU, missed connections 🎨 Art: Embedded in fic (+ 1 on tumblr) by walnutmist (ao3) 5 gifs + 2 illustrations | canon-adjacent scenes from the fic

Thursday, September 5: Team #6

📝 Fic: could be your bullet and the proof by mixtapestar (ao3) 17k words | demisexual!roy, therapy, feelings realization, getting together 🎨 Art: tender royjamie kissing by combefetre (tumblr) 1 illustration | scene from the fic

Saturday, September 7: Team #5

📝 Fic: sweet like licorice by gr8_rach (ao3) 15k words | canon divergent AU, trans!jamie, leaked sex tape, revenge porn, hurt/comfort 🎨 Art: ART: Resolving Sexual Tension by shnuffleluv (ao3) 1 illustration | scene from the fic

Sunday, September 8: Team #13

📝 Fic: The Most Dangerous Thing by hopelessromances (ao3) 41k words | hunger games AU, heavy angst, canon-typical violence 🎨 Art: Embedded in fic by nashapixie (tumblr) 1 banner + 5 edits | key moments + tribute posters

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The Almost Times (E) 68k It wasn’t supposed to go this way. He doesn’t realise he’s said it out loud until Roy says, too loud: “What wasn’t supposed to go this way?” Jamie just stares at him, mouth opening and closing, and this is - there’s so much he could say. So much he could tell the great Roy Kent about the way things were supposed to be - the way they should have been friends, the things he wanted when he was a kid— Roy’s mouth - Roy’s mouth is so close to his. “Nothing,” he says, voice suddenly flat - and turns, and runs away. -- A series of moments which are almost something else.

I was paired up with @callieb for the @rjbigbang and she wrote a fucking amazing fic, go check it out 🥹

I made some gifs and fanarts (including this one) for it, so check them out on ao3 too 🤫

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ROY/JAMIE BIG BANG REVEALS: WEEK 1

Reveals Schedule | AO3 Collection | gif credit: @billy-crudup

Tuesday, August 27: Team #7

📝 Fic: Dig Deep, Little Bloke by shnuffleluv (ao3) 50k words | BDSM AU, age play, daddy kink, daddy!jamie, little!roy 🎨 Art: Dig Deep, Little Bloke- A companion coloring book by garlic_salt_is_superior (ao3) 5 illustrations | coloring book ft. quotes from the fic

Thursday, August 29: Team #9

📝 Fic: The One with All the Kissing by JessJesstheBest (ao3) 10k words | AFC Richmond Players, kissing the homies, established relationship, secret relationship, coming out 🎨 Art: ROYJAMIE | kiss me more by MicheleYourBelle (youtube) 1m video | edit ft. 'kiss me more' by doja cat

Saturday, August 31: Team #8

📝 Fic: A Short Song (But a Hell of a Story) by crimmtrent (ao3) 10k words | Australian Football AU, sports rivalries, enemies to lovers, internalized homophobia, coming out 🎨 Art: a short song (but a hell of a story) [VIDEO EDIT] by moonlight_litany (ao3) <1m video | edit ft. quotes from the fic

Sunday, September 1: Team #10

📝 Fic: One He Could Follow by FatRainbowCat (ao3) 47k words | fantasy AU, kings & knights & dragons & magic, sex magic, blood and violence 🎨 Art: companion set for one he could follow by jopzer (tumblr) 2 illustrations | king!jamie and end scene, also embedded in fic

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for my part of the royjamie big bang, as a companion set for the fic one he could follow by @fatrainbowcat :)

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created for a short song (but a hell of a story) by tedtrents. this work is part of the roy/jamie big bang 2024. check out the collection and this incredible fic on ao3!

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“So you thought you kissed your way into that situation, might as well kiss your way out of it?” “Basically!” Jamie cried. “‘S like that old American sitcom, innit?”* Or the one where Jamie can't stop kissing Roy in front of other people. Written for the @rjbigbang! 10.1k [Ao3] Video by MicheleYourBelle under the cut

The way it started was so fucking stupid that Roy could not be surprised at any of the stupid things that followed.

He was sitting at his desk - the one that had formerly been Ted’s - and Jamie was sitting on the corner, chatting with Nate about Mother’s Day plans. It was still early, Jamie having taken a ride to training with Roy, so it was still mostly just the coaches waiting for the rest of the team to fill out the dressing room.

“It’s always shitty being so far from mummy on mummy’s day,” Jamie said, sadly, his feet gently kicking back against Roy’s desk. “But she always likes the flowers I send her. And Simon lets me pick what he makes her for breakfast, so it’s like I’m there.”

“That’s thoughtful, Jamie,” Nate smiled, his own feet kicking back against the bookshelves he always perched on. “My mum never lets anyone cook for her, not even on mother’s day. But I do get her flowers. My niece and I might make her another special box as well.”

“You’re dead good at those,” Jamie told him. “But what does she need all these boxes for?”

“Oh, nothing. They all end up collecting dust in the attic. But we like making ‘em and she likes getting ‘em, so there’s really no harm.”

“Unless you consider ecological harm,” Trent said, sliding into his place against the doorframe, his mug softly steaming. “I imagine this crafting generates considerable waste.”

“Come on, Trent, you can’t quantify the quality of making art by equating it to the trash it makes,” Beard argued. “I’d rather Nate and baby niece Nate make a ton of garbage doing crafts than the waste major corporations generate doing capitalism.”

“And you could always recycle,” Jamie said. “Use old magazines or summat. That’s what I used to do.”

“Were you crafty, Jamie?” Trent smiled. “Make little posters of your favourite footballers?”

Jamie stiffened, his eyes head making an aborted jerk like he was fighting not to look at Roy. “No.” 

Roy smirked.

“All right,” Roy started, leaning forward in his chair and shoving at Jamie’s back. “That’s enough, Tartt, go put on your kit.”

“Okay so maybe I did!” Jamie said, hopping off the desk and turning to face Roy. “Doesn’t mean they were for you. There are other footballers.”

“Not according to Simon,” Roy grinned, his head tilting back to look up at Jamie as Jamie stepped toward him. “I can call him and get the real story if you like.”

Jamie scoffed, folding his hands into the bottom of his jumper. “Simon doesn’t know everything .” He frowned, leaning forward. “But you better not call mummy.”

Roy rolled his eyes, his face going just a bit too fond for company. “Go change, Tartt.”

“Ay ay, Coach,” Jamie said before leaning in to kiss him goodbye.

Roy and Jamie had kissed before. They kissed all the time: had been since they first kissed after that disastrous fight over Keeley that got both of them kicked out of her home and good graces. They’d worked out their aggression, their mutual attraction and, soon enough, their quads while they were fucking it out back at Roy’s place.

Roy’d had a special clause put in his manager contract that he wouldn’t have to break up with Jamie and Jamie would be totally protected as a player if they did break up. He’d worked it out with Rebecca, with Higgins, and with Sharon during his many therapist appointments about it.

But no one else knew. They’d never done this in front of anyone else.

They both froze.

Jamie pulled away. He and Roy had a half second of eye contact where they had the following silent conversation:

“I fucked up.”

“You fucked up.”

“I can fix it!”

“How the fuck are you gonna fix it?”

“Shut up, I’ve got this.”

Jamie stood up, his back rail straight, and took a deep breath. Roy watched him as he put the ‘Jamie Tartt’ affectation back on, smirk fixed, as he turned back to the rest of the room, everyone still struck speechless.

“Coach!” Jamie said, again, stepping towards Nate. Nate sat there, stunned, as Jamie took his face in his hands and kissed him full on the mouth.

Now it was Roy’s turn to be speechless.

“Big man Trent Crimm!” Jamie said, turning to Trent, and planting a fat one on the writer’s mouth. Tren’t mouth was still puckered when Jamie pulled back.

Jamie turned and pointed at Beard. “And I wouldn’t forget you, Coach!”

Beard tilted his face up to accept the kiss, seeming more prepared for it than the other two had. 

Jamie pulled away with a loud “Muah!” and grinned around to the assembled coaches, slightly manic. “See you on the pitch!” And he turned and fled the office.

They all watched him go for a few beats before the other three all turned their gazes to Roy, demanding explanation.

Roy did his best to pull out a Roy Kent worthy performance. “What the fuck was that!?”

Trent hummed, touching his mouth, consideringly. “Not half bad is what that was.”

Roy swallowed a growl. He couldn’t be obviously jealous and it’s not like Trent was wrong. Jamie was a famously excellent kisser.

“I'm more surprised you let it happen,” Nate said, still staring at Roy. “You didn’t even headbutt him.”

Roy grunted, crossing his arms. “It’s in my contract I’m not allowed to nut players anymore.”

“Still, you think you’d do it on instinct,” Beard said, eyebrow raised. “You didn’t even shove him.”

“I panicked! Froze up or some shit.” Roy said, desperate to get the attention off of him. “None of you did it either.”

Nate shrugged his mouth. “Well I never dreamed he’d kiss me .” he said. “He used to shove sweaty pants at my face.”

“I figured he was trying something.” Beard said, dismissively. “Thought we’d see where it goes.”

They all looked at Trent who held up his rainbow mug in tribute. “Who am I to deny a kiss from a beautiful man?”

Roy very heroically did not possessively bare his teeth.

“Well I’ll tell him to cut that out,” he grunted. “Can’t have players just go around kissing people. We’ll have a whole sexual harassment crisis.”

“That’s only if people don’t��want Jamie to kiss them,” Beard said, fairly.

Roy couldn’t quite bite back his growl at that. Beard put up his hands.

“I think it’s nice that we’ve created a culture where our players can be so comfortable with us,” Nate noted, pleased. “Remember when they were throwing me in bins?”

“Those can’t be the only two options,” Trent said. “Kissing or bins?”

“You’re right, we need a third option,” Beard said, leaning back in his chair. “Kiss, bin, go drinking with.”

“The three genders,” Trent confirmed with a smirk. “Of those three options, I’m happy to kiss Jamie. Couldn’t lift him to put him in a bin and I worry how we’d fair in conversation.”

Nate and Beard hummed in agreement and now Roy wanted to defend Jamie’s conversation skills of all things.

He wouldn’t because that would be fucking suspicious but he wanted to. How pathetic.

“I’ll bin the twat,” Roy said instead. “Someone should.”

“He’d probably bin himself if you asked him to,” Beard noted, smirking.

Roy smirked back, not disagreeing.

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