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JAY GOT HIS MOM TO VOICE ODYSSEUS’S MOM I’M SOBBING

god listening to the underworld hurts so much more after learning that “fun” fact (genuinely it’s so sweet oh my god but i’m using humor to cope)

“i took too long. I ventured too far while you were waiting”

“I’ll always love you”

#i guess beautiful voices run in the family #yes i also audibly gasped when polites showed up #epic #epic the musical #epic underworld saga #epic odysseus #epic odyssey #epic spoilers #epic the musical spoilers #it is an actual crime this saga is only three songs #i’m already on my fourth listen (the first two were the watch party) #correction: now on my fifth i finished the fourth listen while making this post #don’t even get me started on no longer you or the powerful orchestrals at the end with tiresias’s haunting vocals #or jay’s acting oh my god the anger and hurt and betrayal throughout the entire saga #tHE GROWLS I LIVE FOR WHEN ACTORS GROWL IN THEIR SINGING ITS SO GOOD #but also the quieter peaceful moments of love when he sees polites and his mom again #congrats on completing act one jorge!! #i am in your walls!!

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diversity win: your favs finally hold hands <3

#we win these 🥰 #dan and phil #dan and phil crafts #dapcrafts #dapg #dnp #dip and pip

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THERE ARE OTHER WAYS DID NOT GO WHERE I WAS EXPECTING IT TO OH MY GOD /POS

PENELOPE’S THEME AND INSTRUMENT?? ODYSSEUS BEING QUITE LITERALLY BACKED INTO A CORNER AND HAVING SEEMINGLY NO OTHER WAY TO SAVE HIS MEN BUT STILL NOT BEING ABLE TO BRING HIMSELF TO GO THROUGH WITH THE ACT (EVEN THO IT WOULDN’T BE A TRUE ACT OF BETRAYAL BECAUSE THERE’S NO ACTUAL CONSENT ON HIS SIDE AND IT WAS SOMETHING HE WAS ABOUT TO BE COERCED INTO)??? CIRCE BEING TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF BEFORE AND BELIEVING THAT “BECOMING THE PUPPETEER” IS THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP HERSELF AND HER NYMPHS SAFE SO SHE OFFERS THIS “ACT OF PASSION” TO STILL HAVE A FORM OF CONTROL, AND THEN SEEING ODYSSEUS IS NOT LIKE THOSE BEFORE BECAUSE HE’S SO IN LOVE WITH PENELOPE (WHO HE HASN’T SEEN IN 12 YEARS) THAT HE REFUSES HER OFFER AND PLEADS BECAUSE IT’S NOT WORTH IT EVEN THO THATS THE ONLY OPTION HE’S BEEN GIVEN??? HIM CALLING HIMSELF A PUPPET MAKING HER REALIZE THAT THIS CYCLE OF ABUSE AND CONTROL ISN’T WORTH IT ONLY TO COME TO A MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING BECAUSE SHE KNOWS WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE TRULY IN LOVE AND TO BE HURT, SO SHE OFFERS HIM AN ACT OF KINDNESS INSTEAD???

“Maybe showing one act of kindness leads to kinder souls down the road”

#JAY I AM IN YOUR WALLS #jorge rivera herrans #epic the musical #epic the circe saga #epic circe saga #epic odysseus #epic penelope #epic circe #circe #not to mention the vocal performances of everyone #GOD THE ACTING AND THE WRITING AND THE SINGING AND THE INSTRUMENTALS ARE SO *EATS IT CHOMP CHOMP* #i’m so relieved it didn’t go the way i expected from the demo #my worst fears were either odysseus being coerced or him cheating (ie a say no to this situation where they both fully consented) #i now understand why the Valentine’s release date #it’s not because of circe #it’s because of odysseus’s love for penelope #things odysseus will do for his wife: kill a child #things odyssus will NOT do for his wife: sleep with another woman #priorities #i respect it

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“this one goes out to you phil”

#power bottom #crying #we did not need to know that #maybe sometimes sharing isn’t caring #they’re psychologically damaging us with each new video #and we deserve that #they’re getting back at us and i applaud them for that #good for them but like did i need to know this about my parasocial dads #dan and phil #dapg #gamingmas

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i literally hate them

#i hate them #no i don’t i love them #‘stahp itt i’m your husbahhhnd’ i will not survive #i’ve been manifesting them playing this game for so long oh my god #my pookies #dan and phil #dapg #gamingmas #it takes two

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“omg they’re touching they touched guys they’re touching” i can’t tell if they’re making fun of us (/lh) or if they’ve become us 😭

#i feel physically ill #what was this video #it was both comfort and fear #‘let’s talk about the tackle’ no thank you let’s not #then the fake tackle at the endscreen #kill me #they deserve to make fun of us they’ve more than earned it JFBSND #dan and phil #dapg #gamingmas #pinof #please i can’t become a dnp fanpage i resisted for so many years

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their outfits are callbacks to the original pinof. kill me

#i am so unwell #sobs #i’m not even a minute into the video and i’m already on the floor #dan and phil #dapg #gamingmas #pinof

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“they can’t hear us now peej” *is sitting shoulder to shoulder with dan*

#‘phil? phil?’ pretending he has no idea what happened to him #meanwhile his life partner is like. sitting right next to him sharing a desk #they’re so silly #i love the immersion #they get so into the roleplay #wait god no that’s not what i meant- #dan and phil #dnp #dapg #gamingmas

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i’m going to be sick

#i’m so mentally ill #i am unwell #GOD THEYRE EVERYTHING TO ME #idk he could’ve been calling him ‘buddy’ in a silly way #but i’m not gonna speculate #all i know is that this term fits them so well and i am dying #whether platonic or romantic or something in between they are soulmates #sobs #dan and phil #dapg #dan and phil games

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IS THAT STEDES RING

#ON THE LEFT HAND???? #BLACKBONNET PROPOSAL????? #spoilers #ofmd spoilers #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #this season has given me everything i want and more #THEYRE FEEDING US #this heals the damage good omens s2 left

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this is my girl dinner

#im going absolutely feral #i am unwell #this is everything i want but also everything i fear #please let s2 end with them happy im still recovering from good omens #ofmd spoilers #ofmd 2 #blackbonnet #spoilers #stede bonnet #ed teach #blackbeard #ofmd season 2 #ofmd #our flag means death

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when i said i wanted the angel and demon to finally get together tHIS WASN’T WHAT I MEANT-

#oh well #at least my s1 crackship is canon #it’s been 6000 years and it took them ONLY 4 YEARS #disaster queers istg #gOD this was amazing #my heart is broken in the best way possible #if we don’t get s3 i WILL riot #aziraphale babygirl #aha you’re so pretty don’t beam yourself up to superheaven #god this is the same angel who thinks 6000 years is too fast i should’ve expected this #can’t wait for him to defeat the real antichrist: internalized homophobia and catholic guilt #HIS DEVELOPMENT IS GONNA BE SO AMAZING IN S3 OH MY GOD #he’s gonna owe crowley SO many apology dances oh my god #currently ​pretending not to want s3 so it’ll get here faster #good omens series #good omens spoilers #good omens season 2 #good omens season two #good omens season 2 spoilers #good omens season two spoilers #spoilers #ineffable husbands #ineffable bureaucracy #is that what their ship name is? #that’s really cute i’m gonna be honest

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for ever a “mike kisses first but quick and small, then right after will basically jumps on top of him and kisses him so hard” truther

#REAL #byler #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things #spoilers

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Something something the average viewer expects Ted and Rebecca to be a couple, something something "sometimes the right idea is just seating behind a couple of the wrong ones"

#he was there all along guys #HE WAS THERE ALL ALONG #like this pan felt symbolic #<< the way i gasped out loud when this happened #like yes it was funny but that MEANT something i’m telling ya #they were so married this episode i’m sobbing #look first the parent teacher conference NOW THIS?? married behavior #the girltalk scene felt very much like ‘your bf is way better at this than you are he is now my new best friend’ and i love that for trent #yes i’m delusional #ted lasso #trent crimm #tedependent #tedtrent #why was he at biscuits with the boss #WHY WAS HE THERE #DID THEY RUN INTO EACH OTHER IN THE PARKING LOT #DID TED INVITE HIM #DID REBECCA LET HIM STAY BECAUSE TED’S BEEN GIVING TRENT GOOGOO EYES NONSTOP FOR MONTHS NOW #I NEED ANSWERS AND I NEED THEM NOW #ted lasso spoilers #spoilers

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We've all rightly been gushing over Trent listening in on the parent-teacher conference and there are a lot of cool interpretations for why he'd eavesdrop: a crush on Ted, a tendency towards gossip (as seen in "International Break"), the fact that you just can't take the journalism out of the boy, Trent is clearly picking up personal tidbits for the book if the group's initial "Don't print that" worries are any indication, etc. So yeah, it's clear why he'd want/be okay with the door staying open.

Meanwhile, I'm slightly feral over Ted letting the door stay open and what that conveys to Trent.

Based on what we've picked up about his personal life and the direction of this season, we have good reason to believe that Trent was a deeply isolated man prior to Ted arriving. His job makes enemies as a matter of course, especially when you "bring the heat" as hard as he did. Roy flipping the press off at the gala in Season 1 and Nate sneaking out at dark this last episode shows us how journalists are treated on the regular: ignored, dismissed, told to "fuck off" as a matter of course. That's often well deserved, as Roy's two personal stories (Trent's article about him + the response to Isaac's attack) attest, but the end result is still a profession that alienates you from anyone other than your peers. When you're a "colossal prick" in your articles, people hate you all the more.

So Trent at least has other journalist buddies, yeah? Well, not that we've seen. I always think back to that chorus of "--The Independent" in the press room when everyone knew what Trent was going to say and how it... wasn't entirely fun ribbing. I think there's a fair bit of mockery there. Even if others disagree, I doubt that was received well by someone who wears their professionalism as an armor, who takes off his glasses as soon as they're complimented, who was, notably, closeted into his 40s. Trent is a man who is deeply aware of how others perceive him (pointing out his "vibe" feels quite calculated now: highlight what you want people to notice rather than waiting for them to find something on their own) and he is likely to read the worst of most interactions. Cue his shocked, "You really mean that, don't you?" when faced with someone like Ted who is not only genuinely nice, but blunt about it in a way that Trent can't misunderstand, or brush off via denial.

What's his home life like? Married to a woman when he's gay and that's putting a serious strain on them both. He tries to come out and isn't believed. The only other family members we know about are a toddler (who, while lovely I'm sure, can't provide Trent with the kind of emotional support an adult needs) and a father who, if we read the series through Lance's headcanons, may not have been very supportive of his son. Who else does Trent know? Uhhh... other subjects who hate him? Owners like Rebecca who want to use him? A random, potential date that he felt so little for he ditched to get a quote?

I'm by no means reinventing the meta wheel here, but Trent has truly undergone a STAGGERING transformation in Season 3 and the result of that is the reframing of his Season 1 and 2 scenes as, frankly, more depressing than they originally seemed. Seeing him now smiling, singing, gossiping, dressing just in t-shirts, casually snacking, making jokes, letting go enough to be a complete, hyperactive "dork" in front of others... it just hammers home how deeply unhappy Trent was before. How closed off. How closeted--in more ways than one.

So what must it mean to someone like Trent for Ted to leave the door open?

It's not just an open invitation towards community--sit near me, listen in, quietly participate, there's literally no barrier between us--but a staggeringly personal one too. I don't care if a 10-ish year old failing science is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, the fact remains that letting anyone hear a parent-teacher conference with your ex is a hell of a show of trust. That would mean a lot to Trent in general, this acknowledgement that someone trusts the ex-prick journalist with that amount of personal information, but Ted in particular? Oh boy. Ted is the one Trent betrayed with that article! And yeah, Ted forgave him the instant he learned of it, but Trent himself was obviously feeling a lot of guilt, hence him burning his source and orchestrating a firing. Toss in the fact that Ted, despite being a VERY open man on the regular (I still laugh at his "I don't mind" to Rebecca when over-sharing about Michelle) has in fact denied Trent information in the past. No, I won't tell you that was a panic attack. Yes, I will continue the lie that it was food poisoning. Perhaps for Ted it was less about Trent knowing and more about anyone getting at the truth, but at the end of the day it amounts to the same: there was a time when Ted did not fully trust him and Trent justified that fear by writing the very article Ted was looking to avoid, even if Trent approached that situation with as much grace as he could.

So this moment, beyond the humor, just makes my brain go !!!!!! for Trent. Ted Lasso, of all people, has left the door open for Trent Crimm, also of all people, to hear the messy details of his, Henry, and Michelle's life. He is not at all afraid that this information will be spun in a bad light--Local Gaffer's Son Suffers While Father Plays at Coach Across the Pond--despite the fact that Trent is actively writing a book about him. Trent himself is so unguarded in this moment, dressed only in a t-shirt, playing around with his orange, making little quips. The Trent of Season 1 would NEVER. I mean, I think we see small glimpses of the real Trent back then, especially when Ted amuses him enough to coax his guard down for half a second (Trent's reaction to “Make like Dunst and Union and bring it on, baby!" comes to mind. That's a gesture we're seeing a lot now that he's comfortable around the club), but on the whole he was still so, so, so isolated. No one knew the real him: gay, funny, dorky, inquisitive, longing for companionship and using the artificial 'closeness' of journalism to cover that ache up.

Now? Trent is fully a part of the Richmond community and he knows he's a part of it because everyone--Ted, Beard, Roy, Colin, Rebecca--are going out of their way to tell him that, notably in very overt ways. Trent strikes me as someone who wouldn't fully believe it when he's told someone enjoys his company; the kind of wounded, anxiety-prone person who, if casually invited to participate, would assume they're just being polite and he'd actually be an annoyance to them. Trent needs overt, obvious, beat-you-over-the-head-with-it reassurance, which is why Ted is so very good for him because Ted is composed of THE most over-the-top positivity you've ever seen. (Compare that need of Trent's to Michelle thinking that Ted is too much...) When faced with a defensive journalist Ted says explicitly that he liked spending time with Trent. When faced with a still unsure writer who thinks of himself only as an observer--never a part of the team himself--Ted literally begs with monkey noises to hear Trent's opinions. He's blunt to the point of absurdity and someone like Trent who has likely spent the majority of his life hiding/being told that his true self is inadequate needs that level of constant, neon-light reassurance.

So Ted leaves the door open to a personal conversation, refusing to literally bar Trent from his life. The best part? Colin re-opens the door because he understands Trent and he knows his coach; of course Ted wants him included. Colin asks permission to CLOSE the door, not open it and Trent is seeing this openness again and again over the course of several months, with each episode bringing further out of his shell as he slowly unlearns that self-doubt. Yes, please stay, please tell us what you think, please offer your advice, please join our Diamond Dogs, please ask us questions (they're no longer perceived as a threat), please become an integral part of our lives. We trust you and we like you and we want you here.

Everyone's waiting for Trent to catch the door again because, you know, the rule of three, but what if he doesn't need to? What if he's past slipping a hand or a foot through the crack and scraping by on what that gets him? He caught the door before it could close to get closer to Colin. He caught the door before it could close to get closer to Ted. Now they've both kept the door open for him, his presence welcomed from the get-go.

Trent doesn't need to sprint for that opening anymore.

#THIS IS SO WELL WRITTEN OH MY GOD #how does this not have more attention #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #trent crimm #tedependent #ted x trent #tedtrent

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something something nate quietly quitting his high profile job because his line of work (rupert) wanted him to hurt the person he loves (jade) in the episode prior something something trent crimm quietly blowing up his life and getting himself fired from his high profile job because his line of work (journalism) wanted him to hurt the person he loves (ted) in the episode prior

#THE PARALLELS I TELL YOU #THE PARALLELS #not to mention rebecca word for word repeating trent’s first line of the show #why do they keep drawing parallels between the two #with rebecca being seen as ted’s ‘obvious’ love interest #(even though they’re platonic soulmates your honor) #i’ll tell you why #it’s to show us ted’s romantic soulmate is someone we’d never expect #heavy is the head that wears the tin hat #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #nate shelley #trent crimm #tedependent #tedtrent #spoilers #ted x trent #tedependent real??? #they FED the tedependent and jamie x roy x keeley shippers tonight #a feast fit for a king #the clown makeup is back on