after seeing so many people tweet about ted lasso i finally caved and looked up the show and it’s about……soccer???
i don’t know what i expected but certainly not this??? but also i am still v intrigued lol
OKAY YOU GUYS CONVINCED ME I WILL WATCH THE SOCCER SHOW THAT IS APPARENTLY NOT REALLY ABOUT SOCCER
ok i’m in love w the cranky british lady already.
i would die for nathan
THE HOT CRANKY BRITISH LADY IS NAMED REBECCA??
if rebecca hit me with her car i would thank her
the fact that she hired him to sabotage the club & the players all loathe him actually has me giddy bc they are obviously going to end up loving him. i hope 😭
wow i cannot think of the last time a show had me so firmly rooting for the main character. this is honestly some superb writing & acting bc damn
HE’S MAKING THE COOKIES?!?!?!? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
KEELEY AND REBECCA’S FRIENDSHIP IS MAKING ME EMO
BUT ALSO CAN THEY GET MARRIED
okay this is genuinely one of my favorite things i’ve watched in ages. fuck you guys this has sidelined my entire night. i love it
ted makes me want to be a better person :(
“You’re not quitting, you’re just letting me go.”
THIS AGED SO POORLY FUCK YOU GUYS WHY IS THE SOCCER SHOW MAKING ME CRY
i should have never started this show i’ve never known pain like i do right now he’s so SAD!!!!!!!!!!
IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO DANI ROJAS I WILL END THIS PLANET HE’S BEEN ON MY SCREEN FOR TWO SECONDS AND I WOULD GIVE MY LIFE FOR HIM
roy is reading the book
NATE CONFIDENTLY READING THE TEAM ROAST MY SWEET BOY MY PRECIOUS MAN
how is possible i love everyone in this fucking cast so much i cant handle this
REBECCA SINGING?????????????????
LEAVE ME HERE TO DIE
LET TED BE HAPPY!!!!! IF I SEE THIS MAN IN PAIN ONE MORE TIME—
NOT ROY KISSING HER AND THEN DRAMATICALLY LEAVING IM PAIN
roy is an actual cartoon character and i want to punch him & send him to therapy & also give him a giant hug lmao
also keeley is actually the hero of this series. my love. my wife. to me, she is perfect
higgins being a fully dimensional person who is becoming friends w ted & coach beard & nate makes me so happy like
it would have been so easy to make him just the Abused Assistant but i even care about hIM i love him
not rupert’s face on my fucking screen when i tell you i want this man to be set on fIRE
IS THIS THE DART SCENE EVERYONE WAS TWEETING ABOUT
AM I GOING TO CRY
NOT ROY TAKING A YOGA CLASS W A BUNCH OF OLD LADIES AND BEING INVESTED IN THEM IM CRYING
“Better manners when I’m holding a dart. Please.”
oh my god the anger in ted’s eyes
i
im not ready for this i can tell
“Have you played a lot of darts, Ted?”
😭😭😭😭
PLEASE
THAT WHOLE SCENE
AND THE SHIFT ON REBECCA’S FACE AS SHE REALIZES HE JUST HUSTLED RUPERT INTO LEAVING HER ALONE
it just hit me — the “barbecue sauce” right before the final thrown — sounds like a quirky ted-ism at first but earlier in the show he talks about food eliciting a memory & that him channeling his memories of his dad so he could have the confidence / focus for the bullseye i
oh my god the baby scene. RUPERT LEAVR HER ALONE YOU WALKING BALL OF SLIME I HATE HIM SO MUCH MY GOOOOOD
“I forgive you.”
okay but like. the writing of this show. he didn’t say “it’s okay” or “don’t worry about it”.
i forgive you.
which is so much stronger & braver & kinder bc instead of waving the wrongs away ted is saying yeah, that was messed up. i forgive you anyways.
TED LASSO. I JUST. GOD!!
Roy has come so far i’m sobbing
NOT HIM TOUCHING THE BELIEVE SIGN!!!!! LEAVE ME HERE TO DIE!!!!!
also the rebecca higgins moment was lovely i was just too busy having a mental breakdown over how much i love everyone (except for rupert who i would love to HIT WITH MY CAR) to be coherent
why is the last episode called the hope that kills you
im scared
ASSISTANT COACH
IM CRYING
STOP
AND NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF TED HADNT COME THERE AND GOTTEN NATE OUT OF HIS SHELL BC HE WAS THE FIRST TO LISTEN TO HIM
WE’RE ONLY TWO MINUTES IN 😭😭😭😭😭
PLEASE I CANT BREATHE
THAT MEANS ROY LOVES HIM LMAOOOOOOO
jamie’s face on my screen immediately raising my blood pressure
WAIT
REBECCA IS THE SHAME LADY FROM GAME OF THRONWS?????????
WHAT
wait holy shit her name is hannah??? my sister’s name is hannah. and i am rebecca and she plays a rebecca lmao
ROY’S SUSHI SOCKS LMAO
why am i so anxious about this fictional soccer game i don’t even like soccer
i swear to gOD IF THEY DON’T WIN IF THIS SHOW DOES NOT LET THIS DINGDONGS BE HAPPY
i am so anxious I’m physically sweating
the crowd singing roy’s name….as he limps off knowing with that look on his face….and the knowing look he exchanges with ted….i’m…
NOT THEM GETTING INTO A FOOTBALL FORMATION ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
IM FUCKING CRYING
I CANT BELIEVE I AM CRYING AND HAVE GOOSEBUMPS OVER A FUCKING SOCCER SHOW JASON SUDEIKIS IS A WAR CRIMINAL
jason im sorry thank you for this gift but I’m physically not okay rn
I TAKE IT BACK WHY WOULD YOU GIVE ME THAT JOY AND THEN TAKE IT AWAY
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SAD MUSIC WHY AM I SEEING TED LASSO’S SAD FACE JASON SUDEIKIS TURN ON YOUR LOCATION I JUST WANNA TALK
not me feeling bad for jamie bc his dad is yelling at him
YOU GUYS SAID THIS SHOW WAS A FUCKING COMEDY!!!
“i think we should all be a goldfish”
im so fucking pissed they won bc jamie finally learned to pass the ball im so angry this show is so well written i want to fist fight god
“Win the whole fucking thing.”
THIS BETTER BE FORESHADOWING
what am i supposed to do with my life now
is it july 23rd yet
i am going to make my boyfriend watch this with me immediately
i am a basket of feelings
me thinking about the dart scene
okay well
ted lasso is amazing and has more heart than i ever expected it to and i do not think a show has made me feel so many things so strongly or quickly about so many characters in years
and kindness definitely makes people hotter
in closing
my boyfriend just walked in, looking at me and said “……are you okay? that show really did a number on you huh?”
laugh while you still can, little man
because i am going to make you watch this with me and suffer
holy shit why did so many people find this
hahahahahahhhhhahahhhhaha the showrunner of ted lasso aka my one spark of joy in this hell year found my unhinged thread i am
hey bill, bestie, pal, buddy, friend, thank you for making me believe in love again buT WHY DID YOU MAKE TED C R Y
in all seriousness though ted lasso is a gift & i am so grateful & i feel like i leveled up as a writer just from watching it but also
my ex boyfriend tried to get me to care about soccer for five years and ted lasso did it in two days. amazing.
if jason sudeikis sees this & his first interaction w my existence is seeing me call him a wAR CRIMINAL bc he made me care about soccer i am going to have to leave twitter.
not coach beard seeing my unhinged thread im sobbing,,,,,, i owe you my life
ok well i guess a lot of people are enjoying this in closing if keeley punched me in the face i would say thank you, protect sam at all costs, roy baby go to therapy, rebecca please step on me & if ted doesn’t get to be happy i am going to blow up the fucking sun
thanks!!!!
PEOPLE KEEP FINDING THIS LMAO
while i have ur attention my dear friend @yesitshanna has YET ANOTHER AMAZING BOOK coming out and y’all should preorder it!!
i also have a book coming out but it would not be ted energy to plug my own book so please preorder hanna’s thank u
ok all of my friends are screaming at me to plug my book so FINE ted forgive me pls
my debut THE ONES WE BURN is out next fall from @simonteen ! it’s about a witch who intends to assassinate a prince & falls for his sister! sadly there is no soccer! 💀
as a fantasy writer every time i work on worldbuilding im haunted by my former urban planner colleague who once, upon my asking what the most important thing about city design was, quietly said, “where does the poop go?”
Seaswept in TOWB has a rich history & meticulously chosen flora & a city designed at a tilted, downward spiral bc it’s been ruled by weather mages who call hurricanes & might accidentally drown their own ppl but I’ll forever be haunted by the fact i don’t know where the poop goes
he immediately followed it with “how do they keep people out of the streets?” and i DID work that in there (or the lack of ability thereof) bc man when you think about it it takes a lot to keep dead people out out of the streets but!!
in TOWB Ranka literally gets impaled, nibbled on by zombie witches, thrown off of cliffs & set on fire and she survives. one of the characters is technically a lizard. i’d hope the inn is the least of anyone’s concerns on the “what the hell is happening here” scale
(also fwiw TOWB is not medieval i picture isodal as a country teetering on the cusp of industrialization & going through the growing pains associated w that like there’s no electricity but there is a vaccine development subplot yanno???)
ranka: has her bones broken multiple times, impaled, someone takes a bite out of her shoulder, basically has Magical Super Smell lmfao
someone, inevitably: I just don’t think this random tavern’s floor layout would pass the fire code :/
it’s so funny peeta always gets painted as the boring nice bread boy against gale bc peeta was so clever in the books? like yes he was a sweet beefcake that loved to bake but he also lived for the drama and was actually so funny 😭💀
like please, if my choices between “angsty dude who can’t commit and wants me to live in the woods and LEAVE OUR FAMILIES BEHIND” or “utterly devoted himbo who makes a mean sourdough & is quietly playing chess the whole team” there is no contest! game over!
also, the scene where he’s injured & katniss almost steps on him bc he disguised himself so well using the skills he learned cake decorating remains one of my favorite craft examples of adapting character competency to unfamiliar situations ever. just absolutely *chef’s kiss*
cooking has been such a wonderful hobby to build, esp as an artist, bc cooking is all about failure but it’s so low stakes (for me) that i can scratch the same creative itch in my brain i do with writing, but instead of losing 500 hours to a bad draft i just like, burned an egg.
writing a patreon post abt this rn, but i've noticed that whenever i'm on a deadline, i inevitably cook way more. i think esp if you are someone who creates in the Intangible, having something to do with your hands, that's low stakes, can be very grounding.
plants fulfill the same need for me. there's no gray area. the pothos will live, or it won't. there is no wrangling with what this will do for my career or how will people react. there is just my hands in the dirt. is the soil too wet? too dry? what do i see? what do i feel?
if you’ve never lived somewhere where it snows and you want to write a snowy setting here is a free factoid for you: after a big snow, esp if the moon is out, it is like, insanely bright outside. to the point where sometimes it’s hard to sleep. street lights make it worse
it is 9:30 pm here. It also snowed all day. our street is fairly dark usually but tonight??? gonna have to sleep with the blinds closed, it’s only Kinda Night
also snow can be creaky. like a fresh, wet snow when you walk on it? literally creaks like old floorboards.
also if you get an ice storm & then a lot of snow & you live in the woods you’ll just