#this is also about royjamiekeeley

[supersonic-rocket-ship]

I never thought it could be possible to queerbait and straightbait at the same time

[caslutz]

i feel like some people don’t understand the bar scene at all because they’re like— this ruined royjamie and messed everything up, why did they make it about keeley!!

but that conversation was never about keeley guys!! yeah, roy and jamie might have been talking about her and they might have been pretending that, that’s what they cared about, but it was never about that actually.

roy asked jamie to go to that bar because he genuinely wanted to hang out with him, but once he started opening himself up to jamie (telling him he was proud of him and shit) things started to feel too real so his defenses go up immediately and that’s why he brings up keeley. not to make her seem unavailable but to make himself seem unavailable. roy kent’s emotional constipation(tm).

jamie only gets competitive because he’s hurt and that’s just in his nature. he had gone out with roy thinking that roy just wanted to hang out with him (and maybe something more??) but roy actually telling him it was never about that but to just rub keeley in his face makes him really upset, realizing he got the wrong idea. he thought maybe roy was reciprocating his feelings :(

like look how hurt he looks here!! that is not because he can’t get the girl, it’s because he thinks the guy doesn’t want him!!

[lunar-years]

When the season ended I thought the most likely couple to get (or get back) together first of the throuple (to set things in motion/kick things off) was royjamie followed by jamiekeeley followed by roykeeley. but the further removed we get from the season the more I think it’s very hard to say whether Roy figuring stuff out in therapy + breaking free from his intense repression or Keeley getting what she needs to out of her single era before being ready to be in a relationship again would happen first. And my increasingly favorite scenario is actually jamiekeeley getting together + Roy joining in shortly thereafter after a healthy bout of pining and an “oh no I’m left out” :( era to push him along in his Realizations

[jopzer]

someone made the fatal mistake of indicating that they would like to see me explain why i put every song into the jamie tartt but it's just mitski playlist so. here's that. i cannot be held responsible for how unwell im about to get OR how long this will be LOL

i don’t smoke

so if you need to be mean be mean to me i can take it and put it inside of me

look at that little masochist.

starting off strong with the royjamie flavor on this one 

but i don’t think it exclusively applies to rj, i think jamie’s sort of like. he is a dick he knows how to cope with people being dicks he understand it its easy to deal with. someone is a dick to me im going to be a dick back. short and sweet.

that mf is CONSTANTLY poking and prodding roy in s1 until that mf bites him. so that mf bites him. by s3 i think its less of “we are antagonizing each other as enemies” and more like. jamie voice you need to be a dick and i can take it.

if your hands need to break more than trinkets in your room you can lean on my arm as you break my heart

this line specifically feels like the rj fight in the finale to me if we’re open and honest and vulnerable with one another

just don't leave me alone wondering where you are i am stronger than you give me credit for

we are all in agreement that jamie needs smothering. i think roy would be hyperaware of Not smothering him if they got into a relationship and i think jamie would feel a little bit like spongebob under the heat lamp

washing machine heart

baby will you kiss me already and toss your dirty shoes in my washing machine heart? baby, bang it up inside baby, though i've closed my eyes i know who you pretend i am

this is just me doing cocomelon shit to jamie tbh.

even if roy isn’t using jamie as a rebound i think maybe it would not be a stretch of imagination for jamie to Think roy is using him as a rebound

especially if contextualized with like. mom city jamie catching them holding hands in his bed and it’s keeley who pulls away not roy. delicious

nobody

and i don't want your pity i just want somebody near me guess i'm a coward i just want to feel alright

iiiii just think jamie is a sopping wet little creature. yeah he’d kick the shit out of me so so easily and he’s also a terrible asshole but have you considered he’s such a sad lonely little guy sometimes

i also do think he would feel like a coward for not wanting to be alone whether or not he would admit to that feeling

like we saw him back at city we saw him drop those mfs like a sack of potatoes we saw how desperate he was for connection when he came back to richmond

desperate for connection but also for the entirety of season one absolutely unwilling to form meaningful connections; maybe because of his dogshit Coping Mechanisms maybe because he's just on loan and knows he won't be here long maybe hes just an Asshole maybe a deadly cocktail of all of the above lol

i've been big and small and big and small and big and small again and still nobody wants me

yeah. this one feels especially violently jamie LOL

he's been hot shit. he's been richmond's best player. he's also been just one of a million top players at city. he's been the bully and he's been subject to the boys giving it back to him. he's been the center of attention he's been no one at all

and still keeley doesn't want him. roy doesn't want him. we don't really see him pursue anyone else whether or not you want to read that as rj/rjk/jk. fascinates me.

of course people want jamie we know he gets around but i'm talking Meaningful Connections here

remember my name

i need something bigger than the sky hold it in my arms and know it's mine just how many stars will i need to hang around me to finally call it heaven?

again. we see each other. jamie NEEEEEDS someone to smother him to death with love if he's not suffocating on it he doesn't want it!!

jamie surrounds himself with pretty things and pretty people and i don't think he thinks its meaningless or anything but i do think he definitely wants more and that's very evident come s3

'cause i need somebody to remember my name after all that i can do for them is done i need someone to remember me

see above point

but also. hold my hand through some willful misinterpretation of these lyrics. jamie wants to be the fucking best he wants to be a legend he wants to be listed among the greats. clearly not his sole motivation anymore during/post s3 but i do think it's still incredibly important to his character

he can't be some Guy from manchester he wants people to list "tartt" alongside pelé and maradona and what have you. i think this is critical to understanding jamie he refuses to be forgotten

cop car

i get mean when I'm nervous like a bad dog

we do dog metaphor around these parts.

but for realsies i think this is very much jamie even into s3

when he gets defensive he gets mean

like we see him definitely falter with zava, this isn't his only method of shutting down but i do think he's absolutely prone to snarling and biting when he doesn't know how to react

he gets defensive. reverts to being a dick. see: bar scene in finale

i was meant for running fast i pretended you were mine, it made me calm babe

walk with me. s3 royjamie.

or at least how jamie thinks about him if nothing else

which. you know. could help explain his lashing out at the bar.

i've loved many boys, i've loved many girls i don't think about the past, it's always there anyway

this is a cheap shot. i see a little tormented bisexual man and go is anyone gonna chew on that and then dont wait for an answer

mf does Not like dealing with his past or his traumas lol. it's always there anyway.

townie

'cause we've tried hungry and we've tried full and nothing seems enough

fuck off jamie is starving to death and he hasn't ever managed to get rid of that feeling. trust. i'm right about this.

he's fucked around and he's partied and he's done the reckless drinking and he's done the casual coke and he's done meaningful relationship but he can't get anything right.

he's been starved his whole life and he doesn't know how to fix it.

and i want a love that falls as fast as a body from the balcony, and i want a kiss like my heart is hitting the ground

we all know love and violence are inextricable for jamie. they're the same. he's still pulling those apart

i think he's very much the sort of guy who wants it fast and hard and intense and he wants to feel all consumed, wants it to feel dangerous and too much

i'm holding my breath with a baseball bat though i don't know what I'm waiting for i am not gonna be what my daddy wants me to be

i think the holding my breath but i don't know why is Very applicable to jamie's whole deal.

like just in how he copes with his various traumas most of all james

which ties in very fun with the last line. like so much of his arc is that hes Not gonna be what his daddy wants him to be. he's gonna be what his body wants him to be.

i also think this is probably how jamie is in a relationship with roy or roykeeley like he's waiting for something that isnt ever going to come with them because they arent going to hurt him in a way he doesn't Want if they are together

dunno. he fascinates me.

old friend

i haven't told anyone just like we promised have you? every time i drive through the city where you're from i squeeze a little

this verse right here is so so so very royjamie to me okay

we know jamie doesn't like people Poking around in his relationships on TOP of you know. violent homophobia in football world

secret little torrid affair between the two of them. lives in my brain

abbey

i am hungry i have been hungry i was born hungry what do i need?

come onnnnnnnn

this is so jamie it makes me want to pass out

he's so fucking hungry he's always searching for something to hold onto or tear into with his teeth. jamie and hunger are like synonyms to me.

alongside the inability to name what it is he's hungry for!

incapable of admitting that it's love! it's always been love!! most especially from the people he's refusing to accept it from!!

i am something i have been something i was born something what could i be?

jamie's whole life is built on Being Somebody; he is a young, sexy, rich, famous prem player like. he is Somebody. he's Something. he's a footballer but like

who is he beyond that?

i think perhaps mr tartt would have a little bit of trouble answering that one

valentine, texas

let's step carefully into the dark once we're in, i'll remember my way around who will i be tonight? who will i become tonight?

this one may be sort of a stretch but i think jamie very much sort of molds himself to what he knows someone will like in interpersonal relationships?

like he's very head strong very loud personality but when we see him alone with keeley and we see him alone with roy and see him alone with ted they're all Such different people

which is aided by the fact theyre all sort of in different points of his character arc

but i also think he sort of cant help himself when he's alone with someone

stay soft

you stay soft, get beaten only natural to harden up

don't think i really need to explain this one we all saw the boot scene

i am face down on my bed still not quite awake yet thinking of you i tuck my hand under my weight just tell me what you want to do tell me what you want to burn away 'cause i could be your stoker

i think this could be split into two sections but i think it functions SOOO well as one it is important

yeah i'm thinking of you in the low morning light. yeah i can be what you need i can burn away parts of both of us i can make you forget

love me more

if i keep myself at home i won't make the same mistake that I made for fifteen years i could be a new girl i will be a new girl

think this line is just very indicative of jamie's whole brainspace vis a vis his improvement and development

he wants to be someone else so bad by the time s2 comes around. ugh.

here's my hand there's the itch but i'm not supposed to scratch

he seems very much the type to deny himself things

obviously not like. fun stuff. casual stuff.

but i mean like. things that will make him seem Soft. love and what have ye.

i'm not supposed to be someone who wants something i'm not supposed to slake this thirst

be it for gay reasons or otherwise btw. i'm interpreting it bisexual style but you get the idea

i need you to love me more love enough to fill me up love enough to drown it out drown it out, drown me out

i cut some repetition and stuff for brevity's sake comma but

this verse right here. this is the real jamie of the song

fill me up. drown me out. i'm too much even for me (even if i think im gods gift to football).

need to be smothered!!!!! fill me up!!!!! drown it out!!!!! the buzzing in my head and the want in my lungs i cant take it take it from me!!

how do other people live? i wonder how they keep it up? when today is finally done there's another day to come

mom city sadboy era right here

i wash my hair but i don't use conditioner because like. what's the point!!!

should've been me

relive all the ways you still want me i haven't given you what you need you wanted me but couldn't reach me i'm sorry it should've been me

this is jamiekeeley to me

clearly it still tugs at him like. the funeral confessions and inviting to her brazil and fisticuffing in the dirt

whether or not he still feels romantically about her in s3 i think he probably still feels Bad about what a shit he was in s1 specifically to keeley

idk. maybe this one's just me. think he's very very very squirmy about her and roy's relationship to start and then it melts into something Different you know? should've been me. sorry.

geyser

you're my number one you're the one i want and you've turned down every hand that has beckoned me to come you're my number one you're the one i want and I've turned down every hand that has beckoned me to come

royjamie to me.

that line in s3 where keeley says she hasnt seen/heard about jamie being with anyone in a really long time. the way we know roy also not really accepting offers is he.

yall know the fic that's like. the first time they hook up, roy pauses mid thrust to say "this is a one time thing. i'm still messed up over keeley." that sort of vibe

and ram jamming the "had a poster of you on my wall when i was a kid. used to think you were the best." and teaching him to ride a bike and gravitating toward roy all the time and absolutely panting and drooling for his attention any way he can get it its all just like. yeah. you're my number one. you're the one i want.

feel it bubbling from below hear it call, hear it call hear it call to me constantly and hear the harmony only when it's harming me it's not real, it's not real it's not real enough but i will be the one you need the way i can't be without you i will be the one you need i just can't be without you

snifflin and sobbin

all points from the last bit also apply to this bit tbh..

i will be the one you need. i just can't be without you. but theres a fucking volcano in my chest that's telling me to cut ties and run that'll burn us both. i can only understand it when it hurts.

blue light

somebody kiss me, i'm going crazy i'm walking 'round the house naked

how long's a man meant to be alone??

also. well. he does walk around the house naked doesn't he.

he wants so deeply too i think he thinks being loved could fix him. even if it's temporary. even if it doesn't matter. maybe this is why he fucks around so hard in s1 maybe this is why he's still so messed up about keeley after they break up maybe this is why he's o obsessed with roy. we'll never know but man do i think about it!

out there i'm a sharp knife

look me in the eyes and tell me this isn't what the prick signal thing is about

he is a sharp knife. he is cutting through opposing teams he's such a shit and he's efficient and useful and good at what he does

there's something smart to be said about this one specifically but my brain is feeling a little bit like mush

pink in the night

i glow pink in the night in my room i've been blossoming alone over you and i hear my heart breaking tonight i hear my heart breaking tonight do you hear it too?

i'm a big boy i can admit to this being self indulgent

royjamie innit tho

just love the flavor of jamie thinking its unrequited and hes a freak weirdo for being into roy (his ex's ex, his frenemy, his coach, the guy who's gone out of his way again ans again and again to make sure jamie is okay even when he does it with a headbutt and all grumbily and jamie is making it Weird by getting one ounce of affection and love and falling in love) (roy is thinking the same thing but opposite. trust.)

i could stare at your back all day i could stare at your back all day and i know i've kissed you before, but i didn't do it right can i try again, try again, try again

see this bit could actually be jamiekeeley

i never stopped pining. i know i fucked up. please can i try again try again try again i'm better i know how to love you now.

when you combine these two verses you get rjk. trust.

but i can also very much see rj going from a weird fwb thing to a relationship or at least jamie pining over him so much it makes him sick and pretending those kisses are Something. do you get me. you get me.

once more to see you

in the rearview mirror, i saw the setting sun on your neck and felt the taste of you bubble up inside me but with everybody watching us, our every move we do have reputations we keep it secret won't let them have it

SHUT UP!!!!!! ROYJAMIE ANTHEM SHUT UP!!!!!!!

shut up. are you kidding me.

not only do we know jamie is incredibly cagey about people shoving their fingers into his (personal?) love life, we know that this would be Their secret maybe always, maybe to start, no one on this big blue ball would explicitly Know about them

people guess and they guess right but this relationship is sacred its secret its Theirs

they have reputations, after all

and letting people know is opening them both up to a whole world of horrible no good very bad shit storm and and and

aguhuguhaughagaguayga

so come inside and be with me, alone with me alone, with me alone if you would let me give you pinky promise kisses then i wouldn't have to scream your name atop of every roof in the city of my heart

ok this imagery just kinda makes me nauseous move along

thursday girl

glory, glory, glory to the night that shows me what I am as i go to the party on my knees saying take it oh please

party girl isnt he

think we could talk about that as a persona/way to cope but. that might be making things a little deeper than they are. i might be in too deep about mr tartt

and tell me no tell me no tell me no tell me no somebody please tell me no

this however is not me in too deep this is just real

on hand and knee begging someone to tell him no. sometimes it's ted most of the time it's roy. what are you gonna do

a loving feeling

what do you do with a loving feeling if the loving feeling makes you all alone? what do you do with a loving feeling if they only love you when you're all alone?

can we talk about royjamie i've been dying to talk about royjamie

really into the image of jamie pining and being sooo fucking angry about it. how did i get here this is BULLSHIT!!!

i think there is an understanding that they Can't be public even if they Are in a relationship and jamie doesn't even necessarily Want people to know about them but he is fucking punching a wall about it in the privacy of his own home

^ that bit is for the last line ONLY. separate thoughts, making you all alone and loving all alone

i think this could also very very easily be rjk with the trope we all know and love: rk as an established couple and jamie knowing he's just a third to spice things up for them. whether or not he actually is is between you and your maker.

holding hands under a table meeting up in your bedroom making love to other people telling each other it's all good kisses like pink cotton candy talking to everyone but me i'm stayin' on later just in case you come up and ask to leave with me

sorry you want me to believe this is not rj? you want me to believe in my heart of hearts this isn't exactly where they start? i don't believe you. you are lying to yourself and to me.

first love/late spring

wild women don't get the blues but I find that lately i've been crying like a tall child

you saw mom city. you get it.

one word from you and i would jump off of this ledge i'm on baby tell me "don't" so i can crawl back in

he's a good listener by s3 aint he

i just think its interesting who he's listening to. okay

and i was so young when i behaved twenty five yet now i find i've grown into a tall child

i think jamie definitely had to fend for himself a lot as a youngin as the only child of a single mom who was clearly struggling

everyone is always (rightly) calling him a child in s1 but have they considered he's just a 23 y/o teenage girl

i think the "such a child." line from roy uhhh really struck him please look at his face after roy says this. i'm not even making this a royjamie verse but clearly that struck him in some sort of way

to have your childhood hero look you in the eye and belittle you so clearly and concisely in a way that very clearly stung

i dunno. fascinates me. fascinating little creature that jamie tartt.

goodbye, my danish sweetheart

there's nobody better than you it took me a while 'til i knew but you knew from the start it was us, didn't you? it just took me a while 'til i knew

jamiekeeley w, this song.

i think it's also a very rose colored glasses way to view rj

which you know what. makes it a very good rjk song doesnt it.

so, i don't blame you if you want to bury me in your memory i'm not the girl i ought to be, but maybe when you tell your friends you can tell them what you saw in me and not how i turned out to be

pure unadulterated jamiekeeley right here.

i fucked it up. i'm not who i'm supposed to be. i'm not who i was supposed to be for you. but maybe when you tell people about me and about us you can tell them who you wanted me to be because he's better than who i am.

ugh.

there's some kind of burning inside me it's kept me from falling apart and i'm sure that you've seen what it's done to my heart but it's kept me from falling apart

this is so so so so so so jamie. come ON.

there is a fire in him and he doesn't really know how to field it or when to fan it and its burning through him in s1/most of s2.

it's launched him into being one of the best in his sport but it's also ruining the good things around him

little idiot does NOT understand human connection in s1. love him bad.

you're a battler, jamie.

now here i lay as i wonder about you would you just tell me what i'm meant to do? 'cause i've waited and watered my heart 'til it grew you can see how it's blossomed for you

you know who's really really good at telling jamie what to do.

and i don't mean to make your heart blue but could we be what we're meant to be? i'm just about to beg you, please and then, when you tell your friends you can tell them what you saw in me and not the way i used to be

back to jk with this one. i personally believe it's very rjk but it's textually very jk.

i'm better than i was. please believe in me. lets try again and lets be better than we were i know how to love you now.

humpty

i broke our belongings they're all on the floor the room is now empty nothing left to throw all the eggshells are on the ground and i try, i'm trying to pick them up but they crack and crumble, it's all too much too frail for me to touch

idk if i can really justify this one much outside of my own head it's just real okay.

i think jamie knows he chronically fucked up with keeley. i think he also knows he can and will lash out with very little provocation.

he's trying to pick up what he fucked up (think early s2) but it's a fucking nightmare and he's gonna have to slog around with tweezers to pick up the pieces of what he fucked

i'm realizing this song is very roy also but of course it is they're the same guy as much as they are fundamentally different

i broke what you gave me but you kept giving more and I'm sorry for taking but I keep wanting more, more, more

see all above points and ttb for my thoughts about the black hole in jamie tartt's chest

shame

i never was very good i haven't been so good but right outside the door nobody knows they're right outside the door and they don't know how it feels so good it feels so good

right outside the door everyone knows. they know it.

i think this ones sort of up to interpretation

idk. is it sexy? is it the ache in him in knowing how awful he was for so long? is it both and neither?

my brain is turning to mush i think. too much jamie in the diet

class of 2013

mom, i'm tired can i sleep in your house tonight? mom, is it alright if i stay for a year or two?

listen. jamie does not have this brand of mommy issues. i'll own up to that.

i hear the word "mom" and enter a fugue state thinking about mom city

this one's just for me it doesn't have to make sense

liquid smooth

i'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too and feel my skin is plump and full of life i'm in my prime i'm liquid smooth, come touch me, too i'm at my highest peak, i'm ripe about to fall, capture me or at least take my picture kuzurete yuku maeni i'm pulsing, my blood is red and unafraid of living beginning to end

c'mon.

he is a fine young thing. and sneaking in the "before i fall apart?" yeah. real.

jamie thesis. i'm young and sexy i'm in my fucking PRIME touch me take a picture of me remember me remember me i'm holding on by the skin of my teeth. don't look too hard because i might start to crumble in your hands.

brand new city

i think my fate is losing its patience i think the ground is pulling me down i think my life is losing momentum i think my ways are wearing me down

i think you could narrow this moment of his down to mom city where he is just so Lost.

but i think more appropriately you could absolutely name his whole arc in late s1/early s2

this stupid life i stupid lead is causing everything to crash down around me but i don't know how else to live or act or behave

i'm jamie fucking tartt!!

but if i gave up on being pretty, i wouldn't know how to be alive

i just think this is him don't mind me

like obviously he's more than his pretty he is jamie fucking tartt and he's a shooting star at what he does. yeah, i work hard. but.

i also think being pretty and being desired is his like. number two personality trait

or at least thats what he wants us to see him as. you know??

eric

you like control, well, i do too take off my clothes and watch me move you can come closer, i'll let you hurt me how you choose

well. we've all seen how roy and jamie interact with one another haven't we.

but how long, how long can we play this way i'm tired, i'm tired of not loving you my heart, my heart wants to hold you but i know, i know, i know the rules blue light, dark room, the white of your teeth as you smile at my trembling shoulders but your skin, did you notice your skin it cries a soft weep like mine i'll sell, i'll sell my heart to you what's my, what's my, what's my price? how 'bout, how 'bout just a part of you? 'cause i want, i want, i want, i want i want, i want, i want, i want, i want

i really did try to narrow this down and not include almost uhhhh the whole rest of the song but good GOD. royjamie anthem.

jamie wants SOOOO BADLY!!!!!! but has almost certainly convinced himself it's just sex with roy!!! doesnt matter if roy is tits over tail obsessed with him (canonical) or if it actually just IS rebound sex.

this is real to me. sorry. royjamie anthem.

he wants.

door

i looked out at the dark and wondered how could I have lost it? a hopeless violence i named it love

so. i did not want to include an entire song twice in a row but this song very much tells a story you kinda gotta listen to the whole thing to get the picture

but

i think this one is VERY jamiecore.

denying himself this integral part of himself as both like. a man living in a very masculine sphere of the world on top of being a victim of abuse that canonically leans in on his masculinity

swearing to be so tough his dad could never call him soft again??

and also jamie's whole like. proximity to love and violence and presentation and consumption

idk if this is making any sense but god it IS real.

i lost this part of me and this part was love and real human connection and it is a gnawing biting clawing thing i need to love and be loved in a way that scares me and most often with teeth tearing into me. augh.

real men

real men don't need other people, and real men suck it in real men don't flinch or bleed in public oh, i think i'm a real man

look at me in my eyes and tell me this isn't Exactly jamie's thought process in s1. arguably even through his character arc to the end.

though honestly, sir all i wanna do is get naked in front of you so you can look me up and down and give me your love for being so good but little boys hold me, color me praise me, make me feel lovely for a little while so little boy, say you want me 'cause, well, i can't take it go ahead do it, do it

sorry. you want Me? a royjamie? to be normal about these verses?

especially when jamie's whole thing is fucking. making himself desirable and putting on a show. peacocking is his #1 favorite activity of all time.

and roy's whole thing is. well. roy's whole thing. watching him with his eyes glued to the little fuck even when he's sucking his teeth so so so angrily and spitting mad

i just think jamie loves an audience whether or not its good for him and roy can't do anything but watch. they're trapped. sisyphiean in nature aint it.

[oldfashionedmorphine]

You don't like byler anymore?

okay this is the second anon i’ve gotten that’s kinda upset me because of distancing myself from the ship/ST fandom….and i’m trying really hard not to overthink things or be over sensitive or dramatic or something….

but look, it’s not that i don’t like them anymore—cause i do—there’s something about the childhood best friends to lovers trope that is very personal to me (it’s what got me to latch onto said ship to begin with) but the state of the fandom (drama, ageism, the same old ridiculous discourse every week, and people taking things way too seriously…i needed a break!!) and honestly in doing so, it was so easy to jump back into another ship(s) that i dearly love just as much because it makes me happy :)

sorry but royjamie has my heart right now.

and i signed up for the royjamie big bang cause i’ve been wanting to write for them for the past two months and i haven’t written anything since january 18th (back when i finished writing iawwyh ch 21, since ch 22 was written more than a year ago…which has fucking sucked for me) but this new story finally has me super excited to write again! <3

[destinationtoast]

In search of a cheerleader/early reader

I could use a cheerleader and/or someone to bounce a few questions off of for chapter 1 of my current Jamie/Roy -> Jamie/Roy/Keeley fic. I'm not currently looking for detailed beta feedback. Would anyone be interested in being an early reader and lending a hand?

The draft of Chapter 1 will probably be 3-4K words (rated Explicit). It's a humorous but also angsty fic, in which Jamie and Roy have started shagging after training, but Jamie also sees that Roy and Keeley are both still very sad and hatches a plot to get them back together.

He just has to send a couple letters—one to Keeley, pretending to be Roy, and one to Roy, pretending to be Keeley.  Both explaining how much they miss each other and asking to meet up. And both convincing them to move past whatever it was that Roy did to fuck things up in the first place.  And then they can get back together and finally both be happy again.  Easy peasy, lemon’s queasy, as Nan used to say.

[atorionsbelt]

recently had epiphany that royjamiekeeley arc is eerily similar to stoncy and then saw someone else say royjamie has similar vibes to wolfstar. everywhere i go my ghost ships of fandom’s past follow me

[redshoes-blues]

I have so many thoughts on the finale but it’s 2am, so sleep it is! Adieu etc

[findafight]

really want a social media fic where the internet tries to decipher what the heck is going on between royjamiekeeley post s3. Like what is going on with them. Roy and Jamie's public distaste for each other becoming their funky little friendship, Keeley and Jamie being exes who are still friendly, Roy and Keeley also exes that also seem friendly, actually very close. Possible reconciliation ? but it's also like. There are pap shots where it's not clear if they're kissing or not. Between all three of them. The internet sleuthing of discovering Jamie's old Roy Kent stan account. That was also a Keeley jones thirst account (to be fair it was only thinly veiled by stan status because lbr it was a Roy Kent thirst account too.) The pictures of the three of them arm-in-arm and laughing going out and about. The wild speculation about which one of the boys Keeley is fucking without even the barest hint and thinking it could be both. Jamie making veiled references to living something even better than his teen fantasy but it's always in a tone that suggests it's not just football he's talking about with a smug grin. Roy getting caught looking fond in public far more often in the past year than he ever did in the rest of his career. Keeley deflecting questions in a way that doesn't seem like a deflection. The constant presence the other two have on each other's social media (even Roy, who posts something other than a game update or official statements etc more often, but gets into public twitter fights less). All of them so crazy about each other and so boldly in love they're honestly surprised most people haven't figured it out.

Am I going to have to write this? Am I going to have to figure out how to format tweets or whatever on ao3 for this? Fuck.

[threewaywithdelusion]

Ted Lasso fic idea: RoyJamieKeeley are all together. And Jamie and Keeley both assume Roy is kind of a homebody. The two of them are always going to clubs, getting all dolled up and dancing all night. They come home drunk (assuming Jamie is drinking again) and stumbling into furniture, Keeley’s heels in her hands, in the early hours of the morning and Roy grumbles at getting woken up.

They invite Roy to come out with them of course, but he usually prefers to stay in reading a good book. They’ve both heard stories about him partying, but they assume those days are behind him.

Then, one day for some reason Roy decides to go out with them. And he’s a wild party animal (this is canon. He went out with his yoga moms and they stayed until the club closed and then went to get kebabs with a drag queen). Jamie and Keeley, who both think of themselves as big wild partiers, are just along for the ride, desperately trying to keep up. Roy drinks. Roy does a little head-bob step side-to-side thing that passes for dancing. Roy drags them into the bathroom for a hookup. He can get them into the most exclusive clubs because he just happens to know the people who work there.

Maybe he’s out with the whole team to celebrate a victory and the whole team is watching with dropped jaws as they see a Roy Kent they’ve never met before. Maybe it’s just Jamie and Keeley. I just think it would be really interesting character-wise and also hilarious to try to reconcile the Roy we canonically see on-screen with the Roy we’ve heard about, who sleeps with women who steal his watch and was a proud prick at 23 and knows how to let loose and party.

[royjamierot]

hi! if it’s not much bother, i somewhat recently just started reading some royjamie fics, but i wanted to ask if you had any must-read fic recs, or even any authors you enjoy for the pairing? i don’t mind if they’re long or short, royjamie only or rjk as well

thanks for your time!

YESSS IT'S NOT A BOTHER AT ALL I LOVE GIVING FIC RECS!! i love this thank you this a great chance for me to freak out about my favorite fics. in no particular order, here! I'll do my best to write a brief description and also put the ratings

in the next one, will you find me by nebuloussubject

this is a mature fic where jamie wakes up to an alternate universe where roy is 22 and a new transfer to richmond. it talks a lot about roy's vulnerability and also jamie's as well and it makes me sooo emotional i love it so much

it’s (not) only make believe by screaming_crying_perfect_storm

mature fic and FAKE DATING AU!!! it's sooo good it's unfinished rn but every new update makes me so insane it's literally soo good. it has georgie and simon in it and mutual pining it's amazing. i highly recommend everything from this author.

trip of my life by floweredhalo

unrated but not explicit fic about roy accidentally doing mushrooms and jamie taking care of him. it's such a sweet fic it lives in my mind.

that's what i want (collection) by BelmotteTower and Scoatney Hall

this is royjamiekeeley! i was so engaged in this collection i read most of it in a day i highly recommend it. it's so sweet and i love the relationships between the three of them.

open hand or closed fist would be fine by Tallfroggie20

royjamie again. mature also. this one is about roy and jamie being touch starved and filling that void in each other and also growing since the season one finale. I couldn't put this one down. one of my fave oneshots.

Be Furious by Emmybazy

this is an explicit younger roy/older jamie fic because this idea makes me insane. i love roy character studies and fics that make him younger tend to do this veryyyy well i love this fic. jamie and roy wear sweaters in this one which i love imagining.

love, that loosener of limbs by literatus

this is explicit basically just royjamie sex in the woods and also references to jane austen. i love this one im so normal about it.

Hospital Ball (Jamie Tartt's Adventures in Matchmaking) by dannyPURO

explicit fic :) i love this one it's mostly royjamie and some royjamiekeeley but it's so funny and jamie in this always makes me laugh. jamie and roy sleep together a ton and jamie thinks it's because roy is sad over keeley and roy thinks they're dating. shenanigans ensue.

Two Things Can Be True by cheerfuldisdain

this is a teen royjamiekeeley fic where roy processes his feelings about the two of them and also goes to therapy! also not finished yet but it is sooo good.

a muppet, dying of the incurable condition of being a little bitch by PeonyPages161

rated teen royjamie fic where roy calls jamie drunk a bunch of times when he's sad and they grow from that!! it's so good i love the way it's developing. also unfinished so far.

and i think that's a good list of my favorites? i definitely recommend all of these i hope you enjoy! if you are looking for specific recommendations for a specific tag or general vibe id be happy to give those as well!

[vole-mon-amour]

3x09, part 4.

These two :D This is actually precious.

I had a feeling he was gonna hug Isaac the way he once hugged Jamie. But hey, sitting next to him works, too. At least Roy understands, especially since Keeley (and probably his own feelings for Jamie and coming to terms with his sexuality).

Don't you fucking START playing with my feelings or I'm gonna develop a fear of Jamie not being canonically bisexual/queer (while I'm convinced he is). Yo, that was promising for a second, but then straight up scary.

Also, Beard saying it... you and Ted are both bisexuals probably, c'mon.

Sam is being the bestest boy again.

Oh, Roy. Rebecca whipping his ass, Roy understanding, then helping Isaac to process it while Isaac is crying. This episode is has sooo many things in it. I love it.

Will in the room again btw. :D

That expression again, like when Jamie saw something on Will's phone. Just say he's bi and go :((((

Beard looking like a proud dad. Trent <333

I dislike that Colin felt so pressured to come out that he did, because he really didn't have to, you know? At the same time, the moment felt right, so it's now or never maybe, so I understand why he did it.

I have a lot of thoughts but. Ted. Just Ted. Just this amazing person.

*sigh* Have I told you already that I love him?

Are we going here somewhere???? Are we???? Ever since we learned that Trent is, in fact, gay and gives Ted THAT look since what, season 2, as James himself learned about Trent's sexuality? I can't leave it alone. All the feelings he must be feeling for Ted and the person that he is. Jfc. *gets myself a second tinfoil hat on top of my RoyJamieKeeley one* TedTrent when? Ted is oblivious and Trent is pining hard.

He's not afraid of being wrong and admit it. I love this show so much.

Unironically: thank you, Jamie.

[lunar-years]

what's currently motivating me to continue working on this fic is the knowledge that i get to tag it 'Keeley Jones Needs a Hug' AND 'Jamie Tartt Needs a Hug.'

[thetarttfuldickhead]

hi! do you have any ted lasso blog recs- especially if they're royjamiekeeley focused? thank-you!

Greetings, exalted one! Always such a pleasure to run into a fellow RJK fan! <3

I’m afraid that I’m not a great person to ask, as I’m still rather new to the fandom myself and tend to follow quite few people in general, but you can have the TL blogs I follow (some with an appropriate love for our OT3) and then maybe my kind followers would care to chime in with more suggestions? I’d love to hear them myself – feel free to plug yourself too, if you fit the RJK bill!

Here goes:

@destinationtoast – not a Ted Lasso blog per se, but posts a lot about it and also write the sweetest OT3 fic and sometimes meta! The stuff not related to TL is also great, so this is just a good blog for anyone to follow, really. Does fandom statistics!

@scoatneyhall – knows a lot of things about football and the Premier League (and England) and is very generous about sharing their knowledge. Writes OT3 fic, writes meta and reblogs a lot of TL stuff.

@jamiesfootball– mix of reblog and original posts, lots of fun stuff to be found. Writes fic, including a post-season 3 one I’m eagerly awaiting, though I believe it’s RJ rather than RJK.

@liesmyth – multifandom blog, but you get A LOT of glorious TL stuff, including interesting meta and some very nice fic! Also, a nice helping of The Locked Tomb stuff, which I adore!

@pghumfort – mix of reblog and original posts, almost all of it TL! Lots and lots of RJ but a fair bit of RJK too! Writes fic and will happily join discussions and add to posts (which I adore) and talk TL to you!

@lunar-years – multifandom, but a fair bit of Ted Lasso, both original posts (fun meta!) and reblogs. Absolutely on the OT3 train. Huge on Taylor Swift lately, so if you’re into that as well as Ted Lasso, this is a great choice!

@jedusaur– multifandom and posts less about TL than the others, but writes lovely (and often kinky) fic, both for your RJK and RJ needs!

@hacash – mostly NOT a TL blog and I’m not sure if they do RJK at all, but their TL meta is thoughtful and interesting.

@itsalinh – has not posted in like a month so no idea if they’re gone for good, and I’m not sure they were into RJK, but they posted a lot of fun TL stuff! Also knows a lot about football and was happy to answer questions it.

@sabra-n – does not post a lot about TL anymore but there’s great stuff if you go back a bit, including lovely and well-put meta.

[sakebytheriver]

I've been working on like so many fics rn and I just wanna post a little snippet of one because I need some attention 🙏😭😭😭

Enjoy this snippet of one of the pwp RoyJamieKeeley fics I've got begging me to finish them 💕😭

“Truth or dare?” Jamie couldn’t believe Roy was still making him play this game while Jamie could feel the other man’s breath curling around the skin of his cheek.

“Uh,” Jamie stammered, desperately willing, his voice to work. “T–truth.” 

He was almost proud of himself when he got the word out, but then Roy had to ask his stupid question, and Jamie wanted to crawl under a rock and never come out.

“What would you do when you looked at those posters?"

“I– what?” He spluttered, finally looking up from his bandaged ankle to look into Roy’s eyes. 

He regretted it immediately. 

Roy was so close that their noses bumped against each other, and somehow, Jamie had to be the one to flinch away because Roy didn’t even react. And then his eyes drifted to Jamie’s lips obviously, like the older man wanted nothing more in the world than to lean in the few centimeters separating them and kiss him. 

Which was utterly insane and must mean that Jamie has finally lost it and is hallucinating all of this right now.  

“When you looked at that poster of me and that poster of Keeley on your wall,” Roy spoke slow and deep, looking into Jamie’s eyes all serious like he was explaining the nuclear launch codes, but still patronizing like he was speaking to a child. “What would you do?” 

In an instant Roy’s expression shifted to one Jamie recognized well, that teasing bastard expression Roy would wear when he was captain and wanted to watch Jamie get taken down a peg. Eyebrow slightly raised, one sharp canine exposed in a lopsided smirk that wrinkled the skin next to his dark brown eyes full of a spark Jamie knew was meant to provoke him. As if Roy already knew the answer and wanted to dare Jamie not to say it. 

Which was definitely on purpose, because fuck, Jamie wanted to tell the truth now just to spite the old bastard. How the fuck did he do that with just a fucking look? So not fair. 

“I–” Jamie choked on his own spit, turning back to the bandage on his ankle as he coughed awkwardly. “I–um…” he trailed off, closing his eyes tight and taking a deep breath before his voice whispered past his lips with the answer. “I–I wanked.”

“Say that again, didn’t quite catch it.” Roy’s smug voice teased directly into Jamie’s ear, and he couldn’t help himself from rearing back and looking at the man with a pissed off expression.

“Ah fuck off,” Jamie shoved his elbow into Roy’s side. “Yeah you did, ya’ old fuck.” 

His cheeks felt like a camp fire as he spit his insult into Roy’s face still so fucking close to his own and also so annoyingly unaffected. Smirking like this was exactly what he wanted Jamie to do. Fucking arsehole. And Jamie was about to tell him so, right before Keeley’s sweet voice rang through the room, reminding him that Roy and he were not the only ones here.

“But I didn’t.”

Jamie’s head snapped to look in her direction, eyes wide and jaw hanging open as he looked over at her now resting her chin on both her hands with her elbows propped up on the arm of her chair watching the two of them with rapt attention. Attention Jamie recognized as arousal. 

“I–” he stuttered, completely forgetting what it was he was supposed to be telling her. 

With his gaze pinned to Keeley's, Jamie didn’t even notice as Roy’s arm behind him on the couch started moving until it was too late and the older man’s fingers had curled into his hair and pulled none too gently. Jamie couldn’t stop himself from whining, his muscles going lax and his eyes slipping closed for a second before he snapped them back open. 

“Go on,” Roy’s deep voice rumbled as the man leaned in close enough that his lips brushed against the soft skin on the shell of Jamie’s ear. “Tell the lady what you used to do looking up at her poster on your wall.” 

Jamie shivered at the command, his eyes still locked onto Keeley’s watching the way her pupils blew out at the sight of them, her gaze dark and hungry in a way that hadn’t been directed towards him in a while. 

“I– I would…” Jamie swallowed, his tongue clumsy and thick, accent getting heavier the way it always did when he got turned on. “I would ‘ave a wank.”

Roy’s answering growl and the way his fingers clenched in Jamie’s hair tight enough to send sparks of pain down his spine while Keeley gasped like she was watching a porno was all worth saying that loud enough to fill the whole room. And when Roy’s voice hummed into his ear, Jamie was certain he was gonna come in his pants like a teenager.

“Good boy,” the man said it so casual and normal like he calls Jamie that all the time with his deep gravelly voice right next to Jamie’s ear. 

Like Jamie wasn’t instantly hard in his track pants at hearing Roy fucking Kent call him a “good fucking boy” while the man’s lips rubbed against his ear the entire time. Yeah, Jamie was definitely going to wake up tomorrow and be sixteen again for sure.

[charliekxlly]

this is not articulated well whatsoever. im just getting this down because i can't stop thinking about it.

ted was ALWAYS going to go back to henry. the whole reason he left was to work on himself FOR HENRY. he felt so so abandoned by his father, of course he was going to go back to henry so he wouldn't feel that way. 

and of course he's not going to end up w michelle. nowhere is it implied that they get back together and ted has had so much growth that there is no way he's going to do that to himself.

he's not erasing himself from anything. of course he's going to say "it wasn't ever about me" bc it never was (to him at least). i wish he would give himself more credit and yes he's the reason so much changed and he's made everything better. but it wasn't JUST him. he got the ball rolling but everyone worked on themselves. however i do think the lasso way would've been a better title.

sam achieving his dream is so so important. and roy becoming head coach isn't a bad thing. it's what was going to happen. HE LEFT. of course there's going to be a new head coach??

jamie reuniting with his dad was really weird tho. i didn't love that whatsoever. and jane and beard getting married. 

the royjamiekeeley stuff was also weird. i choose to believe that the whole reason they got into the argument abt keeley was bc they were reverting to their toxic ways and trying to bury the touchy feeley emotions. i didn't like it but it did give us good stuff. 

roy FINALLY realizing he needs to work on himself. and keeley making it clear she doesn't need either of them. it's allowing both the boys to grow and become more mature and maybe in the future the polycule will happen. but they need to grow first. keeley doesn't need either of them, she never has. and they're both realizing they're idiots and she doesn't need them. progress isn't linear. they're both going to fuck up. but they realized they did. it's called growth.

that being said, i still didn't love it. jamie bringing up the video hurt me. what was that for?? 

and i do think it's a very real possibility that the final montage was ted's dream. but the montage isn't a bad ending for anyone by any means?? (except for beard). hell they left the polycule kind of ambiguous but to the point where it could be very real.

rebecca deserved to be with dutch man. she gets to be a mother and gets to be in love. stfu.

ultimately i loved it and people can suck it if they want to cry abt it. ted was ALWAYS going to go back to henry. and nobody's forgetting abt him. and there's no way he doesn't visit as much as he can. idk why ppl want it to end the exact same it's been just with some added romance?? it's weird.

it was a good ending. thank you jason sudeikis