#bantr

[knowthatiloveyou]

God herself out here yet again showing support for the LGBTQ+ community. We love her so. 🏳️‍🌈

Hannah Waddingham with Jeff Conway today at her 'Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas' FYC Event in LA

[tinylilemrys]

god bless ted lasso for giving us an actual in universe app that fanfic writers can use for every you've-got-mail-like story you could imagine. it's one of my favourite tropes and it's just there, built into the show. life is so good right now.

[kingoftieland]

Ted Lasso believes in ROM-COMMUNISM! 💌

[puckyou-forpuckssake]

So I’m watching Ted Lasso again and in Season 2

Episode 3, Keeley asks the boys to join Bantr and Richard asks how it’s spelled. After she spells it, Colin says “Like Grindr.” They told us and we didn’t know!!!!!

[calicomarie11]

Chat 2

DartKing: Someone just asked me for a dick pic and it reminded me of you. Why are men like this?

GrimmReader: Unless I’m reading your profile wrong, you are a man so I don’t know what to tell you.

DartKing: What’s wrong with wanting a little romance? At least ask my favorite color or dinosaur before you try for a glimpse down my pants.

GrimmReader: What’s your favorite color?

DartKing: Ha, ha. Yellow, by the way.

GrimmReader: Hunter Green

DartKing: That’s very specific.

GrimmReader: I prefer precision. If I just said green, you might think I’m the type of person who likes lime green or avocado green or pea green.

GrimmReader: Favorite dinosaur? I haven’t heard that one before.

DartKing: My son went through a dinosaur phase and that was always the first thing he asked new people.

GrimmReader: My daughter has been obsessed with skeletons lately, so she’d probably ask what your favorite bone is.

DartKing: Now that is a loaded question.

GrimmReader: And now that I read that back I realize how that could be misconstrued. I really didn’t mean that to be dirty.

DartKing: No worries, I know you didn’t. So how old is the little princess?

GrimmReader: She’s 4 and more of a warrior queen than a princess. Your son?

DartKing: Turning 10 before I know it. He lives in the states with his mom.

GrimmReader: I’m sorry. My daughter lives with her mother most of the time and that’s hard enough. I can’t imagine her being on the other side of an ocean.

DartKing: Thanks. We FaceTime everyday and text. I go back whenever I get the chance. It’s not ideal, but I don’t have a lot of good options right now.

GrimmReader: Must be some job to keep you here.

DartKing: I’ll say. It’s like nothing I’ve ever done before. The people make it worth it and the money’s not bad either. Not that money is the most important thing, but it is nice to be able to fly first class when I go back to the states. And to be able to afford the big LEGO sets for my kid.

GrimmReader: I can’t say I’ve ever flown first class. My job typically books the cheapest travel options available or makes me drive myself.

DartKing: To be honest, I feel weird about it. I keep wanting to offer my seat to the flight attendants and go serve drinks so they can have a break.

DartKing: I didn’t exactly grow up in a first class family. I keep thinking I should find some charities to donate to, but I also don’t know how long this job will last and I want to bank enough to not worry about college tuition. Plus, alimony and child support.

DartKing: That I’m happy to pay, no mistake.

GrimmReader: I get it. I felt so guilty over my divorce I let her keep the house.

DartKing: Same. Although moving to London did factor in to the decision.

DartKing: so…your ex is a woman and you have a 4 year old but your profile says gay.

GrimmReader: is there a question in there?

DartKing: seems like there’s maybe a story there …

GrimmReader: A story for another time. It’s getting late and my daughter will be waking me up all too soon at an indecent hour.

DartKing:Got it. night, night, sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite.

GrimmReader: Don’t even joke about bed bugs. Good night.

DartKing: Good Night. Chat again soon?

GrimmReader: Sure.

Read on AO3

[ambnight]

Sam and Rebecca on bantr

(Side note: I’m not a fan of Sam and Rebecca’s relationship but I thought this was funny 😭)

[stonesandswords]

did i redownload bumble just for this? who’s to say 🤷

[wausaupilot]

Business Spotlight: bantr’s Rothschild location goes beyond beautiful hotel rooms and apartments, adding a major event venue and an exciting lineup for the future

[may-be-magic]

Look. I'm just saying if someone made Bantr an actual dating app, I'd be all over that shit.

[kbirbpods]

Cover Art by the incredible @vexbatch

Original Work: why can't we give love that one more chance? by @dairaliz

Rating: General Audiences

Relationship: Trent Crimm/Ted Lasso

Tags: Bantr, Epistolary, Online Dating, Bisexual Ted Lasso

Audio Length:  11 minutes, 42 seconds

Summary:

Ted should really learn to keep his mouth shut. One minute, he’s joking about finding his soulmate on Bantr, and the next, he’s had a steady text only relationship for a couple weeks now. At first, he only downloaded the app to maybe find a friend who was not employed by AFC Richmond. Are his friends great? Yes, they sure are! Do they have their own lives, which leaves Ted a little lonely in between training and games? Unfortunately, also yes. And while it’s probably not his soulmate and still very much a big ol’ question mark in the relationship column, it’s not nothing, and Ted has no idea how to bring it up to the guys that A) he downloaded the app in the first place and B) he’s considering actually meeting up with the guy he matched with. And, oh yeah, how to tell them it’s a guy.

Notes:

You open the Voiceteam 2023 yearbook and find that there's an entry on the superlatives page in the place of this podfic that simply tells you to flip to the end of the book. And so you do. To find the page entitled "Podfic with the Most Superlatives Because the Podficcer Had Too Many Thoughts." Then, underneath THAT superlative, you find the following superlatives listed: - "The Most Successful Use of Canon Element: bantr" - "The Most Successful Fic at Making You Realize the Standard British & American Southern Accents Are Too Similar" - "The Most I've Ever Needed the Other POV Please dairaliz I Beg You to Tell Us Trent's Thoughts" - "The Podfic You Can Come Up with the Most Mosts For." - Ravin You quietly close the yearbook, curse the superlatives challenge, and hope the podfic is any good.

[deathsbestgirl]

bantr is really such a good name for a dating app and i'm obsessed with it

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

i still think the funniest and most mortifying thing that can happen in any sort of bantr/"oops we started talking online not knowing we knew each other irl" scenario for tedependent is trent admitting he has a crush on ted in any capacity. this goes both ways but it's funnier for trent especially if it's like "hm, name a celebrity crush". you're talking to some stranger online and you're really vibing with them, they're really nice and smart and they make you laugh and listen to you and you like them a lot and then you ask them a silly get to know you question like "what's your celebrity crush" and they say Your Fucking Name. what is ted even supposed to do with that. is it unethical to not say anything? but also saying something would be the most awkward possible thing you could do, especially if they think you're messing with them. and then they follow it up with a defensive "i have actually met him! he really is that nice and handsome in person!" and ted's just putting his head in his hands. on one hand this is incredibly flattering and kind of sweet? on the other hand oh what the fuck

[providing-leverage]

Colinisaac thoughts again, brought to you by my fascination with how shitty an app Bantr is (Sam and Rebecca should not have been on each other's radars because age range should be a thing you can set, wth). Colin gets it and actually uses it because hey a dating app he can use around his friends! No pictures = safe and maybe he'll even find love.

Isaac uses it because sponsorship deal plus everyone else is. AFC Richmond makes up a game like how my friends use their tinder accounts for swiping when bored and let each other do if for them (I'm banned for being too picky). Except it's a shitty app and he's distracted when setting it up so somehow he ends up putting his settings on girls and guys.

You can probably see where I'm going with this.

[lasshoe]

watched hannah’s special with my family and the way my dad gasped in delight when jason showed up at the end…… the genetics cannot be refuted there bdjdjekejdsjdjlsp

[camgoloud]

choosing to believe that the reason why the show very pointedly did Not show us colin’s bantr promo last week is that this next episode we’re going to get to see colin and michael watching it together while michael teases colin about how bad at flirting he is

[calicomarie11]

Started writing a Bantr fic, like you do.