we were something dont you think so

I’m sweating through my eyes 😭

(ted lasso spoilers)

This is the end of the Wembley locker room scene in Man City, without music

Like when the camera is on Ted just before he walks out, you could hear Jamie sobs even harder

(but you obviously have to turn the volume up and press the sound to your ear but still)

Omg. All of this. But also? Ted opening the door was so loud. Like everyone would have heard it but Jamie. I always thought he’d either have never realized or not noticed it until later (because of being out of it post crying jag). But he’d know that Ted saw his dad and then walked away again.

I also don't think we consider enough how this scene contributed to Nate's inevitable betrayal.

He watches Roy go to Jamie, someone Nate dislikes (justifiably) and who Roy has openly disdained, but I don't think he resents that because everyone is visibly uncomfortable and not okay with what they've just witnessed.

What Ned does do, and what the camera focuses on him doing, is look to Ted.

Ted who has touted teamwork and support for each other. Ted who makes people feel important and validated. Ted who Nate later accuses of abandonment, of lying about all of it.

That Ted says nothing to comfort his team and runs from the responsibility.

actually maybe folklore is an album about looking back on all the things that have made you go from a wild, innocent, open child to a damaged, pained, often duplicitous adult

by extension we also don’t talk enough about ‘pulled the car off the road to the lookout’ / ‘could’ve followed my fears all the way down’ —> ‘stood on the cliffside, screaming “give me a reason”’ —> ‘I bathe in cliffside pools with my calamitous love and insurmountable grief’

the whole “i used to be a teen who hated authority only to grow up to become the authority that hates teens” is a bad bad thing that practically every other generation has fallen into and we all need to make an extremely conscious effort not to repeat the fucking pattern

Studies have shown that the shift starts to happen around age 30. If you’re close to that, make a conscious effort to be open to and accepting of younger people. I’m 31 and paying close attention to how I react to young people and new trends and shit and trying to keep myself from developing those thought patterns.

noted

It is imperative you befriend people other than those of your own generation. It’s harder to lump people together if you know some of them. This is why you should also pursue friendships beyond your race, ability, religion (or lack thereof), and class. Humanity relies on relating to each other.

Not only that but being aware of (and critical of) the idea: “I felt powerless and now want power over others.” Befriending those outside your demographic doesn’t do much if your thought process is still “I suffered so you should too” or “I earned this spot—you can consider me a peer when you get here too” instead of challenging those systems and perceptions.

Too many adults who work with kids think this way. Simply being around the kids doesn’t challenge this mindset, you need to deconstruct how you think about power and authority.

You were right to feel like you weren’t being listened to or treated like a person—don’t repeat it on new kids.

Demon Shane my beloved

No thoughts just Brett Goldstein and Phil Dunster in their favourite pose in 2021 vs 2024.

February patron poll winner: RoyJamie + Amsterdam + kissing, hugging, anything fond

An opportunity to draw what happened when Roy fell off his bike and into the bushes 😂

High resolution on Patreon 💙

All I could think about when it showed the pit of Tartarus was that that young boy who tapped his mom on the shoulder to make her smile and makes jokes to hide his unease and loves blue food and just wants to be normal and that young girl who couldn’t pick which candy from the gas station and believes love is transactional and was a gift but then a problem and has never seen a movie are both going to fall into that massive hell.

And they are going to survive it. Together.

no thoughts, just percy's face when he realizes that no sacrifice he could make can protect annabeth from herself

this scene is so funny when you think that if this cabin moment had happened in the book, percy would have said something like

“annabeth looked at me like she was going to use her necklace and strangle me with it but instead she just gave it to me”

and then we see her with the sweetest most genuine expression and he’s just a seaweed brain

Some of y’all can’t seem to comprehend that the show isn’t the books, and it was never trying to be.

Loving the books SHOULD NOT EQUAL hating the show and vice versa. Because they’re not the same, and that’s the point.

They’re different stories that take place in different times, different mediums, and different universes. It always intended to deviate from the source material. This was mentioned several times during the press tour.

If you’re mad that your favorite line, theme, or moment from the book isn’t there, you are not here for the show. You are here for the books, and that was your first mistake.

The show is flawed. I know. It has problems.

But if you want to criticize the show, ask yourself if your criticism still stands without comparing it to the books. If it can’t, ask yourself why it matters. Then get over it.

Thanks for coming to my angry TEDTalk.

Honestly I've read like 3 fics with the premise of Tim becoming Damian's favourite brother after he sees how Tim is able to manipulate the upper class or how Tim can say 'fuck you' to rich business men and get away with it and holy fuck that trope has me in a death grip

Oh my god. The tears in Luke’s eyes when Percy says the betrayal line. The desperate pleading for them to run away. That he doesn’t want to hurt Percy. The tears in Percy’s eyes. The fear and shaking. Percy apologizing for actually hurting him. The look of horror on Luke’s face as Annabeth comes in. How horrified he looks when he looks down at Percy, who he HURT. The realization that Percy won’t join, and the equaled horror of hurting a twelve year old child.

Then he runs.

percy immediately apologizing to luke after he hurts him even though he is literally being betrayed because his fatal flaw is loyalty and he cannot fathom hurting the people he cares about… meanwhile luke turning around and hitting percy back without hesitation… i feel sick