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taskious · 6 days

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i don’t want to talk about how john during the tie task made me feel

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taskious · 2 months

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taskious · 3 months

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#saturn devouring his son

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taskious · 5 months

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we pass to each other so much because we love each other so much and keep going 'nooo YOU shoot <3' 'nooo!! you shoot!! you deserve the goal so much more... <3' and then we get the puck taken from us

#this is the plot of several ted lasso episodes

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taskious · 5 months

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he would do numbers on tumblr

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taskious · 5 months

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of course you have an oxbridge education and a humiliation fetish

#alex horne

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taskious · 6 months

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Now that I've actually read The Beautiful and Damned (essay still incoming), I've been thinking of an AU fic that explores what if Jamie did read the book in season 1. It....intrigues me for a number of reasons.

The fact that Jamie was the only one of the group to receive what is essentially a cautionary tale (no we didn't see most of the picks, but it feels safe to say that Jamie was the one Ted thought needed 'correcting')

The protagonist ends up a bitter, angry, abusive alcoholic. Granted Ted could not have known about Jamie’s dad at the time, but ough. Ted.

Giving this book to anyone and going 'here, this reminds me of who you are' is frankly insulting. I think if Jamie were to confront Ted about that, Ted would consider that half the job done. He clearly just wants Jamie to think about his actions and how he treats people. Unfortunately I could see this backfiring on Ted. He may not mean it personally, but I think Jamie would take it personally, especially because--

Aside from the fact that the protag is rich and full of himself and found to be charming, that guy is nothing like Jamie. In fairness to Ted, those are basically 3 of the 4 things he knows about Jamie. In unfairness to Ted, the other 1 thing he knows is that Jamie is a professional athlete who by definition had to work hard to get to where he is. Meanwhile the protag for TB&D has never worked for anything in his life -- the opposite of Jamie, our battler. In fact one of the defining traits and the reason the protag falls into being a penniless drunk is because throughout his life he was given many chances, and he ignored them all.

I think Jamie would likely get bogged down in the details. On the idea that the book was meant as a critique of him, rather than a lesson he could learn by. Another example of how Ted bringing up topics in a roundabout way tends to get misconstrued by Jamie as mind games.

Bonus round: the protag is very classist. The book occasionally alludes to the unfairness of this, but it is very much an ongoing topic for the protag on why he deserves all his money.

Bonus round: the protag is exceedingly misogynistic. The book almost never disagrees with this. Even season one Jamie 'women can do anything' Tartt would never.

So I think that a fic that explored Jamie's journey while reading this book would be fascinating. From the beginning where it's clear from the start that this protagonist is a spoiled, snobby twit to the end where the protag ends up a functioning alcoholic who yells at his wife and reminisces that by preventing himself from treating her in a physically violent manner, it makes him hate her even more. By the end of the book I can see Jamie being actively triggered by what's on the page--

--which would serve in a number of ways to kickstart Jamie's troubled history a good three episodes before the curse fire.

So yeah, this fic idea is less than a week old and I am still working on it but. Intrigued, I am.

Also I keep envisioning a running gag like that episode of The Office where Michael is watching The Devil Wears Prada and Pam is keeping track of where he is in the movie by what he's quoting at her. Except in this fic, Ted (Pam) would not know what the hell Jamie was talking about for a good long while, because he hasn't actually read the book since early in high school.

Why do I think Ted hasn't read it since early high school? Because if he'd read it later, he'd probably remember that there's a guy in the book who kills himself by shooting himself. It's literally one of the last parts of the book, and it's meant to serve as a punctuation on the consequences of the protag's actions.

Just a thought, but I think if Ted had read it after his dad dying, he might not suggest it to someone. Even if the meaning of the book fit.

For fic related reasons though, this means that Ted's trauma could ALSO be introduced way sooner. In season one even! This fic could have so much bonding through book-relevant trauma it's crazy to think about.

So. Yeah. New wip thoughts in progress. Whoops.

#ted lasso #this is so fascinating #it truly is baffling how little they seemed to think through the book choice considering how much interesting stuff they could do with it

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taskious · 6 months

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Fun game I enjoy playing sometimes involves typing your hometown (or nearest mid-sized city) into ao3 search

#mostly winter sports rpf #that checks out (the nature of being canadian)#reblog game

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taskious · 7 months

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#I'm a taskmaster fan but I had to go with my gut and say I think she would kill him #greg generally respects powerful women #polls

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taskious · 7 months

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Happy Out of Touch Hughsday

#happy first hughsday of october

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taskious · 7 months

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i HATE them

#thank god 🙏 but also I'll probably cry regardless #I wonder who wrote it originally that they're taking the piss out of #bbc ghosts

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taskious · 7 months

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one of my favorite things on taskmaster is when one of the contestants go "well, i can't just do [x]. that would be stupid" and then it immediately cuts to another contestant doing that. "i can't just chuck it, that would never work!" well taskman mcdumbass over here is tossing that bitch immediately. it sadly plonks to the ground, completely ineffectual. what did you think would happen. amazing. high art

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taskious · 7 months

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