#& megan speaks // ooc

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#OOC.| FATY SPEAKS #[gonna take a break shortly so maybe? #[might look at your m emes if i couldnt think of something :3c #[anyone playing a/nother eden? i started it just a couple of days #[tbh i only have it so i can play the c/hron c/ross event there #[lucky it is still there you can get it after idk chapters but i have the t/ales and p5 events open so #[will see #[still salty that every crossover it is y/uri and m/illa .... please.....look at your other protags #[AHEM SENNYSENNY AHEM #[even not protags. there are hella cool characters ;a; #[my brain: balan and jade when #[CANT I ASK FOR MY FAVORITE MEGANE MEN TOGETHER???????????? #[GAAAAH!!!! MEGANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sennenpharaoh]

My work here is done~

#Nikki Speaks: OOC #See I know how to summon the elusive creature that is: the Megan #reblog Doma headcanons and tag her in them~

[belmottetower]

3.09 - Captains and Vice-Captains

This is a part of my Subjectify Media conversation review that I wanted to share as straight-up meta, because it's something I keep thinking about regarding the banter between Sam and Jamie about the armband. It occurred to me that people might not know how vice-captains work in football teams, so here's me forcing football logic onto a throwaway moment to make it work in a way that means Sam and Jamie don't both feel OOC here.

‘Ted Lasso’ season 3, episode 9 in conversation: Second-best way it could’ve gone

Natalie: I have heaps of thoughts about the Roy and Isaac relationship and captain inheritance and how maybe Roy didn’t particularly think through his choice originally, but is able to help Isaac with shit he knows about himself that he’d love to break the cycle with for Isaac. Isaac picking Sam to take over while he’s banned is a choice with much less liability, and we knew Sam would become captain at some point this season from the trailer. And I think it’s a good choice but unfortunately they saw fit to include a moment about this that I HATED and don’t understand at all, and I think I’m like one of five people that hated it, which is that banter between Sam and Jamie about the captain’s band. I love their friendship and I’d love Sam teasing Jamie in any other moment. I think they’re amazing. But I think this scene did both Sam and Jamie dirty. You initially liked it on your watch, so try and talk me out of this.

Megan: So I think with this, in the moment I enjoyed it because Sam’s reaction, flipping Jamie off, startled a laugh out of me in a tense moment, and also Sam looked So. Freaking. Cute. Then speaking to you afterwards I did agree with what it was saying about Jamie in particular being quite off. It’s a tough one because okay… Going deep into football logistics, the way it works is you don’t just pick a random player to take over as captain. There is a hierarchy and there are usually people who are the named vice captains. Sometimes the manager makes these choices, or, more rarely, the players vote – Man City is a team that votes – but there is generally a “captain group.” For West Ham, for example, Mark Noble was captain for years, and Declan Rice was the main vice captain and often wore the armband because he started more often than Noble did. When Noble retired, Dec became captain and the manager, David Moyes, selected three vice captains to support him in the various duties – Aaron Cresswell, Angelo Ogbonna and Lukasz Fabianski.

So within football realism, it is extremely reasonable that Jamie and Sam are both already Richmond’s selected vice captains, and with that in mind yes, Isaac gives it to Sam, but I don’t think he did that out of like specifically choosing Sam over Jamie, right? I think it was just geography based – Sam was next to him, he would have been the easiest to shove the band at, rather than Jamie.

So my good faith interpretation, that works for their characters in my head is that Sam physically got the band due to proximity, but maybe Jamie, an established vice captain is thinking – and I think, quite fairly – “You know what, we’re a goal down, we’ve lost a player, I might be the best person tactically in this situation to wear the band and captain us through this situation where we are going to have to Total Football the shit out of the rest of this match.” So this was Jamie broaching the topic, and then Sam responding in a light-hearted way to kind of break the tension of the room, but also him thinking “No you know what, I think I’d be a good person in this situation to keep heads calm, and also argue the ref down from any later cards, so we don’t risk losing any other players.”

And I am putting a LOT of thought behind how that very short moment, clearly played for laughs, could be interpreted to make it work for the characters, because the alternative is that Jamie was having a big ego moment and wanting the captain band that he had not been honoured with, and Sam was apparently so unaffected by Isaac’s angst that he’s being a little shit two seconds later. And neither of those sit quite right with me.

Natalie: Yeah but you’re aware that the last sentence, the alternative, is how it played to 99.99% of people who are not logistically thinking about the reality of clubs having an existing captain pool, right? Which, really, maybe we should have seen before, because it isn’t as if Isaac has played every single minute of every single match since Roy gave him the armband. When Isaac gets subbed off, for any reason – fitness, a yellow card meaning they don’t want to risk a red, anything at all – he would have to pass the band to someone on the pitch. This is why they have vice captains and we see this in the season 1 finale with Roy. Isaac starts the match as the substitute captain, Roy gets the band back when he starts the second half, then he passes it back to Isaac when he limps off. This is a thing. There have to be people the band goes to when the captain comes off the pitch before the match ends.

And Sam and Jamie both being vice captains absolutely makes sense logically, but this is not how the joke is played, and as you admit, you’re forcing this idea into your reading, and making your reading more realistic than Ted Lasso actually is, because the alternative is a moment that kind of truly sucks for both Sam and Jamie, but sadly, I think that alternative is absolutely what the show meant. This is their way of saying “Hahahahah! Remember, Jamie is still full of himself and is disrespecting Isaac’s clear choice and Sam’s power as a team leader, and he’s presumptively trying to put himself above Sam. Because he’s a prick, remember?” And also saying “Hahaha! Sam, in this moment, is able to recover so much from Isaac’s clear distress that he’s keen to mock and tease his friend for his ridiculous ego, and in doing so, giving the audience the message that hahahaha, how silly it is to think that Jamie would ever be captain!”

It is, boiled down, banter that says Jamie’s an inflated egomaniac who is inappropriately trying to take something from his friend that was very purposely given to him, and Sam’s response both makes a mockery of the idea that Jamie could be a valid captain choice and shows that he isn’t very affected by Isaac’s big emotional moment, if he’s able to be so playful. It makes each of them look like arseholes in a way I found totally out of character for both of them. There are a million other ways to have had Sam tease Jamie about his ego, so many other moments where we could have seen this energy. But because Ted Lasso has never taken pains to establish the captain system, and because Isaac didn’t throw the band down in the centre for them to fight over, Isaac selecting Sam and then Jamie being like, “No, me actually,” and then Sam being like, “LOL, as if it’s you?” I hated it IMMEDIATELY. And I’m sad about not enjoying it. It’s not like I’m trying to take these things in bad faith, but it genuinely just felt very wrong to me. And this is what I was referring to when I said I didn’t like the way they burst the tension bubble on the Isaac outburst. It is meant to be a “letting the air out” moment, but for me it was really not fun.

Megan: Absolutely. Like I said I didn’t have the immediate hatred, because it broke me out of the tension and because of Toheeb Jimoh’s face. But once you pointed this out, it did sit really bad with me, and that’s why I had to, as you say, force this reading into working for me, to contradict that. So yeah, look, I’m with you on what it means for the characterisation, and I really hope we get a moment of Jamie wearing the armband down the line more organically. He’s earned it.

Natalie: It’s not even that I think he should have had it here instead of Sam, to be clear!

Megan: Oh yeah, I get it, it’s just the way they had the interaction play out.

Natalie: I just don’t think it’s outlandish to think he’s a candidate and this treated him it was. Also his disrespect of Isaac’s obvious choice, because he had intentionally handed it to Sam. It was just a mess for me. And there are so many other ways we could have got Sam teasing Jamie about being bigheaded, but for Sam to be playful and competitive in this moment rather than, you know, serious and worried. So weird to me. And everyone I’ve talked to who saw the episode loved it, LOL.

‘Ted Lasso’ season 3, episode 9 in conversation: Second-best way it could’ve gone

#ted lasso #sam obisanya #jamie tartt #roy kent #isaac mcadoo

[hybriidklaus]

// when there’s talk of vampire and angel hybrids on your dash and it’s waking up your vampire muses... i mean, i haven’t been on klaus in forever to write, but he and the others on the multi might stir... who knows ;) 

#& megan speaks // ooc

[ryuuseishi]

Is there ever a reason Y’shtola is not just wearing the aetherial goggles that literally all the Scion’s have?

I just feel like these would make her life easier. Especially after replaying HW, and Matoya scolding her for using her expending energy to see with Aether -- that maybe she should be using this instead?

#I guess the goggles are ugly so the game didn't want to put her in them #but i dont know it just makes me think of them not putting arenvald in his wheelchain because 'it's ugly' #like give them their fucking aid they are disabled #if anything you could just make smaller nicer looking goggles for her #it's not impossible #i guess they didn't want her to be a megane character #who knows #ooc #ignore me #mun speaks #tbd

[willowchild]

#where my Slovenians at #wow i need a better username idk why i thought this one was funny #amongst us #it speaks #mine #among us chat #among us ooc #my photo #the backstreet boys #i want it that way #among us #not me overtagging this for no reason #megan thee stallion voice: i'm that bitch

[stcriedtales]

// will have to do some theme work on this blog, because Uriel is now over at @silentwcrds but the other three girls are still here. Plus I just don’t like the theme and can’t decide on what to do with it, but I’m too tired to deal with it tonight. 

#ooc ;; megan speaks

[aliicejcnes]

// when you’ve been outta the OUAT fandom for a while, and can’t remember people you used to follow on this muse... 

RECOMMEND ME some new ouat people! I’d love to get her going again with people. 

#& megan speaks // ooc #ouat rp #indie ouat rp

[foreveratemu]

It appears I have done a boo boo! I can’t seem to find any of my threads and forgot who all I owe one too. If I owe you one or a reply, could you kindly send me a message or even reply to this ^_^ I got a lazy weekend coming and I am down for some roleplaying. Atemu is ready to interact, so let’s give him(and myself) the chance.

Nikki DON’T!

Sorry for being so inactive and random, my mojo has been taken, I seem to become busier in life with both kiddos in school and taking care of my mental and physical health. I can’t seem to catch up on sleep no matter how hard I try and just honest adulting things really has caused me to put things on the back burner. Also I decided that I am going to just reply mobile or not, so if I am not using a icon, most likely I am mobile and adulting/in bed XD. Again I appreciate ya’ll and hope you want to come mess with Atemu.

Again Nikki DON’T!

#OOC #Megan Speaks #Sorry for the randomness #Life is weird here #and I just get so tired so quickly #But I am here to try and make it better #Annoy Atemu #Bother Atemu #Have fun with Atemu #But not you Nikki! #I know what you are doing!

[hikarichino]

mutogamingco replied to your post: CREATE YOUR MUSE

//I see you found the option for making that seal green~ :3c

((It’s not a proper doll tool unless I can make an Orichalcos version of a character~

#mutogamingco #Nikki Speaks: OOC #Grey can you come help? #Megan's yelling at me again~

[providencesought]

megan IS thatpoppy conspiracy theory

#off to bed ( ooc ) #[[ IM KIDDING--- ]] #[[ i just really like poppy's speaking voice for megan ok ]]

[convxction]

//i want to revamp some verses i have to more refined and updated versions and maybe update some tags idk as always, my ears are open to hear your suggestions for aus and verses or plot or whatever you have ;3c

#⚔ooc.⚔ (faty speaks) #//casually megane kun #//but listen when will iget more megane krum because ......it is.....oshaaree~

[hybriidklaus]

// I’m just saying, what’s the point of spending 5 SEASONS of a show where the Original family does EVERYTHING to make sure Hope can be healthy and safe and happy--only to have HER show make her a weak little girl who’s ‘has no family’ left. 

Yes, she doesn’t have her parents (and that’s a whole other writing issue but we’ll leave it at that) but EVERYONE in that family cares about her. What they’d do, just up and leave her in MF without a care? Don’t gimme that Malivore crap because that’s a whole other issue too... 

Legacies, as enjoyable as it sometimes is, is just... poorly written in the grand scheme of the TVDverse. I mean, yes, none of it is Emmy-winning writing, we know that, but STILL... Then again, judging by that fifth season of TO, maybe they really are as bad with writing characterization as it seems... 

Point is... I started Legacies for HOPE. And while I enjoy the other characters now too (Lizzie most of all other than Hope) I just... gimme my all-powerful tribrid child! 

#& megan speaks // ooc #anti legacies #// just to be safe #// not really anti the show as much as it's anti the ones making the decisions but... you know

[arianahollowrp]

This song oofs me

#ooc #mun speaking #Playlist: Megan #Spotify

[the-silver-peahen-residence]

"Peahen mom, are you sure this is a good idea? You know how Megan is..she’s dangerous and violent. We don’t know what she will do..”

"I know, Jinx. Look, I’m not done with her Bio yet. I need to be sure it’s right before putting it up. I know she’s already trying to rush me into finishing it but I’m almost done. Just need to re look at it..”

“...Still waiting, Silver butterfly mun!!”

“I know geez!”

“Then hurry up!!”

#OOC and IC #Mun and Muse speak #Silver butterfly mun #Peahen mom #Jinx #Megan #New Bio info page for Megan will be up soon #She's very pushing #Geez #The mansion owner

[championglider]

(My head hurts...can’t do stuff like this...)

#;OutofAmber - Megan is now speaking. - #I'll just be on Discord and lay down so I can rest... #I'm sorry for the ooc tonight and lack of activity...