#talking about amsterdam

[jamiesfootball]

Look, I love Roy and Jamie in Amsterdam, I really do. But I contain multitudes, and Jamie honestly looks so happy on the bus when he’s thinking it’s going to be a night out with the lads-

So I am rotating a version of the night where Jamie is involved in the vote and he gets progressively more manic about everything in front of the team, but the pillow fight still happens the same and everyone has a lovely time.

That night, with everyone camped out in the lobby amongst the pillows (who gives a fuck at that point honestly), everything’s dark and quiet. Most of the team’s asleep, and it’s like a slumber party, innit?

With Dani and Sam giggling on either side of him, teasing him about how strange he was being earlier-

Dani tugged at his sleeve. “I cannot believe you would rather go to a museum with Trent Crimn than see tulips with me? Really?”

Jamie hummed. “When it’s the middle of the night, yeah. Besides, you ever see a Van Gogh in person? It’s like looking at a tulip through 3-D glasses. If you like tulips, you’re gonna love this museum.”

“It is pronounced ‘Van-Goff,’” Jan corrected sleepily. “Please do not trust Ted to correct any language outside of his own.”

Sam chuckled, the warmth of his breath against Jamie’s ear as gentle as a feather. “I am surprised, though. I didn’t know that you had been to Amsterdam before.”

He doesn’t have to say it. Really, there’s barely anything to say. It’s water under the skinny bridge, locked behind a skinny frame whose echo lies somewhere deep under his skin. Impossible to reach; impossible to ignore it lying still.

It’s the phantom smell of beer on his dad’s breath as he makes him swear not to tell Mummy what they got up to. Just between us men, alright, boy?

It’s the soft whisper as Sam breathes his name — “Jamie?” — curious and easy and so very gentle it wouldn’t disturb a feather.

It’s the feather that tips the scale.

He tells them.

#jamie tartt #sam obisanya #dani rojas #jan maas #writing snippet #talking about Amsterdam

[litrallytyrus]

their dynamic (homosexual relationship) means everything 2 me

#can we talk about them forever please .?? 😇 #bc they’ve been in love since the amsterdam episode and barely anybody talks about it …. #luckily i am brave and courageous and i will carry the burden of being the one to shove them down everybody’s throats : ) #teehee fr tho #how many times do i have to say they’re in love before the producers of ted lasso get on here and tell me i’m RIGHT! #this was fun to make i should do it again #i love scrolling thru insta and seeing a picture that makes me think of them it’s so FUN!!! #sorry to my followers who don’t care about them . You will . #jan maas #richard montlaur #janchard #jan x richard #ted lasso #also is the last picture clear or am i overthinking it … #it had the caption ‘me and my bf were fighting’ or something but i got rid of it to fit the text message aesthetic #whatever YKU GET IT!!!

[communistkenobi]

having gone through (and still in the process of going through) the thousand different processes for changing my legal name and gender marker in every conceivable place those things could come up, one thing I’ve noticed is that being trans wreaks administrative havoc. the particular process of changing your name because you’re transgender isn’t strictly unique, because people change their legal name(s) for lots of different reasons, but there is a systemic unpreparedness for dealing with the scenario of a user or client or patient whose name and gender has changed simultaneously. the most common response I get when I ask somebody at a front desk if I can change my name and/or gender in their system is “huh, this has never happened before!” and then they go talk to their manager. and so to get anything done you have to continually assert that it’s possible, you have to explain that you’ve changed it elsewhere, you have to carry around legal documentation to prove that it’s happened, and you effectively become a perpetual edge case for any given administrative system you exist in. I know, intimately, how my university’s IT systems work in terms of field input because it’s so decentralised that changing information one place doesn’t change it in a lot of other places, and the act of having to be registered at a university with two conflicting legal names means I have to have an ongoing relationship with their IT help desk. People talk a lot about how we have to become medical experts in order to assert our own identity, but you also have to become a fucking IT expert too

#even old new york was once new amsterdam #this is not an exact 1:1 but it reminds me a lot about disability scholarship that I’ve read #that you exist in a perpetual state of exception #the concept of ‘accommodations’ is inherently exceptional #and they’re hell to get if you can get them at all #anyway different mode of interacting with systems but I think they produce similar feelings of like #being permanently at the periphery in particular ways #in the context of having citizenship anyway. it’s not true state periphery and this is a specific privileged way of like #being on the periphery #anyway talking myself into a spiral

[waywardted]

Believing in rom-communism is all about believing that everything is going to work out in the end... Now, it may not work out how you think it will, or how you hope it does, but, believe me, it will all work out.

#ted lasso spoilers #ted lasso #otp: you liven up the place #mine #m*ne: lasso #i like don't want to tag this with anything i'm having a thought exercise lmao #this is the tip of the iceberg for real i really do think it's their movie #and on an emotional level i'm devastated by this and on an intellectual level i'm just. fascinated #if we take the end as endgamey (though i'm partial to hannah canon ha) #within that endgame the universe gives her a consolation prize of a ted #and i don’t even think that’s my biased reading like his name means the same thing he also is from another country is also divorced also has #a child who evidently can be moved around more easily maybe cause she’s younger and amsterdam is closer #plus all the other similarities we’d talked about after amsterdam #and all the little moments that fatefully lead rebecca to this moment are moments with ted #ted walks away from her and she walks out the door to find this man again #it wouldn’t have happened if she didn’t need to say goodbye to her soulmate #with all of that idk it seems like they added this man not just as love interest but so that he'd be specifically #filling the void ted left in her life and in their romcom #to invoke sleepless in seattle like that when there is a very clear fated soulmate relationship at play #and then to give the ending to another character #like no shade to matthijs he's a fine man but #it just seems intentionally to say the hero of this story has to leave #so 'god's gift' is this substitute #is it the 'it just doesn't happen twice'?? is ted like the maggie of this situation??? #is it 'the dream of someone else' which kinda seems like hannah's reading?? #you can't always get what you want (the romcom ending the way you think it's going to) but you get what you need (them ending up with their #respective families and possibilities for the future)??? #it's just that isn't it. just a completely heartbreaking realization of ted's romcommunsim speech #it's bananas and on purpose and i'm in pain

[lunar-years]

I'm going to say Richard's "train to Paris" idea for a night out in Amsterdam was goofy as hell but he kind of won me over in episode one when he said he could introduce me to his collection of FINE but not necessarily expensive wines, so I would still go on a date with the man

#ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #like trying to flee amsterdam for paris gave me the ick but i was already too taken in by him talking about great bottles of wine #richard montlaur

[captain-nicnac]

Hey. Protesting Israel outside of a Holocaust museum? Gross! Don't do that.

#I'm visiting Amsterdam and last night they were protesting a visit from an israeli politician #and they were doing it outside of amsterdams brand new holocaust museum #i don't talk about i/p much but if you think that kind of shit is acceptable then just fucking leave tbh #you're not beating the anti-israel is anti-semitic allegations #those protestors hate jewish people more than they love palestinians. and tbh these days it seems like a lot of tumblr is the same

[puttingwingsonwords]

I was looking up the Dutch history of cycling for fanfiction (Helward) purposes and I learned that bicycles for day to day use only really gained popularity from the 1890s/1900s and before that they were more popular in England?! This is so sad. Van Helsing may not even have known how to ride a bike. There goes my ‘Seward is amazed at Dutch people cycling through snow’ scene. Fortunately or unfortunately this wikipedia article only exists in Dutch so everyone else can remain blissfully ignorant.

#sorry fanfics that have van helsing ride a bike through amsterdam. (you should just keep doing that who cares about historical accuracy) #dracula daily #helward #in other news I could find NOTHING about christmas in the netherlands at this time bc the english did christmas so much that’s #all people talk about even in dutch sources. fuckin. charles dickens #and queen victoria. i wanna know what dutch catholics in amsterdam would have been doing ok! #i am actually lowkey interested in the history of bikes now though

[areyouokaypanda]

Sometimes you gotta... wings.

#rqg #rusty quill gaming #rqg oscar wilde #grizzop drik acht amsterdam #fanart #my art #sometimes the ride talks about wing AUs and you lose control of your hand and this happens #god i love them #a bard with clipped wings and a paladin who never learned how to fly... ;;

[artemispt]

Ugh that quali was a bust, the weather was against good things happening 😭

To cheer us up though - a clip of Lando saying he’d want Carlos (and Oscar) on a podium with him when he finally wins. Tries to save face with a little jab of “so I can look down on him, for the first time” but fails miserably, that face reveals EVERYTHING haha

https://twitter.com/stomperloveer/status/1720498178552631495?s=46&t=c5TzFoZclHJBjyR-5qpelw

Ah Emi posted it! Well, we all know that him looking down at Carlos wouldn’t be the first time 😏 Also “Carlos would be good”, of course he would 😏 Ok sorry 😂🙈 Him saying that is so cute! I really want Carlos with him on the podium when he wins. Pleeease 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

I didn’t watch qualy, but I know the results and that it started to rain a lot on Q3. Why did it start late?

#still thinking if I’ll watch it or not #carlando brain talking here but looks like the editor cut the video right after he said ‘for the first time’ #when he talks about Oscar seems like it wasn’t right after he talked about Carlos. Maybe he panicked and started giggling #like on that Amsterdam interview 😂 #inbox

[evilblot]

Oh hey y'all I'm back ahahhah :) *white knuckling the bathroom sink until their fingers go numb*

#nice city. beautiful museums. questionable food. #I saw so much. I walked so much. but most of all #I discovered SO much more than I could have ever imagined (<- shaking. in shambles. a derelict even.) #I'm. not ready to talk about it but. uh... yeah. #anyways!!!!!! #y'all shoud come to Amsterdam once in your life. it really is a beautiful city c: #ink blots

[jamiesfootball]

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 <3

Thank you, friend <3

From the one that makes you sick. No trigger warnings apply to this snippet, but the entire fic itself deals with what happened to Jamie in Amsterdam

His dad showed him pictures. He had a ton of them, a whole shoebox full of polaroids Jamie's never even seen.

Of him, Bug, and Denbo at some sort of bug-eating competition.

Of his mum when she was pregnant.

Of Jamie as a little thing, swaddled up in her arms. There’s one of him as a little baby, his dad holding him in outstretched arms as if he’s inspecting the merchandise. The sight of it made him feel violently ill. He flipped it upside down, quick to keep the visit going and move on to the next relic. After the baby pictures, there’s a noticeable gap where neither Jamie or Georgie show up for years. But mostly there’s just pictures of his dad. At matches. At reunions with people Jamie’s never met. At school, when his dad was still a lad in a sloppy uniform, faffing around with his mates and a football.

His dad grinned when he saw him studying it. "Guess it was always meant to be, 'ey Jamie?"

Some of them, he couldn't pretend to be interested in; others-

No.

He placed that one face down too, even if it made the weight of his father's attention compound into something heavier, the air in the visiting room beginning to stifle.

By the time he found it, he was so caught up in the too-familiar cut of his dad’s jaw that he hardly recognised his own face. Sitting amidst the crowd of the Johan Cruyff Arena, a ghost of his younger self grinned ear to ear. One for your mum, eh? She’d never gotten a photo- any photo. Let alone this one: all wind-battered baby cheeks and bony arms sticking out of an Ajax kit they'd haggled off a street vendor. His hair was a mess, swept to whichever side he pushed it because he'd not yet learned how to use any product and he fidgeted all the time. Jamie remembered the phantom sensation of missing a tooth at the back of his mouth. “Hah! That brings back memories. Remember, the two of us took the ferry over to Amsterdam? Painted the town red, we did.”

#fic: the one that makes you sick #jamie tartt #james tartt sr #fuck jamie's dad #writing snippet #rose for a snippet #talking about amsterdam

[communistkenobi]

can’t you guys just be normal and talk about how a lot of trans men suffered from misogyny prior to transition and continue to feel its effects if they don’t pass without trying to invent new words for this or take over existing words with concrete meanings (like transmisogyny). this is not difficult

#even old new york was once new amsterdam #every time I talk to trans ppl in real life they’re normal about this.

[you-expect-too-much]

Went on a day trip to Amsterdam and it’s taken me three days to recover 😩

#me #bi girl #my face #bi #bisexual #selfie #dress #Amsterdam #We spent most of the day talking about the fact we couldn’t believe we were actually in amsterdam 🙃 #i have to say though #these past three months I think I’m the happiest I’ve been in years #i feel like I’ve grown into myself #I’m incredibly secure in who I am and what I want at the moment #I’m proud of the person I’m letting myself be #Because most days scare me to death #but at the end of every day I can always pinpoint somewhere that I’ve made some really valuable input or I’ve helped someone #like I made a suggestion today in a meeting really quietly to a colleague #Just kind of bouncing an idea off him #And he stopped everyone else talking bc he wanted them all to hear my idea #and that’s not a big thing but it gave me a real kind of security in my own judgement? #this has devolved into a tag rant and I’m fully okay with that 😂

[emily-prentits]

they have an enemy lovers arc. in my mind

#everyone go home this is now what my blog is about. #that one fic for them on ao3 op i owe you my life #sex with your blackmailer/enemy?? kinda gay #i am obsessed w them #helen sharpe #valentina castro #new amsterdam #ship name?? they need one #thea talks

[mchiti]

dali benssalah shared a story on ig about the billionaires' submarine vs the migrants drowing media coverage wallah this man. maghrebi. talented. beautiful. and an intellectual. what else do u ask for

#why it's always diaspora people across the world and a few white people talking about it? #also I got too much into french maghrebi cinema lately I want to go to france right now. #I only went to paris once and that was to visit my relatives #my aunt always asks me to go visit her. YAS. i'm saving up for next year #bledi here I come and paris here I come and also amsterdam here I come. #cons of living in the diaspora? the diaspora #perks of living in the diaspora? your relatives everywhere in europe

[twinkskeletons]

unironic walkable cities are ableist post on the dash i for real thought that was made up for those go ahead post another take memes

#i see someone has never heard of a canta #good pedestrian infrastructure is wheelchair accessible literally what city has dirt paths for sidewalks #when ppl talk abt walkable cities they mean amsterdam not whatever weird private community without pavements ur talking about #txt #sorry abt the urban planning posting this is just something i’m a little autistic abt